What happens when artificial intelligence meets clay, not as a tool for automation, but as a material to engage with? Dutch designer and researcher Vera van der Burg explores precisely this question, approaching AI as a malleable medium.
What do a cup, a factory, and a Roman brick have in common? Ceramics, a thread connecting collective memory, labour, and materiality. Few artists embody this connection more clearly than Clare Twomey, who sees clay as a continuous trace of human action, linking industry, craftsmanship, and participation.
The artist Vica Pacheco came up with a collective music work for the hamlet of Bagnara di Romagna: a lay procession and concert with ceramic instruments aiming to listen to the place, its history and its nature.
In their suspended beauty, the works of the Dutch artist do not conceal but rather show their nature as ceramics put back together, their consistency as regenerated fragments. Bouke de Vries explains why he chose to breathe new life into the remains of a distant past.
Which is louder, a tree falling alone in the woods or a voice that nobody listens to? We talked with Giulia Deval about these and other paradoxes to better understand sound, the woods and the animals (including humans) who live there.
With the no-profit initiative Art into Acres, in just eight years she has protected millions of hectares of primary forests worldwide: Haley Mellin, artist and biodiversity activist, talks about her practice, blending painting and action, drawing and meditation.
An intensely provoking artist, always ready to work with no filters on the idea of Nature offended by human forgetfulness and prepared to fight back. Amidst apocalyptic visions and the search for resilience, Federico Tosi shines a spotlight on the need to listen to nature.
A dialogue with Luca Bochicchio on artistic creation and research at Jorn’s House Museum, at the seaside in Albissola Marina. A place with a special energy, where artists have been meeting for over half a century. Still today it is a destination for international creative minds, who live it as both residence and place of inspiration.
Tommaso Corvi Mora, of Italian origin, based on London with a contemporary art gallery (he too an artist), talks to us of the importance of feeling foreign, both in his gallery activities and as a creator.
A US artist, Lola Montes set up her atelier in Sicily a few years ago. We met her to listen to her life story on the other side of the Atlantic and to better understand her artistic ceramic and painted art.
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