IMPROPER DOSE NO. 18
©Ale Zapata
2022, No pressure!
-by Barbora Horská (Curator / Editor-in-chief of Improper Dose)
“Revolution is Love if it wants to be worthy of its name.”
New Year–New Me, new life, resolutions, instant solutions to issues whose foundations might have been building in us for generations–January carries the burden of bringing it all immediately.
We forget with every new cycle that the beginning of the calendar year is out of alignment with Nature's rhythms and that for a few more weeks, it offers us a space to surrender instead of providing yet the right environment to plant new seeds.
Pressuring ourselves and others with a demand for sudden reinvention, we ignore the fact we still might need to allow ourselves time to transform.
Considering the sometimes painful processes that confrontation with overdue situations carries, let's be radical and stay in the process patiently.
Instead of being spooked by 2022 becoming 2020 two/too in terms of pandemic's harmful effects, we can choose to see it as a reminder to embrace the slowness we've been forced to acknowledge to survive the chaos of a first lockdown.
To smooth down the feelings of uncertainty, take the eighteenth dose of Improper medicine below:
This month we bring you an interview with MME Psychosis, Dejan Klement, Pedro del Real's latest comic episode, Kata Martincsák's essay on Wolfgang Tillman's current exhibition at mumok, podcast episode about Vienna’s social housing system, news on the upcoming CIVA 2022 festival, the third episode of Places we Love and Ale Zapata's velveteen playlist full of morning tunes.
See you next month!