Patience is a virtue when waiting for Fabulous Diamonds’ timeless sound & detached melancholy in ‘Forever Turned’ aqnb, 16 September 2019 sound
Unpacking notions of world-making, subcultural aesthetics & community in the globalised present of Cosmopolitan Sunday photo
Degraded dance & rave for our contemporary society of spectacle & excess in xin’s ‘Spent, Wasted and Saved (ft. AYA)’ aqnb, Friday sound
Going through the motions with Kimberly-Klark’s bittersweet final show on the purposelessness of routine while holding ground Alec Recinos, 3 September 2019 features
The pang of cosmic lost-ness: Minh Nguyen responds to Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi’s What My Eyes Behold Is Simultaneous in a letter Minh Nguyen, 27 August 2019 features
As in the plural: Dreams of the queer & of queerness in the alternative future-fictions at The Present Is Not Enough Mika Hayashi Ebbesen, 13 August 2019 features
The future has (not) been cancelled: On the post-pop mutations of Los Angeles’ Heav3n party & the shock of the new in the old 30 August 2019 focus
Collectivity during crisis: talking scenography, smart homes & safety demo aesthetics with artist Nile Koetting ahead of Paradise Found 2 23 July 2019 focus
Love me tender: Reuniting nurture with nature for Creamcake’s ‘Paradise Found’ concert series set in the ruins of a monastery 4 June 2019 focus
Self-mythologising producer djb drops upside down track ‘Ondersteboven’ from his dark & maximal album of terminal velocity Thursday video
Anticipating Harm: Vijay Masharani on the aesthetics of passivity, allegorizing violence & the legible bro Ruthie Natanzon, Tuesday interviews
Navigating the volatile social & environmental present in the hot air & destruction of Caribic Residency’s Volcano group exhibition 8 September 2019 photo
Mourning the irreparable fractures caused by the loss of a loved one in the grieving noise pop of Thegn’s ‘I Heard Your Voice ft. Dis Fig’ aqnb, 4 September 2019 sound
Celebrating changing currents in Black & queer art practices at BBZ’s alternative graduate exhibition 2 September 2019 photo
Sückie’s deconstructed bass & breakbeat is a titillatingly spatial swagger that glides through its own polyrhythms on ‘Irala Pt. 1’ aqnb, 30 August 2019 sound
Avbvrn’s ‘Shroud’ lives up to its title by burying its instrumentation in wavy atmospherics & monochrome image fragments 29 August 2019 video
Plush toys, camp clutter & gabber music create a surreal dreamscape in Clementine Edwards & Alexander Iezzi’s Femke Hears a Who 26 August 2019 photo
Jade Statues’ spritely new collaboration with cellist Audréanne Filion is dedicated to the playful spirits that inhabit the dark aqnb, 23 August 2019 sound
“Global advisory group” Sun Angels present an independent take on commercial trance with the vaporwave-ish frolic of ‘Elefant’ aqnb, 22 August 2019 sound
When did you get here? Reuniting the past & the present in Hrefna Hörn Leifsdóttir’s A carefully chosen set of advises Gab Hadden, 20 August 2019 reviews
Haunted stillness, memory, death & the supernatural in a 19th century rural farmhouse for the Metal Meadow group exhibition 18 August 2019 photo
Chants draws on big band beats & post-club aesthetics for the marimba-led movement of ‘Burned All the Way Down’ aqnb, 16 August 2019 sound
Qualiatik explores trauma, body horror & biotechnology through the fleshy noise & image interference of ‘Sublimation Coda’ 15 August 2019 video
Auto Italia’s evasive Unorganised Response group exhibition remains unruly by gazing at our institutions from the peripheries Jade Barget, 13 August 2019 reviews
