The recently launched web outlet, The Ground, is a multifaceted cultural platform that stands out for its innovative entrepreneurial approach. The project integrates a social network, interactive online publication and promotional platform, as well as a biannual print edition filled with notable articles from the virtual edition. The initiative emerged from the desire to offer artists and creatives the opportunity to promote their work and …
Artistic works addressing the relationship between the human body and its environment are not a new concept. The Berlin-based duo behind “The Humping Pact” fit into this tradition while establishing new methods to distinguish itself from past attempts. Combining contemporary trends with Greco-Roman aesthetics, “The Humping Pact” stands somewhere in between Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel and Yayoi Kusama’s 1970s public orgies. The cross-platform project, developed by …
Take teenage sexuality and factor in violence and irony and you get Worm Carnevale. Originally from Florida and now based in Brooklyn’s Bushwick neighborhood, Carnevale moved to New York in 2008. Whether for film, photography or installation, his provocative imagery combines the obvious with the abstract, comedy with drama and vintage with avant-garde for the power to be at once repulsive and fascinating. While others …
