Astra #01 - Ecstasy interviews despite the modernity

despite the modernity

Forcing the limits of transparency and lightness in the beginning

sculptures and video works arise when visual artists allow them­selves to be influenced by music

the authors and protagonists featured in this post-reader use skills from across a number of fields

Addressing im/migrant forms of expression around the globe

Astra #01 - Ecstasy interviews despite the modernityTo the ancient Greeks, ecstasyekstasismeant standing outside yourself. You stand outside yourself and a god enters you, or a new language. You slip powder into a water bottle and music enters you. This is what reading offers: the chance to forget the hands that hold the page, to inhabit the hand that held the pen. Contributors such as Terrance Hayes, Mieko Kawakami, Fernanda Melchor, Kim Hyesoon, Sayaka Murata, Ottessa Moshfegh, Solmaz Sharif, Dorthe