The choreographer discusses Shelly Belly Inna Real Life, shot in Jamaica between 2015 and 2019. The post Interview: Cecilia Bengolea on her dancehall film for VF: Reverb appeared first on Fact Magazine ..read more

Reverb features new works by Es Devlin and Theaster Gates, plus Devon Turnbull's Listening Room. The post The Vinyl Factory: Reverb exhibition extended until 10 November appeared first on Fact Magazine ..read more

Devlin takes us inside her new installation, which features as part of The Vinyl Factory: Reverb at 180 Studios. The post Es Devlin: Screenshare appeared first on Fact Magazine ..read more

Paul Cousins presents a multi-channel, interactive installation in which the listener becomes the performer. Paul Cousins is a composer and sound artist from London who uses vintage reel-to-reel tape machines and effects to loop and reshape his electronic productions. “I like using sequential stages to create music, and I’m interested in how technological limitations can change the creative process,” he tells Fact. Cousins was one of the first contributors to our Patch Notes series back in 2020, and in this performance he returns with a performance of his new installation, Atomised Listen ..read more

The audio-visual collaborators discuss world-building, identity and decolonising spaces in the digital and offline realms. Gabriel Massan and LYZZA both want to build new worlds, but it’s up to us to figure out how to navigate them. This shared conviction from the scene-defining CGI artist and DIY wunderkind is foundational to Third World, a multi-level, “offline metaverse,” which Massan describes as a “consciousness-raising game that explores Black indigenous Brazilian experience.” Commissioned by Serpentine Arts Technologies and featuring Web3 integrations built on the Tezos Blockchain, the ..read more

Tschabalala Self on heritage, identity, and what it means and looks like to be a practicing artist today. A Black woman is seated in her finery, upright posture, paying you no mind. Or her legs are splayed, an open secret. Or she is bent over, her gaze turned towards the floor, nonchalant and carefree. Many of the artist Tschabalala Self’s paintings are character studies of these kinds. She presents us with figures that are full of action; charismatic, imbued with distinct and colourful personalities, but they do not perform for our gaze or attention. We happen upon them. They are allowed to b ..read more

Multidisciplinary artist Freeka Tet on taking a hacker’s approach to create playful, subversive works of music and visual art. Freeka Tet can’t decide whether he’s a hacker, a magician or a sell-out. This might be because he spends most of his time inhabiting all of three of these roles. During his conversation with Fact he emphasises the importance of one of his many self-administered tattoos, the seemingly nonsensical phrase ‘ou ou et ou ou et et’, which curls across his chest in spidery cursive. “If you translate it into English it means: ‘or or and or or and and’, he explains. “Are you an ..read more

REVERB features 18 installations including new works by Theaster Gates, Es Devlin, Julianknxx and Caterina Barbieri, as well as Devon Turnbull’s Hi-Fi Listening Room Dream No.1. Theaster Gates, Devon Turnbull, Caterina Barbieri, Jeremy Deller, Carsten Nicolai, Es Devlin and Virgil Abloh will feature as part of REVERB, a major multimedia exhibition exploring the intersection of art and sound curated by The Vinyl Factory, opening at 180 Studios on 23 May, 2024. The largest show of its kind, REVERB will bring together over 100 artists and musicians working across visual arts, music, film and live ..read more

Lyra Pramuk on how collaboration, space and healing are central to her live performance. Lyra Pramuk’s artistry has been documented meticulously. The Berlin-based singer, composer, producer and performance artist is known for her dedication to metaphysical spirituality, her unwavering sensibility, and how, the two manifest via her spin on electronically-focused, futuristic folk music. But the being Lyra Pramuk becomes on stage is less describable. Through collective healing rituals, Lyra Pramuk uses collaborative learning and performance practices to invite audiences on an intimate journeys th ..read more

Audiovisual pioneers Kristina Karpysheva and Alexandr Letsius on creating colossal, mind-bending installations. 404.zero have become an underground phenomenon with immersive architectural installations, a debut album and now a forthcoming computer game all on their CV. They are like artists who would emerge in a William Gibson novel — avoiding the focus on the individual, constantly in search of the new and darkly original. The duo describe their meeting in unromantic terms.“ We met at the digital-artgallery, decided to make an installation together, and never separated ever since,” they recal ..read more