ORDER Autre 16 Spring Summer 2023: The UTOPIA Issue
ORDER Autre 16 Spring Summer 2023: The UTOPIA Issue
What is utopia and why does it seduce us? What we learned through the making of this issue is that utopia is a mirror of our repressed desires. It is also a work in progress—continually writing itself in and out of history. We have watched utopian movements rise and fall with fascination, but as the world becomes darker, our survival depends on imagining a better world. Every dialogue in this issue is a critical reflection of this vision.
The illustrious GEORGE CLINTON and artist LAUREN HALSEY discuss the genealogy of Parliament-Funkadelic’s Afrofuturist domination of popular culture across 20 pages with portraits by KENNEDI CARTER. A day after the Oscars, photographer NAN GOLDIN visits her old friend from art school, legendary tattoo artist MARK MAHONEY at Shamrock Social Club to discuss the elusivity of utopia, and provides a portfolio of exclusive photographs. JEFFREY DEITCH interviews ARIANA PAPADEMETROPOULOS who contributes an original painting for the cover of this issue with portraits by MAX FARAGO. Also, HANS ULRICH OBRIST interviews the pioneering artist PIPPA GARNER on her body and gender as a consumerist manifestation. Architect FRANK GEHRY and CHARLES ARNOLDI on the tabula rasa of Venice Beach. And MARINA ABRAMOVIĆ is interviewed by MILES GREENBERG to discuss performance as a transformative experience with portraits by JUSTIN FRENCH. More details below.
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This issue also includes an interview of artist KORAKRIT ARUNANONDCHAI on his animistic approach to utopian thinking with portraits by JASON NOCITO. CRAIG MCDEAN takes a tour of ANTARCTICA. We visit the senior design managers CECILIA STARK and MARIE STARK at VOLVO on the history of the understated car company that represents safety and adventure with special photographic collages by KUBA RYNIEWICZ. We talk to BARBARA STAUFFACHER SOLOMAN, inventor of Supergraphics, about SEA RANCH and CALIFORNIA MODERNISM. CHIP LORD discusses his anarchical architectural collective ANT FARM. GÜNTER ZAMP KELP remembers his radical Viennese group HAUS-RUCKER-CO and their consciousness expanding architecture with senior curator at Kunsthal Rotterdam, The Netherlands, CHARLOTTE MARTENS. Architect JAVIER SENOSIAIN and curator DAKIN HART talk about Organic Architecture with photos of his famous house by OLIVIA LOPEZ. JUSTIN BEAL at the Yale School of Architecture writes about Montreal-based designer FRANÇOIS DALLEGRET and his wild inventions. And across 34 pages, we explore the radical design movement of Italy in the 1960s with SUPERSTUDIO, ARCHIZOOM, GRUPPO 9999, UFO, and GAETANO PESCE (Portraits by Noua Unu).
Additional features include AGNES DENES, ADRIÁN VILLAR ROJAS, DIVA AMON, NIKKI MALOOF, MINDY SEU, NORMAN KLEIN, MIKE DAVIS, NORMAN KLEIN, DIANA WIDMAIER PICASSO and MANUEL SOLANO, KEN LAYNE, THE SOURCE FAMILY, SISTERS of the VALLEY, ROBERT D’ALLESANDRO, SALMON CREEK FARM, and ACHILLE MBEMBE,
AUTRE is also thrilled to welcome our new fashion director, JULIE RAGOLIA, who brings a humanist approach and builds a bridge in the publication between the cultural and sartorial. ANGELO FLACCAVENTO opens the fashion with an urgent message about the intellectual process and integrity in fashion. PARKER WOODS shoots an editorial focusing on fine tailoring. DAVEY ADÉSIDA shoots a dysfunctionally bauhaus CELINE document at the Thomas Mann House in Los Angeles. JAIME CABRERA HUIDOBRO captures an archaeological-inspired women’s fashion editorial in Paris. KATSU NAITO captures trans activist GIA LOVE. MAT+KAT explore the meaning of halcyon days. JERMAINE FRANCIS considers the idealism of accessorizing. And FEE-GLORIA GRÖNEMEYER explores the power of artificial intelligence with one-of-one designs by JAWARA ALLEYNE.
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Cover 1: MARK MAHONEY by NAN GOLDIN
Cover 2: GEORGE CLINTON by Kennedi Carter, wearing Balenciaga S/S 2023
Cover 3 MARINA ABRAMOVIĆ by Justin French,wearing Peter Do.
Cover 4ARIANA PAPADEMETROPOULOS interviewby Jeffrey Deitch
Cover 5: QUILLAN DE BOECK by Davey Adésida, wearing CELINE HOMME S/S 2023
Cover 6: GIA LOVE by Katsu Naito.