Breda Beban talks to APEngine’s Gary Thomas

11.10.10
My Funeral Song © Breda Beban, courtesy of the artist and Camden Arts Centre First of all, I just wanted to ask you how you became an artist? It’s an easy question to ask… It’s a very complicated answer! Because in my life, I’ve tried everything not to be an artist. I always wanted to be something else. I wanted to study physics. I wanted to study ...
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Clio Barnard talks to APEngine’s Gary Thomas

06.10.10
Clio Barnard, image courtesy of Verve Pictures Clio Barnard’s acclaimed first feature The Arbor has its UK premiere at the 54th BFI London Film Festival this October, before being released nationwide in the UK from 22 October. A Jerwood/Artangel Open commission, and funded by the UK Film Council, The Arbor won Clio the the Best New Documentary Filmmaker award at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. We talked ...
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Rosemary Heather interviews Phil Collins

27.09.10
Phil Collins, zasto ne govorim srpski (na srpskom), 2008, 16mm black–and–white film transferred to video and colour digital video, sound, 35 min. 38 sec. Courtesy the artist, © Phil Collins Phil Collins was born in Runcorn, UK in 1970 and currently lives and works in Berlin. His new work, marxism today (prologue) was presented at this year’s Berlin Biennale, and has its UK premiere at Cornerhouse, ...
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Hito Steyerl speaks to Rosemary Heather

22.09.10
The War According to eBay, Hito Steyerl Hito Steyerl’s In Free Fall premiered at Collective Gallery, Edinburgh and is showing at Picture This, Bristol from 1-30 October 2010, and at Chisenhale Gallery, London from 4 November to 19 December 2010. For some summer lulz, I chatted on email with German artist Hito Steyerl over a couple of weeks in August. A somewhat protracted process, I found it ...
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Felicity Sparrow on Ian Breakwell

17.09.10
The Elusive State of Happiness, Ian Breakwell, 1979, image courtesy of Felicity Sparrow Ian Breakwell’s video works were described by Will Self as being “subtle enactments of an individual praxis that compel our attention, again and again, to the uneasy comity of lived life.” Working prolifically, and across a remarkable range of media, including performance, film, and television, his work is characterised by its wit, humour, ...
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Brad Butler and Karen Mirza on no.w.here

10.08.10
Non Places, Karen Mirza and Brad Butler, 1999 no.w.here is a unique space in London combining film production alongside critical dialogue about contemporary image making. As an artist run organisation no.w.here has supported the production of hundreds of artist works, run multiple workshops and critical discussions and actively curated performances, screenings, residencies, publications, events and exhibitions. You work as artists, as curators, but also as creative cultural ...
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Alex Boyd talks to Samantha Moore

04.08.10
48 hours in Moscow, Duncan McKellar, (2008-9), courtesy of the Oriel Davies Art Gallery Alex Boyd, curator of RE:animate, the Oriel Davies Open Exhibition 2010, spoke to Animator Samantha Moore about the ideas behind the themed Open. RE:animate has 39 artists screening and showing work to do with animation, through installation, photography, projection and drawing. Oriel Davies Curator Alex Boyd wanted the exhibition to challenge and play ...
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