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 Apr 30, 2012
Monday Apr 30, 2012
In this episode, professional consultant Tara Gentile talks about what it takes for creatives to thrive in the new economy, challenging the assumptions we have about work/life balance, the starving artist mythos, and true personal success.
Monday Apr 23, 2012
Monday Apr 23, 2012
Now living a seaside village outside Lisbon, German artist Regina Frank continues expanding on her central theme, The Artist Is Present. Regina talks about the political and cultural issues that interest her and how her meditative installation projects explore the tension between analog and digital media.
Sound Editor: Jay Agoglia
Special Audio: Astor Piazolla, Tango Milonga del Angel
Related Link: Regina Frank
Monday Apr 16, 2012
Monday Apr 16, 2012
Monday Apr 09, 2012
Monday Apr 09, 2012
Spanish artist Antoni Muntadas talks about how language and the social body figure into the multi-media conceptual art projects he's been producing since the 1970s.Living and working in New York and Barcelona, Spanish artist Muntadas talks about the importance of language and the social body in the multi-media work he's been creating globally since the 1970s. His complex conceptual projects were featured in exhibitions in the Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona earlier this year.
Saturday Mar 24, 2012
Saturday Mar 24, 2012
Khadijah Queen talks about what is essential in her creative practice and shares poems from her latest book, Black Peculiar.
Thursday Mar 15, 2012
Thursday Mar 15, 2012
João Paulo Feliciano, a visual artist, musician, music producer and event designer based in Lisbon, talks about how he manages the complexities of his creative practice and why he loves retro-pop.
Related Fresh VUE: Lisbon
Related Link: João Paulo Feliciano, Cristina Guerra
Tuesday Feb 28, 2012
Tuesday Feb 28, 2012
In 2012, Cathy Byrd shares her first encounter with ARCO Madrid, Spain's annual contemporary art fair.
Conversations: Suzanne Rietdijk, curator, ZINGERpresents, Amsterdam; Voluspa Jarpa, artist, Galeria Isabel Aninat, Santiago; and Anna Pahissa, owner/director, múltiplos, Barcelona.
Sounds: Fernando Gutierrez +.tape., Rapsodia; Jonathan Harker + Donna Conlon: Tapitapultas; Karl Holmqvist: Old News; Laia Estruch: Jingle
Sound Editor: Leo Madriz | Photography: Cathy Byrd
Thursday Feb 23, 2012
Thursday Feb 23, 2012
In his Barcelona studio, designer Martí Guixé talks to Cathy Byrd about his first experimental concepts for Camper pop-up shops, food design and work as a recreational activity.
Sunday Feb 12, 2012
Sunday Feb 12, 2012
Artist, curator and art consultant, Kesha Bruce talks about the complex connections between history, personal mythology and magical-spiritual belief in the African diaspora. Search Fresh Rx on our website, to explore the 21-part artist advice column that she designed especially for Fresh Art International.
Sound Editor: Leonardo Madriz | Photography courtesy Kesha Bruce
Related Links: Kesha Bruce, Fresh Rx
Sunday Jan 29, 2012
Sunday Jan 29, 2012