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Body of Innocence - DAMN° Magazine

Body of Innocence

Pipilotti Rist rolls her eyeballs A solo exhibition that spans an oeuvre of 25 years struck us as a good opportunity to speak with Pipilotti Rist about her inspirations, attractions, […]

Blue Tape - DAMN° Magazine

Blue Tape

Christian Marclay’s old masters The work of Christian Marclay is mainly inspired by detritus. Whether realised visually or aurally, or both, at its origins are elements he has recovered from […]

Cameroon Calling - DAMN° Magazine

Cameroon Calling

Toguo, the good samaritan The internationally successful visual artist, Barthélémy Toguo, decided to direct his attention and resources to building an active artistic framework in his native Cameroon. Bandjoun Station […]

Free for All - DAMN° Magazine

Free for All

David Horvitz fucks copyright© Replace ‘You’ve got mail’ with ‘You’ve got art’ and you are dealing with the work of artist David Horvitz. Relinquishing any rights he has to his […]

Freedom and Constraint - DAMN° Magazine

Freedom and Constraint

When architecture meets cinema A new book by JDS Architects occupies the territory between a monograph, a diary, a collection of essays, interviews and other contributions. One of the conversations […]

Upside Down Under - DAMN° Magazine

Upside Down Under

Shaun Gladwell at the Australian pavilion Shaun Gladwell is back in Venice. Two years ago he came here to present his skateboarding piece Storm Sequence. During this Biennial’s edition the […]

Enjoyable Chaos - DAMN° Magazine

Enjoyable Chaos

Arik Levy: What gets me going? Arik Levy has taken his work from the stages of some of the most innovative contemporary dance companies to product development for brands such […]

From the Bin - DAMN° Magazine

From the Bin

Thorsten Brinkmann In the mercantile port of Hamburg, Thorsten Brinkmann tangles with a modern-day caveman’s dreams. Unable to resist the allure of dumped urban detritus, this German artist recomposes and […]

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Dubbed the “first TikTok war” the current battle raging in Ukraine against Vladimir Putin’s reckless imperialism is taking advantage of user outrage.

As British art critic John Bergen so poignantly said, “Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.” And that’s just what we all want – TikTokers, magazine subscribers, TV addicts, artists, designers, and architects alike.

In the new issue of DAMNº – The Art of Protest – we side with those creatives whose work bites deep, with those who use their craft to protest, and specifically with those who reach out to the public directly as collaborators in that fight against iniquity. We have tried to extend the impact of cultural protest to emphasise those artists and designers who go beyond mere representation and dare to discuss real solutions.

And even if the medium of protest expands in the age of social media, it should be recognized that rough skills as well as cheap accessible materials have always been at the core of protest art – posters then, memes now, photography then, NFTs now.

The kernel usually starts emotional and even angry before the narrative cleans up and moves across the spectrum into polite society where eventually even galleries and collectors become enthusiastic.

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