The word chaat, also written as chāt, derives from the Hindi term cāṭ, meaning tasting, a shortening of cāṭnā, referring to licking, as in licking one’s fingers while eating, which itself is derived from the Prakrit word caṭṭei, translating roughly to devour with relish. Enthusiastic tasting, finger licking and devouring with pleasure are certainly all…
Covering painting, sculpture and video, Chilean-Peruvian artist Ivana de Vivanco examines capitalistic development through a feminist viewpoint in her site-specific intervention Two Pennies for Myself and Tea (2021) at London’s SCAN – Spanish Contemporary Art Network, warping male-centred systems of dominance and exploitation. Despite its misleading resonance of a nursery rhyme, the title extracts a…
Berlin-via-LA experimental artist Eddington Again returns with their vulnerable new single Blindsided, an expansive and soulful cut interwoven with the elements of underground dance music that are becoming trademark within their sound. This anticipated project marks a new era for the artist who is now working with label Friends of the New®, Majestic Casual’s latest…
Opened to the public over the weekend, the Arc de Triomphe, standing at an imposing 164 feet at Place Charles de Gaulle in Paris, has been entirely enveloped in glistening, aluminium-coated blue polypropylene fabric—some 270,000 square feet of the stuff—secured by close to two miles of red rope, fixing the draped textile in place while…
A landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley, where the African Great Lakes region and East Africa converge, Rwanda’s terrain is highly elevated, giving it the soubriquet, “land of thousand hills.” With its geography dominated by mountains in the west and savanna to the east, the country is filled with numerous mineral-dense lakes. Boasting a…
Created by London-based curator Mica, Instagram archive @rewindbeauties celebrates, as she puts, “intersectional nostalgia,” through a trove of compelling and evocative images, largely originating from the 60s and 70s and documenting the beauty and cultures of people of colour. Intersectionality is an analytical framework for understanding how aspects of a person’s social and political identities…
Originating in Kolkata, Soho restaurant Fatt Pundit’s menu takes inspiration from the unique cuisine that was invented when the Hakka people migrated to India from the Chinese province of Canton, bringing with them their culinary riches. Incorporating traditional Chinese cooking techniques with the spices of India to create something both new yet familiar, Indo Chinese…
In March 2020, plans for the second edition of the Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art (RIBOCA2), a major international contemporary art event, were abruptly stopped by the rapid spread of COVID-19 just a few weeks before the opening. Chief curator Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel decided to transform the exhibition into a film set, reimagining the biennial…