In The Current Of The Situation is an email correspondence between artist Danae Io and curator Ioanna Gerakidi. The exchange started in 2017 and lasted over a year, creating a space to voice what could not be said in their daily phone calls. The correspondence is composed of diaristic poems written for their lovers but exchanged between one another. This continuous shift between addressee and the receiver generates a protective distance to articulate their vulnerabilities and examine the erotic. The correspondence has been presented as a performance at Kunstverein, Amsterdam in 2018 and is now published as a book by Dolce Publications with contributions in response by artist Jesse Darling.

Designed by Claes Storm.

Produced on the occasion of the performance Danae Io and Ioanna Gerakidi performing In The Current Of The Situation at Kunstverein, Amsterdam, June 7, 2018, a composition of oral stories and eroto-historiographies tracing the mnemonic representations of unrequited sentiments of eros, love, lust and desire.

Designed by Claes Storm.

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The System of Systems is a book published in conjunction with an exhibition which took place in Athens in May 2017. It interrogates how political powers in Europe are using technologies, from data collection to private companies, in bureaucratic systems which determine the fate of asylum seekers. Bringing together artists, designers, architects, academics, activists and practitioners, working across a range of mediums, the publication responds to the complex and knotty legal framework which individuals seeking asylum are forced to navigate, or, in many cases, elude.

With contributions by Lawrence Abu Hamdan, James Bridle, Kamil Dalkir, Design Unlikely Futures, Ayesha Hameed, Paul Feigelfeld, Melanie Friend, Eugenio Grosso, Olivia Head (Bread & Roses), Andrew Herscher, Thomas Keenan, Sohrab Mohebbi, Daniela Ortiz, Lucie Parker, Jill Power, Xose Quiroga, Daniel Trilling, Nana Varveropoulou.

Edited by Rebecca Glyn-Blanco, Maria McLintock and Danae Io.