Toxicity is a property that causes poisoning of an organism. We can encounter it almost everywhere: in the soil, air, food, our bodies, but it is also in relationships and thoughts. In creating this issue of the journal, we have invited authors, researchers and scientists working in different fields to offer the most diverse perspectives on this topic. We focused on different aspects of toxicity and different ways of looking at it in relation to art and culture.
FEATURES → ◯ Jindřich Chalupecký Prize ◯ About nationalism from all sides. 12th annual Photographer of the Festival ◯ Nuclear energy as Russian cultural heritage ◯ Chemical Anthropocene ◯ When dust turns to data: undisciplined air toxicity and the politics of visibility ◯ Living in a materialistic world. Philomena Epps in an interview with Tenant of Culture ◯ Nuclear culture and its reflection in the artistic field ◯ Zdena Kolečková: Return to the origin in the industrial landscape ◯ Jakub Choma: Between the countryside and the post-internet ◯ The worst is suicidal consumerism ◯ Precarization and toxicity ◯ Do you work in culture? You will meet the coolest people!
REVIEWS → ◯ Re-connect Art ◯ People are fragile beings, but soft goals ◯ Personal mythology ◯ Curated_by_Vienna ◯ Jan Krtička ◯ Technologie und das Unheimliche ◯ Niečo Horí ◯ Me as microbes, dust, stones that vibrate ◯ Jaroslav Kyša ◯ Eva Moflárová ◯ Ján Triaška ◯ Festival JAMA ◯ Festival Nasuti