In this episode Jared speaks with R.I.P. Germain, an artist whose multidisciplinary practice spans themes of grief, Black music culture in the UK, and complex entanglements of masculinity. Based in Luton, R.I.P. Germain has exhibited at spaces including London’s V.O Curations, Peak, South London Gallery and more. He was selected as one of the recipients for ICA London’s Image Behaviour commissions, for which he is developing a film exploring African spiritualism in the Caribbean through first ha...
Jan 24, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 37
See here for full episode: patreon.com/aqnb In this episode Steph speaks with ANDRA, an interdisciplinary artist and representative of PHILTH HAUS, which is a collective who produce art installations, performance, and sound, to temporarily represent one or, occasionally more of its six so-called “member-clients” . Currently based in Berlin, Andra has worked under multiple monikers, for now settling under the PHILTH HAUS umbrella and presenting work in New York, Boston, Amsterdam, and elsewhere. ...
Aug 31, 2022•8 min•Ep. 39
See here for full episode: patreon.com/aqnb In this episode Steph speaks with Nichole Fitch and Christopher Adams-Cohen, two LA-based artists who’ve managed to make their individual creative practices collide in a bawdy spectacle of extravagance and deeply reflective eroticism. Both growing up in Pasadena, Nichole & Christopher have been friends first and collaborators second since age 12, finding each other in their shared appreciation for classical theatre, and a particular kind of aesthet...
Aug 04, 2022•5 min•Ep. 38
See here for full episode: patreon.com/aqnb In this episode Jared speaks with R.I.P. Germain, an artist whose multidisciplinary practice spans themes of grief, Black music culture in the UK, and complex entanglements of masculinity. Based in Luton, R.I.P. Germain has exhibited at spaces including London’s V.O Curations, Peak, South London Gallery and more. He was selected as one of the recipients for ICA London’s Image Behaviour commissions, for which he is developing a film exploring African sp...
Apr 19, 2022•10 min•Ep. 37
See here for full episode: patreon.com/aqnb In this episode Steph speaks with Jennifer Mehigan, an interdisciplinary artist working across media, including 3D modelling, video, and text; textiles, sound, installation, scent and more. Born in Ireland, raised in Singapore and partly educated in Australia, Jen has been applying her skills as a painter and graphic designer to an increasingly research-based and conceptual practice with videos like 'Honeysuckle Joyride' and performance series Creamato...
Jan 26, 2022•5 min•Ep. 36
See here for full episode: patreon.com/aqnb In this episode Jared talks with Isabel Waidner, a writer and novelist whose fiction work incorporates elements of the surreal to develop thoughtful, critical and funny readings into class politics, race, and queer life in the UK. Moving to London from Germany in the mid-nineties, Isabel is the author of three novels, and presents This Isn’t a Dream , an online conversation series with writers hosted by London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts. They tea...
Dec 01, 2021•3 min•Ep. 35
See here for full episode: patreon.com/aqnb In this episode Steph speaks with Sam Rolfes, a self-described digital performance artist and designer working with sound, animation and the internet. Often collaborating with his brother Andy as Team Rolfes, Sam’s worked with such big names as Lady Gaga, Danny Elfman and Rihanna, while presenting his solo real-time 3D improvisations and other collaborations with the likes of House of Kenzo, Rabit, Danny L Harle, Kai Whiston and many, many more. Born i...
Nov 17, 2021•6 min•Ep. 34
See here for full episode: patreon.com/aqnb In this episode Steph speaks with Umru Rothenberg. Mostly known by the mononym umru, the producer is one of a younger generation of so-called SoundCloud artists signed to A.G. Cook’s PC Music label, as well as a reluctant representative of the too broad and indeterminate musical catchall referred to as “hyperpop”. The scene includes peers like 100 Gecs, Petal Supply, himera, Fraxiom, Dorian Electra, the list goes on. Based in New York with Estonian roo...
Oct 07, 2021•3 min•Ep. 33
See here for full episode: patreon.com/aqnb In this episode Jared speaks with Jenna Sutela, an artist whose audiovisual work incorporates language, sound and living matter to investigate sociality, technology and our interconnectedness with the wider environment. Originally from Finland and now based in Berlin, Jenna’s work has been shown at the likes of Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Tokyo's Museum of Contemporary Art, and Serpentine Galleries in London. She has also released an LP in 2019 via Berli...
Sep 23, 2021•3 min•Ep. 32
See here for full episode: patreon.com/aqnb In this episode Steph speaks with Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya, an interdisciplinary artist whose hybrid sculptures evoke a monstrous tactility and sense of dreadful fascination, while echoing the Aztec mythology of shapeshifting beings called Nahuales. Not quite human and not quite animal, these phantoms can move with a freedom often not afforded the Latinx migrant communities that inhabit the same desert along the Rio Grande. Born in Mexico’s Parra...
