Writer/curator Cathy Byrd sparks conversations about today’s art, design, and film on the Fresh Art International podcast. Synthesizing interviews and field recordings with critical commentary since 2011, the podcast archives the voices, sounds, and stories of contemporary culture makers from around the world.
Episodes
Monday Sep 24, 2012
Monday Sep 24, 2012
On Skype, we connect with London-based curator Helena Reckitt about the artists she selected to participate in Nuit Blanche Toronto 2012. Each year, the citywide Nuit Blanche event brings more than a million people out onto the streets from dusk to dawn for temporal art experiences. Projects in “Once More, With Feeling,” her sector of the legendary art event, will animate notions of repetition, remaking, renewal and revolt.
Sound Editor: Leo Madriz |
Special Audio, in order of appearance: Katie Paterson, Hadley+Maxwell, Susan Stenger
Related Episode: Filming Rhythm, Stories and Soul in the Toronto Subway
Related Links: Helena Reckitt, Nuit Blanche, Toronto, 2012, Once More With Feeling
“Once More With Feeling” Projects: Planes, Trisha Brown Dance Company | Earth–Moon–Earth (Moonlight Sonata Reflected from the Surface of the Moon), Katie Paterson | Smells Like Spirit, Hadley+Maxwell | Thought Balloon, Brian Cauley | Moth Maze, Oliver Husain | The Structures Of Everyday Life: Full Circle, Susan Stenger | The Day After, Tomorrow, Dave Dyment | Tremolo, Maeve Brennan, Ruth Ewan | Ensemble for Mixed Use, JD Walsh | Body Xerox, Simon Denny, Yngve Holen
Sunday Sep 16, 2012
Sunday Sep 16, 2012
Connecting on Skype with American-born artist Jennifer Ray, we trace her creative path from North Carolina to Germany. Based in Berlin for eight of years with her husband and music producer Jason Forrest, Jen talks about life, recent exhibitions, and her new book.
Monday Sep 03, 2012
Monday Sep 03, 2012
One hot summer day in Texas, we visit the studios of Leslie Hewitt, Jacco Olivier, and Mike Osborne, current artists in residence at Artpace San Antonio. The projects they created are on view in the Artpace galleries through September 2012.
Sound Editor: Leo Madriz
Special Audio: Soundtrack of a video project by Juan Miguel Ramos titled Yo Vendo Unos Ojos Negros, 2012
Related Episode: On the Rise—with Curator Sarah Lewis in San Antonio
Related Links: Artpace San Antonio. Leslie Hewitt, Jacco Olivier, Mike Osborne, Sarah Lewis
Sunday Aug 26, 2012
Sunday Aug 26, 2012
In San Antonio, we meet scholar, writer, and curator Sarah Lewia to talk about issues and ideas that inform her curatorial practice. Sarah's latest project involved selecting artists Leslie Hewitt, Jacco Olivier and Mike Osborne for the Artpace San Antonio's International Artists in Residence program. Active internationally, Sarah has held positions at the Tate Modern and the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and was co-curated the 2010 SITE Santa Fe biennial exhibition titled The Dissolve.
Sarah Lewis's book The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery, 2014, inspires the title of this episode.
Sound Editor: Leo Madriz
Special Audio: Esperanza Spaulding, Cuerpo y Alma
Related Episode: How Artist Residencies Unfold at Artpace San Antonio
Related Links: Sarah Lewis, Artpace San Antonio, Tate Modern, Museum of Modern Art, SITE Santa Fe 2010 Biennial
Monday Aug 20, 2012
Monday Aug 20, 2012
Under the 7th Street bridge in East Austin, we meet Andrew Danzinger, creator of the then-anonymous red swing project. Andrew invented his spatial intervention as an undergraduate while studying architecture at the University of Texas, Austin. Since 2007, his open-source project has grown to encompass a volunteer corps whose members have installed close to 200 swings in the U.S. and abroad. Andrew takes his swings to the Venice Architecture Biennial in August 2012.
Monday Aug 13, 2012
Monday Aug 13, 2012
In East Austin, Tolly Moseley in Austin shares the facets of her creative practice. A book publicist by day, Tolly spends evenings writing for her blog. She’s also a passionate aerial silks dancer who keeps a vivid blue silk hanging from a tree outside her back door. Earlier this year, Tolly started producing and hosting a series of webisodes for "Austin Eavesdropper TV" in which she interviews a certain quirky character and shares insider tips about Austin. In this episode, Cathy gets a sneak peek at Tolly's brand new project for YouTube.
Sound Editor: Leo Madriz
Special Audio: Tolly Moseley, AETV intro designed by Jason Silverberg
Related Episodes: Louis Grachos on the Austin Art Experience
Related Links: AustinEavesdropper.com, youtube.com/hungry
Monday Aug 06, 2012
Monday Aug 06, 2012
In Barcelona with Carolina Grau, an independent curator from Spain, we talk about her projects in London, Madrid, Lisbon, Sao Paulo and Paris. Carolina describes what she learned as a project manager for artists Rachel Whiteread and Juan Muñoz, her curatorial residencies, the evolution of her work with Martin Creed (Cubitt Gallery and Tate Modern, London; Sala Alcalá, Madrid), how locals get involved with the D.I.Y. biennial she co-organizes with Mario Flecha in the village of Jafre, Spain.
Sound Editor: Leo Madriz
Special Audio: Martin Creed, Thinking, Not Thinking, used with permission of the artist
Related Episodes: Antoni Muntadas on the Social Body, Art Meets Food in Barcelona
Related Links: Rachel Whiteread, Juan Muñoz, Center for Contemporary Art, Noisy-le-Sec, Martin Creed
Monday Jul 30, 2012
Monday Jul 30, 2012
In Austin, Texas, we meet independent curator Christopher Eamon at Lora Reynolds Gallery to talk about his latest exhibition project, Manscape: on view in the gallery through August 11, 2012. Christopher explains how he discovered the artists whose work was featured in Rearview Mirror: New Art from Central and Eastern Europe (2011) at The Power Plant, Toronto, and talks about the challenges and rewards of working solo. Christopher has curated exhibitions at institutions internationally, including at the Hambruger Bahnhof, Berlin, MoMA PS.1, NY, and the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London.
Sound Editor: Leo Madriz
Special Audio: Adina Popescu, Jeremiah, 2011
Related Episodes: The Shape, The Scent, The Feel of Things—with Joan Jonas in Austin
Related Links: Christopher Eamon. Manscape: Male as Subject and Object, Rearview Mirror: New Art from Central and Eastern Europe, The Power Plant
Sunday Jul 22, 2012
Sunday Jul 22, 2012
On the phone with art collector Charles Guice, we talk about his passion for contemporary art and his commitment to participate in the international scene. Pivotal in the careers of leading contemporary artists, including Hank Willis Thomas and Carrie Mae Weems, Charles represents some exceptional talent, including Max Esteban and Erika Diettes, artists featured in Buenos Aires' Festival de Luz 2012.
Monday Jul 16, 2012
Monday Jul 16, 2012
In East Austin, we meet the truly creative archictect Jack Sanders in his studio. From Cleburne, Texas, Jack studied at Auburn University and the University of Texas in Austin before he founded his company Design Build Adventure. Hear Jack talk about his muse Sam Mockbee and the Rural Studio experience that inspired Jack's commitment to slow architecture, storytelling and dreaming.