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Jumana Manna, Foragers, 2022

The Online section of Concreta’s website is structured around three spaces: Relatorías, Conservatorios, and Pantallas, the latter dedicated to the presentation of audiovisual works accompanied by critical essays. In 2026, curator Andrea…

OVATION: Conversation with Akira Yamaoka

In 1945, during the Cold War, Dynamo Moscow’s tour of Great Britain triggered violent clashes in stadiums. As a result of these incidents, Orwell wrote an ironically titled article, The Sporting Spirit, in which he described international…

METAL

In A Thousand Plateaus, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari distinguish tools from weapons extrinsically. Based on their projection, the same object could be one or the other. Tools…

Restitution/Decolonisation*

With the Covid-19 pandemic, the capitalist machine was forced to slow down and the seemingly unstoppable flow that supply chains had built was curbed, but the profits of e-commerce skyrocketed and billionaires became richer. The suspended…

“One is Always Plural”

Laura Vallés Vílchez: I would like to begin discussing your latest exhibition at Van Abbemuseum, titled A Daily Practice. The show is the result of a three-year research project on the museum’s collection using the Feldenkrais method as the…

Just As Bad as the Last

7th May 2021 I write today, for the first time, to an unintimate audience, to a body I do not know. Or at least to a body I feel severed from. I write to them to say I love them. I write to say that my writing, no matter how I wish it to,…

The Wall is a Virus

I am writing this in the moment when the COVID-19 crisis is hitting hard in Germany. In Peru, Morocco, Denmark, Spain, Italy and many other places, the almost total lockdown of society has already taken place. A few days ago, France declared…

documenta 14 (Athens): A Crowd Facing the Crowd

Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung is an ausstellungsmacher (an exhibition maker). He comes from a background in biotechnology. Together with Solvej Helweg Ovesen, he is running the exhibition programme of Berlin’s Galerie Wedding. Ndikung is…

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