Rush InteractiveAs of June 1, 2007, this page will no longer be updated. Please visit our new site to access newly added programs. Artists in conversation and debate, with host Michael Rush Additional Miami shows available at: Art Basel Miami Beach 2005 and Art Basel Miami Beach 2006. |
Armory Show 2007: Rush Interactive EditionTerry Berkowitz and Steve Millero - listen | listen with RealPlayer Host Michael Rush in conversation with two artists: Terry Berkowitz and Steve Miller. |
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Art Basel Miami Beach 2006: Rush Interactive EditionArt Basel Special Pt. 2 - listen | listen with RealPlayer Michael Rush with artists Jenny Marketon, John Ravenne, Raphaela Platow, and Sharon Louden. (30 minutes) |
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Art Basel Special Pt. 1 - listen | listen with RealPlayer Michael Rush with Aaron Miller, Raphaele Shirley, Chris Burkowski, and Adam Lerner. |
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Edition #25: Fred Tomaselli - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast November 27, 2006 Fred Tomaselli's paintings have been called hallucinogenic and sublime; fetishistic and gorgeous. Join host Michael Rush in conversation with this singularly gifted California-born, Brooklyn-based artist as he ruminates on process and performance. |
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Edition #24: Raphael Lozano-Hemmer - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast September 25, 2006 The acclaimed new media artist Raphael Lozano-Hemmer in conversation with host Michael Rush. Lozano-Hemmer is a Mexican-Canadian artist, best known for his large-scale, interactive surveillance works, who will be representing Mexico in the 2007 Venice Biennale. (29 minutes) |
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Edition #23: Callie Angell / The Films of Andy Warhol - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast May 29, 2006 For fifteen years Callie Angell has been "living with" Andy Warhol, at least with all 290 hours of his film work. She joins host Michael Rush to discuss her new catalogue raisonne of Warhol's widely influential film and video works. (29 minutes) |
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Armory Show 2006: Rush Interactive EditionArmory Show 2006 - listen | listen with RealPlayer Surrounded by shoppers and dealers on site at the 2006 Armory Show, host Michael Rush interviews outsider (outside the gallery system, that is) Terry Berkowitz whose politically charged photography and video work has spanned four decades and as many continents and Silvia Karman Cubina, director of Miami's Moore space, who's always on the hunt for gutsy, not always saleable, new art. |
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Edition #22: Dana Schutz - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast March 20, 2006 Ecstatic, vibrant, ghoulish, funny are just a few of the words used to describe the paintings of young art star Dana Schutz. Host Michael Rush explores life in the artistic fast lane with this very composed and philosophical painter. |
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Art Basel Miami Beach 2005: Rush Interactive EditionMiami Edition, Pt. 2 - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast January 23, 2006 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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Miami, The Morning After, Pt. 1 - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast December 19, 2005 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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Edition #21: Lynn Hershman-Leeson - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast February 6, 2006 Lynn Hershman-Leeson was interactive, virtual, digital, and totally techno-seduced when new media was really new. Host Michael Rush interviews this pioneer who is still operating at the experimental edges of film and interactive installation. |
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Edition #20: Byron Kim - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast January 9, 2006 Host Michael Rush talks to a conceptual artist who can actually paint! Guest Byron Kim covers a broad personal terrain from the 1993 Biennial to musings on Ad Reinhardt and Mark Rothko; studio mates Glen Ligon and Janine Antoni; and wife, artist Lisa Segal and their three kids... |
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Edition #19: Bernar Venet and Michelle Handelman - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast November 14, 2005 Performance art goes from cool conceptual to bawdy bravura as Bernar Venet (60s pioneer) and Michelle Handelman (21st century costumed feminist) discuss different approaches to what can happen between an artist and an audience. In 2005, Bernar Venet received France's highest accolade; he was named Chevalier de la Legion D'Honneur. As puzzling as his pioneer conceptual performance work of the 60s and 70s, which relied heavily on scientific texts, mathematical vocabulary, and philosophy, Bernard Venet is still confounding audiences. Unlike Marina Abramovic, who will perform other artists' work as part of the Performa biennial, Venet is covering his own groundbreaking work Neutron emission from muon capture in Ca4. The new version, Astrophysics with High Energy Light, uses the formal lecture setting a context for visual art. His new book, a collection of 17 essays and interviews spanning 1975-2003 entitled Art: A Matter of Context, was published in August 2005. Laughing Lounge, the German-cult-film/Indian-laughing-club-inspired giggle marathon at Jack the Pelican Gallery in Williamsburg may have you busting a gut. Last year, Michelle Handelman had her first one-woman show at Jack the Pelican Gallery with the passionate and repulsive This Delicate Monster, a multi-screen narrative/performance piece based on Charles Baudelaire's The Flowers of Evil. Her newest work, Laughing Lounge, is the official Performa selection of this noted video artist, performer and photographer; director of the Bravo Award-winning documentary Blood Sisters about SF's lesbian S&M community; and a professor at New School University's Media Studies department. |
