Alejandra Espinosa
Is it possible to think of a future based on today’s economic, social and political systems? That’s a matter that Ghanaian-Scottish architect and academic Lesley Lokko reflects upon with the different initiatives she’s engaged with, including this year’s edition of Venice Architecture Biennale.
For starters, backstage staff pasted AVAVAV-scribbled pages on the wall before pushing a model onto the runway, and with this, the mood of the show — chaos, unfinished pieces, undressed models and discrepant concepts — was set.
Looking at Mark’s photography, we are certain of two things. The first one, that the streets used to inform the aesthetics of magazines, and the second, that Mary Ellen Mark was born in the heyday of the women’s rights movements in the U.S. and so her subjects are mostly women.
Joseph Williams Raidt’s graduate collection, titled ‘Oma Gertrude’, is a beautifully crafted visualisation of his Oma’s Alzheimer’s, in which the designer imagines the way she interacts with her surroundings when she’s alone. Joseph’s collection was selected by the Lichting project and presented during Amsterdam Fashion Week in August.
How fashion stores epitomise the spirit of their brands in terms of atmosphere and in relation to spaces?
It is clear that pop culture loves gays — it commodifies, fetishises and consumes their intimate relationships. And while this is all happening, many questions regarding who gets to write queer stories, how does it represent the community, what can be sexually explicit — or at least suggestive — and the values they stand for are all debatable.
Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg’s body of work explores the ways emerging technologies – those that are lifelike or engineering life in some ways – can redefine life and our relationship with the natural world. In this occasion, we talk about gaining agency instead of using technologies to manipulate the natural world.
Meet Joan Ling-Li Nesbit-Chang, a set designer who's brought maximalist and trashcore aesthetics to the Boiler Room, music videos and fashion campaigns.
Here's a guide to this month's 'Tanz im August' in Berlin: choreographers explore obscure forces, make intimate stories public tales, and dive into emotions, memories and places that words cannot describe.
Over a decade ago, 'Black Mirror' aired and fears about the myriad possibilities the development and use of technology could go wrong along with the subliminal ways in which it could take over our petty lives seeped deep into the imaginary of our culture. But down to the sixth season, what is Black Mirror anymore?
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