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07 Jun Ferox: The Forgotten Archives 1976-2010
The discovery of a Feroxite meteorite in the Swiss alps on June 10, 1944 by a duo of Swiss/German geologists did not acquire any importance in the scientific world at the time, mainly because the media were interested in other issues during the Second World War. It took time to understand the importance of the discovery, and only in 1972 did Rudolph H. Obrist, now director of IEMS, bring to light the first fragments of the meteorite and IEMS was initiated some years later. Since 1966 the European Space Agency (ESA) has been interested in a new mission aimed at creating a solid relationship with the rest of the world in order to decrease the tension between the United States of America and the USSR. On July 29, 1976 the dream of ESA became true and even if just with a symbolic economic help NASA and RKA joined ESA on the first mission created in order to understand the origins of the Feroxite meteorites that were supposed to come from the surrounding of Mars. Unmanned programs launched the first Martial artificial satellites into Mars surrounding gravity for scientific and communications purposes, and sent scientific probes to explore Ferox, the third moon of Mars, starting with the Exploration I rover in 1998 and followed by Exploration II in 2007. “Hello. This is Rudolph H. Obrist, IEMS Administrator, speaking to you via the broadcast facilities of the Exploration II rover, which is now on the surface of Ferox. Since the beginning of time, humankind’s curiosity has led us to constantly seek new life...new possibilities just beyond the horizon. I want to congratulate the men and women of our IEMS family as well as our commercial and government partners around the world, for taking us a step beyond to Ferox. This is an extraordinary achievement. Landing a rover on Ferox is not easy, only the perseverance of the entire world has fully succeeded. The investment we are making...the knowledge we hope to gain from our observation and analysis of the Sandy Mountain, will tell us much about the possibility of life on Ferox as well as the past and future possibilities for our own planet. Exploration II will bring benefits to Earth and inspire a new generation of scientists and explorers, as it prepares the way for a human mission in the not too distant future. Thank you.” Unfortunately the good message of Rudolph H. Obrist was followed by tragic news as Exploration II landed 34.3 km off the landing point found by the scientist through Exploration I, directly into a crater which was renamed “The Void”. It would have been impossible for the Rover to get out, the crater’s huge walls transforming his mission into a prison and limiting the discovery to 3.5/100 of what the scientist supposed to find. The mission Exploration II cost 2.5 Billion dollars and was one of the biggest failures in the history of space conquest in the new millennium.
02 Jun 032c #43 2023
There’s nothing new under the sun. But the promise of the new haunts us every season, a phenomenon that’s infinitely repeated. For those who find the past being called the present perplexing, the 032c Issue #43 by VICTORIA CAMBLIN and NICHOLAS KORODY (Magazine.Capital) offers a therapy session, with the hopes of putting things back in order. Meanwhile, LIL UZI VERT encases us in piña colada-scented vape while ritualistically performing on a trampoline for JASON NOCITO and STEPHANIE PEREZ (who have a double bill in this issue) and teaching CASSIDY GEORGE about finding truth in culture. In another story, George probes the legacy of PLAYBOY to see whether the bunny is still a symbol of misogyny or if it means pleasure for all. MAHFUZ SULTAN shows us that painter MICHEL MAJERUS, who captured the anxieties of Y2K before their current resurgence, is ever contemporary. In an urban ruin, SEBASTIÁN FAENA and RAS BARTRAM enter a dreamland with MONA TOUGAARD and VITTORIA CERETTI. After kicking back in Dior Tears for MAX FARAGO and RAS BARTRAM, CALI DEWITT chats with his old friend TREMAINE EMORY about overcoming life’s setbacks, which, the philosopher BRUNO LATOUR tells TOBIAS RAPP, can only be done by establishing a new cosmology. While this may be too optimistic for the science fiction writer PETER WATTS who spoke to HANS ULRICH OBRIST about irl aliens, artist DOZIE KANU, who strikes a pose for CASPER SEJERSEN and ELLIE GRACE CUMMING, tells CLAIRE KORON ELAT that what matters is transcending boundaries. Speaking of extraterrestrials, ESTELLE HOY shows us the ambiguous alien world of KLÁRA HOSNEDLOVÁ who welcomes VITALI GELWICH and RAS BARTRAM into her sanctuary.
12 Jan Autre #15 A/W 2022
Autre magazine is pleased to announce the release of the LOSING MY RELIGION issue. This is it—a startling exploration of changing belief systems in the age of information and disinformation, secularization, conspiracy theory, and a testament to contemporary life in a burning hot post-truth world. It is an issue about the violence of borders and invisible enemies. What can we learn from artists, scientists, comedians, musicians, activists and filmmakers as society tips downward into the great unknown? In 1991, R.E.M. released their surprise hit single “Losing My Religion.” With its haunting, yearning, and ambiguous lyrics, the song, written by MICHAEL STIPE—portraits by NICK SETHI (who gives a candid interview to HANS ULRICH OBRIST in this issue) is about the torment of love and fame, but could just as easily be the soundtrack for the time we are living in now. In our global identity crisis, PAUL REUBENS reprises his iconic character PEE-WEE HERMAN for a special cover story with NADIA LEE COHEN to discuss shapeshifting in the face of a turbulent and chaotic world. JORDAN WOLFSON is interviewed by JEFFREY DEITCH about the violence and animalistic frequencies that run through his work and our contemporary subconscious.
