To what extent do working conditions influence our sleep behaviour? In the post-industrial era, do we sleep better or do digitalisation and the unboundedness of working conditions deprive us of sleep?

The whole universe is concentrated on a small screen with the bed floating in an infinite sea of information. To lie down is not to rest but to move. The bed is now a site of action.

Dean Kissick talking to Irena Haiduk about how art might help us improve our world.

People today are experiencing in different and unevenly distributed ways, something that no generation before them has ever experienced: the ongoing loss of the planet as we know it.

I am standing on the railroad platform. It is too late. Too early too. No more loudspeaker announcements at this hour, no electronic excuses. I just took Lena to her platform...

“Many small human-like beings descend below the earth’s surface. In the book Der Bergbau und seine Kultur (Mining and its culture) 'different ways of entering' is written in the caption next...”

"Dear Old Man, I have been in your homeland for a few days now. Somewhat coincidentally, the inner motivation of this research trip may never be revealed to me [...]"

In these times of social distancing, curfews and closed borders, six voices from the world of art have considered certain questions.

Recently it was shown again: a white painted clapboard facade in the style of an American suburban detached house rolled through the streets of Detroit.

Cities change in character. As factory buildings and shopping streets disappear, a globalized economy and digitized everyday life produces different urban spaces.

At the beginning of the Corona Crisis, art historian Ellen Wagner addressed the new flood of digital offerings in the blog of the exhibition project Making Crises Visible.

The central social systems are based on us coming together, in schools, universities, parliaments, in courts and mosques – what has Corona made of this certainty?

The world’s knowledge is harboured in PDFs that no one reads. Knowledge of our environment is there but the data generated by researchers and consultants cannot be found.

Over the last 250 years, surely no other landscape has been dug up, hollowed out, filled in and built over as much as the Ruhr region.

Water is the essence of life. Water and culture already have something in common then.

What is the aim of art mediation and what does this collective experiences mean for the aesthetic perception of artistic works?

To what extend can art contribute to the acceptance of a new reality?

The Olympics as a playful Approach to trying out a new world, a source of inspiration for ideas on democratic participation, a leap of faith from the present into a more humane Concept of the future.

Is Culture’s Dis- quiet Vis-à-Vis the Pandemic an Opportunity for Fundamental Change?

No longer I am rushing from project to project, from one exhibition to another, but need to pause for a moment and ask myself, what has relevance in this global crisis?

In any case, on Thursday each week some twenty people assemble in front of their respective computer screens and, using Google Street View or such like, take a walk together.

“Locked down” in Casablanca for over 70 days. Jeewi Lee reports on solitude during the COVID-19 lockdown from Morocco.

Being unable to travel for the foreseeable future will crash our lives between the continents, the very heart of our work and, by now, also of our artistic and personal identities.

What comes to mind about public space in the time of corona?