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WPS1 Art Radio is the Internet station of P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, a MoMA affiliate, featuring an MP3 stream of music, talk, and historical recordings and a free on-demand archive of over 1200 programs.
Frank Prattle is an interview style radio show run by artist Zefrey Throwell.
Throwell brings two people together (curators, gallerists, critics,
collectors, artists, etc....) and they tackle everything under the sun. Frank
Prattle is geared primarily towards community education. It's goal is to help
people understand and enjoy the art world through the words of the art-stars,
professionals, and enthusiasts who live it everyday.
Catharine Clark, a cutting edge gallerist with a taste for the controversial, matches up with Matt Gonzalez who is a human rights attorney and just announced his vice president candidacy to run with Ralph Nader in 2008. These two take on public land, private galleries, the mighty JPG, and of course politics politics politics. This is an excellent interview, a must listen. Conversation took place at San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery on March 1, 2008.
Sam Gould of Red76 and Adam Kleinman the curator of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, were united in a bloodfest of unequaled proportions. Watch them tear into everything you hold sacred, from art institutions, to things you hang on the wall, to road trips across the south, to Capital itself. Not to be missed! Conversation took place at San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery on February 9, 2008.
Artist Jill Miller shook up the San Francisco art world recently with her hit show at 2nd Floor Projects called "Collectors." This spicy expose detailed 5 of the top collectors in San Francisco over the past 6 months and even used some footage found here on the Frank Prattle site to flesh out her research. Anuradha Vikram is the dynamic programs director out at the Headlands Center for the Arts, listen to these two cover tons of ground, from surveillance to porn to cupcakes to fetish to Bob Shimshak, you name it, it’s in this interview. Conversation took place at San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery on February 23, 2008.
Susanne Cockrell and Ted Purves (artists and professors at California College of the Arts) jump in the mix with the new Matrix curator for the Berkeley Art Museum, Liz Thomas. These three are unstoppable! Conversationally relaxed and quick as a diamond whip, the three of them toss around such topics as preserved food stuffs, the nature of lemons, the bastards of the private world, revisioning museums, and of course the big one of them all, DEATH. If you miss this interview, consider yourself officially uninformed. Conversation took place at San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery on March 1, 2008.
01. British Soldiers
02. Diego Paccagnella (Venetian Artist)
03. Livia Senic Matuglia (Venetian Archeologist)
04. Maria Morganti (Venetian Artist)
05. Alice Daneluzzo (Venetian Artist)
06. Giulia Palombinio (Venetian Artist)
07. Amy Worther (Venetian Artist)
08. Silvano Rubino (Venetian Artist)
09. Elisabetta Di Maggio (Venetian Artist)
10. Public of Venice
11. David Dalla Venezia (Venetian Artist)
12. Public of Venice
The world is exploding with art fairs, biennials, festivals, concurrent events, off-fairs, international symposiums on globalization, large scale happenings and a multitude of other art based events. Shanghai to S�o Paulo to Athens to Venice to London and even Milwaukee, the art-town phenomena is spreading like chicken pox in a kindergarten class. From gallerists to curators to mayors to artists to city council members to collectors and even to people walking down the street, almost everyone agrees that art, and the art market, is in full swing and booming. While many claim this is the golden ticket to pull a struggling town out of an economic tailspin or the perfect way to make an average city an international destination, few seem to consider the side effects that this has on the preexisting culture of a city.
Venetian Interiors was a program designed to explore the biennial system and its side effects, in the granddad of them all, the Venice Biennale. Collaborating with the artists who live and work in Venice, WPS1 set about attempting to explore the relationship between the community of Venice and the Biennale. Zefrey Throwell met with a large group of Venetian artists at a local artist salon in Venice that gathers at artist Maria Morganti�s studio every Wednesday, called � I Mercoledi Degli Artisti�. Together with these artists, Throwell formulated questions to investigate the underpinnings and correlations as well as conflicts and abrasions that link the Biennale to it�s people. Then both the artists and Throwell hit the pavement and interviewed hundreds of people, ranging from shop owners to waitresses to local curators to dock workers to Venetian radio collectives to tourists and even some British soldiers who happened to be in town.
The goal was to truly examine the opinion of Venice in regards to the Biennale and the results were staggering. Listen along to 6 days worth of interviews that make you privy to the inside world of Venice and hear the true dirt on the oldest art event in the world, the Venice Biennale. (1 hour)
Hosts Zefrey Throwell and Irene Gómez continue their exploration of the Biennale phenomenon and its impact on the city of Venice with guests Samantha Topal (architecture journalist), the Venetian public, a Venetian artist, and a Venetian vaporetto (water taxi) driver. (60 minutes)
Hosts Zefrey Throwell and Verónica Sanes on the third day of the 2007 Venice Biennale find themselves in conversation with Natasha Bordiglia (Venetian curator), Alberto Ruiz de Samaniego (Curator, Spanish Pavilion), a Spanish art viewer, and members of the public of Venice. (1 hour)
With co-hosts Diego and Serena Paccagnella, Zefrey Throwell continues the adventure cross-crossing Venice during the 2007 Biennale. (1 hour)
Guests:
01 Laura McClainfarris (New Forest Pavilion)
02 Art viewers
03 Public of Venice
04 Employee of the Venice Biennale
05 Biennale artists
06 Art viewers
07 Livia Senic Matuglia
08 Art collector
09 Japanese Artist
10 Art viewer
Zefrey Throwell and his co-hosts for the segment, Alice Daneluzzo, Livia Senic Matuglia, and Diego Paccagnella journey around Venice during the 2007 Biennale and talk to, in order of appearance:
01 Stefano Coletto (Curator at Fondazione Bevilacqua la Masa)
02 Venetian artist
03 Eleonora Mayerie (Venetian)
04 Venetian artist
05 Venetian Biennale worker
06 Art critic from Milan
07 Daniel Palmer (Australian art critic)
08 Rupert (American pavilion intern)
09 Amy Franceschini (American artist)
Three final segments from the 2007 Venice Biennale: Zeffrey Throwell and co-host Berin Golonu interview artists from the Central Asian Pavilion, with Berin Golonu (curator from Yerba Buena Center for Arts), a Central Asian Pavilion artist, Muratbek Djumaliev, Gulnara Kasmalicva, Ulan Djaparov, and Gertrude Flenage. Then Throwell speaks to Hou Hanru, Curator of the Chinese Pavilion and finally with Laurent Gutierrez and Valérie Portefaix, artists from the Map Office in the Hong Kong Pavilion. (1 hour)
