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Artist Will Corwin speaks with Art Radio's David Weinstein about his work and travels. Corwin is a visual artist based in NewYork, at the 5 pointz studios in Long Island City. He works primarily on plaster, making large scale site-specific installations. He recently completed a three-month artist residency with the Red Gate Gallery in Beijing. In Beijing he organized a group show of works on paper featuring the work of 10 New York artists and 10 Beijing artists and took part in a exhibition at the Jia Shi Gallery on the issue of China and Tibet. He also wrote a series of profiles of Chinese artists, including Zhang Xiaogang and Ai Wei Wei, for the Saatchi Online web magazine. In February 2009 he will be part of the 6 Artists group show at the Gordon Parks Gallery in the South Bronx. You can see his work at www.flickr.com/photos/willcorwin.
Gabrielle Decamous interviews Derrick de Kerckhove, organizer of the Hybrids show at the 2005 Ars Electronic Festival in Linz, Austria. Dr. de Kerkhove is head of the Marshall McLuhan Program at the University of Toronto and author of numerous books including The Skin of Culture, Brainframes: Technology, Mind and Business and The Architecture of Intelligence.
Discussions, exhibitions and events of the 2006 Ars Electronica Festival take place August 31 to September 5. The Winners of the 2006 Prix Ars Electronica (animation, creative music, innovative art projects, and state-of-the-art websites) will be celebrated during the festival. (26 minutes)
CAN•DY•MO•NI•UM, n.: that which erupts when sugary confections are hand-made by a sweets-loving bunch. Candy brings joy and smiles to people's lives no matter what age. In this recording, Delphine Blue interviews Beth Kimmerle (candy consultant and author of Candy: The Sweet History) and Will Noonan, co-founders of Big Tips Candy. Kimmerle and Noonan created Big Tips Candy Collection to bring together some of the country's best regional candy bars in one finely tuned collection. They sampled hundreds of rarely seen treats concocted from chocolate, peanut butter, cherries, caramel, marshmallow, and other gooey delights before narrowing their choices down to fifteen bars for the collection, many of which have been in production for decades. (Have you heard of Idaho Spud or Googoo Cluster?) The two offer candy making classes all over the place, for kids and adults. Check them out in New York on June 17, 2006 at the Ritz Carlton at Battery Park. (33 minutes)
Composer and Professor of Sound at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and one-time curator for performance and installation for P.S.1 Nicolas Collins has a book, Handmade Electronic Music, The Art of Hardware Hacking (Routledge). The book is a practical introduction for students of electronic music, installation and sound-art to the craft of making -- as well as creatively cannibalizing -- electronic circuits for artistic purposes. Collins sits down with WPS1 Managing Director David Weinstein for a conversation about music, hardware, history, and a career as a composer. (30 minutes)
WPS1's Jeannie Hopper interviews the legendary Jack De Johnette.
Born in Chicago in 1942, Jack De Johnette is widely regarded as one of jazz music's greatest drummers. Music appreciation flourished in De Johnette's family. He studied classical piano from age four until fourteen before beginning to play drums with his high school concert band.and taking private piano lessons at the Chicago conservatory of music. De Johnette credits his uncle, Roy l. Wood Sr., who was one of the most popular jazz DJ's in the South side of Chicago, later vice president of the National Network of Black Broadcasters, as the person who initially inspired him to pursue music.
In his early years on the Chicago scene, he led his own groups and was equally in demand as a pianist and as a drummer. He played R & B, hard bop, and avant-garde and was active with the experimentalists of the AACM in its early days, with the likes of founder Muhal Richard Abrams, Roscoe Mitchell and Joseph Jarman. In 1966, he drummed alongside Rashied Ali in the John Coltrane Quintet. International recognition came with his tenure in the Charles Lloyd Quartet, one of the first jazz groups to receive cross-over attention, also alerting the world to Keith Jarrett's skills.
Jack De Johnette has collaborated with most major figures in jazz history. Some of the great talents he has worked with are John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, Sonny Rollins, Sun Ra, Jackie McLean, Thelonious Monk, Bill Evans, Stan Getz, Keith Jarrett, Chet Baker, George Benson, Stanley Turrentine, Ron Carter, Lee Morgan, Charles Lloyd, Herbie Hancock, Dave Holland, Joe Henderson, Freddie Hubbard, Abbey Lincoln, Betty Carter and Eddie Harris, who is responsible for convincing De Johnette to stick with drums because he heard De Johnette's natural talent.
