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Pierre Huyghe on "Liminal", Punta della Dogana

“Magic is the science of signs. Signs are an interplay of symbols. In this respect yes I believe in symbols.” Pierre Huyghe is a French artist who works in a variety of media from films and sculptures to public interventions and living systems.

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Vivian Suter

Vivian Suter was born in Buenos Aires in 1949. He has painted in Basel, Vienna, Africa, Bern, Rome and Panajachel and has lived in Panajachel, Guatemala since 1982. Panajachel Traveling through North and Central America in 1982, Vivian Suter arrived in Panajachel - a town on the shores of Lake Atitlán - and remained there, forming her home on land on an old coffee plantation. Since the beginning of the 80s, most of his artistic work has been created from this scenario, and many of his works have become part of it. The gravels, along with the aguacatales and mango trees, which were originally planted to protect the coffee plantations, provide the shade area throughout the year. A steep path, in which the bleachers are mixed with the sidewalk of the mountain, leads to the study of Vivian Suter, from which you can see above the tips of the trees, the town of Panajachel with its lake and its volcanoes. The art that is born here is about the wind, the volcanoes and the vastness and clarity of this tropical landscape. Under the shadow of the coffee plantation, there is a second study. The view between the gablets reaches only the leaves of the dense banana plants that grow in front of the house. This is where the foreground works are created: the recurring motif of the forbidden fruit, the look on oneself or fixed on the interior.

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Otay:Onii | MAFF Tour Shanghai (Episode 2)

"Lost is an illusion. Open your hands, you'll realize you have everything." Otay:onii (Lane Shi) is a multifaceted artist originally from Haining, China. Her artistic practice spans across music, sound design, installation art, and film composition. She is the lead vocalist and keyboardist of the punk spit band Elizabeth Colour Wheel (US). Lane's voice is like an ancient call, sometimes beckoning the soul, and at other times, piercing the listener like lightning. Lane came to the U.S. at a young age when she still needed parental accompaniment, living as an immigrant with a dual cultural background. This marginalized, non-mainstream existence makes her voice transcend cultures and languages. She wrote, "My task is to solve a puzzle with another puzzle that can't be seen, be touched, but to feel."

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MAFF chat — Wallen Diaz

Dialing in with Wallen Diaz. Originally from the Dominican Republic now based in Brussels, Wallen Diaz started out with plastic arts before pivoting into graphic design. Influenced by 90s and y2k album art, Diaz blends the abstract and figurative worlds of fashion, nostalgia & fantasy to create an aesthetic he calls “NeoDigitalism”. We’re hooked to say the least.

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Sahej Rahal

Dialing in with Sahej Rahal based in Mumbai, India 🇮🇳 who works across a variety of different disciplines from painting, sculpture, performance, to video games. Using AI, Rahal shapes the stories of his own mythology which draw upon archaeological records, conspiracies, science fiction, and folklore. His work is an ever-growing world that inherently interrogates the dominant narratives shaping our present.

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Rick Owens answers questions on queer culture, punk gigs and sex clubs

i-D asked iconic fashion designer Rick Owens to answer an array of weird and wonderful questions sent from his friends, family and peers including Sissy Misfit, Kris Van Assche, Stephen Jones, Gwendoline Christie, Ludovic de Saint Sernin and more. Covering everything from queer history, sex clubs and his favourite films (you’d be surprised!) to life with muse-slash-partner Michèle Lamy and his new Dr. Martens collab, the Californian provocateur gives us a rare insight into his psyche. Many thanks to OWENSCORP for supplying imagery referenced in the film. Photography by Brian Cooke Dr. Martens x Rick Owens Campaign featuring Sissy Misfit, 2024 Photography by Bertrand Rindoff Petroff Photos Rick Castro IG: @castrrick Photography by Gary Leonard Constantine Kaloutas IG: @anthr0morph Fecal Matter IG: @matieresfecales Photography by Darren Gerrish Photography by Dave Benett

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73 Questions With Awkwafina

Nora Lum, known professionally as Awkwafina, is an American actress, rapper, and comedian. She rose to prominence in 2012 when her rap song "My Vag" became popular on YouTube. She then released her debut album, Yellow Ranger, and appeared on the MTV comedy series Girl Code. In-between taking meetings and running errands in Los Angeles, Awkwafina strolls around K-Town with Joe and answers 73 questions. The Queens-bred rapper and actress talks about her unique moniker, the differences between New York and LA, and what goes into making a killer track. Directed by Vince Peone Interviewed by Joe Sabia Producer: Marina Cukeric DP: Jess Dunlap PM: Josh Young Edit and Color: Ryan Powell Post Sound: Nick Cipriano at BANG Audio Post

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Ponyboy | MAFF Tour Colombia (Episode 3)

For Episode 3 of MAFF Tour Colombia, we meet with Bogotá's Juan Daniel Velásquez aka. Ponyboy who brings ceramic installations to life through experimental drag shows and communal spaces to create and share knowledge to empower the queer community.

