"In my understanding, art can and should be an offer to deal with oneself and one's own relation to the most diverse topics, and in the best case, stimulates an inner or interpersonal dialogue. In this sense, I believe that one possible task of art is to approach socio-cultural norms and taboos in a new way, through new language, and to question or criticise them."
Read MoreFemicide, 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!”
Read MoreHe picked me up while we were both riding the 1-train uptown. I had been forgotten by a girl who drank too many bottomless mimosas at a drag queen brunch somewhere in Hell’s Kitchen. Apparently, a friend of hers thought I would be a nice birthday gift but had not counted on the birthday girl blacking out on public transport and leaving me behind.
Read MoreChat rooms were anonymity paradises. Not without dangers, but is our current day of authenticity safer or better? The comic essay on the old Internet by @triquidick continues!
Read MoreFrom Andrea Z Scharf's sketchbook, some personal thoughts on "Navigating Through Anxiety, 2021"
Read MoreBecome a part of participatory project “Kanye West doesn’t know what it’s like” by photographer and psychologist Patrycja Stala.
Read MoreLast minute chance to experience April selection of Human Rights Film Hub curated by Martina Genetti.
Read MoreFinally, 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.
Read More“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.“
Read MoreIt’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.
Read MoreI 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…
Read MoreFotolog 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.
“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.”
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