An opening concert consisting solely of about 60 loudspeakers might seem like a rather understated start to an international new music festival…[read on]
Sasha Amaya punctuates our conversation with seemingly effortless demonstrations of dance: a spin, a graceful drop, a particularly painterly twist of the wrist. Rather than interrupting…[read on]
It might be a good time to re-orient our thinking towards viable social alternatives. What could “utopia” mean today? What social and political forms can hope take?…[read on]
The defining feature of Via Lewandowsky’s practice is not a material or a theme but an attitude—a nearly palpable, restless curiosity. It is also what makes his work so difficult to pin down…[read on]
Nakadate makes use of vernacular images and the visual possibilities of the day, such as enlisting the services of internet photo editors, to document and contemplate the passage of time…[read on]
Openings and events at Speaking to Ancestors, Project Space Festival, Alte Feuerwache, CCCCCOMA, Circle Culture Gallery, Sophiensæle, Ballhaus Ost, Scharaun, Scheusal, GUTS, Cittipunkt, Haus am Waldsee,…[read on]
When, during our studio visit, Nadine Fecht asks “how can we co-exist together?” she speaks to the tension between the multitude and the individual…[read on]
The start of a new chapter for MaerzMusik can also be felt in the programming, which has been taken over by curator, music journalist and electronic musician, Kamila Metwaly…[read on]
Through an exploration of this topic, we aim to open conversations around the ways in which money forms the backbone of the art world ecosystem…[read on]
Kinship beyond bloodlines—or the recently popularized concept of “chosen family”—is, for many, a mode of survival that provides escape from the suffocations and all too often latent…[read on]
Artificial intelligence is scary. Almost everyone knows HAL from ‘2001: A Space Odyssey,’ the intelligent and, in the course of the film, increasingly sentient spaceship…[read on]
Like everything else, Maerzmusik, ‘The Festival for Time Issues,’ has been subjected to the capricious category of pandemic time over the last two years…[read on]