dermografia I - The opening act of spring
Hello friend,
Thanks for joining me as I return to newslettering.
These emails will be an attempt at intimacy, authenticity and slightly longer-form thoughts than social media allows. Not sent out often enough to be annoying, but with enough frequency that you don’t forget about me. I expect there’ll also be some art thoughts and producer bits from time to time.
//happening
Aka 'news'. There's not a lot, I've been in something of a hibernation. I’m very much enjoying the brighter days now we're hitting spring.
We’re doing some behind the scenes work on Tempting Failure. Now we’re biennial we get an ‘off’ year to develop secret plans. I updated the website with some gorgeous images by Julia Bauer from last years festival. They’re really worth checking out - head to temptingfailure.com
I need to update my own site. That seems to be the constant state of the contemporary performance artist though.
//aesthetic pleasure
The Museum of Silence /Museum der Stille in Berlin. We were lucky enough to visit this last year. A deep red chamber with a large, striking canvas on the wall. One artists creation. A building full of silence. Spend some time if you can.
//read
It’s taking me ages to get through The Book of Joan but I am really loving its dystopian feminist weirdness.
It feels rare these days to find something in that genre that isn’t massively influenced by The Handmaid’s Tale and The Book of Joan is very clearly its own thing. Its own gorgeous strange thing.
Related, this BBC long-read hits all the right notes on sci-fi/apocalypse fiction/dystopias - How the apocalypse could be a good thing
That's all for now, see you out there somewhere, stockpiling and surviving,
//Hellen