Low monotone drone sounds lure the crowd in. People start filling up the seats around me, while I’m starting to ease into the sonic ambience of sustained low frequencies…[read on]
Perusing the catalogue for ‘Wahrheit ist Arbeit’ (Truth is Work) – the formative Werner Büttner, Martin Kippenberger and Albert Oehlen’s 1984 exhibition curated by…[read on]
When one sees Iran through its sweeping landscapes or its rural agrarian towns, it is easy to forget this is the same country flooding our news feeds with everything from…[read on]
This year’s transmediale exhibition ‘The Eternal Network’ calls for more intimate relationships within the network, and for regaining more control, away from centralized digital…[read on]
You would have seen them. The multitude of tiny hats, the sombre homogeneous haloes atop identikit outsized attire – squadrons of sonic savants and ferociously…[read on]
A mesmerizing, soft AI voice greets you as you come into n.b.k. – “if you use the extract it will poison autocrats” – over a psychedelic series of kaleidoscopic flowers…[read on]
Savitri Medhatul from Kali Billi Productions appears on stage before the full house of Sophiensaele’s Hochzeitssaal. “Namaste!”, she beams and the not-exclusively-white audience…[read on]
Caline Aoun is the winner of Deutsche Bank’s Artist of the Year 2019 Award. Her exhibition at Palais Populaire, ‘Seeing is believing’ is an abstract meditation on ways…[read on]
The Biennale’s accompanying volume Higher Atlas/Au-Dela de l’Atlas: The Marrakech Biennale 4 in Context, edited by the curators, is indeed a collection of contexts…[read on]