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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Survey
SLAVS AND TATARS
(A) Being One With Many, Being One Through Many
Leah Feldman, Kathleen Reinhardt, and Payam Sharifi (of Slavs and Tatars)
(B) From Monobrows To Winter Melons: On The Evolution Of Slavs And Tatars
Kaelen Wilson-Goldie

Monograph
STEPHANIE COMILANG
The Voice of Vessels
Hera Chan

 

Monograph
HO TZU NYEN
All Possible Stories
Stephanie Bailey

Opinions
DRIFTING IN THE ATMOSPHERIC
Sohrab Mohebbi

 

Fiction
I ALWAYS USED TO SAY THAT THE PURSUIT OF BEAUTY ISN’T POSSIBLE. IT IS USUALLY THE SEARCH FOR SOMETHING ELSE.
Lauren Cook

 

Thinkers
ÉDOUARD GLISSANT: WAVES OF RELATION
Asad Raza

 

Criticism
COLLECTIVE VOICES
Mira Dayal, Shanzhai Lyric, TJ Shin, and jina valentine

Curators
TEMPORARY COMMUNITIES: FOUR POINTS AND A DRAFTED NOTE ON RADICALLY PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS
Elvira Dyangani Ose

Notes On Spitting
PART 2, A SIGNATURE TRUER THAN THE NAME
Dani Blanga Gubbay

TIDBITS

Rouro Mou by Amy Jones 

Virginia Ariu by Brit Barton
Bagus Pandega by Harry Burke
Ceidra Moon Murphy by Alex Bennett

Oshay Green by Ikechúkwú Onyewuenyi

 

Visual
SHAFEI XIA
SEVEN EMOTIONS AND SIX DESIRES
Shafei Xia, Danielle Shang

 

Books
Christian Rattemeyer