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Oxis 7000 Feet Below

Oxis writes oceanic electronica from the bedroom floor: tiny fish, big sea, no therapy, only loops. A hyper-sensitive control freak drowning her perfectionism in jagged, underwater pop.

DOOM: Inside Anne Imhof’s “House of Hope” through the eyes of Tess Petronio

In DOOM: House of Hope, Tess Petronio turns Anne Imhof’s epic performance into a raw visual diary—where the line between collaboration, friendship, and heartbreak dissolves into lived intimacy.

Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst’s Starmirror: Toward an AI Liturgy of Collective Intelligence

Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst reimagine AI as liturgy, turning the machinery of computation into a collective choir where humans, algorithms, and ancient song merge into shared intelligence.

god, grant me the serenity to accept the things i cannot change, courage to change the things i can, and wisdom to know the difference

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Tender Apocalypses: Precious Okoyomon’s Worlds of Relation at the Edge of Collapse

Precious Okoyomon turns the apocalypse into a playground of care, fragility, and erotic rebirth — where plush bears and burning eyes reimagine love at the world’s softest ending.

Epitaph: The Afterlife of the American Landscape

In Epitaph, Brendon Burton transforms the ruins of rural America into sites of haunting intimacy—where memory, decay, and the spectral residue of history converge into something achingly alive.

AT LEAST ANGELS WATCH OVER ME

In Moscow’s fābula HQ, Natasha Perova reimagines Haraway’s cyborg through emotional transparency, digital exhaustion, and the quiet persistence of tenderness amid post-human debris.

Beyond the Lake by Carlos Folgoso Sueiro

Carlos Folgoso Sueiro’s Beyond the Lake resurrects Galicia’s drowned past, merging personal loss with ecological collapse to reveal a landscape haunted by both history and resilience.

The Prospect of Immortality by Murray Ballard

Inside Murray Ballard’s The Prospect of Immortality, cryonics becomes more than science—it’s a faith, a freeze-framed testament to our tragic, beautiful refusal to die on time.

Igor Elukov’s “Book of Miracles” and the Theology of the Tundra

In the icy expanse of northern Russia, Igor Elukov’s Book of Miracles reimagines creation as collaboration with chaos—where theology, tundra, and technology collapse into one sublime uncertainty.

THE CLINIC OF THE UNBODIED: TECHNOLOGIES OF CARE AND CONTROL

In The Clinic of the Unbodied, Herwig Scherabon turns Culterim Berlin into a posthuman theatre of care, where empathy, control, and the body’s remains merge into a haunting speculative ecology.

GOD’S ARMY by Folkert de Jong at St. Chads

Folkert de Jong’s GOD’S ARMY at St. Chads Gallery turns faith into debris—a haunting choreography of fractured icons, industrial flesh, and posthuman lament.

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Humiliation Rituals

Where identity is just content, what happens when the likes dry up?

Understanding the ‘Slopocene’

How the failures of AI can reveal its inner workings

Neo-Futurism

As Silicon Valley adopts a century-old movement’s aesthetics, Spike’s editor at large resumes her tech column to ask: What forces compel us to reach back to some romanticized past?

The rise and rise of Lotta Volkova

‘I don’t look at it from a perspective of fashion.’

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Crystalline Pyramids, Burnt Churches: Christelle Oyiri’s Berlin Diptych

In Berlin, Christelle Oyiri stages two liturgies of bass and belief—cast tapes, acrylic skulls, and a Memphis pyramid—where heaven glitches, hell hisses, and memory hardens into ritual hardware.

Valeurs Refuge: Natacha Donzé’s Cycles of Love, Decay, and Digital Afterimages

In valeurs refuge, Natacha Donzé constructs a cycle where love, death, capital, and memory dissolve into glowing equilibrium.

One Of Us Is Real And It’s Not You: Supermetal Bosch & Evil Biscuit

Poets, Gamblers, Fools — Jon Rafman & Parker Ito stage a Post-Internet revenant at Lubov

Dummodo me ames: Philipp Timischl’s Algorithmic Liturgy

Monoliths of Faith: Justus Dahinden’s Kung-Tung Church

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