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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Dear readers,

The abuse of power comes as no surprise. Nor does its performance. Amelia Jones asks: “What can deploying the term ‘performativity’ do for us today?” 

In the latest issue:

Survey: LOVETT/CODAGNONE
(A) Do Not Become Enamored of Power by Lia Gangitano
(B) There Is No Revolution without Libidinal Investment: Emi Fontana, Andrew Suggs, and Julie Tolentino in conversation

Opinion: RESTLESSNESS: THE BEGINNING OF A LEXICON by Hendrik Folkerts and Cally Spooner

Monograph: DIEGO MARCON
Total Eclipse of the Art by Sabrina Tarasoff

Monograph: JJJJJEROME ELLIS
Forming a Vocal Clearing by Ikechúkwú Onyewuenyi

Fiction: OUT OF A MINARET by Himali Singh Soin

Curators: A HUNDRED PERCENT RISK, A HUNDRED PERCENT TRUST
RoseLee Goldberg interviewed by Wendy Vogel

Criticism: GARMENTS AGANST
Shanzai Lyric invited by Mira Dayal

Thinkers: PERFORMING PERFORMATIVITY: EVE KOSOFSKY SEDGWICK’S QUEER FEMINIST THEORY by Amelia Jones

Notes On Spitting: PART 1, THE TEXTURE OF TIME by Dani Blanga Gubbay

TIDBITS: Amanda van Hesteren by Olamiju Fajemisin; Thibault Lac by Skye Arundhati Thomas; Mira Mann by Nicholas Tammens; Claudia Pagès Rabal by Övül Ö. Durmuşoğlu; Binta Diaw by Camilla Paolino

Visual: CHRISTINE SUN KIM
GHOSTED IN THE SHELL, 2024
Christine Sun Kim and Johanna Hedva in conversation

Books by Georgia Sagri