IMPROPER DOSE NO. 10

Whether you call it winter blues or seasonal affective disorder, the end of February brings a promise that it’s finally over. Unless you have the opposite pattern of SAD and spring brings you into a downward spiral after months of calm. In that case, just know that you’re going to pull through and the world turns grey again soon. But if your well-being is more “being” than “well” no matter what the weather looks like, know that you’re doing great too! And when your brain gets confused about creating serotonin again, let alone how to keep it running long enough for you to notice, reach out!

EDITORIALBarbora HorskáFebruary 28, 2021improper wallstenth

INTERVIEW WITH KSENIA YURKOVA

My personal interest about the cultural scene in Russia and how it is influenced by politics, was growing for some time, especially after the last summer events in Belarus. And although Belarus and Russia are countries neighboring my home land Lithuania, I realise I know almost nothing about art and culture there.

ACTIVISIM, ARTIST'S VIEWBarbora HorskáFebruary 28, 2021improper wallstenth

INTERVIEW WITH OSCAR CUETO

Oscar Cueto was born in Mexico City, lives and works in Austria. His work elaborates exercises of writing narratives and reflects on the mechanisms that construct the notion of historicity, knowledge, memory and identity. Such themes are often developed as fictions and in recent work as installations in which the public can interact. His work is part of important collections such as Jumex in Mexico City, Vienna Museum, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and Museum of Latin American Art in Los Angeles. Since 2017 Cueto has been inviting curators and artists to Austria to collaborate on his nomadic project MUME/ Museo Mexicano.

ARTIST'S VIEW, INITIATIVEBarbora HorskáFebruary 28, 2021improper wallstenth

INTERVIEW WITH INTERNATIONAL MUSIC

For all the music lovers who feel a bit lost in these times of cancelled events - there is still time to dream, even if it’s a duck’s dream! Maybe concerts are part of a (hopefully not too) far off future, but new music still makes its way through to us. Besides the excitement of an upcoming gig you’ve waited for so long for, the thrill of listening to an album for the very first time is pretty much as tingly and delightful. For this reason, Improper Dose took the challenge to make an interview in English with the German band International Music and asked them to share a bit about their everyday life over the past year and the upcoming album Ententraum (transl.: a duckling's dream).

ARTIST'S VIEW, MUSICBarbora HorskáFebruary 28, 2021improper wallstenth

I RUN HIGH ON THE NEW AND I LOVE THE OLD #1

"I run high on the New and I love the Old" is a monthly comic exploring the Internet in its middle-ages, before the supremacy of Facebook but after Geocities. Pedro del Real (@triquidick) explores and reflects on different social media platforms, many having now disappeared, that played an important role in his teenage years.

COMICSBarbora HorskáFebruary 28, 2021improper wallstenth

PLANT LOVER

I, meanwhile, do not have to go on a date during times of multiple Covid variants because I have commenced a torrid love affair with Roger, the peperomia argyreia plant sitting in my office. We’ve known each other for only a few months as he was an impulse buy off one of those Instagram ads, but I really feel that we have a connection like I’ve never had with anyone, or anything else.

SHORT STORIESBarbora HorskáFebruary 28, 2021improper wallstenth

VIVRANT THING

Andrea Zapanta Scharf is a freelance illustrator and artist from New York City, currently based in Vienna, Austria. Her work is rooted in finding and expressing a playful spirit and radiating joy, beauty and humor through various forms including illustration, animation, mixed-media collage, product/surface design, paper sculpture, and more.

ARTBarbora HorskáFebruary 28, 2021improper wallstenth

EXTENDED SURFACES: ANNOUNCEMENT & INTERVIEW

Asta Cink and Erika Farina expand their work and bring it to a new level by creating contact points between the textile surfaces and the analog images in a joint exhibition.

ARTBarbora HorskáFebruary 28, 2021improper wallstenth

MERCH PHOTOSHOOTING

Our first merch photoshooting with gorgeous Aaron Scherer and Ted Green!

FASHION, PATREONBarbora HorskáFebruary 28, 2021improper wallstenth