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Established in 2006 and publishing four issues every year, it features interviews, conversations, and essays by some of today’s most important international figures in criticism, visual arts, and curating. Feature columns keep tabs on international trends in contemporary culture around the world. Mousse is also a publishing house, devoted to imbuing every printed project with originality, care, an

d respect. Mousse Publishing makes books with artists, writers, galleries, biennials, and other art and cultural initiatives both public and private. Mousse Publishing also produces online content, printed ephemera, and artist editions.

“The task is to blow up the language!” Alice Bucknell reviews Jackie Wang’s “Alien Daughters Walk into the Sun: An Alman...
21/08/2024

“The task is to blow up the language!” Alice Bucknell reviews Jackie Wang’s “Alien Daughters Walk into the Sun: An Almanac of Extreme Girlhood” (Semiotext(e), 2023); Mashinka Firunts Hakopian’s “The Institute for Other Intelligences” (X Artists’ Books, 2022); and Alenda Y. Chang’s “Playing Nature: Ecology in Video Games” (University of Minnesota Press, 2019).

Visit our website to read the reviews.

Photo: Benedetta Stefani

“To what degree do institutions ‘flex’ to absorb the positions and forms that art takes on? Is there a point in this fle...
13/08/2024

“To what degree do institutions ‘flex’ to absorb the positions and forms that art takes on? Is there a point in this flexing where institutional authority is broken down and redistributed?” Richard Birkett on self-organization on the homepage of moussemagazine.it

“‘How many holes are in your work?’ It’s a question you might expect a writer to ask. But an artist? Kameelah Janan Rash...
02/08/2024

“‘How many holes are in your work?’ It’s a question you might expect a writer to ask. But an artist? Kameelah Janan Rasheed isn’t just any artist: ‘I’m a writer who finds different substrates to write on.’ She posed this Socratic quip during a walk-through of her exhibition at REDCAT, Los Angeles. ‘There are holes in this show. I want you to come in and leave your experience.’ Maybe it’s not so much a question of how many holes I find in Rasheed’s exhibition, but about bringing this how into dialogue with ‘what are the holes’ and ‘why do I/we need to get inside them?’”

Visit moussemagazine.it to read the review of Kameelah Janan Rasheed “i want to climb inside every word and lick the salty neck of each letter” at REDCAT, Los Angeles, by Ikechúkwú Onyewuenyi.

Sonia Fernández Pan argues that entering into public secrets is not only part of Crystal Z Campbell’s artistic process, ...
01/08/2024

Sonia Fernández Pan argues that entering into public secrets is not only part of Crystal Z Campbell’s artistic process, but also of the lives of these very stories and the circulation of “underloved” archival materials.

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The six large first-floor rooms of Le Consortium in Dijon barely contain the productive energy of Isabella Ducrot’s exhi...
30/07/2024

The six large first-floor rooms of Le Consortium in Dijon barely contain the productive energy of Isabella Ducrot’s exhibition, aptly titled “Profusione,” “abundance.” Ducrot is ninety-three years old, born in Naples and based in Rome. Presenting a collection of more than seventy artworks comprising work on paper, fabrics and collages, all produced between 2016 and 2024, the artist expresses an expansive desire to create works of a palpable mesmerizing lightness; they vibrate as one passes.

Read now at moussemagazine.it the review by Mariacarla Molè about Isabella Ducrot’s “Profusione.”

Helena Uambembe’s work examines the complexities of keeping and activating memory. Mistura Allison delves into the artis...
23/07/2024

Helena Uambembe’s work examines the complexities of keeping and activating memory. Mistura Allison delves into the artist’s multiverse, in which geography is not merely a static backdrop, but a dynamic field where identity and history are reconstituted.

Visit moussemagazine.it to read the tidbit from Mousse 88–Summer 2024.

“At Phenomenon, the exhibition evolves over time. Artists and the organizers bustle around the village, fine-tuning the ...
19/07/2024

“At Phenomenon, the exhibition evolves over time. Artists and the organizers bustle around the village, fine-tuning the works. You might encounter them in a café, overhear their stories, and share in their current struggles. Artworks suddenly appear on walls, light poles, and bus stations. Daily events include readings, screenings, and curated party nights, creating an almost unavoidable intimacy. Like a slow-paced music festival, a community forms organically.” Ben Livne Weitzman on Phenomenon, a biannual exhibition inviting a small group of artists to present their work and engage with various spaces across the island of Anafi.

