“This issue of Simulacrum is focused around the question of ‘What’s the use?’ and its many interpretations from contributing writers and artists, exploring the multifaceted layers of how usefulness in art defines our relationships with our existence around us. The concept of “use” intricately weaves itself into our interactions with the surrounding world and art. From the everyday tasks of making our beds, going to work, to cutting our vegetables: the utilisation of objects and activities provides us with a tangibility to the sense of their nature.”
Vol.32 #3 of this thematic quarterly magazine, this issue explores usefulness, meaning and function, with contributions by Mic Jones, Liesl Braat, Neža Kokol, Rover Indigo Bertels-Andréa, Vita Ostendorf, Hamid Mosaddegh, Liza Wolters & Hilde Onis, Merthe Voorhoeve, and Shreya de Souza, text in English and Dutch.
Held together with a rubber band, 27,5 x 11,6 cm, 54 pages, ed/375, Amsterdam 2024
ISNN: 0929-7480
