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
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
Monday Jan 16, 2012
Monday Jan 16, 2012
In this episode, we share one of the creative projects of our current sound editor, Ira Kip.
A theater director, Ira talks about the play she wrote to illuminate the raw space between medical politics and domestic violence in the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transsexual community. The celebration of her new play She'Baltimore begins with a Valentine's Day benefit at the LOFTheatre in Baltimore. Ira aims to raise funds for a local charity assisting young victims of domestic violence. The play premieres on February 17, at the LOFT.
Sunday Jan 01, 2012
Sunday Jan 01, 2012
Frédéric Nauczyciel, a Paris-based artist, describes an elusive subculture that he explored in Baltimore, Washington DC and New York City, and introduces his new photo series: Men In Heels.
Sound Editor: Ira Kip | Special Audio: DDM! “Legendary"
Saturday Dec 03, 2011
Saturday Dec 03, 2011
In his Chicago studio, we sit down with Jefferson Pinder to talk about the physical exertion in his work. The video and performance artist explains how Black history, Houdini, street theater, and symbols of power and struggle inform his practice.
At the time of this recording, Pinder was preparing for his 2011 appearance as The Escape Artist in Salisbury, Maryland. The performance commemorated the death of Matthew Williams, who was confined to a straightjacket when he was lynched in front of the Wicomico courthouse on December 4, 1931.
Sound Editor: Ira Kip | Special Audio and Photography, courtesy Jefferson Pinder
Related Fresh VUE: Jefferson Pinder, Ben Hur
Related Link: Jefferson Pinder
Sunday Nov 20, 2011
Sunday Nov 20, 2011
New York-based video artist Janet Biggs makes an extreme sport of her creative expression. In this conversation, Janet considers the power of desire and the physical challenges she met while producing the complex video projects we experience in No Limits, her current mid-career survey. Organized by the Tampa Museum of Art, the exhibition runs from October 8, 2011 through January 8, 2012.
Sound Editor: Jeff T. Byrd | Special Audio courtesy Janet Biggs
Related Episodes: Janet Biggs on Artmaking at the Edge of the World
Related Links: Janet Biggs, Tampa Museum of Art
Monday Nov 07, 2011
Monday Nov 07, 2011
When we record with Kate Hers, a Korean-born artist based in Berlin, in 2011, she describes the German art scene and explains how she raised funds through Kickstarter for her project Dr. Rhee's Kimtschi Shop. The artist and her partner, physicist Hanjo Rhee, will trade their special version of Korea’s national treasure for cultural artifacts from local customers from November 19 to 25, 2011, in the space known as Das Gift, in Berlin.