The End of Art Education as We Know It
The new art academies that emerged in the Nordic region during the 2010s offer multi-functional spaces. They also prescribe a new role for the artist: project manager.
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‘I always do what I want’
Astrid Svangren on her search for sensory precision in painting, her love for Sappho’s poetic fragments, and the importance of being hard on yourself as an artist.
Into the Friction
An agitational aesthetic demanding the redistribution of power and responsibility characterised the art field of the 2010s.
The Social Experiment
The artists and the mentally ill have a fount of relevant experiences which the whole community can learn from in the current crisis, says Jakob Jakobsen.
From the Pergamon to DIS in 2000 Years
The New York collective DIS was always grappling with the texture of the present. Here, they talk irony, politics, and engagement, from the Berlin Biennial to the streaming service dis.art.
Going Public
In the 2010s, collective action replaced individual visions as the agent of change in art institutions.
Follow the Money
In the 2010s, money became an interpersonal issue, the patriarchy took a well-deserved beating, and a good pitch became more important than a good practice.
The New Fabric of Everyday Life
The destiny of blockchain art is the financialisation of artists themselves.
Scripted Engagement
The rush to make online substitutes for events derailed by the COVID-19 pandemic promises an influx of viewing technologies that approximate real life.
Psychonautic Aesthetics
The most important artists of the 2010’s were the ones who helped us to navigate through private and social neuroses, perversions, and psychoses.
A Question of Solidarity and Sisterhood
The women’s movement in Scandinavia would benefit from adopting more confrontational methods of protest and resistance.
Extemporary Art
In the 2010s, artists abandoned the present in favour of the past, the future, and other, larger temporalities. Art is no longer contemporary, but extemporary.
