Category: Video Interview
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Emily Peasgood: Halfway to Heaven
Emily Peasgood’s sound piece Halfway to Heaven is set in a Baptist graveyard, a high hump of soil, weeds and tumbling headstones wedged between a road and a terrace of houses. Studio International talked to her about its inspiration and…
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Studio Ben Allen: The Clearing
On the first floor cafe/bar of Folkestone’s Quarterhouse, a performance venue for music, theatre, dance and comedy, architect Ben Allen has created an ornate gothic pavilion as a “visitor centre” for the triennial. The Clearing was inspired by a request…
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Maryam Najd: ‘I became interested in reaching a certain perfectionism in how you use paint’
Iranian-born artist Maryam Najd talks about identity and culture in her practice, her love of materials and her Non Existence Flag Project, which was due to be exhibited in Beijing this autumn, until the Chinese Ministry of Education banned the…
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Simon Patterson: ‘It’s about you filling in the gaps … the viewer completes the work and keeps changing it’
Simon Patterson talks about his show Safari: An Exhibition as Expedition, at the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill-on-Sea, and about the concepts that inform his work
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Harold Cohen: ‘I was probably the only person who considered the computer to be potentially an autonomous art-making entity’
Pioneer of computer art Harold Cohen died last year at the age of 87. In 2015, in one of the last interviews of his life, he talked to Studio International about his long career
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Stephen Chambers: The Court of Redonda – Venice Biennale 2017
UK artist Stephen Chambers talks about looking for the extraordinary within the ordinary, about the appeal of fictional kingdoms, the relationship between art and literature, and being led by his instincts to do what he ‘can’t help doing’
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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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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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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
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Tadaaki Kuwayama: ‘Here is only the art itself’
Japanese-born artist Tadaaki Kuwayama recounts his refusal to dictate how spectators should view his work, his visual dialogue with Frank Stella, and the desire to void his art of meaning