14 Sep Epoch #1 Summer 2022 – Ritual
EPOCH is a new publication placing the now in dialogue with history. With contributors including pioneering musician Laraaji, curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, artists Wolfgang Tillmans, Torbjørn Rødland and Frida Orupabo, photographers Camille Vivier, Lea Colombo, Nabil Elderkin, Jonas Lindstroem and many more. The first issue is loosely themed around the idea of RITUAL. From the shamanistic to the everyday, the modern to the Palaeolithic. The aim is to highlight how ritual is intertwined with ideas of aesthetics and meaning, expression and transcendence, society and the individual.
08 Sep Drawing Together/Zusammen Zeichnen
Ein denkender Blumentopf, eine Casio-Echse oder eine Augapfel-Hängematte: ‹Cadavre exquis› heisst das lustvolle Spiel mit gefaltetem Papier, das einst die Surrealist*innen spielten. Mehrere Personen konstruieren zusammen eine Zeichnung, ohne dass die Mitspieler*innen den jeweils vorhergehenden Teil der Arbeit sehen. Wir falten das Papier auf und amüsieren uns über den kollektiven Nonsens. Kurator Hans Ulrich Obrist hat dieses Spiel in den letzten Jahren immer wieder gespielt — mit Dan Graham, Katharina Grosse, Pippilotti Rist, Gerhard Richter und vielen mehr. So sind an die 200 solcher Scribbles entstanden. Das Buch zelebriert die Handzeichnung in Zeiten von Voice Messages. Und vor allem ist es ein Aufruf, nicht nur die Zeichnungen anzuschauen, sondern es selbst zu tun. Zeichnen, falten, zeichnen, falten, zeichnen, falten!
06 Jul Dissonanz – Max Dax
Dissonanz ist die wahre Geschichte eines austauschbaren Jahres. Der erste Roman des einstigen Spex-Chefredakteurs Max Dax ist ebenso eine Spurensuche nach Verbrechen, die in seinem Namen geschahen, als auch ein Versuch über die Poesie vor und nach Auschwitz. Es wird von unerwiderter Liebe berichtet, von Europa Endlos, von gutem Essen und guter Musik. Doch wer ist der Verfasser und was ist wirklich anno 2009/2010 geschehen? Klar scheint allein: Der Erzähler lebt in einer unbarmherzigen Taktung von Stunden und Tagen, in rhythmisierten Mustern, die wie Risse in der Zeit gemahnen: Die Welt ist eine Erfindung der anderen, und mir kann nichts passieren. Bleibt die Frage der Hyperrealität: Kann die Zukunft in der Gegenwart beschworen werden, oder ist sie vorbestimmt? In weiteren Sprechrollen: die schöne S., die geheimnisvolle W., Hans Ulrich Obrist, Harun Farocki, Jean-Michel Jarre, Ed Ruscha, Imre Kertész, Claude Lanzmann, Arto Lindsay, die Prinzessin von Sizilien und der Stadtfuchs.
11 Mrz Isolarii #6 – Archipelago
Hans Ulrich Obrist met the Martinique-born philosopher, poet, and public intellectual Édouard Glissant in 1999; the encounter influenced the direction of Obrist's work for years to come. As one of today's most prolific producers of culture, Obrist has left an indelible mark-and Glissant through him. In 2021, Obrist edited, reworked, and arranged their conversations in their entirety for the first time and for a broad public audience. THE ARCHIPELAGO CONVERSATIONS is the result-enlightening us, as only Glissant can, as to how we might form an interdependent Earth in the 21st Century. It is a ready-to-hand tool, for building new politics, societies, and institutions-to be carried and shared.
20 Dez Letters Home
“This collection of letters from Adolfas and Jonas Mekas shows the importance of writing as a way of memory-making. For many years Jonas Mekas would write in a diary before his diaries were replaced by constant filmic documentation of his life and surroundings. The intimate [expand title="more"] insight these letters provide are wonderful documents of their time as well as marks of the dying art of letter writing. As Jonas once told me: “The future will be determined by the present moment; this moment, this very second, will determine the next moment.” So let us make sure to remember this present moment as it was, in part, determined by the moments described by Adolfas and Jonas Mekas in their wonderful letters” says Hans Ulrich Obrist about this book. [/expand]