Author Archives: jolanta

Matilde Digmann: Thank you for taking the time to talk to me. I would like to start by asking you about the title of the work Love Songs? How does it correspond to the content and expression of the work? Mary Kelly: Well, the title is kind of unusual for me: in the past I’ve […]

Less Than Day, Or Night, my recent sculptural installation at PS1 Contemporary Art Center, continues to explore what I call “homemade futurism.” The piece is inspired by the final Cantos of Dante’s Inferno in which Dante, led by Virgil, enters the freezing central pit of hell. At the end, as the pair climb their way […]

Kate Clark’s taxidermic sculptures are disarming. With patience and skill, she marries sympathetic, sculpted human faces to animal forms, creating hybrid creatures that awaken in the viewer a sense of wonder while also encouraging somber rumination. Not long ago similar creations—mummified mermaids, mounted werewolves—filled circus side shows and toured natural history museums, providing audiences with […]

Johan Berggren: Right now we are sitting in an amazing house about 20 minutes away from inner city Stockholm. This is where you and Miriam Bäckström, also an artist, live. It’s a bit secluded but it must be very relaxing out here. How long have you lived here? Carsten Höller: About five years. We lived […]

Ain Cocke: Let’s just fuck the intellectual talk…. Let’s talk about sex. What was the first time you got laid like? Tell me if you want, but I’m just kidding. No tell me. Colter Jacobsen: I was in Rome; his name was Angelo and he was just that, an angel. He was a French/Italian who […]

Dressing the surfaces of Yvon Lambert’s project space with an uninterrupted stream of translucent words, and with a bichrome wallpaper of Chinese lotuses composed of dirty messages and comprising pornographic scenes, Tsang Kin-Wah debuted in New York last fall with new signature installations. Their underlying “anger” was calibrated toward an American audience—rants like FUCKINGWHITEAMERICANSUPERFICIALIST, DAMNTHEAMERICANSDAMNTHEMUSLIMS, […]