It was in 1968 that De Johnette joined Miles Davis's group in time for the epochal upheaval marked by "Bitches Brew," an album that changed the direction of jazz. In his autobiography, Miles Davis said, "Jack De Johnette gave me a deep groove that I just loved to play over." Jarrett soon followed De Johnette into the Davis group, and the drummer's first ECM recording, the duet “Rutya and Daitya” was made in 1971. Working with Miles also brought about collaborations with John McLaughlin, Chick Corea and Dave Holland.
In 1968 he recorded his first album as a leader on the Milestone label, called “The De Johnette Complex”, where Jack played melodica along with his mentor Roy Haynes on drums. In the early 70's he recorded “Have You Heard” in Japan and two albums for Prestige, called “Sorcery” and “Cosmic Chicken.” These early sessions united Jack with Gary Peacock, Bennie Maupin, Stanley Cowell, Miroslav Vitous, Eddie Gomez, Alex Foster and Peter Warren.
Jack began to record as a leader for ECM, with each of his successive groups Directions , New Directions , and Special Edition making important contributions to the evolution of jazz. The New Directions band featured two musicians who would have long-term associations with De Johnette: John Abercrombie and Lester Bowie. A friend from Chicago days, Bowie played intermittently with De Johnette until the end of his life. Most notably, Lester and Jack collaborated on a duo album called “Zebra,” which was a world beat influenced video soundtrack and CD. Abercrombie continued to work with De Johnette in the Gateway Trio , along with Dave Holland. Special Edition , with its rotating front line, helped introduce the sounds of David Murray, Rufus Reid, Howard Johnson, Arthur Blythe, Chico Freeman, Greg Osby, Michael Caine, Lonnie Plaxico, Gary Thomas and John Purcell to a wider audience.
Since the publication of The Anti-Aesthetic in 1983 Hal Foster has occupied a central position in contemporary debates on modern art and modern life. Prolific as an art historian and critic, he is the author most recently of Prosthetic Gods, an investigation into the transformed nature of the self in the era of modern art, and (with Rosalind Krauss, Yve-Alain Bois and Benjamin Buchloh) Art Since 1900, a textbook encompassing the intertwined histories of modernism, antimodernism, and postmodernism. He joins Jason Farago to discuss the role of the art historian in an era of aftermath and the challenges of writing about contemporary art.
In the past decade Tom McDonough has established himself as one of the foremost scholars in the English language on the postwar French intellectual, artistic and architectural scenes. He is the editor of Guy Debord and the Situationist International: Texts and Documents (2002), which assembled dozens of works, many theretofore untranslated, by and about the SI. His forthcoming book, The Beautiful Language of My Century: Reinventing the Language of Contestation in Postwar France, continues his investigation of the SI from a critical historical perspective. McDonough joins host Jason Farago to discuss the continued artistic appeal of Situationism, the historical background of contemporary French art, and the mixed legacy of May '68.
David Joselit's 1998 book Infinite Regress: Marcel Duchamp 1910-1941 radically altered the discourse surrounding this central artistic figure of the 20th century. Since then he has written widely on modern and contemporary art: in his essay Navigating the New Terrain (Arforum, 2005) he proposed a new paradigm for understanding art in relation to cyberspace, and in his forthcoming book Feedback: Television Against Democracy he investigates the transformations wrought by television on modern art and modern life. In this program Joselitt speaks with host Jason Farago about the political efficacy of contemporary art, the goals and failures of MFA programs, and the place of the readymade in the television era.
As part of WPS1's continued partnership with Hallelujah Harlem! Public Art Fest, roving art reporter Delphine Blue attends the opening ceremonies at St. Nicholas Park on West 135th Street and St. Nicholas Avenue, on June 30, 2006. Hallelujah Harlem launches in conjunction with Jazz at Lincoln Center in presenting Arturo O'Farrill Jr., director of JLC's Latin Jazz Orchestra, performing live with his five piece band. Delphine talks with some of the organizers and participating artists in this culturally rich event.
Artist Paul Johnson interviews Alex Galloway about his new book, Gaming: Essays on Algorithmic Culture. Galloway discusses why the Half-Life game franchise caught his attention and inspired him to do formal research. He describes trends in gaming history and its central role in culture today. Check out his projects at treasurecrumbs.com or at the Carnivore page. Johnson shares his experience as a game developer and artist.
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Adrian Halpern discusses the perplexing US immigration options that are currently avilable for foreign artists. Halpern is an immigration attorney from North Carolina who represents artists, scientists, systems analysts, and biostaticians, among others. He believes that the inclusion of immigrant workers in American industry will only serve to benefit the United States. Halpern is the son of a native Argentinian mother, and a husband to a Russian wife, thus the immigration issue hits quite close to home for him.
A conversation between the curators and one of the artists from the exhibition Karkhana: A Contemporary Collaboration, which features a series of works by six contemporary Pakistani artists. The exhibit is at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum through March 12, 2006.
