MONIRA AL QADIRI, iridising the tragedy of Petroculture
In the early 1950s, when the business with the ‘black gold’ took off at an enormous pace, the Arab states of the Persian Gulf became…
‘Mark Mothersbaugh and Beatie Wolfe’s Postcards for Democracy’ by Charlotte Kent
Some argue mail art waned in the 1990s when the internet provided an alternate collaborative space, suggesting it is a kind of proto-net art [1]….
‘Suspensions (Hanging Out and Hanging In) – suspended by Covid-19’ by Agata Kik
“Suspensions can be characterised as passages, cracks, intervals, and interstices within the institutionally gridded space-times of neoliberal capitalism. Suspensions are both physical and conceptual, taking…
Exhibition: ‘Rendered Reality’ at the Korean Cultural Centre UK
KCCUK in London was founded in 2008 and since its inception has presented year-round exhibition programmes, film festivals as well as traditional and contemporary musical…
Digital Culture, News, Robotics & Kinetics
Exhibition: ‘No realm of thought… No field of vision’ by Cerith Wyn Evans at White Cube
White Cube Bermondsey presents No realm of thought… No field of vision, an exhibition of new work by artist Cerith Wyn Evans. The exhibition features…
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…
Digital Culture, News, STATE Studio
Event: ‘Dynamic Nodes’, January 23 at STATE Studio Berlin
Curated by CLOT Magazine’s editors Meritxell Rosell and Lula Criado, CLOT Magazine presents a one-day event with video installations, panel discussion and AV performances on…
Digital Culture, News, STATE Studio
Event: ‘Dynamic Nodes’ by CLOT Magazine at STATE Studio Berlin
What is the Universe? What is the reason for its existence? and what is the very fabric it is made of? As thinking entities, we…
Event & album release: DeForrest Brown Jr´s ‘of desire, longing’
DeForrest Brown Jr is one of the current most radical and inspired voices of Black culture. Theorist, journalist, curator, visual artist, and musician DeForrest was raised…
Exhibition: Plastic Sounds of Dark Matter at Goldsmiths Centre of Contemporary Arts
This summer Goldsmiths Centre of Contemporary Arts features several new projects for Episodes – an ongoing series of solo shows that run alongside and starkly…
(Inter-) at Somerset House by Agata Kik
(Inter-) was the UK’s culmination of the Amplify project, which had its origin in 2018 in MUTEK Montréal, Canada’s festival devoted to electronic music and…
Design fiction and the precipice of politics by Sim Goodwin
We are sitting on the precipice of something. The world around us is changing ever faster, but our future seems evermore confusing. In no context…
Event: Design and Politics Season at Arcade East
Arcade East is a new exhibition space located in Hackney (London) created to focus on innovative forms of art and digital practice. Every summer Arcade…
Dark Havens, confronting Hidden Money & Power. The Art of Exposing Injustice, by Laura Netz
On April 5 and 6, 2019, at Kunstquartier Bethanien in Berlin, took place Dark Havens, a series of talks and workshops to explore the inner…
Weaponised Silence: An Experience With Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s ‘Saydnaya, by Allan Gardner
I want to begin with a caveat – I have been to Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s Earwitness Theatre at Chisenhale Gallery once. I attended the…
CHRISTOPHER LUTTERODT-QUARCOO, upheaving dominant historical and political narratives
Christopher Lutterodt-Quarcoo (CL-Q for short), is a multifaceted creative investigator whose work is rooted in the complexities of living as an African in…
Exhibition: How much of this is fiction, demystifying fake news and post-truth politics a FACT Liverpool
Politics is poisoned. Propaganda, lies, manipulations, alt-facts, fake news, selective hacks and leaks are the hallmarks of the politics of our age. Appeals to…
Technology-based art as a trigger for political and social change, by Eran Tsafrir
Politics is poisoned. Propaganda, lies, manipulations, alt-facts, fake news, selective hacks and leaks are the hallmarks of the politics of our age. Appeals to emotion…