From the perspective of non-artists, nearly all artistic pursuits seem like opportunities to be playful. Creativity in its essence is about thinking beyond rational constraints and introducing…[read on]
Urgent questions around repatriation and reparations form the political backdrop of ‘Tide of Returns,’ an exhibition by Repatriates Collective and Verena Melgarejo Weinandt at…[read on]
Vienna’s Klima Biennale opened this April under the theme ‘Unspeakable Worlds,’ with a host of exhibitions and events across the city. Examining the complexity of the climate crisis,…[read on]
Last weekend, the Biennale of Art officially opened in Venice. The national pavilions and main exhibition, curated by Koyo Kouoh under the theme ‘In Minor Keys,’ are…[read on]
Returning from last week’s preview of the Venice Biennale, the question of scale is on my mind. In recent years, biennials have had a tendency to downplay themselves, opting for…[read on]
At this year’s Venice Biennale of Art, the collateral exhibition ‘Scotland + Venice: Bugarin + Castle,’ curated by Morven Gregor of Mount Stuart Trust, will present the artist duo’s new work…[read on]
Sun pours into Dafna Maimon’s Kreuzberg studio on a spring day in March, as we greet each other and prepare for our conversation about the role of the abject in her practice,…[read on]
This year’s Bulgarian Pavilion, opening at the 61st Venice Biennale of Art next month, is framed as the headquarters of a fictional research lab, set in a future political landscape…[read on]
French feminist philosopher Julia Kristeva opens her 1980 essay on abjection, entitled ‘Powers of Horrors,’ as follows: “There looms, within abjection, one of those violent, dark…[read on]
Many years ago, I attended an academic lecture about Critical Race Theory in Germany. One of the speakers made a compelling point: most of the terminology from the field is…[read on]
Since 2021, Feireiss has been a visiting professor for transdisciplinary artistic education at Berlin University of the Arts (UdK), where he launched a series of discursive encounters in…[read on]
Entering a new year, we revisit a previously featured topic that remains pertinent for many reasons: wellness pervades our thinking about not only ourselves and our bodies…[read on]
