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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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Art

January 2012

Interview with Ryan Gander

Timothée Chaillou

Art

January 2012

London-based conceptual artist Ryan Gander masters the art of storytelling through an immensely complex yet subtly coherent body of...

fiction

Issue No. 2

Cafédämmerung

Joshua Cohen

fiction

Issue No. 2

It was even worse in Prague [than in Cuba]. The only reason they got upset with me — I was...

Essay

Issue No. 18

The Disquieting Muses

Leslie Jamison

Essay

Issue No. 18

I.   In Within Heaven and Hell (1996), Ellen Cantor’s voice-over tells the story of a doomed love affair...

 

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