Sep 09, 2021•4 min•Ep. 31
See here for more episodes: patreon.com/aqnb In this episode Steph speaks with Holly Childs, an interdisciplinary writer and artist whose elaborate creative cosmology filters “stories of computation through frames of ecology, earth, memory, poetry and light.” Graduating Amsterdam’s Sandberg Instituut in 2019, Holly has worked across a spectrum of fields and forms, publishing two experimental novels in 2014, with a third due for release in 2021. What Causes Flowers Not to Bloom? will be an extens...
Aug 25, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 23
See here for full episode: patreon.com/aqnb In this episode Jared speaks with Alice Bucknell, an artist and writer whose video work using game engines explores topics spanning big tech mythologies and magic, ecology, architecture and AI. Raised in Florida and now based in London, Alice’s works have been exhibited by Ars Electronica with König Galerie, the Venice Architecture Biennale, and White Cube, with texts written for Flash Art, Mousse, Whitechapel’s Documents of Contemporary Art series and...
Aug 19, 2021•6 min•Ep. 30
See here for full episode: patreon.com/aqnb In this episode Steph speaks with Anthoney Hart, a DJ and producer who has been working under a number of aliases since his ‘90s pirate radio days in London. Starting with jungle and hardcore in his teens then moving into noise, bass music and grime, Anthoney has more recently returned to his roots releasing more dance-floor focussed drum and bass records via labels like Planet Mu, Type Recordings, Hypercolour and his own Raw Basics. Born in Hastings b...
Aug 04, 2021•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 29
See here for more episodes: patreon.com/aqnb In this episode Jared talks with Joey Holder, who is known for her installations, videos and web-based projects that speak to themes of contemporary myth-making, science, ecologies and online culture. Joey has held solo exhibitions at the likes of Matt’s Gallery London, Wysing Arts Centre and Sonic Acts Amsterdam. Her shows create expansive mixed media environments—for instance her most recent exhibition 'Semelparous'—in which the artist’s work occupi...
Jul 28, 2021•42 min•Ep. 5
See here for full episode: patreon.com/aqnb In this episode Jared talks with Adham Faramawy, an artist whose work in video, image making and sculptural installation examines interwoven themes around the body, queerness, ecologies and migration. Based in London, Adham has recently exhibited at the likes of Somerset House and London’s Science Gallery. Their moving image work has twice been shortlisted for the Jarman Award, including this year for their film The air is subtle, various and sweet . A...
Jul 21, 2021•5 min•Ep. 28
In this episode Jared speaks with Terre Thaemlitz, a music producer, DJ, writer and public speaker, whose work over three decades offers uncompromising critical examinations of media distribution, queer identity, and non-essentialist transgenderism. Raised in Missouri before moving to New York in the late 1980s, Terre was a resident DJ at storied queer nightclub Sally’s II in the early ‘90s. Since then, Terre has released music, critical writing, and video via her own Comatonse Recordings, as we...
Jul 08, 2021•56 min•Ep. 20
See here for full episode: patreon.com/aqnb In this episode Steph speaks with Onyedika Chuke, an artist and archivist whose largest body of work — 'The Forever Museum Archive' — is a growing collection of sculptures, text and images examining different social, cultural and political structures, while analyzing their interconnectedness. The project has been running for a decade now, starting as an essay and expanding into multiple forms and exhibitions in a number of locations around the world. I...
Jul 07, 2021•3 min•Ep. 27
See here for full episode: patreon.com/aqnb In this episode Jared talks with Tianzhuo Chen, an artist whose videos, performances and visual works create spectacles evoking religious ritual and iconography, sexuality and the body. Based in Beijing, while also having lived and worked extensively in Shanghai, Tianzhuo is the founder of Asian Dope Boys, a loose collective and party series, presenting performances and club nights at spaces ranging from Shanghai’s All Club, to the Barbican Centre in L...
Jun 23, 2021•6 min•Ep. 26
See here for more info: bit.ly/3zvbB00 For more episodes: patreon.com/aqnb In this episode we explore contemporary challenges to rationalism in an age of data, asking what the unique effects of technological mediation are on the culture of spirituality, by inviting artist and founding member of Black Obsidian Sound System Evan Ifekoya for a discussion, along with a mix from multifaceted art platform Most Dismal Swamp. Jared talks with Evan on topics spanning astrology and digital mediation, ritu...
Jun 16, 2021•1 hr 9 min
See here for more info: bit.ly/3fMSfvH For more episodes: patreon.com/aqnb In this episode, we respond to the topic of illness, considering the structural conditions affecting health and the nature of life, by inviting artist, writer LTTR journal and collective co-founder Every Ocean Hughes for a discussion, as well as an audio work by interdisciplinary artist and writer Clay AD. Steph speaks with Every about her work around notions of queer death and illness, as well as her place in a rich line...
