Where Does The Puppet End And The Human Begin?
“This is a cybernetic folktale that illustrates our relationship to life and death, of material and immaterial worlds,” writes GÜNSELI YALCINKAYA. Through DM strings with Freeka Tet, Maison Margiela’s widely circulated AW-24, Shoggoth memes of artificial intelligence, and more, Yalcinkaya disseminates our innate kinship towards the puppet and its return as today’s folkloric symbol.
By GÜNSELI YALCINKAYA
Death in Sicily: Adriano Sack
Roland Barthes once advocated for the death of the author—032c veteran ADRIANO SACK has done exactly that. In conversation with SHANE ANDERSON, the writer and critic discusses death and lust, autofiction, and the symmetry within his debut novel.
By SHANE ANDERSON
Girlhood Is Not A Moment: SHUSHU/TONG
The diction of “girl,” over “woman,” is one that SHUSHU/TONG has been explicit about since their founding. In conversation with AGNES MAGGIE SHU, the duo speak on designing womenswear with a male gaze, logomania, and “coquette” joining the trend cycle.
By AGNES MAGGIE SHU
032c Launches Mike Kelley Special Capsule Collection
Who Wants to Be a Human Jukebox? Richie Hawtin
Following an illustrious career that includes setting up a techno university and designing runway tracks for Prada, RICHIE HAWTIN talks to SHANE ANDERSON about scoring for Centre Pompidou, losing a sense of futurism, and coming from the school of James Turrell, Mark Rothko, and Anish Kapoor.
By SHANE ANDERSON
Maggie Dunlap’s Teenage Murders
In MAGGIE DUNLAP’s work, you will find the human body—sometimes her own—depicted as vulnerable, subjected, enslaved. In conversation with ARIANNA CASERTA, Dunlap speaks on the glam narrativization of horrors that true crime is based upon, letting go of authorship, and what it takes to truly shock.
By ARIANNA CASERTA
Who Is an American Artist?
American Artist—whose official, legal name is actually “American Artist”—is concerned with thought experiments that address the history (and present) of technology, race, and knowledge. In conversation with Claire Koron Elat, American Artist talks about racist and militarized intentions of early computer technology, the user/programmer relationship, and claiming American as part of his identity.
By CLAIRE KORON ELAT
August Edition: Société de 032c Bar Night
Carnage and conversation, as per. The newly-minted monthly edition of the Société de 032c Bar Night is back at Kranzler X.
Reinventing Mike Kelley
Across the course of his career, MIKE KELLEY has reinvented himself not one, not two, but four times; each iteration characterized by an interest in social reality in its entirety. Ahead of his first retrospective exhibition curated by FALK WOLF, SHANE ANDERSON touches base on the artist’s conspiracy theories, subversions of masculinity, and being one of the last non-digital artists.
By SHANE ANDERSON
The Sound of Wheels: OTW by Vans
Just as the Sacré-Cœur acts as a pilgrimage site for tourists and religious devotees day in and day out, skating spots, too, attract followers from far and wide. It is fitting, then, that on the same Montmartre butte as the Sacré-Cœur, OTW BY VANS have erected such a pilgrimage site for skaters worldwide.
Urban Protection with Lorenzo Osti: C.P. Company
When the Italian sportswear brand Chester Perry was sued by Fred Perry and the U.K. brand Chester Barrie, founder Massimo Osti was forced to change his brand’s name to what it’s known under today: C.P. Company. ALMA LEANDRA speaks to the company's president LORENZO OSTI on legacy, archiving, and moving forward through referencing pasts.
By ALMA LEANDRA
The After-effects of Painting With Azize Ferizi
Artist Azize Ferizi and writer Eleonora Milani met in DMs. Here they discuss the transition from painting to sculpture, the relevance of a palette, and the artist’s deep connection to fashion.
By Eleonora Milani
R.I.P. Germain: What Comes After God?
R.I.P. GERMAIN unpicks and analyzes hyper-objects of Black culture, their complex logic of cultural gatekeeping, and the (mis)perception of these dynamics in a wider (white) world. In this interview, the artist reflects on notions of survival and success in a world obsessed with both spectacle and substance.
By Harriet Shepherd
“I live a hope despite my knowing better”: JAMES BALDWIN in Conversation With FRITZ J. RADDATZ (1978)
On the occasion of the 100th birthday of American writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin, who passed away in 1987, we’re republishing our 2019 dossier on the novelists, consisting of a conversation between him and Fritz J. Raddatz, Hilton Als on Baldwin’s body, Baldwin’s provencal home, and a text by Theaster Gates on the writer.
By FRITZ RADDATZ
All Networks Lead Through Kansas: The Text Image
What happens when we lose faith in images? PHILLIP PYLE tracks the emergence of a hybrid online-offline aesthetic paradigm he calls the “text image” in the first installment of his column ALL NETWORKS LEAD THROUGH KANSAS. Equally considering the recent use of Charli XCX’s Brat album art, he wonders if that which the text image first promised has already dissipated, too.
By PHILLIP PYLE
Hajime Sorayama: What I Draw Are Human Beings
We have long depended on artists to help us visualize utopian futures and find beauty in what frightens us the most. Hajime Sorayama has understood the world of tech as primarily one of fantasy, and the world of art as one of entertainment. Cassidy George speaks to the erotic artist about objectifying women, his private obsessions, and intimacy with AI.
By CASSIDY GEORGE
With Love From Death Beach, Casey Spooner
For his last project, CASEY SPOONER ran for president. He did things a little differently for his new album, living on a nudist beach in Oaxaca for three months. Ahead of the release of With Love From Death Beach, Spooner talks with PHILLIP PYLE about life in lockdown, unexpected horniness, and walking for 032c’s SS-25 show.
By PHILLIP PYLE
Eckhaus Latta Prefers Glitches To Filters
Mike Eckhaus and Zoe Latta, the minds behind everyone’s favorite bicoastal brand ECKHAUS LATTA, describe themselves as “Luddites.” In conversation with PHILLIP PYLE, the designer duo discuss why they often (but not always) prefer analog, acting as each other’s critics, and the future of fashion.
By PHILLIP PYLE
Société de 032c Bar Night
Petra Collins Says Sorry
Portraying girlhood and its usurpation into pop culture is PETRA COLLINS' work. Ahead of the relaunch of her collection I'm Sorry for SSENSE, Collins speaks to PHILLIP PYLE on horror and safe spaces, the youth becoming more Puritan, and predicting the zeitgeist through her photographs.
By PHILLIP PYLE
Nothing is Linear: Guy Trebay
GUY TREBAY is now The New York Times’ fashion and style writer. But that’s just his day job. In conversation with SHANE ANDERSON, Trebay dives into the drag queen scene in 1970s New York, his tumultuous journey into writing, imposter syndrome, and telling all in his memoir Do Something.
By SHANE ANDERSON
DALLAS: A Template For The Future City In 41 Points
If you come to Dallas looking for the city from the television series, you’ll never find it. That Dallas does not exist. It never existed.
By ZAC CRAIN
