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Art Is Art Is, is an ongoing, single-channel video work that artist and poet George Quasha has shown (and continues to show) in museums and galleries internationally. Some 370 artists in six countries, speaking over 15 languages, have participated to date. In November, 2004, it was shown in its entirety at White Box Gallery in New York and previously appeared at the Snite Museum of Art, the International Media Art Biennale WRO 03 (Wroclaw), 10th Biennial of Moving Images (Saint-Gervais, Geneva), Bunkier Sztuki (Krakow), World Social Forum 04 (Bombay), Salt Lake Art Center (Salt Lake City), etc.
George Quasha has been engaged in a twenty-year performance and video/language collaboration with the artists Gary Hill and Charles Stein. His writing about Hill's work includes Tall Ships, HanD HearD/liminal objects, Viewer, and Language Willing. Quasha has also published several books of poetry, including Ainu Dreams and the forthcoming The Preverbs of Tell. He is also an editor of the anthologies, America a Prophecy, (with Jerome Rothenberg), Open Poetry (with Ronald Gross) and The Station Hill Blanchot Reader. He is the publisher of Station Hill Press in Barrytown, New York, where he lives.
Alex Katz
David Antin
Dorothea Rockburne
Eiko
Meredith Monk
Gary Hill
Marina Abramovic
Dennis Oppenheim
Anthony McCall
Jonathan Feldschuh
SoHyun Bae
Thomas Eller
Alison Knowles
Mac Adams
Evelyna Domnitch
Katarina Wong
Cecilia Vicuña
Gary Hill
Brian Maguire
Alison Knowles
Larry Miller
Tim Rollins
Linda Schrank
Nobuho Nagasawa
Andra Samelson
Dove Bradshaw
Pablo Helguera
William Anastasi
Monika Weiss
Martin Lam Nguyen
Katarina Wong
Tom Phillips
SoHyun Bae
Conceptual/performance artist Janine Antoni gave this presentation of her work as part of the Fine Arts Lecture Series at Parsons, the New School for Design on April 12, 2006. Antoni blurs the line between performance art and sculpture (often using eating, bathing, or sleeping as point of departure) and has received numerous grants and fellowships for her work, including the MacArthur Fellowship and the Larry Aldrich Foundation Award in 1999. Antoni has exhibited extensively in the United States and abroad and was included in the 1993 Venice Biennial and the 1993 Whitney Biennial. Parsons Faculty Member David Mann introduces the program. (45 minutes)
A talk on the intersection of art and philosophy by Arthur C. Danto, Prof. Emeritus of Philosophy, Columbia University and art critic who curated
The Art of 9/11,
an exhibition at Apex Art in New York (Sept. 7-Oct. 15, 2005) featuring responses by artists to 9/11. The exhibition aims to show how art actually embodies grief and to reflect on how artists dealt with the attack. The artists: Audrey Flack, Leslie King-Hammond, Jeffrey Lohn, Mary Miss with Victoria Marshall and Elliott Maltby, Lucio Pozzi, Ursula Von Rydingsvard, Cindy Sherman, Barbara Westman, Robert Rahway Zakanitch.
I am not a curator, but I felt that such a show would itself be understood not as an ordinary art exhibition, but as what Wittgenstein calls an act of piety, and serve as an aspect of the question of what art is after all for, and how it, just as Hegel had said, serves, together with religion and philosophy, as a moment in what he called Absolute Spirit. -- Prof. Danto from the exhibition essay.
A conversation for a live audience recorded by WPS1 at Cooper Union's Grand Hall in New York City on February 17, 2006. The two principals were noted novelist, dramatist, essayist and activist Walter Mosley and legendary performer, activist and humanitarian Harry Belafonte. The discussion was part of the Conversation with the Nation series, sponsored by The Nation magazine and the New School for Social Research. (1 hour 54 minutes)
A lecture by Linda Greenhouse, Supreme Court correspondent for The New York Times. Greenhouse discusses the legacy of Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun, the subject of her latest book, Becoming Justice Blackmun. The lecture was hosted by the president of New School University, Bob Kerry and was recorded by WPS1 at NSU's Lang Student Center on December 8, 2005.