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Edition #18: Laurie Simmons - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast November 7, 2005 With her staged-interior photographs using dolls and miniature furniture, Laurie Simmons pioneered territory later explored by Gregory Crewdson (her onetime student) and Thomas Demand. Now she's making movies! Host Michael Rush talks with Simmons about Cibachrome and celluloid. |
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Edition #17: Oliver Michaels and Ohad Meromi - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast October 17, 2005 The wide variety of perception bending and performance based content of recent video art is well represented by British born Oliver Michaels and Israeli artist Ohad Meromi. Host Michael Rush speaks with 2005 Greater New York standout Michaels and recent Columbia MFA Meromi about artifice and architecture in their respective videos. |
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Edition #16: Peter Campus and Anthony McCall - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast September 19, 2005 Who says "pioneers" are stuck in the past? Multi-media installation pioneers Peter Campus and Anthony McCall join host Michael Rush for a wide-ranging discussion of the psychological, sculptural, performative, Newtonian, digital and interactive aspects of their work... and that's just the first five minutes! |
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Edition #15: Victoria Newhouse - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast August 15, 2005 Scanning exhibits from the Elgin Marbles, to Jackson Pollock, to Rineke Dijkstra, author Victoria Newhouse has a few things to say to host Michael Rush about how art gets placed or misplaced in museums. In her new book, Art and the Power of Placement, this fearless writer names names and tells why good curators are like film directors, and exhibition designers are like cinematographers. |
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Edition #14: Banks Violette - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast July 18, 2005 The young, gifted, and (some say) goth artist Banks Violette speaks with host Michael Rush about murder, Black Metal music and the Columbia MFA program. You may be surprised how articulate, self -effacing and in control of his sculptural practice this non-shrinking violet is. |
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Edition #13: Sound Artists - Matt Micas (Free 103.9), Jane and Alexis - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast July 4, 2005 |
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Edition #12: Christoph Thun-Hohenstein, Marc-Olivier Wahler - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast May 23, 2005 With the Austrian Cultural Forum's NY headquarters an architectural wonder and the Swiss Institute's "inspiringly strange programming" (Artforum), these two centers are making major inroads into the contemporary art life of New York City. Join visionary Directors Christoph Thon-Hohenstein and Marc-Olivier Wahler as they explore US-Europe relations, censorship, global art and New York itself with host Michael Rush. |
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Edition #11: Irene Bolger, Sam Miller, Jim Cohen - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast June 20, 2005 Everybody loves money--especially artists who don't have enough of it. Join Michael Rush as he gets down to basics with Sam Miller, Executive Director of a major nationwide project called Leveraging Investments in Creativity (translated: how to get more funding for artists); Irene Borger, Director of the Herb Alpert Foundation Awards (that's right the Tijuana Brass musician: he gives 50k to five artists every year!) and documentary filmmaker Jem Cohen, one of the lucky Alpert awardees for 2005. |
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Edition #10: Grahame Weinbren - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast April 18, 2005 Grahame Weinbren's elaborate and exquisitely filmed installations have been shown worldwide. In his discussion with host Michael Rush the subject easily mutates from Freud to Rembrandt to the 2005 Tribeca Film Festival where his latest film is being screened. Grahame Weinbren's interactive cinema art-works have been exhibited at museums including the Whitney Museum, the Bonn Kunsthalle, the Institute of Contemporary Art in London and the Centre Pompidou; and at festivals including the Kwangju Biennale in Korea and the Berlin International Film Festival. He has made films since the early 1970s, and has edited features, documentaries, music videos, and commercials. He has published and lectured widely on interactivity and cinema, and has lectured on interactivity and cinema throughout the world since 1982. He teaches in the graduate Computer Art and Photography programs of the School of Visual Arts. |
