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Society and Politics
Not a Single Story* or Why Decoloniality Matters and How We Can Make It Visible
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why the largest square in Berlin is honoring russian imperialism in one of its most active periods and how we can rename it by art actions
Society and Politics
OTHERARCHIVES
on recovering archives from bread and tea via rendering limits and disruptions of hierarchies towards collective co-actions
Notes
When memories become feelings (and vice versa) / Когда воспоминания становятся чувствами (и наоборот)
On photography, memory and going beyond their boundaries / О фотографии, памяти и выходе за их пределы
Theater and Dance
ʒиN 11: DADA-DANCE
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is a relay dance unfolding in time and on a plane, it is a dance performed and / or depicted, it is a movement from left to right, but forward
Philosophy and Humanities
The Body is the Language. what is this telling us?
to find the beach under the paving stones, we need Bodies on the streets
Art
La storia ripetese stessa? Una conversazione tra Alessandra Franetovich e Arseny Zhilyaev
Conversazione tra la curatrice Alessandra Franetovich e l’artista Arseniy Zhilyaev sul contesto della sua formazione
Art
L’impossibilità della neutralità
In questo intervista con Marco Scotini, l’artista Arsenij Zhilyaev riflette sulla sua mostra Lingua Madre e discute l’uso del bianco nelle sue opere e un “fantasma” dello stalinismo
Self-Organization
of BUILDING RELATIONS and FINDING a VOICES
imaginary monopolies on language and their pidginization, poeticization, politicization and precipitation
Music and Sound
radio.syg.ma gets lost or death and the rave
bad person going to a good music festival
FAQ. New Editor
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Image galleries, line-by-line footnotes, standout links, and a convenient table of contents—read how to use the new editor
Society and Politics
MEMORYLETTER
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The latest history of Russia described in two photos and a few court cases
Art
Cracks on the Façade
if binarity is a power regime, then non-binary spaces are a schism and way out into other power relations
Art
Aptitude of exilic experience: Translatability of migrating images by Lea Lublin (Blanco Sobre Blanco, 1969)
How can a representation of an artwork enact the exilic experience? What does it mean for an image to be ‘translated’ into different cultural and political contexts?
Poetry
ʒиN 9: Room for Translations
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exercises of moving beyond monolinguistic habits to an open encounter with Polyvoiceness
Art
Hello, dear country! – the Marukis in the USSR and Russia
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The history of popularity and oblivion of Japanese artists
Atlas
Multiperspective: the New Pact on Migration and Asylum of the EU
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Migration Researcher, Yan Matusevich, discusses the influence of the pact on contemporary human rights and migration policy trends
Special projects
Collections of texts, multimedia materials and special events prepared by the editorial board together with the syg.ma community or our institutional partners
и-флакс
Обновляемая подборка переводов на русский текстов журнала о современном искусстве, культуре и теории e-flux
Tashkent-Tbilisi
A research archive of the history and contemporary culture of Central Eurasia
Atlas
The project mapping out complex systems of power, translocal entanglements, and tacit networks of solidarity
