Artist and researcher Karin Bolender’s recent book, ‘The Unnaming of Aliass,’ tells the story of the writer’s enduring relationship with a donkey or, rather, an American Spotted Ass…[read on]
Semra Ertan’s family have collectively published and co-edited a bilingual book of her poetry, entitled ‘Mein Name ist Ausländer | Benim Adım Yabancı.’…[read on]
Peles Empire’s work thrives off the dialogue between place, historical interpretation, and materiality. The pair—Barbara Wolff and Katharina Stöver—are an artist group…[read on]
Come and gather around this fire. Matti Aikio is going to tell us a story. We are inside his lávvu, a Sámi tent. You can hear crows cawing, and when you see or hear a raven,…[read on]
The theme of transmediale’s 2021 festival, “for refusal,” set out to examine the possibilities engendered by refusal, as deviation from the prescribed, and a proposal…[read on]
A ritual highlights a given social practice and renders it symbolic on another, often spiritual, level, thereby legitimizing and expanding certain structures or, at other…[read on]
On a frigid January afternoon, I visited Lau in her newly minted studio, where we discussed her work’s relationships to death and ritual, the intersection of monstrosity…[read on]
The exhibition is a deep-dive into the ethics of mining for minerals and data, resulting in a presentation of extractivism as a whole paradigm of the human attitude…[read on]
Ancient stone artefacts, air-cooling systems, insect communication and cryptocurrency. These seemingly disparate phenomena are but some of the sprawling curiosities which…[read on]
“Berlin’s newest landmark” is built on smoke and mirrors, a space of feigned criticality that purports to promote a narrative of cultural exchange and debate…[read on]
