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]
Pakui Hardware
by Kristian Vistrup Madsen // Dec. 12, 2017
It doesn’t matter that Pakui Hardware’s studio is small, because there is almost nothing in it. This is not out of inactivity, but the opposite. ‘On Demand’ was the title of their…[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]