Category Archives: Interviews

Garbage Pail Kids, Cage and Cut-Ups – Interview with John Pound

John Pound is an illustrator artist based in California, probably best known as the creator of Garbage Pail Kids trading cards. More recently he has been experimenting with software to produce randomly generated comics and animations and just a few months ago even designed a series of t-shirts for Stüssy. Currently he has work in The [...]

The Radical Ambiguity of Tom McCarthy*

If Zadie Smith is to be believed, the future of the avant-garde lies in the hands of artist and writer Tom McCarthy. Through his novels and the parodic/splenetic interventions of the INS [International Necronautical Society], he ceaselessly returns to questions of death and space-poaching in the fissures of the symbolic and political like an agitprop [...]

The Rest is Silence: Interview with Emanuel Almborg

In the late 1970s a group of people living in the borough of Hackney in East London began building a structure on a derelict lot in their neighborhood and continued building until this January. The story of the project’s origins are shrouded in mystery. What is known is that because the residents couldn’t decide on [...]

Interview: Anton Vidokle of e-flux

Every day e-flux reaches 50,000 people around the world with three or four emails announcing exhibitions, publications, discussions and events related to contemporary art. But this enormous announcement digest – with an online archive stretching back to its inception in 1999 – is just a part of the story. In a symbiotic operation, e-flux manages [...]

In Conversation: Hisham Bharoocha, Sarah Andersen and Luke Fishbeck

Artist and one-man-band Hisham Bharoocha (aka Soft Circle) and Sumi Ink Club co-founders Sarah Andersen and Luke Fishbeck of Lucky Dragons met to discuss collaborative drawing, life after New York, and the world’s tiniest outdoor museum.
Luke: What is a “soft circle”?
Hisham: It’s like, say you went to the beach and you’ve been swimming all day [...]