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
Apr 30, 2012
Apr 30, 2012
14 min
In this episode, professional consultant Tara Gentile talks about what it takes for creatives to thrive in the new economy, challenging assumptions we might have about work/life balance, the starving artist mythos, and true personal success.
Apr 23, 2012
Apr 23, 2012
17 min
In a seaside village outside Lisbon, we meet German artist Regina Frank to hear how she's expanding on her longtime theme, The Artist Is Present. Regina talks about the political and cultural issues that interest her and introduces performative installation projects that explore tensions between analog and digital media.
Sound Editor: Jay Agoglia
Special Audio: Astor Piazolla, Tango Milonga del Angel
Related Link: Regina Frank
Apr 16, 2012
Apr 16, 2012
12 min
Apr 9, 2012
Apr 9, 2012
14 min
Living and working in New York and Barcelona, Spanish artist Antoni Muntadas talks about the importance of language and the social body in the multi-media work he's been creating globally since the 1970s. We recorded this episode with Muntadas in Barcelona in early 2012. That year, we had the opportunity to experience his complex conceptual projects in exhibitions at the Reina Sofía Museum, Madrid, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona.
Mar 24, 2012
Mar 24, 2012
15 min
With a PhD in English and literary arts from the University of Denver, Khadijah Queen is the author of seven books of poetry and prose. Her work appears and has been praised in O Magazine, The New Yorker, Rain Taxi, and elsewhere. In this 2012 episode, she talks about what is essential in her creative practice and shares poems from her 2011 book Black Peculiar.
Mar 15, 2012
Mar 15, 2012
19 min
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
Feb 28, 2012
Feb 28, 2012
13 min
In 2012, Cathy Byrd shares stories and sounds from ARCO Madrid, Spain's annual contemporary art fair.
Stories: 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
Related Episodes: When Music Meets an Art Fair, Rodrigue Mouchez on Choreographing Art Encounters
Feb 23, 2012
Feb 23, 2012
15 min
In his Barcelona studio, designer Martí Guixé talks to Cathy Byrd about his first experimental concepts for Camper pop-up shops, food design and explains how work has become a recreational activity in the 21st century.
Feb 12, 2012
Feb 12, 2012
15 min
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: Fresh Rx, Kesha Bruce
Jan 29, 2012
Jan 29, 2012
16 min