I called this blog "after use" because it is an anagram of features, the name of the Kunsthalle Vermittlung series. Now I see it serves...

Unlike the earth, as far as we know, our star, the sun, is not a solid thing. It too has poles, and they swap quite often - every 11...

“All these thoughts about the poles make my head spin.” So writes one contributor, who has watched the video based on one of the NTU...

The aftermath of an earthquake in Morocco. On page 2 of the NZZ on Sonntag I read: Marokko zählt seine Toten. On page 20, another story...

In Kim Stanley Robinson's novel Aurora, a ship carrying some 2'000 people from earth arrives, after several generations, at a new home in...

Yesterday a ship called Aditya was launched from Sriharikota in India. It shares its name with a Sanskrit name for a god of the sun,...

I wonder what Martine Syms would say. She's a black American artist with a biting sense of humour and keen eye for unhelpful platitudes...

I've been waiting for someone to complain about this last reference to poverty. Since no one has responded, I'll do it myself: isn't it...

I still haven't found it. But searches for one treasure often lead to other, unexpected finds. On a friend's extensive bookshelves I came...

I hesitate to use the term "Afrofuturism", even though it's one I like, and one which quickly comes to mind amongst these interminglings...

NTU is working on a cosmic scale. The global south and the western world are elements of a much bigger picture, in both space and time....

And so it was that I first saw this exhibition a few days after the opening, with a small group of Kunsthalle visitors and a guide. What...

Blog posts can be written anywhere, even in a garden on the shore, by a stretch of warm and shallow water screened off from the road by...

"Shifting landscapes", writes Christoph Studer. "The exhibitions of Jackie Karuti and Archival Ramblings end today, and tomorrow they...

"It was very warm that day," writes Sophia Fries, "at least outside. As in most exhibition spaces, in the Kunsthalle the temperatures...

Last week, at the opening of the CAP Diploma show at the Pasquart in Biel/Bienne, I fell into conversation with Francesca Verga, a...

On the radio this morning I heard a leading mathematician explain that 1 + 1 does not always = 2. It all depends on the context. Adding...

The Kunsthalle's terrace bar has become my favourite watering hole in Bern. A lot of interesting animals come to drink here - humans are...

Two other contributors have raised the question of specificity: are Karuti's landscapes located or could they be anywhere? Is this...

The cows have stirred some interest. Maya Hottarek writes: "Über meine Google Suche ob Kühe larmempfindlich sind, gelange ich bevor ich...