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VR Swarm East #6

2016: »The Year of VR.« Was it?

by Andrius Lekavicius

Seduce #3

I’m breaking my word.

by Maria Milisavljevic

Interview

A New Form of Therapy

with G Douglas Barrett by Melody Nixon

G Douglas Barrett’s musical art touches upon subjects of psychotherapy, debt, finance, transgender identity, and property. Read an interview with the artist by Melody Nixon

#resistTrump

Sound of One Flag Burning

by G Douglas Barrett

Douglas Barrett recorded a high quality sound piece of a burning flag and asks: to what extent can sound reliably evidence acts of transgression?

Web Residencies 2017 – Call No.1

Call No.1 for Web Residencies by Solitude & ZKM

by Solitude & ZKM

The first joint call for Web Residencies in 2017 by Solitude and ZKM is out. Curated by Tatiana Bazzichelli with a topic on art and whistleblowing.

Narrative Anatomy #4

Personal Encounters with Illness

by Cristina Vidruțiu

Teaching Art

On The Strange Promise of Bad Ideas

Architect, academic, and teacher Curtis Roth dreams of truly bad ideas that have the capacity to question the seemingly good things. Welcome to the University of Bad Ideas.

Seduce #2

Wiping History the Grin Off Its Face

by Anna Gschnitzer

Web Residencies

Web Residencies by Solitude & ZKM

by Solitude & ZKM

In a new cooperation, Akademie Schloss Solitude and ZKM Karlsruhe are merging their expertise and practices to work jointly on the development of the Web Residencies program.

Gestures of Motherhood #5

The Ejection Phase and the Cognition

by Johana Gomez

This is the 3rd entry of Johana Gomez. She is a guest author for the blog Gestures of Motherhood of Jasmin Schädler.

Radio Solitude #4

Spanish Artist Teresa Solar And Palestinian Journalist Rasha Hilwi Sing About Love

with Teresa Solar by Elisabeth Weydt & Rasha Hilwi

Singing songs amongst friends seems to be a normal Beschäftigung almost everywhere but in Germany. And those friends do have impressive voices.

Seduce! #1

Seduce! – Strategies Against Brutalization

by Maxi Obexer – Translated by Maria Milisavljevic

Schlossghost #2

The Horses Came Later

by Mahmoud Hosseini Zad

Interview

This House is Not for Sale

with Georges Senga Assani by Mareen Wrobel

Georges Senga Assani’s work is about the issues of identity, heritage, and history. His new photography series deals with inheritance conflicts around homes in Brazil and DR Congo.

Interview

Argue Against the World of Idealized Systems

with Kostis Velonis

A talk with Greek artist Kostis Velonis about the stressful management of perfectionism, the complex German-Greek relation, the upcoming Documenta, and a repressed modernity.

Gestures of Motherhood #4

Mutation of Body And Mind

by Johana Gomez

Johana Gomez is a visual artist, stage and costume designer, as well as a new mother. This is her second entry as a guest author for the blog Gestures of Motherhood

On Drawing #8

This is not a Castle

Web Residencies #1

A Walk Across Internet

by Travis Hallenbeck

Web artist Travis Hallenbeck blocked sites like Google and Facebook for a month to explore the wilderness of the web. He blogged about where he went and what he saw.

Schlossghost #2

Fakening

by János Áfra

Gestures of Motherhood #3

Phases of Accouchement I

by Johana Gomez

Johana Gomez, a stage and costume designer as well as a new mother, gives a multifaceted insight into the decision process of becoming a mother.

Inside Solitude #8

Farzin

Essay

To See a Monster

by Katharina Hartwell

Is the best part of a story the one that isn’t told? An essay by author Katharina Hartwell on the fascinating power of a blank space in a story.

Ethnographic Museums

Detained Objects

with Tony Feda & Ana Mendes

Where do the objects in ethnographic museums come from? How about returning them today if claimed? An interview with cultural journalist Tony Feda and artist Ana Mendes

Communism

The Sewing Machine: a Cuban in the DDR Museum.

by Yania Suarez

The Cuban journalist Yania Suarez went to Berlin last September with the purpose of coming across their communist past – which is her present. And in the DDR museum, she ran into her childhood.

Cultural Journalism

The Impact of Western Civilization

In an excerpt of his diary, cultural journalist Tony Feda gives an insight into his personal opinion on power relations of different kinds between Africa and the West.

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