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Edition #9: Dede Young and April Gornik - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast April 11, 2005 Painting has re-emerged with a vengeance on the international art scene, making it seem as if 80's artists were right all along. Michael Rush interviews landscape painter April Gornik who makes some surprising revelations about abstraction, conceptual art and working with the computer. Joining in is Neuberger Museum curator Dede Young, who organized Gornik's recent mid-career survey. April Gornik is recognized for her use of landscape images that bring the Western Romantic tradition forward through a combination of virtuoso paintings of light-bathed landscapes, creating credible realities that are not literal records. Neuberger Museum of Art Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Dede Young has organized a new large scale project for the museum by Doug and Mike Starns for Spring 2005 and also organized April Gornik's recent mid-career survey exhibition and catalogue for the museum. |
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Edition #8: Wynne Greenwood & Debra Singer - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast February 21, 2005 Michael Rush visits with the twenty-something, quadruple-threat, rock-diva Wynne Greenwood who talks about her creation, Tracy + the Plastics, an all girl punk-inspired band--consisting of Nikki and Cola and Tracy--all played by Greenwood at the same time. Joining the conversation is Debra Singer, former Whitney curator and currently Director and Chief Curator at The Kitchen who commissioned Greenwood's latest interactive work, The Room. Wynne Greenwood is one of those artists that critics love to categorize. She's D.I.Y. She's collegiate. She's an honest, anti-discriminatory, lesbian feminist. Her beats are kinda like later Kathleen, and her voice echoes early Polly Jean. In performance Greenwood sings live as Tracy while interacting with the other band members (Greenwood as Cola, drums and Nikki, keyboards) on the video screen behind her. "Ever since Debra Singer became an associate curator at the museum in 2001, the Whitney's sound and digital art exhibits have taken a higher profile. Singer's interests run the full gamut of digital and sound art, from activists such as Velvet-Strike... to sound artists such as Julianne Swartz...and artrock musicians such as Los Super Elegantes whose neo-60s sound was the background to the ultra groovy installation by assume vivid astro focus in the (2004) Biennial." -Craig Bromberg |
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Edition #7: Julia Scher - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast February 14, 2005 Julia Scher creates work that addresses electronic security and surveillance in our culture. Her temporary and transitory web/installation/performance works explore issues of power, control and seduction. Her spoken word CD's and installations have been exhibited worldwide in physical art spaces - including solo exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Andrea Rosen Gallery in New York, and Schipper and Krome in Berlin - as well as on the World Wide Web and on the Electra recording label. She is the recipient of many grants and fellowships including a Bunting Institute Fellowship for Surveillance Studies at Harvard University, 1996-1997. She was born in 1954 in Hollywood, California. "Scher is one of a number of emerging artists who deliberately misuse technology to expose its hidden ideological mechanisms. Demonstrating our complicity in the proliferating technologies used to surveil both our physical and virtual identities, she toys with the notion of scopophilia, the cheap, reflexive thrill of looking." -Andrew Hultkrans in ArtForum |
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Edition #6: Petah Coyne - listen | listen with RealPlayer In her massive "nun sculpture," placed in downtown Houston several years ago, Petah Coyne proclaimed loud and clear that the church was definitely not the path for her. Nonetheless, claims host Michael Rush, with statues of the Virgin Mary hidden beneath Coyne's mounds of waxed flowers and barbed wire in sculptures on view (through March 16) at Galerie Lelong in New York and similar strains evident at her current retrospective, "Petah Coyne: Above and Beneath the Skin," at Long Island City's Sculpture Center (through April 10), there is a postulant screaming to get out. |
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Edition #5: Martha Rosler - listen | listen with RealPlayer In this substantive talk on art and politics with Michael Rush, the provocative, and proactive, Martha Rosler recalls her famed collages of the Vietnam War era as well as her recent series picturing the war in Iraq as only Rosler would dare. This month she has a solo exhibition at the Sprengel Museum in Hannover, Germany, which has awarded her the Forderpreise Fotografie, or the Spectrum International Prize for Photography, of the Foundation of Lower Saxony. Her works, which include such pieces as Bringing the War Home: House Beautiful (1967-1972), and the Semiotics of the Kitchen (1975 are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum and the Whitney Museum in New York, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among several others. Her most recent work was on view last month at the Gorney, Bravin & Lee Gallery in Chelsea. Her book of selected essays, Decoys and Disruptions: Selected Writings 1975-2001, was recently published by MIT press. |
