In 1976, Gabriele Basilico was in Rimini for a project on the Grand Hotel. It was here that he met a number of artists who were performing at the Lady Godiva, the next-door nightclub. Intrigued, he shot a few photographs and was struck by the willingness of the artists to pose for him. In the meantime, the sun was setting on the revue genre, while many of the venues were being turned into adult film the

A special limited edition zine by artists, Czar Kristoff and Zeus Bascon, Sunset Garden is a meeting of male queer bodies, as they stood in the water on the afternoon of December 12, 2021in De La Paz, Binan, Laguna, watching the sunset, talking about their (online) experiences, and knowing more about HIV. The congregation was made possible with Zeus Bascon's residency for M:ST (Mountain Standard Time) 10 Performative Art Biennial Exchange Program and Czar Kristoff'

Every year, Mikhail Pavelivich Karabelnikov (77) from Novokunetsk travels around 3,000 kilometers in order to be able to take his holiday in Sochi. The coastal strip on the Black Sea around the subtropical resort of Sochi (Russia) has for decades been famous for its sanatoria. During the Soviet era, millions of workers were sent to one of these sanatoria annually to revive their spirits and strengthen their bodies. Today, the sanatoria are still fully booked year rou

Argh! is an onomatopoeia which references a bodily expression, a state of mind described through a sound rather than words. It hints at fatigue, exhaustion but also a reaction and a release of the body towards a situation or an environment. Argh! introduces the recurring presence of the body in Davide Savorani’s series of private notebooks through drawings. They are an expressive necessity, but also an artistic tool of enquiry, a source of ide

Homemade sauce is a complex summer ritual as it is composed of many smaller, more hidden, unknown and personal rituals that add up and coordinate for one collective purpose, that of generating once again the tomato puree that one will then go on to consume throughout the rest of the year. This is not an illustrated recipe for making homemade sauce, so much as a narrative of when this happens.