Contents - Various Artists

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.

JJJJJerome Ellis—A Gift Carried with Integrity

Interview

JJJJJerome Ellis—A Gift Carried with Integrity

Multi-instrumentalist composer, producer, researcher, and author JJJJJerome Ellis in conversation with music journalist Christine Kakaire on how he made a disability his ally.

Lina Kazakova: Inconsolable

Interview

Lina Kazakova: Inconsolable

Belarusian Poet Lina Kazakova on guilt, humanism and on how to speak about what you’re left with.

Adéla Součková: Happiness / Sadness / Love / Marriage / Flower / Rose / Baby / Death

Compiled

Adéla Součková: Happiness / Sadness / Love / Marriage / Flower / Rose / Baby / Death

Artist Adéla Součková imagines and connects the past and the present, life and death, architecture and natural landscapes, women and wombs, historical references and childhood memories through a simple yet prophetic lens: the hopscotch.

The School of Wind and Waves: The Songbird Trap

Graphic Novel

The School of Wind and Waves: The Songbird Trap

How to trap migratory songbirds – and forage fennel.

Anastasiia Spirenkova: Mute.

Essay

Anastasiia Spirenkova: Mute.

Researcher Anastasiia Spirenkova on the culture of silence in today’s Russia.

Against Order: An Interview with Sitara Abuzar Ghaznawi

Interview

Against Order: An Interview with Sitara Abuzar Ghaznawi

Artist Sitara Abuzar Ghaznawi in conversation with fellow artist Fid. Fischer—on bookshelves, office furniture and what to live for after all.