Contents - Various Artists

The School of Winds and Waves: The Rabbit Trap

Graphic Novel

The School of Winds and Waves: The Rabbit Trap

How to trap a rabbit with the help of a ferret. The School of Winds and Waves’ newest contribution for V/A.

Shola von Reinhold: Ornamenting Biographies

Interview

Shola von Reinhold: Ornamenting Biographies

Impressed by LOTE, the idiosyncratic debut novel by Shola von Reinhold, Fiona Alison Duncan set out to interview the author.

Uladzimir Niakliaeu & Eva Neklyaeva: The Voice of Proscha

Interview

Uladzimir Niakliaeu & Eva Neklyaeva: The Voice of Proscha

A conversation between father and daughter about good stories and fictionalizing one’s life. Crazy family legends. Some of them (possibly) true.

Hanne Lippard: 4 Poems

Poem

Hanne Lippard: 4 Poems

Berlin-based Norwegian artist Hanne Lippard shares four poems – and makes us aware that language is far less solid and reliable than we think most of the time.

Viktoria Draganova & Dessislava Dimova: Talking About an Institution

Interview

Viktoria Draganova & Dessislava Dimova: Talking About an Institution

Curators Viktoria Draganova and Dessislava Dimova on (art) institutions and the collective: Is ideology no longer the driving force of activism? Is there more room for agency and effecting immediate change in our everyday life?

Sofia Gavrilova: Common Unsaids

Report

Sofia Gavrilova: Common Unsaids

Human geographer Sofia Gavrilova on the legacy of the kraevedenie museums in Russia.

Brook Hsu and Live Drønen: Ecstasy and Agony

Essay

Interview

Brook Hsu and Live Drønen: Ecstasy and Agony

Visual artist Brook Hsu and writer and critic Live Drønen in conversation – on love, space and representation.

Shuyi Cao: Speculative Geology, Paradoxical Kin

Essay

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.