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Spike is a magazine for contemporary art by artist Rita Vitorelli, publishing quarterly in print, more often online. Spike #84 – VULGARITY – is OUT NOW!
Vienna/Berlin
Joined May 2015
“The Vulgar Image reflects the artificial and desireless qualities of the present. It is pornography for a society that is losing its lust.” – @deankissick .
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In a moment when moral offense refers less to uncultured ass-scratching than the rulelessness of our ruling classes, what possibilities are open to art to disclose new aesthetics, new sensations, new truths? . Link in reply, our Summer 25 issue, “VULGARITY,” is out now!
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Where might theory and praxis bump and grind? An underground dancefloor, contends a new anthology of dancefloor dispatches from @orbooks, edited by Zoë Berry, McKenzie Wark, and @geoff_mak.🔗 in reply, Nick Daoust’s review of “Writing on Raving” is online!
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RT @orbooks: "The easy sheen of unity—in written rave or rave, written—belies the good door, the good DJ, the good editors that begot it" r….
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What if the new far right isn’t a backlash against neoliberalism, but its end stage? Join Quinn Slobodian at Spike on Friday, 4 July for the launch of “Hayek’s Bastards,” his new book on populist social hierarchy and the return to “nature.”
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In her last monthly dispatch for Spike, @badaude asks what’s next for the way we dress. Is it automated, fatally co-opted, or plain too janky to fail? Link in reply, her “Theory of Style” is online!
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While algos have been rapidly dumbing down visual culture, artists like @BradTroemel, @JoshuaCitarella, and @Articus_chad have been evolving a new art form in an unlikely corner of Web 2.0: YouTube. A genealogy by Habib William Kherbek.
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In a festival brimming with doom and gloom, Joachim Trier’s 𝑺𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒍 𝑽𝒂𝒍𝒖𝒆 won Grand Prix at @cannes by offering its characters a choice to mend. Nolan Kelly’s review is online!.
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What do you do when the culture wars come for public art by zeroing out your grants? Throw another dinner. This month, @travisdream reports from benefits by @RoseArtMuseum @rhizome and @Triple_Canopy about the fallout at @NEAarts.
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How does young love in Berlin look to Leif Randt? Join us at Spike Berlin this Saturday as he reads from “Allegro Pastell,” newly translated by @GrantaMag / @GrantaBooks. Q&A with novelist John Holten to follow; please RSVP till 6 June. @livingcurrency .
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“Instead of visions for the future and the joys of experimentation, the need for cautious balance has emerged into a culture of fear, while aggressive, clannish narcissism is cultivated under the pretext of improving the world.”.
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This week in Spike: how a museum becomes a global brand, a primer on fashion’s Lilacene, and strolling in Klára Hosnedlová’s apocalyptic rainforest. Out of the loop? Sign up for our newsletter!.
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Hungry for insights on the new foodie-ism? Then swing by Spike Berlin on Friday evening, 23 May, for readings from our spring issue, a screening of Věra Chytilová’s decadent Daisies, and the inauguration of our new showroom. See you there!.
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