In conjunction with the New York School of Visual Arts' Visual Arts Museum exhibition Still Missing: Beauty Absent Social Life, this panel discussion brings together a philosopher, a poet and two artists from the exhibition to consider the social and political implications of artistic practice that is concerned with beauty. This panel discusses how personal esthetics might relate to larger historical and social questions. What are the concerns that stand behind a beautiful painting? Perhaps not those we might expect. Recorded Sept. 21, 2006 at the School of Visual Arts, Raphael Rubinstein moderates. (75 minutes)
Poet Stephanie Brown reads from her work and then speaks with poet and host David Lehman in an event recorded Feb. 22, 2006 as part of the New School University's Poetry Forum series. The two discussed alternatives to life as an academic, being a librarian, having a family, and finding a publisher (it took Brown seven years to find a publisher for Allegory of the Supermarket (University of Georgia Press)). Brown also appears in four editions of Lehman's anthology, Best American Poetry (1993, 1995, 1997, and 2005) and was awarded an NEA fellowship. Program host David Lehman teaches at the New School and NYU and is a frequent visiting professor or guest lecturer at other universities and writing programs. (60.5 minutes)
This recording was made at the Cave Canem Legacy Conversation Series, featuring Naomi Long Madgett interviewed by Cave Canem co-founder and poet Toi Derricotte. Cave Canem (a workshop retreat for African American poets) and the The New School's Creative Writing Program collaborate on the ongoing series where prominent African American poets discuss their lives and work. This conversation took place at The New School on April 24, 2006.
Naomi Long Madgett is a writer, editor, teacher and publisher, and has been the moving force behind Lotus Press, Inc., a leading publisher of poetry by African Americans. Responsible for the publication of 75 titles, she became senior editor of the Lotus Poetry Series of Michigan State University Press in 1993. Madgett's poems have been included in well over 100 anthologies in this country and abroad and have been translated into several languages. (1 hour 26 minutes)
Paul Chan's work is practically a meteorological occasion, and tonight the Public Art Fund plays storm chaser. His 7 Lights series, currently on view at the New Museum, projects the shadowy outlines of Armageddon in progress — human silhouettes plummet to the earth, while inanimate objects, from bikes to cell phones, drift skyward amid loose telephone wires and frantic birds' flight. Though Chan is a peace activist who spent time in Baghdad documenting the effects of war, his lyrical imagery only whispers its political undercurrents. His silhouetted projections, Middle East travels, protest efforts, and recent site-specific theater work in New Orleans all lend themselves to tonight's discussion, titled The Spirit of Recession. Recorded at The New School on April 30, 2008.
In this scintillating program presented by the U.S. chapter of the International Association of Art Critics, a panel of artists and writers moderated by Arthur Danto explored how easily - even this long past George Orwell's 1984 - words and images influence popular opinion, and how one can decode the ever-elusive truth from the tangle of half-truths, contradictory messages and disinformation so rampant in this election year. Speakers are: the internationally celebrated artist Barbara Kruger, whose graphic works famously unleash the power of language and images on a blithely consumerist world, has had 48 solo exhibitions since 1974 and is currently a professor at UC/San Diego; critic and author David Levi Strauss, a regular contributor to Artforum and Aperture, and the author, most recently of Between the Eyes, on the media frenzy surrounding the events of September 11; Nancy Snow is the author of Propaganda, Inc: Selling America's Culture to the World and serves as a Senior Research Fellow in the USC Center on Public Diplomacy; Boris Groys, probably best known for his essays on Russian intellectual history and culture, is Professor for Philosophy and Media Theory at the State Academy for Design in Karlsruhe, Germany, a visiting professor at New York University, and the author most recently of Topologie der Kunst (The Topology of Art). Moderating is Arthur Danto, art critic for The Nation and Johsonian Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Columbia University, received the National Book Critics Circle Prize for Criticism in 1990 and the 2003 Prix Philosophie. His most recent book is The Abuse Of Beauty: Aesthetics And The Concept Of Art.
This program was recorded on April 18, 2005 at the Museum of Modern Art as part of the Department of Film and Media's Mediascope Series. Daniel Eisenberg, Chair of the Department of Film, Video, and New Media at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, has been making nonfiction independent and avant-garde work for virtually three decades, interrogating "official" histories and investigating personal stories within the context of major social and political events. This MoMA event was presented in conjunction with a screening of Eisenberg's 2003 feature, Something More than Night, a meditation on nighttime Chicago. Filmed without narration, this featurelength essay is a luminous view of the quasi-deserted public spaces of a major urban center in which a kind of beauty informs alienation. In an intimate Q&A following the screening, Eisenberg sheds light on the intricacies of filming at night as he discusses both the technique and intent of this extraordinary film. Larry Kardish, Senior Curator of the Dept. of Film and Media introduced the program.
