Contents - Various Artists

What I Learned from the Sex-Positive Community. Part 1: On Consent.

Report

What I Learned from the Sex-Positive Community. Part 1: On Consent.

Curator Eva Neklyaeva shares her insights from working in the performing arts as well as the sex-positive field.

Explosive (Hi)Stories

The Run-Up

Explosive (Hi)Stories

The production of fireworks has caught the eye of Jimmy Grima. In his essay, the Maltese artist-researcher provides insights into his research, which led him, among other places, into a “room of fire.”

Auditions: Field Recordings as Otherly Zones of Entanglement. Part 2

Compiled

Auditions: Field Recordings as Otherly Zones of Entanglement. Part 2

Lawrence English continues his non-linear investigation into field recordings absorbed in the horizon of audition.

The Unbearable Artist: In Conversation with Kubra Khademi

Interview

The Unbearable Artist: In Conversation with Kubra Khademi

Artist Kubra Khademi has committed herself to the continuous reflection of the condition of women’s lives in Afghanistan. Philomena Epps met her for V/A.

No One Can Hear You Stream. Part 2: Voices in Your Head.

Essay

No One Can Hear You Stream. Part 2: Voices in Your Head.

In the second part of his essay about the current regime of digital music platforms, Tobi Müller wonders what streaming did to music itself – and what the future might hold.

No One Can Hear You Stream. Part 1: You May Also Like This.

Essay

No One Can Hear You Stream. Part 1: You May Also Like This.

Tobi Müller traces the fundamental cultural transformation the triumphant advent of streaming platforms entails.

Intimacy and the Machine: Godposting – or: New Internet Esotericism

Column

Intimacy and the Machine: Godposting – or: New Internet Esotericism

Did the internet find God? In her second column for V/A, the American cultural critic Biz Sherbert went in search of new forms propelled by Catholic or religious iconography and practice…

On Disappearing

Editors’ Note

On Disappearing

When do people decide that they want to be seen and get involved in an issue? At what point and for which cause do they raise their standards? And how do they tell when the time has come to retreat? For our current thematic focal point, we asked different people to make contributions about various facets of disappearing.

Auditions: Field Recordings as Otherly Zones of Entanglement. Part 1

Compiled

Auditions: Field Recordings as Otherly Zones of Entanglement. Part 1

Lawrence English casts an ear towards some historical and contemporary field recording works that open up our capacities to sense and absorb the world around us.