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
Wednesday Oct 23, 2013
Wednesday Oct 23, 2013
This Fresh Talkepisode features Jean-Ulrick Désert and Trenton Doyle Hancock, two of the artists participating in Radical Presence:Black Performance in Contemporary Art. Curated by Valerie Cassel Oliver for the Museum of Contemporary Arts inHouston (CAMH), the exhibition is now appearing in New York City. Some of theshow’s performance art events will be featured in New York’s Performa 13 this November.
To hear CathyByrd’s unedited recording sessions with Jean-Ulrick and Trenton, go to the newFresh Talk UNCUT podcast series.
Sound Editor: EricSchwartz
Episode Sound: TrentonDoyle Hancock, performing Devotion at CAMH
Monday Jan 28, 2013
Monday Jan 28, 2013
In summer 2012, we travel to New England to visit MacDowell, a New Hampshire retreat for artists, writers, and composers. We're among hundreds of visitors gathered on Medal Day, August 12, 2012, to honor contemporary photographer Nan Goldin. After a picnic on the great lawn, we spend the afternoon following forest trails to the cabin studios of summer Fellows. Kyla Chevrier, West Moss, Bettina Johae, Kate Moore, and Sebastian Currier take turns describing their MacDowell experiences.
Sound Editor: Eric Schwartz
Special Audio: Sebastian Currier, "Quiet Time," 2012
Related Episode: New Music—with Kate Moore in the Netherlands
Related Links: MacDowell, Nan Goldin, Kyla Chevrier, West Moss, Bettina Johae, Kate Moore, Sebastian Currier
Monday Nov 12, 2012
Monday Nov 12, 2012
In Istanbul, Cathy Byrd meets Yane Calovski, a transmedia artist and curator based in Skopje, Macedonia. Since 1998, his research-based works have been exhibited at Tate Britain, Manifesta 7, European Kunsthalle, Baltic Art Center, and Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje, among other venues. Yane is the artistic director of Press to Exit, an organization founded in 2004 as a special program-based artist initiative for research and production in the field of visual arts and curatorial practices.
Monday Sep 24, 2012
Monday Sep 24, 2012
On Skype, we connect with London-based curator Helena Reckitt about the artists she selected to participate in Nuit Blanche Toronto 2012. Each year, the citywide Nuit Blanche event brings more than a million people out onto the streets from dusk to dawn for temporal art experiences. Projects in “Once More, With Feeling,” her sector of the legendary art event, will animate notions of repetition, remaking, renewal and revolt.
Sound Editor: Leo Madriz |
Special Audio, in order of appearance: Katie Paterson, Hadley+Maxwell, Susan Stenger
Related Episode: Filming Rhythm, Stories and Soul in the Toronto Subway
Related Links: Helena Reckitt, Nuit Blanche, Toronto, 2012, Once More With Feeling
“Once More With Feeling” Projects: Planes, Trisha Brown Dance Company | Earth–Moon–Earth (Moonlight Sonata Reflected from the Surface of the Moon), Katie Paterson | Smells Like Spirit, Hadley+Maxwell | Thought Balloon, Brian Cauley | Moth Maze, Oliver Husain | The Structures Of Everyday Life: Full Circle, Susan Stenger | The Day After, Tomorrow, Dave Dyment | Tremolo, Maeve Brennan, Ruth Ewan | Ensemble for Mixed Use, JD Walsh | Body Xerox, Simon Denny, Yngve Holen
Monday Sep 03, 2012
Monday Sep 03, 2012
One hot summer day in Texas, we visit the studios of Leslie Hewitt, Jacco Olivier, and Mike Osborne, current artists in residence at Artpace San Antonio. The projects they created are on view in the Artpace galleries through September 2012.
Sound Editor: Leo Madriz
Special Audio: Soundtrack of a video project by Juan Miguel Ramos titled Yo Vendo Unos Ojos Negros, 2012
Related Episode: On the Rise—with Curator Sarah Lewis in San Antonio
Related Links: Artpace San Antonio. Leslie Hewitt, Jacco Olivier, Mike Osborne, Sarah Lewis
Sunday Aug 26, 2012
Sunday Aug 26, 2012
In San Antonio, we meet scholar, writer, and curator Sarah Lewia to talk about issues and ideas that inform her curatorial practice. Sarah's latest project involved selecting artists Leslie Hewitt, Jacco Olivier and Mike Osborne for the Artpace San Antonio's International Artists in Residence program. Active internationally, Sarah has held positions at the Tate Modern and the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and was co-curated the 2010 SITE Santa Fe biennial exhibition titled The Dissolve.
Sarah Lewis's book The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery, 2014, inspires the title of this episode.
Sound Editor: Leo Madriz
Special Audio: Esperanza Spaulding, Cuerpo y Alma
Related Episode: How Artist Residencies Unfold at Artpace San Antonio
Related Links: Sarah Lewis, Artpace San Antonio, Tate Modern, Museum of Modern Art, SITE Santa Fe 2010 Biennial
Monday Aug 06, 2012
Monday Aug 06, 2012
In Barcelona with Carolina Grau, an independent curator from Spain, we talk about her projects in London, Madrid, Lisbon, Sao Paulo and Paris. Carolina describes what she learned as a project manager for artists Rachel Whiteread and Juan Muñoz, her curatorial residencies, the evolution of her work with Martin Creed (Cubitt Gallery and Tate Modern, London; Sala Alcalá, Madrid), how locals get involved with the D.I.Y. biennial she co-organizes with Mario Flecha in the village of Jafre, Spain.
Sound Editor: Leo Madriz
Special Audio: Martin Creed, Thinking, Not Thinking, used with permission of the artist
Related Episodes: Antoni Muntadas on the Social Body, Art Meets Food in Barcelona
Related Links: Rachel Whiteread, Juan Muñoz, Center for Contemporary Art, Noisy-le-Sec, Martin Creed
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
Monday Jul 02, 2012
Monday Jul 02, 2012
Cathy Byrd connects on skype with Sasha Dees, an independent curator/producer/consultant who lives and works between Amsterdam and New York. In the Netherlands, Sasha curates the residency program Open Ateliers in the area of Amsterdam known as Zuidoost. In the U.S., Sasha is the producer of a roving video performance project with Sietske Tjallingii, the protagonist in Miss T - My American Dream. Their road trips in search of mid-century roadside icons have led them to gigantic versions of a guitar, a blue whale, a sombrero and more.
Sound Editor: Leo Madriz
Photos: courtesy Sasha Dees
Episode Music: Billy Holliday, All of Me
Sunday May 13, 2012
Sunday May 13, 2012
Cathy Byrd talks on the phone with Franklin Sirmans, curator of contemporary art at Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). Their conversation considers the essential role of public art at LACMA, covers the latest news on Michael Heizer's Levitated Mass installation and previews upcoming LACMA exhibitions to feature the Broad Collection (2012) and the work of Noah Purifoy (2014). Recently appointed Artistic Director for the third iteration of the art triennial known as Prospect New Orleans, Franklin shares some of this thoughts about the 2014 exhibition.
Sound Editor: Leo Madriz
Special Audio: Recorded while moving Michael Heizer's 340-ton rock from Riverside to Los Angeles, CA. Courtesy of LACMA
Related Episodes: Franklin Sirmans Introduces Prospect.3 New Orleans, The Art of Futbol—with Franklin Sirmans in Miami
Related Links: Levitated Mass, Broad Collection, Noah Purifoy, Prospect New Orleans