How does this ideology, but also its sheer physical expressions such as labor affect cultural production? From hip hop’s «bling» culture to critical evaluations of cultural funding.

  • Kesri Devi with folk artists from different parts of India at a folk music session in New Delhi, March 2023. From left to right: Savita Kalbeliya, Kesri Devi, Geeta Parag, Talb Khan (photo: Raj Das).
    In the Concrete Jungle
    Essay by Sunayana Wadhawan
    Sunayana Wadhawan traces a map of stories from Kathputli Colony (Puppeteer’s Colony) in New Delhi to foreground the pressing concerns of artists and art forms that are displaced and delegitimized in the name of urban development.
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    How Much Money Are Ants Worth: Ursula Palla
    Audio Essay by Philipp Rhensius, Ursula Palla
    At Klang Moor Schopfe 2021, Philipp Rhensius created 12 experimental audio essays. Listen to a podcast inspired by the sound installation of Ursula Palla.
  • The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge: the route where the artistic community of San Francisco has been pushed across as an effect of the Silicon Valley tech explosion (photo: Wikimedia Commons).
    When Culture Nurtures the Tech Industry
    Short Essay by Steph Kretowicz
    «The reason why tech workers were attracted to San Francisco was because of everything that the artist class brought to SF», says one of the artists in Norient’s «Timezones» Bay Area episode. An essay on the long and tangled interrelation of art and technology in the region.
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    Nothing Sounds the Way It Looks: NFF Essay Collection 2021
    Introduction by Philipp Rhensius
    In the essay collection «Nothing Sounds the Way It Looks» 30 writers from 17 countries reflect on their worries, dreams, and hopes in the 21st century. Inspired by the films of the 10th Norient Film Festival, divided into 8 central Norient Topics.