Dust #27

DUST Magazine is a Berlin-based fashion and art publication determined to make a bold and different statement. A significant part of this means according much more freedom to contributing artists to express their ideas and aesthetics.

Issue #27 In The Dark Times, Will There Also Be Singing - Summer 2025

“In the dark times, will there also be singing?” “yes, there will be singing. about the dark times.”

This issue takes its title from a line by bertolt brecht, written in exile as fascism spread across europe and the idea of a shared future collapsed. it wasn’t meant as comfort, but as a method of resistance. you don’t sing to escape the darkness—you sing within it. to name it. to resist erasure. to stay awake.

Today, darkness no longer shocks—it numbs. through manipulation. through repetition. through images that blur more than they reveal. politics becomes performance. mood replaces meaning. critique dissolves before it can take shape.

So what does it mean to sing now? perhaps it means holding form where form is meant to collapse. not to inspire or reassure, but to remain present. lucid. clear-eyed. resistant.