Performance

INTERVIEW | Dasha Lyubimova

INTERVIEW | Dasha Lyubimova

Dasha Lyubimova is a Choreographer, Filmmaker, and Art Director, based in Almaty, Kazakhstan. The main feature of her project is the «dance language». Although there are no words, Dasha creates projects that will be clear without any words to everybody. This genre of art is called videodance or screendance, and it mixes choreography and storytelling. Dasha also touches on social themes trying to make people know, feel and live the problems.

INTERVIEW | Milena ZeVu

INTERVIEW | Milena ZeVu

Milena ZeVu is a Serbian artist based in Belgrade. She always wanted her art to be more dynamic. Her latest series, ArtWalks, emphasizes her need to free art from the conventional exhibition space and the dominant western system of contemporary art, to which most artists are strongly subordinated. Milena unites with her art to defend it and preserve art's supreme independence and freedom.

INTERVIEW | Liu Gongjie

INTERVIEW | Liu Gongjie

Liu Gongjie is a designer and visual artist based in London. His latest project, Emotionally Harmonious Cyborg Future, is a speculative design work. It explores a possible future in the form of a dance drama, where human beings take the initiative to transform themselves into a cyborg that combines the physical and mechanical and can perceive the emotions of others directly.

INTERVIEW | Kamila CK

INTERVIEW | Kamila CK

Kamila CK is a multidisciplinary artist merging boundaries between performance art (circus, movement, dance, musicality), abstract painting, and Japanese Zen calligraphy in a contemporary art context. Polish-born, educated and based in the UK. She is also experimenting with an idea for a live performance merging live abstract painting with circus and contemporary storytelling.

INTERVIEW | Nina Stopar

INTERVIEW | Nina Stopar

Nina Stopar is a Slovenian artist. As a teacher of 5Rhythms she believes that movement is the gateway to creativity, abstraction, and the artistic self. Nina explores abstraction as the dance of intuition of body in motion. A dancing body is the purest and strongest form of perception. It inhabits the truth that arises from in it. Therefore, art created through the embodied practice of movement, as 5Rhythms dance, is subversive.

INTERVIEW | Tris Bucaro

INTERVIEW | Tris Bucaro

Tris Bucaro is a visual artist whose practice confronts self-image, intimacy, and gesture through photography, film, sculpture, and performance. His research considers the location of the self within an image and the oscillation between totality and impermanence, utilizing the self-portrait as a means of examining the regenerative nature of a photograph.

INTERVIEW | Dolores Mephistopheles

INTERVIEW | Dolores Mephistopheles

Dolores Mephistopheles is an artist born in Zagreb and currently based in Berlin. Her paintings are a direct extraction and markings of her life experiences, with a story behind each of them. Mainly inspired by life lessons and painted with only red, blue, black, and white, almost every work shows an aspect of a human relationship with oneself and others.

INTERVIEW with Natalie Lambert

INTERVIEW with Natalie Lambert

Natalie Lambert (b. 1995) is an interdisciplinary artist as well as the Curator and Founder of Toula Gallery. Natalie approaches her work from feminist theory. Her work is exploratory to herself and the environment she is in or has experienced. Through language and eroticism, Lambert provokes thoughts of objectification and challenges the stereotypes about gender politics, sex, and the body.

INTERVIEW | Dalia Kiaupaitė

INTERVIEW | Dalia Kiaupaitė

Dalia Kiaupaitė is a professional Lithuanian female artist, mostly working in and in-between theatre, opera, and visual art’s fields. She collaborates with several a different theaters, operas, cultural events and activities as stage, costumes, and light designer. As an independent artist, Dalia Kiaupaitė is researching topics of femininity and recognition of cultural signs - stereotypes and archetypes - in contemporary time.

INTERVIEW | Alexandra Fly

INTERVIEW | Alexandra Fly

Alexandra Holownia is a performance and interdisciplinary conceptual artist who made actions in public space, costumes, sculptures, drawings, video, text, lectures. Alexandra Holownia's works touch on taboo topics related to gender. She demonstrates against exclusion, discrimination based on age, sexism, and patriarchal structures in women and men's private and public relations. Calls for socio-political tolerance, acceptance of human rights, and freedom of sexual self-determination.

INTERVIEW | Zita Vilutyte

INTERVIEW | Zita Vilutyte

Zita Vilutyte is a Lithuanian artist based in Siauliai/Kaunas in Lithuania. Zita Vilutyte started work at the Holistic Movement Theater "S." She has expanded from movement performances and music production to interdisciplinary educational projects. Since 2006 she became a member of the ambient music association, Ambient Music Garden (UK), released 17 music albums, music for documentaries, and plays.

INTERVIEW | Tabata Bandin

INTERVIEW | Tabata Bandin

Tabata Bandin is a multidisciplinary Mexican artist. Her work is based on the same discourse that she has approached and developed through different mediums such as drawing, video, photography, and objets d'art. Tabata has had academic and hands-on training in visual arts, philosophy, psychology, and sociology, disciplines that involve and give structure to my work.

INTERVIEW | Naomi Even-Aberle

INTERVIEW | Naomi Even-Aberle

​Naomi Even-Aberle is a multi-disciplinary artist living in South Dakota (USA) who uses performance art, digital technology, and martial arts practices to explore female roles in contemporary society. Her art practice involve performative elements, interdisciplinary media processes embedded within her martial arts philosophy of understanding and establishing learning strategies for the body, mind, and spirit.

INTERVIEW | YunRay Chung

INTERVIEW | YunRay Chung

Coming from a medical background, YunRay studies fashion design in New York after he finished his Bachelor’s Degree in Physical Therapy in Taiwan. He uses second-hand garments deconstruction, performances, installation, and films to tell the narratives of his vision. He uses his work to speak to social issues, but also human emotions and experiences.

INTERVIEW | Aïda Schweitzer

INTERVIEW | Aïda Schweitzer

Aïda Schweitzer is a Franco-Egyptian performance artist. She lives and works between Luxembourg and Brussels. Without learning in art school, her confusing work is based on "a no" partitioning, a distance from a formatted model, and challenges the established codes. Committed and feminist, her work plunges us into a poetic interiority of pure lines, a legacy of her travels in Asia.