Spike Art #81/82 - The Post-Cool interviews Arturo Martini

Arturo Martini

this is a treatise on how foraging and the knowledge that underpins it can be a radical act-an act that informs much of our attitude to the natural world

making clear that in the campaign of conquest by the West

argues that accusations of cancel culture and defences of free speech are too often disingenuous attempts to fuel a culture war and so inhibit an important realignment in which hateful speech is at last being called out for what it is and the right to free expression is being extended to more people than ever before

These are the questioned asked (and some of them answered) in PIN–UP’s 31st edition

Spike Art #81/82 - The Post-Cool interviews Arturo MartiniAs Spike turns twenty, what does it mean to do culture Post Cool? Launching the same year as The Facebook (now an AI auto spam singularity), Berghain (subject to boycott), and the first EP by Kanye West (need we say more?), how do we retrain the spotlight on art that deals productively with the world? Spike is CELEBRATING 20 YEARS of bringing this same generosity to art with a special double issue. Cultural protagonists in Berlin, Vienna, and New York