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Swamping: On Curatorial Practices about Planetary Health & Wetlands
Text by Tuçe Erel Swamps and birds go together; when the swamp disappears, so do the birds.Annie Proulx’s Fen, Bog, and Swamp As Pauline Doutreluingne wraps up her series, Swamping, I am writing to share my personal reflection and review of the program. As a fellow curator working at the
OJO| |ÓLǪ́, on Eric Paul Rieges’s living weavings
Text by Daniela Silva There is a quiet clarity in the way Eric-Paul Riege, a Diné/Navajo artist, approaches material. Before anything becomes art, before it hangs, drapes, accumulates, or moves, he listens. The artist, whose practice expands through weaving, sculpture, sound, video, and performance, often says that materials have their
CHRYSALIS. ARTISTS IN LABS, interdisciplinary experiences at Art Laboratory Berlin
Text by Rae (Mee-Jin) Tilly There is a prevailing notion that art and science are wholly separate fields. One discipline is seen as rooted in fact, ruled by reason. The other is considered an emotional process, where empiricism plays a lesser role. Yet this division is misleading. To me, they
The Severed Wing, bed-bound artist Corinne explores the meaning of theatre & performativity
Text by Lyndsey Walsh The clattering of typewriter keys accompanies a rhythmic emergence of a written addressal by the artist Corinne to their audience in Act One of their performance, The Severed Wing. While this performance is set to happen in real-time in venues across the United Kingdom, Corinne is
SEMIBREVE festival 2025: The day after, resonant lineages
Text by Jacobo Garcia Semibreve reached its 15th edition this year, a symbolic threshold that speaks of maturity: a festival that knows what it is, where it stands, and how it resonates within Europe’s experimental music ecosystem. Semibreve contemplates itself as a tapestry woven from multiple eras of sound: veteran
The Vital Story of Undying Darkness: Gothic Recurrence
Text by Caterina Avataneo Scorpio season has knocked once again, boosting Halloweenish taste for velvet, candlelight, and gloom. As per tradition, bookshops go goth, stacking their windows with special editions of Bram Stoker and Mary Shelley, while pâtisseries stage their own miniature danse macabre with pumpkin desserts and spun-sugar cobwebs.
Unsound Kraków 2025 – WEB: immersive listening, unwavering curation & an intangible fabric of community
Text by Dom Stevenson Immersive listening, unwavering curation, and an intangible fabric of community –the kind that only a late return to the Hotel Forum can reveal. It was Saturday evening – the penultimate day of Unsound. I sat at a bar in Kraków around a small outside table with
Gill Gatfield’s ‘Habeas Corpus’: Networked Resistance in Posthuman Worlds
Text by Tamar Torrance From the outset, Gill Gatfield’s Habeas Corpus casts the body as arbiter and object: both the first point of contact and contested locus of control. Referencing the Latin legal writ – meaning literally “you have the body” – the project’s name is double-edged, invoking the structures
Oblique Futures & Diagonal Records at ICA London – Between Eye & Ear: Experiments in Audiovisual Perception
Text by Mila Azimonti There’s hardly anything neutral about adding visuals to a music performance. Images never merely “adorn sound” — research shows as much. Once sight enters the equation, the eye takes over judgment, steering how we make sense of what we hear. Sometimes subtly, other times entirely, visuals
Radical Rituals for Sustainable AI: From Lab to Forum with MUTEK AI Ecologies Lab
Text by Patrick Tanguay The MUTEK AI Ecologies Lab concluded with a public presentation and mini-conference at the MUTEK Forum, themed “Radical Rituals.” In the apparently haunted basement of Monument-National, with a vibe somewhere between solarpunk speakeasy and Batcave, the Playground provided an atmospheric backdrop for thoughtful work on artificial
‘EGO in the Shell’, how artist Emi Kusano explores memory, surveillance & identity in the age of generative AI
Text by Juliette Wallace By descending into one’s inner depths, one encounters the future – Rilke Technology and the accelerating development of AI are having a profound effect on our perception of self and, in turn, identity. The avalanche of information we are exposed to on a daily basis through
L.E.V. Matadero 2025: The Day After, when performance meets the machine
Text by Jacobo García Our contemporary life is wholly embedded in screens; there is a screen on the treadmill in the gym, multiple screens in the car we drive to get there, and a screen on our wrist, where a clock used to sit. Our screen-equipped phone faithfully reminds us
‘Not A Word From Me’, Lucy Railton, Rebecca Salvadori & Charlie Hope on shaping perception through texture, rhythm & embodied sound
Text by Eleni Maragkou Sometimes, a simple encounter can leave an indelible mark. One fleeting convergence can linger long after it has passed – a moment of recognition and alignment when the senses are fully attuned, and the world feels simultaneously intimate and expansive, stretching into months, years, decades. Not
Atonal 2025 – The House That Jack Built: five days of noise & darkness in the looming corridors of Kraftwerk Berlin
Text by Dom Stevenson The Noise Went On, The Cup Was Dropped, The Speakers Were Stretched, The Bells Were Rung, The Building Shook, And The Drums Were Hit. This Is The House That Jack Built. Much like the cadence of the nursery rhyme, Atonal 2025 unfolded as a cumulative story
‘Delphinium Maximum’ at the Bauhaus Museum Dessau: when the flower laughs at you aloud
Text by Leoni Fischer A lady dressed in elegant black poses on a white pedestal amid a fantastical nature. Tall flower spikes rise from large vases, each spike densely packed with thick pale blossoms, whose throats enclose a dark eye. In contrast to this floral explosion unfolding around her, the
Designing Sustainable AI: Inside the MUTEK AI Ecologies Lab (Part 2)
Text by Patrick Tanguay In one corner of the building, three rooms with people at keyboards, some in animated discussion. While they might appear to be doing ordinary computer work, they’re actually creating 3D worlds, developing emotionally responsive digital creatures, and building tools to measure environmental impact. Moving through the