Insight: Destination Mars, building a house out of this world
No other planet has captured our collective imagination as Mars since we first saw it as a star-like object in the night sky. Mars is…
Insight: Hypernormality, searching for symbiotic futures on an inhospitable planet
Early this year, Ö – aka Nicolas Petitfrère, joined PC Music with the release of the ‘AFK’ single, co-produced with A. G. Cook, the record…
Insight: the uncanny plant-life speculations of 30drop’s “Photosynthetic Zone Manifesto”
It is widely known the key roles plants play in human cultures across the globe and across and generations; from Greek and Northern European mythology,…
Editor’s Pick: ‘Semionautics Report’ by Elaine Tam & Andrew Copolov
A terrier-mix dog by the name of Nipper is sat listening to a gramophone, ears pricked, with a quizzical look on its face. This 1890s…
Architectures, Key Artists, Manege, News
Insight: ‘Utopia Saved’, Lee Bul and the Russian avant-garde that informed her work
Lee Bul’s first exhibition in Russia, Utopia Saved opened on November 13 in St Petersburg’s Manege Exhibition Hall. For three months, Manege is a place…
Insight: El Hardwick’s debut album “8”, a modern age sci-fi cautionary tale
El Hardwick’s debut album “8” is dropping on November 20th on 33-33. Calling it, a concept album falls short; it is an epic sci-fi cautionary…
Exhibition: ‘Utopia Saved’, Lee Bul solo show at Manege Central Exhibition Hall St Petersburg
Lee Bul is a contemporary sculpture and installation artist whose career spans over three decades. She is one of the main figures in Korean contemporary…
Insight: NEO, a synthesis of the arts in menswear fashion
The presentation of fashion is never just about the clothes. In the eighties, the models used to dance to music on the runways, in recent…
‘Spellbound’ by Disinformation – ‘An Allegorical Portrait of J. Robert Oppenheimer’ discussed by Joe Banks
“The effects could well be called unprecedented, magnificent, beautiful, stupendous, and terrifying. No man-made phenomenon of such tremendous power had ever occurred before. The lighting…
Contributors, Op & Ed, Series, Sónar
‘Solar Punk, a framework for hopeful futures’ by Jacobo García
Dystopia is a common theme on sci-fi literature, from classics such as the two little gems A Brave New World or 1984 are, to more…