B O D Y interviews Scott Kiernan, a New York-based artist whose video, photo and installation works interact in ways that address their own materiality and means of distribution.
B O D Y interviews Scott Kiernan, a New York-based artist whose video, photo and installation works interact in ways that address their own materiality and means of distribution.
Anna Hawkins is an artist who works primarily in moving image and installation with an interest in the ways that images, gestures and language are circulated and transformed online and the impacts of technology on the intimate spheres of daily life.
Weaving together disparate references spanning across histories and geographies, German interdisciplinary artist Johanna Strobel explores the entanglement between philosophy, semiotics, and actuality.
Padma Rajendran’s works on fabric experiment with the clash and combination of patterning and storytelling. She received her MFA from Rhode Island School of Design and teaches drawing at Vassar College.
Mi’kmaq/L’nu artist and author Michelle Sylliboy was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and raised on her traditional L’nuk territory in We’koqmaq, Cape Breton. Her published collection of photographs and L’nuk hieroglyphic poetry, Kiskajeyi—I Am Ready, won the 2020 Indigenous Voices Award. Jessica Mensch interviewed her this summer at her home.
“The biggest challenge of translating Sachs into English, for me, had to do with tracking the movement of her mind in the forming of a poem.”
The Russian Civil War was a truly terrible event in terms of awful acts of atrocious violence, but there’s also a weird sense of farce about this, of history being played at the wrong speed.
Atomic Culture is a curatorial platform founded by Mateo Galindo and Malinda Galindo. They collaborate with artists on site-specific projects that reimagine the outlook of our cities.
Eleanor King is an interdisciplinary artist working in installation art that responds to our physical, social, and economic landscapes.
Andrey Filimonov comes from Tomsk, the 400-year-old “Athens of Siberia” and center of White Russian resistance during the Russian Civil War.
Khari Johnson-Ricks is a New Jersey-based artist and DJ who paints, makes zines, and videos. Jessica Mensch caught up with him to talk about his art.
One is immediately taken by the ethereal and symbolically rich nature of his work. His approach to drawing is so unique that in person it is difficult to tell what medium he is working in.
David Biespiel is the author of six volumes of poetry, two memoirs, two essay collections, and is the editor of two anthologies of poetry.
“I had a very standard, Americanized education in Hawaii. I didn’t know how to recognize or understand the ways colonialism connected Hawaii to the rest of the world.”
Francesca Bell interviews German poet Max Sessner about his work, some of his thoughts on poetry and his upcoming book of poems, Das Wasser von Gestern.
Camille Jodoin-Eng’s work is an experiment in intuitive language, a meditation of interplay between physical and psychological space.
ALEKSANDAR GATALICA is the author of five novels as well as books of short stories, among which is The Great War, translated from the
I first saw delphine hennelly’s work in person several month’s ago at her MFA thesis at Rutger’s University art gallery. Although figuration in painting has come back
“In a way we can’t help going back. And the past is an ever-present resource. But ultimately as much as you go back, you ask yourself what does that mean to me now? Then there is no irony or nostalgia. Its an engagement with the present that is interesting.”
Daniel Barkley is a native Montrealer, born in 1962. He holds an MFA from Concordia University and his work has been shown throughout Canada and the United
SABRINA RATTÉ (Canada, 1982) is a Montréal-based video artist. Using a unique combination of analog video synthesizers and mixers, and digital editing software, Ratté creates surreal
By Benjamin Cunningham for B O D Y Ljubljana is the greatest city you have never been to. It sits at the intersection of
Extreme Animals is the long-running multimedia and performance project of artist-musicians Jacob Ciocci and David Wightman. Since 2002, their uniquely hyperkinetic blend of music, video
B O D Y editor Ben Williams interviewed playwright and performer Kate Benson in New York on October 3, 2014. Her play A BEAUTIFUL
_______________________________________________________________________ All this October B O D Y will be publishing British and Irish poetry. We begin with an interview with poet Jack
Edward Shenk is an artist currently living in Brooklyn, NY. Edward was co-founder and curator at Reference Art Gallery in Richmond, VA from 2009-2012. He
MATT SHANE‘s practice is split between painting, drawing and installation, while firmly embedded in the realm of landscape. His pictorial worlds assemble an array of
Editor’s Note: Nico Vassilakis, a recent replant to NYC, is a poet working in both the textual and visual alphabet. He co-edited The Last
B O D Y editor Ben Williams interviewed playwright and director Tina Satter in New York on January 3, 2014.
Editor’s Note: Zuzana Husárová is a Slovak writer, researcher and electronic literature pioneer. As a practitioner of sound poetry, media poetry, inter/transmedial narrative, digital art,
Jeannine Han is a New York based designer and artist. Her work with collaborator Dan Riley uses immersive multimedia installations and performances to explore the relationship between pattern, tradition, performance, sound and technology.
In 2011, Kristen Kosmas interviewed Sibyl Kempson for BOMB magazine. In this interview, B O D Y editor Ben Williams reunites these two friends
Yannick Desranleau and Chloe Lum live in Montréal and have worked together since 2000. Together, they are the creative force behind Séripop, and until 2012, they were also members of the influential avant-rock trio AIDS Wolf.
Say What You Need To – An Interview with Christina Masciotti by Meghan Falvey Christina Masciotti’s work has been produced for the past ten
A History Of Clouds By Hans Magnus Enzensberger Translated by Ester Kinsky & Martin Chalmers Seagull Books, 2010 The following interview with German poet
FÉLIX MOREL is a musician and collage artist based in Montréal. He has played drums in a number of bands including Fly Pan Am, Panopticon
As B O D Y’s Art Editor, Jessica Mensch is known for her penetrating interviews with other artists. We decided to turn the tables and
I think the tendency to pair movement and music is pretty old, if you consider ballet, opera, and the theatrical traditions of various cultures.
B O D Y: What’s the kind of painting that you hate?
MITCHELL WIEBE: Painting that insults your intelligence, that looks like its trying to be something it’s not.
You can look and see what a feminist Shakespeare was. I don’t mean he’s against men, I mean that he so illuminates what happens to women that you can see why it is that all the social structures need to change in order for women to truly be women.
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