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Edition #4: Lisa Sigal, Margaret Evangeline, Julianne Swartz - listen | listen with RealPlayer An all-female crew of independent artists stands up to host Michael Rush in a lively conversation that should - at last - put to rest any prescribed notions of where a woman belongs. Margaret Evangeline, for example, firearms are her paintbrush. Lisa Sigal literally tears down walls to make her installations of paintings to turn our usual sense of home inside-out. Her works are usually site-specific but she created those in her current solo exhibition, "House Paint", on site at the Frederieke Taylor Gallery in Chelsea, where it remains on view through December 23, 2004. She says, When I dismantle a wall and lean a painting made on a sheet rock surface against a wall I wonder what exists, the illusion or the material. For my next show I would like to make a painting that feels like a book, a painting and a shelter. She has also created work for White Columns, the Weatherspoon Gallery, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Julianne Swartz alters perceptions through periscopes made with the smoke and mirrors of brightly painted sewage pipes and clear fiber-optic tubes. Her work was prominently featured in the 2004 Whitney Biennial and in the New Museum of Contemporary Art's "Open House" exhibition in the summer of 2004. She is represented by Josee Bienvenu Gallery in New York and currently has a solo show at Maine's Colby College Museum of Art. |
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Edition #3: Katharina Sieverding & Paolo Canevari - listen | listen with RealPlayer The groundbreaking photographer and filmmaker Katharina Sieverding lands in New York for her first U.S. retrospective at P.S.1, only to have host Michael Rush provoke an illuminating conversation further enriched by the Italian-born New York artist, Paolo Canevari. Katharina Sieverding's stunning series of large-scale self-portraits from the last three decades are currently on view, through January 23, 2005 at the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in "Katharina Sieverding: Close-Up", the first comprehensive survey in the U.S. of photographic work by this influential European artist. Ageless, anti-Fascist, feminist, cinematic and ultimately subjective, the work is both distorting and broadly transformative, as host Michael Rush learns in the conversation he leads here. An educator as well as an artist, Sieverding teaches at universities in Berlin and in Shanghai, China, and has exhibited at museums and art centers the world over, including the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, Stadlische Kunsthalle in Dusseldorf, where she lives, the Guggenheim Museum, the Andy Warhol Museum, the Walker Art Center, the Dallas Museum of Modern Art, The Goethe Institute in Budapest. She is represented by Galerie Thomas Schulte in Berlin, Galerie Michel Neff in Frankfurt, Galerie Grimm/Rosenfeld in Munich, among others. In October, 2004, she received the Goslarer Kaiserring, Germany's most prestigious award to an artist. Paolo Canevari's barbed-wire and rubber courtyard installation at P.S.1, "Welcome to Oz," makes reference to the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq but relates even more to the fences that societies sometimes erect around the creative process to restrict the free flow of movement and thought. His work has also been exhibited at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, Palazzo della Esposozioni in Rome, Centre for Academic Resources, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok and at the Liverpool Biennial, 2004. |
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Edition #2: Cildo Meireles - listen | listen with RealPlayer Famed Brazilian artist Cildo Meireles, Museo del Barrio curator Deborah Cullen and gallerist Mary Sabatino join host Michael Rush for an unusual discussion about Meireles' new work, inspired in part by the KKK. Cildo Meireles is one of Brazil's most important - and most political - of contemporary sculptors, whose work deals with suppression - of space and time as well as minds. He names his favorite artists as Marcel Duchamp, Piero Manzoni, Orson Welles and Yves Klein and says that visual art has to be for "people who have no eyes." In New York for his current exhibition (through December 4, 2004) at Galerie Lelong, he is joined here by gallery director Mary Sabatino, and by the chief curator of the Museo del Barrio, Deborah Cullen. Michael Rush leads the conversation. |
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Edition #1: Larry Litt - listen | listen with RealPlayer Performance artist and political activist Larry Litt joins host Michael Rush to report on the progress of his post-9/11 project, "Who Do You Blame?" - giving all and sundry a chance to sound off on their most deeply held resentments, and drawing an unexpectedly revealing picture of contemporary American society. |
| Michael Rush is an award-winning experimental theater and video artist who was director and chief curator of the Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art from 2000-2004. (In years prior, interestingly enough, he was a Jesuit priest and psychologist working in the Far East and South America as well as in New York.) He is also the author of New Media in Late 20th-Century Art and Video Art, and a frequent contributor to the art pages of The New York Times, Art in America, Newsweek.com, Bookforum and other publications. |
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