Thomas Demand: Model Man
Parallel Realities “Hello everyone,” says Katya Inozemtseva, chief curator at Garage. “Very nice to at least see you digitally.” She…
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Tripping the Time Stamp. A Conversation with Simon Denny
Simon Denny is one of the first established artists to engage with blockchain ideology, creating works that render visible the…
Korakrit Arunanondchai’s Spiritual-Material Ecosystems
“Follow my voice,” urges the shaman in the beginning of Korakrit Arunanondchai’s video Songs for dying, 2021 (co-commissioned by the…
The Age of Love: Chapter IV Love and Poverty and Joy: Pauline Curnier Jardin
Something that interests me lately is poverty. Poverty not only as a notion, but as an experience. It seems to…
Transformative Potential of Social Spaces. A Conversation with Akeem Smith
It’s hard to circumscribe a figure like Akeem Smith: fashion designer, stylist, visual artist. From an early age he absorbed…
I WANT YOU TO SHOW ME (BAGLIO ANTICO MIX). A conversation with Adam Farah
“Wearing your heart on your sleeve shows courage” – or so goes my psychotherapist’s favourite dictum. And though bravery is…
Beyond Physics. A conversation with Pan Daijing
Andrea Lissoni: Let’s start from your new commission for Tai Kwun Contemporary in Hong Kong, “One Hundred Nine Minus” 一…
Systemic Errors of Collective Intelligence. A Conversation with Agnieszka Kurant
Agnieszka Kurant’s complex conceptual practice can be described in many ways: as research into the invisible, as a study of…
Nour Mobarak: Movements of Spheres for a Hybrid Economy of Desire
In installations with multi-channel sound sources, Mobarak mixes the words of her polyglot father, whose memory is failing, with the…
Bio-Hazard: Pakui Hardware
With an almost uncannily timely relevance, Pakui Hardware’s most recent body of work delves into remote healthcare technologies and services:…
Materialist Invisibility: Art As Organic Development In Pamela Rosenkranz’s Work
In the nineteenth century, Karl Marx declared that the “engine of history” was the working class, ushering in revolutions. In…
An Autofictional Theory of the Last Decade of the Art World: On Emily Segal’s Mercury Retrograde
Crisis engulfs Emily Segal. Several years after the Great Recession, Segal is freshly unemployed and has moved out of her…
Prophetic Culture: Experiencing the End of the World. A conversation with Federico Campagna
Andrea Bellini: Dear Federico, let’s start from the very end, that is to say, from the end of the world.…
Intimate Dislocations: On Lydia Ourahmane’s Barzakh
“Allow me, then, as we part company at this threshold [barzakh], to break the contract between one absurdity and another.”1…
Try Again. Fail Again. Fail Better. In memory of Kaari Upson (1970 – 2021)
Douglas Fogle: About the mattresses… Kaari Upson: I saw them as this intermission, a project between two very large acts, a…
Terra Incognita. A conversation with Caterina Barbieri
Caterina Barbieri is an Italian musician and composer. She completed her studies at the Conservatory of Bologna and then at…