INTERLOCUTOR Interviews

Playwright and Hybrid Collagist Pamela Enz discusses her new play AFTERWARDS, premiering Friday, September 11 at NYC's La MaMa Theater. Joining her in this conversation is the play's director, Danny Rocco. AFTERWARDS explores love, memory, forgiveness, and the enduring impact of grief, and it serves as a sequel to Enz's earlier work, City Girls and Desperados. 

Enz has spent 32+ years building an interdisciplinary practice ...

Robert O. Leaver is an American writer, poet, musician, singer, and performance artist known for his solo musical project Birdthrower and endurance art pieces such as "Crawling Home," "Hole Earth", and "Man Down." He is also featured in Glowing, the new experimental ensemble anthology feature film by director Beth B. In this interview, he talks extensively with Tyler Nesler about his various creative endeavors and the motivati...

Author Stephen O'Connor discusses his new novel, WE WANT SO MUCH TO BE OURSELVES. Günter Zeitz, psychoanalyst-in-training and the son of a Catholic country doctor, and Josine Rosen, Sigmund Freud’s patient and the daughter of a Jewish shipping magnate, first meet in 1924, in Freud’s Viennese waiting room. As their intense affair develops, Freud arranges for Günter’s appointment to the newly created Berlin Psychoan...

GLOWING — directed by Beth B — is an immersive, genre-defying experience that blurs the boundaries between documentary, narrative, experimental cinema, and music video. Eight fearless artists step into the frame — their voices raw, their stories electric. As poets, musicians, and performers reveal deeply personal truths, their stories collide and intertwine, forming a powerful, living dialogue with the audience.

Artist Spencer Vazquez discusses Glue Traps, his exhibition investigating the emotional, nostalgic, and archival dimensions of photography.

In Glue Traps, Vazquez attempts to reckon with his own archive. Prompted by the discovery of a long-lost hard drive and the death of his father, a housepainter, Vazquez began asking how he might engage again with the sprawling photo diary he had assembled over the last decade. Faced wit...

Asterism is a collaborative project between skewed beatmaker Daedelus, experimental drummer/producer Dan Drohan, and technological boundary-pushing label Holography Records. In this interview, Daedelus and Holography Records founder Brian Baumbusch discuss how Asterism will allow listeners to customize compositions in unprecedented ways, transcending the usual composer/listener dichotomy.

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For more than a decade, Claudia Bitrán has been remaking James Cameron's Titanic through an extensive collaborative process that spans film, painting, sculpture, drawing, animation, performance, and scenography. Using lo-fi materials, deliberately visible methods of production, DIY processes, and spontaneous casting, Bitrán meticulously reconstructs the original film scene-by-scene at an intimate scale. The project h...

Sam Quealy is a fearless creative chameleon—singer, songwriter, dancer, rapper, and performance artist. Known for her unhinged tracks and magnetic, almost otherworldly aura, she leaves audiences unable to forget her. With the look of a pop star and the attitude of a rock star, she has exploded onto the scene with a deafening bang—and she’s only just getting started.

In this interview, Sam talks with Tyler Nesle...

A Southern-born American nomad, Sylvia Black has called many places home – from the East Coast to the Pacific Northwest. Now based in Los Angeles, she continues to evolve as a singer, songwriter, musician, and producer, crafting productions that bridge the cinematic and the intimate.

Black delivers music that resonates with fans of the darker side of indie music, from underground club scenes to headphone rituals late at n...

Live, Laugh, Lubeisan ongoing art project by artist and former art dealer Mieke Marple, probing in the superficial depths of social media with fellow clowns, comedians, and fools. 

A kind of "exquisite corpse” project in which comedians provide language that Mieke creates a painting with, then both create a video together for IG explaining the collaboration. Mieke then gifts the painting to the participant, ...

Joseph Keckler is a singer, writer, and multifaceted creator. Keckler has performed everywhere from dive bars and DIY venues to NPR Tiny Desk, Centre Pompidou, and Lincoln Center. His story and essay collection Dragon at the Edge of a Flat World was published by Turtle Point Press.

His new performance piece, A Good Night in the Trauma Garden, was commissioned by The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Department of Live...

Educator, activist, and organizer Amirtha Kidambi discusses her newly launched podcast, "Outernational,” her new album with her ensemble Elder Ones, New Monuments Live in Vilnius, out on November 14, and her upcoming performances with Elder Ones at the Le Guess Who? festival in Utrecht on Friday, November 7. She also talks about her guest curation event at the festival on November 8, featuring performances by Dirar Kalas...

Logan Royce Beitmen interviews Simon Daniel Tegnander Wenzel, who works intersectionally with scent, performance, video, sound, and installation. His work is currently in the group show Winter Nights (Vetrnætr) at The Association of Visual Artists in Oslo, Norway, on display until November 2, 2025.

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Brooklyn-based filmmaker Peter Pavlakis discusses his debut feature, APOSTASY BLUES. The film focuses on two cult members who expect to be raptured at an appointed time. However, their leader appears to have raptured without them, taking their donation money with him, so the two members head out to look for him while they deal with their personal issues as they readapt to the secular world. 

The film will be shown at t...

Author and journalist Charlie Wells discusses his new book, What Happened to Millennials: In Defense of a Generation.

At the birth of America’s largest living generation, the outlook was strong: unparalleled economic growth, the emerging Internet, the rise of the cell phone, and a geopolitics that had allegedly reached “the end of history” all set expectations exceedingly high for a cohort entering adulthood a...

Artist Dan Alvarado discusses his solo exhibition PANDORA'S SWIPE, a satirical take on the temptation, overstimulation, and hypersexualization of online dating apps. Opening on September 5 and running through September 22 at Bushwick, Brooklyn's Botanica Grove, Alvarado’s paintings, composed of digitally altered and collaged dating profiles, become a landscape of portraits across the ether.

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Pulitzer Prize–winning culture critic Robin Givhan discusses her new book about fashion icon Virgil Abloh. She profiles Abloh’s legendary work and impact, revealing how the son of Ghanaian immigrants was able to infiltrate all aspects of our culture and inspire millions. Not only a remarkable biography of his singular creative force, the book is a powerful meditation on fashion and race, taste and exclu...

Musician Bob Holmes of the New York-based trio Suss talks about his unique and ambitious Across the Horizon music series. Bob and Northern Spy Records invited eight innovators from the wide landscape of instrumental music to curate the first volume of Across the Horizon, which was released at regular intervals over the past year, culminating in a double vinyl, which is out now and available to Bandcamp subscribers of the series.

Estefanía Vélez Rodríguez (b. 1985, Mayagüez, PR) is a Puerto Rican artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. As a dual-tongued individual, she utilizes the symbolic language of painting as a bridge between many cultures and spaces. Her paintings formally address questions between abstraction, non-representation, simplification, symbol, and painting as a language with ambiguous structural limitations. Her landscapes meander and d...