Archive - Various Artists

Flora Yin-Wong: Mnemonics

For V/A, London-based producer Flora Yin-Wong put together an series of loosely connected poetic fragments and photos, inspired by the texts and images in her recent book Liturgy.

Editors’ Note: On Alliance

Editors’ Note

Editors’ Note: On Alliance

Alliances are ambivalent, prone to deception and disappointment, characterized by double-dealing and unanswered questions. They are coalitions that make demands on those who enter into them.

Frank B. Wilderson III: “Black Existence is a Flat Line of Historical Stillness”

Interview

Frank B. Wilderson III: “Black Existence is a Flat Line of Historical Stillness”

On Afropessimism and the chances of coalitions and alliances across race lines.

Practices of (Con)Solitude – or: How Wanting to Leave No Trace Leaves No Trace

The Run-Up

Practices of (Con)Solitude – or: How Wanting to Leave No Trace Leaves No Trace

Recent developments seem to bring artistic and activist practices closer together – at times even refusing to acknowledge any difference between the two. We asked the German dramaturge and performer Max-Philip Aschenbrenner what ambivalences a socially engaged art might produce.

Cross-Pollinating Environments: An Interview with Alexandra Pirici

Interview

Cross-Pollinating Environments: An Interview with Alexandra Pirici

The practice of the Romanian performer, choreographer, and artist Alexandra Pirici deals with interconnections and association on different levels. For V/A, Edith Arnold spoke to Pirici about her quest for new forms of experiencing, knowing and becoming.

Beyond the Backyard

Report

Beyond the Backyard

Sankar Venkateswaran and Satoko Tsurudome on how the practice and philosophy of performer Kubikukuri Takuzo inspired them in establishing an (in)dependent theater in the Attappadi region in Kerala, India.

Editors’ Note: On (In)dependence

Editors’ Note

Editors’ Note: On (In)dependence

Independence is still considered an ideal in various contexts. It can be an attitude, a mindset, or a utopian dream. But how feasible is this conception of independence?

The Bridges Make the Place

Report

The Bridges Make the Place

How (in)dependent art spaces were able to foster solidarity and collaboration networks in the face of state terror and the global health crisis. By César Vargas.

The Ruins of the Eight-Hour Workday

Essay

The Ruins of the Eight-Hour Workday

Looking at the work of artist Eugenia Lim, Australian curator Amelia Wallin reflects on the status of current labor conditions.