Contents - Various Artists

Shuyi Cao: Speculative Geology, Paradoxical Kin

New York-based artist Shuyi Cao contemplates our current environmental precarity in the aftermath of colonialism, productivism, and capitalist extraction.

Senthuran Varatharajah & Ralph Tharayil: “Our language of love and our language of desire are cannibalistic languages”

Interview

Senthuran Varatharajah & Ralph Tharayil: “Our language of love and our language of desire are cannibalistic languages”

Senthuran Varatharajah in conversation with fellow author Ralph Tharayil about writing, music, as well as language and its limitations.

Anastasia Spirenkova: Mute – Part 2.

Essay

Anastasia Spirenkova: Mute – Part 2.

How can art succeed in initiating dialogue, exchange, and dissent in a public that has been as battered and restricted as Russia’s?

The School of Winds and Waves: Songbird Trap II

Graphic Novel

The School of Winds and Waves: Songbird Trap II

Part two on how to trap a songbird—and the joys of how life never goes according to your plan.

Carla dal Forno: Songs of Fabulation

Listicle

Carla dal Forno: Songs of Fabulation

A list of fabulated songs compiled by Australian artist Carla dal Forno, who—beware!—makes tracks that are not always true either.

Jamieson Webster: Singular Phantasies

Report

Jamieson Webster: Singular Phantasies

A recreation of an occupation of 60 Wall Street in New York, by psychoanalyst Jamieson Webster, her publisher Divided and Hard to Read, a literary social practice founded by author Fiona Alison Duncan.

Isabelle Graw—“Someone other than myself”

Interview

Isabelle Graw—“Someone other than myself”

In a conversation with author Philipp Hindahl, art historian and critic Isabelle Graw explains how fiction relates to critique, what friendship in the art world looks like, and who actually benefits from it.

Editors’ Note: On Fabulating

Editors’ Note

Editors’ Note: On Fabulating

Myths, fantasizing, gossip and story-telling are part of our daily life and popular culture. In our thematic cluster on fabulating we concentrate on such practices.

Spalarnia: What Leaks Through the Cracks

Listicle

Spalarnia: What Leaks Through the Cracks

A list with 10 “traditional” songs compiled by Polish artist Wojciech Kosma aka Spalarnia.