During Open Studios Stavanger & Sandnes, renowned writer and curator Hettie Judah shared her thoughts on the meeting point of artistic practice and life. The recorded conversation, hosted by CAS Director and Editor Sofie B. Ringstad, spans themes such as parenthood in the art world, flexibility traps and what success as an artist might look like, while drawing on Judah's years of research and writing on these topics.

Trude Bekk og Tom Teulons Sublime Synastesthesia løfter noen presise spørsmål om menneskers omgang med, og imaginære avstand fra, naturen. Enkelte verk setter spor hos CAS-redaktør og kritiker Sofie B. Ringstad, men helheten ved det unike visningsstedet Fotland mølle defineres av en skissepreget utstillingslogikk.

Med utstillingen Døperen Johannes alle sine kranier gjør den svensk-norske kunstneren Markus Lantto det slitte visningsstedet V E K S L E om til en katedral. Den består ikke av gullbelagte utskjæringer, ornamentikk eller intrikate blyglassvinduer, men av finérplater, biter av gamle møbler, broderier og et skittent overlysvindu.

Digging in to nooks and corners of queer discourse, and analyzing the problematic notion of trans as contagious, former CAS resident writer Amelia Groom has contributed an extensive, profound essay to Tender Endings: A new book contextualizing Stavanger-based artist Anette Gellein's work, in connection with their current solo show at Kunsthall Stavanger. Read on for a provocative and arresting take on historical and current gendering – and what it might mean to be "born this way".

In this edition of our Impact / Inntrykk series – personal texts remembering a single artwork – CAS International Editor Heather Jones recounts her first time seeing 5000 Feet is the Best by Omer Fast. As the former wife of a US Army soldier deployed to Iraq, the video work made her question: What can art do, if its audience is refusing to see what the work is trying to show?

Kritiker Siren Løkaas har besøkt Frode Felipe Schjelderups soloutstilling To Be Or To Not Be på Bryne kunstforening. Her møter hun et omfattende fiksjonsunivers av metal, populærkultur, outsiderfigurer og tilbakevendende karakterer. Men hvordan finner man veien inn i en verden som allerede har sin egen historie?