“RANT BY MARIA” – OPEN YOUR AI’s – by Maria Van Der Velde
Oh hello! Welcome to the arts of today, the air’s thick with the fumes of spray paint, a farts’ worth of pretension, and now, the influence of digital nightmares. Artificial Intelligence has crashed this party, (or shall I say, ‘soundscape listening party’), stirring up all sorts of drama among the crowd who thought Rick Owens […]
“The Limits of Culture – We don’t really know where we are” – Carlos Dengler
Me and my overalls, my hushpuppies and the fringes around my ears. It is all I can bear not to laugh at myself, at the five-year-old version of me innocently looking off-camera. “A prisoner of his time,” I often think when I look at the photo of which I speak, snapped in 1979, a year […]
Framing Our Receptivity, redux: Carlos Dengler on Joker Folie a Deux
By Carlos Dengler Watching a movie in an empty theater reminds you that film remains (at least putatively) an art form. Like visiting a church in between services, sitting amid vacant seats munching popcorn can be a kind of private encounter with the sacred: the ritual and its underlying beliefs, now unmediated by social context, […]
Controversy around film collective ‘Creeps From The Middle East’
Amsterdam – Renowned Dutch comedian Hans Teeuwen is reportedly considering legal action against artist collective, Creeps From The Middle East, following the release of their film ”Looking for Hans“. The film, which merges reality with fiction, features a scene involving Teeuwen that has led to significant debate. In the film, German-Iranian comedian Sina Khani and […]