Weaving New Surfaces & Digital Realities, exploring the work of Athena Mothership
Text by Elspeth Walker Our realities are often split between the physical and digital worlds, with the surfaces of both determining how we encounter life. From slick and shining digital platforms to the textured reality of the natural world, we often swing between varying states. However, artists such as Athena Mothership are challenging the need […]
L.E.V. Gijón 2025: The Day After, on the power of educating with great, subversive experiences
Text by Jacobo García L.E.V. Gijón 2025 took place in Asturias, the region of Spain with the lowest percentage of young people [1], at just 12%, compared to the national average of 15.9% and the European average of 16.2%. Around 100,000 young individuals reside in this autonomous community, with a population of over one million. […]
Exhibition: FERMENTING TEXTILES, weaving together traditional craft, anthropology, microbiology & art at Art Laboratory Berlin
Text by CLOT Magazine Fermenting Textiles with Adama Séré, Laurence Douny, Regine Hengge, Pauline Agustoni, and Satomi Minoshima is a research project and exhibition at Art Laboratory Berlin that connects anthropology, microbiology, and art. Curators Regine Rapp and Christian de Lutz explain that cross-cultural research methods play a key role in the exhibition: Anthropologist Laurence […]
Festival: BODIES OF WATER, learning from the River Panke through art, science & storytelling at Art Laboratory Berlin
Text by CLOT Magazine Water is the most abundant material on the planet. It comprises up to 73% of the human body and three-quarters of the Earth’s surface, including oceans, seas, rivers, and lakes. It is one of the references for scientific measurement systems and can exist in three different forms: solid, liquid and gas. […]
Rewire 2025: The Day After, an intense electronic experience in The Hague
Text by Martyn Riley Rewire has a dynamic all its own, enticing and confusing the individual into what they want from their time in The Hague. With its looming, enormous churches, bustling post-modern dystopian liminal spaces, youthful Uni-city appeal, unforgiving bike lanes, and an enviable public transport system. Rewire 2025 overwhelmed me to say the […]
In Dracula’s playground, we all get a taste: Director Adam C.Keller on his film NECROPOP & the queer eye for horror
Text by Natalie Mariko I’m rushing on foot past motorcyclists and voices yelling out across the traffic lanes, eyes bent to the images bleeding out in my hand. I’m struggling to make sense of the photos I’ve been sent: a brainy facemask in the shape of a cock’s helmet, a silicone pig-head bra, various fake-blood […]
Exploring how the multidisciplinary project ‘The Crossing’ examines the psychological & emotional impact of displacement
Text by Irem Erkin Sound has a unique ability to transport the mind along time and space. A single vibration can evoke childhood memories—a familiar song playing during a family dinner, or the distant cry of a seagull recalling the shores of the hometown. This sonic journey blurs the boundaries between past and present, reviving […]
SPUTNIKO!, navigating the nexus of art, technology & societal transformation
Interview by Daniela Silva Hiromi Marissa Ozaki, known as Sputniko!, is a British-Japanese artist, designer, and filmmaker whose work explores the intersections of technology, gender, and society. Growing up with a British mother and a Japanese father, both mathematicians, Sputniko! was drawn to logical reasoning and problem-solving from a young age. This interest led her […]
Insight: CRUX, intuition behind hi-tek media performance art
Text by Piotr Bockowski Shielded by space trooper combat gear and a motorcycle helmet, AI-controlled camera eye antennas projecting in front of him, as he cuts through the augmented urban dereliction on an electric unicycle, Singaporean cyborg Derek Stormfield is followed by a chance-algorithm-driven drone interconnected with apparatuses of playful improvisation. A restless agent of […]
Sunday School presents JIM JANCO – Wilderness mix for SSIV
Text by CLOT Magazine For the upcoming fourth edition of Sunday School, a ritual gathering of sonic blasphemy and rave-fuelled devotion, London-based musician Jim Janco steps into the pulpit with A Wilderness Mix—a cryptic sermon through weird, experimental and underground sounds. Janco, the mind behind People Drift—a roving techno night grounded in South East London’s […]
HICHAM BERRADA, between science & poetic transformation
Interview by Belén Vera Encountering Hicham Berrada’s work feels like stepping into a parallel world, where the familiar becomes elusive and perception is slightly distorted. Forms and elements seem recognisable, yet remain just out of reach, creating a disorienting tension between the organic and the artificial. Any attempt to decipher their logic, a wave of […]
Festival: L.E.V. 2025 Gijón, Spain – Exploring sound & synergies between art, technology & digital culture
Text by CLOT Magazine L.E.V. Festival Gijón has just revealed the latest names for its 19th edition. From 1 to 4 May 2025, live shows including local, national, and international artists will turn Gijón into a reference point for electronic sound experimentation and contemporary audiovisual, scenic, and digital creation. The headliners are Ryoji Ikeda, Ash […]
ALEX PIERS, how npm label embraces the strangeness in sound
Interview by Neshy Denton Risk is the possibility of loss, harm, or danger as the consequence of a certain action. It involves the feeling of uncertainty and the absence of the distinction between right and wrong. Whether it’s strategic, financial, or even personal risk, the idea of embracing the unknown to move forward is to […]
LAURIE VICTOR KAY, the camera as catharsis
Interview by Kate Hoag Laurie Victor Kay is a multimedia artist who does not believe in staying in one place. She works with photography, painting, digital media, and installation, moving between forms to tell powerful visual stories. Her work often explores the balance between personal experience and cultural themes, touching on identity, mental health, and […]
ORIGINS, a multi-sensory epic journey that explores the planet Earth
Text by Juliette Wallace On the 29th January the NASA space agency and their German partners from the Goethe University in Frankfurt discovered something fundamental about the origins of our planet. A finely tuned space-probe – the OSIRIS-REx – was used to examine material that had been extracted from an orbiting mass, the Bennu asteroid. […]
COSMOTECHNICS, opening up portals outside of time
Text by Ania Mokrzycka It is with a certain feeling of urgency that I seek the nature, subject, words of the other story, the untold one, the life story, writes Ursula Le Guin in the The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction. Le Guin puts forward a story that defies linear progress and refrains from grand […]
Insight: npm’s InConcert. series, exploring the raw genesis of electronic sound
Text by Neshy Denton Live music is often, and now rather indefinitely, associated with the experience of seeing instruments handled by a musician in the presence of our proximity. Watching the precision of this craft in person invites the spectator to join in the artistry by witnessing the translation of noise into sound. But what […]
In conversation: Ana Maria Caballero & Natalie Mariko on the multidimensional value poetics
Text by Natalie Mariko As a young writer living in the West, there are certain poets one comes into contact with less as an introduction to a discipline and more so as a rite of passage. Plath is one. Keats, perhaps, another. For me, the earliest book of poetry I can remember purchasing on my […]
BASIM MAGDY, on traditional narratives & our perceptions of memory, history & time
Interview by Daniela Silva Egyptian-born artist Basim Magdy has gained recognition for his film, photography, and text work. With a style that blends the everyday with the surreal, his art challenges traditional narratives and invites viewers to reconsider their perceptions of memory, history, and time. His work often questions the stories we are told and […]
Insight: Kick in the Cut Eyes of Broken Blades, how cracks of metal & glass carry vital gestures
Text by Piotr Bockowski Twisted biomech geometry of metallic claws is cut against itself into an alien fossil, which spells encrypted protocol for material transmutations as it says: METAMORPHIKA—born earlier last year as a brainchild of a couple of Eastend artists Simon Ballester and Kieron Coffey, a versatile art gallery, performance platform & media event […]