Ketut Kusuma ate watermelon seeds when he was a child. They were government watermelons with high amounts of element 167, a highly hypothetical element that is currently under investigation at CERN and is considered to be best friends with Higgs, the Boson. Ketut now has acres upon acres of watermelons growing in a transdimensional...
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The Interviews
EK Interview: Ketut
EK Interview: Hidden Moves
Hidden Moves was featured back in January of 2010. Check out his interview below:
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EK Interview: Reinier Gamboa
Reinier Gamboa’s work is mindblowing. His interview is genuine, honest and intelligent. Gamboa’s work is pretty badass, and so is his interview. Read on fellow psychonauts:
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EK Interview: Billy Sprague
Billy Sprague was featured on Empty Kingdom back in February of 2010. And now we got his interview! Boo-yah! Read this shizzzzzzz and maybe you’ll learn a thing or two or five or six.
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EK Interview: Nicola Samorì
Nicola Samorì‘s has designed his painting to be a question of painting itself. I didn’t come up with that one, I read it on his webpage. But looking at his work now I understand that. I read his interview and it was awesome. So should you.
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EK Interview: Heidi Taillefer
I’m going to cry myself to sleep tonight because I’ve read this interview and fallen in love with how absolutely awesome Heidi Taillefer is. And she has no idea who I am. Don’t judge me until you’ve read the interview yourself. She hijacks government vehicles, she drives Infinity sports cars, she punched the indomitable...
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EK Interview: Vincent Karelsz of Popjugend
Popjugend is the bombness! We were able to interview Vincent Karelsz to hear about it! Read his interview:
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EK Interview: Tessar Lo
Tessar Lo, previously featured in 2010, is having a show today at the Jaski Art Gallery in Amsterdam. Boo-Yah! Check out his interview below:
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EK Interview: Thom Puckey
Thom Puckey is a sculptor. You might have seen his work. Or you might have not been so lucky. Which is incredibly unlucky. If you are the latter I suggest you don’t go near any intersections today because you’re likely to get hit by a bus with the kind of luck you have. But...
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EK Interview: Irina and Silviu
UK based artists, Irina & Silviu was previously featured last month by Konahrtist. The paper collagen duo gave an in-depth interview based around the philosophies, inspirations and background based around their work.
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EK Interview: Minjae Lee
Empty Kingdom featured South Korea artist, Minjae Lee earlier last year. This time we got a exclusive interview with him talking about his background around his work. Previously featured by Millions.
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Cabinodd Director Ella Buzo Interview
A very special in-depth interview with Cabinodd Director Ella Buzo. Cabinodd’s partnership for 2011 BLOOOM is excited to be the world’s first interdisciplinary presentation platform for artists and art projects in the creative industries. The second edition of BLOOOM will take place from OCT 29 – NOV 1, 2011 // STAATENHAUS AM RHEINPARK, COLOGNE. Check...
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The 2011 Top 100 are coming!!!
(photo credit: Marc West) Hello beautiful people! Last year our impromptu Top 100 mega-post spread like wildfire on the internet, causing both acclamation and controversy (although none of the artists we selected seemed to argue with us) …so you better believe we’re gearing up for another mega-post featuring our top one hundred favorite artists...
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EK Interview: Jack Crossing
Featured in February, Jack Crossing was interviewed by our own Konahrtist. When he came of age, Jack Crossing was inducted into the Band of People Who Have Such Awesome Names They Have No Other Choice Than To Fight Crime, also known as the BPWHSANTHNCOTTFC, and ever since he has been swiftly kicking evil’s ass....
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EK Interview: Jonny Wan
Jonny Wan, featured in 2010, gave us an interview earlier this year. Here it is now for your reading enjoyment. Jonny needs to get into contact Genndy Tartakovsky, I don’t know what their collaboration would look like, but I know it would make my head explode.
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EK Interview: Michael Oswald
Previously featured in 2010, Michael Oswald is from the future, he’s attempting to prepare us for the inevitability of ‘hotbots’, sexy female robots and robotic prosthesis that will populate the 22nd century as streetwalkers and escorts. His interview is dope and informative, and he’s got a gang of awards:
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CHAOS CINEMA: EK INTERVIEW
CHAOS CINEMA is a well thought out video essay by Matthias Stork, administered by Indiewire’s journalistic blog PRESS PLAY. I would like to say that I saw Drive, and it is the antithesis to chaos cinema. I think, but what do I know, I’m just a cake-loving bunny.
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EK Interview: Anton Marrast
Anton Marrast, featured in 2010, hails from Moscow, Russia. He is an awesome artist, his interview follows.
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