The Artist’s Interview

This workshop with artist and researcher Lucia Farinatti invites participants to explore the interview as both a method of research and a form of artistic and critical practice. Through collective listening, transcription, and discussion, the session examines how oral history, sound archives, and curatorial approaches can open new ways of engaging with voices, memory, and experience. 

Participants will experiment with different modes of transcription—from verbatim to more interpretative and experimental approaches—highlighting how writing can respond not only to words, but also to rhythm, affect, and embodied presence. The focus is on listening as an active, creative act, and on transcription as a form of art writing that captures the emotional and sensory dimensions of language. 

The event offers a space to reflect on how interviews can become sites of encounter, translation, and creation, expanding the possibilities of research and artistic practice.

Lucia Farinati is an Associate Lecturer in Art History at Kingston University, activist, and independent curator. Her research focuses on dialogic practices and methodologies investigating the role of listening at the intersection of art and activism, the history of the artist interview, and performativity in the context of sound and feminist archives. She holds a PhD from Kingston University (2020) on Audio Arts magazine. Recent activities include organising The Listening Academy (London, 2021-22), the conference Regenerative Listening (2023), and co-founding the feminist collective Autocoscienza Writing Group (2022). She is co-author of ‘The Force of Listening’ (2017), ‘Training for Exploitation?’ (2017), and ‘Theorising the Artist Interview’ (2025).