Spike Art Magazine #86

"Spike #86 is turning to the wild season of youth lifes Salad Days. Forget all the Boomer panic about a generational crisis; the kids are alright, living out our hyperconnected present to its strangest limits. New kinds of aesthetics, of activism, of entrepreneurship; new images as much as new perspectives on what images are; and, above all, a new, very quantum attitude towards fact and fiction, history and the future: young people are modeling how to be in our very confused times and producing some of the most interesting forms of culture weve ever seen. Featuring a Zoomers guide to the Slopgeneration; an essay of on being young at art in the Instagram age; a rundown of contemporary arts nepo babies; reality checks on cultures obsessions with youth and dying young; portraits of couture-sculptor Tenant of Culture, Turner Prize-nominated photographer Rene Mati, e-waste sculptor Brian Oakes, and Austrian painter Lukas Posch; send-ups of teenage fictions ecstatic weirdness and youth-quakers political promise; a critique from Silicon Valley of the industrialization of young risk-taking; arts perfect Los Angeles metaphor; and a splash of back-page advice: You shouldnt be fun at twenty-one. You should be tortured. "