See here for full episode: patreon.com/aqnb In this episode Steph speaks with Jack Latham, a musician and producer also known as Jam City, whose releases on the UK’s Night Slugs label in the 2010s were some of the best examples of a post-club sound that had come to define a generation of artists. After building a name for himself through this cross-Atlantic, post-dubstep amalgamation of grime and garage, hip-hop and bass music on Classical Curves in 2012, Jack’s follow-up record Dream a Garden i...
Feb 17, 2021•3 min•Ep. 18
See here for full episode: patreon.com/aqnb In this episode Jared speaks with Ashley Holmes, an artist whose mixed media installation, sound and performance works explore musical diasporas, unpacking notions of place, ownership, and Black British experience. Based in Sheffield, Ashley has shown work at the likes of FUTURA, Prague, Jerwood Arts, London, Two Queens, Leicester, and is the host of the monthly experimental radio programme Tough Matter on NTS....
Feb 04, 2021•5 min•Ep. 17
See here for full episode: patreon.com/aqnb In this episode Jared talks with Huw Lemmey, a writer whose novels create alternate imaginings of the present, casting a critical and at times satirical eye on topics from politics to belief systems, gay culture to psychotropic drugs. Having relocated from the UK to Barcelona, Huw is the author of novels including Unknown Language via Ignota Books, Red Tory: My Corbyn Chemsex Hell from Montez Press, and a prolific critic having written for the Guardian...
Jan 20, 2021•8 min•Ep. 16
See here for full episode: patreon.com/aqnb In this episode Steph speaks with Akinola Davies Jr, a director and moving image artist whose music videos and films concentrate on documenting the broad and diverse collective identity of his community. Growing up in Lagos and now based in London, Akin has developed a unique and striking visual language that explores race, gender and identity, particularly surrounding the Black diaspora in Britain and beyond. He’s built an impressive portfolio crossin...
Jan 06, 2021•9 min•Ep. 15
See here for more episodes: https://patreon.com/aqnb In this episode Steph speaks with Lucrecia Dalt, a musician and producer whose abstract sound design explores notions of time and physicality through her minimalist synth, rhythm and vocal manipulation marking a point where the borders between genres and disciplines, forms and bodies collapse. Currently based in Berlin, the Colombian artist has worked with subjects ranging from new german cinema and body horror to geology and astrophysics. Thi...
Dec 16, 2020•59 min•Ep. 6
See here for full episode: patreon.com/aqnb 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, a...
Dec 09, 2020•6 min•Ep. 14
See here for full episode: patreon.com/aqnb In this episode Steph speaks with Margaret Haines, an artist and writer based in Amsterdam whose work with film and installation has developed into a fascinating archival research practice focussed on the esoteric and the occult. Originally from Montreal and spending much of her formative art education in Los Angeles, Margaret has developed a unique visual aesthetic and experimental writing approach to exploring complex belief systems and spiritual pra...
Nov 25, 2020•7 min•Ep. 13
See here for full episode: https://patreon.com/aqnb In this episode Jared talks with Nile Koetting, an artist whose immersive works mix installation, performance, and ambient environments to explore interests in technology, human solidarity and times of crisis. Born in Japan and based in Berlin, Nile often works collaboratively with performers and artists including composer Nozomu Matsumoto, and writer Miriam Stoney. His work has been shown at the likes of Centre Pompidou x West Bund Museum, Sha...
Nov 11, 2020•6 min•Ep. 12
See here for full episode: patreon.com/aqnb In this episode — which we're releasing early before the US election — Steph speaks with Maria Minerva, a performer and producer known for her self-conscious bedroom productions of nu disco and lo-fi pop, who also happens to work in environmental advocacy in California The Estonian-born artist and recently naturalised American citizen released her fifth solo album after an extended, six year hiatus, somewhat anticlimactically in September while America...
Oct 29, 2020•11 min•Ep. 11
See here for full episode: 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 ...
Oct 21, 2020•6 min•Ep. 10
See here for more episodes: patreon.com/aqnb In this episode Jared speaks with Legacy Russell, a writer, curator and artist who examines our digital selfhood through critical lenses of blackness and queerness. Born and raised in New York, with time spent in London where she received a Masters from Goldsmiths in 2013, Legacy has organised shows and events at the likes of London’s ICA, MoMA PS1 and The Studio Museum in Harlem, where she is currently Associate Curator of Exhibitions. Legacy's book ...
Oct 13, 2020•54 min•Ep. 7
In this episode Jared speaks with Zach Blas, an artist, filmmaker and writer whose videos and mixed media installations draw queer readings on American mythologies around tech, psychedelia and the Californian Ideology, expanding these through the language of science fiction. Born in West Virginia, studying in California, and now at home in London where he is a Lecturer in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, Zach has presented work for the likes of de Young Museum, San Francisco, the...
