Layered paintings, sculptural installations and personal archives: Paul Majek on displacement, memory and belonging — where physical absence converges with inner dislocation.
A sewing needle mends and it pierces. Makiko Harris on intimacy as the most powerful force there is, objects that carry contradictory meanings, and making the private impossible to overlook.
The Trophy is an homage to Man Ray, rebuilt as a print. For Yimin Xiang the printing plate is the archive that survives — and disappearance turns out to be ...
Tony Raven, former Chief Executive of Cambridge Enterprise, talks about tacit knowledge, the fragility of digital memory, AI and the people and institutions that carry ideas into public life.
Attica Locke speaks to Litro about Pleasantville, Houston, political life, writing across fiction and television, and why the work has to come first.
Gaby Wood of the Booker Prize Foundation speaks to Litro about short fiction, reading habits, time, cost, distraction, libraries, bookshops and why stories can still help people feel less alone.
Rebecca Evans speaks to Litro about Hinterlands, a mixed-reality dance work that places the live body, digital image and audience inside the same unstable space. The conversation moves through somatic ...
Bia Oliveira speaks to Litro about Sadler’s Wells’ first Dance Digital festival, choreography made for camera, young filmmakers, AI anxiety, rights, and why dance on screen should not be treated ...
Jack Newton, Head of Content Protection and Enforcement at the Publishers Association, speaks to Litro about giant pirate networks, AI training, shadow libraries, takedown systems and why copyright protection is ...
Nima Safaei speaks to Litro about more than twenty years feeding Soho, the restaurant as a record of private lives, and why a cookbook can preserve more than recipes.
As reading moves through search, retail platforms, social media and recommendation systems, Kat Pongrace of Strand Book Store argues that discovery still depends on trust, curiosity and the bookseller’s eye.
Adem Holness, Head of Music at SXSW London, speaks to Litro about live discovery, London’s many musical energies, and why festivals can still create memories that platforms and algorithms cannot.
Ty’rone Haughton of Apples and Snakes speaks to Litro about Jawdance, performance poetry, Black British poetic lineage, surveillance, leadership and why some cultural memory only exists when people gather in ...
After Taiwan Travelogue won the International Booker Prize 2026, Yáng Shuāng-zǐ and translator Lin King spoke to Litro about false archives, food as historical memory, Japanese colonial Taiwan, translation, and ...
Dare Turner, Curator of Indigenous Art at the Brooklyn Museum, speaks to Litro’s Future Archives strand about cultural belongings as relatives, community authority, institutional memory and why care in museums ...
Brett Renfer, Senior Project Manager, Emerging Technologies at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, speaks to Litro about VR, Oceania, audience engagement and the need to preserve not only museum objects, ...
Daniel T. O’Brien, Executive Director of the Independent Publishers Caucus, talks to Eric Akoto about independent publishing, AI slop, shrinking discoverability, booksellers, libraries, archives and the systems that decide which ...
Archive note: This interview was originally published by Litro USA as part of the Art & Technology issue. It has been added to Litro’s UK archive as part of ...
Joanna Pocock speaks to iconic US composer and polymath Phillip Corner as he plays at Hackney’s Café Oto.
At the heart of the piece is Ebizie’s experience of a rare neurological condition that was barely recognised until 2014.