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Reminiscent of cut fabric remnants, differently sized colored elements are stretched vertically onto the two fourteen-me...
18/07/2024

Reminiscent of cut fabric remnants, differently sized colored elements are stretched vertically onto the two fourteen-meter-high walls of the Light Tower in Aachen’s Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst. The geometric and amorphous figures of Ulrike Müller’s murals, “Paper Body (ghost)” and “Paper Body (pointer)” (both 2023), fill the four-story space with a mixture of opulent and fragile physicality, shaped by structured color forms and margins and intermediate zones left empty. In view of these hypertrophic snippets of color, the title of Müller’s exhibition—“Monument to My Paper Body”—clearly announces a focus on the juxtaposition of personal-intimate and institutional-public modes of presentation and their significance for the intra-pictorial dialogue.

Follow the link in bio to read the review by Sabeth Buchmann about “Monument to My Paper Body” at , curated by Eva Birkenstock, assisted by Mailin Haberland.

“I have a strong desire to embrace gossip and the ephemeral as a political action and attitude, and in doing so, to thin...
16/07/2024

“I have a strong desire to embrace gossip and the ephemeral as a political action and attitude, and in doing so, to think about love, friendship, and fictional (auto)biographies as an intrinsic strategy in life and art.” revisits the seventh issue of Ephemera magazine, handwritten by in 1978.

Visit moussemagazine.it to read the Reprint column from Mousse 88–Summer 2024.

Rooted in Indigenous knowledges, Raven Chacon’s work represents a tectonic shift in art making vis-à-vis sonic practices...
11/07/2024

Rooted in Indigenous knowledges, Raven Chacon’s work represents a tectonic shift in art making vis-à-vis sonic practices. In dialogue with Pablo José Ramírez, Chacon speaks to an approach that embraces replication and tone in composition, his connection to the performative dimension of silence, and the possibility of an exteriority to Western audibility.

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Harry Burke analyzes how issues of environmentalism, technology, colonialism, and the occult are interwoven in the films...
09/07/2024

Harry Burke analyzes how issues of environmentalism, technology, colonialism, and the occult are interwoven in the films of Riar Rizaldi, who advocates for lived engagement with animistic cosmologies.

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A groundbreaking figure in video, feminist and socially engaged art,   had to wait for decades before her practice—somew...
28/06/2024

A groundbreaking figure in video, feminist and socially engaged art, had to wait for decades before her practice—somewhat unclassifiable and hence positioned at the edges of genres and movements—could finally gain full recognition. In our publication, “Nil Yalter: Circular Tension,” author Omar Kholeif takes readers on a journey through the life and work of the artist, fusing the genres of auto/biography to unfurl a social and historical context that examines concepts of ethnicity, the diaspora, and feminism.

In 2024, Nil Yalter participated for the first time at the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, “Stranieri Ovunque—Foreigners Everywhere,” curated by Adriano Pedrosa, and received the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement.

Read an excerpt from our publication on moussemagazine.it’s homepage and discover “Nil Yalter: Circular Tension.”

Photo: Mattia Giuntini

“I believe that poetry offers revolution, hope, rebellion.” Reflecting on historical swells of poetry’s appeal, Allison ...
26/06/2024

“I believe that poetry offers revolution, hope, rebellion.” Reflecting on historical swells of poetry’s appeal, Allison Grimaldi Donahue considers the reasons why poetry is experiencing a resurgence in the art world, and contemplates the popularity and purpose of a medium that “lives in the continuous present” at a time of great collective uncertainty.

Visit moussemagazine.it to read the Opinions column.

“How do/shall we explainthe muffled vocabulary of peacealways on the brink/arriving broken into pieces spread out in a r...
25/06/2024

“How do/shall we explain
the muffled vocabulary of peace
always on the brink/arriving broken into pieces
spread out in a random majesty of here.”

Inspired by the mesmerizing patterns of birds, poet and essayist Erica Hunt contributes two poems, available at our website.

