Category Artists

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…

Creative practices are underused in the urgent task of changing cultures towards sustainability. CreaTures – Creative Practices for Transformational Futures is EU Horizon 2020 research project investigating the potential of creative practices in art, design, and related cultural fields to…

Interview The Driving Force Behind My Work? I see art as being at the heart of society. My gallery in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, is called ‘Maan Neere’. In my language (Moore) it means ‘to do beautiful/good’ but it has a…

Interview The Driving Force Behind My Work? The years ahead of us are years of repair for the catastrophes that we have wrought, from fossil fuel emissions that lead to the climate emergency, to habitat destruction that lead to disease,…

Interview The Driving Force Behind My Work? In the early nineties, I founded two conservation groups that engage in public awareness through publications, an exhibition, we engage in the support of research and conservation of emblematic species like jaguars, quetzals,…

Interview with Sarah Smuts-Kennedy Could You Briefly Explain The Driving Force/Motivation Behind Your Work? I am interested in systems thinking that encourages balance in an otherwise unbalanced world. You could call it performing the possibility of healing. More recently I…

Interview with Félix Pharand-Deschênes Could You Briefly Explain The Driving Force/Motivation Behind Your Work? I could write a long origin story. To keep it short though, the driving motivation of my work with Globaïa is to inform and inspire people…

Interview with Elizabeth Monoian & Robert Ferry Could you briefly explain the driving force/motivation behind your work? Our four primary motivations are to bring forward solutions to address the climate crisis, to help accelerate our transition to a post-carbon economy,…

Interview with Moriko Mori Could you briefly explain the driving force/motivation behind your work? My driving force is a never-ending question about the mystery of life, death, and rebirth. One of the concepts behind Tom Na H’iu was rebirth which…