Contents - Various Artists

Jiajia Zhang: Geared Towards the Limitless

Artist Jiajia Zhang in conversation with writer Dara Jochum about the physicality of affect, the subsumption of consciousness, and if there is hope for beauty in an age of over-saturation.

Russell Haswell: Sensory Overload

Listicle

Russell Haswell: Sensory Overload

Heavy music for heavy times: Russell Haswell compiles a list of ten sensory overloads.

Simon Shiroka, Petrit Halilaj, Flaka Haliti: Shooting Stars and Camo Clouds

Essay

Simon Shiroka, Petrit Halilaj, Flaka Haliti: Shooting Stars and Camo Clouds

For V/A’s focus theme on opulence, art critic Alex Fisher creates a constellation out of the works of three Kosovar artists.

Library of Visual Phenomena: Collecting the Unpredictable

Interview

Library of Visual Phenomena: Collecting the Unpredictable

Daša Anosova talks to the founders of the Library of Visual Phenomena Olga Gaidash and Eugene Shimalsky.

Jovana Reisinger: Devoted

Essay

Jovana Reisinger: Devoted

Writer, filmmaker and artist Jovana Reisinger reflects on extravagance, abundance, and luxury.

Princess Prada: Sadder Badder Cooler

Report

Princess Prada: Sadder Badder Cooler

Carla Garlaschi aka Princess Prada on her daily life in Chile, sex work, identity politics, and materialism.

Anna Ehrenstein: Everything That Glitters (Is Not Gold)

Interview

Anna Ehrenstein: Everything That Glitters (Is Not Gold)

Artist Anna Ehrenstein about authenticity, fashion, collaboration, and cultural dynamics.

Paz Guevara: Resistant Plurality

Interview

Paz Guevara: Resistant Plurality

Curator Paz Guevara has assembled artists, activists, and scientists for O Quilombismo at Berlin’s Haus der Kulturen der Welt – an intergenerational and multi-sensory experience that is excessive in the best sense of the word.

Morag Keil: Limp Gestures

Essay

Morag Keil: Limp Gestures

Elaine Tam on how Scottish artist Morag Keil manages to capture the opulence of simultaneity and ubiquity that dominates our present.