Alina R.J. is a London-based multidisciplinary artist with a Central Asian background, currently pursuing her Master's degree at the Royal College of Art. Alina's recent research focuses on Eastern philosophies, Jungian psychology – specifically Individuation and The Self – as well as tools to reconnect with this part of our psyche, including meditation.
INTERVIEW | Yibo Yu - The Color Blocks
Yibo Yu is a Chinese artist working with digital art. The artist’s intellectual focus traces political philosophy, post-colonial struggles, visual and film theories, human consciousness, and spirituality. Yibo’s recent works investigate chaos theory, self-organized systems, and their relationship to paradigm-shifting understanding of both physical and social reality. Yibo also goes by the pseudonym The Color Blocks.
INTERVIEW | Xinyi Yang
Xinyi Yang is a young potential artist and interdisciplinary designer. Her paintings, which combine ancient East Asian poetry beauty with the reflection of contemporary philosophy, primarily feature oil and watercolour, exuding vitality as they continually explore light within darkness, specifically reflected in the relationship between people and the environment.
INTERVIEW | Tairan Hao
Tairan Hao, based in New York, is a new media artist. His work serves as an exploration and a dialogue, delving into the complexities of identity within the shifting landscapes of politics, culture, and technology. His work, rooted in personal experiences of conformity, offers a lens to examine the individual's place among the collectivism of society.
INTERVIEW | Zheng Wu
Zheng Wu is an experimental filmmaker born and raised in China before moving to the USA. Her works range from realistic to abstract and always involve social issues, philosophy, poetry, and photography. She dives into traditional narrative filmmaking and explores experimental filmmaking, art installation, multi-media, and video art, focusing on contemporary youth's thoughts and their rebellion against reality.
INTERVIEW | Sarvesh Singh
Sarvesh is an architect, writer, and multi-disciplinary designer based in India. His inspiration stems from the emergent antithesis of a definitive style and spills over from environmental design to cartography, storytelling, media, sculpture, installation, film, interactive world-building, and more. He has contributed so far to diverse project scales and typologies in parts of India, Africa, and America.
INTERVIEW | Aiman
Aiman (1984) is an interdisciplinary artist, living and working in Singapore. His current practice explores philosophical questions, theories, and ideas observed within the context of contemporary discourse. Aiman views his practice as an attempt to inspire others to look inward—a journey of returning to one’s true self—and to reconnect to the ways in which individuals intrinsically relate to one another.
INTERVIEW | Yalan Wen
Yalan Wen is an artist based in New York City who works on computational images, new media installations, and motion graphics. Born and raised in Taiwan, she developed her curiosity about art and science. Her work explores the subtle events that happen beyond the surface, finding the balance between simplicity and nuanced philosophical interpretations.
INTERVIEW | Yunah Seo
Yunah Seo is a South Korean artist, currently based in London. Her practice considers the internal and attempts to visualize inner reactions relating to personal circumstances, consisting of beliefs, emotions, perceptions, philosophies, and the notion of creation. She combines images and memories from her own life, laying them out across her materials in order to consider and develop intuitive insight into her life.
Dr Gindi, Kant and the Encounter with the Sublime
A passionate thinker, notwithstanding being a grounded sculptor, Dr Gindi reflects a lot on the connection between philosophy and the arts. Apart from their stunning appeal, Dr Gindi’s sculptures ask the viewer to mirror the grammar of consciousness, investigate a core sense of sublimity outside of decay, and contemplate about infinite presence.
INTERVIEW | Sudesh Prasad
Sudesh Prasad is an American artist. He began working as an artist in New York in 1986. His abstract works focus on the collaborative nature of the artist and the viewer. His Cool Empire II series is made of prints from European painting torn from books and overpainted, in an attempt to re-focus the notion of the viewer and their place in the nature of images, painting, and looking at art.
INTERVIEW | Nicola Barth
Nicola Barth is dealing with permanent metamorphic processes in non-obvious areas. Her work can be understood as an insight into a temporally and spatially limited development process section. Sculptures and manipulated photos complement painting and drawing mainly in oil. The content follows the same principle and is as abstract and surreal as her paintings. There is indeed a world behind this world. And it's constantly moving.
INTERVIEW | Aomi Kikuchi
Aomi Kikuchi is a Japanese creator of innovative fine arts. She is inspired by Buddha’s philosophies of impermanence, insubstantiality, and suffering in all life—referred to in Japanese as Mujo(無常), Muga (無我), and Ku,(苦). She raises awareness that acceptance of impermanence and insubstantiality can liberate from dissatisfaction or suffering.