Where Does It Hurt?
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Pain
Fall 2022
In recent years, the question of pain, whether physical or psychological, has become a hot topic in media and scientific discourses. This issue reflects on the place that pain claims in contemporary art through the production of forms and images of suffering that don’t forget the care, don’t ignore the trauma, and take the affects of the aesthetic relationship into account.
Editorial
Feature
Intractable Pain
Laura Magnusson’s Blue: A Somatic Archive of Pain
Animal Suffering and Human Supremacism
Pain Scale: Carolyn Lazard and the Immeasurability of Black Pain
Aesthetic Strategies against Big Pain
Care for Becoming: Sisters in Motion feat. d’bi.young anitafrika
Kept Awake: My Text Is a Nightstand Is a Text for You
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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.