Katie Parry has a MFA from Tyler University and a BA from Kenyon College in Ohio. She is an artist and teacher living in West Philadelphia. She spends her time designing arts curriculum, teaching, and making collaborative animations. She is drawn to things that move because light has moved through them, or pushed up against them, or warmed their faces.
Việt Lê
Việt Lê is an artist, writer, and curator. Lê is an Assistant Professor in Visual Studies/ Visual & Critical Studies at California College of the Arts. He has been published in positions: asia critique; Crab Orchard Review; American Quarterly; Amerasia Journal;and the anthologies Writing from the Perfume River; Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asian Art; among others.
Recent solo exhibitions include lovebang! (Kellogg University Art Gallery, Los Angeles 2016), vestige (H Gallery Bangkok 2015), tan nÁRT cõi lòng | heARTbreak! (Nhà Sàn Collective Hà Nội). Lê has presented his work at The Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada; UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA; DoBaeBacSa Gallery, Seoul, Korea; Japan Foundation, Việt Nam; 1a Space, Hong Kong; Bangkok Art & Cultural Center (BACC), Thailand; Shanghai Biennale, China; Rio Gay Film Festival, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; among other venues.
Lê has received fellowships from Fulbright-Hays (Việt Nam), William Joiner Center, Civitella Ranieri Foundation (Italy), Fine Arts Work Center(USA), Center for Khmer Studies (Cambodia), Art Matters Foundation, International Institute for Asian Studies (Leiden University, the Netherlands), Camargo Foundation (Cassis, France), and PEN Center USA.
Lê curated Miss Saigon with the Wind (Highways, Santa Monica, 2005) and Charlie Don’t Surf!(Centre A, Vancouver, BC, 2005); and co-curated humor us (with Leta Ming and Yong Soon Min; Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, LA, CA, 2008), transPOP: Korea Việt Nam Remix (with Yong Soon Min; Seoul, Sài Gòn, Irvine, San Francisco, 2008-09), the 2012 Taipei Kuandu Biennale and Love in the Time of War (UC Santa Barbara and SF Camerawork). Lê’s projects have been featured in Newsweek Asia; The Korea Herald, The Toronto Star, Huffington Post, China Daily, Orange County Register, Bangkok Post, and The Cambodia Daily.
Lê has co-edited special issues of Asian American Literary Review ([Re]Collecting Vietnam, 2015), BOL Journal (Việt Nam and Us, 2008) and Reflections: A Journal of Writing, Service Learning, and Community Literacy (Syracuse University Press, 2008). He has also co-edited with Professor Lan Duong a special issue of Visual Anthropology (Routledge, forthcoming winter 2018). He is a reviews co-editor (with Prof. Laura Kina) of Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas (Brill). He coorganized the 2015Artistic Interventions confererence (Ph.D. workshops and symposium) in Hong Kong. He received the inaugural Prudential Eye Prize for Best Writing on Asian Contemporary Art (2015).
Lê received his M.F.A. from the University of California, Irvine, where he has also taught Studio Art and Visual Culture courses. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Southern California (Department of American Studies & Ethnicity). In Taipei, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Academia Sinica. His writing has been translated into Chinese, German, Khmer, and Vietnamese. The book mentioned in the interview is Lisa Lowe’s The Intimacy of Four Continents. The artists mentioned are Anida Yoeu Ali’s Red Chador project and Karen Finley and Bruce Yonemoto’s Far East of Eden.
Annabelle Moreau
Annabelle Moreau is a French Italian artist who grew up in many different countries until she settled in London for her studies. She completed a BA in painting at the City and Guilds of London Art schools followed by a Postgraduate diploma in Modern Philosophy in Literature and Art at Goldsmith College and a Postgraduate Diploma in fine art at the Royal Academy of Arts.
She graduated in 2004. Her practice is concerned with the notion of space, time and perception. Large installations of monumental paintings and sculpture become the mean by which the artist explores the consumption and apprehension of space. Copper, brass, aluminum are the main support for her work.
The latest work consists of installations, combing painting, sculpture and sound. The work explores through the representation of light, space, time and the auditory the interrelationships all of the senses. Sounds are added to static images inducing the perceiver to wonder in the imaginary space that is depicted. Movement of the inert object is enhanced on large-scale aluminum environments as light is caught in the grain of it s surface animating the space the viewer enters. The choice of material and mundane objects and their identity within the context in which they are presented plays a major role. Whether support or artwork, their ambivalent nature investigates the ideas of importance and fragility and the reduction towards essence and absence.
Moreau has been awarded the Grant for Visual Arts by the Caloulste Gulbenkian Foundation in 2016.
Her work has been included in several exhibitions including Laboratoire Experimental, Museu Nacional de Historia Natural e das Ciências, Lisbon (2016), The Scars are Not Just Skin Deep, The Cob Gallery, London (2014), Discerning Eye, Pall Mall, London (2012), Vis Loci, Griffin Gallery, London (2012), The Observatory, Riflemaker Gallery, London (2011), Flaming July, Leighton House, London, (2010), amongst others.
Her work has been reviewed in Time Out, Art Forum, Contemporary Magazine, Diário das Noticias, Art Magazine and interviewed for the Portuguese art program RTP3 as Horas Extraordinarias.
She has been recently offered to present a solo show in 2018 in the Museum of Natural History and Science in Lisbon.
The books mentioned in the interview are Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakame and Iran awakening by Shirin Ebadi.
Natasha Stagg
Natasha Stagg is a writer who is living in Brooklyn and working on her second novel. Her first, Surveys, was published by Semiotext(e) in 2016.
She has worked as an editor at V magazine and as a freelance writer for other magazines, like DIS, 032c, Dazed & Confused, Texte Zur Kunst, Spike Art Quarterly, and CR Fashion Book.
Her fiction and essays have appeared in the book The Present in Drag, Flash Art International’s Fiction Issue, and independent publishing projects Have Not and Logue.
Rama Burshtein
Rama Burshtein is the first ultra orthodox Jewish woman to write and direct feature films for a general audience.
Born in New York in 1967, she grew up in a secular family and attended film school in Israel. In her 20’s, Burshtein became religious. She married and had four children but did not make films for 20 years.
She’s best known for her two features, 2012’s Fill the Void, and 2016’s The Wedding Plan.
Her films have won scores of Israeli Film Academy awards and have shown at prestigious festivals around the world, including the Toronto Film Festival and the Venice Film Festival. Israel chose Fill the Void as its official submission for Best Foreign Language Film at the 85th Academy Awards.
Danielle Durchslag interviews Rama Burshtein.