Critical Essays

Awareness Without Accommodation

Awareness Without Accommodation

Bogdan Jensen

A personal essay by Berlin artist Bogdan Jensen on autism, suspicion, social disability, accommodation, and the anti-autistic ableism he calls autisive-reflex.

Awareness Without Accommodation

Bogdan Jensen

A personal essay by Berlin artist Bogdan Jensen on autism, suspicion, social disability, accommodation, and the anti-autistic ableism he calls autisive-reflex.

Depiction of "Justice" as a bound and blindfolded woman.

Justice, Served Cold: The myth that punishment gives Justice a body

Bogdan Jensen

What if Justice is not a force of reality, but a human fiction we use to give pain a shape? This essay reflects on the death penalty, punishment, grief and...

Justice, Served Cold: The myth that punishment gives Justice a body

Bogdan Jensen

What if Justice is not a force of reality, but a human fiction we use to give pain a shape? This essay reflects on the death penalty, punishment, grief and...

Style Is Not Art

Style Is Not Art

Bogdan Jensen

What damage does recognizability leave behind? A polemic against the artist-as-brand, and for a practice rooted in encounter, mystery, worldview, and life.

Style Is Not Art

Bogdan Jensen

What damage does recognizability leave behind? A polemic against the artist-as-brand, and for a practice rooted in encounter, mystery, worldview, and life.

Does Owning Art Still Matter in a Digital Culture?

Does Owning Art Still Matter in a Digital Culture?

Bogdan Jensen

We are now saturated with art-like experiences, from the quirky cafés to social media and now even AI, all of which promise art for free. But do they deliver? And...

Does Owning Art Still Matter in a Digital Culture?

Bogdan Jensen

We are now saturated with art-like experiences, from the quirky cafés to social media and now even AI, all of which promise art for free. But do they deliver? And...