"Trying to compete in the economy of attention from the field of contemporary art is a naive goal in the twenty-first century."

In his photographs and texts, ­Calcutta-based Soham Gupta forces the tension that arises between fiction and real-life conditions in as yet unseen ways.

»Three hundred people left The House that Jack Built. I think that’s very good, and it wasn’t Cannes.«

“There is something deeply humiliating in such a situation.”

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti gilt als Urheber des Futurismus, der ersten Avantgarde-Bewegung. Barbara Basting erzählt von ihrer persönlichen Faszination für den Futurismus und ihrer Entwöhnung von dessen Aura und zentralen Figur.

“The thing about punk is that you’re allowed to talk about anything. Kids can talk about whatever they want. There’s nobody saying, ‘No, you can’t do that, it’s not punk.’”