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A tan paper cover with the words "Join the Künstlersozialkasse (KSK)" in black letters in two half circles.

Joining the KSK: a radical guide on getting your shit together

One of the LUCKY installations is a small lavender desk where you can sit down and read a zine, compiled by Inga Zimprich of Feministische Gesundheitsrecherchegruppe (Feminist Health Care Research…

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…

Two faces with a disco ball, stars, lightening, and futuristic elements

Silk, Slime, and Steam

I find art openings to be strange experiences. Silky tops, glasses in hand, crowds of people shifting positions, noise noise noise. It’s difficult to see the art, to focus into…

LUCKY

Everything in life is luck, or so we’ve heard. If you work hard, you will succeed—you just need to wait for your big break and play your cards right. Success…

The word 'power' repeated over and over down the middle of the image, in red and in gold glitter layered on top of each other on a dark yellow background. One 'power' in the middle of the screen is brighter red.

A Power Note

I want to talk about power, the great enabler of so much negative so-called ‘asshole’ behavior. We are more aware than ever that power by domination through degradation is…

A photo of a person in a white blonde wig and a gray uniform. They are standing in a train car with blue seats, with their hand on the back of one seat facing the camera.

CLINIC: Dates, Doctors, Drag

These two poems were exchanged by lovers. The first is a phonetic poem that is situated within a dyslexia – some have found that reading it out loud helps. …

An image with a pink background and "Do I watch too much porn?" repeated in varying shades of red to pink glitter text

QUESTION OF ORGASM JUST FLOATING OUT

Editor’s note: This poem contains descriptions of violence. This hoarder documentary or the guy who leans over the balcony to watch me fuck my girlfriend in the ass…

Image of installed art in a gallery space, with a circus tent and other artwork positioned around the space in low lighting

The Garden of Otherworldly Delights: Thoughts on ‘Garten der Lüste’ by AA Bronson and ‘Catch me if you can!’ by AA Bronson + General Idea

In the last weekend of April, KW Institute Berlin hosted a meditative and immersive installation/constellation from AA Bronson and his circle of collaborators. Including performances and artworks from Bronson and…

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 of a room with varying brightly-colored soft artworks suspended from the ceiling via thin cord or string. In the center, a square column, to the right, a low, freestanding set of shelves with various objects, and piles of pillows. In the foreground, to the left of the column, a freestanding metal fire pit, contents unknown.

We could be having so much fun: An interview with Melissa Steckbauer

Sentient. This is the word that resonates with me after my meeting with American multimedia artist Melissa Steckbauer, and it describes her perfectly. During our meeting, she laughed many times…