AQNB's Artist Statement podcast

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AQNB's Artist Statement podcast

The 'Artist Statement' podcast is a conversation series featuring artists and thinkers from the world of AQNB, a London and Los Angeles-based editorial platform working between visual art, music and critical thinking. Join Editor Steph Kretowicz and Associate Ed. Jared Davis in conversation with experimental practitioners that resist classification, paying close attention to the discursive changes brought on by developments in technology and communication.

  1. (Unlocked) Episode 37: Working Through with R.I.P. Germain

    01/24/2023

    (Unlocked) Episode 37: Working Through with R.I.P. Germain

    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 ...

    1h 2m
  2. Episode 39: Trigger Warning with PHILTH HAUS (Teaser)

    EPISODE 39

    Episode 39: Trigger Warning with PHILTH HAUS (Teaser)

    See here for full episode: patreon.com/aqnbIn 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....

    8 min
  3. Episode 38: Camp Visual Splendour with Nichole Fitch & Christopher Adams-Cohen (Teaser)

    EPISODE 38

    Episode 38: Camp Visual Splendour with Nichole Fitch & Christopher Adams-Cohen (Teaser)

    See here for full episode: patreon.com/aqnbIn 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 aesthe...

    5 min
  4. Episode 37: Working Through with R.I.P. Germain (Teaser)

    EPISODE 37

    Episode 37: Working Through with R.I.P. Germain (Teaser)

    See here for full episode: patreon.com/aqnbIn 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 Afr...

    10 min
  5. Episode 36: Controlling the Edges with Jennifer Mehigan (Teaser)

    EPISODE 36

    Episode 36: Controlling the Edges with Jennifer Mehigan (Teaser)

    See here for full episode: patreon.com/aqnbIn 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 Creama...

    5 min
  6. Episode 35: Changing the Narrative with Isabel Waidner (Teaser)

    EPISODE 35

    Episode 35: Changing the Narrative with Isabel Waidner (Teaser)

    See here for full episode: patreon.com/aqnbIn 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 te...

    3 min
  7. Episode 34: Feeding the Beast with Sam Rolfes (Teaser)

    EPISODE 34

    Episode 34: Feeding the Beast with Sam Rolfes (Teaser)

    See here for full episode: patreon.com/aqnbIn 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. ...

    6 min
  8. Episode 33: Blowing Up with umru (Teaser)

    EPISODE 33

    Episode 33: Blowing Up with umru (Teaser)

    See here for full episode: patreon.com/aqnbIn 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 Eston...

    3 min
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The 'Artist Statement' podcast is a conversation series featuring artists and thinkers from the world of AQNB, a London and Los Angeles-based editorial platform working between visual art, music and critical thinking. Join Editor Steph Kretowicz and Associate Ed. Jared Davis in conversation with experimental practitioners that resist classification, paying close attention to the discursive changes brought on by developments in technology and communication.

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