Culture
Is your favourite food authentic? Does your favourite restaurant serve authentic food? Could you be authentic food?
Instagram handles are the new frontier; a form of advertising yourself; an iconic tag; a brand.
These threads remember the life and the fight of the people forever.
A transparent exchange afforded by three consenting partners: cash, broker, and consumer.
“You could be so so much MORE”, I scream internally as I get a horrifically stale Krispy Kreme for $13.
The Diva has captured the hearts, minds and the undying fidelity of the Homosexual for time immemorial.
This scandal has everything: mercury poisoning, stabbings, roofies, gun fights, bribes, duels, hair care, glassmaking…
And on the walls of the club bathrooms that night, I found splinters of you.
Clothing is my means of connection, both to myself and the world around me.
Your own personal Army of Lovers is yours to decide.
The lives of these men are certainly more interesting than the movie they inspired, and perhaps a testament to the capacity for the Australian outback to swallow complicated figures whole.
Just as we can examine how society’s obsession with certain individuals indicates ever-changing and ever-dying social and political values, so can our study of a seemingly trivial and meaningless trend.
Hans Wegner’s PP250 Valet Chair: This chair ‘wasn’t really made for sitting.’
Kate Saap sat down with ex-independent-sex-worker Lola Sinclair to do some market research.
Can you see me? I can see you.
Music has always found mysterious ways of permeating borders, from sea-faring music boxes containing fragments of exotic sounds to Soundcloud links proliferated online.
All digital work produced on the internet is fated to become kitsch, no matter the level of elegance or skill with which it is executed.
This song is in GTA IV, I hear across the share-house-party kitchen.
I turned off my phone and went to sleep.
By the morning, it had 15,000 notes.
Curation is experiencing a shift that I believe is well needed, a shift towards rethinking the bounds of the museum from just a place to put art on walls to a more experiential world, creating new, interactive and interdisciplinary ways to view art.
Remember when conversations, or group reminiscing, is a form of idle talk that taps into the collective nostalgia of any group with some semblance of history.
“Every time I listen to music, I always get a vision of what the music video will look like, you know? [When] I make my own music, I always have ideas of how the atmosphere or vibes of the song could be extended by the visuals itself.”
“I think the things that inspire me the most are definitely music and movies, queer culture. They’re things that can give more — I suppose — broad levels of inspiration, not particular people if that makes sense. I think I’m inspired by the queer community — like I literally make my work for them, that’s where most of my inspiration comes from. Just like being out on a dancefloor or at a pub with close friends, that kind of thing.”
“My relationship with art is really just centred on my love to create. I always encourage my staff and creative team to do that as well. Yes, we do this for a living, but we’re also following a brief. So, I encourage them to try and create outside of the workplace because that’s where you can actually, really explore your own creativity. I just really love it.”
“The big thing is if you don't believe in yourself, nobody else can and it's cliché as that is. You have to believe that you do have your own unique style. It might take a month, a year or 10 years. But you need to persist, you need to keep going.”
Proverbs 3:9 “Honour the Lord with your wealth, with the first fruits of all your crops.
What drew my attention to Acconci, however, was a small, maroon book whose pages bore his 1990 essay, ‘Public Space in a Private Time,’ to which the exhibition was titled in commemoration of.
Craic is my attempt to publish my own work, through championing Northern Irish culture. It started as a response to increasing tensions during the pandemic and through Brexit in the U.K.
There is no definitive limit to our physique; it’s always “moving in and out of focus”.
I realised that sometimes it's best to savour the memory of a spontaneous connection rather than holding onto people with the strings of technology.