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I have it in my mouth

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Imaginary meetings

Jessica Sequeira: Other Paradises. Poetic Approaches to Thinking in a Technological Age

: How are we going to evolve in the age of technology? Author Jessica Sequeira believes that we have rich opportunities to develop living thinking in the face of technology.
Henning Næs -

Apocalypse and hope for the future

: The exhibition The Alphabet in Vienna shows Keith Haring's art, which is strongly influenced by his violent contemporaries, where the baby represents the only shining hope.
Pinar Ciftci -

A perverted artist portrait?

Beatrice Behn and René Gebhardt: The Artist & The Pervert

: The documentary The Artist & The Pervert does not tell much about Georg Friedrichs Haas' microtonal contemporary music, but all the more about his sadomasochistic relationship with his wife.
Aleksander Huser -

Media critical exhibition

: Despite the fact that Media City Bergen huser Norway's largest media group, the media-critical exhibition Question Everything, which opened on 22 February, has received very little press coverage.
Ella.strilen@gmail.com -

Are you getting horny now?

Diane Fortenberry (ed.): The Art of the Erotic

: What is erotic art? Yes – art you get horny of, is the answer in The Art of the Erotic.
hcmarstander@gmail.com -

The art and the sense of life

: The recently deceased art theorist Mario Perniola could be so searching in his books that these are only understood when the last word is read.
Carsten Juhl -

Refugees: Art project stranded

: Strong protests made Franco "Bifo" Berardi's planned performance Auschwitz on the Beach on Documenta 14 instead become a poetry reading and panel debate.
Emma Bakkevik -

An epic friendship

: A new exhibition at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin shows the intricate relationship between the thinker Walter Benjamin and the poet Bertolt Brecht.
Hans-Georg Kohler -

The feeling of being alive

: To be alive is to find space for the speechless, space for loss, for the superfluous, death, mere being, the unproductive.
Alexander Carnera -

When art opens eyes

Naeem Mohaiemen: Two Meetings and a Funeral

: The experience of the dynamics of the contemporary art festival – the interplay between cultural and political statements and my physical and mental movement through it – remains the most thought-provoking. 
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A vitamin policy peace supplement in the election campaign

: In the middle of the election campaign, an exciting and highly political exhibition opened at Akershus Kunstsenter. Through the Flag follows the bottle, the artist group ANNEX gives us a critical look at the country's treatment of asylum seekers, the affluent society and not least the war nation Norway.
Alexander Harang -
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