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SIMON CASTETS
interview by Carson Chan

CARSON CHAN: Congratulations, it has been a big year for you! Amongst other activity, in January 2012, you launched 89plus, a multi-platform research project on the generation of artists and makers born after 1989 with Hans

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OU NING
interview by Carson Chan

Carson Chan: You work under so many different titles: curator, artist, poet, editor and activist. You’re probably one of the people most apt to

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ELVIRA DYANGANI OSE
interview by Carson Chan

CARSON CHAN You were recently appointed Curator of International Art at Tate Modern and, given your expertise in African art, you will be contributing to Tate’s ambitions to expand its reach on the [...]

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UTE META BAUER
interview by Carson Chan

CARSON CHAN You curated the Third Berlin Biennial in 2004, and the theme was Berlin itself. The social, economic and historic context of the city was source material for your curation, operating in what Maria Lind [...]

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OLIVER LARIC
words by Carson Chan

While movable type, radio, television, and telephones have successively changed the way we communicate, it was only when Tim Berners-Lee wrote the code for the World Wide Web on Christmas Day 20 years ago [...]

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APICHATPONG WEERASETHAKUL
words by Carson Chan

The international reception of Thai auteur Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s films has been polar: where some have found a new obsession, others pooh-pooh them as intellectual claptrap. Since Mysterious Object [...]

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STUDIO MIXEDMEDIA BERLIN
words by Carson Chan

Secrets—even open ones—play a crucial role in the construction of trust-based bonds, especially those that keenly advertise the closed nature of the pact. Luxury retailers have long understood the desire evoked by [...]

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