Dasha Lyubimova is a Choreographer, Filmmaker, and Art Director, based in Almaty, Kazakhstan. The main feature of her project is the «dance language». Although there are no words, Dasha creates projects that will be clear without any words to everybody. This genre of art is called videodance or screendance, and it mixes choreography and storytelling. Dasha also touches on social themes trying to make people know, feel and live the problems.
INTERVIEW | Marichka Lukianchuk
Marichka Lukianchuk is an artist and a filmmaker from Ukraine, born in 1997. Marichka believes that ideas are not something you come up with, but the intentions searched for and uncovered within and outside oneself. These intentions come from the image on her mind, and she sees her mission in uncovering the stories hidden behind them.
INTERVIEW | Carla Piacenza
Carla Piacenza’s work addresses issues that are related to nature and human behavior. Thus, she reflects on gender, identity, migrations, and the environment and climate changes. Taking resources from science and psychology, and transforming them into visual poetics, the works are presented as hypothetical and experiential ideas seeking to decode a personal argument.
INTERVIEW | Ruiqi Zhang
Ruiqi's art and research combine critical thinking about Internet culture and China's online rural community. Incorporating the observation of emerging mobile technology, short-video platform, Internet narrative, many of Ruiqi's works express the concern of media strategies, cultural and class divide under the dominant discourse.
INTERVIEW | Pedro Inock
Pedro works in the fields of video art, video performance, installation, and painting. Throughout his work, the analysis and observation of issues such as place, memory, and human condition make up for a large part of the process. “Contained Turbulence” deploys memory and place (or absence of) and possibility as groundwork as it challenges the bitterness and hostile condition of the postmodern human.
INTERVIEW | Elizabeth Withstandley
Elizabeth Withstandley is from Cape Cod, Massachusetts, she lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. Her projects take on the form of artifacts by their simplification and classification, frequently like relics from the natural history museum, and questions individuality while presenting a portrait of a person, a group of people, or a specific culture.
INTERVIEW | Macha Ovtchinnikova
French filmmaker and researcher from Russia. She's also writing and teaching at University the cinema aesthetics and video art. Experimenting with different film genres and mediums – documentary, fiction, experimental video – Macha Ovtchinnikova questions the notion of the time and its investment in the film forms.