Tag: film
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Emma Critchley – interview: ‘Being underwater where everything completely shifts interested me’
She has worked with dancers in the world’s deepest swimming pool, with scientists investigating glacial retreats and others investigating the effect of noise pollution on the oceans’ inhabitants. She explains how her work responds to environmental crises
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Alberta Whittle – interview: ‘No one can find Barbados on a map, whereas everyone can find the UK. That level of inattention galvanises so much of my work ’
The artist talks about the erasure of black people in everyday society, and how this informs and motivates her to challenge herself, and her audience, with her filmic and performative installations
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Hetain Patel – interview: ‘What does it do growing up to see that the only heroic version of masculinity I can be is white’
Known for performance art that mixes superheroes such as Spider-Man with the Gujarati traditions of his family, Patel explains why Eddie Murphy and The Simpsons influence him more than the arts and why he struggles to be seen as a…
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The impact of Covid-19 on artists, part 4: artistic responses to the coronavirus and the prescient zeitgeist
In the fourth instalment of this five-part essay, comprising conversations with artists around the world, we look at the work artists have made in response to the coronavirus, and the prescient zeitgeist
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Steve McQueen
The vision of artist and film-maker Steve McQueen is bold and thought-provoking in this challenging exhibition
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Yasumasa Morimura: Ego Obscura, Tokyo 2020
In his search for ‘the self’, Morimura takes on the guise of well-known historical figures and characters as he explores postwar Japan and the politics of power
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Christine Rebet– interview: ‘Animation is perfect for critique: it is a minor medium, it’s not film; like drawing is not painting’
Studio International spoke to Rebet at the opening of Time Levitation, her first solo show in the UK, at Parasol unit, London
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Mikhail Karikis – interview: ‘I have never cried during filming until this project’
Karikis has filmed children, teenagers, elderly female pearl divers and others on the margins on society. He talks about his aims and his latest project, at De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill, which focuses on carers
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Andrea Luka Zimmerman – interview: ‘This is how I work in films, it’s really a layering, like an archaeological dig’
Luka Zimmerman talks about her interest in people on the margins, her collaborative process, and that fine line between reality and fiction, explored in her latest film, Here for Life
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This Is What It Is to Be Happy
What is it to be happy in an age where mental health problems are so prevalent? How can communing with nature, externalising the internal – both metaphorically and literally – help with this? This slickly curated three-person show delves deep,…
