Berlin
Long Read Interview
Raumlabor on Finding Agency in Urban Entanglements
Keep your ear to the ground and you’ll hear the rumblings of Raumlabor, the constantly evolving Berlin-based architecture ‘collec-tive,’ whose practice was recognised with the Golden Lion at the 2021…
Short Story
GIVE〰TAKE
‘No, don’t go inside me,’ she said, ‘I’m not ready yet.’ That was a lie. She was always ready right away, especially with him. He hovered…
Commissioned Visual Contribution
Adrianus Kundert
Adrianus Kundert, Mechanical Erections A commission for Extra Extra magazine, 2022 …
Long Read Interview
Jimmy Robert on Performing the Body as Score, the Mind as Place
In 2008, I attended the opening performance of Jimmy Robert at Cubitt. It was a rainy London evening in late autumn if my memory does not fail me.
Long Read Interview
Marianna Simnett on Dead Lovers in the Attic
The artistic practice of Marianna Simnett is daring, dynamic and forceful. Her imagery is bold, striking and clear. Her surfaces are serene and complex, her scenes are multilayered and intricate.
Long Read Interview
Christian Petzold on the Phantoms of Desire
In the films of Christian Petzold, space is subordinate to time. This is not because space is mutable and subject to renovation or demolition whereas time keeps ticking along…
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Meg Stuart on Embracing Mystery and Unfolding Questions
Meg Stuart’s oeuvre is an atlas of emotions. Each choreographic work charts a new territory, within which shifting affective and physical states play out. Bodies come together in…
Long Read Interview
Armen Avanessian on Intimacy as a Valid Alternative to Love
Armen Avanessian is one of the most curious people I know, and also just neurotic enough for a professional thinker. We’ve known each other since we were twenty-somethings living…
Short Story
THE FLOATING BOX
Every profession has its own opportunities for erotic encounters. There are plenty of stories about doctors, gynaecologists, window-cleaners, postmen. Let me add art dealers to the list. It…
Musings
Sniffing the Monkey’s Foot
Scent is the sexiest sense. The ghost that strings the air between two strangers and pulls them in for the kiss. Scent is the sense that runs…
Long Read Interview
Planningtorock on Transformation, and Singing Along to Her New Album All Love’s Legal
Since the beginning of her recording career in the mid-noughties, Planningtorock’s in-imitable performance, both on and off stage, has evoked a plethora of images and identi-ties. Continuously transforming –…
Short Story
Living Dolls
For hours we stare at the sky, listening to the sound of the aircraft engines, clouds beneath the wings, above us thin air, higher up dark weightlessness, wisps of…
Encounter
- Planningtorock
- Armen Avanessian
- Defne Ayas
- Maxime Ballesteros
- AA Bronson
- Övül Ö. Durmusoglu
- Jonah Goodman
- Mette Ingvartsen
- John Kleckner
- Philipp Kremer
- Adrianus Kundert
- George Nebieridze
- Ahmet Öğüt
- Antje Peters
- Christian Petzold
- Ana Prvacki
- Raumlabor
- Jimmy Robert
- Marianna Simnett
- Meg Stuart
- Ana Tabatadze
- Oscar Van Den Boogaard
- Helen Verhoeven
- Dirk Vis