Art Basel Miami Beach 2005As of June 1, 2007, this page will no longer be updated. Please visit our new site to access newly added programs. For the second consecutive year, WPS1 was the official art radio station of Art Basel Miami Beach Listen also to the programs recorded at: Art Basel Miami Beach 2006 |
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WPS1 Interviews: Material Culture - Antonelli, Sigurdardottir, and Batan - listen | listen with RealPlayer P.S. 1 Deputy Director Brett Littman in a beachfront conversation with MoMA architecture and design curator (Safe: Design Takes on Risk) Paola Antonelli, Icelandic sculptor and installation artist Katrin Sigurdardottir, and curator, author, dealer, Warhol print expert, and outsider art supporter (American Dream) Martina Batan. |
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Art Basel Conversations: Architecture for Art/Museum Architecture - Broadcast Permission Pending From a series of panel discussions held as part of Art Basel Miami Beach 2005, this group presented examples, shared experiences and experiments, and labored to illuminate the following: - What are the most challenging architectural configurations for an artist to work with? - How should the issue of museum architecture and the art experience be weighed? - How does museum architecture affect the relationship between art and the observer? - What can artists do to influence architects and museum directors in their building choices? - What are the most ideal examples of museum architecture and activity? The panelists: Doug Aitken, artist, Los Angeles, CA, USA Kutlug Ataman, artist, Istanbul, Turkey Stefano Boeri, architect, Editor in Chief, Domus Magazine; Milan, Italy Minerva Cuevas, artist, Mexico City, Mexico Terence Riley (Host), Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture, MoMA; New York, NY, USA, soon to become director of the Miami Art Museum (March 2006) The themes of Art Basel Conversations series focus on the collection and exhibition of art. Distinguished art collectors, museum directors, Biennale curators, gallery owners, publishers, sponsors, celebrities, prominent artists and architects take part. This event was recorded Dec. 4, 2005. (88 minutes) |
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Art Basel Conversations: Art Collections/Contemporary Philanthropy - Broadcast Permission Pending From a series of panel discussions held as part of Art Basel Miami Beach 2005, this group was tasked with the following questions: - How can collecting become a philanthropic activity? - How closely is your work as a philanthropist related to your life as a collector? - What are the checks and balances of philanthropy and collecting? - What do you hope will be the heritage you will leave to future generations? The panelists: Eli Broad, collector and business leader (SunAmerica and KB Home) Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, collector, Fundacion Cisneros Howard Rachofsky, collector and Chairman, Regal Capital Co. David Rockefeller, collector, former Chairman Chase Manhattan Bank, Rockefeller Group, Inc. Richard Flood (Host), Chief Curator, New Museum of Contemporary Art The themes of Art Basel Conversations series focus on the collection and exhibition of art. Distinguished art collectors, museum directors, Biennale curators, gallery owners, publishers, sponsors, celebrities, prominent artists and architects take part. This event was recorded Dec. 2, 2005. (67 minutes) |
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WPS1 Interviews: Material Culture - Peter Nesbett and David Kiehl - listen | listen with RealPlayer P.S.1's Brett Littman continues his WPS1 show on the waterfront at Art Basel Miami Beach 05 with two guests. Peter Nesbett is Art on Paper magazine's owner/editor and co-founder of the Harlem exhibition space Triple Candie with his wife, Shelly Bancroft. David Kiehl is the Whitney Museum of American Art Curator of Prints. for a WVUM fundraiser. (8 minutes) |
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WPS1 Interviews: Exploding Dog and WVUM-FM Miami - listen | listen with RealPlayer Kira Wisniewski, General Manager of WVUM (90.5 FM out of Coral Gables/U. of Miami) and her compatriot Kimm Jacobs talk with artist Sam Brown of explodingdog.com. WVUM hosted our signal live to greater Miami during our Art Basel programs. Sam Brown (whose Web site is know for his scratchy drawings based on captions sent by email) dropped in for a WVUM fundraiser. (8 minutes) |
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The Collectors' Forum: Special Art Basel Miami Beach 2005 Edition - listen | listen with RealPlayer Host Althea Viafora-Kress held a session of her WPS1 program at our oceanfront studio during the fair. Her guests were Florence Bonnefous of Air de Paris, Helen Allen of Pulse, George Vamvokiolis of The Breeder, and Javier Peres from Peres Projects in Los Angeles. (28.5 minutes) |
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WPS1 Interviews: Alanna Heiss and the Gurning Champions - listen | listen with RealPlayer A fascinating conversational stroll through the Miami fair with P.S.1's Director Heiss and her guests Jeremy Deller and Alan Kane (who brought Gurning to Miami), writer/curator Emily King, photographer Todd Eberle, and world champion Gurners Anne Woods and Gordon Blacklock. Gurning is a 700 year old tradition of extreme facial grimace and yes these folks make faces on the radio. (Click on the Woods and Blacklock links to see what this is all about). |
