Melis Ozek
We Are All Intellectuals Now: The Condom as Artistic Fetish
From Olympic distribution and public health campaigns to museum collections and fashion collaborations, condoms are the epitome of a recurring provocation
90s revisited: nostalgia for dirt, desire, and irreverent fornication
Why 1990s and Early 2000s Nostalgia Still Shapes Fashion and Culture? The decade that promised endless growth, liberal optimism, and global stability has become the default reference point for the...
Feminine literacy, when the feminine is methodology
Feminine literacy looks at design from a different angle. It listens to voices and places that are ignored and asks how we can create things that care for people, nature...
Why do we keep dating men? Heterofatalism and straight desire
An exploration of the absurd paradox at the heart of straight dating: we know the system is broken, we expect disappointment, yet desire refuses to die – turning heterofatalism into...
Sam Sala introduces Diathomee: sound and video from microscopic algae
Drawing from diatom microscopy and field recordings, Sam Sala’s Diathomee translates the microscopic scale into a visceral audiovisual language
