An annual print publication dedicated to the exploration of art, design and culture from the balkans and beyond.
From fossilised alien bodies to the dawn of hyper-intelligence, recent discoveries are seeming less like a break-through and more like a revelation of our relentless attempts at eliminating uncertainty entirely. Trusting our own selective memories and versions of the past, the ‘unknown’ is often perceived as something that lies in the future, not something that has already happened. In this issue, BADLAND unpacks the past and pick at the cracks in what we try to define as reality — documenting our obsessions, our wanting to leave our mark, and our need for cataloguing, conservation, and classification.