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Ferrars & Fields 2023 SPECIAL: ON ENDURANCE/VOM AUSHALTEN
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."
Infiltriert – Emotionale Abhängigkeit in romantischen Beziehungen
Das Thema häusliche Gewalt gewinnt zunehmend an Aufmerksamkeit. Dass auch die psychische Gewalt und ihre schwerwiegenden Folgen dabei eine enorme Rolle spielen, wird selten gesehen.
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
Poor Barbie: Über (Pop-)Feminismus im Film und das Privileg der leichten Unterhaltung
Wie anspruchsvoll muss Feminismus sein? Warum werden Barbie und Poor Things von der Kritik so besonders gründlich kritisiert? Unsere Autorin findet, auch leichte Unterhaltung darf kein männliches Privileg sein.
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, ...
Manifestation of the Dream: Silvia Federici’s “Caliban and the Witch” (2004)
The witch craze wages a war against Lilith, who, born from Adam’s clay, refused to obey the Man. The burnings of her kindred become great public spectacles. Lilith leaves her life to the flames, sacrificed upon the altar of a fabricated God. But her truth will be known in the ...
The Queerest Place on Earth
Something happened to queerness in the 1990s. Not only did we begin to describe more and more forms of non-normative desire and embodiment as “queer” – with the advent of the internet, queer communities also became digitised. Our knowledge and our intimacy is now unthinkable without vast transatlantic circuits and ...
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.
“When you are not visible, it’s like you don’t exist”—Queer Representation Through Art in Cambodia (An Interview)
Pioneering queer representation through photography and multimedia art, Vuth Lyno is one of Cambodia’s contemporary voices speaking on LGBTQI+ rights. An interview about what it means to create art, social change and the struggle of visibility.
Die Dialektik der Tattoos—Brian Kellys The Cut-Ups: Tattoo Flash from the Third Mind
2008 entwirft Brian Kelly sein erstes Tattoo Flash-Set und bringt immer neue Ideen zu Papier bis schließlich ein Buch mit den Zeichnungen der letzten Jahre entsteht: The Cut-Ups: Tattoo Flash from the Third Mind (2022, Schiffer Publishing). In The Cut-Ups bietet Brian Einblicke in die schöpferischen Techniken, die seiner Kunst ...
Ferrars & Fields ESSAYS & OPINIONS
Poor Barbie: Über (Pop-)Feminismus im Film und das Privileg der leichten Unterhaltung
Wie anspruchsvoll muss Feminismus sein? Warum werden Barbie und Poor Things von der Kritik so besonders gründlich kritisiert? Unsere Autorin findet, auch leichte Unterhaltung darf kein männliches Privileg sein.
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, ...
Manifestation of the Dream: Silvia Federici’s “Caliban and the Witch” (2004)
The witch craze wages a war against Lilith, who, born from Adam’s clay, refused to obey the Man. The burnings of her kindred become great public spectacles. Lilith leaves her life to the flames, sacrificed upon the altar of a fabricated God. But her truth will be known in the ...
The Queerest Place on Earth
Something happened to queerness in the 1990s. Not only did we begin to describe more and more forms of non-normative desire and embodiment as “queer” – with the advent of the internet, queer communities also became digitised. Our knowledge and our intimacy is now unthinkable without vast transatlantic circuits and ...
Ferrars & Fields PHILOSOPHY & SOCIETY
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, ...
Manifestation of the Dream: Silvia Federici’s “Caliban and the Witch” (2004)
The witch craze wages a war against Lilith, who, born from Adam’s clay, refused to obey the Man. The burnings of her kindred become great public spectacles. Lilith leaves her life to the flames, sacrificed upon the altar of a fabricated God. But her truth will be known in the ...
Birth of the Dream: Friedrich Engels’ The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (1884)
The close correlation between the emergence of private property and the oppression of women, as proposed by Engels, offers an intriguing theory for understanding the development of an early patriarchy and the progression of the patriarchal system within the historical context of Europe. We are compelled to wonder whether essentialism, ...
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.
Ferrars & Fields LOCAL / BERLIN
2023 Wrapped
In Zahlen und Gefühlen: Der Ferrars & Fields Jahresrückblick 2023.
Vom Anfang und Ende und der Reconquista dazwischen
"Zwischen Maschinen, Menschen und Monstern suchten wir Orientierung. Manchmal fanden wir Muscheln, aber meistens uns selbst am Rand."
Religious Art
Nobody inspected the dangling Marias… None fretted for the 40 different infant Jesuses, threatening to tumble with the mama to the floor.
Devilish Coffee, Flipbooks and Navy Romances: Three Takes on BUCHBERLIN’s Literary Marvels
FFMag descended upon BUCHBERLIN this year and shares with you our highlights from Germany’s third-largest literary event.
Ferrars & Fields BIPOC
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 ...
Fleisch & Fragmente II: Der Nacken
Unsere Autorin zerlegt den Körper, wie es ihr gefällt, und assoziiert frei irgendwo zwischen Kultur- und persönlicher Geschichte der menschlich-körperlichen Einzelteile. In der heutigen Anatomiestunde ist der Nacken länger als der Hals und von Guillotine bis Smartphone allerlei Gefahren ausgesetzt.
Ferrars & Fields FEUILLETON & MEDIA
Poor Barbie: Über (Pop-)Feminismus im Film und das Privileg der leichten Unterhaltung
Wie anspruchsvoll muss Feminismus sein? Warum werden Barbie und Poor Things von der Kritik so besonders gründlich kritisiert? Unsere Autorin findet, auch leichte Unterhaltung darf kein männliches Privileg sein.
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, ...
Manifestation of the Dream: Silvia Federici’s “Caliban and the Witch” (2004)
The witch craze wages a war against Lilith, who, born from Adam’s clay, refused to obey the Man. The burnings of her kindred become great public spectacles. Lilith leaves her life to the flames, sacrificed upon the altar of a fabricated God. But her truth will be known in the ...
Birth of the Dream: Friedrich Engels’ The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (1884)
The close correlation between the emergence of private property and the oppression of women, as proposed by Engels, offers an intriguing theory for understanding the development of an early patriarchy and the progression of the patriarchal system within the historical context of Europe. We are compelled to wonder whether essentialism, ...
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.
Vom Anfang und Ende und der Reconquista dazwischen
"Zwischen Maschinen, Menschen und Monstern suchten wir Orientierung. Manchmal fanden wir Muscheln, aber meistens uns selbst am Rand."
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.