At the core of the exhibition is a series of collaboratively-produced paintings initiated as a creative experiment by Muhammad Imran Qureshi in 2003. He contacted the five other Pakistani painters, all alumni of the miniature department at the National College of Arts in Lahore, but now living in different cities around the world, with the suggestion that each artist start two new paintings made on wasli (hand-made paper). Each work was then sent to another artist in the group, who applied another layer of imagery, marks, or other processes, and passed it along until all of the artists had added to each of the twelve paintings. Karkhana includes these twelve miniature paintings, and five additional paintings by each of the six artists. These paintings are an experiment in artistic collaboration revealing improvisation, acts of creative destruction, semiotic play, and dynamic adaptation.
Jessica Hough is curatorial director at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut where she has worked since 1998. She is a graduate of the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College. Her recent exhibitions include Alyson Shotz: Light, Sound, Space (2005), Shahzia Sikander: Nemesis (2004), and Into My World: Recent British Sculpture (2004). She is co-curator of Karkhana: A Contemporary Collaboration.
Nusra Latif Qureshi is a painter living in Melbourne, Australia. She was born in Lahore, Pakistan in 1973, and educated at The National College of Arts, Lahore, where she studied in the miniature painting department. Her work has been included in numerous exhibitions around the world, including Karkhana: A Contemporary Collaboration. She is represented in New York by Waqas Wajahat, LLC.
Anna Sloan is a writer, curator, and historian of Islamic and South Asian Art at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts. She holds a BA from Brown University, and a PhD from University of Pennsylvania. Sloan curated an exhibition of Nusra Latif Qureshi's work at Smith College Museum of Art in 2004 titled The Way I Remember Them. She is also a partner in Green Cardamom, a non-profit organization founded to introduce artists from South Asia, Central Asia, and the Middle East to a global audience through public exhibitions, publications, symposia, and commissioned artworks. She is co-curator of Karkhana: A Contemporary Collaboration.
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, located at 258 Main Street, Ridgefield, CT, is renowned as a national leader for its presentation of outstanding new art, the cultivation of emerging artists, and its innovation in museum education. Regular Museum hours are Tuesday through Sunday, 12 noon to 5 pm. For more information, call 203.438.4519 or visit www.aldrichart.org
Following a week long encampment in Times Square at Chashama, creator and chroeogrpher Erin McMonagle spoke with WPS1's Justin Lowe about her project called Beat It. Referencing pop culture and theories of shared memory, Beat It is an open performance/rehearsal that teaches all volunteers--regardless of age, skill, background etc.-- the choreography from the 1983 Michael Jackson video. Concluding the week all participants are invited back for one last romp en masse. Joining the discussion were Cathleen Chaffee, Gabrielle Giattino, David Adamo and the artist's mother, Kathie McMonagle, all participants.
Artist and musician Shaun O'Dell sits down in the Clocktower studios during the opening week of his works on paper exhibition at Susan Inglett Gallery (Feb. 15-March 15, 2008) entitled We Remember the Sun. O'Dell's precise and sprawling imagery is seductively narrative and reveals his thoughtful commitment to processes of nature and history. During the interview here with P.S.1's David Weinstein the two struggle to precisely recall some of O'Dell's extraordinary titles. Here are a few:
Eyes Fly Alone Over The Dark Waters Of Abyss Again
Skull Scribes The Plains' Last Marks Of Consciousness
The Howling Descent Of The Fathers' Howling Descent
Also included in the conversation is a bit of O'Dell's personal history and training including his musical background and ongoing projects such as with the band Sword and Sandals (with Randylee Sutherland and the irascible John Dwyer of Coach Whips, The OhSees). A recording of the trio playing at the opening on Feb. 15, 2008 frames the discussion. (35 minutes)
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.
Artist Paul Johnson interviews artist, inventor, coder, and musician, Amit Pitaru. Pitaru's projects include sophisticated interactive music videos, several collaborative web pieces with illustrator James Paterson, electronics, and original compositions. He discusses video game enabling toys for special needs children, a chapter he is writing for the forthcoming book The Ecology of Game, and the coder as auteur.
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.
Director and artist Marcin Ramocki talks with Paul Johnson about his new film, 8 Bit, which debuts at the Museum of Modern Art October 7-11, 2006. 8 Bit ties together the 1980s demo scene, chip-tune music, and artists using machinima and modified computer games. Ramocki reflects on trends in digital art he discovered during his global, two year investigation. Produced in New York City, Los Angeles, Paris, and Tokyo, the documentary brings a global perspective to the new artistic approaches of the DIY generation that grew up playing Atari, Commodore 64, and other video game consoles.
