Interview with Cassandra Michel and Enzo Costiou about ART STUDENTS WEEK
This event rewards the best Instagram profiles of the candidates taking part in this contest, which takes place exclusively on Instagram. In partnership with “The Unik Art Magazine,” the students' goal was to prepare a text based on their interviews with the contest’s artists. They both worked with Anaïd Demir, an IESA instructor for a writing workshop on art criticism. Anaid was a juror for this contest.
- Which program are you taking at IESA arts&culture?
Cassandra: I am in the Bachelor 3 in Cultural Production and Mediation, visual arts and exhibition specialization.
Enzo: I am in the Bachelor 3 in Cultural Mediation, exhibition specialization.
- Why did you decide to join IESA arts&culture?
Cassandra: After two years of studying art, I realized that working with artists interested me more than being an artist.
Enzo: I decided to join IESA to learn the profession of gallery owner. I found there the commercial side I have always been drawn to and my passion for art.
- Can you briefly introduce the ART STUDENTS WEEK project?
Art Student Week is a week during which contest participants post their work on Instagram with the hashtag #ASW21; a jury evaluates their posts and then selects 10 finalists and chooses the winner. It is an opportunity to discover the work of tomorrow’s artists and give them good visibility.
- How did the interview-writing workshop for the artists go?
Anaid Demir gave us broad guidelines to follow for the interviews; then it was up to us to decide how to proceed: meeting the artist or sending them our questions, etc. Then, once the interviews were done and corrected, we could use them to write the profiles of the artists that were published on Unik Artmag.
- Which artist did you write an article about?
Cassandra: I conducted the interview and wrote the profile of Léa Taillefert.
Enzo: The artist I had to interview was Cirt Hash, an artist blending contemporary art and street art through stencils that he calls “Ghosts.” His works are intended for a wide audience because he does not categorize his “Ghosts,” faceless and nameless; it could be anyone in these works.