COVEN BERLIN

KUNDALINI YOGA DEMYSTIFIED
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The Owl House Watches: A Hauntological Walking Tour – The Photos
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Touch As In
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Commodifying Oppression: The Co-option of Resistance Aesthetic
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Runaway
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Five Stages of Heat
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Sickos Against Iatro-Capitalism
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reassembling histories by putting them into bodies that dance (rework) *
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I am the pre-burned, the burned, the burn, the cool
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Diaries of a Bitch in Heat
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Hot or Not? 2
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How to Boil an Egg
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gestating vampires: four poems
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French Cinema and Me: A Tale of Two Summers
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Warming Up for the Unknown
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Implies, Presupposes, Begets
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a/b/o verse—cancer
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Sacha Vega – A Visual Interview
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Hot Or Not?
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Fiery Swallowed Rage
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Normality
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Sharing and Saving in Times of Crisis
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Coming: Year of the Bog

A photograph that reads 'Year of the Bog'. The word Bog is suspended in a boggy substance, with natural and man-made green elements.

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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.

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.

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.

A picture of Clay AD's book, Metabolize if Able, on a background of blue-lit white pills. The book cover is light blue with dark blue outlines of two faces looking at one another.

Sickos Against Iatro-Capitalism

Sophie Lewis reviews Clay AD’s debut novel, Metabolize, If Able.

This is a detail shot photo of someone’s wrist, their skin a color like milky coffee, and just barely visible on their inner wrist is a faded stamp, like the kind one may get as they enter a party or club they’ve paid entrance for.

reassembling histories by putting them into bodies that dance (rework) *

I never felt the impact of ideas and theories expressed about music. I feel that they are a kind of intellectual punishment to music for being so accessible in an epidermal, sensory way.

Image from a Cassils of a person on fire againsta a black background, presumably wearing a flame proof suit, arms outstretched.

I am the pre-burned, the burned, the burn, the cool

Is it legally possible to get fined in hindsight for having attended a party during the Covid lockdown? If so, the following story is fiction, set in August 2020. A potential superspreader event – except no one got sick.

A black and white image of two people pressing their feet together with their lower legs bent to the right and left sides of the frame. They are on a hardwood floor.

ART & MULTIMEDIA, IN HEAT, VISUAL INTERVIEWS

Sacha Vega – A Visual Interview

Sacha Vega is an American artist creating at the intersection of photography, installation art, and writing, based in the Greater New York area. Through her practice, she “advises the viewer…

BLOOD, VISUAL INTERVIEWS

PEPA PRIETO PUY – A VISUAL INTERVIEW

Pepa Prieto Puy is a Galician-born Spanish illustrator and artist. Her passion for drawing comes from childhood: when she was in school, she started a magazine with her friend Roberta…

VISUAL INTERVIEWS

ALI FITZGERALD – A VISUAL INTERVIEW

Ali Fitzgerald is an artist//writer in Berlin. She currently makes comics about a hungover bear for McSweeney’s and queer mermaids for New York Magazine. Ali gave us 9 visual answers to our…

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