ANDREY SHENTAL is a writer, curator, and artist based in Berlin.
From staging sleek self-drivers to junkyard scraps, recent theater, dance, and installation art have troubled a culture of treating machines like people.
In Graz, slap-in-the-face monuments, dances with buildings, and a water-gunning boy’s choir trouble the distinctions between oppressor and oppressed.
In an age of burgeoning techno-feudalism, do artistic uses of S&M immunize us against societal violence, or do they amount to just another cope?
