WELCOME TO THE ANTHROPOCENE: ANALYSING POTENTIAL CHALLENGES AND TRAJECTORIES FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF MUSEUMS IN THE STATE OF GLOBAL CLIMATE CRISIS
This essay focuses on the potential challenges and trajectories for sustainable development of museums in the state of the global climate crisis. How museums, as educators and guardians of heritage, could potentially engage with the Anthropocene not only through...
An Ephemeral Caress
This research paper aims to approach the cinecamera as a tangible and tactile agency through an exploration of L’Eclisse (1962) by Michelangelo Antonioni and Le Mépris (1963) by Jean-Luc Godard. An Ephemeral Caress by Amanda Robusti
The Facebook Graveyard: Have we sold our right to be remembered?
This essay explores the extent to which the dead have sold their right to control their remembrance, by discerning the legal provisions relevant to digital remains made public by Facebook. Lara Bronner-The Facebook Graveyard: Have we sold our right to be...
On the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon, Accidents, and Spilled Ink
Sash Shevchenko’s essay takes the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon as a starting point to an exploration of the accidental in art making, psychology, philosophy and, ultimately, the human.
Mask as a collective face of political protest against oppression in contemporary Poland and Russia — case study of Pussy Riot and Fag Fighters
On the example of two Eastern European activist art collectives, Agata’s essay explores the ontology of a mask as a collective face used to fight oppressive ideologies.
What Are the Ramifications for the Introduction of a Queer Pedagogy for the Individual and Society as a Whole?
Studies that survey sexual identity across industries have recorded a higher number of queer-identifying people working in industries that require “above-average social perceptiveness”. Ranking high on these lists are occupations within the arts, media, psychology and...
Bodies ⎯ Matter: ecologies of death
In 1971, experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage made a film titled The Act Of Seeing With One’s Own Eyes. The experimental documentary consists of a 40-minute recording of an autopsy. With close-ups of open rip cages and exposed brain matter, one has a hard time...
Donald Galvin and Devoration of Eurocentric Boundaries: Feeding on the Brains of the Coloniser
Donald Galvin (resin, silicon, walnuts, stereo speakers, sound) Inspired by the Anthropophagi movement, my interest shifted toward the ‘body’ as digestible, excretable material. Having previously lost my Grandad, I appropriated a voicemail he left me along with...
Body, Space, and Gender in the Mixed Reality Environment of Becoming Dragon (Micha Cárdenas, 2008) – A Performance in Second Life
In this essay, Agáta Hošnova explores the environment of mixed realities as experienced by Colombian-American trans-femme artist Micha Cárdenas in her performance Becoming Dragon (2008), which took place in an online and freely accessible virtual world, Second Life; the artist fully immersed for 365 hours during the time when she was undergoing hormone replacement therapy from male to female. In this context, digital worlds epitomise a sort of liminal space between the real world and the ‘artificially created’ online one – it is placed on the edge of the two.
Waves of Resisting Surveillance Capitalism in the Artwork of Joanna Moll
At a time when people are using Amazon more than ever, Sophia Arnold explores ways of resisting the surveillance capitalism that embodies the company by looking at Joanna Moll’s The Hidden Life of an Amazon User.
In media res: Thoughts on Solidarity through Institutional Renaming, Monumentality, and Reenactment
Ioannis Andronikidis’s short essay explores the role of performative acts such as the renaming and infrastructural reframing of an institution, in reshaping monumentality.
The Emergence of Nightclubs, Nocturnal Heterotopias and the Legacy of Radical Design: from the 60s through Today
‘The imaginative architecture of pleasure and delirium of nightclubs represents a transitory place of utopia in real life. But which kind of politics of partying are embodied in the architecture of clubs? What are their potentiality of transformation for society?’
Alexandre Sequeira: Coexistence as a Photographic Practice
Tom Lisboa explores the notion of coexistence in the practice of Brazilian photographer Alexandre Sequeira.
On ‘Dear Yu Chu 玉珠’
Tackling themes of translation, absurdity, and gentrification, the single-channel video work Dear Yu Chu 玉珠 by Pei Chi Wu rigorously examines archival material and menial histories shared within a family through the lens of found letters from a second hand shop in Taiwan.
WHAT IS THE COLOUR OF WATER?
Yasmin Morgan explores the fluidity and seamlessness of water in its ‘techno-scientific’ manifestations, analysing ‘net-art’ pieces that critically engage with the use of water’s transparency as well as its blueness co-opted by tech companies, among other entities, to represent specific semantics.