Op & Ed
The Day After – L.E.V. Matadero 2026, learning to speak again
Text by Guillermo Justicia Some days after the lights went down in Matadero Madrid’s naves, the eighth edition of L.E.V. Matadero still lingers as a question: in a landscape increasingly populated by synthetic voices, what forms of relation remain available to us? Curated once again by L.E.V. in partnership with
Bienal Climática Avilés, from climate action to regenerative culture
Text by Belén Vera After 100 days of exhibitions, performances, screenings, workshops, walks, conversations and collaborative processes, the first edition of Bienal Climática: arte, industria y territorio has come to an end in Avilés. From June to September, more than forty artists and collectives took part in over sixty activities
Unsound returns for a 10-day stretch from Warsaw to its spiritual home in Kraków under the intriguing banner of SOFT POWER
Text by Stephen McLaughlin The atmosphere of political intrigue and conspiratorial thought especially since 2020 has led to many interesting projects interrogating the institutional capture and manipulation of the arts by political bodies such as Aaron Moulton’s work The Influencing Machine on the Soros Centers for Contemporary Art’s development of
On Ai Weiwei CCTV of a fake CCP AI agent
Text by Piotr Bockowski It depends, it depends, it depends…, repeated a Taoist incantation of the post-Internet emperor of Fake China. Between 3 and 4 July, a grand performance art stage of Manchester’s Aviva Studios was transformed into a 24h surveillance booth, simulating a supervised confinement and interrogation cell of
tekhnē x CLOT Magazine: Abilities, Music & Tools
Text by Iris Colomb Through five articles rooted in practice and lived experience, tekhnē’s fourth edition, These Abilities, presents a variety of perspectives on Technology, Music and Ableism. This edition and its topic align with tekhnē’s focus on technology’s emancipatory potential in music and sound art contexts. They are brought
Pixel Pioneers, the horizon that will not hold still
Text by Eleni Maragkou There is a particular vertigo that comes from watching a landscape assemble itself out of other people’s ways of seeing. In Geert Mul’s Horizons (2008), more than two hundred works from the Boijmans collection – each holding a horizon somewhere in its frame – are stitched
Ballardian Fish-Bird: a bicycle crash performance by Fung Lee
Text by Piotr Bockowski A report from ‘Terminal Futures: JG Ballard in the 21st Century’ conference On Sunday afternoon 17th May, a Hong Kong performer, Lee Fung, crashed their bicycle by riding into the River Thames in Shepperton, just outside London. It was the final day of Terminal Futures: JG
tekhnē x CLOT Magazine: Mutating Traditions
Text by CLOT Magazine Having recently celebrated 2 years from its first issue, the tekhnē journal is an online periodical offering background and reflection on sound, technology, and creative usership, run collaboratively by six European partners. Q-O2, GMEA, CTM, OUT.RA, Skaņu Mežs, and TRAFO each take the lead on one
Elettrocontaminazioni Meridiane, sonic speculations on Southern Italy – a response to tekhnē’s journal Mutating Traditions
Text by Agostino Quaranta The South of Italy and the dilemma of the future In response to the theme Mutating Tradition of the third edition of the tekhnē journal (curated by CTM) and stemming from a collaboration with CLOT Magazine, I decided to investigate and map relationships with technology that
Chronoclasty. A Clandestine (D)rift Log
Text by Cecilia Scarfò Everything is recorded. If it is recorded, then it can be edited. If it can be edited, then the order, sense, meaning, and direction are as arbitrary and personal as the agenda editing. If reality consists of a series of parallel recordings that usually go unchallenged,
Biennale Danza 2026 – Time does (not) exist? Relational temporalities
Text by Katažyna Jankovska What is time? Is time a linear progression, or can multiple temporalities coexist at once? As Achille Mbembe observes, we are experiencing a clash of temporalities: geological, deep, historical, and experiential times that fold into one another. If we are accustomed to thinking of time as
DEUS EX MACHINA – Deconstructing Digital Divinity
Text by Oscar Lund In Philip K. Dick’s 1968 sci-fi novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, a new religion has spread across the decaying and abandoned Earth: Mercerism. The fictional religion was first conceptualised in Dick’s short story, The Little Black Box, in which disciples enter a “mystical communion”
Reflections on Iklectik, events at a car park, current venue ecosystem & models
Text by Atay Ilgun PARKS is a new recurring live programme at IKLECTIK, London. Well-settled into their new home in Peckham Levels, the independent cultural platform has evolved into more than a ‘gig space’, becoming an Art Lab that shapes a radical, cross-disciplinary approach to culture-making. With PARK, iklectik are
Jaleh Negari’s ‘ما به هم می رسیم | We Reach Each Other’, the self as a project & as an unfinished one
Text by Robert Barry From a distance, Jaleh Negari’s Pattern of Life Analysis II (2025–26) might almost be mistaken for a digital print. You see blocks and shapes in abstract configurations, networks of sky blue rectangles, green dashes and deep orange squares in a field of white space, not a
Feeling Smartly: In the dust motes
Text by Sarah-Jane Field SMART, when applied to devices – phones, home automation hubs, or robot carpet cleaners – connotes complex, algorithmic and seamless functionality. In contrast, smart human behaviour is likely to be exhibited by someone who thinks, feels, and responds beyond expectations, perhaps with originality or intuition, and
Dismantling & reinventing visibility, exploring Jen Liu’s artistic & intellectual process
Text by Rodrigo Guzman-Serrano There is a persistent assumption built into the concept of visibility that being visible means being relevant, accounted for, and enfranchised. But to be seen is also to be exposed, vulnerable, surveilled even. Across an art practice spanning video, painting, sculpture, and archival research, Jen Liu