Fresh Art International

Sounds of the 57th Venice Art Biennale

Our sound experience of the 57^th Venice Art Biennale features field recordings of conversations, sound art and performance from Egypt, France, Germany, Nigeria and the U.S.

Live from Athens on Cannibal Radio

Live streaming from Cannibal Radio in Athens, Greece, we introduce you to four of the city’s young culture makers. My co-hosts are Rena Bak and Simos Ares, two of the independent radio station’s forty producers. They both specialize in electronic music. Joining us in the studio are two Athens residents involved with documenta 14, the  international art exhibition presented every five years in Kassel, Germany. For the first time this year, documenta comes to both Kassel and Athens. Katerina Nikou, assistant curator of document 14 Public Programs in Athens, describes the talks, programs and performances and the television broadcast of a short film series designed to engage locals. Also on the air with us is Nikos Nikolopoulos, a filmmaker working with American Rick Lowe on a community project with residents in the neighborhood surrounding Victoria Square. In the past two years, Victoria Square, historically a neighborhood park and public gathering space, has served as the site of a refugee camp.

Note: Today, May 17, 2017, workers staged a 24-hour general strike in Athens to protest the voting on new austerity measures proposed by the government. The strike halted the metro to the airport, flights to and from Athens and city bus service. The following conversations represent the second take of our program, as a blackout interrupted our first broadcast.

To view on YouTube: https://youtu.be/gXVcGbzKMRs

Sound Editor: Guney Ozsan | Original sound file courtesy Cannibal Radio, Athens, Greece

Live from Athens on Cannibal Radio

Live streaming from Cannibal Radio in Athens, Greece, we introduce you to four of the city's young culture makers. Rena Bak and Simos Ares are producers at the independent radio station. Curator Katerina Nikou and filmmaker Nikos Nikolopoulos are involved with the international art exhibition documenta 14.

Carolee Schneemann on Fearless Artmaking

Carolee Schneemann talks about painting, performance, censorship and resistance in a telephone conversation recorded just days before she receives the Golden Lion for lifetime achievement at the opening of the 57^th Venice Art Biennale.

Featured performance audio: Interior Scroll, The Cave, 1995, courtesy Carolee Schneemann and Electronic Arts Intermix
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The Future of Art

Welcome to the Future of Art! We begin to talk about technologies that are transforming our global art eco-system—from art making to art history, from community engagement to collecting, and more.

Art Seeker founder and art collector, Helene Lamarque, along with Emmanuel Trenche, product marketing manager, share how Art Seeker is disrupting the art market by bringing art buyers and sellers together using geolocation technology.

Vizcaya Museum and Gardens team members Mark Osterman (education and engagement) and Gina Wouters (contemporary art program), with Harry Tapias (Vizcaya’s digital visioning task force), take you behind the curtain to reveal the museum’s evolving involvement with new technologies—from experiments with 3-D and virtual reality to curating exhibitions that pair artists with tech experts.

Marcus Gammel on Every Time A Ear Di Soun

Marcus Gammel, with Deutschlandradio Kultur, talks about Every Time A Ear Di Soun, an exciting radio program he co-curated with Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung for the documenta 14 art exhibition in Athens, Greece, and Kassel, Germany, from April to September 2017.

Spring Contemporary 2017 at Miami's Deering Estate

Live streaming our radio show from the studio at Jolt Radio, Miami, we delve into the Deering Estate, where contemporary art meets nature, history, science and new technologies. Our show begins with a conversation that Cathy Byrd recorded in Havana with artist Mary Mattinglyabout Pull, a project Ms. Mattingly realized through the Bronx Museum of the Arts and the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana. Pull was on view during the 12th annual Havana Biennial.

Introducing the environmental focus of the Spring Contemporary 2017 exhibition at the Deering Estate: Kim Yantis, the Cultural Arts Curator for the Deering Estate in Miami, Florida. Nelly Bonilla and Oscar Luna, creators of Home Eleven, a collaboration that allows them to dream and create interactive spaces in Miami and beyond. Archival Feedback (Emile Blair Milgrim, T Wheeler Castillo), artists based in Miami, FL who approach the environment as a studio in the field, accessing the landscape through sound.

Sound Editor: Guney Ozsan

Patricia Cronin on Making Art History

New York-based artist Patricia Cronin talks about women, power and sexuality inside her Tack Room installation at the 2017 Armory Show. Her reprise of the immersive environment she exhibited 20 years ago sparks this conversation about feminist issues, politics, and the artist's resolve to represent untold stories about women.

Borscht Film Festival at 10

On this live streaming show, we hold a post-mortem review of Borscht Diez (AKA Borscht 10), the Borscht Corporation‘s tenth film festival in Miami, Florida. Our conversations introduce the collective energy behind the city’s homegrown film culture and explore a selection of the 2017 festival screenings and special events.

With us in the studio at Jolt Radio, Miami, are local filmmakers Lucas Leyva, Jonathan David Kane and Nayib Estefan of the Secret Celluloid Society. The show also features a skype conversation with New York-based filmmaker Alexa Lim Haas whose newest animated short premiered at Borscht 10.

Sound Editor: Guney Ozsan

Nato Thompson on Culture as Weapon

Nato Thompson, curator and critical writer, talks about his new book Culture as Weapon, and how politicians, corporations and artists use cultural aesthetics to channel their agendas and motivate collective actions.