A2A: Lumi Tan

In the debut episode of the Artist2Artist and Reset the Algorithm Collaboration, our NEW host Patrisse Cullors sits down with Lumi Tan for a conversation about the importance of art in political and cultural landscape, amidst the backdrop of Lumi’s most recent curatorial project Luna Luna. 

Luna Luna is an art amusement park, lost after its initial run in Germany, 1987. The project was dreamed up by Austrian Pop musician André Heller, whose interest in interdisciplinary art allowed him to explore many mediums beyond music, and bring prolific artists of the century together to build something truly revolutionary. From Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring to Salvador Dali, Arik Brauer, David Hockney and Roy Lichtenstein, the works of Luna Luna are large-scale masterpieces by prolific, artistic giants that the world has not seen in nearly 4 decades. 

 

With the direction of Lumi Tan, this lost fantasy has been brought back to life. In this interview we learn that Heller’s experiences as a child in Europe after WWII and his desire to imagine an artistic medium that could not only create a childlike sense of joy and wonder, but offer a healing space for a generation of children who had their own childhoods destroyed as spoils of the second world war. Luna Luna was born as a quest to recover one's childhood through art.  His goal with Luna Luna as the team puts it was to “use art and imagination to survive and fight back against an endangered world".