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

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

Strangeness is everywhere, but strangers are only where we define them.

“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.’”

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.

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.