Thinking Through Circus gathers ten dialogues with and between circus artists. Each entry bears witness to how a specific circus practice is (also) a practice of critical thinking, revealing how feminism, queerness, dramaturgy, love, disobedience, posthumanism and the aesthetico-political imaginary are rethought in and through contemporary circus practice. With this book, The Circus Dialogues wants to tend to the embodied relationships between contemporary circus and today’s world, defending circus as a field in whi

Throughout 2020 we had the opportunity to immerse ourselves in the archive of Joan Fontcuberta, more specifically in the first years of his career as a photographer. There is no doubt that our search was partly influenced by the concept of contravision, fascinating for us and crucial in Fontcuberta's trajectory. The contradiction refers to those elements that rub against the photographic language itself, that put it into question, that rise up against its logic. In our wo

Karel Martens occupies an intriguing place in the current European landscape of art and design. His work is both personal and experimental, but also publicly answerable. Martens, a prolific book designer, has also contributed to a wide range of design commissions, including stamps, coins, and signs. His artistic practice is intimately connected with this design work, from geometric and kinetic constructions, to works on paper and monoprints. Covering almost 60 years of practice and now in

An elegant condominium in a residential area, built according to the most advanced technologies, is able to guarantee isolation to its residents but will prove unable to defend them. The London skyscraper of glass and concrete, forty floors high and equipped with a thousand apartments, is the theater of the general relapse into the barbarism of an entire emerging social class. The electricity fails and it is the end of civilization, the metamorphosis from hea

It’s 2019 and our bodies are still political. The 21st century still drags on with the same beauty standards of the last century. Those of a young, white, thin, ethereal and heterosexual woman. Beauty, or rather a   woman’s first commercial asset; is a passport to a happy marriage, professional success and social recognition. Both women and men are bombarded with an infinite amount of photoshopped images, which has alienated them and also dr