Coming Soon: APRIA Journal Issue #7 — Exhaustion

We are thrilled to announce our collaboration with APRIA Journal for its seventh issue, dedicated to the theme of Exhaustion.

This issue delves into the meaning and mechanisms of our collective exhaustion — or as the late Koyo Kouoh poignantly observed: “People are tired. We are all tired. The world is tired. Even art itself is tired.”

The commonality of the exhausted experience is felt in the depths of our being. Yet, like the money needed to buy coffee, exhaustion is, despite its ubiquity, unevenly distributed.

Featuring fourteen contributions from international artists, scholars, and thinkers, this issue explores the connections between personal weariness, obsolete structures, and the ongoing exploitation of the planet. Special invitations were extended to C& Magazine and Urbane Künste Ruhr (a polymorphous, decentralized institution for contemporary art) to collaborate and share our perspectives.

Contributors include: Fatoş Üstek, Ethel-Ruth Tawe and Neema Githere, Heidi Specker, Ioana Nemeș, Anike Joyce Sadiq, Laurie Young and Melody Howse, Dr. Shadow F. Sosa and Navlid Acosta, Noel W. Anderson, Aaliyah Lauterkranz, Michael Turinsky, April Lin 林森 and Dr. Nalini Nadkarni, Sarah De Mul, Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, Corentin Hannon and Kevin Lambeets, Yarema Malashchuk, Roman Himey and Tatiana Kochubinska, Viron Erol Vert, and Apparatus 22.

APRIA Journal Issue #7 will be available soon online via APRIA and in part on C& Magazine, as well as in a downloadable, printable PDF version.

Stay tuned for the publications on C& Magazine:

A conversation between Ethel-Ruth Tawe and Neema Githere on exile, amulets, circadian rhythms, and the practice of networked repair through cybercartography. An image piece featuring Noel W. Anderson’s photographically woven cotton tapestries, which examine how repressed historical realities manifest as trauma within Black male identity and its visual representation. And an essay by Aaliyah Lauterkranz on kiarita’s multimedia works, exploring rest as a political act — a form of resistance, a mode of healing, and a tool for imagining futures beyond racial capitalism.