Find out more about who made the cut for the Converse x Dazed Emerging Artists Award 2015 as we speak to the finalists ahead of their appearance at the Royal Academy of Arts.
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Dazed x Converse Emerging Artists Award 2015: The Shortlist, Dazed Digital
After a frenzied final week of applications for our Converse x Dazed Emerging Artists Award 2015 we can now reveal our five outstanding finalists. Our esteemed panel of judges selected the young talents after a day of heated debate. They represent an exciting and diverse selection of ambitious young names from the new generation.
Find out who the shortlisted artists are here.
Dazed Magazine: Adham Faramawy: Breaking Out for 2015
For the Dazed x Converse Emerging Artists Award 2015 we caught up with last year's finalist Adham Faramawy. Faramawy took us to the slime spa with his video “SXC N00DZ”, and since then has shown in spaces from Amsterdam to Los Angeles. Currently working on a perfume project as well as a public sculpture for central London next year, Faramawy gave us a noseful of what he’s been up to.
Read the full interview here.
Twin Magazine: Seductive Spaces: 4 new installation art talents
The beautiful Twin Magazine Issue 11 is out. Twin Magazine is a hardback biannual art, fashion and feminism book. My latest piece highlights four incredible new art talents that expand expectations of installation. It features text and images on Jonathan Baldock, Heather Phillipson, Megan Rooney and Neil Beloufa.
Dazed Digital: Gabriele Beveridge: Promised Glamour
UK artist Gabriele Beveridge just opened Gold Diamond Park, a solo exhibition at the legendary Elizabeth Dee gallery in New York. I talked to Beveridge about the promised glamour of her first show stateside, and the inspiration she found for it in Dubai.
Read our interview on Dazed Digital here.
Dazed Digital: Javier Peres: Embracing the Extreme
Javier Peres has made his name as a fearless gallerist celebrating the original and embracing the explicit and provocative. He’s been responsible for bringing artists such as Terence Koh, Bruce LaBruce and Assume Vivid Astro Focus to international acclaim. I talk to Peres about how he met hot young painter David Ostrowski, the former student of Albert Oehlen that everyone wants a piece of.
Read our interview on Dazed Digital here.
Dazed Digital: Joey Holder: Mutant Hybrids
Artist Joey Holder is fascinated by the networks and systems that weave together our natural and man-made worlds. Collating elements of biology, nanotechnology and natural history into technological interfaces she makes artworks that mutate and transform. Always in flux, everything is a mutant hybrid at the point of morphing into something else.
Read our interview about her exhibition at The Royal Standard on Dazed Digital here.
Dazed Digital: Sarah McCrory shares her Glasgow Art Secrets
At the announcement of Glasgow based artist Duncan Campbell as winner of the Turner Prize 2014, Sarah McCrory tells us why we she’s sick of hearing about ‘the Glasgow miracle’ and spills her hot tips on the Glasgow art scene.
Read her tips on Dazed Digital here.
Dazed Digital: Total Freedom's Burning Head Collage
Legendary DJ and party-maker Total Freedom (Ashland Mines) – the Fade to Mind affiliate at the heart of some of L.A’s most notorious club nights – curated a crazed night of live performance in London on Friday. For his ’Burning Head Collage‘ he brought Lizzie Fitch and Ryan Trecartin’s collaborators to the Zabludowicz Collection for one night of party mayhem. Stars of their movies Raul de Nieves and Rachel Lord performed live between DJ sets in the midst of the theatrical video installations.
Read my report on Dazed Digital here.
Dazed Digital: The 10 best Domain Art websites
Domain art is that playful and pointless website you stumble upon and can’t tear your eyes off – a brilliant contemporary tech art trend. Appearing at obscure locations across the internet, these sites live independently at their own domain names, often without any explanation of their existence. I’ve selected 10 of the best Domain Art sites for Dazed Digital
See my picks on Dazed Digital here.
Sleek Magazine: ‘Heathers’ at Rowing Gallery
Michael Lehmann’s cult Eighties film Heathers is well known for its macabre take on teenage life and its endlessly quotable dialogue. What it is not generally known for is its pertinent references to contemporary art. The current exhibition at Rowing however takes precisely this little known fact as as its starting point.
Read the full review at Sleek Magazine.
