"You have to cross all boundaries and live with the consequences." Interview with award winning Norwegian writer Tomas Espedal on how being a writer means being willing to write about everything, even if doing so means hurting those closest to you.

Have you ever stood by a river and stared into the black water? In this video acclaimed artist Roni Horn takes us down by the riverside, performing a powerful 40 minute monologue based on her associations with water, including tales of sex and murder.

”I’ve always preferred not to be anything.” American artist Roni Horn is interviewed by her fan, Indian artist Dayanita Singh. The two acclaimed artists share a love of book making, and of the unique way that photography merges reality and fiction.

One full moon night, a mysterious burglar broke into the home of renowned Indian photographer Dayanita Singh, and stole all the used film rolls from under her bed. This strange incident became the beginning of the project 'Dream Villa'.

Did you know that in French one has to spit out a cat, in order to clear one's throat? Poet Caroline Bergwall questions what languages do to the way we understand ourselves: “English speakers don't so much struggle with cats as with frogs.”

American-Iranian artist Tala Madani has gained attention for her highly personal paintings depicting Middle Eastern men performing bizarre narrative rituals. In her art Madani reverses the traditional female object in painting, using laughter as energy.

Israeli artist Yael Bartana talks of the ghosts of history and of how you only realize the manipulation you have been through once you step outside the system: "The sense of community is so strong, that people will die for their nation" the artist says.

How creative are you with your iPad? Here's a chance to see the influential British artist David Hockney at work, as he uses his iPad to make a drawing of his surroundings in a museum cafe.

"I just happen to be an artist who uses the iPad, I'm not an iPad artist. It's just a medium. But I am aware of the revolutionary aspects of it, and it's implications." In this interview artist David Hockney explains what a medium such as the iPad means to him.

”Literature was a place, where I could recognize things, that I thought were only felt by me.” Meet Norwegian writer Linn Ullmann for a conversation about literature, writing and the obligation of the author to be critical of power.

"The voice is a bastard" says opera singer Bo Skovhus in this video about the voice and how it is the key to the soul. It reveals our emotions and says something of the conflict between feelings and intellect: ”Why is the heart not the same as our mind?”