Geopolitical Art

It is not soldiers nor intelligence officers but artists who occupy this space, writing the latest chapter in Teufelsberg’s history.

Today, the station buildings and antenna radomes (protective enclosures) are derelict. Wild boar root through the surrounding forest, and graffiti artists have taken over the space, spraying the structures with slogans such as ‘Sound of Freedom’ and ‘Freedom Is the Only Way’. Street art covers almost every surface. You can climb to the top of the h... See more

alright party’s over https://t.co/wl0KOIpLUO

imagine being a hungry clothes moth in the year 2030 and finding all clothes are made from plastic

Her primary field of interest, the geopolitics of the curatorial, shifted to the multipolar geopolitics of planetary computation following the digital turn in 2020.

art works better as a way of seeing than as a way of showing. The arts can document and sometimes pre-empt changes in how people view the world around them, pointing to multiple perspectives or clashes, deconstructing and reconstructing, taking people up to the cosmic or down to the microscopic. They can do this in compelling ways that reach large

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The function of art is also clear: Artists propose new ways of doing things and perceiving the world, which if successful, become conventional.

Art can be an emotional trigger for larger and deeper dialogues. It can blur the boundaries between things, the boundaries between us and the boundaries between the world and self. Still we rarely see art and economy as subjects deeply unified in the same study or mechanism.