INTERLOCUTOR Interviews

Jenny Wu is an artist and educator. Wu’s work acknowledges the sensational and perceptual properties of materiality and then transforms the materials from their original forms and purpose to present them within new contexts. Her solo show at Morton Fine Art, Ai Yo!, is up through March 8, 2023. Long interested in tactility, in-betweenness, embodiedness, and construction (Wu has a background in arc...

Shapeshifting through time, space, and spirit, Uhl’s debut EP Channels is a genre-bending and vocally explorative collection of songs threaded together not as much by their similarities as by their nuanced differences.  Showcasing her operatic background through a pop lens, Uhl makes dynamic music that is as informed by Mozart and Puccini as it is by art pop divas Kate Bush and Annie Lennox....

Joseph Keckler is a singular artist, a performer and creator known for his expressive and powerful voice, sharp prose and stirring songs, and absurdist, bizarrely heroic operatic monologues, which "dance between comedy, commentary, and communion." Hailed by the New York Times as “major vocal talent…a singer whose range shatters the conventional boundaries…with a trickster’s dark humor,” his origin...

The works of Siobhan McBride are imbued with a sense of quiet mystery, often with slightly skewed perspectives and containing objects imprinted with unseen energies or tensions. In this interview, she discusses the inspirations and methods behind her beguiling creations. Interlocutor Magazine presents Interlocutor Interviews, a podcast featuring in-depth conversations with creatives across art, mu...

Artist Nick Bautista writes, "I have often been reluctant to talk about my work. I have even been hesitant showing or exhibiting it - I suppose that can be problematic for a painter. The images I choose to paint, rather the ideas of the images, I treat very personally, almost protectively. I see them as fragments of private journal entries. After all, they address my personal situations and strugg...

Born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, Steven Montgomery describes himself as having, “...an affinity for the aesthetics of damage, destruction or any evidence of the passage of time.” His earthenware creations pay homage to the once-thriving industrial capital, its degradation, and subsequent resurgence. Incorporating elements that honor the regality of Detroit’s auto industry and its machinery an...

Ryan Sarah Murphy's reclaimed cardboard relief sculptures, powered by the visceral impact of color combinations, act as visual meditations on geographical location, placemaking, architecture, and spatial awareness. Her videos, generated through multiple digital interventions on random images and movements, are enigmatic, animated paintings that look like pixels, binary code, or even deconstructed...

Songwriter/violinist/actress Eszter Balint’s stage production of I Hate Memory , originally set to premiere in 2020 but postponed due to the pandemic, finally premiered this past summer with two performances at Joe's Pub in NYC, and now she is set to release an album of songs from the show (available November 18 via Red Herring Records). Written by Eszter and based on an original concept by her an...