Storm Girl. A Conversation with Elizabeth Jaeger
“I alone (well, probably not) know the great secret of this existence, and I’ll have to live out the rest…
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How You’re Supposed to Be. A Conversation with Sylvie Hayes-Wallace
Sylvie Hayes-Wallace makes work by way of accumulation: out of the “ephemera” of living, out of emotional pain, selves and…
Submit to the Black Compost. 1 A Conversation with Rirkrit Tiravanija
I unfolded the letter and read the contents. The letter is a xeroxed copy. The first line of the letter…
Ass to Mouth Forever! A Conversation with Bárbara Sánchez-Kane
Engineering school in Mexico, tailoring school in Florence, an apprenticeship with fashion designer Bernhard Willhelm in California, followed by the…
Green Pill: Brook Hsu
“Everything is fiction,” Brook Hsu has said, “but fiction is also one of the most powerful things for us to…
Lutz Bacher: What is X?
A profile of Lutz Bacher requires reimagining what a profile is, which is just fine because her art asks similar…
As a Stranger Give it Welcome. A Conversation with Amanda Ziemele
“Either this is madness, or it is hell.” “It is neither,” calmly replied the voice of the Sphere, “it is…
An Illegible World. Sung Tieu
Sung Tieu has a studio in a leafy courtyard in Berlin’s Wedding district, where an assistant is busy scrubbing old…
MY HAND, MY HEART, MY ART. A Conversation with Judy Chicago
I get a call from Judy Chicago’s studio manager while I’m washing the dishes in my flat. She asks if…
Peter Fischli: Quality
In The Right Way (1987), one in a series of films co-directed by Peter Fischli and David Weiss, a rat…
Accidental Composition. A Conversation with Paride Maria Calvia
Fittingly, the first time I “met” Paride Maria Calvia was when I worked in Donlon Books in London. From the…
WHERE’S THE ROMANCE? A Conversation with Peter Shire
As Peter Shire describes it, it’s “just another bucolic afternoon in Echo Park, Los Angeles, with the cars making whooshing…
Sin Wai Kin: Dreaming Before Language
1. Can a Word Contain the World? Language shapes reality; this much we know is true. On a good day,…
Diamond Stingily: Everybody Is Bronze
Diamond Stingily is a great storyteller. The first time I met her, she came over to the loft where I…
I Am a Stream of Consciousness
“Essentially, there are only two things in my life: spiritual practice and work,” LuYang tells me with the help of…
Klára Hosnedlová: World Weaver
The pattern best employed to express the generation of life and energy thrown from the motion of its development is…