ACTIVISM

Installation view of Bedtime at Arsenal Gallery. A four poster bed of raw wood is in the middle right of the frame, and sitting pads and pillows spill off the bed into the foreground. There are tables and a view of the gallery walls, with writing and gauze on them. The scene is lit with natural light.

Don’t Sleep on Homophobia

COVEN BERLIN, in collaboration with the collective Dziewczyństwo (meaning ‘Girlhood’ in English), are currently exhibiting Bedtime at the Municipal Gallery Arsenał in Poznań, Poland. Bedtime has been a chance for…

A waist-up picture of a person standing in front of of graffiti'd walls. They have brown skin, dark hair, are wearing glasses, and are looking at the camera, unsmiling. They are wearing a pink outfit with white accents and a black bodysuit underneath.

To the not-so-lucky: An Interview with Travis Alabanza

For the closing of our exhibition LUCKY at the nGbK, we invited artist Travis Alabanza to give a final toast, The Obituary for the Not-So-Lucky. In this notice of death,…

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…

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…

INTERVIEW WITH FEMINIST ARTIST AGATA CARDOSO

It’s hard to miss Agata Cardoso’s work, amongst the familiar sea of stereotypical saccharine images that claim to summarize femininity today. Working solely in analogue, her photography is a hypnotic…

LABOR OR LABOR – CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS #5

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…

TECHNOLOGIES FOR LIBERATION (PART III): CYBORG MONSTERS ARE THE REAL KNIGHTS IN SHINING ARMOUR

Donna Haraway describes the cyborg in “The Cyborg Manifesto” as a biotic system in a post-gender world, and a creature of social reality and fiction. This cyborg is closer to…

Technologies for liberation (Part II): Denying masculinity and becoming Grace Kelly, or how to avoid femininity by becoming Clint

Marcela Negro de Leserre, in her essay “El deseo es el deseo del otro. La influencia de Hegel en Lacan”[1], explains a revolutionary idea: if a person only becomes dignified…

Technologies for liberation: Pepper, Dorian, Octavia, the many Grace Kellys and the Cyborg Monsters (Part I)

I saw “Paris is Burning”, a documentary by Jennie Livingston, and watched the part when participants competed for the title of “FQ Realness” over and over again. To me, this…

A TALK WITH SARAH SCHULMAN

This article is a response to a talk given by Sarah Schulman in Berlin on March 23rd 2015. The event was co-hosted by feminist collective Female Trouble and COVEN BERLIN….