The Illusion of Thinking: On the Comfort of Stereotypes
In the past two episodes of The Illusion of Thinking, we explored how art, much like artificial intelligence, learns to simulate depth and to fear failure. In both cases, what appears to be thought is often a refined form of aesthetic survival: a strategic adaptation to context rather than a genuine
Joan Jonas: The Mirror Was the First Screen
Beginnings in Reflection: The Birth of a Language In the 1960s, New York was a magnetic field of colliding languages: postmodern dance, performance, conceptual art, minimalism.It was in this context that Joan Jonas, born in 1936, began her artistic exploration, one of the first artists to understand
The Counterpower of Piracy: Malta, the Mediterranean, and the Politics of the Sea by Sofia Baldi Pighi
The sea surrounding the Maltese archipelago has long been both a route of danger and a corridor of opportunity. Piracy endured for almost three hundred years, enriching Malta while igniting countless diplomatic tensions. At its peak, Maltese corsairing employed around 4,000 people and operated a fle
The Art of Confusion: How Markets Transformed Exclusion into Value
For decades, the art world has thrived on a grand misunderstanding: mistaking incomprehensibility for depth. All it takes is an opaque language, a curatorial text heavy with empty words, and what would otherwise be trivial suddenly gains the weight of importance. Contemporary art has turned confusio
Fakewhale in Dialogue with: Greg Jager
Greg Jager’s work moves across territories, media, and languages with a radical and open approach. Blending public art, installation, performance, publishing, and site-specific intervention, his projects often inhabit ruins, marginal landscapes, or post-industrial spaces and digital errors to open
60th Zagreb Salon: Choreography for the Finish Line at Oktogon (National Museum of Modern Art), Zagreb
60th Zagreb Salon: Choreography for the Finish Line by Andrej Beštak and Anja Leko, Valentina Butumović, Maja Milutin Čule and Katy Pyle, Kristian Kožul, Petra Mrša, Tea Stražičić, Silvio Vujičić, Mario Mu, Luka Mahmuljin Udovičić and Lea Vidaković, curated by KUĆĆA (Jurica Mlinarec,
The Thinking Game: On the Cognitive Origins of Play
The Cognitive Origin Of Play What happens when play, seemingly a light and purposeless activity, is observed as a way of knowing the world?In a museum, a place devoted to preservation and reflection, play may reveal itself not as a simple childhood pastime, but as a universal principle of knowledge
Armando Andrade Tudela, Lost Labour at FORM, Amsterdam
Lost Labour, Armando Andrade Tudela at FORM, Amsterdam, 24.09.25–24.10.25. Lost Labour grows out of the remains and omissions of my practice. Some of these works have already taken shape, shown in Spain, Italy, and Peru. Others were left hanging, ideas noted down, sketches half-formed, projects th
The Digital Frontier of a New Artistic Underground
Every collapse hides a possibility. The fall of the contemporary art market (especially its upper tier) is not the end of art, but the exhaustion of a system that has mistaken visibility for meaning. What follows is not silence, but a slow reconfiguration, a search for new forms of expression capabl
Fakewhale in dialogue with Suez Canal Republic
‘Treasury’ by Suez Canal Republic A remote financial node as an institutional prototype for civic speculation Within Fakewhale’s ongoing research into practices that recalibrate the relation between digital art and contemporary art, we have been focusing on projects that enact complexity rathe
