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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.
Brett Littman, P.S.1's deputy director, hosts a series of interviews and performances that explore the concept of materiality in contemporary art. For the past seven years Littman has been lecturing on this topic nationally and internationally. He has written extensively on glass, ceramics and paper and how these materials interface with the social, political, economic and aesthetic issues in our contemporary culture.
Littman has two featured programs:
program 121 and day 22
in the Radiodays experimental broadcast from De Appel in Amsterdam, April 2005.
Other programs by Brett Littman for WPS1:
For the latest installment of Material Culture, Brett Littman interviews the Dutch conceptual jewelry designer Ted Noten, whose work falls somewhere between object making, sociology, economic analysis, and performance. Littman and Noten discuss his current publication, CH2=C(CH3)C(=O)OCH3 enclosures and other TN's, his desire to "encase" things and his most recent project for the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam.
P.S.1 Deputy Director Brett Littman interviews artist and critic William Powhida. Over the past several years, Powhida has been making a stir in the artworld with his confrontational no-holds barred tromp l'oiel Hex drawings, Enemy Lists and letters to artists. Working primarily on paper, Powhida explores the boundaries between figurative drawing, illustration and dark humor. In this interview Littman and Powhida discuss why he draws, the current state of criticism, and P.S.1's 2005 Greater New York exhibition. Also featured is a short excerpt of Powhida's Eulogy for Williamsburg, a performance he did on June 2, 2006 for New Brooklyn Installation Art Eyewash @ Supreme Trading Company in Williamsburg. (47 minutes)
A spirited discussion lead by WPS1.org hosts Brett Littman and Tony Guerrero and special guest Sebastien Delot with the major French gallerists participating in the Armory Show 2006:
Cathy Vedovi, heads the Miami branch of Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin
Sebastien Delot is a PhD. candidate at the Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art in Paris (with Jean-Marc Poinsot) and at the Institute of Fine Arts in New York (with Robert Storr), and is expert in the history of New York and Paris contemporary art galleries from the late 60s to the present.
P.S. 1 Deputy Director Brett Littman discusses the evolving environment of the photography market with some people who have been in the game: David Raymond (photo collector), Vicki Goldberg (critic, photo historian),
James Crump (publisher, filmmaker), and Miles Barth (author, collector, curator International Center of Photography). The group gathered at the WPS1 skybooth overlooking Pier 90 during the 2006 Armory Show.
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.
Edition #6: Interview with Peter Nesbett and David Kiehl listen |
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First broadcast January 23, 2006
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.
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.
In September of 2002 the editors of Cabinet magazine sat down for an editorial review for an upcoming issue of the publication devoted to Real Estate and Property. During this conversation Jeffrey Kastner, Sina Najafi and Frances Richard discussed the idea of Gordon Matta-Clark's Fake Estates project and its relevance to the issue. What transpired from this conversation was a two-year research project which culminated in concurrent exhibitions entitled Odd Lots: Revisiting Gordon Matta-Clark's Fake Estates at White Columns (September - October, 2005), The Queens Museum of Art (September 11, 2005 - January 22, 2006), a series of artist tours and projects and a catalog documenting the project (Published by Cabinet and DAP).
On November 10, 2006 Material Culture host, Brett Littman, invited the
editorial/curatorial team of Kastner, Najafi and Richard along with Julia Mandle, Jane South, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, three artists who participated in the exhibitions, to make sense of this complicated project for the wps1.org listeners. What transpired is a personal and intimate look at the Odd Lots project from both curatorial and artistic viewpoints.
Listen to audio tours of three of the Fake Estates with these links:
Here are Mierle Laderman Ukeles comments on the La Flor segment:
I invited Vikko, the owner and creator of La Flor, an island of
Mexico deliciousness sprung right under the El in Queens, to
participate with me in creating QUEENS QOOKIES / SWEET SPLITS. I
asked him to come up with some kind of baked goods that have the
shape of ODD LOT #3. We talked a lot. I showed him pictures of #3.
We walked over to ODD LOT #3 together under the El, so noisy. We
looked at #3 and ended up in a long conversation about property,
possessions, about dreams and ambition; and then more philosophically
about having and losing. He talked about his dream, to leave baking
with his mother since childhood in his simple village in southern
Mexico to chase his dreams in the big city, and got here, and needing
a job, ended up back in the kitchen, baking. Only this time, he
created an oasis, and built a wonderful cafe, and now owns another
and perhaps more to come. All this, while we stood on a Queens
street, looking at a mysterious shape floating somewhere down a
driveway between buildings, then walking back to the cafe.
He had suggested making the shape of #3 in stencils with powder sugar on
brownies with Mexican chocolate. Seized with this idea, I and my two
assistants figured out the ratio of the whacky dimensions of #3 in
relation to standard cookie sheets sizes -- which is pretty
complicated, and then made many models and drawings and stencil
patterns using this shape now fit into the size of the cookie sheet.
When we returned to show it to him, he was so touched that we had run
with his idea so hard, that he said he'd bake for nothing! Nothing
doing, I said, we had to do this in a business-like way. They were
beautiful!
Michael Graeve, an artist based in Melbourne, Australia and currently in residence in New York, has been working with painting and sound installations since 1995. During this interview host Brett Littman and Graeve talk about issues of installation, the genesis of his sound work, and the amount of ambient sound in New York. Graeve even gives tips on where one can buy old phonographs in Australia. See Edition #2 for a sound piece.
On June 21, 2005 Michael Graeve hauled 20 old phonographs with speaker up the stairs to the WPS1 Clocktower studios for one of his signature sound performance works. The happy cacophony of needles scratching rubber, electric belts and motors whirring and speaker feedback sound like an airplane engine. Start streaming and put on headphones for the full effect. See Edition #3 above for the interview.
Tobias Putrih's Macula series of cardboard sculptures have been one of the most talked about pieces in the Greater New York 2005 exhibition at P.S.1. Listen in to a conversation between host Brett Littman and Putrih as they discuss materials, cinemas, growing up in Slovenia and the difference between sculpture and architecture.
