1. A Rave Just for Friends
Our ongoing interview series with contemporary thinkers has proved to be a great success, so much so that it yielded the three most-read articles in the International Edition last year. Most read is Anders Dunker’s interview with Australian-born writer and scholar McKenzie Wark, who thinks we misunderstood the utopian.
2. Bad Contemporaneity
Second-most read is Matthew Rana’s interview with the American cultural theorist and feminist scholar Sianne Ngai, in which she explained why art needs to embrace error in a world that is wrong.
3. Planetary Thinking
In this interview by Anders Dunker, Hong Kong-based philosopher Yuk Hui asked how art can transform technology.
4. Collapsed Signal
In the aftermath of the Capitol riots in the United States on 6 January, the New York-based Danish artist Jakob S. Boeskov wrote an essay in which he went on a safari into the empire of illusion. Boeskov’s much-read article also caught the attention of the Italian magazine Not, which published a translation into Italian.
5. A Change to Norway’s Immigration Policy for Artists?
Tiril Flom interviewed Rodrigo Ghattas-Pérez, co-founder of Verdensrommet, Scandinavia’s only support network for foreign artists.
6. Sensitive Days
Nanna Friis’s review of Mamma Andersson’s laid back, yet “effortlessly confident” exhibition Humdrum Days at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art.
7. Triumph and Trauma
Arthur Jafa’s exhibition at Louisiana offers a virtuosic history lesson on Black American culture. It also deals a welcome blow to Danish racism, according to our critic Louis Scherfig.
8. Follow the Money
The story of the museum that lent Jens Haaning half a million Danish kroner, which is now gone, became world news. Our editor in Copenhagen, Pernille Albrethsen, spoke to the artist and followed the money – and the story behind a work of art.
9. Centre of Attention
“Ida Ekblad’s paintings do not comment on visual culture, they produce it,” wrote Nicholas Norton in his review of the exhibition Girl Fires Up Stove at Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo.
10. Momentum Postponed Until Further Notice
The collaboration between curator Théo-Mario Coppola and Momentum Biennial was broken off just a few days before the exhibition was scheduled to open. Our Norwegian editor Stian Gabrielsen brought us the scandalous news.
