Existence & Spirituality ·
The Animal Within: Nature, Body and the Primal Self
We explore our break from nature and the primal self within us through artists such as Francis Bacon and Ana Mendieta. Body, instinct and art’s wild confrontation.
Essays & Criticism
Essays on art and the present: writing that approaches questions of resistance, censorship, labour and learning by way of artworks.
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Essays & Criticism ·
The Age Without Masters: Tutorial Hell
Knowledge passes on through people, not only through screens. From Rembrandt to Nam June Paik, we look at what is lost when learning happens alone and without a master.
Existence & Spirituality ·
There Is Someone Else Inside Me: Coping and Making Peace with the Crowd Within
The feeling that “there is someone else inside me” is not an illness but the mind’s shelter. We explore dissociation as an art of reconciliation through Phil Stutz and Magritte.
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