Interviews

BUILT WITH YOU IN MIND By Andrew Maerkle   Art Bin (2010/14), installation view at the Yokohama Museum of Art. Photo Yuichiro Tanaka, courtesy the Organizing Committee for Yokohama Triennale.   Born in 1963 and based in London, Michael LandyView More >

LIVING WITH ART By Andrew Maerkle   All images: From Jiao You (Stray Dogs) (2013), DCP, 136 min. ©2013 Homegreen Films & JBA Production.   One of Asia’s leading filmmakers, the Malaysian-born Tsai Ming-liang rose to prominence in the 1990sView More >

HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES By Andrew Maerkle   21KE (2010), animation, 27 minutes. All images: Courtesy Sun Xun and π Animation Studio, Beijing.   Born in 1980 in Fuxin, Liaoning Province, and educated at the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou, SunView More >

UNCONSCIOUS FRAMES By Andrew Maerkle   Cluster Illusion (detail) (2014), dyed silk, 120 x 175 cm. Courtesy Meyer Riegger, Berlin and Karlsruhe. Photo Sugiyama Gosuke. All images: Courtesy Melvin Moti and the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo.   Born in 1977,View More >

THE BALLAD OF ECHO AND NARCISSUS By Andrew Maerkle   THE WOOLWORTHS CHOIR OF 1979 (2012), HD video installation, 20 min. All images: Courtesy Elizabeth Price and MOTINTERNATIONAL, London and Brussels.   Based in London, Elizabeth Price is known forView More >

HAND-HELD CINEMA By Akira Rachi   All Images: © Wang Bing and Y. Production.   Born in 1967, Wang Bing has risen to acclaim as one of China’s and the world’s most extraordinary documentary filmmakers. Beginning with his feature debutView More >

THE TALE OF TWO DREAMERS By Andrew Maerkle   All images: Unless otherwise noted, Installation view of “Condensation” at Le Forum, Maison Hermès, Tokyo, 2014. © Nacása & Partners Inc, courtesy Fondation d’entreprise Hermès.   Since 2010, the Fondation d’entrepriseView More >

CITIES AND THE SKY By Andrew Maerkle   All images: On How the Earth Wishes to Resemble the Sky (II) (2005), metal, wood and lighting. Installation view in “The Marvelous Real: Contemporary Spanish and Latin American Art from the MUSACView More >

CINEMA OF CONSEQUENCE By Andrew Maerkle   All images: Lav Diaz – Norte, the End of History (2013). © Raymond Lee & Lav Diaz.   Born in 1958, Lav Diaz is known for his films depicting contemporary life in theView More >

THE SPACE BETWEEN 0 AND 1 By Andrew Maerkle   Guide Star, ESO (2012). All images: Unless otherwise noted, © Wolfgang Tillmans, courtesy Wolfgang Tillmans and Wako Works of Art, Tokyo.   One of the leading artists working with photographyView More >

II. ART iT: We were just discussing the “Approaches” (1987-88) series of early photocopy works and your fascination with the gray areas between opposing extremes, information and no information, the rational and irrational. In that sense I am curious toView More >

III. Suspended Agreement (2010), painted aluminium, transparent colored plexiglass, 5 x 300 x 200 cm. Installation view at Taro Nasu, Tokyo, 2013. Courtesy Liam Gillick and Taro Nasu, Tokyo. ART iT: The design of the door downstairs, with a frameView More >