Tue Jan 31 2023 Shuyi Cao: Speculative Geology, Paradoxical KinEssay New York-based artist Shuyi Cao contemplates our current environmental precarity in the aftermath of colonialism, productivism, and capitalist extraction. Tue Jan 31 2023
Tue Jan 24 2023 Senthuran Varatharajah & Ralph Tharayil: “Our language of love and our language of desire are cannibalistic languages”Interview Senthuran Varatharajah in conversation with fellow author Ralph Tharayil about writing, music, as well as language and its limitations. Tue Jan 24 2023
Ira Melkonyan – Mapping Voices; Making SenseListicle Ira Melkonyan – Mapping Voices; Making Sense Faced with the war in the Ukraine that not only touches but shakes her to her core, Ira Melkonyan created a personal map of voices in her head, which documents and sheds light on this rupture.
The Elephant in the RoomEssay The Elephant in the Room Why has Ukraine – and to a certain extent also other Eastern European countries – been such a blind spot in European culture and art circles? Ukrainian curator Kateryna Botanova tries to come up with some answers to that question.
Nikita Kadan: Now, Time KillsInterview Nikita Kadan: Now, Time Kills Three weeks after the Russian invasion, Ukrainian artist Nikita Kadan remains in war-ravaged Kiev, sheltering in place at Voloshyn Gallery.
Sepideh Ardalani: Family StoriesThe Run-Up Sepideh Ardalani: Family Stories Shortly before the start of the Russian invasion into Ukraine, we received this text by Sepideh Ardalani. We publish it parallel to her essay on gardening at Massia.
Storying with Gardens in Massia—or St. John’s Wort my AssEssay Storying with Gardens in Massia—or St. John’s Wort my Ass Sepideh Ardalani on what she learned in the garden of Massia—a self-organized residency space in southwestern Estonia.
Mon Jan 9 2023 Anastasia Spirenkova: Mute – Part 2.Essay How can art succeed in initiating dialogue, exchange, and dissent in a public that has been as battered and restricted as Russia’s? Mon Jan 9 2023
Tue Jan 3 2023 The School of Winds and Waves: Songbird Trap IIGraphic Novel Part two on how to trap a songbird—and the joys of how life never goes according to your plan. Tue Jan 3 2023
Tue Dec 20 2022 Carla dal Forno: Songs of FabulationListicle A list of fabulated songs compiled by Australian artist Carla dal Forno, who—beware!—makes tracks that are not always true either. Tue Dec 20 2022