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Lisbon: salt air
Holly Willats is the Director of Art Licks: a not-for-profit organisation based in London that provides support for grassroots activity and artists through its magazine, commissioning programme, and annual festival. Willats has recently been carrying …
Read moreBerlin: history, hedonism, and wildness
Over the past two months, I’ve been in touch with seven Berlin-based artists, asking them about their experiences as artists in the city and how they understand queerness in relation to their work. Common themes emerged: the importance of community, …
Read moreLondon: ‘A Year in Utopia’
Paradoxically, I think being a full-time parent, despite taking up most of my time, actually allows me some stability and gives focus to my down-time. Having the autonomy to operate more or less how I want, without interference, gives me the impetus …
Read moreIceland: an interview with Hallgerður Hallgrímsdóttir
Hallgerður Hallgrímsdóttir is an Icelandic photographer, toying with the language of her medium, disrupting perceptions of established Icelandic photography and drawing attention to everyday non-events. We meet in her apartment, a few weeks before s …
Read moreReykjavík: designing with tradition and modernity
Bobby caught our attention after we came across a number of his album artwork designs making reference to the Icelandic landscape; moody shots of lava fields, coastal scenes overlaid with weather symbols and mineral-splattered green hills. Lay Low, T …
Read moreIceland: recycle, rethink & redesign
Birta Rós Brynjólfsdóttir is a recent graduate of Iceland Academy of the Arts. Fresh-faced, with an enthusiasm for designing a more environmentally conscious world, she and her collaborators have been making moves to reduce Iceland’s waste, while sim …
Read moreArt Worlds Margate
It’s Monday morning and I’m walking along the seafront, waves crashing to my right and seagulls squealing overhead. I’m not on holiday; I’m on the way to my studio. Documentation from Dry Run event, courtesy Jay Rechsteiner and Chiara Williams Contem …
Read moreCollectivity, collaboration and experimentation in Budapest
I was first drawn to Budapest as a tourist, a love kept me coming back, and then I met someone who spoke the same artistic language and we started our first project, a non-hierarchical performance research group. I perceived the city to be open, avai …
Read moreCalifornia: driving around LA with Orlagh Woods
Photograph by Roger W licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 I arrived in Los Angeles in the sunshine and heat of August, and was struck immediately by the sheer size of the city, which sprawls in every direction along its network of freeways. It was quite a cu …
Read moreCalifornia: an interview with Frankie Carino
Arizona born, Los Angeles-based Frankie Carino has been carving out a name for himself as an artist tearing at the traditions of photography, disobeying its materials and testing its presentation techniques. Lively, young and high spirited, Frankie i …
Read moreCalifornia: an interview with Bunnie Reiss
A recent addition to the Los Angeles art community after a move down state from her old stomping ground of Oakland, Bunnie Reiss has set up studio and home in the district of Echo Park. We meet to talk about her recent transition and how she’s findin …
Read moreCalifornia: an interview with Kelly-Lynn Jones
Photo by Claire Dickinson Photo by Claire Dickinson Photo by Claire Dickinson Photo by Claire Dickinson Kelly-Lynn Jones has been making a name for herself in San Francisco as the founder of internationally renowned creative platform and store …
Read moreColombia: an interview with Juan Pablo Echeverri
Artist Juan Pablo Echeverri talks to Artquest about the art scene in Colombia and his own international practice. http://soundcloud.com/artquest/juan-pablo-echeverri-part-1 http://soundcloud.com/artquest/juan-pablo-echeverri-part-2 http://soundcloud. …
Read moreArgentina: a tour around MALBA, the Museum of Latinamerican Art in Buenos Aires
Malba, Buenos Aires London-based artist Laura Malacart interviews artist/art historian Matilde Llambi Campbell at the Educational Department at Malba. Interviewed in 2012. Laura Malacart: Malba is an astounding museum dedicated to contemporary …
Read moreArmenia: overview of the visual arts
The new reality proved difficult for many artists who had been until then supported by the Soviet state with free studio spaces, generous bursaries and subsidised art materials in return for political obedience (with many artists schizophrenically di …
Read moreBorneo: Tong Tana – walking with the Penan by Layla Curtis
In May 2010 artist Layla Curtis travelled to the rainforests of Borneo. Filming a Penan hunter’s solo journey through dense jungle near BaJawi, one of Borneo’s last remaining pristine rainforest wildernesses for a project, she also wrote about her ex …
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