Valentina Karga: Energies in Common

[First published October 2018 in HFBK’s Lerchenfeld Issue 45] It was some months before I realised that ‘banana-mami’ was in fact ‘banana mummy’. Valentina had been talking about the energetic powers of pyramids for a while, building and testing them for herself, placing ordinary bananas in their centres to see…

Sitting around digital fires | (no)action(no)space in Schloss—Post

Last year I took part in the beginnings of (no)action(no)space, a collaborative research platform distributed over time and space, involving a shifting group of about 7 artists and initiated by Laura Bernhardt. We first gathered around a ‘real’ fire at the Bodensee lake in spring; some months later these shared conversations and…

Futuring Sydney Otherwise

(Par-re-buga or Pa-rai-bu-gah or Par-ri-beu-go – Tomorrow) 1 by Tessa Zettel & Karl Khoe [Essay originally commissioned for the NIEA hothouse and published in HotHouse Report to the City, 2010, (eds.) Jill Bennett and Felicity Fenner, NIEA, UNSW, Sydney; also an extension of a presentation delivered at the Hothouse Symposium, Sydney Opera House, on 27 July, 2010.]…

If I’m not mistaken, it is ‘Soybean cake’ / Kalau saya tidak salah, itu ‘Soybean cake’

A story about cross-cultural exchange, eating and drawing in two parts, recently published in the ‘gang re:Publik‘ anthology. To see pics of Pemandangan itu sangat kabur, the work discussed in Part 1, click here. Part 1. Leura/Katoomba Beyond the clumsy groupings of bored tourists weighed down by daypacks and camera…