2020 was a year were the fact that black lives matter was sadly highlighted by police brutality and death. In different areas, movements have been created to vindicate the situation of inequality and social injustice. And Black Collagist, an art incubator created as a platform to discover, facilitate and support black artists making collage, is definitely the one that caught our attention the most. In this episode we spoke with writer and curator Teri Henderson, Black Collagists Founder and director, to discover more about the incubator, its mission goals and how does the art world looks for a black curator working in a collage related project.

Since it’s first edition in 2013, the artist Dennis Busch has partnered with the prestigious Berlin based publishing house, Gestalten, to put out the most relevant book series reviewing contemporary collage: The Age of Collage. In this episode we are speaking with Francesca Gavin and Dennis Busch, editors of this series latest release: The Age of Collage 3. Both editors have a very different profile and that’s part of the richness of the book. And that’s what’s great about these interviews. We’ll be facing the Age of Collage from two opposite perspectives and ways of approaching art and collage.

John Whitlock lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. John plays in a band and also makes music on his own. He also runs Specious Arts, a small press publishing label putting out music and zines.  Whitlock is also a collector of things such as comic books , posters and cassettes. But above all, John Whitlock is one of my favourite artists. And that’s why we’re here.

THS, aka Thomas Schostok, created in 2001 Beast Magazine revealing the chaotic power of collage to a new generation of design and illustration geeks that just was discovering internet as a source of inspiration and community building. He, along with a few others, was responsible for bringing the collage into the digital age. And he, 20 years, later is still championing his unique approach to design, art and typography.

Today we are going to talk with the Brazilian born and Los Ángeles based artist, Alvaro Naddeo. Social inequality, overconsumption, life in the city, pop culture and his own memories inform his highly detailed paintings that depict how beautiful urban decay can be.