POLITICS

Sharing and Saving in Times of Crisis

This is a choose-your-own-adventure and how-to guide on sharing and saving money. It is intended to help you figure out whether you can afford to share money, and to encourage you to save money.

A detail of a black and white line drawing from the zine. The drawing depicts a bottle of wine with curly graphics on the label, and a full glass of wine next to it to the right. Underneath, the outline of a four propeller drone with a camera is centered. The line drawings are on a white background.

1 Minute 59 Seconds to Midnight: Building a Luxury Post-Apocalyptic Self-Care Kit

1 Minute 59 Seconds to Midnight is a zine made for COVEN BERLIN’s PROBAND WERDEN shows in 2019. Zine by Elan Fortin-Eglitis Elan Fortin-Eglitis is a professional shopper quarantined…

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,…

Exhibition view of Laure Prouvost, “Ring, Sing and Drink for Trespassing”, Palais de Tokyo (22.06.2018 – 09.09.2018) Courtesy of the artist and Nathalie Obadia (Paris / Brussels), carlier | gebauer (Berlin), Lisson Gallery (London / New York) Photo by Aurélien Mo. Photo shows a central fountain of pink breasts in a room with a wet white floor lit with natural light, a variety of objects clutter the surrounding white walls.

Dedications to Trespassing

In the beginning of this month, two days after my performance for LUCKY, I got to see a show by the artist Laure Prouvost currently on view at Palais de…

A digital screen with a still from nicola awang's video, depicting a black woman eating blonde hair extensions. On the wall behind the screen, blonde hair extensions are draped.

refahmation: an interview with artist nicola awang

The other week, nicola awang was kind enough to schlep her computer to a cafe and let me record a conversation we had about ‘refahmation’, her video installation piece currently…

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…

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…

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…

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….