Having just collaborated on a collection of his own writings, the renowned pianist talks to us about the writing that’s inspired him By Erich Christiansen Matthew Shipp is one of the leading figures of the downtown improvisational scene that came out of the 1980’s and 90’s, along with frequent collaborators William Parker, David S. … Read more
INTERVIEW WITH JOSEPH NECHVATAL in PARIS by NINA ZIVANCEVIC
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Joseph Nechvatal is a very interesting contemporary artist-cum theoretician who has read Baudrillard’s take on the thought such as « everything is a virus » and listened to Howard Devoto’s song « there’s no answer- everything has a cancer »… I have met with Nechvatal in his French gallery « Jean-Luc and Takako Richard … Read more
Q: Sound Unbound contains thoughts from a wide array of people, and brings together names I would never have expected to see in a single book. What were you looking for when getting this compilation together?How did you know that this mix would work? A: The whole idea, right now, is that we need eclecticism … Read more
WITH FRANCIS POWELL in PARIS and… ELSEWHERE by NINA ZIVANCEVIC
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Francis Powell comes from England (he always says jokingly “he’s neither Scottish nor Irish, but simply plain English”)- however, for the last ten years or so he’s been residing in Paris on a permanent basis. He has made a name for himself as a brilliant musician and a composer of electronic music, known as ‘DJ WISE’ and meanwhile he has been painting beautiful, sort of ‘Art Nouveau- Klimt meets Aboriginal Art’ paintings, all coupled with printed samples of his own creative writing and steady journalism. He often says that he belongs to a certain eclectic British tradition of visual artists who often turned musicians and then turned something else. Read more
Cai Guo-Qiang Retrospective at the Guggenheim Review and Interview by Robyn Hillman-Harrigan
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Visionary, rabble-rouser, contemporary artist, Cai Guo-Qiang is the first Chinese artist to have a major retrospective at New York’s Guggenheim Museum. In his artist’s toolbox are explosives, gunpowder, yak skin, live snakes, wooden arrows, real cars, life-like replicas of tigers and wolfs, and trenched up sunken ships. Witness the spectacle created by this modern day alchemist[...] Read more
Shirin Neshat is one of the leading contemporary artists in the world. She was born in 1957 in Iran. In 1974 she moved to the United States where studied art at the University of Berkeley. The Islamic revolution led by the Ayatollah Khomeiny had introduced many changes into the Persian society which fell under the … Read more
Interview of French artist Anne Van der Linden by Nina Zivancevic
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Anne Van der Linden comes from a wealthy middle-class French family who allowed her at an early age to launch into an artistic adventure which he has never returned from afterwards. She was born in England, in 1959, but she was raised in France. She started drawing in the stream of conscioussness manner age seventeen, … Read more
I first met Ben Ruttner (DJ B-Roc) through my sister at our high school in New Hampshire. He was a freshman who wore big t-shirts and sold mix tapes out of his backpack. At the time he was the only DJ in our school. He was also probably the only serious entrepreneur. (All the drug dealers I knew smoked way more than they sold, and everybody else mostly just worked at a bagel shop or hung around the parking lot at the video store.) From his personal mix tape circuit, to packed talent shows, to being a junior DMC finalist, Ben had way more hustle then your average 14 year old dude. He’s 21 now, and living in New York City. The hustle hasn’t stopped, and the music has only gotten better. B-Roc is like Rick Rubin and Russell Simons all at once, a gifted music maker with a mind for the business that I know must go way beyond his years. If in 20 years we’re all downloading Chinese Reggae to an invisible chip in our third ears, I bet B-Roc will have something to do with it.
You just opened up a studio in Chinatown, right?
Yeah. It’s exciting, man. “Heavy Roc Music.” I’m in here every day, and the place is fully operational now [...] Read more
Kirila Fäh is an unusual, almost un unorthodox artist- although she comes from an Orthodox Christian background (her family was based in Croatia and in Serbia), she has lived and worked across many countries and continents. In 1980s she had surprised New York’s bohemian artistic community with her innovative approach to photography. As she moved … Read more
BREAKING OPEN HIS HEAD An Interview with Writer DANIEL PINCHBECK interviewed by Sarah Ferguson “I wanted to solve a mystery, to know why certain substances are revered in tribal societies throughout the world, but repressed as well as ridiculed in contemporary Western cultures.” – Daniel Pinchbeck You could say Daniel Pinchbeck was born to be … Read more
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