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

IMPROPER DOSE NO. 9

So much excitement for this new year as if the virus promised to disappear with the stroke of midnight. It’s the end of the first month and what we have instead is its new mutation, neverending lockdown, rich people cutting the line for a vaccination and Austria celebrating Holocaust Memorial Day by deporting fully integrated families with children who were born in the country and can’t even speak their parents’ mother tongue.

EDITORIALBarbora HorskáJanuary 31, 2021improper wallsNinth

INTERVIEW WITH AZE

“Aze is of course the love child of two artists and somehow simultaneously also our emotional dumpster. Everything that needs to be processed but doesn‘t want to be ends up in a song.”

MUSICBarbora HorskáJanuary 31, 2021Ninth

INTERVIEW WITH OMAR KHIR ALANAM

“(...) and then when I talk to these people I discover that they don't know anything about the arabic people and they don't have friends or anything from different backgrounds. I think you will recognize yourself in the meeting and dialogue with foreign people.”

ACTIVISIMBarbora HorskáJanuary 31, 2021Ninth

INTERVIEW WITH HART MAGAZINE

HART MAGAZINE IS A BI-ANNUAL MAGAZINE FOR POST FETISHISM AND QUEER CULTURE. BASED AND CREATED IN BERLIN – ONE OF THE WORLD’S MOST VIBRANT, QUEER CITIES.

INITIATIVEBarbora HorskáJanuary 31, 2021Ninth

See you tonight – Link in bio

As it has been months since we last saw each other in real life, at the end of last year we started to explore and experiment with different kinds of approaches and possibilities of the VR world in order to bring you an alternative experience of our projects. After some research and honest evaluation of our technical skills, we got to THIS

ARTBarbora HorskáJanuary 31, 2021Ninth

EMBRACE ME

EMBRACE ME is a series of images that explore gender-non-conformity and queerness. It shows imaginative landscapes and hybrid representations of bodies through which stories of queer, non-binary, trans and other gender-non-conforming individuals are told. The exhibition functions as a portal to a world in which gender is not a set of rules in a power dynamic, but a free form of expression.

ARTBarbora HorskáJanuary 31, 2021Ninth

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