#postmodernism

#postmodernism

In collaboration with Milan-based artist Arisha, this editorial explores the contrast between spiritual depth and urban surface. The series presents cleaner, dreamlike visuals that resist melancholy while reaching toward a heightened sense of presence, creating tension between sacred motifs and the everyday surroundings of Milan. The cinematic postproduction process included 3D sculpture creation and particle simulations in TouchDesigner and After Effects, with carefully crafted transitions using distortion and glitch techniques.

Framed between two decisive historical thresholds-the death of Emperor Hirohito in 1989 and the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, tsunami and Fukushima nuclear disaster- Prism of the Real: Making Art in Japan 1989-2010 re-examines two transformative decades in Japanese art. The exhibition challenges the idea of "Japan" as a fixed national entity, instead situating artistic practice within the fluid global exchanges of late capitalism.

For Fredric Jameson, for instance, while modernism "thought compulsively about the New and tries to watch its coming into being", postmodernism "looks for breaks, for events rather than new worlds". The latter definition, encapsulating the cultural logic of late capitalism, is all the more intriguing in the context of music culture, since it has found so many breaks to play around with.

Muddycap's Soul Chair conceptually imagines what a chair's soul might look like, embodying the philosophical exploration of existence and visual creativity in furniture design.