Category: Interview Interviews and discussion
Issue 142 October 2011
Ryan Trecartin: in conversation
An interview
Issue 142 October 2011
Surround Sound
On the occasion of a major retrospective in London, Paul Schütze talked to pioneering composer Eliane Radigue about her 50-year career, which spans electronic music, Tibetan Buddhism, musique concrète and ‘anti-acoustics’
Issue 140 June-August 2011
On Reflection
After the opening last year of the Lee Ufan Museum – a collaboration with the architect Tadao Ando on Naoshima Island, Japan – and ahead of his largest retrospective to date, at New York’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Lee Ufan talks to Melissa Chiu about his five decades as an artist, writer and philosopher
Issue 139 May 2011
Life Stages
For 40 years Charles Atlas has collaborated with artists, musicians and dancers – from Merce Cunningham and Antony and the Johnsons to Michael Clark and, most recently, Mika Tajima – to create films and live events that explore ‘in-between states of identity’. He talked to Stuart Comer about his creative development, the intertwining of social scenes and art, and his ideas for the future
Issue 137 March 2011
Time & Again
Following a major commission from the Louvre, Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-liang talks about how music, his father and the responsibilities of filmmaking have informed his 20-year career
Issue 135 November–December 2010
Here to Eternity
French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy talks about subjects ranging from everyday life to film, the body and the soul
Issue 135 November–December 2010
A Kind of Faith
Dan Fox talks to Simon Critchley about community, collaboration, avant-garde rituals and being ‘religious without religion’
Issue 134 October 2010
As We Speak
American artist Christopher Williams’ major solo show at Kunsthalle Baden-Baden this summer and Dutch artist Willem de Rooij’s current exhibition, ‘Intolerance’, at Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie, both highlight the connection between conceptualism and the image, between appropriation and autonomy. The artists discuss whether referentiality in art, if once polemical, has become an orthodoxy and if so, is there is a way out?
Issue 133 September 2010
Parts & Labour
New York-based artist Amy Sillman talks with Matt Saunders about dandyism, comedy and the legacy of Abstract Expressionism
Issue 132 June–August 2010
Variations on a Theme
Composer Nico Muhly talks to Dan Fox about his relationship to music, cooking and collaboration



























