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Article by Mitch Speed in Berlin // Dec. 29, 2017
The desire to become a machine belongs to a deceptively proud artistic tradition. Often helpful, machines are also agents of alienation; they usurp our jobs, manipulate our desires, direct our social…[read on]
Article by Penny Rafferty in Berlin // Dec. 26, 2017
Erica Scourti’s practice mixes performance art, autobiographical discourse, and code. Her ‘Empathy Deck’ is literally a bot with feelings: it responds to its Twitter followers with custom-made cards specially…[read on]
Article by Ilyn Wong in Berlin // Dec. 22, 2017
In 2015, a 28-year-old black woman named Sandra Bland was arrested after being pulled over for making an illegal lane change. Three days later, she was found dead in her Texas jail cell. This story, as well as her…[read on]
Article by Lee Escobedo // Dec. 08, 2017
For his current exhibition, ‘La levadura y el anfitrión’ (The Yeast and the Host) at Museo Jumex in Mexico City, Philippe Parreno is asking you to suspend your belief in the gallery as it’s traditionally conceived, as a white cube…[read on]
Article by Nat Marcus in Berlin // Dec. 04, 2017
“A show about edges” is the last remark—taken down in my oblong handwriting, noted during my walk through Future Gallery’s current exhibition. Material and metaphysical bounds are traced and…[read on]
Article by Nat Marcus in Berlin // Nov. 27, 2017
At the end of my conversation with the artist and activist Madeleine Kate McGowan, she brought up a phrase of Joan Didion’s—something along the lines of, ‘The closer you get to something, the less dangerous it…[read on]
Article by Kimberly Budd in Berlin // Nov. 22, 2017
Jessica Lauren Elizabeth Taylor’s practice traverses performance, text, dialogue, dance and theatre with the intention to connect and strengthen communities of black people and people of color…[read on]
Article by Kimberly Budd in Berlin // Nov. 20, 2017
Architect Anne Hodges was commissioned by British-Jamaican investor (and Bob Marley producer) Chris Blackwell to study the traditional architecture and village life of Jamaica and incorporate it in to…[read on]
Article by Diane Barbé in Berlin // Nov. 17, 2017
Is Berlin’s music scene as inclusive as it’s touted to be? In recent years, the under-representation of women, trans, intersex, and queer communities has been loudly decried: on dance floors…[read on]
Article by Marta Jecu in Berlin // Nov. 15, 2017
‘Cosmopolis #1’ develops, under the curatorship of Kathryn Weir, a layered platform of creation and transmission of knowledge that incorporates long-term cultural experiments, social actions,…[read on]
