The 'Artist Statement' podcast is a conversation series featuring artists and thinkers from the world of AQNB, a London and Los Angeles-based editorial platform working between visual art, music and critical thinking. Join Editor Steph Kretowicz and Associate Ed. Jared Davis in conversation with experimental practitioners that resist classification, paying close attention to the discursive changes brought on by developments in technology and communication.
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(Unlocked) Episode 37: Working Through with R.I.P. Germain
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In this episode Jared speaks with R.I.P. Germain, an artist whose multidisciplinary practice spans themes of grief, Black music culture in the UK, and complex entanglements of masculinity. Based in Luton, R.I.P. Germain has exhibited at spaces including London’s V.O Curations, Peak, South London Gallery and more. He was selected as one of the recip…
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See here for full episode: patreon.com/aqnb In this episode Steph speaks with ANDRA, an interdisciplinary artist and representative of PHILTH HAUS, which is a collective who produce art installations, performance, and sound, to temporarily represent one or, occasionally more of its six so-called “member-clients” . Currently based in Berlin, Andra h…
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Episode 38: Camp Visual Splendour with Nichole Fitch & Christopher Adams-Cohen (Teaser)
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See here for full episode: patreon.com/aqnb In this episode Steph speaks with Nichole Fitch and Christopher Adams-Cohen, two LA-based artists who’ve managed to make their individual creative practices collide in a bawdy spectacle of extravagance and deeply reflective eroticism. Both growing up in Pasadena, Nichole & Christopher have been friends fi…
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See here for full episode: patreon.com/aqnb In this episode Jared speaks with R.I.P. Germain, an artist whose multidisciplinary practice spans themes of grief, Black music culture in the UK, and complex entanglements of masculinity. Based in Luton, R.I.P. Germain has exhibited at spaces including London’s V.O Curations, Peak, South London Gallery a…
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Episode 36: Controlling the Edges with Jennifer Mehigan (Teaser)
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See here for full episode: patreon.com/aqnb In this episode Steph speaks with Jennifer Mehigan, an interdisciplinary artist working across media, including 3D modelling, video, and text; textiles, sound, installation, scent and more. Born in Ireland, raised in Singapore and partly educated in Australia, Jen has been applying her skills as a painter…
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Episode 35: Changing the Narrative with Isabel Waidner (Teaser)
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See here for full episode: patreon.com/aqnb In this episode Jared talks with Isabel Waidner, a writer and novelist whose fiction work incorporates elements of the surreal to develop thoughtful, critical and funny readings into class politics, race, and queer life in the UK. Moving to London from Germany in the mid-nineties, Isabel is the author of …
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See here for full episode: patreon.com/aqnb In this episode Steph speaks with Sam Rolfes, a self-described digital performance artist and designer working with sound, animation and the internet. Often collaborating with his brother Andy as Team Rolfes, Sam’s worked with such big names as Lady Gaga, Danny Elfman and Rihanna, while presenting his sol…
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See here for full episode: patreon.com/aqnb In this episode Steph speaks with Umru Rothenberg. Mostly known by the mononym umru, the producer is one of a younger generation of so-called SoundCloud artists signed to A.G. Cook’s PC Music label, as well as a reluctant representative of the too broad and indeterminate musical catchall referred to as “h…
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Episode 32: Conscious Environments with Jenna Sutela (Teaser)
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See here for full episode: patreon.com/aqnb In this episode Jared speaks with Jenna Sutela, an artist whose audiovisual work incorporates language, sound and living matter to investigate sociality, technology and our interconnectedness with the wider environment. Originally from Finland and now based in Berlin, Jenna’s work has been shown at the li…
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Episode 31: The Aesthetics of Evil with Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya (Teaser)
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See here for full episode: patreon.com/aqnb In this episode Steph speaks with Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya, an interdisciplinary artist whose hybrid sculptures evoke a monstrous tactility and sense of dreadful fascination, while echoing the Aztec mythology of shapeshifting beings called Nahuales. Not quite human and not quite animal, these phanto…
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Episode 23: (Unlocked!) Working Systems with Holly Childs
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See here for more episodes: patreon.com/aqnb In this episode Steph speaks with Holly Childs, an interdisciplinary writer and artist whose elaborate creative cosmology filters “stories of computation through frames of ecology, earth, memory, poetry and light.” Graduating Amsterdam’s Sandberg Instituut in 2019, Holly has worked across a spectrum of f…
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Episode 30: Mystical Services with Alice Bucknell (Teaser)
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See here for full episode: patreon.com/aqnb In this episode Jared speaks with Alice Bucknell, an artist and writer whose video work using game engines explores topics spanning big tech mythologies and magic, ecology, architecture and AI. Raised in Florida and now based in London, Alice’s works have been exhibited by Ars Electronica with König Galer…
