FACT Magazine

Apr 5, 2024 | factmag.com | Claire Mouchemore

Lyra Pramuk on how collaboration, space and healing are central to her live performance. Lyra Pramuk’s artistry has been documented meticulously. The Berlin-based singer, composer, producer and performance artist is known for her dedication to metaphysical spirituality, her unwavering sensibility, and how, the two manifest via her spin on electronically-focused, futuristic folk music. But the being Lyra Pramuk becomes on stage is less describable.

Mar 29, 2024 | factmag.com | Francesca Gavin

Audiovisual pioneers Kristina Karpysheva and Alexandr Letsius on creating colossal, mind-bending installations. 404.zero have become an underground phenomenon with immersive architectural installations, a debut album and now a forthcoming computer game all on their CV. They are like artists who would emerge in a William Gibson novel — avoiding the focus on the individual, constantly in search of the new and darkly original.

Mar 21, 2024 | factmag.com | Claire Mouchemore

An artistic intervention from the pages of Fact’s print edition, created by object blue and Natalia Podgórska. Together, musician object blue and visual artist Natalia Podgórska have built their own world from the inside out–a cosmos created through the narrative that object blue is the ‘source of information that later builds life.

Mar 15, 2024 | factmag.com | Gazelle Mba

The American artist on her debut feature The African Desperate and creating work where humour and pain connect. Martine Syms works across film, video, programming, photography, sculpture, performance, and writing. Her skills run deep and wide. She retains artistic control over every aspect of the projects she undertakes, from cinematography to editing and graphic design, seeing it through from beginning to end.

Mar 9, 2024 | factmag.com | Henry Bruce-Jones

The Houston native on DJ Screw, his city’s musical legacy and What Dreams May Come, his most ambitious project to date. Houston sounds like no place on earth, but these days everything sounds like Houston. From H-town’s finest – Megan Thee Stallion, Beyonce, Solange, Travis Scott – cloud rap prodigy Yung Lean and witch house pioneers Salem, the loose bounce and languid pace of the Southern sound has crept slowly but surely into the sonic textures of our everyday.