Fresh Art International

Sarah Oppenheimer on Space and Light

Artist Sarah Oppenheimer and curator René Morales talk about Sarah’s project titled S-281913 at Perez Art Museum Miami. The context for her newest work is the recently built museum designed by architects Herzog and De Meuron. Sarah’s project in the Meyerhoff Green Gallery represents a ground-breaking moment in her practice. That’s because the 'S' in the title of the work stands for 'switch.' The artist has been researching and testing the idea of an architectural “switch,” an element that intervenes in or influences how we move across and through a space. S-281913 has kinetic properties that visitors can activate. Listen to this episode to hear the ideas behind the work.

Sound Editor: Guney Ozsan

When Art is a Common Field

Enter the world of art activism through the recent Rauschenberg Residency on Rising Water, listen to conversations recorded on Captiva Island in Florida, and learn about Activating Democracy with artist Sheryl Oring, about her I Wish To Say project. Finally, hear about Miami’s very own Common Field convening.

 

In the Studio: Artist Naomi Fisher, Director of DimensionsVariable Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova, and Stephanie Sherman.

 

Sound Editor: Guney Ozsan

Rauschenberg Residency on Rising Water

At the Rauschenberg Residency on the island of Captiva just off the west coast of Florida, we meet artists, writers, and scientists working on projects related to the environment. They’re here for a special session known as the Rising Water Confab, a month-long program exploring the topic of climate change.

Featured in this episode: Amy Balkin, an artist based in San Francisco, invites contributions to what she calls “A people’s archive of sinking and melting." Christopher Cozier, an artist from the island of Trinidad Tobago, reflects on the environmental extremes of the Caribbean as a way of life. Los-Angeles based Mick Lorusso contemplates a mangrove intervention based on discoveries he made during his residency. Though Rachel Armstrong teaches living architecture at Newcastle University and much of her practice is grounded in science, on Captiva, her thinking about climate change takes a spiritual turn. Buster Simpson, a public artist based in Seattle, Washington, has organized two sessions of the Rising Water confab. He hopes that Captiva might serve as a model of environmental solutions for South Florida.

Sound Editor: Guney Oszan 

Premiere Broadcast on Jolt Radio Miami

rtists Joyce J. Scott and Antonia Wright join Cathy Byrd for the first Miami broadcast of the Fresh Art International show on Jolt Radio.
Baltimore-based Joyce J. Scott is a jewelry maker and sculptor repositioning craft, and in particular beadwork, as a potent platform for commentary on social and political injustices. She shares recent projects and comments on the recent honor of a MacArthur Genius award.

Miami-based Antonia Wright is an artist working in performance, video, and installation. She talks about her traumatic fall through the ice on a frozen lake in a filmed re-enactment that is a feature of her multimedia exhibition at Locust Projects in Miami.

Sound Editor: Guney Ozsan

Live from the São Paulo Biennial 8 Sep 2016

Today, we share our final live broadcast on Jolt Radio, Miami, from inside the exhibition pavilion of the 32^nd São Paulo Biennial! We have quite the line-up! Brazilian artist Vivian Caccuri talks about her Afro-Brazilian sound project to kick off the show. Yvette Mutumba and Julia Grosse, Germany-based editors of Contemporary And (C&), follow, with their impressions of the exhibition and an introduction to their latest print publication. Our last guest, Brazilian artist scholar Jorge Menna Barreto, tells the story behind Restauro, a biennial dining experience inspired by local agro-forestry efforts.

Donna Kukama on Unfinished Stories

South African artist Donna Kukama is creating an unusual book project for the 32^nd Sao Paulo Biennial. During opening days of the international exhibition, she presents three chapters of the book in performances at three local cultural sites: the Consolação Cemetery, the Afro-Brazil Museum, and the Ciccillo Matarazzo pavilion where the biennial is held. Local history and current events inspire stories that unfold in video projections, storytelling, and public announcements. None of her layered narratives has an ending. All are unfinished, calling to mind the countless unresolved issues that cling to most of our personal and shared histories.

Sound Editor: Guney Ozsan

Live from the São Paulo Biennial 7 Sep 2016

Today, we’re sharing one of the three shows we broadcast this month on Jolt Radio, Miami, from inside the exhibition pavilion of the 32^ndSão Paulo Biennial! Our special guest is Pia Lindman, an artist from Finland whose project Nose Ears Eyes centers on the hut made of mud and bamboo that you see in the photo gallery below. Later in the show, Eduardo Navarro, an artist from Argentina, drops in to our ad hoc studio, to talk about his Sound Mirror. Pia and Eduardo are two of the biennial artists whose projects connect conceptually and physically with Ibirapuera Park, a gorgeous urban green space that surrounds the exhibition pavilion designed by the legendary architect Oscar Niemeyer.

Sound Editor: Guney Ozsan

Live from the São Paulo Biennial 6 Sep 2016

Today, we share our first-ever Fresh Art International radio broadcast, recorded live in Brazil! For three days only, we were livestreaming from inside the São Paulo Biennial pavilion on Jolt Radio. Our new hour-long show expands on conversations about creativity that we’ve been recording with contemporary artists, curators, filmmakers, and architects since 2011 for the Fresh Art International podcast.

The cultural context for our remote broadcast is Incerteza Viva, Live Uncertainty. The title and theme of the 32nd biennial exhibition revolves around the political, social, and environmental uncertainties of contemporary life. Today’s show features participating artists Eduardo Navarro (Argentina); Ebony G. Patterson (Jamaica), and artist collective Opivivaro! (Brazil), as well as activists from the Aparelhamento movement, a group or artists protesting current politics in Brazil.

We hope you enjoy the show!

Anawana Haloba on Vanishing Cultures

Anawana Haloba, an artist born in Zambia and based in Norway, talks about vanishing cultures in her project for the 32nd Sao Paulo Biennial. Her poetic sound installation titled Close-Up poses questions on the subject of globalization and the loss of cultural diversity. Recorded on Skype, this episode is the first in a new series we’re producing for Contemporary And, a platform for international art from African perspectives.

Sound Editor: Guney Oszan

Amanda Sanfilippo on Public Art

Amanda Sanfilippo talks about public art and Miami’s Fringe Projects, an independent public art agency that commissions temporary art and performance projects in connection with the Miami’s annual Downtown Art Days. Ever since she became curator four years ago, Amanda has been expanding on the potential for temporal public art to make a lasting impression on Miami’s cultural landscape. Listen to this episode to hear the stories behind 2016 projects by Siebren Versteeg, Cara Despain, John Patrick Walsh III, and Alan Gutierrez. 

Sound Editor: Guney Ozsan | Cara Despain "Sea Unseen" sound effects courtesy the artist