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EDITORIAL ISSUE #6: ASSHOLES

We have proudly produced a deep and potent mini-theme: ASSHOLES. This subject, so pervasive and visible in our society when it comes to patriarchs, remains unspoken, odorless, douched, and shamed…

SWOLLEN

Editor’s Note: This multi-disciplinary collaborative artwork includes descriptions of child sexual assault. When I sleep and dream of my earliest memories I am five I can’t see myself…

A NEW PRESCRIPTION FOR INSOMNIA

A New Prescription For Insomnia is a state of mind, a meditation exercise, a survival guide. Curated by Berlin and now Miami-based artist GeoVanna Gonzalez, the exhibition invites the visitor…

The Portrait of the Artist as Queer Immigrants: ğ – Soft g – Queer Forms Migrate

Former Istanbulites and current Berlin-based artists and curators Emre Busse and Aykan Safoğlu describe the letter “ğ” or soft g as “the queerest of the Turkish alphabet” and invite viewers…

THE SPRAWLS – THE PHOTOS

Gender can create a sensory experience of tangible and virtual borders, as well as conscious and unconscious ones. These spatial and cultural frontiers are essential points of reference for our…

BERLIN FEMINIST WEEK 2017

Prepare yourselves for the fourth Berlin Feminist Film Week kicking off today! Tonight’s opening screening will be the German premiere of Maysaloun Hamoud’s debut feature film In Between, a story…

MAN SPREAD

Man spread You consume my body, My streets My voids You consume politics Of space Of women You consume money Of the rich Of the poor Stop consuming my…

THE SPRAWLS

Gender can create a sensory experience of tangible and virtual borders, as well as conscious and unconscious ones. These spatial and cultural frontiers are essential points of reference for our…

A close up image of the artist performing the piece. In the image, they are pictured using one hand to stroke the wearable suit on their body. A little bit of the pink embroidered detail is visible, but the background is mostly the black suit color. The gauzy fabric of the suit is visible on the arm, and the scene is lit with the light of tv screens. There is slight blur on the hand so that it seems like it is in motion.

Assembling Desire: The Artist’s Reflection

It started uncertainly: “Hi” “Hi…” “Are you ready?” “I think so” “..so you can touch me, or I can touch myself. Which would you prefer?” And then, “You touch yourself”…

SWINGING MY WAY TO “CHOICE”

It’s past 11pm and I’m standing in the cold outside one of the most unremarkable buildings in West Berlin: Zwanglos. Next to me is Travis – a gorgeous German editor…