Category: Video Interview
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Samson Young: Songs for Disaster Relief – Venice Biennale 2017
Samson Young’s Venice Biennale collateral event for Hong Kong explores the disquieting cocktail of components that comprise the charity single. He talks about the power of music, fake news and what our cultural products say about human nature
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Tom Phillips: ‘I’m still reading books. Nothing changes and everything changes’
Tom Phillips talks about his love of words, the human drive to make marks and the more spiritual side of his work
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Nathaniel Mellors and Erkka Nissinen: The Aalto Natives – Venice Biennale 2017
Mellors and Nissinen represent Finland at this year’s Venice Biennale. They discuss handmade puppets, homemade film sets, creation myths involving eggs, the flimsy narratives on which national identities are built, and whether you have to love something in order to…
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Rachel Maclean: Spite Your Face – Venice Biennale 2017
Rachel Maclean is representing Scotland at the Venice Biennale with her new film, a dark fairytale titled Spite Your Face. She talked to us before the biennale about the film, nationalism, fairytales, and how narratives can be so powerful that…
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Ipek Duben: ‘I’m suggesting, with this project, that we should stop to listen’
Turkish artist Ipek Duben discusses her work THEY/ONLAR, a multiscreen video installation previously seen at SALT, Istanbul, and now showing for the first time in the UK
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James Capper: the making of Six Step
We visited James Capper over the course of four months, first filming him in his London studio where he explained the initial concept for his sculpture Six Step and finally following him to its installation at the Venice Biennale in…
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Sam Cornish: ‘We started with this idea that all works would have to contain repetition, sequence and symmetry’
The co-curator of Kaleidoscope: Colour and Sequence in 1960s British Art discusses how this relatively unsung period in art history was characterised by more than just bright colours and glossy surfaces
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Norman Hyams: ‘I very much believe in losing a painting and finding it’
Norman Hyams talked to Studio International about his painting process before the opening of his first solo show for 10 years, Ethos at The Hannah Barry Gallery in south London
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Saad Qureshi: ‘You can’t really pick your medium. Your medium picks you’
Saad Qureshi talks about his seduction by charcoal, his fear of being exposed, and his creation of mindscapes from his own and others’ memories
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Oliver Beer – interview: ‘We are very fortunate to live in a time when there is complete fluidity between mediums’
Oliver Beer uses sound, film and sculpture to explore the physical properties and emotional value of objects and places. We interview the artist as two new solo exhibitions open in the UK
