As a part of the commission programme for Frieze Film 2015 which will be screened at Frieze London and air on BBC’s national Channel 4, Xavier Cha presents abduct, a cinematic study of performative self-estrangement in the virtual age. Xavier Cha’s conceptually-driven practice spans dance, video, text and audio, but central to her work is the expanded field of performance. Since graduating from UCLA in 2004, she has shown live and video work across the… [read more »]

“I try to create a space in which I can dress like Kim Kardashian and she can dress like me.” Zhala is a conceptual musician, artist and performer of Kurdish descent, born and raised in Stockholm, Sweden. She is one of the founding members of the LGBT club Donna Scam in Stockholm, and the first and so far the only artist signing to Robyn’s Konichiwa Records. Zhala’s music consists of haunting rhythms and evocative melodies… [read more »]

The British artist duo Edward Thomasson & Lucy Beech reveal the violence of everyday performativity with their last installment of the non-theatrical 3-part series Passive Aggressive. The piece accentuates how this performativity is not just a gendered diagnostic of the contemporary Corporate Female navigating her way through the aggression of the work-place, but a constructive mode of life. At 2:45 PM daily during the fair in Regent’s Park, a group of six women in professional… [read more »]

In the dull haziness of the North European summer, Danish artists Amalie Eibye Brandt and Rasmus Myrup (both students at Funen Art Academy in Denmark) organized the show Feels Greyed at Aarhus Katedralskole. A show which sought to examine one of society’s most visible, yet critically undigested institutions: the high school. A place of social and intellectual triumph, trauma and formation all at once, the infrastructure and architecture of your average high school evokes the… [read more »]

Back to basics, the Land Lords fired us one by one using what resembled a bird call and we stared at them blankly. We thought the promises of social mobility meant we would only move upward but down the ranks to the bottom we went, our skin shoved into metal drawers, eye balls placed in jars and hair carefully slid into plastic bags. We slowly witnessed our new faces become emblems on signs with the… [read more »]

Denmark’s Why Be has been signed to Rabit’s new label Halcyon Veil. Check out ‘WHALIN (KYSELINA OST) from his upcoming EP, ‘SNIPESTREET’. Don’t miss the Release Party *tonight* in Berlin! Ft. Rabit, Why Be and Lotic. Video by ECCO2K

Donald Trump, leader in the GOP bid for US Presidency, theorizes that autism is caused by vaccines, and that this belief informs his platform regarding public health and disability issues. Autism, its imagined causes and its relation to various social issues, is up for national debate—but actual autistic individuals are never included in the conversation. Advocates for disability justice are marginalized by the U.S. public sphere, while their identities are scrutinized and co-opted by individuals… [read more »]

The 6th issue of How to Sleep Faster, the critical theory/poetry journal published by Arcadia Missa, continues HTSF’s investigation into contemporary sociopolitical and philosophical issues through the prisms of feminism, queer theory and Marxist critique. For this issue HTSF attempts to grapple with the most intimate of all subjects: sex. As a response to the mainstreaming of much identity-political discourse on sex (#heforshe, Everyday Sexism, No More Page Three, to mention a few), ‘the act… [read more »]

On Sep 14th, for about four hours, a little under 200 people experienced one of the greatest nights of their lives at the after-party for designer TELFAR’s S/S 2016 NYFW presentation. It happened at a White Castle in Times square — well out of range of Fashion GPS and with no press or photographers in attendance. Those who went to the Wolfgang Tillmans after party at Neuehouse instead have the rest of their lives to… [read more »]

Recently, I spent a beautiful summer eve with my friend and her two goats in scenic Beacon, New York. Their emotional life–and dietary habits–began to fascinate me, as they frolicked and whatever in the backyard. We laughed over cab franc and chatted about natural fiber sourcing from various South American farms, while the goats battled over their toys. Mohair has to come from somewhere… Enter Dukyana, Bulgaria’s Dior. Where does all of this angora come from?… [read more »]