ACTIVISM, ART & MULTIMEDIA, BLOOD, LYMPH, POLITICS, SWEAT, YEAR OF THE BOG
The Art of (Not) Forgetting – photographing memories as a way to resist censorship
In my project "The Art of (Not) Forgetting", which began in February 2021, around 4 months after the start of the protests in Belarus, I tried to use storytelling and photography as a means of opposing the regime of the last European dictator: Alexander Lukashenko. The idea that brought me to address these issues was prompted by the situation I was observing in my country since August 2020. During massive rallies against the rigged presidential election, one of the symbols used by the opposition was the white-red-white flag that refers to the period of an independent Belarus and dates back to 1918. Very soon the regime declared this combination was "extremist" and eventually banned. People wearing clothes, scarves, bracelets, and even socks with the "wrong" colors were detained, fined, and given prison sentences.
ACTIVISM, YEAR OF THE BOG
Forest that Cares – on Belarus, Partisans, and Thicket We Can Learn A Lot From
Human culture, people's beliefs and behaviors are shaped by the natural environment we live in. Climate defines our diets and clothing habits, but certainly the most intricate interactions occur at deeper levels – deserts or jungles, the closeness to big waters or high mountains determine the way we perceive ourselves and others and feel about this strange thing called "life".
ACTIVISM, ART & MULTIMEDIA, ART & MULTIMEDIA, BLOOD, LYMPH, SWEAT, YEAR OF THE BOG
The End is Not an Option: Carrier Bags and the Rhythm of the Bog
I've spent a lot of the last years in bogland – literal and metaphysical. For six years I obsessively returned to a river in Lancashire, (U.K.). I spent most of my time on top of the peat fells (big swathes of high altitude, boggy moorland with flat tops), looking for the source of small rivers that swell out of the wetland and spill down the cracks they make in the hillsides.
ACTIVISM, BLOOD, FEMINISM, MILK, SEXUALITY, SWEAT, YEAR OF THE BOG
It Glitches at the Sight of Our Nipples
Day to day, I write and organize projects about the digital commons — where groups of people with aligned goals build systems of digital communication and information that they rely on and steward together. Like a community garden, but we dig our hands into signals, scatter bits and pixels so they grow into something meaningful. Platform co-operatives, community networks, digital research and cultural archives, Free and Open Source projects, are just some examples.
ACTIVISM, BLOOD, FEMINISM, POLITICS, SWEAT, YEAR OF THE BOG
A Conversation on Care
'A Conversation on Care' was the official name of the talk SchwarzRund and I gave in Summer 2021, as part of COVEN BERLIN's event "an invitation to sink in to the bog." Watching it back though, I realise that another title could have been 'A long overdue catch up between friends who are always keen to work together, could forever talk to each other, but don't always have the energy to do so.'
ACTIVISM, QUEER LIFE, SPIRITUALITY
To all queer creatures of the future: you deserve the world. Can be used in tandem with a deck of tarot cards, or read as a poem. …
ACTIVISM, BLOOD, FEMINISM, SWEAT
Collective Herbal Healing: A Counter-archive in the Making
Research is a dirty word—not because it has to be but because those who often wield the levers of power make it that way. As a historian, I often struggle…
ACTIVISM, ART & MULTIMEDIA, BLOOD, EXTRA+TERRESTRIAL, FEMINISM, SWEAT
COVEN BERLIN presents EXTRA+TERRESTRIAL, an exhibition and event series at Schwules Museum, Lützow str. 73, Berlin, 23.11.1018 – 14.02.2019. Featuring installed artwork by .BYTE Zine, curated by Halima Salah + Eman…
ACTIVISM, BEDTIME, BLOOD, FEMINISM, PARTY & EVENTS, POLITICS
Don't Sleep on Homophobia
COVEN BERLIN, in collaboration with the collective Dziewczyństwo (meaning 'Girlhood' in English), are currently exhibiting Bedtime at the Municipal Gallery Arsenał in Poznań, Poland. Bedtime has been a chance for…
ACTIVISM, ART & MULTIMEDIA, BLOOD, FEMINISM, LUCKY, POLITICS
To the not-so-lucky: An Interview with Travis Alabanza
For the closing of our exhibition LUCKY at the nGbK, we invited artist Travis Alabanza to give a final toast, The Obituary for the Not-So-Lucky. In this notice of death,…
I DO NOT PERFORM MY GENDER – I PERFORM MY BODY, AND MY BODY IS A PROSTHESIS FOR EVERYTHING I DO DESIRE
I don't see a prosthesis as a replacement for something missing, but rather as an adaptive mechanism for the environment. Let's think in a parallel between the variables 1 and...
FULFILLED WOMANHOOD IN DYSTOPIC SPAIN
Since the 1st January 2014, the legislation about reproductive rights in Spain has changed. If a child gets injured or contracts a life-threatening disease, one of the biological parents, preferently...
The Owl House Watches: A Hauntological Walking Tour – The Photos
For two hot afternoons in the summer of 2020, COVEN BERLIN hosted a paranormal and deeply personal walking tour at the invitation of Feldfünf e.V. for their show Flaneurin* oder...
MY COMPLEX OPINION ON 50 SHADES OF GREY
Let me please start with this: I think it's a godawful book. Long after it had become a hit, after reading comments and parodies, after hearing about it in almost...
'does this haircut make me look like i can handle reality'
'the origin of anxiety,' oil on canvas, 2014 sexy tumblr my friend found a sexy photo while searching for [something] on my laptop, once he put it in...