Son[i]a #95
Stuart Bailey
To coincide with the exhibition “The Malady of Writing. A project on text and speculative imagination”, Son[i]a interviews Stuart Bailey (York, 1973), co-editor of the magazine “Dot Dot Dot” and one of the two people behind the print shop and bookshop Dexter Sinister.
Susan Bee
New York artist Susan Bee defends the political and subversive potential that develops when art and pleasure unite. Which is why imagination, poetry, humour, subjectivity, textures, colours, lines, and matter play an essential role in her work, both in her collages and paintings and her artist’s books. As an art student in the late sixties, she first came in contact with feminist activism and other social movements such as black power, gay rights, and protests against the Vietnam War. In 1986, she embarked on the project M/E/A/N/I/N/G, a self-managed art magazine that she co-edited with fellow artist Mira Schor for thirty years. In this podcast, Susan also shares the particularities of being a woman and an artist who has passed the age threshold of 65 in New York’s artistic ecosystem today.
Deleted scenes
We dig up some unreleased fragments of our conversation with New York artist and editor Susan Bee that we were unable to include the first time around.
Some reflections on the small press boom in the art world
Independent publishing is experiencing a boom in the art world. Before the bubble bursts, we speak to Kit Hammonds and Bernhard Cella about the boom, the recovery of supposedly obsolete printing techniques, the risk-aversion of institutional art collections, about professionalisation and about digital generation.