#6 Social Club Members Newsletter

Dear Social Club Members!

Just in time for the close of 2025, we’re here one last time with this year’s members newsletter to say thank you to all our supportive CO subscribers. Without you, it wouldn’t be possible to commission and seek out talented writers, artists and designers, or to continue bringing you fresh perspectives and new obsessions to dive into.

To keep you inspired and in good company during the cosy winter break, we’ve gathered a selection of new articles for your holiday reading.

See you in 2026. ✨

CONVERSATION BETWEEN CRAFTS

Interview by Dominika Szmidt

Ideas rarely sit still in the minds and hands of artists. They shift, expand, and gather new meanings, especially as they pass from one person to the next. OTHERSELVES is built upon this very principle: a dialogue across three crafts. What begins as a drawing evolves into a carved gemstone and eventually becomes a necklace once suspended from a chain. Each piece becomes a product of three interpretations, three imaginations, and three pairs of hands shaping a single idea.

Born from passion, talent, and technical mastery, OTHERSELVES stands as a testament to what can happen when three creatives combine their energies toward a shared concept. Noon Passama, Suthipa Kamyam, and Detelina Ivanova do not merely contribute to a piece – they reinterpret one another’s work.

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FROM THE MIDDLE AGES TO VIRAL MEMES OF LOCKTOBER

Article by Miguel Garchitorena & Elena Zaghis

This collaborative article by Garchitorena and Zaghis is a bawdy and rambunctious read, chronicling the history of the chastity belt from its satirical inception to its contemporary use in the online manosphere.

The chastity belt was first mentioned in Bellifortis, Konrad Kyeser’s 1405 war manual that humorously depicts military magic, absurd siege weapons, and wall-scaling devices – essentially a medieval shitpost compendium. It was satire, a joke about paranoid husbands, never an actual historical practice. It doubled as a metaphor marking the transition from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, suggesting a refinement of noble values. The belt itself, however, was always fiction.

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EARRINGS AS MONUMENTS TO LOVE AND LOSS

Interview by Lara Chapman

Earrings are some of the smallest objects we own. Their humble size makes them easy to overlook. Their complex stories and meanings can be lost, given away or packed up and forgotten in the nooks and crannies where they are stored. But what happens when a pair of earrings is blown up in scale? What would a 2-metre earring look like? What stories would it reveal?

These are some of the questions that artist Monica Rani Rudhar (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) explores in her deeply personal art practice, which revolves around creating oversized terracotta sculptures of jewellery that has been passed down, gifted or sold in her family.

Continue reading here. (Öffnet in neuem Fenster)

UPCOMING

• Munich Jewellery Week 2026 (Öffnet in neuem Fenster)

• Digital Publishing 2026: a series of 12 new articles on the theme of Underworld

• Current Obsession Store: (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) new featured artists

As always, we would love to hear from you in case you have any membership related questions at veronika@current-obsession.com (Öffnet in neuem Fenster)!