SOFIA CRESPO, reimagining nature through the existing
A few many decades ago, Tristan Tzara argued that to make a Dadaist poem, one only needs to take a newspaper, a pair of scissors,…
MOON, interdisciplinary posthumanist art
Interdisciplinary artist MOON (Martina Zelenika) explores and creates art projects related to posthumanism which, according to her, “should pragmatically focus on the rediscovery of fundamental…
JOANIE LEMERCIER, projecting the sublime of light and space
Light as a medium, Space as a canvas with these words is how Joanie Lemercier defines his work. The French visual artist’s practice is primarily…
DASHA RUSH, transcending mind and space
In Tarkovsky’s masterpiece Stalker, the stalker, a sort of a smuggler visitor guide to the Zone [an exclusion area in which the normal laws of…
Open Call: ‘La Becque Artist Residency’ in Switzerland
La Becque Artist Residency is a recently started programme of residencies in Switzerland, located on the shores of Lake Geneva between Vevey and Montreux, dedicate…
‘Notes from the Underworld’ by Stefano Corbo
In 1638, seven years after Mount Vesuvius erupted, the Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher traveled to Naples and climbed the volcano that had just caused the…
Exhibition: ‘Potential Worlds 1: Planetary Memories’ in Zurich
Founded in 1998, The Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Zurich, Switzerland supports the production, exhibition and collection of international contemporary art through temporary solo and…
QUIET ENSEMBLE, a sympathetic relationship between the natural and unnatural
Quiet Ensemble is an Italian art collective comprised of Fabio di Salvo and Bernardo Vercelli. Founded in 2009, they aimed to explore the relationship between…
‘Aki Inomata, a closer look to the natural world’ by Lidia Ratoi
We live in an Epoque of great distances. Great distance between us and our native places. Or between us and our next travel destination. Or,…
CLOT Magazine recommends: OCTOBER
Frieze London, Regent’s Park London, 3–6 October 2019 The renowned art fair returns for another year in Regent’s Park, bringing together the usual presentations from…
Exhibition: ‘On the Last Afternoon’ at Adam Art Gallery
On the Last Afternoon: Disrupted Ecologies and the Work of Joyce Campbell is a major retrospective of the career of photo-media artist from New Zealand…
Exhibition: ‘Imperial Valley’ at STATE Studio Berlin
Human impact on Earth’s geography by aggressive agricultural practice is not something new. We continuously see images of deforestation and loose of breathing green mass…
Festival: ‘ecocinema’ at TAXISPALAIS (Innsbruck, Austria)
In today’s age of ecological crisis, can we find an optimistic and empathetic way of engaging with our environment? To shed our human-centric attitudes and…
CLOT Magazine recommends: SEPTEMBER
»Seasons of Media Arts«, ZKM Karlsruhe, until 15 September 2019 Today’s cities are subjected to constant yet invisible change, as thousands of data streams are…
Exhibition and Sound Installation: Soundmarks
Walking through Aldborough, a small peaceful village in North Yorkshire, one would never guess that it was once a site of a big and busy…
Interviews, Series, Sound, Unsound
FÉLICIA ATKINSON, on the sonic poetics of absence
Pregnancy is an underlying motive in The Flower & The Vessel, Félicia Atkinson´s just-released new album. A theme that has historically been neglected in arts,…
Architectures, Interviews, STATE Studio
NATHAN KENSINGER, documenting the climate crisis
Nathan Kensinger is an interdisciplinary artist working most often in photography and installation. Born in San Francisco and currently based in Brooklyn, for the past…
Exhibition: ‘Olafur Eliasson: In real life’ at Tate Modern
Olafur Eliasson is a Danish-Icelandic artist who, through his art, aims to raise awareness about environmental and social crises. His work ranges across various media…
CLOT Magazine recommends: JULY
GAMMA Festival, various locations Saint Petersburg, 11-14 July 2019 The 4th edition of GAMMA festival will be held this year from July 11th to July…
Editor’s Pick: Installation ‘Displuvium’ by Fragmentin
Displuvium is an artistic research conceptualised and created by Fragmentin, an art practice based in Lausanne, in close collaboration with Swiss designer Renaud Defrancesco. Fragmentin…