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In the center, a group of eight people stand in a circle holding each other’s arms/wrists outstretched in a naturally lit rehearsal/dance studio. They are all barefoot and wearing loose white underwear briefs, in addition to varying white tops (tanks, tees, hoodie). There is a large white fabric hanging loosely from the ceiling onto the floor behind and to the left of the performers.

FLUSS

box. box. box. box. inside the box, establish the points & hit them. stay within the designated lines. 7. 6. 4. 3. 6. 2. 2. 6. i turn around nothing…

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)…

A tableau of books, blocks, anal toys, plugs, beads and lube are arranged against a wall. One book has a view of someone’s bare behind with the title “ANAL PLEASURE & HEALTH” visible. Another title reads “BECAUSE WE LIKE IT HOT” overlaid on a book cover of someone’s thighs, butt, and torso in a top and underwear. Above a block, a pink pin stating “I [graphic of a butt plug] anal” rests against a bottle of lube.

How to Love the Butt (w)hole: Probing Deeper with Berlin’s Sex Educators, Part II

When COVEN BERLIN announced their ASSHOLES digital issue, I realized I had a lot of holes in my knowledge of the butt. I decided the best answers to my sensitive…

On a tabletop by a lit window and an indoor plant, seven brightly-colored dildos and anal toys all with flared-bases are placed on various coasters, blocks of wood, and CD cases. There is a framed print in red-ink behind the toys of a person and the “female” sign that reads “WE ARE IN CHARGE”.

How to Love the Butt (w)hole: Probing Deeper with Berlin’s Sex Educators, Part I

When COVEN BERLIN announced our ASSHOLES digital issue, I realized I had a lot of holes in my knowledge of the butt. I decided the best answers to my sensitive…

Installation view. In a completely blackened room, shards of light and the contours of a projector are visible. The light shards make various geometric shapes on surfaces in the room, none are distinct.

Room for Reflection

Within a globalized urban society connected by the means of the internet, there are few spaces and instances left that encourage us to turn our attention inward and introspect our…

Live performance documentation. In a dimly lit room with a black floor and veiled dark blue windows, four dancers in white t-shirts and diapers stand in a cluster, mostly with their backs to the camera, while another dancer facing forward, is semi illuminated by a spotlight on a white sheet behind them.

EARTHBOUND SQUATTERS

Watching shows, I often feel that the performers try to make me feel a certain way: to laugh, to cry, to be turned on, to be shocked, to feel catharsis….

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…

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…

THREE POEMS

sometimes sometimes I have a cock in the parc and métro in the morning and afternoon it’s there at night in an empty bed and sometimes it meets your…

A THOUSAND THANK-YOUS

A Thousand Thank-Yous is a collage of videos which show (mostly) straight white men asserting their ability to ‘be’. This collage of clips has been overlaid with a looped clip…