Transformative Potential of Social Spaces. A Conversation with Akeem Smith
It’s hard to circumscribe a figure like Akeem Smith: fashion designer, stylist, visual artist. From an early age he absorbed…
It’s hard to circumscribe a figure like Akeem Smith: fashion designer, stylist, visual artist. From an early age he absorbed…
“Wearing your heart on your sleeve shows courage” – or so goes my psychotherapist’s favourite dictum. And though bravery is…
Andrea Lissoni: Let’s start from your new commission for Tai Kwun Contemporary in Hong Kong, “One Hundred Nine Minus” 一…
Agnieszka Kurant’s complex conceptual practice can be described in many ways: as research into the invisible, as a study of…
In installations with multi-channel sound sources, Mobarak mixes the words of her polyglot father, whose memory is failing, with the…
With an almost uncannily timely relevance, Pakui Hardware’s most recent body of work delves into remote healthcare technologies and services:…
In the nineteenth century, Karl Marx declared that the “engine of history” was the working class, ushering in revolutions. In…
Crisis engulfs Emily Segal. Several years after the Great Recession, Segal is freshly unemployed and has moved out of her…
Andrea Bellini: Dear Federico, let’s start from the very end, that is to say, from the end of the world.…
“Allow me, then, as we part company at this threshold [barzakh], to break the contract between one absurdity and another.”1…
Douglas Fogle: About the mattresses… Kaari Upson: I saw them as this intermission, a project between two very large acts, a…
Caterina Barbieri is an Italian musician and composer. She completed her studies at the Conservatory of Bologna and then at…
Over the last few months I’ve had several important encounters with swans, geese, and ducks. We humans, now outside our…
Andrea Lissoni: How are you doing? Fatima Al Qadiri: I’m good. I just finished a big project, so it’s my…
Hou Hanru: When I first visited her studio, Cao Fei had just graduated from the art academy. Her parents were…
Eleonora Milani: Let’s start from the beginning. How did you start dancing and become a choreographer? Has it been a…