Yto Barrada juggles her work as an artist with running a cinémathèque in Tangier. She talked to Jennifer Higgie about her reasons for opening a cinema, the ‘strategies of resistance’ she encounters in Morocco today, and her interest in botany
Jesse Ball is an author, poet, artist and lucid dreaming instructor based in Chicago. Ross Simonini talked to him about his new novel, The Curfew, ‘writing as a performance’, and the importance of both clarity and deception in story-telling
On the occasion of a major retrospective in London, Paul Schütze talked to pioneering composer Eliane Radigue about her 50-year career, which spans electronic music, Tibetan Buddhism, musique concrète and ‘anti-acoustics’
Brooklyn-based installation artist and enfant terrible Matthew Ronay has earned a reputation for sculpture and objets trouvés that push the semantic boundaries of humour and revulsion. His work from the early 2000s, moored on hypertrophic depictions of conspicuous consumption – both sexual and cultural – included odd juxtapositions of pop ephemera, from Curtis Mayfield to fried eggs to feline anuses.
Bruce Nauman spoke with Noemi Smolik about his first projects with European gallerists, curators and artists and about how to turn a neon sign into a black square
After the opening last year of the Lee Ufan Museum – a collaboration with the architect Tadao Ando on Naoshima Island, Japan – and ahead of his largest retrospective to date, at New York’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Lee Ufan talks to Melissa Chiu about his five decades as an artist, writer and philosopher
Heimo Zobernig talks to Kirsty Bell about his sculptures, paintings and videos from the early 1980s to the present and about red light, mannequins and Oswald Wiener’s literary sources
