The Voice as Canvas: A Conversation with Callisto Erendira

Few artists today embody the spirit of intermedial exploration as fluidly as Callisto Erendira. Known throughout the 2010s for her boundary-pushing conceptual installations and para-architectural sculptures, Erendira has, over the last few years, immersed herself in an entirely different kind of construction: opera. Her latest work, The Air Remembers the Mouth, premiered this spring at … Read more

Exclusive! An Interview with the Leader of the Guardians of Aesthetic Coherence

“We Sing Because It Must Be Stopped” On a warm spring afternoon in downtown Truro, I am led through the back entrance of an unmarked rehearsal space behind a closed-down aquarium gift shop. Inside, seated under a suspended disco ball and surrounded by half-empty herbal tea mugs, is the elusive leader of the Guardians of … Read more

INTERVIEW: Salvatore Crump on Pizza, the Mona Lisa, and Why Rugby is the Ultimate Performance Art

By Ottilie Cardoon Salvatore Crump is not a man who can be easily summarised. At 92, the Anglo-Neapolitan conceptualist, sculptor, and occasional flautist has staged exhibitions inside blimps, once painted an entire hotel room with marmalade, and remains the only artist to have been shortlisted for both the Turner Prize and the Heineken Cup. Known … Read more