Interview: Cecilia Bengolea on her dancehall film for VF: Reverb
The artist and choreographer discusses Shelly Belly Inna Real Life, shot in Jamaica between 2015 and 2019 and showing until 22 December at 180 Studios. In…
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The Vinyl Factory: Reverb exhibition extended until 22 December
Reverb features 17 audiovisual installations including new works by Es Devlin and Theaster Gates, plus Devon Turnbull’s Listening Room. One of the most popular exhibitions…
Es Devlin: Screenshare
Devlin takes us inside her new installation, which features as part of The Vinyl Factory: Reverb at 180 Studios. In Screenshare, a new commission by…
Interview: Jeremy Deller
The Turner Prize-winning artist on politics, music and his film Everybody in the Place: An Incomplete History of Britain 1984-1992, now showing at The Vinyl Factory:…
Patch Notes: Atomised Listening
Paul Cousins presents a multi-channel, interactive installation in which the listener becomes the performer. Paul Cousins is a composer and sound artist from London who uses…
Interview: Gabriel Massan & LYZZA
The audio-visual collaborators discuss world-building, identity and decolonising spaces in the digital and offline realms. Gabriel Massan and LYZZA both want to build new worlds,…
Interview: Tschabalala Self
Tschabalala Self on heritage, identity, and what it means and looks like to be a practicing artist today. A Black woman is seated in her…
Interview: Freeka Tet
Multidisciplinary artist Freeka Tet on taking a hacker’s approach to create playful, subversive works of music and visual art. Freeka Tet can’t decide whether he’s…
The Vinyl Factory celebrates art and sound with immersive exhibition at 180 Studios
REVERB features 17 audiovisual installations including new works by Es Devlin and Theaster Gates, plus Devon Turnbull’s Listening Room. Theaster Gates, Devon Turnbull, Caterina Barbieri,…
Interview: Lyra Pramuk
Lyra Pramuk on how collaboration, space and healing are central to her live performance. Lyra Pramuk’s artistry has been documented meticulously. The Berlin-based singer, composer,…
Interview: VTSS & Actual Objects
LA-based studio Actual Objects on how they suspended reality in their collaboration with electronic musician VTSS. In the opening scene for VTSS’s Notoriously Fast music video, a…
Interview: Theo Triantafyllidis
The digital artist on how Mark Zuckerberg’s sterile vision of the metaverse inspired his latest online multiplayer game. Theo Triantafyllidis’s latest project is an online…
United Visual Artists: Synchronicity
How pattern recognition and the origins of music inspired UVA’s career-spanning exhibition. “Synchronicity is essentially about patterns, and how we use pattern recognition to make…
Interview: Klein
South London friends and collaborators Klein and Curtly Thomas on identity, experimentation and technology. Klein redefines what it means to be an artist for the…
Interview: 33EMYBW
How prehistoric biota inspired the SVBKVLT artist’s captivating new album, Holes of Sinian. This feature was originally published in Fact’s F/W 2023 issue, which is…
Ibby Njoya – Mustafa
180 Studios resident artist showcases his passion for transmuting colour. Ibby Njoya feels colour. “I see emotions. [Colour] is the way for me to translate…
Interview: Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley
The digital media artist on challenging the art world’s exclusion of Black trans people and creating art through interactive technology. While the possibilities of who…
Es Devlin x 180 Studios
Artist and polymath Es Devlin shows no sign of slowing down – Devlin recently featured on the cover of the latest print issue of Fact,…
Fact Mix: Tati au Miel
Tati au Miel winds through the sounds of their fantastical world. Haitian-born, Montreal-raised DJ, producer, composer and designer Tati au Miel is one of a…
Patch Notes: Caterina Barbieri
The Italian synthesist takes us to the top of Mount Etna for a special live performance. For this episode of Patch Notes, we travelled with…