Fresh Art International

Fresh Talk: Micol Hebron

Los Angeles-based artist Micol Hebron is inspired by the work of Carolee Schneemann, a feminist artist that madeart history in 1975 by performing naked to protest gender inequality in the art field. Today, Hebron invites other women artists to spotlight this ongoing concern.

Sound Editor: Kris McConnachie

Mary Mattingly on Human Relationships

Environmental artist Mary Mattingly talks about Pull, the project she created with local partners in Havana. Her artist residency is part of Wild Noise, thefirst in a series of exhibition exchanges between the Bronx Museum of the Arts and the National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana.  

 

Fresh Talk: Macedonia in Venice with Basak Senova, Yane Calovski, and Hristina Ivanoska

Turkish curator Basak Senova, and Macedonian artists Yane Calovski and Hristina Ivanoska talk about their project for the Pavilion of the Republic of Macedonia at the 56th Venice Biennale. Exploring the value of knowledge, faith, and art, their installation evokes an anonymous 12th century fresco in the historic Church of St. George in Kurbinovo, Macedonia.

Fresh Talk: Buskerfest with Justin Trieger and Amy San Pedro

Buskerfest Miami's Justin Trieger and Amy San Pedro have joined other local musicians to begin creating aconnected, thriving urban core for Miami. They stage street performances along the stops of the city's Metromover, a free downtown transit system. Listen to our conversation and hear a selection of live music from the annual festival and other Buskerfest events.

We recorded this conversation during FEAST Miami, a people's choice fundraising dinner for artists.

Sound Editor: Kris McConnachie | Sound effects courtesy Buskerfest and the artists

Fresh Talk: Erika Hoffmann

In Berlin, contemporary art collector Erika Hoffmann talks about her love for artists who question traditional forms and take the risk of inventing new genres. For this conversation, we take you inside the famous Sammlung Hoffmann (Hoffmann Collection) to learn what compelled her to collect the work of Marcel Broodthaers, John Cage, and Katharina Grosse.

Sound Editor: Kris McConnachie | Piano improv, courtesy free John Cage Prepared Piano app

Fresh Talk: Binelde Hyrcan

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.

Sound Editor: Kris McConnachie | Sound Effects, courtesy Binelde Hyrcan

Fresh Talk: Ana Mendez

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.

Sound Editor: Kris McConnachie | Sound effects courtesy the artist and Spinello Projects

Fresh Talk: Camille Norment

American-born artist Camille Norment lives and works in Norway. We recorded the episode inside the Nordic Pavilion at the 56^th 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.

Sound Editor: Kris McConnachie | Live performance audio via VernissageTV

Fresh Talk: Tania Bruguera

Presidents of Cuba and the U.S. recently announced a rapprochement, but is the island country ready for free expression in the form of contemporary art activism? Recorded in Havana, this Fresh Talk episode features Cuban artist Tania Bruguera and her recent launch of a new initiative: the Hannah Arendt Institute for Artivism. Bruguera is moving ahead with her project despite the fact that she's been under city arrest and subject to government reprisals after her unauthorized public art performance on December 30, 2014, landed her in jail for three days.

Sound Editor: Kris McConnachie

Special Audio: May Day 2009, Plaza of the Revolution and Tania, Bruguera Tatlin's Whisper #6, 2009

Fresh Talk: Cuban Art Awards

Cuban artist Alexandre Arrechea and American art collectors Patricia and Howard Farber talk about the first-ever international Cuban Art Awards sponsored by the Farber Foundation. We recorded this conversation at the Wifredo Lam Contemporary Art Center during the opening event of the 12^th Havana Biennial art exhibition. 

 Sound Editor: Kris McConnachie | Music: Septeto Habanero