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Food and Art to Be the Theme of This Year's Broadcast
(Long Island City, New York - February 21, 2007) For the third consecutive year, Art Radio WPS1.org, the Internet radio station of P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, is the official radio station of The Armory Show. This international show of new art, one of the world's largest, takes place at Pier 94 from February 23 through 26. WPS1 will streamcast live audio from the fair on February 23, 24, and 25, from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. EST.
Located in The Armory Show's restaurant, Cafe One, operated by Hudson Yards Catering, this year's program is dedicated to art and food. Guests will include chefs and restaurateurs, artist gourmands, and artists who work with food. Also featured will be music about food, cooking shows, as well as interviews and discussions with art world personalities. Confirmed guests are artists Wim Delvoye, Duke Riley, and Meredith Allen; chefs and executives from Hudson Yards Catering, part of Danny Meyer's Union Square Hospitality Group; and found-sound artist Brian Beloit. Hosts include Althea Viafora-Kress, David Platzker, with P.S.1's Alanna Heiss, David Weinstein, Tony Guerrero, and Jeannie Hopper.
Host Althea Viafora Kress and Belgian artist Wim Delvoye sit down in Danny Meyer's Café One at the 2007 Armory Show. Hear the social, cultural, and political contradictions around Delvoye's projects and art. His Art Pig Farm in China where Delvoye, a vegetarian, tattoos his pigs and "harvests" his art. The Cloaca Machines is his sculpture that is fed in museums and has a digestive system from beginning to end. And more. Once you hear it and see it you can't take their contradictions apart. It's not classical art, modernism, or formalism. It's not high or low. What is this new pollination of practices? (32 minutes)
Roaming the massive floor of the 2007 Armory Show on Manhattan's West side Pier 94, Tony Guerrero captures candid comments of VIP visitors, collectors, and artists in a series of spontaneous interviews. Guerrero is Director of Exhibition Design and Production for PS1. (15 minutes)
With P.S.1's David Weinstein as moderator, three New York art world figures romp and wrestle through visual, social, and intellectual terrain during the 2007 Armory Show. Have your pencils sharpened and your credit cards ready. With artist David Humphrey, the creator and host of The Douglas Kelley Show List, and P.S.1 Director of Exhibition Design and Construction Tony Guerrero.
WPS1's Jeannie Hopper in conversation onsite at the 2007 Armory Show with curator Omar Lopez-Chahoud, artist Adriana Farmiga, and art world lawyer and collector Amy Goldrich to discuss M*A*S*H New York, an all-media group show that took place a few blocks away. Curated by Lopez-Chahoud and Amy Smith-Stewart, the 3,600 sq. foot exhibition contained a wide survey of early career artists. M*A*S*H New York was the second installment in a series of shows produced by Cottelston Advisors/Michael Sellinger. (27 minutes)
Artist Senam Okudzeto tells P.S.1's David Weinstein the story of her art and travels and how her mixed heritage and upbringing (Ghana, Nigeria, Europe, USA) fuels her art. Okudzeto's installation Portes-Oranges resides in a first floor project room at P.S.1 through April 2007. (10 minutes)
Nuit Blanche Paris founder and owner Pierre Pelegry sits down with PS1's Tony Guerrero to discuss his company's unique mission: merging confectionery items and images of modern art. The project is a wild success, creating highest-quality cookies, candies, and chocolates that are presented with creative and innovative tie-ins to leading artists and museums. In 2007 the company saw its inaugural specialty chocolates and cookies introduced at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. Nuit Blanche Paris is also under contract to develop product lines for the other Guggenheim Museums, the Tate Modern of London, and some limited editions of porcelaine with the Robert Mapplethrope Foundation. (15 minutes)
The artist/historian/adventurer Duke Riley is an activist using a wide range of skills and tools: drawing, printmaking, mosaic, sculpture, performative interventions, and video/multimedia installations. His Web site is worth your time. P.S.1's David Weinstein interviewed him at the 2007 Armory Show. From his site: I work in the tradition of field naturalists, seeking and gathering data, artifacts, and specimens outdoors, transporting them inside for closer observation and study, displaying them in museum-like diorama settings. I combine populist myths and reinvented historical obscurities with contemporary social dilemmas, connecting past and present, drawing attention to unsolved issues.. (17 minutes)
P.S.1's David Weinstein in conversation with artist and publisher Steve Rockwell of the contemporary art review and criticism magazine d'Art International from Toronto. (8 minutes)
Michael Romano is one of NYC's most renowned chefs and Executive Chef of Union Square Café and Hudson Yards Catering. He began his career as a chef making desserts at Serendipity in New York. After school at New York City Technical College and a 10-year stint in Europe that included tutelage under renowned chefs Michel Guérard and Max Kehl, Romano returned to New York to become the first American chef de cuisine at La Caravelle. Next he partnered with the legendary Danny Meyer to launch the Union Square Café (and subsequently Gramercy Tavern, Eleven Madison Park, Tabla, Blue Smoke, The Modern, and others), where he has been ever since. (17 minutes)
P.S.1's David Weinstein and artist Ward Shelley discuss his timeline drawings and other bits of history and adventure. Shelley specializes in large projects that freely mix sculpture and performance. Works from recent years include the interactive video-environment called the Cube, his legendary Mir 2 Project, and the Voyage Platform. Shelley once lived and worked inside the walls of Williamsburg's Pierogi Gallery for five weeks for an exhibition called "We have mice." (16 minutes)
PS1 Director of Curatorial Affairs Eugenie Tsai and our own Jeannie Hopper tracked down artist Merle Laderman Ukeles next to her Armory Show exhibit featuring a tricked out sanitation truck. Ukeles has been the official artist in residence of the NYC Dept. of Sanitation for decades and is a dedicated advocate, observer, and creative interpreter of urban ecology. (15 minutes)
