UPCOMING: Friday, 15 May 2026, 24:00 | midnight
#160: Vika Kirchenbauer
Vika Kirchenbauer examines the fundamental political and social conflicts inherent in the artistic field. Through video, performance, installation, music production and theory writing, she engages critically with historically established categories that remain central to the ways in which art relates to class, coloniality and queerness. Core concerns of her practice are the affective and material infrastructures of contemporary art at the intersection of nation-state and economy, as well as the subjects and self-conceptions these produce. Her research has focused extensively on the early institutionalisation of contemporary art in 18th-century Britain, a setting in which moral philosophical concepts and artists’ feelings—most distinctly around compassion and inconvenience—played important parts in inserting imaginings of superiority and constellations of dominance into the core of European notions of art [read on]