Fresh Art International

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.

Creativity in Miami's Public Realm

Come with us to explore creativity in the public realm through the lens of Miami’s Public Space Challenge, an annual grant opportunity that invites residents to propose creative projects for their neighborhoods. You’ll hear how art installations, architectural interventions, and inventive public performance projects can transform a parking space, a building, a park, and more.

Joining us in the studio at Jolt Radio, Miami: The Miami Foundation’s Stuart Kennedy, Principal of Plusurbia Design Juan Mullerat, Buskerfest Miami founders Amy C. San Pedro and Justin Trieger. Call-in: Dejha Carrington.

Sound Editor: Guney Ozsan

Related Episodes: The Private Life of Public Art, Amanda Sanfilippo on Public Art and Fringe Projects, Red Swing Project

Related Links: Miami’s Public Space Challenge, Plusurbia Design, Buskerfest Miami 

Occupy Museums on Artists and Debt

Occupy Museums is the artist collective behind Debtfair, a project in the 2017 Whitney Biennial. In a national call, they invited artists to answer the question: "How does your economic reality affect your art?" Their 30-foot wall installation exposes the complex and obscure financial systems that lie just beneath the surface of the art scene in the United States. 

Miami's 21st Century Radio World

Join our 21st century radio show adventure as we hear from Roman Mars about what inspired him to create 99% Invisible, a radio show and podcast series featuring architecture and design. In this episode of our live streaming radio show, meet the players presenting The Wolfsonian-FIU‘s first RadioFest, sharing the voices of local radio journalism, playwriting, and rehearsals for two of the radio plays to be featured at The Wolf.

With us in the studio at Jolt Radio, Miami: WLRN Public Radio and Television‘s Christine DiMattei, The Wolfsonian-FIU’s Heather Cook Gonzalez, and playwrights William Hector and Vanessa Garcia. Call-in: Kenny Finkle, master playwright.

Sound Editor: Guney Ozsan

Sharon Louden on The Artist as Culture Producer

Sharon Louden artist and educator and Hrag Vartanian, co-founder and editor-in-chief of the online art publication Hyperallergic, talk about Louden's newest book project: The Artist as Culture Producer. Forty visual artists contributed essays to the four hundred page publication. These individuals model some of the ways that culture makers of the 21st century are enriching creative economies around the world. Their first-hand stories may inspire more of us to take on new roles in the public realm, to engage more deeply in our communities.

Sound Editor: Guney Ozsan

Contemporary Black Portraiture

Our radio show on contemporary black portraiture explores The Dandy Lion Project, a traveling exhibition project featuring the images of emerging photographers and filmmakers from various regions around the African Diaspora. You’ll hear from Amy Sherald on Black Art and New Racial Narratives before a live audience at moniquemeloche gallery in Chicago. In studio, The Dandy Lion Project Founder and CuratorShantrelle Patrice Lewis and visual artist Kia Dyson talk about the Dandy Lion exhibition now on view at the Lowe Museum, Miami. Calling in from Atlanta, artist and scholar Fahamu Pecou joins our conversation about black portraiture.

Sound Editor: Guney Ozsan