Mass employment inside personal identity encryption, computer face recognition and demographic marketing industries has given rise to a society of individuals frozen in emotional responses. Trapped inside a population riddled with autistic spectrum and dementia-like symptoms this dark tale tracks an unusual encounter between a man and woman trying to preserve the final strands of their own emotional interiors and hoping to trigger human empathetic responses needed for human survival inside a robotic vacuum of state surveillance and personal identity destruction.

Discipline is a publisher and contemporary art journal edited by Nicholas Croggon, David Homewood, and Helen Hughes. Alongside artist pages and interviews, it publishes research essays about contemporary Australian art, and histories and theories of contemporary art as a global industry or phenomenon. For each issue a guest editor, from somewhere else in the world, is invited to contribute a guest edited section. Guest editors since 2011 are: Vivian Ziherl, Maria Fusco, Raimundas Malašauskas, and Ferdiansyah Thajib, KUNCI Cultural Studies Center.

International Trade Lawyer Solomon Digby Ryan is suffering from initial symptoms of corporate burnout i.e. erratic nocturnal habits and seborrheic skin conditions. Late one night in the Giblin Eunsen Library (while conducting routine trade investigation) SDR stumbles upon the unfortunate death reports of a Japanese Bacterial Plant Pathologist who helped influence the import / export practices of the global apple trade. Disturbed by the horrifying accounts he begins to question the impact of his own personal actions on a larger bureaucratic system before uncovering an abandoned model of the Keynesian System. In the next 24 hours he quickly learns how individual actions have a virulent and lasting power. 

From colonial history to ecology, and from public space to colouring outside the lines: each Karbon Arnhem File publication highlights a particular issue. In the process, artists, writers, researchers, activists, collectives, designers, and many others work closely with the Editorial team. This results in a cacophony of voices asking critical questions about our daily reality. Karbon Arnhem Files is inspired by ruangrupa’s own Karbon magazine, and brings together experimental art and design practices. The whole series consists of six publications and is also available in our shop.
Language: Dutch

This publication is the result from a workshop with Tom Clark at the Critical Studies department of the Sandberg Instituut. The bound texts were written beforehand, responding to a prompt on the theme of “proximity”. The loose-leaf text, an “editorial”, was written and edited during the workshop and reflects on the process over those three days.