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Field to Palette: Dialogues on Soil and Art in the Anthropocene
Field to Palette: Dialogues on Soil and Art in the Anthropocene, by Alexandra Toland, Jay Stratton Noller and Gerd Wessolek. On amazon USA and UK. Publisher CRC Press describes the book: Field to...
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Can blood ever be a material like any other?
Some 500 million animals are slaughtered every year for consumption in the Netherlands. The figures are even more horrifying if you look at the number of animals slaughtered for food every second. But...
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Making It Up: Photographic Fictions
Making It Up: Photographic Fictions, edited by Marta Weiss, Curator of Photographs, Word & Image Department, Victoria and Albert Museum in London. On amazon UK and USA. Publisher Thames &...
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Terraforming Fantasies
Terraforming is the hypothetical process of deliberately modifying the atmosphere, temperature, surface or ecology of a planet or any other large celestial body in order to make it habitable by...
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An artificial planet made entirely of human bodies
Instead of sending humans on a long and probably very painful mission to colonize Mars, how about sending human corpses in outer space to aggregate and form a new planet? Julijonas Urbonas‘ new project...
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See Yourself X: Human Futures Expanded
See Yourself X: Human Futures Expanded, by writer, filmmaker and architect Madeline Schwartzman. On amazon USA and UK. Publisher Black Dog Press writes: See Yourself X focuses on the fundamental domain...
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The agony of a life without privacy. Or with too much of it. An interview...
Many artists and activists have worked on projects that denounce the loss of privacy online. Very few, however, have put their social, financial and mental well-being at risk in order to expose the...
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Climate Surprise, a temperature-sensitive exhibition
If ever you happen to be in or near the city of Mechelen in Belgium this Spring (Spring starting in February courtesy of global warming of course), don’t miss a small but incredibly fascinating show at...
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Cutting through the ‘smart’ walls and fences of Fortress Europe
Recent European immigration policies seem to be mostly dedicated to making external borders as impenetrable as possible, through the hardening of the conditions of entry and, most notably since the...
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Superflex. We Are All in the Same Boat
SUPERFLEX. We Are All in the Same Boat, with texts by curator Jacob Fabricius, urban geographer Stephanie Wakefield, curator Gean Moreno, Professor of Latin American Studies George Yudice and...
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Shoot the Women First
“Shoot the women first!”, a German official is reported to have advised in the 1980s when members of GSG-9, the country’s elite anti-terror squad found themselves in front of a large group of people...
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Making cheese from the black mould on your wall
Stachybotrys chartarum, aka black mould, is one of the nastiest guests you can find in your home. The microfungus grows inside damp buildings and produces toxic spores. Its presence in your home can...
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Invisible Colors. The Arts of the Atomic Age
Invisible Colors. The Arts of the Atomic Age, by Gabrielle Decamous, Associate Professor in the Faculty of Languages and Cultures at Kyushu University in Fukuoka, Japan. On amazon USA and UK. Publisher...
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Alma Heikkilä opens up our eyes to the invisible worlds we depend upon
We might not be as human as it seems. Human cells make up only 43% of the body’s total cell count. The rest are bacteria, viruses, fungi, archaea and other microscopic organisms that colonize both the...
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Materialism, an exercise in dismantling consumer culture
Studio Drift creates elegant installations and interactive sculptures that explore the relationship between nature, human and technology. The creative duo currently has a solo show at the new,...
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Dry eyes? Insomnia? Poor posture? The Center for Technological Pain has the...
Have you ever felt that your constant use of electronic devices was causing physical pains? Maybe your eyes feel dry from too much screen time. Your elbows are strained. Or maybe you have sleep...
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The Street. Where the World Is Made
A week ago, i was in Rome to visit the spectacular Centrale Montemartini (a former power plant converted into a museum for Ancient Rome sculptures) and an exhibition at MAXXI about artistic imaginaries...
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X-Ray Architecture
X-Ray Architecture, by architecture historian Beatriz Colomina. On amazon USA and UK. Publisher Lars Müller writes: Modern architecture and the X-ray were born around the same time and evolved in...
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STRP, a festival that’s not afraid of the future
It’s easy to be a future-phobic these days. It’s easy to be anxious, dubious, critical about what tomorrow will bring. Unfortunately, it’s less easy to ignore the future and pretend we don’t care. The...
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Plastic Capitalism. Contemporary Art and the Drive to Waste
Plastic Capitalism. Contemporary Art and the Drive to Waste, by Amanda Boetzkes, Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. Amazon USA and UK....
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