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Biopolitics and Coloniality in the Pandemic: An Interview with Luiza Prado de O. Martins

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by Benjamin Busch // Aug. 07, 2020

Examining themes around fertility, reproduction, coloniality, gender and race, Luiza Prado de O. Martin’s artistic and research practice urgently critiques the biopolitical structures that underpin everyday life…[read on]

Against Extractivism: An Interview with Fannie Sosa

by Alison Hugill // Aug. 04, 2020

Fannie Sosa is an afro-sudaka activist, artist and scholar whose work focusses on pleasure and its transmission as a radical act of resistance. In 2016, they launched ‘A White Institution’s Guide for Welcoming Artists…[read on]

Subcultural Identities and Modern Myth-Making: An Interview with Victoria E Pullen

by Elizabeth Schippers // July 28, 2020

With her recently created digital artist book, ‘“Victoria” to “Verlaine”’, Victoria E Pullen explores the ways in which we create modern myths surrounding subcultural practices in the music scene, art world and online fandoms…[read on]

On Extraction and Regeneration: An Interview with Otobong Nkanga

by Elizabeth Schippers // July 24, 2020

Otobong Nkanga, born in Kano, Nigeria, currently lives and works in Antwerp. Her multidisciplinary art practice focusses on the complex relationship between land and its inhabitants. Her exhibition ‘There is No Such Thing…[read on]

Embracing the Glitch: An Interview with Legacy Russell

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by William Kherbek // July 10, 2020

Legacy Russell is a curator, artist and the author of the forthcoming book ‘Glitch Feminism’. Russell’s book, to be released by Verso Books in September, is a manifesto and an exploration of the role that art…[read on]

Towards a Transversal Pedagogy: Ahmet Ögüt and the Silent University

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by Cristina Ramos // July 03, 2020

The Silent University is a solidarity-based knowledge exchange platform by displaced people and forced migrants. It is led by a group of lecturers, consultants and research fellows who share this background…[read on]

No Man’s Land: An Interview with Frank Ekeberg

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by MONA // June 30, 2020

Drawing on natural ecosystems for inspiration and material, Frank Ekeberg’s audio compositions have a cyclical quality akin to the habitats they capture. Field recordings play a crucial role…[read on]

Cyclical Storytelling: An Interview with Britta Marakatt-Labba

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by Alison Hugill // June 23, 2020

Britta Marakatt-Labba, a Sámi textile artist and painter, grew up in a reindeer-herding family in the Northernmost region of Sweden. For the Sámi, who have lived across the borders of the countries today known as…[read on]

Privileging Utterances as Forms: An Interview with Allison Janae Hamilton

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by Jack Radley // June 12, 2020

Allison Janae Hamilton triangulates her artwork between her Kentucky birth, Florida upbringing, and Tennessee family farm. The swamps simmer beneath skewers of skinny pines. The crickets commandeer conversations…[read on]

Art as a Political Tool: An Interview with Máret Ánne Sara

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by Elizabeth Schippers // June 09, 2020

A cascade of bones spirals down from the ceiling, creating a fluid motion reminiscent of that of a wind chime. For ‘Spirals of the Pile’ (2018), the reindeer jaws, reused from her previous pieces, are carefully…[read on]

What Does It Mean to Paint a Landscape? Hannah Brown and Rebecca Partridge in Conversation

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June 05, 2020
As part of a growing number of artists who are addressing landscape through the traditional medium of painting, we invited Hannah Brown and Rebecca Partridge to have a conversation, which took…[read on]

Under Earth Trilogy: An Interview with Ingrid Torvund and Jonas K. Mailand

Video by MONA // June 03, 2020
In the newly opened exhibition ‘The White, the Green, and the Dark’, presented by the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Berlin, artists Ingrid Torvund and Jonas Mailand will show all three films from their ‘Under Earth’ trilogy…[read on]