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Tamara Kostianowski

INTERVIEW BY FRANCESCA AUSTIN-OCHOA Your work deals heavily with geography, diaspora and personal identity, which transcends beyond nations and cultures. What is your concept of home and how does that reflect in your work? The idea of home really initiated my search to create an image. I have come to terms with the fact that...

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La Chica Boom

  “I fist pinatas as the Dominatrix of the Barrio, jack off on tacos made of my own panties, poke fun at anthropologists ‘on safari’ and say fuck you with my “token” act.” What was your first perfomance like? My first performance as La Chica Boom was about 7 or 8 years ago at a...

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Suzanna Husky

BY SHAWN TAMARIBUCHI After reviewing your biography and works such as “Sleeper Cell” and “What We Take and What We Leave,” I am interested in hearing more about the relationship you hold between farming and fighting, some of the personal experiences you have had while traveling, and how those impact your work? “Sleeper Cell” and...

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Lynne Chan

BY SHAWN TAMARIBUCHI There’s an eleven-hour time difference between Pattaya, Thailand and New York City. I quickly realize the world is a lot smaller than it seems these days when talking to Lynne Chan, New York-based video and performance artist originally from California. Chan’s work is a dynamic cocktail of spectacle and camp that has...

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