Ursula is the art magazine of Hauser & Wirth, featuring essays, profiles, films, interviews, original portfolios, and photography by some of the most thought-provoking writers and artists in the world.
Ursula: Issue 10
Each copy of Ursula No. 10 includes an exclusive, limited-release seven-inch vinyl record, featuring two previously unreleased compositions from Caroline Shaw and Andrew Yee’s film score of Wu Tsang’s Moby Dick; or, The Whale.
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Language
English
Size
230 x 305 mm
Pages
152
Publication Date
Spring 2024
From the Editor
“This issue of Ursula, our tenth, wasn’t meant to be about artificial intelligence. But, like most things in the culture these days, it became so almost inevitably.
‘For the computer,’ artist Raphaël Siboni says in the cover story, ‘time is not a line but a surface. There are no sequential events and therefore there is no present. There are only patterns of data, patterns of behavior that are statistically matched and compared.’ The implications of this rapidly expanding statistical surface for knowledge, human progress, employment, politics, art and even religion resound through this issue.
The artist Josh Kline and the playwright Will Arbery take up the possibility that AI-related white-collar job losses could, within a short period of time, empower the far right. The Belgian artist Berlinde De Bruyckere, whose work is deeply bound up with the body speaks with the Venetian Benedictine monk Stefano Visintin about a pivotal difference, at least for now, between the human and the virtual: the analog faculties of our body, our flesh-and-blood capacity for emotion, smell, touch and taste.
In that spirit, we have included inside this issue a special, unequivocally analog gift for readers’ ears and eyes: a vinyl recording containing two original songs composed and recorded by Caroline Shaw and Andrew Yee for the artist Wu Tsang’s acclaimed film adaptation of Melville’s Moby-Dick.”
—Randy Kennedy, Editor in Chief
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Featured in This Issue
An Everlasting Itch for Things Remote
Wu Tsang, Fred Moten and Laura Harris on Tsang’s film Moby Dick; or, The Whale and the enduring power of Melville, accompanied by a custom vinyl record featuring two previously unreleased compositions by Caroline Shaw and Andrew Yee from the film’s score.
A Record of Existing
Discover five poems by Anna Maria Maiolino, translated into English for the first time, paired with a selection of photographs from her personal collection.
Jazz Church
Revisiting Verena Loewensberg’s City-Discount, a fabled Zurich record shop, with a series of specially commissioned drawings by illustrator Nicholas Blechman.