I come from a dance background. Both of my parents are dancers—I came out of the womb, and they were like, “Here are your tap shoes, here are your ballet shoes.” I had a show coming up in New York, and Curtain Call seemed like the perfect subject matter; it was where my heart was leading me.
La emocionalidad de lo doméstico: Una Conversación con Nicolás Bacal
Nacido en Buenos Aires, el joven artista visual y músico Nicolás Bacal, con una licenciatura en composición electroacústica de la Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, se desempeña en el campo de las artes desde el 2007.
Digging Into the Guts: A Conversation with Damián Ortega
Damián Ortega, who divides his time between Mexico City and Berlin, began his career as a political cartoonist, and his observant wit remains evident in works that undermine preconceived ideas about art, structural and social systems, urban development, and the environment.
Through Negotiation: A Conversation with Shirley Tse
Recipient of the International Sculpture Center’s 2023 Educator Award For more than three decades, Shirley Tse—longtime CalArts faculty member, Guggenheim Fellow, and Hong Kong representative to the 58th Venice Biennale—has created sculptural interventions that interrogate notions of place, politics, and ecology.
Radical Honesty: A Conversation with Shary Boyle
Shary Boyle has had a dynamic international career, yet, somehow, the United States is just catching on to her captivating interdisciplinary work. Boyle, who represented Canada in the 2013 Venice Biennale, works fluidly across many modalities.
Crossed By Time: A Conversation with Hugo Aveta
For Hugo Aveta, who works and lives in Córdoba, Argentina, time, ghosts, and memories become conceptual raw material. In his devastated, dehumanized scenarios—realized through photographs, videos, sculptures, models, drawings, sound installations, and immersive, site-specific works—what persists is the echo of what was and will never return.
Pensar el mundo desde los márgenes: Una Conversación con Grupo Bondi
Hablar del Grupo Bondi—nombre que sale del lunfardo para referirse a los colectivos públicos de Buenos Aires—es, ante todo, hacer referencia a un colectivo de artistas que se vinculan bajo una bandera común para pensar propuestas creativas, operando en el campo del diseño industrial en su interacción con la vida cotidiana, asumiendo una mirada artística.
Repetition & Endurance: A Conversation with Mary Mattingly
For Mary Mattingly, art is about life and survival. Her interlinked earth-, water-, food-, and community- centered projects attune us to the planet’s basic rhythms and needs (as well as our own), helping us to understand the complex ecosystems that sustain us.
Dynamic Protagonists: A Conversation with Carola Zech
The Argentinian sculptor Carola Zech has spent over 25 years expanding the limits of sculpture, installation, and context. In her often site-specific works, she thinks about space and all its actors—especially the body of the viewer—as a nucleus that grows or contracts with the interaction of the parts.
Fluid Circulation: A Conversation with Holly Hendry
Systems, patterns, strata, bodies, and machines are among the preoccupations of British sculptor Holly Hendry. Turning things inside out and breaking their inner workings down into individual, often corporeal, parts, she reveals boundaries that are often more porous and permeable than we might imagine.