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Episode 29: Basic Needs with Basic Rhythm (Teaser)
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See here for full episode: patreon.com/aqnb In this episode Steph speaks with Anthoney Hart, a DJ and producer who has been working under a number of aliases since his ‘90s pirate radio days in London. Starting with jungle and hardcore in his teens then moving into noise, bass music and grime, Anthoney has more recently returned to his roots releas…
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(Unlocked!) Episode 5: Speculative Fact with Joey Holder
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See here for more episodes: patreon.com/aqnb In this episode Jared talks with Joey Holder, who is known for her installations, videos and web-based projects that speak to themes of contemporary myth-making, science, ecologies and online culture. Joey has held solo exhibitions at the likes of Matt’s Gallery London, Wysing Arts Centre and Sonic Acts …
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Episode 28: Space to Breathe with Adham Faramawy (Teaser)
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See here for full episode: patreon.com/aqnb In this episode Jared talks with Adham Faramawy, an artist whose work in video, image making and sculptural installation examines interwoven themes around the body, queerness, ecologies and migration. Based in London, Adham has recently exhibited at the likes of Somerset House and London’s Science Gallery…
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(Unlocked!) Episode 20: The Culturally Minor with Terre Thaemlitz
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In this episode Jared speaks with Terre Thaemlitz, a music producer, DJ, writer and public speaker, whose work over three decades offers uncompromising critical examinations of media distribution, queer identity, and non-essentialist transgenderism. Raised in Missouri before moving to New York in the late 1980s, Terre was a resident DJ at storied q…
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Episode 27: Following the Purse with Onyedika Chuke (Teaser)
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See here for full episode: patreon.com/aqnb In this episode Steph speaks with Onyedika Chuke, an artist and archivist whose largest body of work — 'The Forever Museum Archive' — is a growing collection of sculptures, text and images examining different social, cultural and political structures, while analyzing their interconnectedness. The project …
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Episode 26: Trance & Ceremony with Tianzhuo Chen (Teaser)
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See here for full episode: patreon.com/aqnb In this episode Jared talks with Tianzhuo Chen, an artist whose videos, performances and visual works create spectacles evoking religious ritual and iconography, sexuality and the body. Based in Beijing, while also having lived and worked extensively in Shanghai, Tianzhuo is the founder of Asian Dope Boys…
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(Special Episode!) AQNB's Reversal Agents for Rewire 2021 - Episode 3: Ritual Technology with Evan Ifekoya and Most Dismal Swamp
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See here for more info: bit.ly/3zvbB00 For more episodes: patreon.com/aqnb In this episode we explore contemporary challenges to rationalism in an age of data, asking what the unique effects of technological mediation are on the culture of spirituality, by inviting artist and founding member of Black Obsidian Sound System Evan Ifekoya for a discuss…
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(Special Episode!) AQNB's Reversal Agents for Rewire 2021 - Episode 2: On Illness With Every Ocean Hughes And Clay AD
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See here for more info: bit.ly/3fMSfvH For more episodes: patreon.com/aqnb In this episode, we respond to the topic of illness, considering the structural conditions affecting health and the nature of life, by inviting artist, writer LTTR journal and collective co-founder Every Ocean Hughes for a discussion, as well as an audio work by interdiscipl…
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Episode 25: Reaching Out of Habit with Dean Erdmann (Teaser)
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See here for full episode: patreon.com/aqnb In this episode Steph speaks with Dean Erdmann, an interdisciplinary artist whose expansive practice attempts an investigative and sensory understanding of their queer and working-class subjectivity in the present moment, as part of a personal, familial and geopolitical legacy of inherited violence and de…
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(Special Episode!) AQNB's Reversal Agents for Rewire 2021 - Episode 1: Queer Temporalities with Jack Halberstam
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See here for more info: https://bit.ly/3eWnkfI For more episodes: patreon.com/aqnb In this episode, at a moment in which it is difficult to think beyond the present, we consider queer notions of time, the future, and apocalypse, by speaking with Jack Halberstam, a queer theorist and Professor of Gender Studies and English at Columbia University. Ja…
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Episode 24: Stereophonic Intelligence with DeForrest Brown, Jr. (Teaser)
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See here for full episode: patreon.com/aqnb In this episode Jared speaks with DeForrest Brown, Jr., a music journalist, theorist and musician, whose work critically examines platform capitalism, white supremacy and the politics of music distribution, with a particular interest in how these issues manifest through techno music. Raised in Birmingham,…
