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

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.

To what extent can a revolution of the inner world impact the external, material world surrounding us?

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

What is the problem with solutions? Blind or deaf? Which faith? What knowledge? Duchamp or Warhol? East or west?

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.