IMPROPER DOSE NO. 11

Finally, daylight saving time! (Just kidding)

Yes, once again, we messed up our natural biorhythms to preserve the over 100-year-old attempt to make war cheaper; by losing an hour of sleep. Brilliant.

So, first, we excluded ourselves from the symbiotic wholeness of Earth’s ecosystem. Then, we created the monetary system; another tool for excluding each other from the new system. Then, we tried to make killing each other over that system cost less by saying it’s 7AM instead of 6AM.

I mean…truly, human kind deserves its place at the top of the food chain.

EDITORIALBarbora HorskáMarch 28, 2021improper wallseleventh

HUMAN RIGHTS AND ART – LITHUANIA

“I think that no matter how you look at it, all the topics in art are always under the big umbrella of "Human Rights", in other words, art is always about human rights, about free choices, about the relationship between law and duty.“

ACTIVISIM, ARTIST'S VIEW, PERFORMANCEBarbora HorskáMarch 28, 2021improper wallseleventh

REBIRTH

It’s spring ya’ll! Time to transmute that inner rage and winter depression into a raging against old, destructive, conformist ways that are no longer useful and make space for something radical and new to emerge.

ARTBarbora HorskáMarch 28, 2021improper wallseleventh

PLANT LOVER: Part 2

I couldn’t help myself as I was placing her in her new vessel, I lightly brushed my fingers against her roots. Then I made the next move and intertwined my fingers a bit with her. I smiled as I already felt our bond growing. For a second I thought that I could feel her move a bit, was it a sigh of relief on her end? Were her roots tightening around my fingers? My reasoning told me that this wasn’t possible, and yet…

SHORT STORIESBarbora HorskáMarch 28, 2021improper wallseleventh

I RUN HIGH ON THE NEW AND I LOVE THE OLD #2

Fotolog was a very popular social media platform in Spain and Latin-America which disappeared from the Internet some years ago. Or did it somehow survive?
In this issue of “I run high on the New and I love the Old” we will meet librarian robots, mid-2000s emos and a business model that might have saved us from losing our self-determination.

COMICSBarbora HorskáMarch 28, 2021improper wallseleventh

QM&A Open Call

“Our focus is on bringing together people who work in different disciplines and have a different perspective on Vienna’s art sector and its inclusivity. In most cases that means that we pair an artist who only recently arrived in Vienna as a migrant or refugee with an artist who has already been living in Vienna for a long time.”

ART, INITIATIVEBarbora HorskáMarch 28, 2021improper wallseleventh

ARTCADE PODCAST

“Our Vision is to create an archive of the art scene in Vienna, a verbal photo album. We believe that artists can learn so much from each other and it is important to give them a platform to share.”

ARTIST'S VIEW, ARTBarbora HorskáMarch 28, 2021improper wallseleventh

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

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