Category Artists

Hannelie Warrington-Coetzee (b. 1971, South Africa) is a Johannesburg-based South African visual artist and honorary research fellow at the Global Change Institute (WITS University). Her relational practice regularly centers on public shared spaces and landscapes, where she produces ephemeral to…

EMPATHEATRE Could You Briefly Explain The Driving Force/Motivation Behind Your Work? I have always been driven by tending to the spaces of disconnection. I was very inspired by the artist Joseph Beuys who aimed to sculpt the ‘invisible materials’ between…

Ambassador and CDO.ART Registry (art. art),Founder of Art&Tech Digital Agency TECH4.ART, expert, lecturer, and researcher in the field of Art & Culture Tech Could You Briefly Explain The Driving Force/Motivation Behind Your Work? For me, art is the primary force…

Could You Briefly Explain The Driving Force/Motivation Behind Your Work? I seek to work with and understand the transformative power of art. My journey began with Forum Theatre in Brazil, where I observed firsthand how art can catalyze social change.…

Dr. Shireen Rahimi is an Iranian/American filmmaker, marine scientist, freediving cinematographer, National Geographic Explorer, and founder of Lightpalace Productions, a full-service production company based in Miami. She uses visual storytelling to point to the beauty inherent in our emotional connections…

Paul Rosero Contreras is an artist inspired by the effervescence of life and its various manifestations—adaptation, resilience, hybridity, and mutualism. His work is a blend of artistic media and scientific methods, aimed at generating both information and knowledge. Paul engages…

Written by Josh Harrison (representing the Center for the Study of the Force Majeure) Could you briefly explain the driving force/motivation behind your work? Our global motivation is to find ways to help return the world to ecological (and social)…

In a world where science and activism strive to make a difference, there is a powerful force that we often overlook: artists. At Transformation Community, we firmly believe that artists play a vital role in shaping our society and driving…

Could you briefly explain the driving force/motivation behind your work? The driving force behind the work of Sound Matters is the fact that people need to learn to bloody listen if we are to have a hope in hell of…

Interview What is the motivation behind your work? As an artist I’ve been obsessed with the climate emergency since 2001 and created Atelier21, when I met people from the Swiss IPCC in Lausanne. I was shocked when I realised that extreme…