Festival: Rewire 2022 – Art & Discourse Programme Highlights
Rewire the annual international festival for adventurous music is physically returning to The Hague with its eleventh festival edition, bringing together a wide range of…
Insight: UBERMORGEN & Nye Thompson’s UNINVITED, the alluring and pernicious potential of horror movies
Who is dwelling inside the security cameras that continuously oversee our daily activities? Do we have any agency while being watched? Does the monitoring affect…
Exhibition: ‘Portal Tables’ by the Decorators at Stanley Picker gallery
Domestic food fermentation gained momentum during the periods of social isolation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, with many people sharing homemade recipes through social media….
Exhibition: ‘Portal Tables’ by interdisciplinary design The Decorators
The Decorators is an interdisciplinary design collective founded by Suzanne O’Connell, Carolina Caicedo, Xavi Llarch Font and Mariana Pestana in 2011. With backgrounds in landscape…
‘Mycotopia in Chernobyl Exclusion Zone’ by Piotr Bockowski
Mycotopia is a utopian concept of Paul Stamets, which involves a wide variety of maverick fungal biotechnologies and other inventive practical solutions for improving the…
DEMO, from moving image to experimental politics
DEMO – Deptford Moving Image Festival was launched in 2019 in South London. Under the title Hyperworlds, the first edition examined unconventional ways of being…
Screening: DEMO’s film, investigating new & challenging forms of visual language
DEMO is a curatorial platform exploring the aesthetic and political potentialities of the moving image, regularly presenting experimental films concerning subaltern conditions and speculating on…
Column: ‘In principle, yes… covitizing the past’
Do you know this subtle unease when watching a movie scene where people cram into a street, bus or shopping mall while disregarding social distancing?…
Biomedia, Contributors, Op & Ed
‘Marianna Simnett: Contagion and Monstrous Politics’ by Eleanor Wakeford
You and I, who are looking ahead to the future monster. We talk about synthetic reproduction. You say that it shouldn’t be called reproduction but…
Biomedia, Contributors, Op & Ed
‘Marianna Simnett: Contagion and the Utopian Body’ by Eleanor Wakeford
Defying fantasies of control, corroding internal integrity, and ignoring the borders that define and defend identity, contagion is considered a threat to individual, national and…
Online events: Territorial Agency: Oceans in Transformation
Territorial Agency: Oceans in Transformation synthesises three years of intersectional research, investigating the transformations of the world’s oceans in the Anthropocene. Assessing the latest scientific…
Film Screening: ‘Sea Lovers’, a commission by TBA21-Academy
What if to save our seas and oceans we should have a deeply intimate relationship with it, and understand its most delicate interconnections from within,…
Online screening: Marianna Simnett’s ‘The Bird Game’
One year ago, on April 10, 2019, CLOT Magazine published an interview with performative artist and film director Marianna Simnett. In her performative practice, Simnett’s…
Online screening: ‘Quercus’ by Formafantasma at e-flux Video and Film
Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin are behind Formafantasma, an Italian design studio based in Amsterdam. Their work looks at the design’s ecological and political responsibilities…
Exhibition: ‘the eye, the eye and the ear’ by Trisha Baga at Pirelli HangarBicocca
Pirelli HangarBicocca presents Trisha Baga’s solo exhibition the eye, the eye and the ear running until 19 July and comprising of video installations and ceramic…
Exhibition: ‘The Otolith Group: Xenogenesis’ at ICA, Virginia, EEUU
The ICA is the only U.S. venue for Xenogenesis. Opened in 2018, the ICA showcases an ever-changing slate of exhibitions, performances, films, and special programs…
Exhibition: ‘Blueprints’ at the Serpentine Galleries London
Cao Fei is a multimedia artist and filmmaker based in Beijing. Her work reflects on the rapid and chaotic changes that are occurring in Chinese…
Exhibition: ‘Trickle Down, A New Vertical Sovereignty’ at arebyte Gallery
Trickle Down, A New Vertical Sovereignty, a new body of work by UK based artist Helen Knowles, opens at arebyte Gallery this evening. What are…
Audio & Visual, Sound, The CLOTMix
CLOT Mix: Phantom Limb presents BRYAN SENTI
In our 10th Mixtape Phantom Limb is presenting composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist Bryan Senti who has prepared a selection with some of his favourites film…
Biomedia, Body Sculptures, News
Screening: Marianna Simnett’s ‘The Bird Game’ at FVU in London
Marianna Simnett is a London-based artist, challenging how bodies are perceived and imagined. “[I] imagined the world being incorporated into the bottomless depth of my…