On a less common morning in May 2014, I went out to drink my coffee in the beautiful backyard of the house where I had been staying overnight. There was another guy in the yard who I talked to. I invited him to the show I was going to present with Alice Pons that evening in the first edition of a house festival. The name of the festival was Hors Lits.
In May 2020, before the end of the quarantine period, we had the sixth edition of HomeFest, the Bucharest festival of home theater, performance, and related arts. The shows were given online, live performances in artists' homes, attended by audiences from all over the country and abroad. Entrance tickets were symbol-pictures of the one object in their home, that signified the quarantine. The 70 images that we received reveal how people lived through this period of restraints – a unique time in the modern history of humanity – and how they felt about it.
The longest surviving and ongoing diffused biennial project (until the pandemic’s spread), seems to be Hors Lits, initiated by Leonardo Montecchia in Montpellier (2005) and continued in many other cities in France, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, Germany, Finland, Tunisia, Mexico, Chile, Austria, and the UK. The Hors Lits format involves a tour of the city with stops in the four apartments in which the performances are held.
During his last days in Havana, Jean-Lorin Sterian visited curator and researcher Yanelys Nuñez Leyva, one of the main organizers of #00Bienal de la Habana.
Between March and June 2020, Jean-Jacques Rousseau fellow Pınar Öğünç made 35 interviews with people from Turkey, mainly workers, to write about structural problems, inequalities of their sector which became more visible in these harsh times. Five of them were translated to make them available to an international non-Turkish speaking readership.
Between March and June 2020, Jean-Jacques Rousseau fellow Pınar Öğünç made 35 interviews with people from Turkey, mainly workers, to write about structural problems, inequalities of their sector which became more visible in these harsh times. Five of them were translated to make them available to an international non-Turkish speaking readership.
No paradise without a snake. In her forthcoming poetry book American Valentines, Hannah Star Rogers asks what you and your country do for each other. In this video, Rogers reads a selection of her poetry.
Sooner or later, the mother becomes a brick-colored locomotive, an abandoned pregnant girl gives birth to nine double begonias, the grandmother is home to all kinds of animals and knocking lemurs help pensioners with malicious telephone pranks.
Between March and June 2020, Jean-Jacques Rousseau fellow Pınar Öğünç made 35 interviews with people from Turkey, mainly workers, to write about structural problems, inequalities of their sector which became more visible in these harsh times. Five of them were translated to make them available to an international non-Turkish speaking readership.
Between March and June 2020, Jean-Jacques Rousseau fellow Pınar Öğünç made 35 interviews with people from Turkey, mainly workers, to write about structural problems, inequalities of their sector which became more visible in these harsh times. Five of them were translated to make them available to an international non-Turkish speaking readership.
»I have translated Savyon’s poems from Hebrew into German as a bird ›which does not hear what we hear, and hears what we do not hear‹ – head inclined, bones full of air – because I can neither read the letters nor divine their meaning.
In the past weeks, Jean-Jacques Rousseau fellow Pınar Öğünç made 35 interviews with people from Turkey, mainly workers, to write about structural problems, inequalities of their sector which became more visible in these harsh times. Five of them were translated to make them available to an international non-Turkish speaking readership.
Ana Mendes spoke with digital artist Daria Jelonek, who explores the connection between technology and nature. In her work, Jelonek investigates »how humans will live with the increasing amount of technology and the degradation of biophysical nature« and what nature actually is to us.
»Now is the time to make black knowledge traditions more visible than ever. To anchor them in Germany's cultural memory, so we can set the course for coming closer to an anti-racist society,« says Yaema Bangali.
Independent curator and editor, Krzysztof Gutfrański talks to Alexander Manuiloff, dramaturge, writer, and founder of Radar Sofia – a contemporary writing platform and residency programme in the heart of Sofia.
In apartment advertisements one will read “ Apartment for rent: 3 rooms, kitchen, bathroom, hallway”. A kitchen is not a room.
»Can I borrow your body for one day?« asks BINEMA, an »Art Intelligence« created by Marko Milić, artist and WimmelResearch-Fellow. BINEMA created several »stations« all over the Robert Bosch GmbH campus that could be observed and experienced with a VR headset. Find a video documentation of the project here.
Christina Myers Hepburn, a Los Angeles-based practitioner of touch therapy is in the limelight of Padraig Robinson’s film An Empirical Queer Theory (2019). The work discusses touch and physical tenderness as basic human needs, and at the same time challenges normative rules of society.
In her poem »Truth is Calling«, Maayan Danoch speaks about a turning point, a moment of realisation, a place that separates the now from what was.
Æther is an independent art space located in the center of Sofia, Bulgaria. It was founded in 2016 by the artist Voin de Voin. Since then, Æther organized numerous solo and group shows presenting the work of international artists, scientists, and activists. A hotbed for critically engaged artistic and curatorial practices, Æther conceives the exhibition space an experimental platform.
In Very Compact Theory on Longing, Vinicius Jatobá describes the pain of having lost something – or someone – loved that can never be retrieved. He performs a reading of his text, exploring the geography of feelings encompassed by the Portuguese term »saudade.«
A multipart and multilocal conversation between Ariel Bustamante and Rebecca Hanna John about listening practices, intimate setting, and the Conversation Room.
Miniature objects coming together into spatial compositions and landscapes. Made, arranged and photographed by Maayan Danoch at Solitude's wood workshop.
»Ode to Seekers 2012« is a looped video that celebrates mosquitoes, syringes, and oil derricks—symbols of some of the most significant threats to human life—mosquito borne illnesses, drug addiction, and the petroleum industry.
»I arrived in Germany the day they closed all the borders or at least the ones I needed to cross.« Giuliana Kiersz is one of the fellows who should have arrived at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in April. Due to the official Covid-19 restrictions she had to remain in a Berlin flat. In the poem from the kitchen window i see the world she now shares her daily observations. She could't imagine … what's reality now.
