Ferrars & Fields Magazine 05/24

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“Two Graves, one Gun”—Taylor Swift’s ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ is a “tick tick tick of love bombs”

Wel­come to the debrief of ‘The Tor­tured Poets Department.’

In the epi­logue to Swift’s newest work, she sets the stage by assum­ing the role of “The Chair­man” pre­sent­ing her “find­ings” to us, her fel­low tor­tured poets—31 tracks that serve as evi­dence for a plea of “tem­po­rary insan­i­ty.” Fueled by a fleet­ing encounter and an illic­it decade-long affair of love and poet­ry, The Tor­tured Poets Depart­ment dis­sects both the love and loss in Swift’s life, from for­bid­den dreams and stolen moments to the inevitable farewell to her muse.

“Hold me in a dim-lit world”: How Dayseeker’s DARK SUN (2022) became my refuge from grief

By the time Novem­ber unfold­ed, with the bleak winds of my own recent heart­break echo­ing through the dig­i­tal void in the form of emo tweets, one soli­tary track from Dayseeker’s 2022 record, DARK SUN, had become the first song to be played each day on the way to work and every­where else. “Cry­ing While You’re Danc­ing,” on repeat, grad­u­al­ly solid­i­fied Day­seek­er as my top-lis­tened artist of the past few weeks. 

“This Loneliness Won’t Be the Death of Me”: 10 Being as an Ocean Songs for Our Achy Hearts

“This Lone­li­ness Won’t Be the Death of Me,” a song on Being as an Ocean’s record Dear G‑d, finds me unpre­pared on the bus one night, as I dri­ve through the dark­ness of this city to get ice cream, cov­er­ing up the fact that I feel utter­ly alone and don’t know what to do with myself at home. It’s a feel­ing I’ve grown all too famil­iar with—the per­va­sive sense of iso­la­tion that occa­sion­al­ly envelops me…

An Autumn Mixtape

As we are approach­ing October—the holy month of Hal­loween in the most beau­ti­ful sea­son of the year—we have com­piled a list of songs which give us that autumn feel­ing of crisp, smokey air, warm­ly lit liv­ing rooms shel­tered from the Octo­ber rain, and an entire world turned into poetry. 

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A Sun’s Death in the Ether

"Violence ruptures the sky in half— It shatters every world that’s in the making of a map of light. I fall fast between drops of blood. With precision I cut into my skin and sever the sun from me."

Schnürsenkeltage

Sie achtet darauf, nicht zu stolpern über die Wurzeln, die den Asphalt in ihrer Straße aufgerissen haben, und über die Kantsteine und Schlaglöcher und all die anderen Stolperfallen.

Seduta Artistica n.01: Anika Krbetschek

Intimate free conversation between curator Silvia Russo and artist Anika Krbetschek about mental health, healing, and the disruption of normality in the art world.

Ferrars & Fields Intersectional

World and Woman: Towards the Prismatic Sea

In the midst of postcolonial and patriarchal hegemonies, peripheral narratives emerge as agents of transformation, carving out space for the plurality of self and world.

Motherfucking Good: Claude De Demo rechnet ab

Humorvoll, kritisch und voller Verzweiflungswut erzählt das Stück #Motherfuckinghood im Berliner Ensemble von prekären Geburtsbedingungen, Verantwortungs- und Schuldgefühlen und dem schädlichen Stereotyp der guten Mutter.

Ferrars & Fields DIGITAL EXHIBITION

Seduta Artistica n.01: Anika Krbetschek

Intimate free conversation between curator Silvia Russo and artist Anika Krbetschek about mental health, healing, and the disruption of normality in the art world.

Religious Art

Nobody inspected the dangling Marias… None fretted for the 40 different infant Jesuses, threatening to tumble with the mama to the floor.

Ferrars & Fields ESSAYS & OPINIONS

World and Woman: Towards the Prismatic Sea

In the midst of postcolonial and patriarchal hegemonies, peripheral narratives emerge as agents of transformation, carving out space for the plurality of self and world.

Motherfucking Good: Claude De Demo rechnet ab

Humorvoll, kritisch und voller Verzweiflungswut erzählt das Stück #Motherfuckinghood im Berliner Ensemble von prekären Geburtsbedingungen, Verantwortungs- und Schuldgefühlen und dem schädlichen Stereotyp der guten Mutter.

Ferrars & Fields PHILOSOPHY & SOCIETY

World and Woman: Towards the Prismatic Sea

In the midst of postcolonial and patriarchal hegemonies, peripheral narratives emerge as agents of transformation, carving out space for the plurality of self and world.

