Episodes
Thursday Mar 19, 2015
Fresh Talk: Tameka Norris
Thursday Mar 19, 2015
Thursday Mar 19, 2015
Tameka Norris just produced her first feature-length film. She plays herself in Meka Jean: How She Got Good. The narrative has a lot in common with The Moviegover, a novel by Walker Percy. Like Walker Percy, Norris grew up in the Deep South, and went away to seek her fortune. Like Binx Bolling, the book’s protagonist, Meka Jean reveals what it means when New Orleans is the city you call home.
We recorded this conversation with Norris when her film debuted during the international exhibition Prospect.3 New Orleans, in 2014. She presented the project as a multi-chambered installation at May Gallery, a nonprofit art space in the district known as the Upper 9th Ward.
Sound Editor: Kris McConnachie | Soundtrack excerpts courtesy the artist
Monday Jul 01, 2013
Fresh Talk: Burning Man
Monday Jul 01, 2013
Monday Jul 01, 2013
At South By South West, in Austin, Texas, Cathy Byrd meets Steve Brown and Jessie Deeter, the team that directed and produced the documentary Spark: A Burning Man Story. Steve and Jessie explain what they learned about the individuals and ideas behind the legendary desert rituals of Burning Man. Sound Editor: Eric Schwartz | Episode Sound, from Spark: A Burning Man Story
Monday Apr 29, 2013
Fresh Talk: CatVidFest
Monday Apr 29, 2013
Monday Apr 29, 2013
The renowned Walker Art Center in Minneapolis staged a one-night Internet Cat Video Festival in August 2012 that drew an astounding 10,000 people to the Center’s Open Field. During South By South West 2013, Cathy Byrd meets curators Scott Stulen and Katie Hill in the KUT/NPR studios to talk about the legendary project. Sound Editor: Eric Schwartz | Episode Sound courtesy Walker Art Center
Monday Mar 18, 2013
Fresh Talk: Pussy Riot
Monday Mar 18, 2013
Monday Mar 18, 2013
The 2013 South By South West Film Festival, in Austin, Texas, is the setting for this Fresh Talk feature. Cathy Byrd meets filmmakers Mike Lerner and Maxim Pozdorovkin to learn more about Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer, the documentary they recently completed.The film tells the story of Nadezhda Tolokonnikova (Nadia), Maria Alyokhina (Masha), and Yekaterina Samutsevich (Katia), members of the radical feminist art collective Pussy Riot. In early 2012, the three were arrested and put on trial for performing a 40 second "punk prayer" inside Moscow’s main orthodox cathedral. The world has been calling for the young women's release ever since Nadia, Masha and Katia were detained, charged and imprisoned for the crime of religious hatred.
Monday Nov 26, 2012
Fresh Talk: Luci Westphal
Monday Nov 26, 2012
Monday Nov 26, 2012
In Berlin, Cathy Byrd meets Luci Westphal, a German filmmaker based in New York and Berlin, to talk about Luci's love for street art, music, film and the D.I.Y. style. Luci shares the inside story on her moving postcard series In A Berlin Minute and her latest documentary All's Well and Fair. Sound Editor: Leonardo Madriz Photographs courtesy the artist Music: "Frogfly Buzzing," by Dioxin Dolly (Rachel Iannelli, Margaret Briggs, Tina Bushnell), 1996, from Luci Westphal, All's Well and Fair, 2012.
Tuesday May 08, 2012
Fresh Talk: CineMarfa
Tuesday May 08, 2012
Tuesday May 08, 2012
Cathy Byrd meets with Jennifer Lane and David Hollander to learn more about CineMarfa, a film festival that takes place this May 16-20, in Marfa, Texas. Professional filmmakers, Jennifer and David lived in Los Angeles for a dozen years before they fell in love with Marfa and made West Texas their home. The two talk about why they created CineMarfa and introduce some of the films featured in the second annual event. This is the first in a Fresh Talk series about creative energy in the American Southwest.
Sunday Jan 01, 2012
Fresh Talk: Frédéric Nauczyciel
Sunday Jan 01, 2012
Sunday Jan 01, 2012
In this episode, Paris-based artist Frédéric Nauczyciel describes an elusive subculture that he explored in Baltimore, Washington DC and New York City, and introduces his new photo series: Men In Heels.
Saturday Dec 03, 2011
Fresh Talk: Jefferson Pinder
Saturday Dec 03, 2011
Saturday Dec 03, 2011
In this episode, Chicago-based video performance artist Jefferson Pinder explains the importance of physical exertion in his work. Hear how his fascination with Houdini and street theater led to his new live performance series: The Escape Artist. Jefferson makes his first appearance as the Escape Artist at 8:05pm, Sunday, December 4, 2011, in Salisbury, Maryland. The premiere performance commemorates the death of Matthew Williams, who was confined to a straightjacket when he was lynched in front of the Wicomico courthouse on December 4, 1931.
Sunday Nov 20, 2011
Fresh Talk: Janet Biggs
Sunday Nov 20, 2011
Sunday Nov 20, 2011
Monday Nov 07, 2011
Fresh Talk: Kate Hers
Monday Nov 07, 2011
Monday Nov 07, 2011
In this episode of Art Talk, Kate Hers, a Korean-born video artist based in Berlin, describes the German art scene and explains how she raised funds through Kickstarter for Dr. Rhee's Kimtschi Shop. The artist and her partner, physicist Hanjo Rhee, will trade their special version of Korea’s national treasure for cultural artifacts from the shop's customers from November 19 to 25, 2011, at Das Gift, in Berlin.