Performance

INTERVIEW | Maryam Nazari

INTERVIEW | Maryam Nazari

Maryam Nazari is a Tehran-born multidisciplinary artist, based in London. Her artistic practice spans performance art, sound design, video art, and installation, with a focus on the intersections of memory, identity, and cultural narrative. Maryam’s work is deeply informed by her Iranian heritage and explores the impact socio-political tensions on personal experience and artistic expression.

INTERVIEW | Sharon Rose Benson

INTERVIEW | Sharon Rose Benson

Sharon Rose is a multidisciplinary expressionist artist who delves into the essence of 'humanness' and community amidst an increasingly automated and dehumanized state of the world. Through mixed media creations, she fosters collective engagement to challenge societal norms, prompting revolutionary thoughts. She combines performance, theatricality, fashion, installation, sound and poetry.

INTERVIEW | AMIANGELIKA

INTERVIEW | AMIANGELIKA

AMIANGELIKA is an award-nominated new media and experience artist based in London.  Her practice revolves around exploring the interconnection between image and sound as well as machine-human interaction, resulting in performance-based and installation-based works. She creates fully generative, real-time rendered pieces that react to live inputs through audio or motion tracking sensors.

INTERVIEW | Hanna Tzong-Han Wu

INTERVIEW | Hanna Tzong-Han Wu

Hanna Tzong-Han Wu is a Taiwanese choreographer and dancer based in Los Angeles, California. The dance language that lies between Western contemporary, hip-hop, and martial arts punctuates her signature style. Hanna is most interested in creating works that reflect on humans and humanity and believes that arts are the reflection of society. In her work she blends arts, culture, society, humans, and self.

INTERVIEW | Lisha Liang

INTERVIEW | Lisha Liang

Lisha Liang is a Chinese artist currently living in Italy. Lisha Liang's artistic endeavors are deeply rooted in the exploration of gender dynamics and the pervasive issue of gender-based violence. Motivated by a growing concern for these societal challenges, Liang's work serves as a conscientious reflection and an invitation to engage with the feminist discourse.

INTERVIEW | Yueting Wu

INTERVIEW | Yueting Wu

Ada Yueting Wu is an interdisciplinary artist born in China and currently based in the United States. Through installation, performance, and sound, she creates visceral experiences that critically examine the production of silence and truth within systems of control. By subjecting the body to counter forces or exposing it as a malfunctioning circuit within various systems, she scrutinizes relationships of powers and disciplines.

INTERVIEW | Jiaoyang Li

INTERVIEW | Jiaoyang Li

Li Jiaoyang is a poet and interdisciplinary artist. She co-founded Accent Accent and the Accent Sisters Bookstore and currently resides in New York and New Jersey. Her cross-disciplinary works have been presented at various venues, exhibitions, and institutions internationally. Li Jiaoyang has taught creative writing at New York University, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn Library, and New York Cultural Salon.

INTERVIEW | Melvin Ningyao Yen

INTERVIEW | Melvin Ningyao Yen

Melvin Ningyao Yen, a pioneering force in the fusion of digital media and theater, hails from the vibrant cultural landscape of Taiwan and now operates out of New York City. Their artistic ethos is anchored in the exploration of cultural narratives and the human condition, utilizing the dynamic realms of immersive theater and multimedia projects as their canvas.

INTERVIEW | Yukang Tao

INTERVIEW | Yukang Tao

Yukang Tao is an interdisciplinary artist who works in the fields of electronic arts, animation, video, and performance. While all of his artwork alludes to the concept of gender and observes the relationship between technology and humanity, it also encompasses themes such as surveillance and self-absorption of society in media. Art and technology, virtual and accurate, the boundaries begin to blur and combine to form a new utopia.

INTERVIEW | Mengmeng Luo

INTERVIEW | Mengmeng Luo

Mengmeng Luo (Momo) is a Chinese visual artist born in 1999 in Changsha, Hunan province, now living and working in London. Her artworks consist of visual images and sound effects. She specialises in creating scene-based fragments of cinematic space that combine to form non-temporal sequential narratives and are characterised by her own personal magical realism and black irony.