Dazed Digital: Jacolby Satterwhite at Step and Repeat, LA MOCA
Step and Repeat has been LA MOCA’s series of experimental live arts nights featuring fearless acts that confound expectations. The series highlight was the dynamite collaboration of NY-based artist Jacolby Satterwhite – known for his hyper-charged performance and dazzling animated videos – with LA’s legendary underground DJ and club night king Ashland Mines (aka Total Freedom) member of the Fade to Mind crew. I caught up with Satterwhite for Dazed to find out how their inspired collaboration came about.
Read the interview on Dazed here.
Dazed Digital: Alex Da Corte, Easternsports at ICA Philadelphia
The ICA Philadelphia have commissioned Alex da Corte and Jayson Musson to work together in terrain less familiar to their practice – for Da Corte in video and for Musson in language. They’ve directed their wild imaginations to creating an elaborate soap opera – entitled Easternsports – playing on the desires and expectations of our contemporary consumer culture. Read my interview with Alex Da Corte about his collaboration with Jayson Musson and find out about the original music that accompanies the films by Blood Orange aka Dev Hynes on Dazed Digital.
Read the interview on Dazed here.
Dazed Digital: Step and Repeat at MOCA LA
Step and Repeat is MOCA LA’s series of high voltage performance nights bringing the museum back in tune with its experimental roots. From boychild to Wu Tsang - this is my pick of the ten best artists to watch for Dazed Digital.
Read the full article on Dazed here.
Dazed Digital: September’s 20 Best Art Shows
From London to LA, my pick of the twenty best art exhibitions to see in September for Dazed Digital. Including Ed Fornieles at Chisenhale, May Hands at Rowing and Francesca Woodman at Victoria Miro. It’s going to be a busy month.
Read the full article on Dazed here.
Dazed Magazine: Brenna Murphy: Yoni-Shaped Syths and Tribal Treasures
The current edition of Dazed Magazine features my piece ‘Brenna Murphy: Yoni-Shaped Synths and Tribal Treasures’. The experimental artist shares personal stories behind the objects that make up her Eyebeam art residency.
Read the full text online here.
Dazed Digital: Joshua Citarella: How to Turn Lead into Gold
Now on Dazed Digital my piece on artist/alchemist Joshua Citarella who discusses his experiments with obscure and volatile chemicals. Inspired by commercial advertising, kitsch 90s websites and Photoshop techniques Citarella makes physical versions of digital effects. He combines hazardous substances in his studio/laboratory – conjuring molten liquid mirrors and flashes of green fire.
Read the article online here.
Twin Magazine: Susan Hiller, Burn After Reading
The current edition of Twin Magazine features ‘Burn After Reading’ my piece on art legend Susan Hiller. Hiller gives voice to the mythical, the mysterious, and the invisible. Exploring our collective fears and desires she taps into our perpetual search for a deeper meaning, building an alternative world in which the subconscious takes priority.
Dazed Magazine: Momo Okabe, Realer Than Real
The current edition of Dazed Magazine features ‘Realer Than Real’—my piece on cult Japanese photographer Momo Okabe. I speak to her about her brutally explicit, intoxicating photography and the release of her new photobook ‘Bible’.
Read the full text online in Dazed here.
Twin Magazine: Rachel Maclean, Flights of Fantasy
Originally published in Twin Magazine.
Rachel Maclean’s hyper-saturated films are intoxicating to watch, like glowing psychedelic nightmares. Her narratives weave together excerpts from iconic cinema, cult television, cartoons and YouTube sensations. The artist plays every role, appropriating audio for her cast of flamboyant characters.
The endless recycling of cultural references in contemporary culture fascinates Maclean. In reference to her 2013 film Over The Rainbow, she explains, “the image of the rainbow has been pulled so far from its natural source point that it’s often a disappointment to see one in real life. It doesn’t live up to our saturated, perfected expectations.” Maclean combines cultural references of rainbows in Hollywood movies, children’s television and reality shows.
Within the synthetic, colourful environments she creates, her characters appear as artificial stereotypes. Their personalities, hopes and dreams seem both pathetic and absurd, set against the disconcerting hallucinatory dreamscapes.
“At one level I’m seduced by fantasy and escapism, and at another level I’m interested in how these spaces allow for the projection of contemporary fears and desires, often paralleling current social or political norms,” Maclean explains. She uses fantasy as an instrument of parody to encourage a questioning and rejection of the artificial, self-obsessed nature of contemporary culture.
For more from Rachel Maclean see www.rachelmaclean.com.