Does one really need the other in order to understand oneself?

  • Poetic Text by Peggy Kyoungwon Lee
    What happens when a record player is played with acrylic nails instead of a needle? Read an essay by the scholar and writer Peggy Kyoungwon Lee in which she evokes a world that refuses to be reproduced.
  • Short Essay by Rim Jasmin Irscheid
    The term tradition has often reinforced an essentialist relationship to origins. In an essay inspired by the «OneBeat» residency program, Rim Jasmin Irscheid is struck by musicians using musical heritage as empowerment.
  • Eiliyas
    In their track «Burn Hollywood Burn», Public Enemy criticized the representation of Black people in Hollywood movies. The mentality and circumstances cultivating these issues are the same ones that indirectly disavow the humanity of minorities in technology and media today.
  • Urok Shirhan
    From a Western perspective, non-Western films are expected to be mainly driven by content, to portray the «misery» of the Other. Formal experiments are still rarely appreciated. Read an essay about the need to depart from so-called authenticity towards new stories.