Category: Interview
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Vic McEwan: ‘I played a paddle-steamer to an audience of 1,000 and used a hospital bed as a cello’
The artist Vic McEwan talks about his project on the swan hoppers of the Murrumbidgee river in Australia, and working with Alder Hey children’s hospital in Liverpool to consider the negative effects of high sound levels in wards. He hopes,…
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Jesse Jones: Tremble Tremble – Venice Biennale 2017
Gender inequality was one of many human rights issues that artists wrestled with at the 57th Venice Biennale, with one of the most powerful statements coming from the Irish pavilion, in the Arsenale. Here, artist and film-maker Jesse Jones has…
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Alexandra Dementieva: ‘All art is an interactive game. I am offering the viewer an opportunity to take an active part in the work’
Don’t come to Alexandra Dementieva’s exhibition with the hope of being a passive spectator. As she explains, her aim is to draw the visitor in to her installations, to engage them in public performance
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Evgenia Arbugaeva: ‘I’m always making up stories and believing in magic’
The Russian photographer Evgenia Arbugaeva spins gold from the light of desolate places, finding beauty in some unlikely environments
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Esther Rolinson: ‘Light has an immediacy. We are literally woken up by it’
The multimedia artist Esther Rolinson talks about her exhibition Gravitate at Watermans Art Centre, the allure of light and its qualities as an artistic material, the significance of collaborative work and the incessant movement of her art-making
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Afruz Amighi: ‘I wanted to make a procession of characters that embodied both good and bad’
In No More Disguise, Afruz Amighi’s first show of drawings, the New York-based artist discusses the creative impulse she experienced following the 2016 US election, and the role of American history in her most personal work to date
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Willow Hai: ‘The jade burial suit is the single most important object in the show – and the best in China’
Willow Hai, director of the China Institute in New York, talks about its current show, Dreams of the Kings, a spectacular collection of treasures from the Han dynasty, including possibly the earliest dated jade burial suit in existence
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George Drivas: Laboratory of Dilemmas – Venice Biennale 2017
For the 57th Venice Biennale, Greek artist George Drivas offers his customary blend of architecture and film in a narrative video installation that explores the resonances between an ancient story by Aeschylus, involving a group of women seeking asylum, and…
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Henri Scars Struck: ‘It was interesting for me to have a physical space to represent something that is completely abstract’
Henri Scars Struck, the French music composer known for his meditative sonic experiences, discusses his soundscape for the Crow Collection of Asian Art in Dallas, which charts the journey of a soul
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Jodie Carey: ‘I like my works to be imbued with a silence and a stillness’
Jodie Carey talks about her developing practice, the impact of motherhood, her concerns with mortality and the fragility of human life, and her redefinition of the monumental
