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Ecology of Care: COVEN BERLIN and DoLess collective explore collective art practice

In July 2023, COVEN and DoLess, an international well-being and resilience artistic collective, organized and produced a week-long explorative artistic research laboratory and residence. DoLess art collective has evolved from a series of creative workshops aimed at Belarusians during 2020-2023. They have held over 70 events with a total of 1700 participants.

A 15th century depiction of Ivar and his brother Ubba sailing to England. Ivar and Ubba stand in the front of the ship each wearing armor, a weapon resembling a spear and a crown. They are surrounded by multiple people also wearing armor and holding up weapons. The waves and clouds that surround the ship indicate a stormy sea.

Ivar’s Sea

The feeling of mud on Ivar’s feet was one of his favorites. When he was still a small child, the most thrilling sensation was the touch of water and earth on his thin skin.

An image of several illustrated color images on a pink photographic sunset background. On top of the photo, from left to right, are: A sword with a blue handle pointing upward, a sword with a blue handle pointing downward, a grey stone block square tower with small windows and a red band below the ramparts, and a sun in gold with a blue shadow with a white outline of a crying person in it and a red highlight. There is a small golden multi-point star in each corner of the image.

22 Blessings For a Queer Future

To all queer creatures of the future: you deserve the world. Can be used in tandem with a deck of tarot cards, or read as a poem. …

Live performance documentation. The room is dark except for a flood lighting that illuminates a large wooden table, whose left side is strewn with various kitchen implements (hot plate, saute pan, tableware) and baking ingredients and the two nude performers wearing green aprons and black surgical gloves. One person is on top of the left side of the table, knees bent, hunched over with their arms above their head, while the other person is standing behind them on the floor, penetrating their asshole with an implement. In the dim background, three tiers of bleacher style seating show a packed audience of spectators.

NEW QUEER CUISINE

Pornography, privilege, and piña coladas. Gen Eickers interviews filmmakers Ethan Folk and Ty Wardwell ahead of the screening of their breakfast porn trilogy at Fuck Me Tender on Thursday, 30th May…

Animorphs, revisited

Do you remember them? Did you read them, or do you just remember the covers? Girls turned into starfish, boys into tigers, and it was beyond wacky. I remember staring…

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….

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…

Full-framed portrait of a woman with brown hair and red lipstick standing outside in the sun. She is smiling big and her eyes are squinting. In the background, there is a clear blue sky and folks hanging out recreationally on a grassy field with trees in the distance.

Jes Walsh on being a doula: care, queers, and reproductive rights

Jes Walsh is a zine-maker, the co-facilitator of the now-defunct queer space “Boys Club” in Berlin, and a doula. We asked Jes some questions about what it means to be…

Installation view. In the center of a dark room, a black and white video is projected onto a screen. In the video, a person is standing amongst tree branches with long skinny leaves. The person has their hair down, bold makeup outlining their eyebrows, eyes, and lips. They’re wearing a black strappy top, and some dark chest hair is visible. A line of subtitles overlays their hands in front of their chest reading “Melancholy wraps around me”.

QUEER AS A WAY OF SEEING THE WORLD: COLONY

Colony is a loaded word. It comes with layers of meaning, hiding and seeking and sometimes re-emerging with queer possibilities. Predominantly describing a type of relationship between humans and (other)…

NINE EROTIC CONFESSIONS FROM THE OCEANIC PLANET

First. The little mermaid feels no pain. Her body flows together with the wet streams of the ocean. She is the traitor of all limits, an intestinal amoeba of chaos…