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Radio Profiles is a project of Art Radio WPS1.org developed in association with The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Bomb Magazine, and The Film-makers’ Cooperative. Designed to operate as an audio guide to downtown Manhattan cultural groups, the project is centered on a collection of short audio portraits of organizations, spaces, and activities as described by the people who manage them. The goal of the Art Radio Guide is to provide information, generate interest, and expand audiences for downtown culture. We welcome all to participate. Cultural groups can email us at wps1@ps1.org to set up a recording session.
In honor or the 45th anniversary of the Film-Makers' Cooperative, the largest archive and distributor of independent and avant-garde films in the world, Jonas Mekas, who founded the Coop with twenty-plus other filmmakers in 1962, sat down with MM Serra, its current Director, and talked about events in the 50s and 60s that help forge his New America Cinema movement. Ultra-spry, even ferocious, at age 84 Mekas recounts events involving fascinating characters of the time such as Andy Warhol, Allen Ginsberg, Bob Dylan, and the miraculous Barbara Rubin.
Emily XYZ and Meyers Bartlett present this performance affair taking place the first Wednesday of the month at Bowery Poetry Club. The show features performances by the hosts of the evening, Emily XYZ and Meyers Batlett, and readers Edwin Torres and Max Blagg. Emily XYZ and Meyers Bartlett perform various selections from their new book/CD combo release The Emily XYZ Songbook. For more on Blagg (Bald Ego Online with Glenn O'Brien) and Torres (Live Nude Radio Theater) visit their WPS1 shows in our archives.
The Brooklyn Arts Council mounted Making Your Mark: On Paper, a group exhibition of twenty-two artists from January 28 through April 21, 2006. Brooklyn based artists, Phil Benet, Stephanie Brody-Lederman, Jonathan Gall, Anne Gilman, Scott Henstrand, Colleen Ho, Greg Hopkins, Yoshiko Kanai, Jill Magi, Walter Markham, Linda Marston-Reid, Karen McKendrick, Felicia Megginson, Sarah Nicholls, Mia Pearlman, Christopher Rose, Donna Ruff, Ella Smolarz, Amy Tamayo, Alejandra Villasmil, Christopher Walsh, Jeffery Welch and Rachael Wren create unique works on paper utilizing a variety of mark making techniques and subject matter.
Founded in 1966, Brooklyn Arts Council is a service organization dedicated to helping artists, arts organizations and community groups promote and sustain the arts. BAC is unique in the borough in that it assists artists - both amateur and professional - in all disciplines. Brooklyn Arts Council's new gallery space, located in the heart of the vibrant DUMBO arts scene, is a premiere destination for emerging Brooklyn artists to display their work and for collectors worldwide seeking up and coming talent in the visual arts.
Writing Our Future was the title of a benefit event for the Community~Word Project honoring the voices and visions of New York City public school youth. The event, held on March 17, 2008 at the National Arts Club, was recorded by Art Radio WPS1.org. The evening consisted of a variety of readings and presentations revolving around work written and performed by children. Special guests included the musical group Sahelli, the actors Tristan Wilds and Dion Graham (from the HBO drama The Wire, reading children's work), singer/songwriter Scott Krokoff, and author Rigoberto Gonzalez. Community~Word Project staff, public school teachers and administrators, and supporters added comments on the mission and history of the project. We have included a humorous segment featuring Dion Graham's presentation of a raffle prize that was just too sweet to edit out. All in all an evening that powerfully illustrates the power of a little love and encouragement.
Founded in 1997, the Community~Word Project is an arts-in-educatioin not-for-profit organization that seeks to inspire children in underserved communities to read, interpret, and respond to their world and become active citizens through collaborative arts residencies and teacher-training programs.
Host Kim Steger with artist, gallery owner, curator, philanthropist, festival organizer, television producer and embrassario Danny Simmons of Rush Arts Gallery in Chelsea, New York and Danny Simmons' Corridor Gallery.
David Weinstein interviews David Reinfurt and Stuart Bailey of Dexter Sinister. Dexter Sinister is the compound name of David Reinfurt and Stuart Bailey. David graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1993, Yale University in 1999, and went on to form O-R-G, a design studio in New York City. Stuart graduated from the University of Reading in 1994, the Werkplaats Typografie in 2000, and co-founded the art journal Dot Dot Dot the same year. David currently teaches at Columbia University and Rhode Island School of Design. Stuart is currently involved in diverse projects at the Parsons School of Design (NYC) and Pasadena Art Center.
Dexter Sinister recently established a workshop in the basement at 38 Ludlow St, on the Lower East Side in New York City. The workshop is intended to model a 'Just-In-Time' economy of print production, running counter to the contemporary assembly-line realities of large-scale publishing. This involves avoiding waste by working on-demand, utilizing local cheap machinery, considering alternate distribution strategies, and collapsing distinctions of editing, design, production, and distribution into one efficient activity.
WPS1 Managing Director David Weinstein invited some of our Tribeca neighbors (who also occupied booths near to our Armory Show studio) to introduce themselves. Jeanette Ingberman, founder and Director of Exit Art brought along the organization's co-founder, artist Papo Colo who was selling his blood at the Show. Director of Marketing & Special Projects Paul Morris (no relation to the one who founded the Armory Show) spoke about the 25th anniversary of BOMB magazine, where conversations between artists (in transcript) has become their mission. BOMB also is now a partner with WPS1 to bring recordings of these conversations to the Internet.
Song for New York: What Women Do While Men Sit Knitting, a site-specific work from Mabou Mines. This recording was made during a preview at The Poetry Project at St. Marks Church on March 28, 2007.
At the heart of the performance are five poems - one for each of the five boroughs that make up New York City - written by five female poets, each with a deep connection to a specific borough. The poems morphed into song lyrics and were set to music by Grammy winner Lisa Gutkin.
Anselm Berrigan is Artistic Director for The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church, now in its 41st season, furnishing encouragement and resources to poets, writers, artists and performers whose work is experimental, innovative, pertinent and offers fresh aesthetic, cultural, philosophical and political approaches to contemporary society.
Host David Weinstein of P.S.1 and guest William Dao, Communications Manager, discuss the Museum of Chinese in the Americas; its history. future, and mission in advance of the 2007 edition of the wonderful Lunar New Year Flower Market in Columbus Park in New York's Chinatown on Feb. 16-17.
Host Kim Steger speaks with Laurie Cumbo, the founder and Director of the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA). The museum, which started as a small gallery space run out of a day-care center in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, opens its brand new full service multimedia facility in downtown Brooklyn on May 18, 2006. (25 minutes)
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presents a rare interview with art collector and President Emerita of the Museum of Modern Art, Agnes Gund.
In this edition, Paul Johnson interviews Joanna Yas of Open City and the writer Jason Brown. Brown also reads an excerpt from his short story "The Lake," which was recently published by Open City in the anthology "Why the Devil Chose New England for His Work."
