October 6th, 2020,

Suffering as a Love Language

WORDS OF ADVICE: DAMILOLA TORIOLA
ILLUSTRATION: FOXY

A love language describes the way in which you desire to be loved and taken care of by the people you are attached to. There are five love languages; physical touch, quality time, receiving gifts, acts of service and words of affirmation. One thing a lot of people tend to forget is that those love languages aren’t mutually exclusive, a person can have multiple love languages at once. Sometimes your love language might not be one of the 5 stated, for example my love language is freedom. words of advice this way

September 17th, 2020,

KRISTINA NAGEL “ETHER++”

Readers might already know about Kristina’s powerful work as an artist, as the curator of the Berlin off-space Aesthetik01 and as the editor of zines like AXIS. Aesthetik01 was recently sent into oblivion but Ms Nagel assured us that there will be something totally different, Aesthetik02. Kristina brings an unconventional ethereal glitch to fashion photography by creating an intimate studio situation with her well-chosen models. See by yourself

September 14th, 2020,

Channelling Schlingensief

WORDS: LUCA GANZ
PAINTING: PIETER BRUEGEL
PORTRAIT: ECKHARD KUCHENBECKER

For a lot people, the author of this story included, Christoph Schlingensief is an iconoclast and a genius. Starting out as an experimental filmmaker, he expanded his work into the field of performative arts in the early ’00s. Heavily influenced by Joseph Beuys’ social sculptures he began using video footage to capture a certain image of the social. Despite of Schlingensief’s early death in 2010, Luca Ganz can feel his revolutionary spirit reverberating throughout the German art world. So, ten years after his death: what makes firestarting Christoph Schlingensief so relevant to this day? Channel here