In Yannic Joray’s solo exhibition, Crackpot Realism, sculpture and drawing are used to examine the subversive powers of institutions, science, and technology in historical accounts of post-war mind control operations. Through tactics like withholding, bombarding, or diverting the viewer, the artist adopts strategic moves that subtly gesture how easy it is to manipulate a willing audience. Crackpot Realism is on view through May 27, 2022 at Galerie Bernhard.

Following a conversation in January this year with critics Max Glauner, Helen Lagger and Samuel Schellenberg, in March Aoife Rosenmeyer returned to the subject of practicing contemporary criticism with Mitchell Anderson, Brit Barton, Adam Jasper and Julia Moritz. While these four are active elsewhere as artists, curators, academics and in art mediation, their critical writing is to be found in specialist international art publications on and off-line. This is the discussion that ensued.