Attempts to write about the art of Tianzhuo Chen are bound to fail. They end in a buzzword thunderstorm that sounds something like this: pan-asian-shamanic-hyper-digital-queer-performance-ritual. A lot of labels trying to describe what you have to have experienced. Because Chen’s performances have a critical element: ourselves. So, instead of staying with the habitus of the […]
We passively observe our daily lives through a smartphone. We recognize the person depicted in the selfie, but it’s not us. We put our flawless bodies on display. We master self-censorship, and choose wisely which facetes to show. We capture our perfect, staged life and share it. The worse we feel, the more we post. […]
Elise Rose is a London-based photographer and co-organiser for Decolonise Fest, a music and arts festival for people of colour in punk and alternative music. She currently works on an ongoing series called POC PUNX documenting the UK people of colour punk scene.
Heather Glazzard is a queer feminist artist based in Manchester. Her work questions gender stereotypes by depicting the diversity of individual sexuality. She focuses on the female body in its authentic appearance without retouching the reality. Her intimate portraits depict people who are open about their inner selfs and are thereby disarmingly pure. Her work […]
We met Hamburg based artist Stefan Marx, photographer Tim Bruening and graphic designer Charlotte Gosch to talk about their upcoming zine titled “LA”. It features drawings by Marx combined with Bruening’s photos all selected and compiled by Gosch.
We teamed up with Dan Szor – lecturer, Fashion Image Making Styling and former art director and deputy editor of cult Nu Rave magazine Super Super – and his students from the University of Salford, Manchester. We invited them to examine our briefed concept of Antibody/Antiform. We are more than excited to share the works […]
Elizabeth Hatke is an US-American artist, photographer and sculptor based in Providence, Rhode Island. We kindly asked her to provide us with an intimate and exclusive insight into her artistic approach. The result is her first TISSUE series Concerns With the Second Dimension in which she reflects upon her body of work.
Did you ever take a piss and felt overwhelmed by the feeling that you are thereby producing art? Well, there is only one place on earth that can – of course besides many other so far unknown feelings – trigger this emotion. We are talking about the Berghain and especially Sarah Schoenfeld who realised after […]
Admittedly we are far from being objective when it comes to 18+ since the LA/NY-based duo did not knowingly provide us with the perfect soundtrack for our weekly meetings and summerly joyrides. No more words needed to give you an idea of how excited we were when Samia and Justin accepted our invitation to join […]
