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Marina Rheingantz (b. 1983, Araraquara, Brazil) lives and works in São Paulo.
Change is afoot. We can see it in the climate roaring back at us, the plants and animals moving from background to foreground during the beginning of Covid. Institutions are fracturing, old systems are stretching beyond their breaking points, nations and money tables are overturning, social shearing pervades our epoch.
And yet making art pulses on, beating not beaten, underground, in the fissures, on the edges all over the world.
What is a writer in these times? How do we share the space of writing and making art?
— from “What If? Lidia Yuknavitch on Her Philosophy of Teaching,” via Lit Hub
Anh Trần “(b. 1989, Bến Tre; lives in Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland) works across painting methods and materials to address the complexity of the fluctuating distance between contemporary painting critical discourses and non-Western or hybrid painting practices, and the challenges for non-Western painters to engage with these discourses.”
Lucy Dacus - "Night Shift" (Official Music Video, 2023)
Director & Editor: Jane Schoenbrun
Joanna Woś (b. 1991 in Poland) lives and works in Vienna where she is currently studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in the class of Daniel Richter.
Elizabeth Maconchy String Quartet No.1 | Bloomsbury Quartet 2019
Adam Shiu-Yang Shaw lives and works in Berlin and Edmonton.
Music Is a Continuum | Composer Terry Riley
Mikołaj Moskal lives and works in Krakow
One could of course say that the subject of most of Sorrentino’s fiction is the nature of fiction itself. Certainly Mulligan Stew is the fullest (and perhaps greatest) realization of this subject in Sorrentino’s career as a writer of fiction, bug after the relative success of Mulligan Stew led Sorrentino to offer modified versions of the subject in an effort to widen his reach among readers, Blue Pastoral marks a return to the more radical exploration of form introduced in the metafictions of both Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things and Mulligan Stew. The novels after Blue Pastoral will be, if anything, even more resolutely unconventional, as if the fairly tepid sales of Aberration of Starlight and Crystal Vision convinced Sorrentino that gesturing to the literary mainstream was a wasted effort and decided to ignore its requirements altogether.
— from “Gilbert Sorrentino: An Introduction” by Daniel Green, via his website
Maria Loboda lives and works in Berlin and Krakow
Bottega Veneta | Fall Winter 2023/2024 | Full Show
Neïl Beloufa lives and works in France
Joeun Kim Aatchim (b. 1989) is a Korean-born artist practicing in New York.
It’s no good though, I’ve already bitten off his tongue at the root and started to speak with it, stolen it like it was already mine, shadows playing on the empty vault of the mouth, the soft palate and jawing bone.
— from “We the Parasites [excerpt]” by A.V. Marraccini, via minor literature[s]
Mateusz Choróbski lives and works in Warsaw
Ergodic Literature: The Weirdest Book Genre
Haris Epaminonda is a Cypriot photographer and visual artist who lives and works in Berlin.
Earth timeline
1.5 billion years B.C.: first fungi arrived at the planet Earth and slowly started populating it. They arrived as spores migrating through space. This is the origin of intelligence on Earth. Their goal is rather simple; create symbiosis with existing life, start influencing and controlling it by creating vast mycelial networks.
66 million years B.C.: Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T) extinction is caused by fungi because, simply put, they really didn’t like them. They found them loud and clumsy, and lost faith in truly remarkable evolutionary development. It was nothing short of embarrassing compared to intelligences that developed on other planets. So, they opted for a restart which led to the death of most animal and plant species. In return there was a massive fungal bloom. They had to bootstrap evolution and introduce more control and as a result, information flow massively increased.
— from “EULOGY OF TWO MINDS” by Enea Kavčič, via SUM
Alma Allen is an American sculptor.
Rejecting the classical surrealist fixation on “the image,” he centers “the word”—or rather, what Nathaniel Mackey, following Dogon weavers, calls the “creaking of the word” (the name of the block on which their looms rest). These poems are blocks of music on which rests the possibility of “social praxis.”
— from “Hyperdrive: The surrealist epics of Will Alexander” by Aditya Bahl, via The Nation
“Brazilian painter Lucas Arruda's paintings are intricate, meditative works that blur the boundaries between mnemonic and imaginative registers.”
There lie a tangle of gray-skinned corpses, spun within webs of silver hair, their empty eye sockets staring. It is nearly impossible to tell one corpse from another, their defining features weathered away, skin tight against broken and strangely elongated skulls, mouths agape. Their spines are twisted into impossible spirals, and their limbs are knotted, legs bent back and braided around broken necks, ribs racked, fingers zippered.
The moons bleed red tonight, says one of the corpses.
— from “Skullflower Cairn” by David Peak, via Action Books Blog
“Cameroonian painter Ludovic Nkoth translates feelings of displacement into vibrantly painted canvases”
Izabela Tarasewicz “is a visual artist who makes sculptures, installations, drawings and photographs, as well as a performance artist.”
Mitchell Syrop lives and works in Los Angeles
I love to be outside as night falls. Whenever I can, I mark the transition from day to night by walking through quickly darkening streets and peeping into the neighboring houses. My neighbors and I may have nothing in common beyond the fact that the light of day is fading for us all, but when I pass by their uncurtained windows I leave traces; a wake of moving air, the sound of a footstep, or the impression of a familiar face to someone invisible to me. There is an intimacy to this repeated, glancing attention. As I stalk the last licks of light, I am sutured into the lives lived behind the windows I pass.
— from “The intimacy of the index: Listening notes on 'Concordance'“ by Betsy PORRITT, via Jacket2
Manfred Pernice was born in 1963 in Hildesheim, Germany.
When I wake up, my central incisor is a rhinoceros. My lip gets hooked on its horn.
— from “Bruxism” by Aileen O’Dowd, via HEX
Ben Schumacher is a Canadian Postwar & Contemporary painter who was born in 1985.
Emotion 1966 film by Nobuhiko Obayashi
“B. Ingrid Olson (b. 1987 in Denver, USA) implements elements of photography, sculpture, and performance in an ongoing exploration of the boundaries between body and space.”
The Fourth Dimension
The début release by Grolsch Film Works and VICE Films brings together an immersive trilogy by Harmony Korine, Alexsei Fedorchenko and Jan Kwiecinski. The three filmmakers have created three unique stories that offer up their vision of this higher plane of existence, the Fourth Dimension. Each filmmaker takes his character on a journey that changes the way they see the world and themselves. And each filmmaker will offer a different perspective on what the Fourth Dimension is.