TOPIC

Long-term responsibility

2 articles from all sections, newest first.

ESSAY

Art for timescales beyond human lives

What does responsibility mean when the consequences of human technology outlast human memory? Emilija Škarnulytė’s exhibition “Arrow of Time” poses this question between a decommissioned nuclear power plant and planetary time – while also showing what art can and cannot contribute.

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EDITORIAL

Against the finished story

An archive does not preserve an entire event; a diagnosis does not explain a person. Our week in culture explores the limits of storytelling — and why we need them. An editorial by Bernd Bartolome.

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