Melodie Mousset
Patrick Steffen: There’s always a giant leap between your last work and the next one. Melodie Mousset: I am not preaching…
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Mladen Stilinovič
When I started making artworks about work, like Work is Disease (Karl Marx) (1981), in Yugoslavia it was interpreted in…
Johanna Billing
Melissa Gronlund: Your films and events bring up a number of questions concerning authorship, the particularity of media and public sociality,…
Rodney Graham
Matthew Shields: As an autodidact, you join a long and storied lineage that includes Leo Tolstoy, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville,…
Hanne Darboven
An innumerable amountof sheets, coherent sequences of pages filled with sketches, notes, fragments of texts, recorded on graph and typewriter…
Imran Qureshi
Lucy Rees: How did you first become interested in miniature painting? Tell me about your training. Imran Qureshi: When I first…
State of Emergency
It was the early ’70s when Henry Kissinger referred to Bangladesh as an “international basket case,” which in turn was…
Seung-Taek Lee
Hans Ulrich Obrist: I would like to ask about your epiphany, how it all started, how art came to you.…
Charles Ray
Umberta Genta: Do you have an obsessive personality? I can’t help wondering about it when I look at the extreme perfection…
Llyn Foulkes
Maurizio Cattelan: This might not be the best way to start, but I have to ask you, what’s with all…
The Body Electric
Patrick Steffen: I recently spoke with Simone Forti about the legacy of postmodern dance, and she told me that one…
Conceptual Pop
Umberta Genta: What makes your work ironic, seductive and somehow serious at the same time? Stefan Brüggemann: Irony is another way…
Subversion through Inefficiency
One of the key concepts in Cruzvillegas’ work is “self-building,” which refers to the way that much housing in Third-World…
Heavy Bag
Vincent Szarek’s latest work, Heavy Bag (2012), is a symbolic talisman evoking an ostentatious excitement that combines a deep love…
Dark and Deadpan
Pop Art was brilliant in its ability to mirror society — to reflect not only the shiny, colorful plasticity of…
Vanessa Safavi
Andreas Schlaegel: Your works appear to communicate exceptionally well in images. Vanessa Safavi: I suppose so, but it also has…