A reading and lecture given by poet/author Nick Flynn at the New School
University in New York on Oct. 25, 2005. Author Robert Polito, director of the Writing Program, hosted the event.
Flynn is the author of Another Bullshit Night in Suck City: A Memoir as well as the award-winning Art of the Memoir and the poetry collections Some Ether and Blind Huber.
Flynn's interdisciplinary collaborations include the comic book Cartoon Physics Part 1 with graphic artist Josh Neufeld, an answering-machine-inspired pastiche of music and poetry with the Australian band Pondskater, and a poem/dance at New York�s annual Improvisation Festival.
This program covers a symposium, Yona Friedman: Simple, Protean, and Spontaneous, on the work of the prominent Hungarian French architect and artist held in conjunction with the exhibition Yona Friedman: About Cities on view at New York's The Drawing Center from February 24 to April 7, 2007. In this recording from February 27, 2007 artists and architects examine Friedman's influence on subsequent generations of architects, urban planners, and artists through a discussion of their own work and the fields of drawing and architecture today.
Panelists on Panel I:
Lisa Metcalf -- Acting Executive Director of The Drawing Center (introduction)
New York Times architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussoff interviews architect Frank Gehry for an
audience at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
This event, from Jan. 7, 2006, was part of the New York Times
Fifth Annual Arts and Leisure Weekend in New York City. (1 hour18 minutes)
With Neuromancer, William Gibson introduced the world to cyberspace and science fiction has never been the same. In this program the author is interviewed by author and editorial writer for the New York TimesBrent Staples.
This event, from Jan. 7, 2006, was part of the New York Times Fifth Annual Arts and Leisure Weekend in New York City. For a full bio of Gibson, click here. (1 hour 19 minutes)
Remarks and remembrances by select colleagues, friends and family before an audience gathered to honor the memory of the great man and artist who died August 8, 2004. The program also includes recordings of the artist speaking. The thousand or so attendees came by invitation of Golub's wife, the painter Nancy Spero, and her sons Stephen, Philip and Paul Golub.
Leon Golub was born in Chicago in 1922 and died in New York on August 8, 2004. Widely known for his paintings and depictions of torture and political oppression, he also remained a man accessible to younger artists, and was considered by many to be the model of an activist artist.
This event was recorded on Sunday, April 17, 2005 at the Great Hall of Cooper Union in New York City. WPS1 thanks David Reynolds for making this event available to us.
Novelist
Paul Auster leads this unusual walking tour of the Lower Manhattan neighborhood surrounding the site of the World Trade Center, from St. Paul's Chapel to a park bench on the Hudson River. Archival recordings, a sound work by artist Stephen Vitiello, a recollection by Philippe Petit of his 1974 high-wire walk between the Twin Towers, captured performances by Odetta and Bill Frissell (among other musicians), and interviews with witnesses to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 all evoke the history of the neighborhood with surprising freedom from sentiment.
The Ground Zero Sonic Memorial Soundwalk was co-produced by Soundwalk and The Kitchen Sisters. For more information on the entire series of New York Soundwalk audio discs, go to the Soundwalks web site.
Hear Our Voices: The Role of Student Journalism In a Time of War, a panel discussion with independent journalist Amy Goodman, host and executive producer of Democracy Now, was recorded for WPS1 on April 28, 2005 at the Tischman Auditorium at the New School University,. Following excerpts from the documentary Independent Media In A Time of War, by the Hudson/Mohawk Independent Media Center,
Amy Goodman discusses media control and activist journalism with members of the Inprint newspaper staff. This event was presented by Inprint, the school newspaper of the Eugene Lang College of the New School University.
In addition to her award-winning work as an independent journalist, Amy Goodman is the author of the NYT bestseller The Exception to the Rulers. Democracy Now is a daily radio and television program on over 300 stations.
New York Times cultural reporter Dinitia Smith interviews filmmaker Jim Jarmusch as part of the 2006 Arts and Leisure Weekend Times Talks events. Jarmusch discusses highlights of his three-decade long career making over a dozen films including the Grand Prix award for Broken Flowers at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. In addition to her work for the Times, Dinitia Smith is an author, journalist, and Emmy-award-winning filmmaker. Elise Meyers of the Times introduces the program.
A reading and discussion with poet/author Mary Karr held at the New School University in New York on April 25, 2006. Author Robert Polito, director of the Writing Program, hosted the event.
