Interview with Katherine Oktober Matthews on TEDxAmsterdam
“It’s good to have critics, because they force you to work harder and make your case.”
—Katherine Oktober Matthews (TEDxAmsterdam)
—Katherine Oktober Matthews (TEDxAmsterdam)
Alain de Botton: Art as Therapy
“Why should art always be so silent, always be so meek in its desire to change the world…? I think it’s a disaster to leave it so that the only people trying to change existence are large corporations and bigoted polemical groups."
—Alain de Botton (TEDxAmsterdam)
—Alain de Botton (TEDxAmsterdam)
Plot Points: How Reading and Writing Have Ruined Us All
“While it’s relatively straight-forward to identify relevance in a story, expert constellation-formers that we are, here’s the rub: life is chock-full of irrelevance and we all like to play narrator.”
(Versal Blog, 2014)
(Versal Blog, 2014)
Interview with Nikolas Ventourakis
“One ends up feeling excluded, standing outside a window looking in, fantasising about being part of the group. And being part of the group is important.”
—Nikolas Ventourakis (GUP Magazine)
—Nikolas Ventourakis (GUP Magazine)
Interview with Antoine d’Agata
"If I die tomorrow, I won’t learn anything, I won’t feel anything. If I want to stay alive, I have to protect myself so, the way I see it, the only choice we have as human beings is to put ourselves in the condition to keep trying as much as we can."
—Antoine d'Agata (GUP Magazine)
—Antoine d'Agata (GUP Magazine)
The Desire to Keep
"Which is the greater loss: The loss of the photo I did not take, or the loss of the moment while wishing that I was taking a photo?"
(GUP Magazine, 2012)
(GUP Magazine, 2012)