Oct 07, 2020•6 min•Ep. 9
In this episode Steph speaks with Geo Wyeth, a musician, performer and educator whose interdisciplinary work aims to create language around colonial and racial histories through embodied storytelling. Currently based in Rotterdam, the New York-born artist is co-founder queer social space Tender Center, and has worked with the likes of Tourmaline, Jen Rosenblit and Niv Acosta among others. Wyeth most recently collaborated with cult icon Vava Dudu, translating the Parisian fashion designer, musici...
Sep 23, 2020•8 min•Ep. 8
In this episode Steph speaks with Cristine Brache, whose practice spanning sculpture, poetry and video concerns issues of cultural erasure, and the survival of identity in oppressive environments through codified behaviors. Currently living between Toronto and Miami, Cristine often draws on personal experience as an American born queer woman of Puerto Rican and Cuban descent, and the colonial and patriarchal conditions these things imply. Her current exhibition—‘Commit Me, Commit to Me’—at New Y...
Sep 16, 2020•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 4
In this episode Jared speaks with Legacy Russell, a writer, curator and artist who examines our digital selfhood through critical lenses of blackness and queerness. Born and raised in New York, with time spent in London where she received a Masters from Goldsmiths in 2013, Legacy has organised shows and events at the likes of London’s ICA, MoMA PS1 and The Studio Museum in Harlem, where she is currently Associate Curator of Exhibitions. Legacy's book Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto is forthcoming v...
Sep 09, 2020•9 min•Ep. 7
In this episode Steph speaks with Lucrecia Dalt, a musician and producer whose abstract sound design explores notions of time and physicality through her minimalist synth, rhythm and vocal manipulation marking a point where the borders between genres and disciplines, forms and bodies collapse. Currently based in Berlin, the Colombian artist has worked with subjects ranging from new german cinema and body horror to geology and astrophysics. This year she released a record in her native Spanish ti...
Aug 26, 2020•10 min•Ep. 6
On today’s 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 occupied a disused swimming pool and leisure cen...
Aug 12, 2020•7 min•Ep. 5
In this episode Jared talks with Lawrence Lek. Working across video, music and VR, Lawrence's interrelated projects build speculative fictions addressing questions around AI, authenticity, and geopolitics, as imagined through the future of cities like London and Singapore. In a 2017 interview on AQNB, Lawrence spoke about how when confronted by empty cities or ruins it can lead to epiphanies about ourselves. This awareness of a social aspect to the cityscape—no doubt drawing from his training as...
Jul 29, 2020•53 min•Ep. 3
In this episode Steph speaks with Cristine Brache, whose practice spanning sculpture, poetry and video concerns issues of cultural erasure, and the survival of identity in oppressive environments through codified behaviors. Currently living between Toronto and Miami, Cristine often draws on personal experience as an American born queer woman of Puerto Rican and Cuban descent, and the colonial and patriarchal conditions these things imply. Her current exhibition—‘Commit Me, Commit to Me’—at New Y...
Jul 22, 2020•11 min•Ep. 4
In this episode Jared talks with Lawrence Lek. Working across video, music and VR, Lawrence's interrelated projects build speculative fictions addressing questions around AI, authenticity, and geopolitics, as imagined through the future of cities like London and Singapore. In a 2017 interview on AQNB, Lawrence spoke about how when confronted by empty cities or ruins it can lead to epiphanies about ourselves. This awareness of a social aspect to the cityscape—no doubt drawing from his training as...
Jul 15, 2020•7 min•Ep. 3
In this episode Jared talks with artist, composer and choreographer Colin Self, who builds on queer dance and movement traditions, drawing from extended notions of family and kin. Colin first appeared on AQNB’s radar as part of experimental drag collective Chez Deep. Formed in New York in 2012, the group that originally included Alexis Penney, Bailey Stiles, Hari Nef, Sam Banks along with Colin produced a series of performance videos in collaboration with our site back in 2015. Now based in Berl...
Jul 08, 2020•8 min•Ep. 2
In this episode Steph speaks with Katja Novitskova, known for her installations addressing the rapidly developing planet, its dataflows, and the effects of human industrial expansion on the environment. Beginning her studies in semiotics, new media and graphic design before somewhat unintentionally finding her way into the art world, Katja became associated with the so-called post-internet art scene of the mid-to-late 2000s, that defined a generation of artists informed by the online aesthetics,...
Jun 30, 2020•55 min•Ep. 1
