Catching up with Anna Menecia Antenete Hambira—Vienna-based freelance fashion designer, artist and creative director and author of the interdisciplinary fashion project amaaena that combines sustainability, contemporary fashion and socio-political responsibility.
Read MoreSpeaking with the author of the “Logging onto Love” series about sex robots, the ethics of their manufacturing and usage, and their impact on society and human-human relationships.
Read MoreKateryna 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)…
Read MoreSymbiocene accelerated: the reverse of the Capitalocene at hundreds of terrestrial translations.
Read MorePhilipp 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…
Read MoreA 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…
Read MoreIn the summer of 2022, eight creatives went to the 14th biggest city in Serbia. During the relatively short-term residency program, the clear skies opened above us in contrast to the coal-stained smoky lid that vacuum seals the urban and rural landscapes during the cold time of the year.
Read MoreGORSAD - the Kyiv-based trio of artists, Masha Romaniuk, Ulik Romaniuk, and Vitya Vasyliev, specialised in alternative photography and provocative video. GORSAD’s works are mainly focused on youth, feelings and sexuality in all their peculiarities and oddities.
Read MoreI 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.
Read MoreWe create spaces, places, universes, alone or with others; that is something I deeply believe to be true. Do we love it? It depends on how much we want to use our creative control and how much we are open to receiving. People are often afraid of beauty and freedom. Beauty because it is not going to last forever, and freedom because it comes with responsibility and it's often a one-way ticket.
Read More“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.”
Read More“Sharon's anxiety is interesting because we feel it. We imagine knowing what she was afraid of - as if we know the ending when we watch a film, but we enjoy watching it and move on. This saves us from the terrible burden of freedom, which is an existential horror.”
Read MoreJust 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.
