WORK WEEK SAMPLE #2
As part of COVEN BERLIN’s current issue LABOR OR LABOR, we asked freelancers and artists to share their weekly working routine with us following Louise Trueheart’s work week sample, a detailed description of one…
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WORK WEEK SAMPLE
A few weeks ago I set out to write about being a freelancer for COVEN’s current theme LABOR OR LABOR. I wanted to share a sample of my workday, or maybe some highlights from…
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What matters about matter?
What matters about matter? In the October edition of VULVA CLUB,f riendship-based collective female trouble hosted an evening around different intellectual notions of matter, material, and materiality. They drew from…
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INTERVIEW WITH MARI LUZ ESTEBAN
Mari Luz Esteban is a feminist anthropologist who studies the body and human emotions. She teaches at the Universidad del País Vasco (UPV/EHU), where she is also a mentor for…
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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…
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BITTER VICTORIES
The second time I went out socially after moving to London, a stranger forced me under pressure to out myself to the group we were sitting with, while discussing how…
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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…
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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…
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Arab Future Fiction: the Call for Interstellar Friend/Ship
Arab Future Fiction: the Call for Interstellar Friend/Ship is a pretend manifesto, written as part of a performance created by Jassem Hindi and Keith Hennessy. The piece premiered at Kampnagel in…
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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…
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