What Future Does the Swallow Portend?
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New New Age
Spring Summer 2022
Over the last few years, the occult has made a stunning comeback in art, manifested through a re-appropriation of esoterism, a holistic and beneficial approach, and a desire for social and ecological justice. The works in the portfolio New New Age stand out for their powerful intention to re-enchant the world, recognize the agency of matter, and campaign against the destruction of Earth and for all living things, by exploring what is luminous and performative in this philosophy and its rituals.
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Hectic cycles. A conversation with Chrysanne Stathacos
Drawing Down the Moon
New Symbologies: Symbols and Spirits in Works by Julian Yi-Zhong Hou and Zadie Xa
Mine, Mine, Mine, Heal, Heal, Heal
Creative Conjuring, Ritual, and Place: Amanda Amour-Lynx’s Skite’kmujuawti in Conversation with the Works of James Gardner, Alana Bartol, and Jamie Ross
Correspondences and Undecidable Occult in Contemporary Art
Fabrice Samyn: Where Mystic Materiality Meets Subconscious Projections
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Immersion
Winter 2026
This issue is interested in all forms of immersion in contemporary art. How are artists critically engaging with immersive technologies? Conversely, what kinds of practices are challenging technology in their pursuit of immersion? How are these experiences breaking down the boundaries between spectator, body, and art? We put forward proposals that rely on listening and sustained attention rather than on amplification and sensory overload – works using devices that are sometimes relatively simple and non-invasive, sometimes a little more elaborate, but in which participation is, with a few nuances, neither passive nor devoid of critical thinking.
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bleu de lieu, 2023-2024.
Photo: Cléo Sjölander, courtesy of the artists