French–Lebanese artist Valentin Noujaïm repels the colonial continuum, facing at once records of state terror and sample...
19/06/2024

French–Lebanese artist Valentin Noujaïm repels the colonial continuum, facing at once records of state terror and samples of collective resistance. In his moving-image works, writes Edwin Nasr, the past no longer haunts, but enchants.

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Övül Ö. Durmuşoğlu discusses how Maryam Tafakory’s gaze operates almost surgically, revealing a landscape of historical ...
18/06/2024

Övül Ö. Durmuşoğlu discusses how Maryam Tafakory’s gaze operates almost surgically, revealing a landscape of historical disruptions woven by women. A civic poet and feminist counter-archivist, Tafakory problematizes the Western romanticization of Iranian cinema, shifting our attention to the concealed complexities and complicities of images.

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Prefacing the main gallery space at ETH Zürich is a large wall covered in handwritten statements. These proclamations, f...
14/06/2024

Prefacing the main gallery space at ETH Zürich is a large wall covered in handwritten statements. These proclamations, filled with caustic sarcasm about the exclusionary pitfalls of the art world, are taken from artist Beverly Buchanan’s (1940–2015) undated publication I Hope This Helps You Survive Your Gallery Visit, and offer the viewer a playfully ironic introduction to the recent exhibition, "I Broke the House." Juliette Desorges's review of the first exhibition in Europe to foreground Buchanan's five-decade practice, which also features works by historical figures such as Ana Mendieta and Kazuko Miyamato and contemporary artists including Aria Dean, Devin T. Mays and Cameron Rowland, is now online.

Memories are slippery. For artist  , it’s not writing but collecting that is trusted as a method of remembering. To  , W...
13/06/2024

Memories are slippery. For artist , it’s not writing but collecting that is trusted as a method of remembering. To , Waelder’s works can be read as an invitation to coauthor a diary written in space, rather than on paper.

Visit moussemagazine.it to read the tidbit appeared on Mousse 88–Summer 2024.

“When you call any of the still-active versions of ‘Dial-A-Poem’ today, you hear a pregnant pause. Three seconds of noth...
12/06/2024

“When you call any of the still-active versions of ‘Dial-A-Poem’ today, you hear a pregnant pause. Three seconds of nothing on the other end —enough to make you wonder if this project from 1968 is still working. Then there is John Giorno, the maestro and ringleader, with an announcement. His distinctive accent and charisma, enunciating clearly and as present as ever, drips through the title as he states it each time along with the name of the poet whose work follows. ‘DIAL-A-POEM: ___’” Retracing the genesis of “Dial-A-Poem” (1968–ongoing), explores how (1936–2019) sought to experiment with new ways for poets to make art.

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Artist   pens an intimate annotation of Argentinian avant-garde writer  ’s revolutionary text, “Museo de la Novela de la...
31/05/2024

Artist pens an intimate annotation of Argentinian avant-garde writer ’s revolutionary text, “Museo de la Novela de la Eterna” (1967): “Macedonio understood the novel—or, rather, the Novel, as the book itself is regarded as a character—as a dwelling (museum, estancia) where characters live together.”

Visit our website to read the Reprint of Mousse 87–Spring 2024.

“Kinship is a headspace, and return is ‘as much about the world to which you no longer belong, as it is about the one in...
30/05/2024

“Kinship is a headspace, and return is ‘as much about the world to which you no longer belong, as it is about the one in which you have yet to make a home.’” Clem MacLeod reviews Saidiya Hartman’s “Lose Your Mother: A Journey along the Atlantic Slave Route” (2021, Profile Books); Aurelia Guo’s “World of Interiors” (2022, Divided); Etel Adnan, Laure Adler, and Ethan Mitchell’s “The Beauty of Light: Interviews with Etel Adnan” (2024, Nightboat Books); and Etel Adnan’s “Sea and Fog” (2012, Nightboat Books).

Visit our website to read the Books column.

  turns the ephemeral and multiple nature of mass- and social- media imagery into labor intensive unique works that stan...
28/05/2024

turns the ephemeral and multiple nature of mass- and social- media imagery into labor intensive unique works that stand in contrast to the fast-paced expectations of the market, as well as the notion of the readymade and the impulse to outsource production common among many conceptual practitioners. analyzes how the artist’s deliberately “inefficient” methods remind us that what receives attentive reverence persists in the collective memory.

