Autre magazine is pleased to announce the release of THE BODY ISSUE—a comprehensive cross-disciplinary exploration of the body’s past, present, and future on Spaceship Earth. We look to artists, scientists, academic scholars, and futurists for insight, truth, and answers. An epic of feedback loops and bodily transmissions across 400-pages, this issue is inspired by 103-year-old chemist James Lovelock’s groundbreaking Gaia theory, which postulates that living organisms interact with their inorganic surroundings on Earth to form a synergistic and self-regulating system.

We connect to artists that tap into the raw nerve endings of the bodily zeitgeist, like WOLFGANG TILLMANS, arguably one of the most important photographers of the canon’s history, with an in-depth interview and special portfolio of images ahead of his major survey at MoMA in the fall. Artist and Balenciaga muse ELIZA DOUGLAS speaks to legendary musician and composer ANOHNI about the queer body and the climate crisis, with portraits of Douglas by iconic photographer JACK PIERSON. Fellow artists PRECIOUS OKOYOMON and BOBBI SALVÖR MENUEZ have a free-flowing conversation about the body existing in time outside of time, with portraits by NICK SETHI.

This issue also features an interview with foundational ecofeminist artist FAITH WILDING by HANS ULRICH OBRIST on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Womanhouse, the first women-led public art exhibition that included artists Judy Chicago and Miriam Shapiro. There is also a conversation between American sexologist ANNIE SPRINKLE, her partner BETH STEPHENS, and Indigenous sexuality professor KIM TALLBEAR on ECOSEXUALITY. We talk to former adult film actress JESSIE ANDREWS on life after porn. We visit CHRIS WOLSTON in Colombia where he is making erotically anthropomorphized furniture with a profit-sharing collective of weavers. LENGUA speaks to JORDAN RICHMAN on his new book of photographs, Photophobia. Cultural astronomer JARITA HOLBROOK and artist TAVARES STRACHAN discuss the myth of the Black monolith. Supreme’s newly appointed creative director, designer TREMAINE EMORY, and artist SANFORD BIGGERS opine on representations of the Black body in contemporary culture. And JAMES LOVELOCK himself speaks to us about how the Gaia theory came to be.

This issue also features a series of important interviews and conversations between artists and scholars on queer and othered bodies. Artist EMILY BARKER, who will be included in the 2022 Whitney Biennial, speaks to disability theorist ROBERT MCRUER for a fascinating conversation on the ghosting of disabled bodies in the face of neoliberal austerity politics. PANTEHA ABARESHI, who lives with the debilitating and degenerative disease sickle cell zero beta thalassemia, makes artwork in response to the landscape of a weaponized medical industry.

In these pages, we explore how the body is represented in fashion and art. BILL POWERS sits down with painter LOUISE BONNET, who was invited to exhibit in the 2022 Venice Biennial, to consider the psychic implications of her exaggerated and grotesque bodily forms that lactate, urinate, and secrete corporeal liquids in surrealist, painterly environments. Fellow artists LYDIA MARIA PFEFFER and TRULEE HALL share their techniques in queering the phantasmagorical, mythological, and biblical. Fashion designer SPENCER PHIPPS shares the genesis of his eponymous label and how getting closer to death through extreme outdoor activities brings us closer to nature. And in a special fashion editorial from Mexico City by Fede Reyes and Rachel Israela, we feature the first openly gay luchador, CASSANDRO EL EXÓTICO.

This issue also features fashion editorials that explore the body. ​​PEGAH FARAHMAND and MARISSA BAKLAYAN capture FASHION LABEIJA in a celebration of the trans body, ANTOINE HARINTHE and ELENA PSALTI explore the amalgamation of the body’s chemical circus, DANIELE FUMMO and PAOLO ZAGOREO highlight five London-based artists on their somatic practices. EVA WANG and FERDI SIBBEL on the beauty industry’s masochistic allure, DANIEL ROCHÉ and MAX JOLIVET document the many personalities of fashion icon IVANA VLADISLAVA, JERMAINE FRANCIS and BETH FENTON present an editorial featuring Irish-born, London-based designer SINÉAD O’DWYER, MAT+KAT prove that nature is everywhere. NAGUEL RIVERO and MEL BACALONI visit Argentina for an editorial where the body meets the vegetal, OZMAN ÖZEL and HAKAN SOLAK explore the mystical practice of Sufi whirling. RENATE ARIADNE and INÊS BIZARRO frame the body like a picture, ALEX HUANFA CHENG and NATACHA VORGANGER capture an orgy of performing bodies in the nave of the CAPC Bordeaux. SCOTT GALLAGHER and NAOMI MILLER shine a light on the delicate nature of the skin we’re in. THOMAS HAUSER and TOBY GRIMDITCH present an editorial inspired by the MARIANA TRENCH featuring Celine and Hedi Slimane muse, MARGAUX LION.

Size 9.65 x 11.85 inches. Offset Printing by KOPA (Lithuania). 402 Pages.

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COVERS:

01 Eliza Douglas by Jack Pierson

02 Wolfgang Tillmans Interviewed by Sasha Frere-Jones

03. Precious Okoyomon and Bobbi Salvör Menuez by Nick Sethi

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