This performative book was conceived as a story; a story of the pains, joys, anxieties and doubts of the 2020s. It takes as a starting point, the feelings of stasis and anger that define the present stage of late capitalism, framed by the anxieties of a generation facing a climate crisis, welfare states trampled and failed by neoliberal policies and the rise of xenophobia around the globe, partly fueled by fake news spreading on- and offline. It is an intuitive journey through the voices of thirty-four artists expressing the lurid shapes of the crises that surround us and form a (never exhaustive) part of our contemporary reality. They are Cem A., Panteha Abareshi, Monira Al Qadiri,
Kate Cooper, Pauline Curnier Jardin, Jesse Darling, Stine Deja,
Omer Fast, Anna Franceschini,
Guan Xiao,
Sidsel Meineche Hansen, Lukáš Hofmann,
Christian Jankowski, Chris Korda, Ndayé Kouagou, Ghislaine Leung, Isaac Lythgoe,
Taus Makhacheva,
Diego Marcon, Jacopo Miliani, Marie Munk, Chalisée Naamani, Agnieszka Polska, PRICE, Jean-Charles de Quillacq,
Mika Rottenberg,
Julika Rudelius,
Dorian Sari, Sin Wai Kin, Shinuk Suh,
Martine Syms,
Mungo Thomson, Cajsa von Zeipel, and
Artur Żmijewski.
