Pleats of the Middle East

In her amazing Cosmic Drapery Project “nonad”, Iran-based American artist Kristen Alvanson unfolds nomadic fabric chadors and unfurls new aesthetics of their cultural and socio-political formations. Veils, flags, chadors, patterns, textures – Alvanson's profound artistic examinations reveal arcane secrets. by Irmgard Berner

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Collapse Volume IV: 'Concept Horror'

Collapse is an independent, non-affiliated Journal of Philosophical Research and Development

Collapse was launched in 2006 with the aim to bring together philosophers and theorists, artists and scientists to explore fundamental themes and ideas which academic philosophy, in its tendency towards specialisation and partisanship, increasingly fails to address.