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Kristian Vistrup Madsen

Kristian Vistrup Madsen is a writer based in Berlin. He is a contributor to magazines such as Artforum, frieze, Texte zur Kunst and Kunstkritikk. Doing Time, a collection of essays about prison correspondence, appropriation, and the boundaries of fiction, was published by Floating Opera Press in 2021.



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Chains or Whips? The Cruel Decade and its Aftermath

Essay

February 2023

Kristian Vistrup Madsen

Essay

February 2023

It seems to me that the 00s ended with the final withdrawal of NATO soldiers from Afghanistan in 2021. Or with the end of...
The Charms On Her Bracelet

Feature

February 2021

Kristian Vistrup Madsen

Feature

February 2021

Mariah Carey was my first love. She was 30, I was 10, but we seemed to share in the struggle to come to terms...

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poetry

March 2013

The Humming Lady

James Byrne

poetry

March 2013

The humming lady arrives in a smiling orange smock and orders from the waiter a plate of overripe oranges,...

poetry

March 2013

Fugitive

James Byrne

poetry

March 2013

I trace the stacked voices of shouters how they immingle fraternally on first hearing with the vaporous nick of...

feature

February 2011

Old media, new year: China’s CCTV woos the nation’s netizens

Shepherd Laughlin

feature

February 2011

The CCTV New Year’s gala broadcast, known in Mandarin as Chunwan, is probably the most massive media event you’ve...

 

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