Category: Video Interview
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Hansjörg Mayer – interview: ‘To handle and open and read the books … that to me is a very important thing’
Poet, typographer and publisher Hansjörg Mayer and the computer art pioneer Frieder Nake talk us through this major exhibition of Mayer’s works from concrete poetry to radical typography to artists’ publications
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David Roberts Art Foundation’s Evening of Performances
Haroon Mirza, Jack Jelfs, Gaika and Hannah Perry were among nine international artists performing to a packed house at the London nightclub Ministry of Sound during the city’s Frieze Week. The evening’s event was curated by Louise O’Kelly, founding director…
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David Nash – interview: ‘The world of nature, the environment, weather, time and space is so rich, you have to engage with it’
The Welsh-based land artist talks of his early years, the evolution of his process, the importance of dialogue with materials and the need for his work to communicate the spirit and materials of its place
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AlanJames Burns: ‘I’m embedding the cave with an assumed consciousness that is Mother Earth’
Burns guides us around the cave where his latest installation is taking place and explains that, historically, caves have played a vital role in the simultaneous evolution of consciousness and creativity
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David Lewis, Billy Gerard Frank: Epic Memory – Venice Biennale 2019
Two quite different artists who have distinct and diverse relationships with the islands of Grenada and its people meditate on the impact these roots have had on their work and their identities
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Kevork Mourad: the making of Seeing Through Babel
We visited Mourad at the Ismaili Centre in London to witness the creation of his latest work, a six-metre hanging sculpture. He explains the ideas behind it and the techniques he uses
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Shirley Tse: Stakeholders – Venice Biennale 2019
The artist talks about accommodation and negotiation as expressed in her Venice installation, Stakeholders: a multi-dimensional sculpture using hand turned wood and 3D printed elements
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Remy Jungerman and Iris Kensmil: The Measurement of Presence – Venice Biennale 2019
Jungerman and Kensmil’s installations for the Dutch Pavilion explore issues of race, identity, culture, history and art history. Here, at the opening of the show, Jungerman talks about the sources of his work in Dutch and European modernism, Winti, an…
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Shu Lea Cheang: 3x3x6 – Venice Biennale 2019
Shu Lea Cheang’s multi-media installation for Venice uses its ancient prison setting well to explore the biographies of historical and contemporary sex offences, and ponder the impacts of today’s omnipresent digital surveillance
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Leonor Antunes: a seam, a surface, a hinge or a knot – Venice Biennale 2019
Leonor Antunes combines her sculpture and craft to open up conversations within architectural spaces. Here she discusses the 20th-century figures, both known and lesser known, who inspired her Portugal installation for the Venice Biennale
