9 EDITORS’ LETTER
11 MAKING OUR COVER
12 CONTRIBUTORS
15 MAPPING OUR ARTICLES
16 IN THE SPOTLIGHT
19 ARTISTS TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2023
ARTISTS / Close-up
22 Arthur Jafa. The Dreams that Sprout in the Darkness of Space
34 Dorota Gawęda & Eglė Kulbokaitė. Mutating Folklore and Feminist Genealogies
42 Andriy Rachinskiy & Daniil Revkovskiy. Some Things Become Covered in Grass, and Some End up Buried: Speculative Art in Industrial Ukrainian Regions
50 Alicja Kwade: Time Perception | Special Feature
60 Tanzquartier Wien. Bending Dance and Performance Practice
MOVEMENT / New Perspectives
72 When Nothing Is Happening: On Absence in Contemporary Art
76 Performance Art’s Impact on the World
84 Theory in Practice: Contemporary Manifestos
88 The Velocity of Culture and War: Comparing the Speed of Art and Conflict
90 Stillness | Visual Essay
TREND-SPOTTING / New Culture Codes
104 10 Artists Who Use Dance as a Medium
114 Berenice Olmedo. Prosthetic Dance
116 Futurist Fashion. The Engine of Modernity
122 It Is Deeply Metaphysical: The Painting Practice of Dorota Łapa-Maik | Studio Visit
125 The Future of Stop-Motion Animation
128 From Bydgoszcz to Timişoara. The Extraordinary Journey of Foton’s Women
129 Meaning in Constant Movement | New Media Art
130 Closing the Cycle: Design’s Role in Building a Stable Future
132 Sustainable Travel Essentials | Objects of Desire
MIND THE MAP
137 Vienna. An Intertwined Cultural Landscape
COLLECTING / Treasure Hunt
146 Ernesto Esposito. The Artisan of Collectors
154 MoBU Art Fair: In the Heart of Bucharest
156 Monika Falkus. The Body Grows, Thins, Stretches, Flattens, Wrinkles and Matures
TIPS / Shaping the Future
160 Pause for Thought: How to Return from an Art-Making Break | Art Guide
168 On Our Shelf
NAGŁÓWEK
Daniil Revkovskiy & Andriy Rachinskiy (collective), Dorota Gawęda & Eglė Kulbokaitė (collective) and Zuzanna Czebatul — are the artists who impressed the jury with their works and won the third edition of the international competition for visual artists — Allegro Prize 2022. The Audience Choice Award won Yuriy Biley.
Even in the 21st century, we are still discovering new species of animals living alongside us. We search for new forms of life in the universe and develop artificial intelligence, yet we lack empathy towards all creatures, including our smaller companions. Particularly at the current time, a time of war, we should consider how we can act here and now. It is about time we reassessed our position not only in relation to our geopolitical neighbour, but also in relation to another neighbour that we often overlook and systematically annihilate: animals. They are the main focus of the new issue of our magazine, in which we attempt to look at the world from a non-human perspective, and will focus on topics such as animal rights, the animal as a metaphor for human affairs, behaviours, states or the perception of animals by different cultures.
Our journey begins with the cover designed by Kasia Walentynowicz, who invites us to experience peace, to lie down for a while on a flowery meadow among flowers and bees and to look at the world from the position of an animal hiding in a thicket, through the eyes of a lynx. Then, in our conversation with Jakob Kudsk Steensen we will enter his vast virtual landscapes and immediately immerse ourselves in three-dimensional worlds, exploring interpretations of overlooked natural phenomena: extinct birds, tropical forests or disappearing wetlands. We also interviewed Marta Bogdańska, photographer and film-maker, who provides a critical look at the history of human domination over other animal species in her project ‘Shifters,’ about which she will tell us more.
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- Zuzanna Auguścik,
- Dorian Batycka,
- Dobromiła Błaszczyk,
- Irene Calvi,
- Sara Dąbrowska,
- Patrycja Głusiec,
- Sylwia Krasoń,
- Maggie Kuzan,
- Aleksandra Mainka-Pawłowska,
- David Mann,
- Alex Mirutziu,
- Mannika Mishra,
- Johanna Luisa Müller,
- Anna Nowok,
- Helena Postawka-Lech,
- Patrycja Rozwora,
- Grażyna Siedlecka,
- Ilaria Sponda,
- Alicja Stąpór,
- Karol Szafraniec,
- Anna Tomczak,
- Anja Tomljenović,
- Marta Wróblewska,
- Kuba Żary