Category: Video Interview
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Cyril de Commarque: ‘I believe in a new renaissance of thinking’
The French artist has converted a grain barge into an artwork to sail the Thames, blasting out a soundtrack of revolution and hosting conferences with leading thinkers on philosophy, economics and nanotechnology. He welcomed Studio International on board
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Paul Carter: ‘There’s an invitation that only takes you so far’
Entering the gallery, visitors enter a new world – a liminal space, with an empty lift, piss-stained walls, and a municipal blue hotel sign on a cracked concrete wall. The artist explains his interest in civic architecture as social sculpture…
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Xu Yong – interview: ‘Negatives act as witness’
Twenty-five years after Tiananmen Square, the Beijing-based photographer took the brave decision to publish his images of the event in negative form. Here, he talks about his work
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Cui Xiuwen: Light
Cui Xiuwen is a conceptual artist best known internationally as a video film-maker and photographer. A creator of progressive and provocative work, she began her career as a painter and has recently returned to making paintings and sculpture, exploring contemporary…
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Francesca Pasquali: ‘I have a contemporary view of art, so I want to draw materials from the world around me’
The Bolognese artist uses everyday materials and plastics to replicate natural folds and textures in a manner akin to the ideas of arte povera. Currently in London for two exhibitions, she speaks to Studio International about her inspirations and aspirations
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Jennifer Wen Ma – interview: ‘Throughout history, humans have been trying to break into or out of a paradise or utopia’
The artist talks about her new installation, Molar, at Cass Sculpture Foundation, created as a place of reflection on a disintegrating utopia
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Claire Shea: ‘We were really keen to look at an expanded definition of sculpture’
Studio International spoke to the foundation’s curatorial director, Claire Shea, about the concepts behind its first international group exhibition, comparing the differing landscape aesthetics and exploring the wider socio-political context in which the artists are working.
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Rana Begum: ‘I love using readymade materials in the work’
Studio International visited Rana Begum in her studio in north-east London to talk to her about her creative process, and the works she has prepared for her first solo UK exhibition at Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art
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Cory Arcangel – interview: ‘Making art is just basically dowsing’
The Brooklyn-based artist talks about his latest show at the Lisson Gallery in London, billed as ‘a technological exploration of obsession and obsolescence’
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Elizabeth Price: ‘I’m interested in music and the voice because it brings a very different sensual and emotional register to the work’
Studio International visited Elizabeth Price in her studio in south-east London to talk to her about her work A Restoration, made for the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford
