"Where are those stars to shoot for?"

New conversation with Nele Brökelmann for Metropolis M as part of the Diaspora Dialogen issue is now online.

"In the current issue of Metropolis M (Diaspora dialogen) Mayis Rukel is presenting an artist contibution, wrapping up the strange but intense last twelve months showing tables with Tarot cards, inspiring books, personal notes and a funding application form. Nele Brökelmann talks to the 2020 recipient of the Gerrit Rietveld Academy Award for Autonomous Art about his widely praised graduation work The Pendant and his plans for the future."

You can read the full interview here.

The Pendant on TENT Rotterdam Online Cinema

The Pendant is available to watch as part of TENT Rotterdam’s Online Cinema until April 19th. The program features 20 films by Rotterdam-based artists, with one or two new works released every Monday at 20:00 and remaining online for two weeks.

You can follow the full program here and watch The Pendant here.

In Pursuit of a Sense of Belonging

A conversation with Narges Mohammadi for (A)WAKE, exploring representation in the Netherlands and Türkiye, and the potential of digital culture as a tool for deepening cultural understanding.

“Colonial Europe never imagined us as people with agency and power, and the current extension of that history is still perplexed about what to make of us. I’m attracted to the idea of making use of that confusion and utilizing it for our self-definition of what it means to be from the WANA diaspora.”

Read the full interview at a-wake.world