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
Monday Jul 30, 2012
Monday Jul 30, 2012
In Austin, Texas, we meet independent curator Christopher Eamon at Lora Reynolds Gallery to talk about his latest exhibition project, Manscape: on view in the gallery through August 11, 2012. Christopher explains how he discovered the artists whose work was featured in Rearview Mirror: New Art from Central and Eastern Europe (2011) at The Power Plant, Toronto, and talks about the challenges and rewards of working solo. Christopher has curated exhibitions at institutions internationally, including at the Hambruger Bahnhof, Berlin, MoMA PS.1, NY, and the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London.
Sound Editor: Leo Madriz
Special Audio: Adina Popescu, Jeremiah, 2011
Related Episodes: The Shape, The Scent, The Feel of Things—with Joan Jonas in Austin
Related Links: Christopher Eamon. Manscape: Male as Subject and Object, Rearview Mirror: New Art from Central and Eastern Europe, The Power Plant
Sunday Jul 22, 2012
Sunday Jul 22, 2012
On the phone with art collector Charles Guice, we talk about his passion for contemporary art and his commitment to participate in the international scene. Pivotal in the careers of leading contemporary artists, including Hank Willis Thomas and Carrie Mae Weems, Charles represents some exceptional talent, including Max Esteban and Erika Diettes, artists featured in Buenos Aires' Festival de Luz 2012.
Thursday May 31, 2012
Thursday May 31, 2012
In Barcelona, we meet creatives at the intersection of contemporary art and food. Iranian-born Mariam Shambayati talks about her multi-media art project Moulinex-Me and the conceptual dinner parties she stages in the Food Cultura Museum. The anti-museum's founders Montse Guillén and Antoni Miralda have mixed art and food cocktails for decades. They introduce their most recent collaborative project, Off Menu—a series of fantastical events that offered a creative alternative to Alimentaria, Barcelona's annual culinary festival.
Monday May 21, 2012
Monday May 21, 2012
In this episode, we take you to Barcelona, to meet a couple of creative nomads from the Netherlands. Artist Iris Tonies and writer Arnout Krediet live on their boat in Port Veil, Barcelona, with their two children. They talk about how they made themselves at home, founded Estudio Nómada and became animators in the local art scene. The last week in May, they'll be projecting films on the mainsail of their boat during SCREEN Barcelona, an annual city-wide video art festival.
Monday Apr 30, 2012
Monday Apr 30, 2012
In this episode, professional consultant Tara Gentile talks about what it takes for creatives to thrive in the new economy, challenging the assumptions we have about work/life balance, the starving artist mythos, and true personal success.
Monday Apr 23, 2012
Monday Apr 23, 2012
Now living a seaside village outside Lisbon, German artist Regina Frank continues expanding on her central theme, The Artist Is Present. Regina talks about the political and cultural issues that interest her and how her meditative installation projects explore the tension between analog and digital media.
Sound Editor: Jay Agoglia
Special Audio: Astor Piazolla, Tango Milonga del Angel
Related Link: Regina Frank
Monday Apr 16, 2012
Monday Apr 16, 2012
Monday Apr 09, 2012
Monday Apr 09, 2012
Spanish artist Antoni Muntadas talks about how language and the social body figure into the multi-media conceptual art projects he's been producing since the 1970s.Living and working in New York and Barcelona, Spanish artist Muntadas talks about the importance of language and the social body in the multi-media work he's been creating globally since the 1970s. His complex conceptual projects were featured in exhibitions in the Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona earlier this year.
Tuesday Feb 28, 2012
Tuesday Feb 28, 2012
In 2012, Cathy Byrd shares her first encounter with ARCO Madrid, Spain's annual contemporary art fair.
Conversations: Suzanne Rietdijk, curator, ZINGERpresents, Amsterdam; Voluspa Jarpa, artist, Galeria Isabel Aninat, Santiago; and Anna Pahissa, owner/director, múltiplos, Barcelona.
Sounds: Fernando Gutierrez +.tape., Rapsodia; Jonathan Harker + Donna Conlon: Tapitapultas; Karl Holmqvist: Old News; Laia Estruch: Jingle
Sound Editor: Leo Madriz | Photography: Cathy Byrd
Thursday Feb 23, 2012
Thursday Feb 23, 2012
In his Barcelona studio, designer Martí Guixé talks to Cathy Byrd about his first experimental concepts for Camper pop-up shops, food design and work as a recreational activity.