Fresh Art International

Alexis Gideon on Myth and Memory

Artist Alexis Gideon talks about myth and memory in his newest animated video opera: The Comet and The Glacier. He brings this musical narrative to life at Locust Projects, Miami, Florida. Gideon's intense multi-media environmental installation takes visitors on a journey into his imagination and serves as the stage for his performances during Miami Art Week 2016.

Sound Editor: Guney Ozsan | Sound effects courtesy Alexis Gideon

New Performance Art

Our show is a feast of new performance art projects. Hear the conversation Cathy Byrd recorded with artist William Pope.L one night during the roving street performance he created for the 32nd Bienal São Paulo. Learn about the Tide by Side processional event planned for the Faena Art District on Miami Beach from curator Claire Tancons and artist Marinella Senatore. Also in the studio, Alexis Gideon introduces the multi-media opera The Comet and the Glacier he brings to Locust Projects, Miami.

Pope L on Endurance

American artist William Pope.L talks about endurance in performance art and shares the story of Baile, or Ball, the project he created for the 32nd São Paulo Biennial. Based on Pope.L’s research into recent political frictions and social inequalities in Brazil, the theatrical endurance project involves three pairs of professional dancers taking 8 hour shifts to perform 24 hours a day, for four days. They walk and dance along a mapped-out route at the heart of the city.

Sound editor: Guney Ozsan

Martha Wilson on Political Performance Art

Artist Martha Wilson talks about her political performance art and why she took on the guise of Republican candidate Donald Trump during the 2016 United States Presidential election season. Wilson is a pioneering feminist artist known for her politically charged photography, video and performance work. She’s also founder of Franklin Furnace, an artist-run performance and exhibition space in New York City. Listen to this episode to learn how America's Culture Wars* have sparked her political satire for decades and hear the artist's impersonations of Nancy Reagan, Barbara Bush, Tipper Gore, and Donald Trump.

Sound Editor: Guney Ozsan

Contemporary Art and the Black Imagination

Bringing local creatives into the studio at Jolt Radio, Miami, we dig into contemporary art and the black imagination. Curator Valerie Cassel Oliver sets the tone in a conversation we recorded about her exhibition project: Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art. We expand the dialogue to include introduce artists, filmmakers and curators working with black art, film and collecting in Miami.

In the Studio: Filmmakers Jamilah Sabur, Founding Director of Prizm Art Fair Mikhaile Solomon, ArtCenter/South Florida Artistic Director Natalia Zuluaga and Artist Domingo Castillo. Call in: Amir George, filmmaker and co-founder of Black Radical Imagination.

Sound Editor: Guney Ozsan

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

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