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WPS1 Interviews: Beautiful Decay - listen | listen with RealPlayer WPS1's Program Manager Jeannie Hopper talks to graphic designer and editor Amir Fallah of the extraordinary magazine Beautiful Decay. (14.5 minutes) |
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WPS1 Interviews: Meredith Danluck & David Dawaele/2 Many DJs - listen | listen with RealPlayer WPS1's resident radio princess and DJ Jeannie Hopper sits down on the beach with some of the late night entertainment for the Art Basel parties. Meredith Danluck has made art, clothes, and music and performs as a DJ. She has paid tribute to Robert Moog's and Bucky Fuller's projects while admiringly taking them apart. She also made a case for how, in America, science has often been a fitting, even indispensable, ally of art. David Dewaele, with his brother Stephen, are also known as the 2 Many DJs, or perhaps even better know as members of the guitar band Soulwax. |
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WPS1 Interviews: Material Culture: David Packer - listen | listen with RealPlayer P.S.1's Deputy Director Brett Littman interviews British born ceramic sculptor David Packer at our Art Basel Miami Beach site. The artist is known for his meticulously sculpted insects and machines. He lives and works in New York. Recent shows have been with Garth Clark Galleries in New York and a solo show in spring of 2005 was at Enoch Pratt Gallery in Baltimore. |
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Art Basel Miami Beach 2005: Our Correspondents, Miami - listen | listen with RealPlayer Host Jill Spalding convenes an extraordinary panel of young artists working in South Florida: Beatriz Monteavaro (painter), Michael Velasquez (painter), Matthew Schreiber (light artist), Damian Rojo (film and photography), and from Rocket Projects, Jonathan Peck and TM Sisters. Recorded on the boardwalk on the beach at 21st and Collins Avenue. |
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WPS1 Interviews: Performance & Ephemeral Art - listen | listen with RealPlayer Artist Jen DeNike takes a break from her curatorial and party-managing activities at the Cavalier Hotel (where she and co-founder Anat Ebgi held Frisbee, a nomadic curatorial project) and sits down beachside in Miami to host a revolving table of artists including Melissa Brown, Michael Williams and Andy Hershey of the Slow Jams Band; Flora Weigman of Champion Fine Art; Felicia Ballos of Champion Dance; artist Abbey Williams; Joshua Neuman of Heeb Magazine; and Mahomi Kunikata from Kaikai Kiki studio. |
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WPS1 Interviews: SoundBike and The Citizens Band - listen | listen with RealPlayer WPS1's Jeannie Hopper talks with the SoundBike creator artist Jessica Thompson and some of the creative directors of the The Citizens Band: filmmaker and trapeze artist Sarah Sophie Flicker, singer/performer Adam Dugas and aerialist/choreographer Chelsea Bacon. (10 minutes) |
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WPS1 Interviews: Julianne Swartz, David Hardy, Siebren Versteeg - listen | listen with RealPlayer Artist Jen DeNike holds a discussion about works shown in the alternate fairs during Art Basel Miami Beach 05. Her guests are Julianne Swartz (whose Mingle was shown at NADA) and David Hardy and Siebren Versteeg (whose Sprit Tours was a part of Frisbee). |
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WPS1 Interviews: Jared Whitman's Garage Sale Show - listen | listen with RealPlayer After a couple minutes of music (WPS1's Miami intro theme and a slice of Plunderphonics) you'll hear WPS1's David Weinstein with artist Jared Whitman discuss his illegally parked (and eventually banished) rocketship-spaceship-RV-truck-car garage sale installation near the Art Basel Art Positions show. (7 minutes) |
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Art Basel Miami Beach 2005: Rush Interactive (Miami Edition), Pt. 2 - listen | listen with RealPlayer Michael Rush hosts a discussion and enjoys the sea breeze with guests Terrie Sultan Director of the Blaffer Gallery, the Art Museum of the University of Houston; Anne Pasternak, President and Artistic Director of Creative Time; and Christopher French, an artist, writer and contributing editor to Glasstire. (29 minutes) |
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Art Basel Miami Beach 2005: Rush Interactive (Miami, The Morning After), Pt. 1 - listen | listen with RealPlayer Host Michael Rush sits down at our seaside studio the morning after the opening of a video show he curated at the new Cisneros Foundation space in Miami. He heads most directly into the elusive passageways between artists, collectors and commerce with guests artist Stephen Pascher, collector Mickey Cartin, curator Charles Wylie, and writer/editor Sarah Douglas. (30 minutes) |
