Mousse Magazine

Established in Milan in 2006, Mousse Magazine traces the currents of contemporary culture through feature articles, interviews, and conversations among the most vivid voices in international criticism, along with emerging talents and key figures in the cultural debate. With its reinforced emphasis on textuality and critical thinking, Mousse is more a book than a magazine and a key touchstone for academics, artists, curators, and collectors.

Alongside Mousse’s surveys, monographs, thematic essays, short profiles, fiction and book reviews, the restyled format of Issue #84 inaugurated four new columns: CRITICISM, an arena to inspire discourse and encourage conversation around the current terms of art criticism, each year, an appointed editor invites a range of contributors to address an overarching concern; THINKERS, devoted to influential thinkers who are shaping cultural discourse and theory; CURATORS, a space for affiliated and independent organizers to openly define their approaches to contemporary exhibition-making; and REPRINT, reviving and recirculating foundational texts that are no longer readily available.

Published quarterly, Mousse has broad distribution in Europe, the United States, Australia, and Asia. With its complete archive in a fully browsable format and completely searchable text, Mousse is now digitally available for experts, collectors, libraries and art colleges internationally.

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Cover: Shu Lea Cheang, FLUIDØ (detail from still), 2017. Courtesy: the artist. Photo: J. Jackie Baier

Editorial:
Dear readers, can we resist instantaneousness? And emotional mining? Marcel Duchamp once explained his use of time as such: “Oh, I’m a breather, I’m a respirateur, isn’t that enough?” Philosopher Byung-Chul Han proposes contemplation as an exercise in not attending to some things in order to attend to others. To make time, it takes time.

- Survey: SHU LEA CHEANG
(A) Art of the Interzone by McKenzie Wark
(B) We Ate a Sheep. We Lost the Plot. Shu Lea Cheang, Lauren Cornell, and Tiffany Sia in conversation

- Opinion: YOU MADE ME DO THIS by Martin Herbert

- Monograph: Things Don’t Fall Apart Because They Are Laboriously Kept Together: ADELITA HUSNI BEY by Ana Teixeira Pinto 

- Monograph: Cannot Resist Seeing: KARIMAH ASHADU by Ikechúkwú Onyewuenyi 

- Thinkers: BYUNG-CHUL HAN: VITA CONTEMPLATIVA by Steven Knepper 

- Curators: GLINTS OF LIGHT ON BROKEN GLASS by Anthony Huberman 

- Curators: NOTES TO SELF by Sohrab Mohebbi 

- Criticism: IN THE WEEDS: POLICY PROBLEMS by jina valentine, edited by Mira Dayal

- Reprint: “LIGHTS , CAMERA, NOW-TIME! POLLY II: PLAN FOR A REVOLUTION IN DOCKLANDS”: MARINA VISHMIDT ON A NEW FILM BY ANJA KIRSCHNER, selected by Danny Hayward

- Tidbits: Beatrice Bonino by Liberty Adrien; Charisse Pearlina Weston by Pujan Karambeigi; Kobby Adi by Stephanie Bailey; Gregory J. Markopoulos by Matthew Lyons; Wei Yang by Alex Bennett 

- Books by Louis Fratino 

- Visual: ALIA FARID: Elsewhere, 2013–ongoing, the artist in conversation with Kaelen Wilson-Goldie