While the terms “performativity” and “performance” are not exactly synonymous, they point to similar modes of expression, by which the act of doing something is privileged over signs or signification. The term “performativity” …[read on]
What are the implications of play taking place outside of its designated zones? In our interview, artist, curator and game designer Sebastian Quack discusses play as a form of experimentation that doesn’t shy away from friction…[read on]
On September 5th and 6th, M-Cult brings ‘The Inexorable Non-Player Character’ to Dance House Helsinki in collaboration with Zodiak – Center for New Dance. Through speculative routes, this 30-minute…[read on]
William Forsythe’s ‘Choreographic Objects’ provides the audience with a veritable fun house in which they can jump, crawl, balance precariously above the floor or, in other words,…[read on]
Ventriloquist Sophie Becker brought her show, ‘Ronnie’s Big Idea’—a spellbinding two-part act that blended the comedic and the absurd—to the Sommerfest at Haus am Waldsee…[read on]
Nearly a decade after her exhibition ‘Margen de juego’ (2017) at the Galería Rosa Santos—where Andrea Canepa transformed the art space into a game board for bodily experience…[read on]
To play is to experiment. It is the way in which children learn social and cultural codes and adults relieve themselves of them. In Umut Azad Akkel’s exhibition at Haus am Lützowplatz…[read on]
Is art a game? It’s a question that comes up during a conversation with the artist Kasia Fudakowski about the ways in which audiences relate to her works. The notion of a game…[read on]
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…[read on]
Some words are meant to be read. Others, insists Shilpa Gupta, must be walked through. In her current solo exhibition, ‘What Still Holds’ at Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin,…[read on]
A massive shipping crane and a set of bleachers towered out of the water, moored somewhere in the middle of Venice’s lagoon. A subwoofer droned through the pouring rain, its…[read on]
On the top floor of KodlContemporary, Bianca Argimón’s meticulous color pencil drawing ‘Hubris’ reads like a grotesque allegory painting. Stretched across the paper’s surface, the…[read on]
