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Amid the panicked anticipation of an “automation revolution” in the workforce, some of the safest labor sectors remain those dominated by women workers. Perhaps...

Article by Alison Hugill // Oct. 08, 2019 Elvia Wilk’s debut novel ‘Oval’ presents its readers with a parallel world; the city of Berlin is almost imperceptibly different from its current state…

American artist Christa Joo Hyun D’Angelo’s exhibition title, “GHOSTS,” may cause visitors to anticipate a house of horrors. But once inside, they’ll find that the one-room space situated on the wide GDR boulevard of Karl-Marx-Allee has been cast entirely in soft red lighting and contains a pair of silver, thigh-high boots encrusted with rhinestones (Heels for All, all works cited, 2019) and a larger-than-life butt plug affixed to tendrils of chains (As Long As You Remember Who’s Wearing the Trousers). At times, the ghosts referenced by the artist’s sculptures and video works—the still-palpable

Alison Hugill interviews Dorine van Meel about her discursive art practice and its relationship to unlearning entrenched power structures.

Attempts to establish contemporary archives must always contend with dominant history and ideology. Wild Recuperations. Material from Below, a six-week-long exhibition that took place at District Berlin and the Archive of the German Democratic Republic’s (GDR) Opposition in late 2018 and continues today as an ongoing artistic research project, positions itself firmly against the ossification of objectified knowledge by introducing an artistic and affective approach to...

Paramount to Asta Gröting’s current solo exhibition, “Not feeling too cheerful: reclining figures, facades and more,” is pace. The meeting of two exposed wires in a finger-size hole in the wall creates an intermittent electrical buzz in Einen Funken Leidenschaft (Spark of Passion), 2008: the soundtrack to a meditation on slowness and vulnerability.

The term “applied art” can only read as a misnomer in 2019, when the line between strictly functional and purely aesthetic art practices has...

Article by Alison Hugill // Dec. 22, 2018 Korean artist Lee Bul’s artistic oeuvre is permeated with theoretical musings tied to a specific era of feminist thinking. While her current large-scale solo…

In the BCR studio with curator, writer and film practitioner Karina Griffith, talking about the festival Republik Repair at Ballhaus Naunynstraße https://www.berlin-buehnen.de/de/festivals/republik-repair/ http://www.caricom.org/caricom-ten-point-plan-for-reparatory-justice/ Playlist by April Aliermo

by Alison Hugill

One of the major thoroughfares in the Venetian lagoon, the Bacino di San Marco, is host to a swelling, seasonal parade of cruise ships...

Lithuanian artist Egle Budvytyte’s choreographies at LIAF address our instrumental relationship to nature and the rigid linearity of history