Jun 02, 2021•1 hr 31 min
See here for full episode: patreon.com/aqnb In this episode Steph speaks with Dean Erdmann, an interdisciplinary artist whose expansive practice attempts an investigative and sensory understanding of their queer and working-class subjectivity in the present moment, as part of a personal, familial and geopolitical legacy of inherited violence and descendent technologies. Born and raised in the Mojave Desert, Dean’s ongoing 'And, Apollo' project—begun as a fellow at The New School’s Vera List Cent...
May 26, 2021•4 min•Ep. 25
See here for more info: https://bit.ly/3eWnkfI For more episodes: patreon.com/aqnb In this episode, at a moment in which it is difficult to think beyond the present, we consider queer notions of time, the future, and apocalypse, by speaking with Jack Halberstam, a queer theorist and Professor of Gender Studies and English at Columbia University. Jared talks with Jack on queer notions of forgetting, futurity, and the figure of the zombie in today’s popular imagination, as explored in his books su...
May 19, 2021•50 min
See here for full episode: patreon.com/aqnb In this episode Jared speaks with DeForrest Brown, Jr., a music journalist, theorist and musician, whose work critically examines platform capitalism, white supremacy and the politics of music distribution, with a particular interest in how these issues manifest through techno music. Raised in Birmingham, Alabama, DeForrest is now based in New York, having worked as a music journalist and producing experimental techno under the alias Speaker Music thro...
May 12, 2021•7 min•Ep. 24
See here for full episode: patreon.com/aqnb In this episode Steph speaks with Holly Childs, an interdisciplinary writer and artist whose elaborate creative cosmology filters “stories of computation through frames of ecology, earth, memory, poetry and light.” Graduating Amsterdam’s Sandberg Instituut in 2019, Holly has worked across a spectrum of fields and forms, publishing two experimental novels in 2014, with a third due for release in 2021. What Causes Flowers Not to Bloom? will be an extensi...
Apr 28, 2021•4 min•Ep. 23
See here for full episode: patreon.com/aqnb In this episode Jared talks with Amrita Hepi, an artist working with dance and choreography across video, performance and digital works, whose practice illuminates themes from personal histories to embodied self-surveillance. Born in Townsville, Australia of Bundjulung and Ngāpuhi heritage, Amrita is based in Melbourne and has presented work for the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, as well as Serpentine Galler...
Apr 15, 2021•4 min•Ep. 22
See here for more episodes: patreon.com/aqnb In this episode Steph speaks to Jonnine Standish, a performer and musician best known for fronting Australian post-punk band HTRK, and her developing solo career under the mononym Jonnine. The Australian artist is is currently living in the idyllic Dandenong Ranges of greater Melbourne with her husband Conrad (of CS + Kreme), where Jonnine spent her time during lockdown producing her debut solo album Blue Hills. Released via Boomkat in late July, the ...
Apr 08, 2021•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 10
See here for full episode: patreon.com/aqnb In this episode Steph speaks with Coby Sey, a musician and producer who’s known for his dream-like post-grime releases, and ongoing work as part of the loosely-defined South London collective and now label, CURL. It’s organised by friends and collaborators Mica Levi and Brother May, and involves, in one way another, eminent underground peers such as Tirzah, Farai, Kwes, Klein and many, many other artists from the area. Coby’s own practice is similarly ...
Mar 31, 2021•5 min•Ep. 21
See here for full episode: patreon.com/aqnb In this episode Jared speaks with Terre Thaemlitz, a music producer, DJ, writer and public speaker, whose work over three decades offers uncompromising critical examinations of media distribution, queer identity, and non-essentialist transgenderism. Raised in Missouri before moving to New York in the late 1980s, Terre was a resident DJ at storied queer nightclub Sally’s II in the early ‘90s. Since then, Terre has released music, critical writing, and v...
Mar 17, 2021•10 min•Ep. 20
In this episode Jared speaks with Elvia Wilk, a writer whose practice deals with art, technology and culture under capitalism, expressed through an entanglement of critical essays, autobiography, and speculative fiction. Based in New York after years spent in Berlin, Elvia’s writing has appeared in the likes of frieze, Artforum, Mousse and the Los Angeles Review of Books to name a few. Her debut novel 'Oval' was published in 2019 by Soft Skull Press, and she is a contributing editor at e-flux Jo...
Mar 10, 2021•57 min•Ep. 14
See here for full episode: patreon.com/aqnb In this episode Steph speaks with Rhea Dillon, an artist, writer and poet who has made a name for herself with her photography and film work exploring, abstracting and undermining what she calls Western culture’s ‘rule of representation’, while advocating for “equality-led perspectives on how we visualise Black bodies” with her self-coined notion of "humane afrofuturism”. The London-based artist has developed her own visual and conceptual language, whi...
Mar 03, 2021•6 min•Ep. 19