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Art Basel Miami Beach 2005: Jonathan Greenberg and Phoebe Hoban - listen | listen with RealPlayer P.S.1's Director Alanna Heiss makes the effort to politely savage the virtues and liabilities of high finance in the arts with two sharp and engaged art world professionals. The discussion includes a dissection of the modern auction process as well as pig auctions, snooping, collusion, and collecting on a working income. Jonathan Greenberg specializes in modern and contemporary art at Sotheby's New York office. Author Phoebe Hoban (Basquiat: A Quick Killing In Art) has written about culture and the arts for Vogue, Vanity Fair, GQ, Harper's Bazaar, The New York Times, and New York Magazine. |
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Art Basel Miami Beach 2005 - WPS1 Interview: Lee Quiñones - listen | listen with RealPlayer WPS1's Jeannie Hopper interviews Lee Quiñones, the world-renowned contemporary painter and star of the 1981 cult classic film Wild Style. Quiñones rode a bicycle from NYC to Miami to raise money to aid children and their families affected by Hurricane Katrina via the Boys & Girls Clubs of America Hurricane Katrina Relief Fund. He departed Brooklyn on Oct. 27, 2005 in a send off that featured Borough Prez Marty Markowitz and actress Rosie Perez. His arrival in Miami came just at the start of the Art Basel Show on Dec. 1. Quiñones is considered the grand expressionist of the New York Graffiti Art Movement. As part of the legendary crew The Fab 5ive, he came to prominence in 1976 with a socially daunting piece called Doomsday that covered two full subway cars. The piece established Quiñones as a poetic and painterly graffiti artist with powerful activist abilities. |
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WPS1 ART RADIO LIVE at 2005 Art Basel Miami Beach For the second consecutive year, WPS1 will broadcast live from Art Basel Miami Beach from November 30 to December 3, 2005. WPS1 (url www.WPS1.org), the internet radio station of P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, will be the exclusive source for up-to-the-minute international art news, culture and gossip — all as it unfolds at one of the biggest art shows of the year. Broadcasting from an open air pavilion overlooking the Art Positions containers (20 young galleries in shipping containers converted to public art spaces by avant-garde architects) and the beach, programs will include music and discussions with artists, curators, DJs, writers and other guests at Art Basel Miami Beach. WPS1 launched in 2004 as the first web-based art radio station. The station's programs combine talk and music shows hosted by contemporary writers, curators, artists and musicians. It also includes selections from the audio archive of The Museum of Modern Art. Programs are broadcast 24-hours a day, seven days a week. From November 30 through December 3, Miami-based listeners will be able to tune in via local station WVUM 90.5 FM from the University of Miami. WVUM is an independent, completely student-run radio station and reaches an audience of approximately 3 million people in the greater Miami-Dade area. All programming, including the live stream and archived programs, are available on the Internet at www.WPS1.org. |
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Art Basel Miami Beach Broadcast HighlightsDuring Art Basel Miami Beach, WPS1 will broadcast live interviews with artists, curators and gallerists. Hosts will include P.S.1 personalities, Alanna Heiss, Klaus Biesenbach, Antoine Guerrero, Brett Littman and David Weinstein; Greater New York 2005 artists; and many other regular WPS1 contributors such as Jill Spalding, Michael Rush and Althea Viafora-Kress. Happy Hour DJs at Art Positions WPS1 has invited three artists and one curator/writer as DJs to set the tone for, and kick-off Miami's celebrated night life. The DJs will play at Art Positions starting Wednesday, November 30 through Saturday, December 3. Art Sound Lounge The Art Sound Lounge at Art Positions is an audio installation where WPS1 will provide specially programmed iPods in open air listening stations featuring selected programming from the archives. From November 30 through December 3, the general public is invited to visit the Art Sound Lounge and enjoy a sampling of the best of art sound from WPS1. Programs highlights include: A Man in a Room, Gambling — artist Juan Muñoz explains card tricks and sleights of hand over a lilting composition by Gavin Bryars. Caged/Uncaged — from a CD produced by John Cale and curated by Lokke Heighstein for an exhibition of the work of John Cage originally presented at the 1993 Venice Biennale. Louise Bourgeois Sings — in these recordings produced by Brigitte Cornand, the artist Louise Bourgeois sings 22 short melodies and children's songs. Then, in a remix by Frederic Sanchez, the material is transformed into an electronic fantasy. Sonic Youth, Goodbye 20th Century — selections from the self-published double CD featuring the band playing some of the more challenging scores of late 20th century composers, such as John Cage, Steve Reich and Pauline Oliveros. Sound Fetish — a partial panorama of "art sounds" from Italy. |
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