Articles

Do animals create and enjoy music on a similar level to humans? Or are their magnificent displays of sound merely functional? Tobias Fischer, co-editor of the book Animal Music, lays out the arguments for and against, drawing upon a trove of research and creative works by artists and scientists alike.

Taipei-based artist Anchi Lin (Ciwas Tahos) creates work dealing with the impact of colonization on the First Nations Atayal people of Taiwan while exploring the possibilities within her Indigenous culture for activating a queer space. In Lin's recent artworks, she seeks to recreate the spirit of Temahahoi, a place, according to Atayal oral stories, where a self-governed community of women resided independent of men.

Kyra Kordoski writes about Jessie Ray Short and Dominic Lafontaine’s installation at Open Space in Victoria, Canada.

Kurt Gottschalk dives deep into the mythos of the legendary San Francisco avant-garde collective the Residents, who for decades protected their anonymity behind iconic eyeball masks. He peels back the layers of their conceptually loaded, groundbreaking work and their Theory of Obscurity, asking: does it even matter who they are?

Andrew Tan-Delli Cicchi interviews Italian composer and sound artist Alessandro Bosetti.

Nicola Trezzi explores the Indonesian art scene by profiling six key artists.