[Originally published 2017 in Broadsheet Journal 46.2] The fourteenth edition of documenta opened for the first time in Athens this April, two months ahead of a second opening in its customary…
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Micro-economies and self-publishing in Mexico
Some months ago I was invited to join Marjetica Potrč’s ‘Design for the Living World’ social design class in Mexico. I worked with them in Belgrade a few years ago, where…
Read moreSitting 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.…
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[Originally published in Runway: Conversations on May 15, 2017] _ In April of this year I found myself at the Athens opening of documenta 14, in terms of prestige and critical…
Read moreMarket for Immaterial Value: Unmaking Debt and Other Fictions
[First published in 2016 in Runway Issue 30: ‘Ecologies’] Everything is jelly now Air, clouds, us The jelly is the material out of which the immaterial world is made and…
Read moreCollective objects of anxiety: Things encountered and enacted in Paris, Autumn 2015
[Originally published 2016 in un Magazine 10.1: ‘Co-Workers’] It’s early October and I’ve come to Bétonsalon Centre for Art and Research for the opening of Co-Workers: Beyond Disaster. Three months since arriving in…
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In the second half of 2015 I was a resident at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, beginning research for a new project, learning French and helping out at…
Read morePlan Bienen: Sharing (in) the more-than-human city
[Text by Tessa Zettel & Sumugan Sivanesan; originally published 2016 in A Peer Reviewed Journal About_Excessive Research, Vol. 5, Issue 1. DARC (Digital Aesthetics Research Centre), Aarhus University, Denmark, 2016.] o …
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Tessa Zettel & Sumugan Sivanesan [A version of this text was published in un Magazine 9.1, June 2015. It is part of an ongoing research project, Plan Bienen, begun by the authors…
Read morePlan Bienen in un 9.1
Plan Bienen, a project I’ve been developing since last year with Sumugan Sivanesan in Berlin, has led to a text co-written for the forthcoming edition of un Magazine 9.1 – for…
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