Syracuse English professor Mary Karr is the author of two bestselling memoirs, The Liars' Club and Cherry. She has won Pushcart prizes for both her poetry and essays and was a Guggenheim Fellow in poetry in 2005. Her newest book of poems is Sinners Welcome. (57.5 minutes)
WPS1 Living History presents Jennifer Jason Leigh, A Life at Work, on Stage and Screen. The actress has returned to the New York stage, starring in the new production of Mike Leigh's 1977 satire Abigail's Party, at the New Group. The play runs through February 11, 2005.
This interview, recorded for WPS1 at The New School University on November 3, 2005, is part of the New York Times'Times Talks: Women's Series, timely discussions for, about and by women. The award-winning actress and writer/director Jennifer Jason-Leigh talks about challenges and rewards of the creative life. She is interviewed by New York Times cultural reporter Lola Ogunnaike. John Fradis of The New School and Carol Olsen Day of the New York Times introduce the program. (64 minutes)
From the New School University Poets on Poetry series, a talk and reading by the poet Phillis Levin, recorded by WPS1 on Nov. 29, 2005. Dr. Patricia L. Carlin of the New School introduces the program.
Phillis Levin is the author of three books of poetry, Temples and Fields (1988), winner of the Poetry Society of America's Norma Farber First Book Award; The Afterimage (1995); and Mercury, published by Penguin Books in April 2001. She is also the editor of Penguin Book of the Sonnet: 500 Years of a Classic Tradition in English, (2001). Her many honors include an Ingram Merrill Grant, a Fulbright Fellowship to Slovenia, The Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship, spent in Italy, and a 2003 Fellowship from The Guggenheim Foundation. Levin is Professor of English and Poet-In-Residence at Hofstra University.
How does America look to foreign eyes? This year marks the bicentennial of the birth of Alexis de Tocqueville, our keenest interpreter. Atlantic Monthly asked another Frenchman to travel deep into America and report on what he found. This lecture from June 2005 reflects those experiences.
Bernard-Henri Lévy is a writer and philosopher who lives in Paris. He is the author of many books, including Barbarism With a Human Face, Who Killed Daniel Pearl?, and War, Evil, and the End of History. A French moralist and political philosopher, Levy (born 1948) won wide recognition as a social critic (especially of Marxism), an advocate of ethics and justice, a cultured non-despiser of religion, and a flamboyant intellectual maverick.
Poet and art critic Max Henry speaks with the art agitators and musical collective Liquid Architecture comprised of lead vocalist Audrey Mascina and vocalist Jérôme Sans (also a curator and co-director of Palais de Tokyo, Paris). The band performed live at the Deitch Projects on April 22, 2005. They met up at P.S.1 to discuss pop culture, audiences, personality, anti-heroes, paradigm shifts, and tackling social issues in various art forms.
On September 29, 2007 Art Radio attended the MacDowell Colony Fellows Centennial Reunion Picnic in Central Park in New York. We spoke with dozens of artists/fellows as well as executives and organizers from MacDowell. The Colony, America's first multidisciplinary artist residency program, marks its Centennial with a yearlong celebration of creativity. Over the course of its 100 years, MacDowell has awarded Fellowships to more than 6,000 exceptionally talented composers, writers, visual artists, architects, interdisciplinary artists, and filmmakers . Located in Peterborough, New Hampshire, The MacDowell Colony offers uninterrupted time, a private space, and an inspiring company of peers so artists may accomplish creative work. In 1997, MacDowell, a pioneer of artistic support, was awarded the National Medal of Arts “for nurturing and inspiring many of this century's finest artists."
This program features reflections, anecdotes, histories, and program information in conversations with the artists as well as with executive director Cheryl Young and resident director David Macy plus some music from Jan Bell and the Cheap Dates (who performed with Rachel Holsted at the picnic) and Elyas Kahn and Nervous Cabaret (the live excerpt plus a track from their CD, Drop Drop). (1 hour 30 minutes)
The award-winning designer Bob Mackie discusses his career in theater, film and television, and his scene-stealing fashions for such stars as Carol Burnett, Cher, Elton John and Diana Ross. Mackie is interviewed by Simon Doonan, Creative Director at Barney's New York, and Dorothy Twining Globus, former Director of the Museum at the Fashion Institute and curator of the exhibit Unmistakeably Mackie. Twining Globus is currently curator of exhibitions at The Museum of Arts and Design in New York.
This event was recorded Nov. 17, 2005 at Christie's in New York City in conjunction with the auction of Mackie's private archive held Nov. 22, 2005. Catherine Elkies of Christie's introduces the speakers. (46 minutes)
