SWEAT

A sketch in blue ballpoint pen of a person with a head covering holding an object. A yellow-green ghost is to the right of the figure. The left side of the frame is blank. The levels of the image have been adjusted to make the contrast appear more extreme.

The Little Gaze

Last winter I came to visit my partner in Berlin. I noticed that I was spending a lot of time thinking about which homeless person to give my money to….

A digital screen with a still from nicola awang's video, depicting a black woman eating blonde hair extensions. On the wall behind the screen, blonde hair extensions are draped.

refahmation: an interview with artist nicola awang

The other week, nicola awang was kind enough to schlep her computer to a cafe and let me record a conversation we had about ‘refahmation’, her video installation piece currently…

The floorplan for the lucky exhibition superimposed over an idyllic green landscape of hills in a sunset. the effect is meant to be ironic.

LUCKY – An Alternative Exhibition Guide

The text is a mash-up of references to House of Cards, Batman, and The Princess Bride, with a touch of Sense & Sensibility. Prologue It’s sunny, it’s hot…

A tan paper cover with the words "Join the Künstlersozialkasse (KSK)" in black letters in two half circles.

Joining the KSK: a radical guide on getting your shit together

One of the LUCKY installations is a small lavender desk where you can sit down and read a zine, compiled by Inga Zimprich of Feministische Gesundheitsrecherchegruppe (Feminist Health Care Research…

Three Wheel of Fortune tarot cards next to each other on a medium wood surface. The wheel in the first is red with clouds around it, the wheel on the second has dragons on a moving wheel, and the third has orange with a sky in the background.

Belief: The Shimmer is Real

She sits in a silent room, reading cards. Mattresses, cushions, and pieces of cloth-covered foam are evenly spread throughout the space like beds for 50 ghosts. The only things moving…

Two faces with a disco ball, stars, lightening, and futuristic elements

Silk, Slime, and Steam

I find art openings to be strange experiences. Silky tops, glasses in hand, crowds of people shifting positions, noise noise noise. It’s difficult to see the art, to focus into…

LUCKY

Everything in life is luck, or so we’ve heard. If you work hard, you will succeed—you just need to wait for your big break and play your cards right. Success…

Image of installed art in a gallery space, with a circus tent and other artwork positioned around the space in low lighting

The Garden of Otherworldly Delights: Thoughts on ‘Garten der Lüste’ by AA Bronson and ‘Catch me if you can!’ by AA Bronson + General Idea

In the last weekend of April, KW Institute Berlin hosted a meditative and immersive installation/constellation from AA Bronson and his circle of collaborators. Including performances and artworks from Bronson and…

Installation view of a room with varying brightly-colored soft artworks suspended from the ceiling via thin cord or string. In the center, a square column, to the right, a low, freestanding set of shelves with various objects, and piles of pillows. In the foreground, to the left of the column, a freestanding metal fire pit, contents unknown.

We could be having so much fun: An interview with Melissa Steckbauer

Sentient. This is the word that resonates with me after my meeting with American multimedia artist Melissa Steckbauer, and it describes her perfectly. During our meeting, she laughed many times…