Field Note

Nach dem Ende der Politik
von Roza El-Hassan

"Die letzten Parlamentswahlen in Ungarn waren visueller als je zuvor. Wenn wir uns heute durch den öffentlichen Raum bewegen, wissen wir nicht, ob wir in einem Albtraum oder einem Märchen leben. Wahlplakate sind allgegenwärtig, dynamisch und werden oft wöchentlich getauscht. Manche verbreiten Antisemitismus, andere sind einfach lustig."

– Dieser Text ist in Spike Art Quarterly #56 erschienen, erhältlich in unserem Online Shop –

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Komunuma, site, Summer 2019 © Axelle Poisson; Courtesy Fondation FIMINCO

Komunuma, site, Summer 2019
© Axelle Poisson; Courtesy Fondation FIMINCO

Komunuma: the model for Grand Paris?

Ingrid Luquet-Gad finds coexistence and dissonance when she visits Komunuma, the new Parisian art district

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Film Still from the Gucci Cruise 2020 video campaign

Film Still from the Gucci Cruise 2020 video campaign

The Downward Spiral: The Talented Mr. Guwop

Gucci’s new Cruise campaign, directed by Harmony Korine and Alessandro Michele, stars rapper Gucci Mane. Gucci Mane’s new album cover, shot by Harmony Korine and Alessandro Michele, stars Gucci. Pop continues to eat itself. Nothing means anything here, in the twilight of the 2010s.

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Keti Chukhrov / Guram Matskhonashvili,  Global Congress of Post-Prostitution , 2019, performance, Orpheum Graz, photo: Mathias Völzke

Keti Chukhrov / Guram Matskhonashvili, Global Congress of Post-Prostitution, 2019, performance, Orpheum Graz, photo: Mathias Völzke

Steirischer Herbst 2019: Grand Hotel Abyss

Eva Scharrer dives into this hedonistic iteration of Graz’s art and theatre festival and comes out wanting more of its provocative commentary

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Portrait of the artist © Xavier Le Roy

Portrait of the artist

© Xavier Le Roy

Structured by Desire: an interview with Xavier Le Roy

One of the leading figures of 1990s conceptual dance reflects on how memory, conflict and attention have shaped his ongoing project “Retrospective”, recently presented in Berlin

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Decolonize This Place outside Kanders's home

Decolonize This Place outside Kanders's home

A Postmortem on the Whitney Biennial

Writing from New York, Allison Hewitt Ward takes a critical look at the events that shaped the controversy of the “Tear Gas Biennial” this summer and untangles the messy aftermath. 

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Flatness , Mobile screengrab showing image by Nikhil Vettukattil

Flatness, mobile screengrab showing image by Nikhil Vettukattil

Flatness

Interview with Shama Khanna, curator of the recently re-launched online moving image platform Flatness

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Greta’s sailboat

Greta’s sailboat

The Downward Spiral: August

Dean swims in the magic river. There’s a death on the island. And a visitor sails into the harbour.

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Natalia Osipova, principal ballerina at the Royal Ballet in London

Natalia Osipova, principal ballerina at the Royal Ballet in London

Now Zero: Flung Turns

At the ballet, Ella thinks about traversing artforms, borders, and identities

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Rem Koolhaas's Seattle Central Library

Rem Koolhaas's Seattle Central Library

Out of State

A Summer Chronicle, part 8: NATASHA STAGG concludes her summer column on an ambivalent note, reviewing Richard Linklater’s Where’d You Go Bernadette. 

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Moschino Spring/Summer 2017

Moschino Spring/Summer 2017

Out of State

A Summer Chronicle, part 7: NATASHA STAGG on (self-)promotion and dressing for the street style photographers. Participation is mandatory.

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Dinis Santos / CM Porto

Exhibition view of “Desertado. Algo que aconteceu pode acontecer novamente” at Galeria Municipal do Porto, 2019

Photo: Dinis Santos / CM Porto

Maria Trabulo at Galeria Municipal do Porto

Kristian Vistrup Madsen reviews “Desertado. Algo que aconteceu pode acontecer novamente” (Deserted. Something that happened may happen again) and braves the desert landscape of fiction and memory, finding it remarkably fertile 

"Not even an early evening series on Austrian TV could have got away with that"

Exhibition Histories: "Please Love Austria!"