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Automation // ‘The Yeast and the Host’: Philippe Parreno at Museo Jumex
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]
Automation // Software/Marrow: ‘Hard to explain…’ at Future Gallery
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]
Intervention // Disarming the Unknown: An Interview with Madeleine Kate McGowan
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]
Intervention // ‘Müttererde’: An Interview with Jessica Lauren Elizabeth Taylor
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]
Intervention // ‘Empty Village’: An Interview with Philipp Rühr
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]
ON/OFF
by Jack Radley // Nov. 17, 2017
ON/OFF renovated and revived a former motorcycle workshop to build their current studio headquarters in Berlin; like every project the office undertakes, intentional ideas…[read on]
Intervention // Equality in the Music Scene: Inaugural ‘We Make Waves’ Festival Berlin
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]
Intervention // Collective Intelligence: ‘Cosmopolis #1’ at Centre Pompidou
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]
Intervention // To Hear Whispers in a Silent Space: ‘Shifting Perspectives’ at ZKR
Article by Jack Radley in Berlin // Nov. 13, 2017
In the transitional period from the German Democratic Republic (GDR) through the reunification era to the present, many sociopolitical changes have occurred in East Germany…[read on]
Intervention // Gaming as Life: An Interview with Tomasz Kobialka
Article by Penny Rafferty in Berlin // Nov. 7, 2017
Tomasz Kobialka’s new video ‘Pearl Diving for Wyrms’ explores intervention inside a contemporary gaming psychosis, but from the point of view of the gaming company rather than the player. A majestic dragon…[read on]
Intervention // The Sound of Sleep: ‘Silent Night’ Concert Series Prague
Article by Nina Prader in Berlin // Oct. 27, 2017
Collective sleep-overs recall pajama parties as a teen or, on the other end of the spectrum, nights of debauchery at a kinky or psychedelic orgy. ‘Silent Night’ is neither. On September 23rd, this sleep concert series…[read on]