In light of the proliferation of AI technology and its far-reaching impact, we find ourselves amidst new paradigms of power…
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Kateryna Lysovenko was born in 1989 in Ukraine and currently lives and works in Vienna. She has recently participated in the exhibition “Goodbye East, Goodbye Narcissus!” at the Contemporary Art Museum Estonia (EKKM)…
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When you savor and eat this rich and aromatic dessert, let it bring you towards an embodied commitment to making a better future. One that foregrounds woman*, life, freedom.
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Symbiocene accelerated: the reverse of the Capitalocene at hundreds of terrestrial translations.
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Philipp Muerling is a student at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien) and is the first and only student in a wheelchair in the more than 300-year history of the institute…
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A new green revolution started in the spring of 2022 with the new old slogan “Stop to Lithium'' and “Stop to Rio Tinto” only two months before a new presidential election in Serbia…
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We think promoting Goran Bregović, a performer who sympathizes with Russian imperialism in such a terrible time for Ukrainians is an ignorant and cynical move…
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I have experienced censorship in different ways. I had only a brief encounter with military and totalitarian censorship when I was working on a project about the Graffiti of the Revolution in Cairo—I was warned that certain artistic positions have disastrous consequences, so I had to be careful about what I said and how I said it.
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There is an ongoing, urgent humanitarian crisis on the Polish-Belarusian border. Refugees, who are trying to get to Europe, are pushed back into the primal forest by Polish Border guards and then harassed back into the wilderness by the Belarusian military. They wander without water, food, or shelter, and the weather is getting harsher. Humanitarian activists from NGO Nomada are currently collecting smartphones so people can ping their location and ask for help.
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“I believe in the principles of democracy and realize that it can only work with a good education. In this case, it is necessary to be awake and aware of the system’s complexity and to choose means of expression that also reflect the historical context of the territory in which I work. If I subsequently present it in another country, different perceptions occur in the viewer, and the work, by relocating, acquires a new dimension. Context, always important, is what should be available here.”
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Just after the infamous traditional family march, which took place a couple of weeks ago and during the hopeful excitement of passing a gender-neutral partnership law, artist Živilė Žvėrūna talks about how art reveals the morality of our society.
“My personal goal as an artist is to add another perspective to the discussion. There are plenty of scientific statements on schizophrenia and mental health which are important, but so are emotional and personal insights and experiences. This discussion has to take place in public for everyone to take part and art can be the stage for that.”
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“Being surrounded with so much wealth and irrational consumerism everyday, living in one of the richest countries in the world, but also just the state of the world as we know it, has made me realize how to so many people it doesn't matter what they consume - as long as they consume it. Especially when it comes to fashion, the climate where trend hopping is most apparent.”