What Future Does the Swallow Portend?
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New New Age
Spring / Summer 2022
Over the last few years, the occult has made a stunning comeback in art, manifested through a re-appropriation of esoterism, a holistic and beneficial approach, and a desire for social and ecological justice. The works in the portfolio New New Age stand out for their powerful intention to re-enchant the world, recognize the agency of matter, and campaign against the destruction of Earth and for all living things, by exploring what is luminous and performative in this philosophy and its rituals.
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Hectic cycles. A conversation with Chrysanne Stathacos
Drawing Down the Moon
New Symbologies: Symbols and Spirits in Works by Julian Yi-Zhong Hou and Zadie Xa
Mine, Mine, Mine, Heal, Heal, Heal
Creative Conjuring, Ritual, and Place: Amanda Amour-Lynx’s Skite’kmujuawti in Conversation with the Works of James Gardner, Alana Bartol, and Jamie Ross
Correspondences and Undecidable Occult in Contemporary Art
Fabrice Samyn: Where Mystic Materiality Meets Subconscious Projections
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Tourism
Spring Summer 2024
Because it is essential for it to be open to the world, art is particularly affected by concerns related to planetary travel. From a position at the intersection of contemporary art, leisure, ecology, and destination culture, Esse no. 111 observes artists’ and critical thinkers’ strategies for revisiting the very notion of tourism. Although the harmful impacts of the tourism industry are beyond question, the thematic section avoids falling prey to tourismphobia and simply pointing out its failures. Rather, this issue offers a guided tour of situations and places where art and tourism converge.