This interview with Aldo Tambellini, who has been described as a pioneer of intermedia art, appeared in a special issue of Flash Art Italia dedicated to intermedia art, featuring one of Tambellini’s lumagrams (hand-painted slides) on the cover.
Continue reading Primitives of a New Era
Focused on her experience in self-publishing artist books, this interview with artist and poet Elisabeth Tonnard was commissioned for the Friends with Books blog on the occasion of the art book fair at Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin (20-22 September 2019). Continue reading Elisabeth Tonnard: Friends with Books
The most relevant Venice Biennial he has seen was Francesco Bonami’s mad experiment when he had nine co-curators each do a separate section. It played with the format of the Biennale in a very radical way. Talking to Ralph Rugoff about his coming central exhibition May you live in interesting times at the Venice Biennial of 2019. ‘There’s a type of political art which promotes a particular point of view and to me that’s the opposite of what art does.’ Continue reading A conversation with Ralph Rugoff
This conversation with filmmaker, comics writer, tarot specialist and healer Alejandro Jodorowsky took place in his apartment in Paris – in the presence of his partner Pascale Montandon and his cat Dulce – ahead of the premiere of his new feature-length unclassifiable film “Psychomagic, an art to heal”, 2019. Continue reading Alejandro Jodorowsky
Cuban artist Tania Bruguera’s exhibition “10,142,926” takes over Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall this fall with a series of works and interventions, including a heat-sensitive floor that uses the warmth of visitors’ bodies to reveal the portrait of a young man. In an adjacent gallery, a substance that induces tears is diffused in the air. Agnieszka Gratza spoke to the Cuban artist on the occasion of the exhibition.
Continue reading Tania Bruguera: Where Art Can Work
The Baltic region is a lens for looking at change and how a society reintegrates globally, restructures economically and re-negotiates its identity after having suffered occupation and oppression from a foreign power. Continue reading In Conversation with Katerina Gregos
Adrienne and I have conceived of the two programs Afroglossia and Circulations on their own, but we have sometimes posed similar questions that can be addressed through performance. With the Glass House but also Marching On—a project with Mabel Wilson and Bryony Roberts commissioned by Storefront for Art and Architecture—political questions of identity were very much our concern. Continue reading Performa 17: Afroglossia and Circulations
Attempts to Read the World (Differently) is an umbrella project that has many different strands, in which you took part either with other artists or on your own, with Display Show which morphed into Another Reality. After Lina Bo Bardi at Stroom den Haag. And you’re about to do a show there involving spinning tops and carousels. Continue reading Céline Condorelli
Conversation Pieces 