For the publication that will appear on the occasion of the Austrian contribution to the
Biennale Arte 2022 Jakob Lena Knebl and Ashley Hans Scheirl have conceived a glossy magazine
entitled Soft Machine. Adopting various retro-styles from the history of graphic design the
magazine as a medium offers the opportunity to contextualise the complex artistic approaches
and at the same time to share the stage with designers theoreticians sponsors and
production partners. In addition to texts it will also feature interviews on current
discourses and photo spreads that afford insight into the dazzling and profound intellectual
worlds of Jakob Lena Knebl and Ashley Hans Scheirl and their inspirations. Text: Gerald Bast
Hussein Chalayan Attilia Fattori Franchini Daniel Kalt Guilherme Pires Mata Markus Pires
Mata Susanne Neuburger Monica Titton Thomas D Trummer Barbara Urbanic.
