SWEAT

An image of six different amoebas, in pink, green, green-yellow, brown, red, and purple. They are arranged on a solid middle blue background.

Things Change When They Are Wet

You can be hammering nails into a wall without a care in the world, thinking how nice this Mona Lisa print is going to look just here above the sofa, how it’s going to catch the light very nicely indeed and – SNAP!

The words Dank Memes for Dank Times are sculpted as 3 dimensional letters on a green, blue and purple pond and moss. Event info is handwritten on top.

DANK MEMES 4 DANK TIMES

COVEN BERLIN presents: DANK MEMES 4 DANK TIMES (DM4DT)

May 22 + 23, Online

Text reads BOG Open call, submit your memes, dank memes for dank times, on a green background with swampy water

Open Call: DANK MEMES FOR DANK TIMES (DM4DT)

Deadline: MAY 1ST!!!

We want your dankest, most pungent, strangest, saddest, gayest, feuchtest, softest memes as subject matter for one or both of these extremely online events:

A collage depicting a body tainted in violet color, with two legs, one arm, blond curls and a trunk that morphs into small planets, floating on the background of a piece of wood in a bright starlit sky.

KUNDALINI YOGA DEMYSTIFIED

Bhajan’s sexual and emotional abuse does not stand alone, but is linked to a much larger system of abuse of power. And this system pervaded all areas of his personality, including his teachings.

YEAR OF THE BOG

This year, we feel the need to crawl deep into the damp earth. At a time when we cannot touch each other, are buried behind our screens, and distanced from the visceral and the elemental, COVEN BERLIN declares the YEAR OF THE BOG.

Tie-dyed underwear covered in yellow slime in a glass display case

The Owl House Watches: A Hauntological Walking Tour – The Photos

For two hot afternoons in the summer of 2020, COVEN BERLIN hosted a paranormal and deeply personal walking tour at the invitation of Feldfünf e.V. for their show Flaneurin* oder…

An image of a social distancing messaging sticker in the Berlin subway. The decal features 3 corgis in outline, indicating the appropriate distance.

Touch As In

During a time that transmuted touch into a mere theoretical, that differentially and differently affected the people around me, I felt an impulse to gather together—an attempt at a grand, unified theory of the sensory, particularly of touch.

An image of a handmade rug depicting a NYPD cop car on fire with red and yellow flames. The rug is depicted on a graffitied stone wall.

Commodifying Oppression: The Co-option of Resistance Aesthetic

There has become a market, driven by social media aesthetics, for the radical slogan, a marketing for leftist politics, and therefore, a market for continued oppression. Though graphics elevate and increase the share-ability of messaging, this practice has translated into consumer goods with trendy, relevant, and co-optive messaging.

An illustrated image of shooting stars, with a band of lighter color around the edge. The image is in blues and purples.

Runaway

A new poem by Samantha Bohatsch.

An image of 5 stylized flames on a red glitter background. The flames are next to one another in the middle of the frame, and are in a left to right gradient from black to light blue.

Five Stages of Heat

While the five stages of grief can be a useful tool for understanding your emotions after loss, the five stages of heat is a useful companion BEFORE making a big change, because it can help you understand why you feel equal parts hot and bothered.