Contents - Various Artists

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.

Iris Objekt

Essay

Iris Objekt

Musings on Michael Fassbender’s iris, eye payment systems, digitally rendered interiors, the meaning of refraction and how to make eyes more real in software.

On Choosing the Right Tail and Living Your Dreams: An Interview with Blixunami

Interview

On Choosing the Right Tail and Living Your Dreams: An Interview with Blixunami

Splish Splash on ’em: What it means to be a mer in the real world.

Dressing Above Your Station: Philomena Epps interviews curators Beca Lipscombe and Mairi MacKenzie

Interview

Dressing Above Your Station: Philomena Epps interviews curators Beca Lipscombe and Mairi MacKenzie

The digital exhibition Dressing Above Your Station examines the role of fashion and textiles in the work of Scottish artist Steven Campbell.

Now, Time Kills: An Interview with Nikita Kadan

Interview

Now, Time Kills: An Interview with Nikita Kadan

Three weeks after the Russian invasion, Ukrainian artist Nikita Kadan remains in war-ravaged Kiev, sheltering in place at Voloshyn Gallery.

Storying with Gardens in Massia—or St. John’s Wort my Ass

Essay

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.

Family Stories

The Run-Up

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.

Imagining and Imaging the Future: A Conversation with Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs

Interview

Imagining and Imaging the Future: A Conversation with Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs

Danaé Panchaud met Zurich-based duo Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs to discuss the unexpected visions of the future they create in their work.

Transcript: The Show Must Go on (and on and on…)—On the Regime of Liveness in the Age of Digital Audio

Debate

Transcript: The Show Must Go on (and on and on…)—On the Regime of Liveness in the Age of Digital Audio

Why is the concept of “liveness” in culture still as pervasive? Why do we stubbornly hold on to it even in times of a global pandemic?