Symposium: ‘Dis/Assembly of Performative Things’, performance as a strategy
The Dis/Assembly of Performative Things is dedicated to performance as a strategy for designers to question their discipline, the contexts it operates in as well…
Exhibition: ‘Useless Bodies?’ by Elmgreen & Dragset’s at Fondazione Prada
Useless Bodies? is one of the most ambitious thematic investigations realised by Fondazione Prada to date. Open from March 30 to August 22, 2022, in…
Computing Art, Digital Culture, Interviews
LAUREL JOHANNESSON, on manipulated photographies exposing the body’s vulnerability
Artist Laurel Johannesson focuses on generating experiences involving water, site-specific installations that play into the relations between body – nature, real – dream. She devotes…
Discussion: ‘Body and Identity: Metamorphosis in the Digital Age’ at the NEW NOW online platform
How do we conceptualise our body? It once was customary to derive a person’s identity from their inalienable bodily “constants” of gender and race, but…
Biomedia, Body Sculptures, News
Insight: Explantes, exposing human vulnerability to encourage organ donation
In The Phenomenon of Life, philosopher Hans Jonas described the idea of a living organism as an individual body that asserts an independence of identity…
‘Obscene performing machines of WenZhe Li’s mental Eelness’ by Piotr Bockowski
Closed in the solitary of her West End studio, Chinese dancer WenZhe Li has been shedding her skin. Infamous for her offensive intimacy with cold-blooded…
Biomedia, News, Scout & Trends
Exhibition: Erin Solomons’ ‘I’m going to carve the truth out of you’
Erin Solomons is an artist who uses bodily performance and analogue photography to investigate childhood trauma through an emphasis on boundaries between the body and…
BORGHILDUR INDRIÐADÓTTIR, an artist on a journey to the Moon
Borghildur Indriðadóttir is an Icelandic artist who taps into her experience in architecture, performance and acting methods to question our understanding of power and systematic…
Insight: “Still a bird” by Rebecca Lenaerts, a ritual of becoming
Stirred by an intense and inner drive towards a rituality that may have partially lost its permanence in present-day society but retains an ingrained need…
Insight: Output Field’s Debut Showcase ‘Skin Garden’, virtual musings in flesh
Bodies are complex. From the moment of birth, we become immediately acquainted with our corporeal selves through the very moment of sensation. To be conscious…
‘Éva Mayer: Terra Incognita, Ani Molnár Gallery, Budapest’ by Anne Murray
Éva Mayer’s exhibition at Ani Molnár Gallery in Budapest, curated by Lili Boros, delves into the limbic space of fertility, hope, and loss and its…
Body Sculptures, Digital Culture, News
Event: ‘TRANSGENESIS’ an abstract machine at The Orange Garden London
TRANSGENESIS is a new series of experiments by Agnes? Curated by Arturo Passacantando, Tommaso de Benedictis, and Charlie Mills is on view at The Orange…
‘Bottom of the Well’, traumatic video-narratives of Chronic Illness 13 by Piotr Bockowski
Fungal activity has been complicit in the undercurrents of Victorian sewage that swallowed the source of Hackney Brook, one of the many forgotten rivers of…
Computing Art, Interviews, Robotics & Kinetics
FILIPA VALENTE, mechanical interactions amid bodies and spaces
Formally trained and practising as an architect, Filipa Valente develops her cross-disciplinary practice between experiential design and architecture. Her interactive and immersive installations seduce the…
Online series: ‘Hyper Functional, Ultra Healthy’ at Somerset House
Confronting all of the changes forced upon us during a global pandemic has made it increasingly harder to prioritise mental health. If we are constantly…
‘Zsolt Asztalos, Memory: an Act or Construction?’, by Anne Murray
Memories are constructions. We build them out of fragmented details. These details can be found in different parts of the brain; in accordance with our…
Computing Art, Interviews, Sound
EWA & JACEK DOROSZENKO, capturing our consciousness with sound and computer-generated image
Ewa Doroszenko’s practice enmeshes material and virtual realities. She works analog and digital. Her creative process spans from prints and video works to printed objects…
Insight: Brad Nath, swaying along with the sinister whispers of the rubble
Chalky rustling fills the room. The dark stage reveals an assemblage of thirteen cored building bricks stacked on top and beside each other like a…
Body Sculptures, Interviews, Scout & Trends
KAI LANDRE, a cyborg musician interpreting the sounds of outer space
Kai Landre is a musician who can hear the universe. Not metaphorically, but rather literally. He has a 6th sense, which he chose and designed…
Exhibition: ‘Scalable Skeletal Escalator’ by Isabel Lewis at Kunsthalle Zürich
Isabel Lewis is a Berlin-based artist whose career began in the context of contemporary dance but in recent years her works have broken with the…