Edition #10: Ran Ortner and Norman Mooney
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First broadcast April 14, 2008
Brett Littman interviews Ran Ortner and Norman Mooney. The two artists discuss their relationship and the similarities and dissimilarities between their work.
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Edition #9: Ted Noten
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First broadcast April 2, 2007
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.
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Art Basel Miami Beach 2006: Publishers Round Up
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Brett Littman moderates a conversation among Bill Powers, Cecilia Dean, Judd Tulley, and Lindsay Pollack regarding the state of the art fair, particularly that of Art Basel, and whether or not the sheer number and immensity of these fairs is healthy for contemporary art and the art world.
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Art Basel Miami Beach 2006: Leopard Cube
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P.S.1 Deputy Director Brett Littman talks to Liutauras Psibilskis, Rodrigo Mallea Lira, and Ylva Ogland, the latter two of whom speak only in a leopard language of meows, purrs, and growls. Only Psibilskis can understand them, and thus he provides the translation.
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Edition #8: William Powhida
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First broadcast July 17, 2006
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'oeil 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)
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Armory Show 2006: The French Connection
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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
Nathalie Vallois, co-founder of Galerie Vallois
Olivier Belot, General Director of Yvon Lambert Gallery
Almine Rech, owner of Galerie Almine Rech
Chantal Crousel, owner/curator of Galerie Chantal Crousel
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.
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Armory Show 2006: What's After the $3M Photograph?
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First broadcast March 20, 2006
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.
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Edition #6: Interview with Peter Nesbett and David Kiehl
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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.
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Edition #5: David Packer
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First broadcast January 9, 2005
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.
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Edition #4: Fake Estates
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First broadcast November 21, 2005
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 D.A.P.
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, and Mierle Laderman Ukeles - three artists who participated in the exhibitions - to make sense of this complicated project for our 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:
Victory Bakery
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La Flor Bakery
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Yimei Bakery
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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 L 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 L, which was quite 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 baking with his mother in the southern Mexican village in which he was raised, of his dream of leaving his hometown to chase his dreams in the big city, and about how when he got here, in need of
a job, he ended up back in the kitchen, baking. Only this time, he
created an oasis: he built a wonderful cafe and now owns another, with 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 wacky 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!
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Edition #3: Michael Graeve Interview
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First broadcast August 8, 2005
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.
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Edition #2: Michael Graeve Performance
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First broadcast August 8, 2005
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.
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Edition #1: Tobias Putrih
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First broadcast July 11, 2005
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.
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