INTERVIEW | Tokie Wang

INTERVIEW | Tokie Wang

Tokie Wang is a Chinese choreographer, dancer, and visual artist currently based in Los Angeles. "RECORDING IN PROCESS" is a thought-provoking art piece that delves into the impact of surveillance systems on our daily lives. The project aims to recreate a "living space" by discreetly placing multiple hidden cameras to record performers while simultaneously live-streaming the recordings within the same space.

INTERVIEW | Qi Zhuang

INTERVIEW | Qi Zhuang

Qi Zhuang (1999, China) is an interdisciplinary artist, filmmaker, and animator based in London, United Kingdom. Her project 未知晓 Unknown is a semi-improvised live performance created with costumes as a starting point, combining visual art, dance, music, installation and performing art. The concept of the work comes from a conversation with a monk.

INTERVIEW | Hyoju Cheon

INTERVIEW | Hyoju Cheon

Hyoju Cheon is an explorer and interdisciplinary artist currently residing in New York. Her multimedia practice responds to the conditions of a site. Her work documents bodies as they move through space: drawing their trajectories and archiving the material traces left behind. Her recent works create surrogates and obstructions for her body, recording her movements as kinetic loops.

INTERVIEW | Fina Ferrara

INTERVIEW | Fina Ferrara

Fina Ferrara is a Mexican performance and video artist. Disturbed by how human boundaries are often penetrated through interactions with others, violence, hatred, and abuse are stepping stones in her performances. Through expelling these emotions, Fina questions life and social standards, highlighting our areas of discomfort. For Fina, performance is an ongoing act of collective self-evolution.

INTERVIEW | Alisa Scetinina - Gaisma

INTERVIEW | Alisa Scetinina - Gaisma

Alisa Scetinina is a performer and musician, born in Latvia and currently based in Berlin, Germany. For Alisa, performance is the way one carries oneself and connects to the inner voice, whether it is through music, dance, film, or any other source of expression. She explores the fluidity and smoothness of our psyche and body, not scared to break the walls that we and our society have built for us.

INTERVIEW | Yuguang Zhang

INTERVIEW | Yuguang Zhang

Yuguang (YG) Zhang is a New York-based new media / AI artist. His current practice, which incorporates interactive media, installation, and live performance, explores the connections we make with the ubiquitous AI systems embedded around us, the surprises and struggles we have when we (partially) surrender our authorship to intelligent algorithms, and the cultural & ethical shifts that come along in our society.

INTERVIEW | LIU ENTUNG

INTERVIEW | LIU ENTUNG

Liu Entung artist from Taipei, Taiwan, and currently lives in New York City. As an interdisciplinary artist, ENTUNG’s works explore the intersection of multiple fields: visual art, performance, and technology with various methods like paintings, photography, performances, installations, videos, and sounds. Through her art practice, LIU shows the relationships between identification, technology, nature, and life.

INTERVIEW | Nadia Armouti

INTERVIEW | Nadia Armouti

Nadia Armouti is an artist and researcher based in London, UK, and Seoul, Korea. She creates experiences that bring visibility to both self-imposed limitations and alternative pathways to personal fulfillment. By forcing her audience to make choices and then reflect on them, she invites a level of awareness to everyday decision-making and crafts her practice with an intent to thoughtfully impact each individual with personalized and lasting effects.

INTERVIEW | Rūta Matulevičiūtė

INTERVIEW | Rūta Matulevičiūtė

Rūta Matulevičiūtė is a painter and interdisciplinary artist. She is based in Vilnius, where, with five colleagues, she co-founded the artist-run space and studios "Tapytoju studijos". Her method is consciousness-based creativity with a focus on personal development. For this reason, she focuses on meditation, psychology, ancient traditions, and, most importantly, the broad Baltic mythology rooted in Indo-European culture.

INTERVIEW | Alicja Klimek

INTERVIEW | Alicja Klimek

Alicja Klimek is a Polish artist, based in Krakow. She delves into the subconsciousness, destroys the false identity, and finds in humans the Truth that flows from the very nature of existence. What you are looking at grows. She sees the potential in this unique time. This is the perfect time to Return To The Inside, in which she follows the Law of the Desert.