The End is Night

Chatroom
by Enis Maci & Mazlum Nergiz

"Oh, I’d slide into the water alongside the tons of artificial sweetener and crude oil, oh, we’d at least be carried together into the sea."

– This text appears in Spike #64. You can buy it in our online shop –

Enis Maci & Mazlum Nergiz

People
#64
Photo: Magali Bragard

Photo: Magali Bragard

Q/A Catherine Malabou

What Pleasure is There in Thinking Today?

Discourse
#64
Nancy Lupo, Bench 2017 (pink concave) , 2018 Steel, rubber feet, and fluorocarbon metallic paint, 190 x 90 x 64 cm

Nancy Lupo, Bench 2017 (pink concave), 2018, Steel, rubber feet, and fluorocarbon metallic paint, 190 x 90 x 64 cm

Essay: My Own Private Whorantine

To varying degrees, many of us now know the feeling of being trapped indoors, whether because of lockdown or fear of infection or transmission. As Lonely in Shanghai turns to Grindr and internet porn, the line between imagined and actual encounters starts to become blurry and dream life feels as real as anything else. By ALVIN LI

News

SPIKE’S SUMMER ISSUE 2020 IS OUT!

For this issue we gave our contributors carte blanche: an open invitation to tell us what’s in their heads, right now. Whether under lockdown inside, or outside under protest, it is clear that the mind has no off-switch. Whether deeply personal, or overtly political, our authors continue to surprise with their level of insight and the playfulness of their imagination.

Discourse
Messages for the City, Various artists, April 2020 – ongoing. Poster House, PRINT Magazine, and For Freedoms

Messages for the City, Various artists, April 2020 – ongoing. Poster House, PRINT Magazine, and For Freedoms

OUT OF STATE

Summer is here, so let’s go out of state! Frequent Spike contributor and New York denizen, NATASHA STAGG, is back with a weekly column for the remainder of the warm season. In her first of the series, Stagg talks about branding, policing, and the endless stream of images that fill our screens and our squares (the big ones). 

Jonathan Monk, "Picture Post Card Posted From Post Box Pictured", 2020

Discourse
Still from Love Streams (1984), dir. John Cassevetes

Still from Love Streams (1984), dir. John Cassavetes

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: “UNDEREARNERS ANONYMOUS”

KAITLIN PHILLIPS, in her latest monthly column about bad career choices, inappropriate client texts, and new twelve step programmes. They're not anonymous.

Discourse

The Downward Spiral: May Days

DEAN KISSICK was in New York when America rose up, and managed to both document and celebrate the protests that followed in the wake of George Floyd’s murder by the police.

Things we like
Picture Post Card Posted From Post Box Pictured (Vienna) Spike, Vienna/Berlin 2020

Picture Post Card Posted From Post Box Pictured (Vienna) Spike, Vienna/Berlin 2020

What Goes Around Comes Around

Jonathan Monk in conversation with Colin Lang about his new postcard edition for Spike

Things we like
Berufsverkehr, Los Angeles, 2018

Berufsverkehr, Los Angeles, 2018, All photos © Christian Werner

Everything So Democratic and Cool

The new book by Berlin based photographer Christian Werner

GINA BEAVERS “IN-N-OUT BURGER”, 2020

Discourse
Moyra Davey, “Smoking 1”, 1987/2016, silver gelatin print, paper size: 28 x 35.5 cm All images: Courtesy Galerie Buchholz, Berlin/Cologne/New York

Moyra Davey, “Smoking 1”, 1987/2016, silver gelatin print, paper size: 28 x 35.5 cm
All images: Courtesy Galerie Buchholz, Berlin/Cologne/New York

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: “FUTURE SYSTEMS”

KAITLIN PHILLIPS, in the first post for her new monthly column,“FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE”, sees her life as a movie, a pretty boring one, with no outside.

"Our identity could become an idol that we sculpt anew each morning from the digital clay"

The Downward Spiral: The Figure Cannot Hold