Woman’s Grammar in the Dream: When Our Lips Speak Together

“No surface holds. No figure, line, or point remains. No ground subsists. But no abyss, either. Depth, for us, is not a chasm. Without a solid crust, there is no precipice. Our depth is the thickness of our body, our all touching itself. Where top and bottom, inside and outside, ...

Ferrars & Fields LOCAL / BERLIN

Motherfucking Good: Claude De Demo rechnet ab

Humorvoll, kritisch und voller Verzweiflungswut erzählt das Stück #Motherfuckinghood im Berliner Ensemble von prekären Geburtsbedingungen, Verantwortungs- und Schuldgefühlen und dem schädlichen Stereotyp der guten Mutter.

2023 Wrapped

In Zahlen und Gefühlen: Der Ferrars & Fields Jahresrückblick 2023.

Religious Art

Nobody inspected the dangling Marias… None fretted for the 40 different infant Jesuses, threatening to tumble with the mama to the floor.

Ferrars & Fields BIPOC

World and Woman: Towards the Prismatic Sea

In the midst of postcolonial and patriarchal hegemonies, peripheral narratives emerge as agents of transformation, carving out space for the plurality of self and world.

Imagining Dark Continents

The concept of the sea—extending infinitely everywhere all the time—and of the islands—sovereign worlds which nonetheless affect other such islands—emerges as a world structure which becomes a sanctuary from singularity to all creatures it carries.

2023 Wrapped

In Zahlen und Gefühlen: Der Ferrars & Fields Jahresrückblick 2023.

Fleisch & Fragmente III: Das Knie

Unsere Autorin schlägt vor, den Anspruch eines ganzen und/oder ganzheitlichen Körpers fallenzulassen und sich stattdessen einer dezidiert fragmentarischen Betrachtung seiner Einzelteile zu widmen. Dieses Mal geht es um weiche, um knubbelige und um gebeugte Knie, um weibliche Knie, aber auch um die Knie von Harry Potter, Willy Brandt und Alexander ...

Ferrars & Fields FEUILLETON & MEDIA

World and Woman: Towards the Prismatic Sea

In the midst of postcolonial and patriarchal hegemonies, peripheral narratives emerge as agents of transformation, carving out space for the plurality of self and world.

Motherfucking Good: Claude De Demo rechnet ab

Humorvoll, kritisch und voller Verzweiflungswut erzählt das Stück #Motherfuckinghood im Berliner Ensemble von prekären Geburtsbedingungen, Verantwortungs- und Schuldgefühlen und dem schädlichen Stereotyp der guten Mutter.

Ferrars & Fields Fiction

A Sun’s Death in the Ether

"Violence ruptures the sky in half— It shatters every world that’s in the making of a map of light. I fall fast between drops of blood. With precision I cut into my skin and sever the sun from me."

Schnürsenkeltage

Sie achtet darauf, nicht zu stolpern über die Wurzeln, die den Asphalt in ihrer Straße aufgerissen haben, und über die Kantsteine und Schlaglöcher und all die anderen Stolperfallen.

Halters

In a world gone void, some people literally cannot let go of their trauma—and channel its destructive energy into fighting the good fight, methods and costs be damned.

Join the Family [writers] Mercy Ferrars, Adrien Fields, Ralph Mönius, Ina Raterink, Bianca Ierullo, Martin Bäckert, Mona Schlachtenrodt, Annika Klares, Lisa Kämling, Esther Louise, Hannah Jäger, Hannah Kruge, Ly Le, Sophie Lilian Knote, Benjamin Baumann, Claire Fisher, Lara Shaker, Sandra Reichert, Clara Berlich, Héloise Markert, Lisa Damm [readers] Adrien Fields, Bianca Othmann, Carolin Diefenbach, Daniela Mertens, Lara Helena, Anja Degner, Martin Bäckert, Mercy Ferrars, Clemens Hübner, Macy Ripley, Jan Kabasci, Luke Shiller, Michelle Markau, Martha-Luise Ockert [guests] Carina Spiegelstaub, Iris Antonia Kogler, Jol Rosenberg, Malvón, Yvonne Tunnat, Nora Großmann, Martin König, Imke Felicitas Gerhardt, Hugo Scheubel, Jules van der Linden, Nika Pavot, Zeke Greenwald, Silvia Russo, Noelle Jaene, Izabela Zarebska [UX/UE Design, Publisher, Newsletter] Mercy Ferrars [Social Media] Mercy Ferrars, Héloise Markert, Martha-Luise Ockert [Crowdfunding] Lara Helena, Luke Shiller, Jan Kabasci, Martha-Luise Ockert CREATED BY Mercy Ferrars & Adrien Fields

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