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#25 popular music

At the end of the 19th Century, the emergence of sound recording liberated music from the context of a unique concert performance, and together with the advent of photography, radio and television, this new technology helped to give rise to modern popular music. The recipients of its message were never strictly only listeners, as it was always an audiovisual project, one in which – apart from the relatively short period of the predominance of radio as a “blind medium“ – no single component ever dramatically overshadowed the others (think of the meanings of the word image). The structure of the music issue is built on the basis of a contemporary concert, raising questions in regard to photography in documentary, art, journalistic, commercial, or personal domains. The focus of the figurative performance is the star on stage (the role of photography in star construction; musicians as photographers) and the moving audience before or under it (photography communicating music-related social and cultural changes; the establishing of subcultures, fan identities and their reflection), symbolically separated from the backstage area (the production; the backstage as a mythical space of both creativity and hedonism). More or less in parallel with these themes runs a dynamic, evolving and always charged contact with the world of fine arts.

Björk, Michael Schmelling, Jan Ságl, Stefan Ruiz, Christian Patterson, Jan Tvarůžka, Jason Evans, Petr Hlaváček, Radek Brousil, dis magazine, Andrew Thomas Huang, Dušan Tománek, Mardoša, interwiev with Thurston Moore, interwiev with Roger Ballen, rewiev of Anton Corbijn’s exhibition in Haag, rewievs, theory and moore.

#37 uneven ground — Profiles

Karol Radziszewski

Radziszewski’s art, in its multidisciplinary medley, is driven in its roots by a longing to carve out a space of diversity and queer beauty out of misery. Be it the secret queer meeting spots in communist Poland or the place for alternative narratives on history, it is constantly craving for a less miserable world…

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#37 uneven ground — Profiles

Heji Shin

Although the German-Korean artist Heji Shin attained wider popularity through her photographs for the Spring/Summer 2017 collection of the New York-based brand Eckhaus Latta, which featured explicit images of couples of varying ethnicities and sexual orientations engaging in sexual acts, the true scandal arrived with her portraits of the American rapper Kanye West, who recently elicited controversy through his relationship with the incumbent president of the United States…

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#37 uneven ground — Profiles

Karolina Wojtas

Polish artist Karolina Wojtas doubtless has a lot of fun creating her photographs and installations. This usually seems inconsistent with the depth of thought her photographs suggest. Even so, this is exactly what her photographs are: a fluid mix of various kinds of humor, bizarre elements, practical jokes, children’s jokes, and bullying…

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#37 uneven ground — Profiles

Alžběta Bačíková

While Alžběta Bačíková’s experimental approach to documentary puts the transparency of the filmic medium in parenthesis, this self-reflexive attitude does not operate at the expense of creating an empathic relation between artist and protagonist, subject and viewer…

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#37 uneven ground — Profiles

Sidsel Meineche Hansen

One hot summer day, I happened to reach for H. G. Wells’s 1923 novel Men Like Gods. In it, Wells presents his idea of the world of Utopia. People here are precisely carved castings of ancient deities representing the ideal potential development of our society at some point millenia in the future…

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