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See here for full episode: patreon.com/aqnb In this episode Steph speaks with Holly Childs, an interdisciplinary writer and artist whose elaborate creative cosmology filters “stories of computation through frames of ecology, earth, memory, poetry and light.” Graduating Amsterdam’s Sandberg Instituut in 2019, Holly has worked across a spectrum of fi…
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See here for full episode: patreon.com/aqnb In this episode Jared talks with Amrita Hepi, an artist working with dance and choreography across video, performance and digital works, whose practice illuminates themes from personal histories to embodied self-surveillance. Born in Townsville, Australia of Bundjulung and Ngāpuhi heritage, Amrita is base…
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(Unlocked!) Episode 10: Post-Traumatic Everything with Jonnine Standish
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See here for more episodes: patreon.com/aqnb In this episode Steph speaks to Jonnine Standish, a performer and musician best known for fronting Australian post-punk band HTRK, and her developing solo career under the mononym Jonnine. The Australian artist is is currently living in the idyllic Dandenong Ranges of greater Melbourne with her husband C…
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See here for full episode: patreon.com/aqnb In this episode Steph speaks with Coby Sey, a musician and producer who’s known for his dream-like post-grime releases, and ongoing work as part of the loosely-defined South London collective and now label, CURL. It’s organised by friends and collaborators Mica Levi and Brother May, and involves, in one w…
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Episode 20: The Culturally Minor with Terre Thaemlitz (Teaser)
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See here for full episode: patreon.com/aqnb In this episode Jared speaks with Terre Thaemlitz, a music producer, DJ, writer and public speaker, whose work over three decades offers uncompromising critical examinations of media distribution, queer identity, and non-essentialist transgenderism. Raised in Missouri before moving to New York in the late…
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(Unlocked!) Episode 14: Mutual Fictions with Elvia Wilk
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In this episode Jared speaks with Elvia Wilk, a writer whose practice deals with art, technology and culture under capitalism, expressed through an entanglement of critical essays, autobiography, and speculative fiction. Based in New York after years spent in Berlin, Elvia’s writing has appeared in the likes of frieze, Artforum, Mousse and the Los …
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Episode 19: Face Everything & Rise with Rhea Dillon (Teaser)
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See here for full episode: patreon.com/aqnb In this episode Steph speaks with Rhea Dillon, an artist, writer and poet who has made a name for herself with her photography and film work exploring, abstracting and undermining what she calls Western culture’s ‘rule of representation’, while advocating for “equality-led perspectives on how we visualise…
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See here for full episode: patreon.com/aqnb In this episode Steph speaks with Jack Latham, a musician and producer also known as Jam City, whose releases on the UK’s Night Slugs label in the 2010s were some of the best examples of a post-club sound that had come to define a generation of artists. After building a name for himself through this cross…
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Episode 17: Resistance & Place with Ashley Holmes (Teaser)
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See here for full episode: patreon.com/aqnb In this episode Jared speaks with Ashley Holmes, an artist whose mixed media installation, sound and performance works explore musical diasporas, unpacking notions of place, ownership, and Black British experience. Based in Sheffield, Ashley has shown work at the likes of FUTURA, Prague, Jerwood Arts, Lon…
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See here for full episode: patreon.com/aqnb In this episode Jared talks with Huw Lemmey, a writer whose novels create alternate imaginings of the present, casting a critical and at times satirical eye on topics from politics to belief systems, gay culture to psychotropic drugs. Having relocated from the UK to Barcelona, Huw is the author of novels …
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Episode 15: Support Systems with Akinola Davies Jr (Teaser)
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See here for full episode: patreon.com/aqnb In this episode Steph speaks with Akinola Davies Jr, a director and moving image artist whose music videos and films concentrate on documenting the broad and diverse collective identity of his community. Growing up in Lagos and now based in London, Akin has developed a unique and striking visual language …
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Episode 6: (Unlocked!) No Speech at All with Lucrecia Dalt
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See here for more episodes: https://patreon.com/aqnb In this episode Steph speaks with Lucrecia Dalt, a musician and producer whose abstract sound design explores notions of time and physicality through her minimalist synth, rhythm and vocal manipulation marking a point where the borders between genres and disciplines, forms and bodies collapse. Cu…
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See here for full episode: patreon.com/aqnb In this episode Jared speaks with Elvia Wilk, a writer whose practice deals with art, technology and culture under capitalism, expressed through an entanglement of critical essays, autobiography, and speculative fiction. Based in New York after years spent in Berlin, Elvia’s writing has appeared in the li…
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See here for full episode: patreon.com/aqnb In this episode Steph speaks with Margaret Haines, an artist and writer based in Amsterdam whose work with film and installation has developed into a fascinating archival research practice focussed on the esoteric and the occult. Originally from Montreal and spending much of her formative art education in…
