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Finding ‘skinship’ with trees
Mari Keski-Korsu, Beat to the Balance. Photography: Ross Fraser McLean / StudioRoRo for Edge Effects, Scottish Sculpture Workshop Mari Keski-Korsu‘s work investigates how ecological and...
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How To Live Together. Part 1: the bad news
How To Live Together, an exhibition currently on view at Kunsthalle Wien, aims to looks that the conditions and prospects of living together in terms of individual and social dimensions. Installation...
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How To Live Together. Part 2: the good news
Taus Makhacheva, 19 a Day (Outside Arabeska wedding hall), 2014 Since last week’s review about the exhibition How To Live Together at Kunsthalle Wien was all doom and gloom, i had to come back with...
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The System of Systems: technology and bureaucracy in the asylum seeking...
Back in May, i went to Athens on a whim. Of course, Greece has the most fabulous food on the old continent, firemen on motorbikes, soldiers wearing pompom shoes, and jaw-dropping architecture. But I...
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Trust Me I’m an Artist. Ethics surrounding art & science collaborations (part...
Martin O’Brien, Taste of Flesh / Bite Me I’m Yours, 2015. Photo: The Arts Catalyst A ridiculously belated ending to my review of the exhibition Trust Me, I’m an Artist which opened in Amsterdam in...
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Book review: Delirium and Resistance. Activist Art and the Crisis of Capitalism
Delirium and Resistance. Activist Art and the Crisis of Capitalism, by artist, critic and curator Gregory Scholette. With an introduction by Kim Charnley and foreword by Lucy R. Lippard. On amazon USA...
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Vegetable smuggling, grimmy goods and other retail sabotages. An interview...
In January 2017, artist Louise Ashcroft invited herself to be an artist in residency at Westfield Shopping Centre. That’s the mega mall in Stratford, East London. Its retail area is as big as 30...
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Artists vs. London’s massive Arms Fair
Peter Kennard, Warhead 3, 2017 Darren Cullen / Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives, New War, 2017 This September, London will once again host one of the world’s largest arms fairs. The event brings...
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Creditworthy. A History of Consumer Surveillance and Financial Identity in...
Creditworthy. A History of Consumer Surveillance and Financial Identity in America, by Josh Lauer. On amazon USA and UK. Publisher Columbia University Press writes: The first consumer credit bureaus...
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Dust Bloom. Can we put a price on the services that urban flowers provide?
Alexandra Regan Toland, Dust Bloom, 2016 Alexandra Regan Toland, Dust Bloom, 2016 Every plant, no matter how humble and small, performs a series of services for us. Some are obvious: plants provide us...
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Josef Koudelka. Wall, portrait of a crime against the landscape
Josef Koudelka . Invasion / Exiles / Wall, view of the exhibition space at C/O Berlin “Every day that I was there I didn’t see anything else but the wall, and I can tell you I couldn’t stand it longer...
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Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet. Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene
Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet. Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene, edited by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Heather Anne Swanson, Elaine Gan and Nils Bubandt. It’s on amazon USA and UK. Publisher...
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Failed banks, quantified self and addiction to the infinite scroll. An...
Michael Mandiberg, Quantified Self Portrait (One Year Performance), 2017. Installation view at LACMA’s Ray’s & Stark Bar In 2008, as the U.S. was going through the Great Recession, Michael...
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0,01. Privilege in a Time of Global Inequality
0,01. Privilege in a Time of Global Inequality, with texts by economist Joseph Stiglitz, author Geoff Dyer, photographer and curator Myles Little, edited by Myles Little. Graphic design by Julia...
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M. A. A. R. S.: Learning to become Martians
Benjamin Pothier/Hervé Studio, Trailer M.A.A.R.S. Atacama’s Journey The Atacama desert in Chile is one of the harshest environments on Earth. It is so dry that the central sector can go through...
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Khandayati. Turning objects of oppression into spinning weapons
Maya Jay Varadaraj, Station 1 + Station 2 + Station 3. Photo credit: Jonathan Allen Maya Jay Varadaraj, Large Chakras. Photo Credit: Jonathan Allen Patriarchal mindsets, abuses and discrimination make...
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Embracing plastic and the apocalypse: An interview with Morehshin Allahyari...
Quick post to say that: 1. If you’re in London this coming weekend, don’t miss the Digital Design Weekend 2017. It’s the 7th edition and this year’s a particularly good one with plenty of critical,...
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Sonic Radiations. A nuclear-themed playlist
Yesterday i was at Z33 in Hasselt to visit Perpetual Uncertainty, an exhibition that explores “contemporary art in the nuclear anthropocene.” I had already read The Nuclear Culture Source Book, the...
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Uberworked and Underpaid: How Workers Are Disrupting the Digital Economy
Uberworked and Underpaid: How Workers Are Disrupting the Digital Economy, by Trebor Scholz, a scholar-activist and Associate Professor of Culture and Media at The New School in New York City. It’s on...
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The State of Things 2017: experiments in perception
Justin Bennett, Multiplicity, 2017. Photo via Justin Bennett If you ever find yourself in or around Brussels and are interested in art that explores technology in a meaningful way, then do visit the...
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