Around this time last year, Dr. Ayesha Khan published an article about decolonizing hope that had a profound effect on me. In the text entitled “How do we keep hope alive in our movements?”, Khan discusses the contradictions of hope but mainly the difference between the hopefulness of a freedom fighter and the hopelessness caused by individualism and colonial values in the West.
Read MoreSince last October, the growing instrumentalization of anti-Semitism by Zionist groups around the world, including those who identify with feminisms and the anti-fascist movement, is notorious.
Read MoreCatching 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 MoreIn the West, institutions, especially those relating to arts and culture, have been challenged to end their exclusionary practices and introduce “diversity” to their institutions. Depending on the locality of the institution, differing forms of diversity ranging from gender, race, socio-economic class, migration background, language, age, etc., have been demanded by those who’ve been traditionally excluded, especially from larger institutions.
Read MoreDear Belvedere 21,
Can you please tell us
how you removed the line
“Firas from Palestine and
Ali from Lebanon”?
I wonder how many interpretations the phrase “Foreigners Everywhere” can have beyond the grand art event, its connections to commercial transfers, the critical nuances of global contemporary art, and the pretensions of reconstituting a Pangea without borders.
Read MoreI’m an undiagnosed autistic person, and this is a very wondrous place to be. It’s a place where you don’t yet have the official approval stamp of a mental health institution—and, in many cases—know more about autism than most mental health professionals.
Read MoreFor nearly one thousand years, man believed that space was a vacuum where nothing could survive the cold, airless environment. Only in the year 3287 AEM (after our Lord Elon Musk’s death) did the scientists of the oldest space colony, Neptune, find evidence that this entire time, space was, in fact, a thriving and writhing environment.
Read MoreErika and I met on a cold evening at my apartment, sharing tea while my (borrowed) cats wandered around us. We first crossed paths years ago in the music scene and, over time, found our way back to each other through the art world. This interview felt like a natural opportunity to catch up and dive into her current projects and creative process.
Read MoreMemory is a flood, writes Ocean Vuong.[1] It is something we cannot easily control as it is already controlled by different triggers. Except in cases when our memory blocks some, usually traumatic, experiences, everything else can surge at certain moments.
Read MoreOn a Wednesday in June, it was hot, but not too hot. On that day, I made a performance called Ludd Lives! A Popular Trial on Technology. This is a comic about that performance.
Read MoreMy family says that the first word I understood was “hot”. I was two years old and my grandmother pointed to the kitchen stove in her centrally heated Gemeindebau apartment in Vienna, warning me not to touch it because of the heat. I walked over to the living room radiator, touched it and said, “Hot.”
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