Known better by her nom de guerre Umfang, Emma Burges-Olson is a producer and DJ as well as one of the founding members of Discwoman, a New York-based collective that started as a festival and nowadays is a fully fledged booking agency with transgressive appeal. Although they only started seven years ago in 2014, they already […]
The idea of what constitutes good art in Post-Maidan Ukraine still seems to be rooted in the old principles: work hard and conform to established standards of beauty. Sure, success might eventually come — though even that is unlikely due to a poorly developed infrastructure of galleries and collectors — but what’s worse: the output […]
It’s funny how things come together sometimes. I got to know Argentinian dancer and performer Cecilia Bengolea through a message she sent me on Facebook. She said she liked my tattoos, especially the one that reads ‘eat acid see god’, and asked if I could get her some LSD while she was staying in Berlin.
Navigating through this sexualised world is hard for almost everybody. Now imagine being surrounded by sex 24/7 without the ability to emotionally engage. You try to fake it, but you can’t make it. You are for real but they call you a bluffer. Sex is said to be overrated, but one is always judged based […]
You can try to do everything right and follow the streamlined boredom of political correctness. Or you don’t give a fuck. Mercedes has made the latter her subject, which the b-movie director and dominatrix masters like no other.
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Following the release of “Fall All Over/Dead October” [Get Crev Labs, 2020] our author Karl Hadrian Delgas initiated a dialogue with Giovanni Marks, who represents the colours of the Californian beat scene like no other.
Even though her graffiti-inspired anti-aesthetics can silence any real-keeper within seconds, Nika’s approach is mainly focused on performative strategies. In this editorial feature — originally laid out by Stephan Idé for TISSUE N°666FFF — she focuses on the potential of ambiguity triggered by the abstraction of the sky.
“It doesn’t always kill you, but it always hurts. And still you’ve got to […] keep going. I find this ability to roll with the punches, to take the pain and adapt to circumstances, in my subjects: gypsies, beggars, crooks, vagabonds, underdogs, conmen, buskers and various shady characters in Romania and Moldova. My object is […]
