Arrushi Chakraborty's work focuses on exploring the liminal space between disparate cultures, translating profound human emotions into graphic forms, and capturing the everyday poetry of urban environments. In this interview, she shares her creative transition from corporate graphic design to narrative illustration. She discusses the intense physical and emotional process of generating a wordless picture book about family heritage.

For pianist Hyunju Jung, performance begins long before sound enters the room. It begins in study, in listening, in the patient work of understanding how a score is built and what kind of attention it asks from the performer. Trained across Korea and the United States, Jung has developed an artistic life that moves between solo piano, collaborative performance, church music, choral settings, and teaching. Her practice is shaped by discipline, but its center is relational.

Finleigh Zack's work focuses on bringing perspective, awareness, and inspiration to conversations around mental health through community-centred movement and collaborative choreography. In this live conversation, Finleigh discusses founding her bicoastal dance company and implementing an artistic direction that prioritizes the emotional well-being of her dancers.

Rui Yang’s work lives in the fascinating friction between razor-sharp engineering logic and fluid artistic critique. As a New York-based multidisciplinary artist and full-time commercial CG generalist, Yang utilizes everything from high-end CGI and animation to custom AI workflows to dismantle how technology reshapes our modern world. In this text-based conversation, we trace the roots of his practice and his double life balancing corporate CG production with gallery fine art

Jerry White Jr. is a filmmaker, musician, writer, and founder of the Vidlings & Tapeheads Film Festival. He began making films as a teenager through home movies and public access television in Metro Detroit, later studied at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, and has continued to move across film, writing, music, and collaborative creative communities. He has also described himself, quite rightly, as someone drawn to niche creative subcultures, outsider artists, and passionate

Heehyun Chun composes original soundtracks for film, live performance, and immersive installations, integrating modular, Eurorack, and electronic instrumentation to expand the boundaries of auditory experience. In this live conversation, Chun takes us behind the complex architecture of her machinery to trace the quiet turning points of her displacement, revealing how personal memory and institutional friction slowly reshaped her creative path.

This essay reads Julia de Ruiter’s practice as a form of vernacular archive, situating her work within Digimodernism and contemporary post-internet visual culture. Through analysis of memes, viral imagery, digital folklore, and algorithmic spectatorship, it examines how internet ephemera operates as cultural memory rather than disposable content.

Yijun Yang’s work moves between domesticity and visual fiction, creating constructed scenes that examine the fragility of memory and cultural identity. Yang utilizes everyday objects manipulated at unexpected scales to present images of tangible stillness that hold deep feeling beyond mere narrative or explanation. In this conversation, she invites us to her profound collaborative philosophy on how empty spaces continue to carry emotional resonance long after a character has

As an Art Lead working across multiplatform game development and an independent artist, Malakhov pairs his rigorous classical art education with a deep reflection on how emerging digital spaces reshape our perception of presence and memory. In this text-based interview, he opens up about his belief that visual art operates as a nonverbal "bionic code" capable of conveying raw human emotion where words fail.

Modernity begins, in a real sense, when human beings become aware that they are watching themselves. Mirrors, confession, diaries, introspection, and religious judgment all existed long before the present. The contemporary problem, however, is no longer simply whether people reflect on themselves.

Đurđija’s multidisciplinary practice transforms field recordings and overheard voices into profound cultural inquiries. From wartime Yugoslavia’s radio static to New York subway arias, this conversation explores how the act of listening maps the hidden hierarchies of our world.

Yasmine Laraqui’s multidisciplinary work transforms the image into a live sociological experiment, exploring the fluid mechanics of human belonging under platform capitalism.

French artist and designer Benoit Béal, working as By_33, uses optical illusion, black-and-white contrast, and minimalist text to question how perception shapes prejudice. In I AM YOU, TOO, the eye becomes a site of evidence, uncertainty, and ethical recognition.

Gordon Fung works across performance, media installation, experimental video, sound, participatory theater, writing, and curatorial practice. His work moves between playful and esoteric registers, but the underlying concern is consistent: how art might help people ask better questions, become more attentive to interdependence, and remain human amid historical repetition, technological acceleration, and social fragmentation.

This week’s signals across performance, visual culture, and the humanities: new exhibitions, festival lineups, major announcements, and debates shaping the field. Briefs, minimal noise, maximum context.

Chen-Yi Wu works across image and text, moving between documentary filmmaking, photography, illustration, writing, teaching, programming, and collaboration as interconnected forms of inquiry.

In this episode of Inside Out, ELSEHERE sits down with Li Ning for a long, unhurried conversation on the body, performance, memory, migration, loss, and the strange ways art returns us to ourselves. Moving between rural childhood, breakdance culture in 1980s China, sculpture training, grief, contemporary dance, nudity, censorship, and the body’s own knowledge, Li Ning reflects on how movement first gave him back his body, then gave him a place to belong.

Enrico Dedin works at the intersection of digital culture, image-making, and critical reflection on the present. In his practice, the smartphone, the archive, found footage, symbolic collage, and AI are not simply subjects or tools. They are symptoms, infrastructures, and mirrors through which contemporary life reveals its rituals, dependencies, and cognitive transformations. What follows is an edited text-based conversation drawn from his written responses, focusing on techn

Pam Patterson’s responses resist neat framing. She moves through legacy, embodiment, humor, pain, pedagogy, contradiction, performance, and what remains when the body can no longer be taken for granted. What follows is an edited text-based conversation drawn from her written responses. We have preserved the shape, vulnerability, wit, and force of her voice, while lightly revising for clarity and publication.

This week’s signals across performance, visual culture, and the humanities: new exhibitions, festival lineups, major announcements, and debates shaping the field. Briefs, minimal noise, maximum context.