Wolfgang Tillmans had always been interested in how to make a phenomenon longer visible. They could be astronomical, social, or political subjects, and as a photographer, he uses diverse strategies to recall them in our minds. It seems like his artistic mind is already aware of our previous experiences, and he always finds a sensitive approach to show reality to his viewers. He dedicates his work to people and bodies, to landscapes, architectures, objects, and celestial phenomena, since he has been exploring the question of visibility since the early 1990s.

ART, ESSAYAle ZapataJanuary 30, 2022eighteenth

STAYING WITH THE HEALING SOUNDS

How can sound explore themes such as gender inequality, sexuality, personal experiences, or collective traumas related to post-colonization? If we take a look at these three performances where the sound became a tool for staying with the trouble - we will probably get closer to the answers.

ART, ESSAY, PERFORMANCEAle ZapataDecember 5, 2021seventeenth

MIRROR, MIRROR

As Florentina Holzinger devised her own Divine Comedy, at Kunsthalle, Tscherner also creates an alternative story about the great Narcissus. Compared to Holzingers’s work, the performance is also based on a narrative story, mythological background: Mirror, mirror concept based on the fairy tale of Snow White, and on the Greek myth of Narcissus, both stories connected with mirrors and virtual images. Narcissus in this way conducts a concentrate of his own virtual image, as it refers back to his role in Greek mythology where he eventually falls in love with his own reflection in a pool of water, staring at it for the remainder of his life.

ART, ESSAY, PERFORMANCEAle ZapataNovember 1, 2021sixteenth

MANUFACTURING SHARON: INTERVIEW WITH SUPERSTAR NANCIE NAIVE

“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.”

ART, ARTIST'S VIEW, ESSAYBarbora HorskáJune 29, 2021fourteenth

YOU DON'T KILL OUT OF LOVE

Femicide, the “murder of women because they are women”, should be a highly debated concept due to the losses it involves. However, most of the Austrian public seems to be as unaware of the concept and its roots as the influencers we encountered before. “Most of the victims of manslaughter are still men!”, some may say in an attempt to debase the claim that femicides constitute a specific form of violence, and that this is a practice that only happens far away, in other countries, on other continents even. “It was only because he loved her so much!”, others might argue, or “I am sure that she provoked it!”, just falling short of “I am sure she deserved it!”

ESSAY, ACTIVISIMBarbora HorskáApril 25, 2021improper wallstwelfth

REVERENCE FOR LIFE

“Standing, as all living beings are, before this dilemma of the will to live, a person is constantly forced to preserve his own life and life in general only at the cost of other life…”

ESSAYBarbora HorskáDecember 15, 2020IMPROPER WALLS StraßeneingangEighth

WHY SANTA FITS THROUGH THE CHIMNEY

Maybe, “the children were nestled all snug in their beds, while visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads” during a “Silent night, holy night” when “all is calm and all is bright” and it is all a dream?

ESSAY, POETRYGuest UserDecember 15, 2020IMPROPER WALLS StraßeneingangEighth

SNAPSHOT - BY STSK

“Many things are happening simultaneously. Can't think straight. Admiration. Inspiration. Reading.
White friends mimic Turkish folks speaking. Heartbeat. Chest tightening. Bank clerk talks to my father
like he's a child. Dead Black bodies. Triggered. In the wake of triviality and randomness. Black body
dehumanized, Black agony dehumanized. Content. Consumption.”

ESSAYUrte SpeirokaiteJune 9, 2020sixth

PLEASE CONFIRM YOUR IDENTITY

- by Flora Löffelmann

“Of course I am who I’m supposed to be – who else would I be?” – Our initial reaction to the computer unveils that
it has already worked: For a short moment we have no doubt that we are, in fact, who we are supposed to be. And that’s actually a pretty rare thing.

ESSAYUrte SpeirokaiteMay 23, 2020fifth