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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…

Hamish Fulton: Walking On and Off the Path

On April 9th 2017, Fundación Cerezales Antonino y Cinia opened its new building with the exhibition Walking On and Off the Path, a show of new works of Hamish Fulton resulting from the experience of a walk around the west side of Picos de…

From the Tangle to the Spider’s Web

The author speculates on the history of active substances in relation to their colonial past and proposes a reading of them as a refuge from which to reinvent power, move through the new modes of idolatry, and decolonize thought. Donna…

From the middle

The research and event series Studio 13: Ecologies of Practice organised with my colleagues Silke Bake, Alice Chauchat and Siegmar Zacharias in Berlin’s Tanzfabrik in Winter 2016-2017 aimed at cultivating and sharing our multiple artistic,…

Story Telling for Earthly Survival

Donna Haraway is a prominent scholar in the field of science and technology, a feminist, and a science-fiction enthusiast who works at building a bridge between science and fiction. She became known in the 1980s through her work on gender,…

Peace Treaties

Iris Dressler reflects on the project Peace Treaties: a critical journey through the micro-histories that analyse the formal representations of peace by the means of law, politics, history and art since 1516. The artist, curator and writer…

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