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Dan Lam

Based in Dallas, Dan creates brightly colored blobs and drip sculptures from polyurethane foam, acrylics and ArtResin, onto which she applies hundreds of meticulously piped spikes. The result is a both a visual and tactile feast - eye candy that you just want to reach out and touch! Dan's work, while curiously beautiful, also evokes a strange otherworld quality ... like amoebas or sea creatures, her sculptures look as though they could start breathing and oozing their way right off the shelf. This idea of beautiful and strange, of co-existing contrast, is where Dan truly shines. From creation to finished piece, her work is a thoughtful balancing act between opposites. Even her artistic process is a contrast: Dan does her best work, creating bright, neon, candy colored works of art, in the darkness of night. ArtResin recently spent some time with Dan in her Dallas studio, to watch her create her signature drip sculptures and to chat about the idea of contrast, her drive to create and the values she holds dear as an artist.

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Rachel Rossin on the Journey to Self-Creation

“All art is like timekeeping.” Meet the multi-talented Rachel Rossin from New York, whose practice spans from painting to programming. Rachel Rossin started working with computers at the age of four and taught herself programming at five. Today, she reflects upon AI and developments beyond, for example, new ways of connecting humans to machines. At the same time, she sees art as one of the oldest and noblest expressions of being human. “It’s making traces of our time here. It’s like timekeeping. It’s a record of the artist’s time. Especially paintings and paintings with their expressionistic marks where you stand in the same place the artist stood. You are looking at a core sample of evidence of the trace the artist’s body made through time and space. I think we will have that as long as we exist. It’s just so precious and perfect.” Rachel Rossin, formed by her readings of the Bible during childhood, sees life as an ongoing journey to self-creation, a type of distilling over and over again: “I think that people that love life the most are the ones that are the most aware of death. It’s so brief. I want to be engaged and as present as I can. It feels like there is a spiritual calling to making art.” Rachel Rossin (b. 1987, Florida, USA) is an internationally recognised artist whose multidisciplinary practice synthesises painting, computer programming, video, built electronics, sculpture, installation, and new media to create works that address the phenomenological effects of technology on daily life. She currently lives and works in New York City, New York, USA. The New York Times has stated, “Ms. Rossin has achieved something, forging a connection between abstract painting and augmented perception that opens up a fourth dimension that existed only in theory for earlier painters.” She is widely considered a pioneer in Virtual and Mixed Realities for her innovative research. Rachel Rossin was interviewed by Marc-Christoph Wagner in June 2023. The interview took place in New York at the Whitney Museum of American Art and Rachel Rossin’s studio in Manhattan.

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Inspiration behind Venera Kazarova, Венера Казарова

Venera, Венера Казарова, creates clothes for theater and contemporary choreography as well as paper cut objects for decorating the space and photo shoots.

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Dricky | MAFF Tour Lagos (Episode 5)

Episode 5 of MAFF Tour Lagos and we catch up with Dricky, a self-taught graffiti artist responsible for bringing street art to the city. He started by drawing portraits of friends and found his aesthetic by exaggerating their facial features with each new pass. "It is your world. You have the freedom to create a world for yourself, so why not do that?"

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Gaspar Noé Talks Love, 3D Sex, Drugs, and Intimacy

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Six years after his groundbreaking, psychedelic epic 'Enter The Void', French Argentinian provocateur Gaspar Noé is back with his latest film – the shot in 3d, (very) sexually explicit 'Love'. The story follows film student Murphy (Karl Glusman) who enters a intensely passionate relationship with the unstable Electra (Aomi Muyock) as they invite their attractive neighbor (Klara Kristin) into their bed. We sat with Noé to discuss the film's range of critical reactions, working with non-actors performing actual sex and his process in creating one of year's most controversial films.

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