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See here for full episode: https://patreon.com/aqnb In this episode Jared talks with Nile Koetting, an artist whose immersive works mix installation, performance, and ambient environments to explore interests in technology, human solidarity and times of crisis. Born in Japan and based in Berlin, Nile often works collaboratively with performers and …
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Episode 11: Wilderness Years with Maria Minerva (Teaser)
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See here for full episode: patreon.com/aqnb In this episode — which we're releasing early before the US election — Steph speaks with Maria Minerva, a performer and producer known for her self-conscious bedroom productions of nu disco and lo-fi pop, who also happens to work in environmental advocacy in California The Estonian-born artist and recentl…
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Episode 10: Post-Traumatic Everything with Jonnine Standish (Teaser)
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See here for full episode: patreon.com/aqnb In this episode Steph speaks to Jonnine Standish, a performer and musician best known for fronting Australian post-punk band HTRK, and her developing solo career under the mononym Jonnine. The Australian artist is is currently living in the idyllic Dandenong Ranges of greater Melbourne with her husband Co…
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Episode 7: (Unlocked!) Glitching the Self with Legacy Russell
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See here for more episodes: patreon.com/aqnb In this episode Jared speaks with Legacy Russell, a writer, curator and artist who examines our digital selfhood through critical lenses of blackness and queerness. Born and raised in New York, with time spent in London where she received a Masters from Goldsmiths in 2013, Legacy has organised shows and …
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In this episode Jared speaks with Zach Blas, an artist, filmmaker and writer whose videos and mixed media installations draw queer readings on American mythologies around tech, psychedelia and the Californian Ideology, expanding these through the language of science fiction. Born in West Virginia, studying in California, and now at home in London w…
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In this episode Steph speaks with Geo Wyeth, a musician, performer and educator whose interdisciplinary work aims to create language around colonial and racial histories through embodied storytelling. Currently based in Rotterdam, the New York-born artist is co-founder queer social space Tender Center, and has worked with the likes of Tourmaline, J…
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Episode 4: (Unlocked!) Speaking in Symbols with Cristine Brache
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In this episode Steph speaks with Cristine Brache, whose practice spanning sculpture, poetry and video concerns issues of cultural erasure, and the survival of identity in oppressive environments through codified behaviors. Currently living between Toronto and Miami, Cristine often draws on personal experience as an American born queer woman of Pue…
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Episode 7: Glitching the Self with Legacy Russell (Teaser)
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In this episode Jared speaks with Legacy Russell, a writer, curator and artist who examines our digital selfhood through critical lenses of blackness and queerness. Born and raised in New York, with time spent in London where she received a Masters from Goldsmiths in 2013, Legacy has organised shows and events at the likes of London’s ICA, MoMA PS1…
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In this episode Steph speaks with Lucrecia Dalt, a musician and producer whose abstract sound design explores notions of time and physicality through her minimalist synth, rhythm and vocal manipulation marking a point where the borders between genres and disciplines, forms and bodies collapse. Currently based in Berlin, the Colombian artist has wor…
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On today’s episode Jared talks with Joey Holder, who is known for her installations, videos and web-based projects that speak to themes of contemporary myth-making, science, ecologies and online culture. Joey has held solo exhibitions at the likes of Matt’s Gallery London, Wysing Arts Centre and Sonic Acts Amsterdam. Her shows create expansive mixe…
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In this episode Jared talks with Lawrence Lek. Working across video, music and VR, Lawrence's interrelated projects build speculative fictions addressing questions around AI, authenticity, and geopolitics, as imagined through the future of cities like London and Singapore. In a 2017 interview on AQNB, Lawrence spoke about how when confronted by emp…
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Episode 4: Speaking in Symbols with Cristine Brache (Teaser)
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In this episode Steph speaks with Cristine Brache, whose practice spanning sculpture, poetry and video concerns issues of cultural erasure, and the survival of identity in oppressive environments through codified behaviors. Currently living between Toronto and Miami, Cristine often draws on personal experience as an American born queer woman of Pue…
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In this episode Jared talks with Lawrence Lek. Working across video, music and VR, Lawrence's interrelated projects build speculative fictions addressing questions around AI, authenticity, and geopolitics, as imagined through the future of cities like London and Singapore. In a 2017 interview on AQNB, Lawrence spoke about how when confronted by emp…
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