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Editorial: Bauhaus Continued

For this issue of Decorating Dissidence we wanted to reflect on last year’s centenary of the Bauhaus. Now at 101 years, the celebrations may be over but the movement’s legacy still offers much to be learned, developed and reflected on.

… Editorial: Bauhaus Continued
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Frauen Vision: 5 Progressive Photographs by 5 Unsung Bauhaus Women

Explore examples of female image makers and their contribution to Bauhaus through 5 defining photographs.

… Frauen Vision: 5 Progressive Photographs by 5 Unsung Bauhaus Women
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Editorial #12: Backstage Craft

So much of the labour and processes that come together to create a piece of artwork can often go unseen. The invisible lengths of time, practice and patience hover on the edges of a piece, as much a part of it as the what is being presented as centre stage.

… Editorial #12: Backstage Craft
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Staging an Afterglow: Interview with Nwando Ebizie

Nwando Ebizie is an artist, composer, writer, DJ, curator, dancer, ritual creator, Afrofuturist and musician. Working across media and genres, Ebizie’s artforms explore the neuroscience of perception, mythopoesis, alternate possibilities and sensations using experimental performance, ritual and sound.

… Staging an Afterglow: Interview with Nwando Ebizie
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Spotlight On: JeeYoung Lee’s surreal sets

JeeYoung Lee is a South Korean visual artist who blends magic, fantasy and reality. Her surreal set designs open up biographical glimpses into the artist’s interior life, creating a series of extraordinary dreamscapes that also function as self-portraits. 

… Spotlight On: JeeYoung Lee’s surreal sets
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Practice-Based: On Completion, Process and Planning

What if backstage is everything? If the rehearsal is the performance? If there is no moment of completion – how would art look then?

… Practice-Based: On Completion, Process and Planning
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Spotlight on: Es Devlin’s immersive stage

We spotlight Es Devlin’s stage-level labyrinths, which offer poetic interpretations of pop star shows…

… Spotlight on: Es Devlin’s immersive stage
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Larch Bark & Lockdown

This image essay tracks Liz K Miller’s attempt to maintain a connection during times of isolation and confinement…

… Larch Bark & Lockdown
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Mario Merz’s Cono: The hidden power of craft

Tracing Mario Merz’s Cono through cultural moments and a relationship to modernity, as well as the hidden elements of craft, creation and the maker’s labour, which are all deeply woven into this wicker structure…

… Mario Merz’s Cono: The hidden power of craft
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Save Me the Waltz: A peek inside the ballet studio

Zelda Fitzgerald’s Save Me the Waltz offers backstage access inside the ballet studio…

… Save Me the Waltz: A peek inside the ballet studio
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Impression Management: Mrs. Ashley’s Gayfere House

Interiors such as those of Gayfere House offer a valuable example of the interior as a custom-made, crafted space which took its inhabitant as its starting point…

… Impression Management: Mrs. Ashley’s Gayfere House
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Behind the memorial: Teresa Margolles & Jason deCaires Taylor

Behind each memorialisation practice, artists must consider the ethical implications of depicting violence without reproducing it…

… Behind the memorial: Teresa Margolles & Jason deCaires Taylor
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Book Review: Performing The Unstageable

To focus on failure to overcome the limitations of the stage is actually to fail to see possibility…

… Book Review: Performing The Unstageable
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Editorial #11 – Care, Craft, and Community

As the Zoom calls continue to loom – too everyday now to even joke about – does craft have the power to keep us connected? Or, what’s more, does craft have the power to model new forms of connection that offer respite from the ‘always on’ socio-economic demands of late-capitalist life?

… Editorial #11 – Care, Craft, and Community
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A Creative Conversation: Stéphanie Ruth & Anna Perach

Drawing on personal experience and folkloric myths, Anna Perach uses a traditional craft technique called tufting to create wearable sculptures that come to life during performances in front of a live audience. 

… A Creative Conversation: Stéphanie Ruth & Anna Perach

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