Apria Journal #7: Exhaustion
IKT is pleased to recommend the latest issue of APRIA Journal, curated and edited by IKT Member Elke aus dem Moore and Liedeke Plate.
In this edition, Exhaustion, the editors invite readers to reflect on the meaning and mechanisms of our shared fatigue. As the late visionary curator Koyo Kouoh observed, “People are tired. We are all tired. The world is tired. Even art itself is tired.” Yet while exhaustion may be universal, its causes and effects remain deeply unequal.
In no less than sixteen contributions, a range of international artists, scholars, and thinkers share their work and thoughts on the connection between individual exhaustion, worn-out and obsolete structures, and the devastating exploitation of the planet. A special invitation was extended to the international cultural organizations Urbane Künste Ruhr (a polymorphous, decentralized institution for contemporary art) and C& Magazine (published online in English and French, featuring globally produced content on contemporary art), to collaborate with APRIA and provide their perspectives.
Featured Journal Issue Contributions:
Editorial — Exhaustion by Elke Aus Dem Moore and Liedeke Plate
The Art Institution of Tomorrow - Reinventing the Model — Fatoş Üstek
On Exile, Amulets and Circadian Rhythms: Practising Data Healing Across Timezones — In Conversation: Ethel-Ruth Tawe and Neema Githere
In Front Of, 2016. Revisited for APRIA, 2024 — Heidi Specker
The Dark Days of the Soul — Ioana Nemeș
Embracing Exhaustion — Anike Joyce Sadiq, Laurie Young and Melody Howse
Centring Horizontality: The Art and Ethos of Black Power Naps as a Response to Hostile Architecture, Defensive Design and the Sleep Gap — Shadow F. Sosa and Navild Acosta
The Spirit Will Not Descend Without Song — Noel W. Anderson
Rest As/In Freedom: Kiarita and Black Politics of Liberation — Aaliyah Lauterkranz
Soiled Manifesto — Michael Turinsky
TR333 — April Lin 林森 and ecologist Nalini Nadkarni
Exhaustion: Field, Foot and Hoof Notes from the Thematic Lab with Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker on Dance and Nature — Sarah De Mul, Corentin Hannon and Kevin Lambeets
What if War Plays Non-War? — Tatiana Kochubinska
Additional Scenes — Yarema Malashchuk and Roman Khimei
Moment Over Time Records Proudly Presents: How to Disappear Completely A.K.A. The Night We Met — Fatoş Üstek
Humans and Space: Reflections on a Reciprocal Relationship — Viron Erol Vert
Amulets — Apparatus 22
APRIA’s seventh Journal issue is available now online via APRIA and in parts on C& Magazine.