Interview Archives

July 16, 2025

KoozArch Interview: Exploring Feminist, Material, and Process-Based Curatorial Strategies in Material Acts

In July 2025, Jia Yi Gu, Kate Yeh Chiu and Olga Subiros were featured in an in-depth interview on KoozArch, where they delved into the feminist, material, and process-driven curatorial approaches that underpin the Material Acts project. Gu discussed the ways feminist perspectives inform the exhibition’s emphasis on process, highlighting how these strategies foreground often overlooked labor and material histories […]

July 16, 2025Jul 2025

March 10, 2024

Architecture Newspaper Interview: “Spinagu Builds Practice Through Layering”

In an interview for Architectural Newspaper (AN), Jia and Maxi explore Spinagu’s ethos: combining traditional architectural practice with curatorial, academic, and exhibition work. They describe their commitment to alternative economic models, systems repair in architecture, and rethinking architecture as a platform for knowledge production beyond the conventional service model. “I like to think of practicing, teaching, and research not as […]

March 10, 2024Mar 2024

September 29, 2021

Zocalo Square Panel “Will A New Generation Of Leaders Shake Up L.A.’S Culture?”

Over the past year, directors of cultural institutions across Los Angeles have announced their retirements, which means a new generation of cultural leadership is upon us. But despite a desire for change that seems nearly universal, new directors must still answer to many of the same funders and face the same pressures as their predecessors—to raise money or sell tickets, […]

September 29, 2021Sep 2021