The Year of Magical Discipline. A Conversation with Dozie Kanu
An oracle mumbles the dreams of a Beautiful wanderer Obliterating fear From a single memory archive Spiraling diamond Sparkle Sun…
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Cutting Up the World. A Conversation with Gray Wielebinski
Perhaps appropriately for an interview on a cold, dark, January evening, the first question I ask Gray Wielebinski is one…
All the Images will Disappear. A Conversation with Rebecca Ackroyd
A blood-red carpet, ghostly body parts infused with lurid blues and pastel pinks that are weighted to heavy wooden furniture,…
Copies of Copies, I Which I Then Copy Again. A Conversation with Motoko Ishibashi
Art history lectures frequently begin with an image of the Venus of Willendorf. The ancient fertility sculpture, with its exaggerated…
Gina Fischli: Ugly Feelings
Gina Fischli’s work revels in unattractive feelings that commercial and art institutions consider invalid or just too small to matter:…
Rusted Deja Blue. A Conversation with Duval Timothy
Grace Wales Bonner: I just came back from Germany; I was there with Adidas. The show in Paris was really…
Diane Severin Nguyen: Re-Enactment, Acting, Action
I spent a couple of weeks living with Diane Severin Nguyen in an Airbnb in Shanghai. She mostly took me…
Barbara Kruger: Speak Louder
On first receiving the commission to write a profile on Barbara Kruger, my mind flashed to her piece Untitled (Your…
Sophie Jung: They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
On top of a gorgeous hangover, Sophie Jung had no clean clothes, so she rocked up looking like shit, quite…
I Think I Don’t Want to Lie. A Conversation with Elle Pérez.
Elle Pérez is punk; they don’t have a shaved head or stomp around in bondage pants (although I’m sure they…
Heji Shin: A Portrait of the Artist as a Monkey’s Ass.
Heji Shin is going to accept everything and just be very positive. She is bored of provocation. The photographs that…
The Fabric of Time. A conversation with Eric N. Mack
Kiko Kostadinov: I was thinking about Prada. When I had the privilege to interview Olivier Rizzo almost seven years ago,…
Seaworthy: Ransacking and Looting SoHo >> Marseilles. A Conversation with Hannah Black.
How do we swim in the same direction? Free will is conceivable when humans are liberated from determination and can…
Farah Al Qasimi: Assortment of Truths
I first stumbled upon Farah Al Qasimi’s work on Instagram. I’m not one to invoke my “identity” as a rationale…
Rineke Dijkstra: Face-à-Face: Portraiture, Faciality, and Mirroring
Dutch photographer Rineke Dijkstra’s recent three-channel video installation Night Watching (2019) offers one of the most entertaining and compelling examples…
Rhea Dillon: Viewing Altered Grounds
Rhea Dillon is an artist whose work spans video, painting, sculpture, writing, live performance, and even olfaction. I first met…