Q&As
Anti-Colonial Monuments: An Interview with Daniela Ortiz
by Juan Jose Santos Mateo // Aug. 25, 2020
Daniela Ortiz is a Peruvian-born artist, committed to an anti-racist and anti-colonial discourse in her practice. She currently lives in Spain, a country whose passport’s front page includes…[read on]
The Black Movement Project: An Interview with LaJuné McMillian
by Lucia Longhi // Aug. 21, 2020
Movement is a key word for New York-based artist LaJuné McMillian, who explores life beyond the material world through animation and virtual reality…[read on]
Gaming, Visibility and Black Trans Experience: An Interview with Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley
by Judith Vallette // Aug. 14, 2020
Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley is a London- and Berlin-based Black trans artist, game developer and mother. Through video game aesthetics and technologies, Brathwaite-Shirley aims to bring to the forefront the experiences…[read on]
Biopolitics and Coloniality in the Pandemic: An Interview with Luiza Prado de O. Martins
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
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]
‘Affect Archives’ at Berlin Biennale 11: An Interview with Sinthujan Varatharajah
Article by Judith Vallette // July 10, 2020
For their ‘exp. 3,’ the 11th Berlin Biennale presents Sinthujan Varatharajah and Osías Yanov’s exhibition ‘Affect Archives.’ In the exhibition, Varatharajah and Yanov concentrate on the body and movement…[read on]