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art commission
Mbombo: Dream Echoes by Sondi
Wherever they stood it came, suddenly and simultaneously: refusal, refusal, refusal. And in a gust they collapsed into sleep.
video
Director's Commentary: Our songs were ready for all wars to come by Noor Abed
Choreographed scenes based on documented folktales from Palestine.
music
Rosanna Graf & Trần Uy Đức – I heard Tribalica 11 First, then it got more playful And More Clean
Hanoi-based, self-taught musician Trần Uy Đức pairs up with multidisciplinary artist Rosanna Graf to make a video clip.
music
Arash Akbari & Spekki Webu – Veiled Fluxes
A new track and video clip from an artistic match made in heaven
art commission
Molly Palmer: Amulet
We tend to think that our perception is linear, but in fact it is radically fragmented. We blink, we turn our heads, we travel at extraordinary speed. Our vision is interrupted and held inside devices that open endless tunnels to other locations, images, maps and information.
art commission
Remco Torenbosch: Artillerie Inrichtingen, Bandung (1923-1950), 2024
essay
When fear rules — a conversation about silence in the Dutch art world
A conversation with Mirjam Westen, Tina Farifteh and Maurits de Bruijn on the current possibilities of talking to each other as a society – through visual arts – about the ongoing genocide in Palestine.
essay
Traces of past lives: an attempt at capturing balloons
“Can I write about the balloon without attaching too much weight to it? Or is a balloon just a balloon; enough said?”
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essay
Take what you’re owed // Fugitive Dreams
Imagine falling asleep whenever and wherever – this is love, I think, this is freedom.
essay
Productively Unproductive
Arne Willée rescues idleness from its morally dubious past and presents it as a needed, critical resource.
column
The Guest at Work
Twice a day you walk up a mountain to connect to the internet, check your matches on Hinge, and text the girl you like from your language class back in the country you live.
broadcast
Until Liberation
In this contribution, we broadcast the 12-hour radio programme Until Liberation parts I and II, which include lectures, interviews, book presentations, talks, storytelling, music, songs, poetry and chants, alongside other audio material collected from different online platforms including collaborations with Radio Alhara. The material weaves together times, struggles and sounds from the 1970s to today.
essay
A neon palindrome, lessons from the crouching man
“In the name of contemporary art, Spain has finally embraced the whitewash technique of the iconoclasts.“
smut
Officially, nothing happened
“Somewhere in my head, I’m still their unicorn.”
fiction
Ötza and the Open-Ended Becoming of the World
Confessions of a Cryodesiccated Fanfiction Entrepreneur From the Neolithic.
essay
Cyberpunk Diaspora
Reconciling with Hong Kong in Kongkee’s “Dragon’s Delusion”
essay
Where the Magic Happens
I find a room in the basement and a room in the attic and while sifting through these rooms, I realise that the room of my dreams has always been a room to work in.
music
Singing To The Machine: Orpheu The Wizard
This mix by Orpheu The Wizard consists of a selection of songs loosely revolving around the themes of Mystics of the Chthulucene. First up in a new mix series, where artists, selectors, and music geeks connect sounds to a broader and recurring artistic research theme that weaves through The Couch.
video
Director's Commentary: Femke Hears a Who by Clementine Edwards and Alexander Iezzi
Femke from Brabant explores life in Rotterdam, attracting the detritus of memories and encounters like a magnet as they go. For this Director’s Commentary, Clementine Edwards and Alexander Iezzi have written a voiceover for a previously voiceless video.
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Escape From the Internet
“Remember when on the internet no one knew you were a dog?"
fiction
I Become You
“I love your face. I guess if I had to look at it every day, it wouldn’t be the worst.”
podcast
Future Artefacts Episode 4: David Blandy
For the fourth episode of our collaboration with Future Artefacts FM, hosts Nina and Niamh talk with David Blandy. While revisiting his work, they explore the ends of multiple worlds, from family illness, the foundations of a political system shattering and the end of a 17 year old magical gaming world, Asheron’s Call.
art commission
Exit Night, Enter Light
A digital zine created by the first-year master's students in Contextual Design at Design Academy Eindhoven
video
Air
Nonlinearity is not just a collision of times, but an indifference to time
essay
Dasha’s Kitchen: My magical grilled cheese sandwich recipe
Dasha Ilina tricks the search algorithms that might read her essay about algorithmic surveillance into thinking it’s just a recipe for a grilled cheese sandwich.
art commission
Asa Horvitz: Ghost
