Posts Tagged ‘Juan José Santos Mateo’
Digital Materiality: An Interview with eeefff
by Juan José Santos // Feb. 18, 2022
eeefff is the collective name of Nicolay Spesivtsev and Dzina Zhuk (also known by the alter-ego Bitchcoin), who are based in Minsk and Moscow and have been active since 2013…[read on]
Healing the Burn: An Interview with The Fire Theory
by Juan José Santos // Oct. 26, 2021
These five artists—Melissa Guevara, Crack Rodríguez, Ernesto Bautista, Mauricio Kabistan and Mauricio Esquivel—got together and asked themselves how art can impact…[read on]
Cultural Reclamation: An Interview with Matti Aikio
by Juan José Santos Mateo // Mar. 23, 2021
Come and gather around this fire. Matti Aikio is going to tell us a story. We are inside his lávvu, a Sámi tent. You can hear crows cawing, and when you see or hear a raven,…[read on]
Deep Sea Mining in the Age of Climate Emergency: An Interview with Kristina Õllek
by Juan José Santos Mateo // Jan. 12, 2021
We spoke to Kristina Õllek about how her practice questions the human impulse to colonize nature for economic pursuits…[read on]
Time for a Metamorphosis: An Interview with the Institute of Queer Ecology
by Juan José Santos Mateo // Sept. 18, 2020
DIS commissioned a “vaccine” that has been tested on humans since June of this year. They requested it from a very particular laboratory, and what they have elaborated—although it has…[read on]
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 Year of Black Healing: An Interview with Grace Ndiritu
Interview by Juan José Santos Mateo // Feb. 28, 2020
They moved the headstones, but not the bodies. The Africa Museum, located in Tervuren, Belgium, is like the ‘Poltergeist’ House. The original idea of the museum came from Leopold II—King of Belgium and owner of…[read on]
‘And You, Why Are You Black?’: An Interview with Rubén H. Bermúdez
Article by Juan José Santos Mateo // Nov. 22, 2019
The creator Rubén H. Bermúdez caught the attention of a system that was strange to him—contemporary art—thanks to his 2018 photo book ‘And You, Why Are You Black?’…[read on]