Grandmas. Who are They, and for Whom?
Feelings of nostalgia, compassion, and sadness. During her Magic Carpets residency, Romanian documentary photographer Odeta Catana opted to work with…
Magic Carpets
Flowing Cities
The second Italian edition of Magic Carpets was presented on purely artistic grounds: in Rome, at the Accademia di Belle…
SURVEY Among Emerging Curators
1. HOW WOULD YOU DEFINE A COMMUNITY? Sara Dowling Any community is a collective or gathering of people who share…
Limerick View: An Interview with Matt Packer about the 39th EVA International 2020
Matt Packer is the director of EVA – Ireland’s Biennial in Limerick. He was the Director CCA Centre For Contemporary…
Magic Carpets year #2 | 2018–2019 An Interview with Elena Mazzi
GIULIA PARDINI Elena, you were invited to participate in a residence in Berlin at the ZK/U as part of the…
Searching for the City’s Sound in a Postcard. Interview with Jiří Suchánek and Danijela Oberhofer Tonković
Jiří Suchánek is known for his creative manipulation of sound and light, which he uses as information bearers or data…
Magic Carpets year #2 | 2018–2019 An Interview with Virginia Zanetti
GIULIA PARDINI Magic Carpets partner Ideias Emergentes’ suggested theme for your residence was memory in textile. How did you approach…
Magic Carpets year #1/ 2018 Interview with Grossi Maglioni
GIULIA PARDINI Francesca and Vera, you were invited to a residence in the city of Novi Sad by the Serbian partner…
The Arrival of Artists is not always a Good Sign
The central shopping street in Zagreb is called Ilica, and according to local curator Karmen Krasić Kožul, the appearance of…
Folkestone
At the end of June this year, the English town of Folkestone hosted the Festival of Looking – an event…
Learning by Doing
In recent years, we have witnessed our European context become more structured and hierarchical. What has occurred is a normalisation…
After Leaving, Before Arriving
In his novel Changing Places, British writer David Lodge presented a humorous take on the careless atmosphere – as well…
Introduction. Magic Carpets: A Rhizomatic Platform
Over time, humans have established travel as one of the ways of relating to different civilisations. This in turn has…
Kompilace skutečností
Během dvou horkých týdnů na přelomu května a června 2019 se v Praze konal program platformy Magic Carpets, která působí přes evropské hranice…
Engaged Tbilisi
In this account of his visit to the 3rd Tbilisi International Triennial in Georgia (1 October – 1 November 2018,…
The Migration of Experiences
The magic carpet that features in One Thousand and One Nights allows its user to travel instantaneously from one place to…