About the Film:
8 BIT. 2006. USA. Original concept/Directed by Marcin Ramocki. Produced and Co-Directed by Justin Strawhand. With artists Cory Arcangel, BIT SHIFTER, Bodenstandig 2000, Bubblyfish, Covox, Mary Flanagan, Alex Galloway, Gameboyzz Orchestra, Glomag, HUAROTRON, JODI, Paul Johnson, John Klima, Johan Kotlinski, Nullsleep, Joe McKay, Tom Moody, Akiko Sakaizumi, Eddo Stern, TEAMTENDO, Treewave, Chiaki Watanabe, and Carlo Zanni; curator Isabelle Arvers; media critic Ed Halter; and new media curator/writer Christiane Paul.
Artist and new media expert Lea Rekow in conversation with Pablo Helguera
whose opera, The Foreign Legion, will be presented as part of the Performa Biennial in New York on Nov. 10-11, 2005, as part of a series of works begun in 2004 as a means to exploit the interstices between art discussion and art making and the place of art in the broader cultural context. The title refers to the historical traditions of mercenary soldiers, and while addressing current political climates, the performance seeks to question the compromising of our beliefs in order to gain, or simply survive.
WPS1 is the proud Internet Sponsor of PERFORMA05-the first biennial of new visual art performance in New York City. More than 20 venues throughout New York will present a multidisciplinary program of live performance, film screenings, lectures, and exhibitions from November 3 through 21, 2005. PERFORMA05 is organized by PERFORMA, a nonprofit arts organization committed to the research, development, and presentation of performance by visual artists. For more information, please visit www.performa-arts.org.
Lea Rekow, founding director of Gigantic Art Space, interviews Negativland's Mark Hosler at the Clocktower, who is in town for the Negativlandland
exhibit (September 9-October 22, 2005) at the gallery. Their discussion bounces through a pretty quick and exhaustive survey of the (not a) band's history from the early high school days, thoughts on noise/collage, appropriation/transformation, the U2 incident/Casey Kasem lawsuit, and the general puzzle of intellectual property. Plus a little music. (30 minutes)
Multidisciplinary artist (and pioneer of the form) Carolee Schneemann, has elevated the discourse on the body, sexuality, and gender through her work and life. She was a full participant, and a courageous one, in the cultural turbulence of the sixties; confronting taboos, challenging traditions, and embracing new forms. Her ongoing work as a painter and her merge into the downtown New York performance scene of that era (Judson Dance Theater, Warhol's Factory, assorted Happenings and kinetic theater) lead to her own performances and films such as the notorious 1964 Meat Joy, a "celebration of flesh as material," a living montage of naked bodies, raw fish, chickens, and sausages. And that's just the first few years.
In this conversation with filmmaker, archivist, and historian MM Serra, Schneemann discusses her film Fuses at length along with anecdotes and reflections on life and work, sex and tech, cats and people, and much more. Fuses is included in the Summer 2006 exhibit Into Me, Out of Me curated by Klaus Biesenbach at P.S.1.
The intimate, psychosexual mystery of one man, his wife, and another -- each yearning to feel something they can't feel anymore -- drawn together towards a final fall. Piece together a fragmented memory trail that reveals an underworld of extreme pleasure, set to throbbing Latin beats.
James Scruggs wrote and produced a multi-channel video installation called Disposable Men, a piece about the mayor approved NYC police shootings of unarmed black men. It had a private showing in DUMBO in May of 2000. In 2002, Men became a performance piece, performed at BAX and selected to participate in a Summer Institute for emerging performance artists at The Kitchen. In 2003, he was selected for the HERE Artist Residency Program. Men was fully produced at HERE in February 2005, and it was brought back by popular demand for a limited engagement in June 2005. Men received a 2005 NY Innovative Theatre Award for Solo Performance. Other works include Touchscape, (2002 Queer@HERE festival, The 2002 Voices from the Edge festival) and Thuggish, was one of seven plays chosen to be part of Naked Angels Writers Lab in 2003. His newest work, (RUS)H, is being developed through the Mabou Mines/SUITE program. He has received grants from Franklin Furnace, Edith Lutyens and Norman Bel Geddes Foundation (for his video design), and from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.
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In this edition, interviews with Ferris Olin of The Feminist Art Project, artist Judy
Chicago, and other women from the Northeast exhibiting in a show in upstate New York in late 2006. This program is part of an ongoing series that draws themes and discussions from the Feminist Art Project festivities and ties national activities to local ones. Originally produced for Women's Voices Radio at 88.3 FM WAER in Syracuse, NY by Nancy Keefe Rhodes and Joan Burstyn, we pleased to now include them in our archive at WPS1.org.
