Interview Highlights Archives - Katherine Oktober Matthews

Julie Phillips: On Creativity, Motherhood and the Mind-Baby Problem

March 20, 2023
Interview Highlights, Interviews

"In a way you do have to turn off your higher faculties to engage with a baby—who has intense use for your creativity and resourcefulness and problem-solving skills, but who is not interested in what interests you intellectually." —Julie Phillips (Milk Art Journal)

Hettie Judah: The Artist-Mother Paradigm

October 20, 2022
Interview Highlights, Interviews

"There is no artist mother paradigm. So, when I, as a middle-aged woman, make art, people assume it’s my nice hobby. They don’t take me seriously because it’s not a paradigm that we celebrate or that’s particularly visible, culturally. But being an artist mother is an identity that, once it’s articulated, people feel very strongly." —Hettie Judah (Riding the Dragon)

Debi Cornwall: State-Created Realities

July 20, 2020
Interview Highlights, Interviews

"Even setting aside the critically important project of battling truth against lies, if we understand the exercise of state power as a performance, the focus shifts. What is the goal of this performance?"
—Debi Cornwall (Riding the Dragon)

Josh Cohen: Not Working

February 21, 2019
Interview Highlights, Interviews

“What I feel like we’re seeing so much of in the age of the internet and social media is the workification, monetization, or commodification of every aspect of the human being that could once be seen as outside of the grind of activity.”
—Josh Cohen (Riding the Dragon)

Ruben Jacobs: Artists as Adventurers

September 21, 2018
Interview Highlights, Interviews

“I saw, in all these different practices, some kind of artistic creature who uses science but also design and technology to re-investigate the relationship with the Earth.”
—Ruben Jacobs (Riding the Dragon)

David LaChapelle: An Optimistic Apocalypse

April 8, 2018
Interview Highlights, Interviews

"As an artist you have a choice what you create, and I always wanted to make pictures that would use beauty and touch people and move them and inspire them."
—David LaChapelle (GUP Magazine)

Audrey Tautou: The (Un)importance of a Famous Face

March 14, 2018
Interview Highlights, Interviews

"I will always have problems because I’m a self-made photographer. When you are an autodidact, you learn only from your mistakes. So, I learn a lot."
—Audrey Tautou (GUP Magazine)

Holly Krieger: The Creativity and Structure of Pure Mathematics

October 7, 2017
Interview Highlights, Interviews

“One moment, you have no clue what some piece of mathematics is saying or how it’s working, and suddenly there’s like this neurological shift and it clicks into place.”
—Dr. Holly Krieger (John Adams Institute)

Max Pinckers: Outsourcing Creation to Machines

August 29, 2017
Interview Highlights, Interviews

"A computer doesn’t emotionally interpret the picture. It sees a woman, it sees a child, and maybe it can recognise ‘grieving’ because it knows from all the other pictures that it’s supposed to be grieving, but it doesn’t feel anything."
—Max Pinckers (GUP Magazine)

Rina Mae Acosta: The Happiest Kids in the World

August 23, 2017
Interview Highlights, Interviews

"School is supposed to be a place to learn, not a place to compete and get the highest scores. It’s a place to let a child discover who they are, what their strengths and weaknesses are.”
—Rina Mae Acosta (John Adams Institute)