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Artist Jen DeNike takes a break from her curatorial and party-managing activities at the Cavalier Hotel (where she and co-founder Anat Ebgi held Frisbee, a nomadic curatorial project) and sits down beachside in Miami to host a revolving table of artists including Melissa Brown, Michael Williams and Andy Hershey of the Slow Jams Band; Flora Weigman of Champion Fine Art; Felicia Ballos of Champion Dance; artist Abbey Williams; Joshua Neuman of Heeb Magazine; and Mahomi Kunikata from Kaikai Kiki studio.
Artist Jen DeNike holds a discussion about works shown in the alternate
fairs during Art Basel Miami Beach 05. Her guests are Julianne Swartz (whose Mingle was
shown at NADA) and David
Hardy and Siebren Versteeg
(whose Sprit Tours was a part of Frisbee).
The second in an installment of artist dialogues as host Jen DeNike gathers a
distinguished panel with color photographer Stephen Shore, Jeff Rosenheim (Curator
of Photographs from the Metropolitan Museum of Art) and Alanna Heiss (Director
of P.S.1). An extensive survey of Stephen Shore's American Surfaces photographic series will open at P.S.1 October 30, 2005, curated by Bob Nickas. Stephen speaks about what he was photographing and why as he drove cross country in 1972 and 1973 to make this historic body of photographs.
Jen DeNike coordinated a team of artists who were given $100,000 in fake WPS1 munny and sent out into the Armory Show to "buy" art on their budget and report back. This included revealing their art purchase selections along with stories of gallery interaction and other art world human interest adventures. The group included Dennis Delgado, Matthew Higgs, Marc Swanson, Melissa Brown, Jonah Freeman, Justin Lowe, and Peter Coffin, who first dreamed up this scheme during last year's WPS1 Armory broadcast. (24 minutes)
Host Jen DeNike discusses recent installations and a new CD, Teepees & Igloos, by the team of sound and light artist Amy Granat and electronic composer Stefan Tcherepnin. Granat makes use of looping films in decay. Tcherepnin makes use of Serge modules, a vintage type of synthesizer built by his uncle Serge Tcherepnin.
Artists Jen Denike and Justin Lowe sit down with Jon Kessler whose massive
site-specific mixed media installation The Palace at 4 a.m. is
installed at P.S.1 through Feb. 6, 2006.
(29 minutes)
During our week in Venice WPS1's Jen DeNike phoned in these reports and interviews with transgender "futuring" couple Eve and Adele, Gilbert and George at their Pavilion, and with artist Peter Coffin at Swansong the exhibit curated by Pierre Coinde and Gary O'Dwyer that allows visitors to choose music for their own funeral and then play/live/die it out right there lying on a white catafalque. ( 13 minutes )
Jen DeNike and Peter Coffin host our "floating" news and gossip segment held daily during the Biennale. This edition contains tidbits and exchanges with P.S.1 directors and staffers Alanna Heiss, Brett Littman, Danielle King and David Weinstein. Brett delivers the most salacious stuff on this day... (16 minutes)
WPS1's Jen DeNike and Peter Coffin interview two men who assisted WPS1 in Italy, our experts on the ground: Massimo Ongaro, Artistic Director, Risonanze performance series at the Teatro Fondamenta Nuove in Venice and Massimo Simonini, composer and Artistic Director of Angelica, a new music festival and record label in Bologna. Simonini also provided a faux radio show mix made special for our Biennale broadcast, Venice Love Boat Venice.
Peter Coffin and Jen DeNike in a conversation with the fascinating sound and installation artist Susan Philipsz. Much of her work has consisted of smuggling her disembodied and unaccompanied singing voice into various public and municipal locations where it's restrained melancholia might insinuate itself most effectively into the consciousness of an unexpectant public, to an unpredictable variety of effects.-from a very good description of a hard to describe work atsparwasserhq. (10 minutes)
Artist Ed Ruscha (The American Pavilion) and curator Gary Garrels (MoMA, the Hammer Museum) in the WPS1 lower deck lounge with Alanna Heiss and our roving artist/reporters Jen DeNike, Peter Coffin and Justin Lowe.
