Culture critic and curator Jeppe Ugelvig met up with three independent fashion designers to talk about their practice, their roles, and the challenges they face: Indonesian musician Ican Harem, who also designs and produces clothes; Manila-based designer Carl Jan Cruz, and Yufei Liu who runs fashion house feyfey Worldwide.
What does dance music sound like when it is produced during a time when nobody is dancing? Daniel Valle-Riestra aka Qoqeqa trawled through the adventurous Latinx scene to which he belongs and came up with the ten most exciting examples.
An introduction to V/A and the initial thematic focal point “Petri Dish” by the editors.
Manila-based curator and writer Marian Pastor Roces started to post a series of photos and essayistic texts on Facebook in Fall 2020. In January 2021 a new platform was launched by scholar Cristina Martinez-Juan in London, including the objects shared by Roces and more like them in an online collection: “Mapping Philippine Material Culture.”
How is technology shaping our desires? What bodies and faces populate our screens? What’s left of the flesh in virtual spaces? Biz Sherbert addresses these and other questions in her essay, following human and non-human actors that reflect the state of our libidinal economy.