Petri Dish: On Launching V/A – Various Artists Editors’ NotePetri Dish: On Launching V/A – Various ArtistsAn introduction to V/A and the initial thematic focal point “Petri Dish” by the editors.
Re-Membering the Lost: Mapping Philippine Material Culture The Run-UpRe-Membering the Lost: Mapping Philippine Material CultureManila-based curator and writer Marian Pastor Roces started to post a series of photos and essayistic texts on Facebook in Fall 2020. In January 2021 a new platform was launched by scholar Cristina Martinez-Juan in London, including the objects shared by Roces and more like them in an online collection: “Mapping Philippine Material Culture.”
Intimacy and the Machine: Gamergirl Bathwater – or: “Is Hentai Art”? EssayIntimacy and the Machine: Gamergirl Bathwater – or: “Is Hentai Art”?How is technology shaping our desires? What bodies and faces populate our screens? What’s left of the flesh in virtual spaces? Biz Sherbert addresses these and other questions in her essay, following human and non-human actors that reflect the state of our libidinal economy.
Publishing Beirut: Loose Systems ReportPublishing Beirut: Loose SystemsHow Lebanese independent publishers manage to keep making magazines in an environment of multiple crisis—Jana Al Obeidyine from a Dance Mag and Ibrahim Nehme from The Outpost provide first-hand insights into a highly fragile ecosystem.
