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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- OPINIONS: ON JARGON by Pablo Larios
- A HYPOTHESIS OF RESISTANCE—PART FOUR: A LECTURE ON UNDETECTABILITY by Cally Spooner
- SURVEY: MRINALINI MUKHERJEE
(A) Overgrowth: Noopur Desai, Emilia Terracciano, Murtaza Vali in conversation
(B) Less a Thing Than the Trace of a Movement by Skye Arundhati Thomas
- MONOGRAPH: PENG ZUQIANG, Touch, Gaze, Motion, Memory: On Two Recent Video Works by Peng Zuqiang by Travis Jeppesen
- FICTION: “YOUR LOVE IS NOT GOOD” by Johanna Hedva
- MONOGRAPH: LEE LOZANO, Lee Lozano’s Tools and the “Self as Center” by Amelia Jones
- VISUAL: ANGHARAD WILLIAMS, Cars, 2022, Angharad Williams, Maurizio Cattelan in conversation
- BOOK REVIEWS by Gabrielle Goliath
- TIDBITS: Graham Little by Max Feldman; Onyeka Igwe by KJ Abudu; Shaun Motsi by Olamiju Fajemisin; Sydney Schrader by Gloria Hasnay; Rahima Gambo by Sindi-Leigh McBride; Ştefan Bertalan by Krzysztof Kościuczuk
- THINKERS: SARA AHMED: ARCHIVING UNHAPPINESS by Ana Teixeira Pinto
- CRITICISM: I’M WITH FANTASY by Kerstin Stakemeier
- REPRINT: REINCARNATION AND BIOLOGY: A CONTRIBUTION TO THE ETIOLOGY OF BIRTHMARKS AND BIRTH DEFECTS, Ian Stevenson, selected by Lawrence Abu Hamdan
- CURATORS: A STUTTERING INSTITUTION by Kabelo Malatsie