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A close up image of the artist performing the piece. In the image, they are pictured using one hand to stroke the wearable suit on their body. A little bit of the pink embroidered detail is visible, but the background is mostly the black suit color. The gauzy fabric of the suit is visible on the arm, and the scene is lit with the light of tv screens. There is slight blur on the hand so that it seems like it is in motion.

Assembling Desire: The Artist’s Reflection

It started uncertainly: “Hi” “Hi…” “Are you ready?” “I think so” “..so you can touch me, or I can touch myself. Which would you prefer?” And then, “You touch yourself”…

SWINGING MY WAY TO “CHOICE”

It’s past 11pm and I’m standing in the cold outside one of the most unremarkable buildings in West Berlin: Zwanglos. Next to me is Travis – a gorgeous German editor…

Meatspace – The Photos

Do we build an identity onto our bodies like a hermit crab builds a shell or do our bodies -and other bodies- force an identity onto us? Where do our…

Meatspace

Do we build an identity onto our bodies like a hermit crab builds a shell or do our bodies -and other bodies- force an identity onto us? Where do our…

BERLIN ART PRIZE 2016 NOMINEES

With the provoking motto HARD WORK/WORK HARD, the Berlin Art Prize is back on its fourth edition. The nine nominees have been announced as of October 23. Berlin Art Prize is…

DELTA VENUS

Women in media are so often portrayed as objects, that for them being the subject is a truly unusual act. We are constantly exposed with the images of the True…

LABOR OR LABOR: A QUEER FEMINIST EXPERIENCE

Imperialist and sexist systems of control are imprinted in the way society thinks about -and acts around- labor. Be it how we work, how we give birth, or how we…

A GAY MAN WROTE A FILM ABOUT MY WILDEST FANTASY

A gay man wrote a film about my wildest fantasy. How queer is that. The Misandrists doesn’t lack nudity and lesbian power sex. Still, this is not the fantasy I…

It’s About More Than Shoes: Confessions of a wannabe dapper straight woman OR Why we need gender neutral fashion for EVERYONE

There I sat, staring into my luggage—the fancy dress, the perfume, the strappy heels– and wondering why nothing in my relationship was adding up. I was just back from my…

TAKING FORM

UNION Decamping from the world intuition as art sacred, profane, hermetic united in one flesh + boxing gloves ready for attack / withdrawal simple flower reed of night…