Writer/curator Cathy Byrd sparks conversations about today’s art, design, and film on the Fresh Art International podcast. Synthesizing interviews and field recordings with critical commentary since 2011, the podcast archives the voices, sounds, and stories of contemporary culture makers from around the world.
Episodes
Thursday Jul 30, 2015
Thursday Jul 30, 2015
Artist Binelde Hyrcan is participating in the Venice Art Bienniale for the first time this year. He's showing a poignant short video in the Angola Pavilion's featured group exhibition On Ways of Traveling. In the work titled Cambeck, four boys imagine themselves touring the world in a limousine. They transcend their reality...if only for a moment.
Wednesday Jul 22, 2015
Wednesday Jul 22, 2015
Miami-born artist Ana Mendez talks about Liminal Being, her action-based performance project inspired by Maya Deren's 1940s surrealist film Meshes of the Afternoon. In this new work, Mendez repeatedly enacted a fall up and down a flight of stairs inside Giant Motors, a former car repair shop during the Auto Body video and performance event presented during Miami Art Week 2014.
Thursday Jul 09, 2015
Thursday Jul 09, 2015
American-born artist Camille Norment lives and works in Norway. We recorded the episode inside the Nordic Pavilion at the 56th Venice Art Biennale. Norment's project animates a space designed to converse with the surrounding topography, weather, and natural light. Titled Rapture, her elegant, immersive sonic environment evokes both harmony and dissonance.