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In  ’s work, we find an image-world depicting humans on a shared plane with other creatures, and a place where a turn to...
24/05/2024

In ’s work, we find an image-world depicting humans on a shared plane with other creatures, and a place where a turn toward them is staged. In her large sculptures of creatures, in polystyrene or in bronze cast from polystyrene, the precise expression of the animal, and the point at which it meets the viewer’s gaze, is often disarming, communicating both a connection and a withdrawn unreachability. In this essay, describes the important facets of Saeed’s oeuvre: interspecies closeness, finely observed attention to the expressive language of human and animal bodies, and Styrofoam as a sculptural material.

Visit our website to read the essay appeared on Mousse 87–Spring 2024.

“‘Milk” as a noun suggests fertility and nourishment, while as a verb, it denotes an activity with negative connotations...
23/05/2024

“‘Milk” as a noun suggests fertility and nourishment, while as a verb, it denotes an activity with negative connotations—as in, milking, sucking, exploiting someone. I love words with double meanings.”A visual essay by , featuring an interview between the artist and .

Visit our website to read the conversation accompanying Mousse 87’s visual essay.

Building on a recent conversation in Colombo, Sri Lanka,   explores  ’s polyvalent, urgent, and navigational curatorial ...
21/05/2024

Building on a recent conversation in Colombo, Sri Lanka, explores ’s polyvalent, urgent, and navigational curatorial practice, which exemplifies a responsiveness derived from her interdisciplinary background in art history, journalism, and political science.

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 ’s art is moved by a sense of both responsibility and urgency—responsibility to learn how to master historical legacies...
20/05/2024

’s art is moved by a sense of both responsibility and urgency—responsibility to learn how to master historical legacies, and urgency to trouble them with new meanings and new forms, “dragging” them into the present even if it requires an act of betrayal or destruction. considers how the artist acknowledges traditions and ancestors’ cultures as an “inextricable influence.”

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“At 7 am, the shuttle bus let her and a dozen miners off at the entrance hall marked ‘For Men Only.’ Reading the sign, s...
18/05/2024

“At 7 am, the shuttle bus let her and a dozen miners off at the entrance hall marked ‘For Men Only.’ Reading the sign, she felt like an extranjera. An exile returnee. An alien with no return address.” In her upcoming novel, “Atacama,” traces the journey of a q***r brown girl named Ami through the world’s driest desert, a landscape that is replete with colonial imaginaries, the dictator’s crimes, and regenerative potential.

Visit moussemagazine.it to read the Fiction published on Mousse 87–Spring 2024.

In “The Weight of the Concrete” at Museion Bolzano-Bozen a polyphonic echo chamber opens, and at its center is a body of...
17/05/2024

In “The Weight of the Concrete” at Museion Bolzano-Bozen a polyphonic echo chamber opens, and at its center is a body of work by (1929–2022). Based in Turin and working across many artistic media, he was also an acclaimed editor and bookmaker attracted to printing technologies who collaborated with many renowned art-world figures. The exhibition map his interest in different forms of publishing, ranging from newspapers to children’s illustrations and dictionaries, and the artist’s gravitation to abstract forms, given their potential as a space of (semiotic) abstraction, an indeterminacy in poetic language.

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  investigates how, for more than a decade,   has tweaked the “expansive” choreography genre by combining text, anthropo...
16/05/2024

investigates how, for more than a decade, has tweaked the “expansive” choreography genre by combining text, anthropological and ethnographic research, and movement studies. Themes of violence, desire, sexuality, and the psyche meet in her performances, each underscored by a feminist (un)writing of dance that meditates on how female bodies are portrayed today.

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  looks at the intuitive, collaborative methods that guide multidisciplinary artist   as they navigate displacement and ...
15/05/2024

looks at the intuitive, collaborative methods that guide multidisciplinary artist as they navigate displacement and trans-temporality within their films. “Vir is interested in seeing everyone’s knowledge unfold, and that’s what the film Daftar is about, to begin with. . . . Everything is constructed too, Vir’s head is bursting with images, ‘everything is a symbol and a mirror.’”

Visit moussemagazine.it to read the Monograph on Vir Andres Hera.

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