Interviews
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READAs soon as I sit in the front seat of the car the size of a herring tin, I understand where the opulent descriptions of Hertta are coming from. Her joy, warmth, and charisma tangle around me and fill the insides of the tiny Fiat.
Mixing Everything With Everything in Everything — an Interview With Hertta Kiiski
On viewing care work as an expertise and embracing it as a significant part of artistic practice.
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READI had just visited Noora’s latest exhibition Still Struggling at The Platform Gallery. Noora’s art probes the absurdities of everyday life: plain for everyone to see, but easy to miss. It also immerses, engulfs. It addresses the usually overlooked, but unavoidable, vital.
Movement and Resistance: An Interview With Noora Geagea
On daily routine, power dynamics, struggles, resistance, attitudes, and structures.
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READI guess this need for touch is so present now, It’s something I noticed not only in my work but all around. And when I’m producing [new work] I wanted to give this feeling of tangible fingers or tongues, this feeling of touch.
Finding Forms to Recognise Warmth: A Conversation With Bogna Luiza Wisniewska
Conversational pathway created by Katie Lenanton and Bogna Luiza Wisniewska through critical distance and intimacy with image-prompts.
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READI don’t believe in inspiration. I go to the studio all the time and I might sit there and read my phone if I don’t do anything, but I need to get there. Mostly even if you think nothing will happen there, you might just catch the most essential small idea that you start to develop.
A Long Line of Characters: Getting to Know the Life and Work of Kirsti Tuokko
Kirsti Tuokko on her life as a painter and person, navigating gender roles, prescribed pathways, uncertainty, pleasure, and guilt.
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READI feel there’s nothing to do for me but to constantly make and create more spaces. It is like drilling through existing hard shelled spaces, cemented in their ways.
To Follow a Ball of Yarn: A Conversation With Shubhangi Singh
On gendered forms of labor, collective struggles, domestic and public spaces in relation to the body.