During the Cold War, modernist art became a flagship of freedom and democracy in the West, and took on the role of a symbolic overcoming of fascism. Parapolitics: Cultural Freedom and the Cold War examines the cultural diplomacy of this period, particu …

Ist es Beruf oder Berufung? Originalität, Einsatz- und Risikobereitschaft sind stillschweigende Voraussetzungen des Künstlerdaseins. Kunst ist für Künstler*innen meist Anstoß einer offenen, faszinierenden Selbstverwirklichung. Dabei sind die Lebensentw …

Es ist einfach logisch, dass Sahar Enissa Amani früher oder später in einer Wetter-Titelstory auftaucht. Immerhin schreibt sie seit Jahren für ihre Standups witzige, ballsy Punchlines, war (neben vielem anderen) die erste Deutsche mit einem exklusiven …

Since the dawn of humankind, our planet has been profoundly affected by the constant, exponential increase in the world’s population. Having gone from being a flat disc to a sphere, the Earth is now architecture. This does not mean that it has been sup …

Die postkoloniale Architekturmoderne Südostasiens wird vor dem Hintergrund einer rasanten Urbanisierung einerseits und dem andauernden Prozess der Dekolonialisierung andererseits in der Region zunehmend thematisiert. In Deutschland und Europa sind jedo …

In Issue 77, the themes are Body, Care, Economy, Environment, Labour, Project and Resistance. A special feature ‘file’ on Home gathers ten perspectives on domestic living during lockdown from Mexico City to Teheran, while ARÓ (Allies Against Discrimina …

Contributions by DELE ADEYEMO, BENJAMIN BRATTON, STEPHANIE CARLISLE, EMANUELE COCCIA, KELLER EASTERLING, SWARNABH GHOSH, MACARENA GÓMEZ-BARRIS, JOSEPH GRIMA, PHINEAS HARPER, ELSA HOOVER, JANE HUTTON, INTERIORS AGENCY, ELISA ITURBE… more As the true u …

“If sound is birth and silence death, the echo trailing into infinity can only be the experience of life, the source of narrative and a pattern for history.” Drawing on Louis Chude­ Sokei’s metaphorical, political, and technopoetic investigations, this …

The artist’s book Detroit presents the contemporary urban landscape of this de- industrialized metropolis as an overlay of social and natural history. The catchwords “ruin porn” and “future city” are currently being used in the media to describe what w …

The Wüstenrot Foundation’s research project on modern architecture in the GDR takes preliminary stock of the country’s architectural heritage. It examines how this heritage was handled and looks at the challenges involved in the work of preserving it. …

Just as physical violence leaves its marks on the skin, conceptual violence is written into interfaces via algorithms—in the form of biases turned into pixels, as discrimi­nation implanted in memes in secret chat groups. The coding and decoding of body …

‘Innere Stimme’ is the title of a notation used by Olaf Nicolai as instruction for a sound performance. In the empty space of the Vleeshal in Middelburg, formerly the site of the city’s meat market until the end of the 19th century, the melody of the ‘ …

This recording features a multimedia composition by Yannis Kyriadikes for voice, recorders, violin, piano, face detection software, scanner, electronics, and video, created in collaboration with visual artist Johannes Schwartz and writer Maria Barnas, …