Author Archives: jolanta

As a musician, I am interested in the sensual nature of sound, its power of synchronization, coordination, release, and change. Hearing represents the primary sense organ—hearing happens involuntarily. Our ears are always receiving, whether or not we are aware of it. Listening is a voluntary process that occurs after the process of hearing takes place. […]

Ohad Fishof: In many of your works you are using the voice to initiate a process of other species’ embodiment. Can you talk a little bit about that? What is it about the voice that makes it such am efficient “empathy machine?” Marcus Coates: The physical position is an obvious and undeniable starting point from […]

This project brings together a select group of international artists whose practice is often the aesthetic manifestation of a will to express a position within the world, whilst generating an exchange with the audience. All participating artists have previously conceived works for public locations and frequently cooperate with other individuals or groups. Their works suggest […]

From the beginning my work has been a reflection on gaze. How do we construct, in our experience, those eyes that look at us fixedly? How do we interpret and elaborate in our psyche the shadows, the highlights, and all the implicit landscape of each photograph? If our way of seeing evolves from social and […]

I am a young artist based in Ghent, Belgium. Though I studied interior design in college, being an artist has always been my main ambition. After graduating in 2002, I decided to devote myself to art full time. Since then, I’ve shown my work in exhibitions throughout Belgium. My biggest inspirations are Francis Bacon and […]

I love mixing it up. I don’t care where my bits of imagery, paint strokes or techniques come from—once I set them on the canvas, they’re mine and I own them. I have an “everything goes” attitude when it comes to painting. I want it to be inclusive and democratic. Everything can have its say […]

It was around the time the movie The Happening came out when the interview with artist Roxy Paine took place. He had just returned from Art Basel earlier in June, where his latest piece, Inversion, was on view at the entrance to the fair. The Happening, directed by M. Night Shyamalan, is about how nature, […]

I did this shoot for Vice Magazine’s 2008 fashion issue.  I’d wanted to do an anti-fashion shoot for some time, one in which all the clothes were worn incorrectly or used in a manner considered offensive.  For months, a post-it with "shove expensive clothes up someone’s butt" sat on my monitor. The editor at Vice […]

With a body of work that spans over 35 years and ranges from early conceptual pieces to later works that include artificial intelligence robots and experimental films, Hershman Leeson is one of the most influential artists working in new media today. Updating Marchel Duchamp’s notion of “readymades,” Found Objects is a new series that displays […]

The images I’m driven to make are often a mystery, even to myself. Impressions, feelings and ideas come to me unexpectedly. When I meet people and hear their stories, I’m fascinated and left with a desire to explore what can happen between us in front of the camera. Forests, created sets, and nightscapes are the […]