Matthew Kirsch, Curator and Director of Research at The Noguchi Museum takes us on the journey of Noguchi’s artistic and design development and his travels: ”Noguchi was receptive to the gospel that Brancusi taught - the respect for materials and tools, allowing the forms he made to be dictated by the nature of the material itself, dedicating himself to the task at hand, never considering any work to be practice for something yet to come - this is the cumulative influence Brancusi had on Noguchi. ”

Artist Isaac Chong Wai reflects upon the development of artistic practice: ”Performance edits realities. It challenges our preconceived notions and understanding of the body in time and space. I often approach my ideas through queering, disrupting, and altering the hierarchies of meanings, where the recognizable becomes uncanny, fragmented, and clashed.”

Kieran Long, director of ArkDes, Sweden’s national architecture museum reflects on how the field of journalism can shape architecture and design exhibitions: ”The future of independent publishing to me right now looks like it ought to be more collaborative - where institutions with resources should join forces with publishing platforms that reach bigger audiences.”

The New York-based artist merges anthropology, architecture and performance studies to create works that make invisible ecological impacts visible: ”I have always felt the boundary separating the human and the nonhuman as something extremely tenuous.”