An Art Book: The Autobiography and Sex Life of Andy Warhol
 First broadcast July 9, 2010
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The life of Andy Warhol's eccentricities, parties, and artwork has been surrounded by questions and controversy. On June 23, 2010 listeners got a personal perspective of Warhol's mysterious persona. This recording is a panel discussion from New York Public Library series, An Art Book, celebrating the re-release of John Wilcock's book The Autobiography and Sex Life of Andy Warhol. In the recording we hear cultural historian Dr. Steven Watson moderate the conversation between author John Wilcock, Gretchen Berg, a photojournalist, Gerard Malanga, photographer and Andy Warhol's assistant, Taylor Mead, actor and poet, Joseph Freeman, once known as "Little Joey", and special guest Bibbe Hansen, who starred in Warhol's films in 1963 and '64. This panel of Factory Superstars, one of few reunions since the silver Factory days, reveals never-before-heard details and anecdotes of Warhol and the Factory life. Included is a short introduction by editor Christopher Trela. (1 hour 25 minutes).
Special thanks The New York Public Library | An Art Book Series, Trela Media and D.A.P. for sharing this event with our listeners.
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Louise Bourgeois Sings
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C'est le murmure de l'eau qui chante: In these recordings, produced by Brigitte Cornand, the artist Louise Bourgeois sings 22 short melodies and children's songs. Then, in a remix by Frederic Sanchez, the material is transformed into an electronic fantasy.
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The Curator's Perspective: A Conversation with Bisi Silva
First broadcast May 21, 2010
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In Independent Curators International (ICI)'s second curatorial talk series at the New Museum, independent curator Bisi Silva joins ICI Executive Director Kate Fowle for The Curator's Perspective: A Conversation with Bisi Silva. Silva is the founder and director of the Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos (CCA, Lagos). Silva discusses the mission and history of the Centre, which opened in December 2007, also recounting her career as a curator and the guiding principles by which she has operated, ones she continues at CCA, Lagos. Silva speaks to the various political, social, cultural and artistic notions that CCA, Lagos' exhibitions have undertaken and dissected, and offers an overview of its numerous programs and workshops. She concludes with a discussion of the work of photographer Zanele Muholi and multimedia artists Safa Erraus, Mary Sibande and Bright Eke.
Independent Curators International and the New Museum presented The Curator's Perspective: A Conversation with Bisi Silva at the New Museum's New Museum Theater in New York City on May 9, 2010. Founded in 1975, Independent Curators International (ICI) produces exhibitions, events, publications, and training opportunities for diverse audiences around the world. This touring conversation series has been made possible through the support of Agnes Gund.
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Secularism, Islam & Democracy: Muslims In Europe And The West
First broadcast April 23, 2010
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In this historic panel, Secularism, Islam & Democracy: Muslims In Europe And The West, Tariq Ramadan makes his first public appearance in the U.S. since being barred from the country in 2004, with the "ideological exclusion provision" of the USA PATRIOT Act cited as the rationale. Joining him are Dalia Mogahed, Senior Analyst and Executive Director of the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies; George Packer, Staff Writer for The New Yorker and author of Interesting Times: Writings from a Turbulent Decade; Joan Wallach Scott, Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study and author of The Politics of the Veil; with Jacob Weisberg, journalist and Editor-in-Chief of The Slate Group, as moderator, and featuring opening remarks by Larry Siems, Director of the PEN American Center's Freedom to Write and International Programs, and Jameel Jaffer, Director of the ACLU's National Security Project.
Ramadan begins the discussion by remarking upon notions of Islam and stressing the inherent multiplicity of identities that all people have, asserting that there is no mutual exclusivity between the religion and secular Western cultures, and that the primary conflict is not between Islam and the West but with erroneous conceptions thereof; this is followed by responses from the rest of the panel. They discuss the cultural, social, economic, educational and religious backgrounds and identities of Muslims in Western societies, the visions and misperceptions that many non-Muslims have of Islam and whether an essential difference between secularism and Islam bars the two from cohabiting harmoniously. Further discussed is Ramadan's consideration of Hassan al-Banna and al-Banna's support for the Nazi regime, notions of the roles of women and homosexuality in Islamic culture and the relation between reason and faith.
Secularism, Islam & Democracy: Muslims In Europe And The West was presented by the American Association of University Professors, the American Civil Liberties Union, PEN American Center and Slate on April 8, 2010, at The Great Hall of Cooper Union in New York City.
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Alanna Heiss on Malcolm McLaren
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First broadcast April 9, 2010
AIR Director Alanna Heiss spoke about her close friend Malcolm McLaren shortly after hearing of his passing on April 8, 2010 (9 minutes).
To listen to his 2004 monologue on "the look of music and the sound of fashion," click here. To listen to him discuss Malcolm McLaren: Musical Paintings in a panel recorded just two months before his death, click here.
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It's History Now: Performance Art and the Museum
First broadcast 2010-04-16
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In this PERFORMA-sponsored panel, It's History Now: Performance Art and the Museum, RoseLee Goldberg offers a brief history of performance and PERFORMA and introduces the event's panelists: art historian Alexander Alberro, curator Chrissie Iles, artist Martha Rosler and conservator Glenn Wharton, as well as respondents Eungie Joo, Curator at the New Museum, and artist Adam Pendleton. The focus of the panel is on the contemporary state of performance art and its relation to the museum as both an institution and an archival space. Central to the presentations and discussions are the essence, history and ephemerality of performance, as well as notions of what the museum is, the import of Feminism on performance art and the role and value of reperformance. Also addressed: questioning what an undocumented performance becomes when--as with VALIE EXPORT's Aktionshose:Genitalpanik, which neither took place in a porn cinema nor featured the artist wielding a machine gun--the memory and near-mythical recreations of a piece misrepresent what the original performance actually was; authenticity and the correlation between Feminism and performance art. And then the perennial and unavoidable question: is performance an inherently radical and oppositional medium, one necessarily opposed to acquisition and institutionalization? And how, exactly, do you acquire a performance? Expect no clear and definite answers, to be sure.
It's History Now: Performance Art and the Museum, part of PERFORMA's ongoing Not For Sale panels, took place on March 24, 2010 at the Einstein Auditorium of New York University. The event was organized by PERFORMA and the NYU Steinhardt Department of Art and Art Professions.
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Yun-Fei Ji
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First broadcast April 9, 2010
In this conversation at James Cohan Gallery, Don J. Cohn, Senior Editor of ArtAsiaPacific Magazine, interviews artist Yun-Fei Ji about his new body of work and his relationship with China. Yun-Fei Ji’s 2010 exhibition Mistaking Each Other for Ghosts, his second solo exhibition at James Cohan, was the inaugural showcase of his 32-foot-long narrative scroll, The Three Gorges Dam Migration, as well as numerous new works on paper. The calm and thoughtful Yun-Fei Ji fields Cohn’s pressing and often provocative questions with great consideration, tackling everything from Yun-Fei Ji’s understanding of the state of contemporary China to his graphic, fantastical (and at times critical) portraits of Chinese history. The artist discusses how affected he was on a recent trip to the Three Gorges region of China, where he witnessed the immense cultural and physical displacement caused by the building and subsequent flooding of the Dam. The experience inspired him to conceive his latest works as a platform to create consciousness and understanding about issues facing China. The artist stresses, however, that forced migration, displacement and increasing consumerism are a global concern, and are not unique to China (1 hour 6 minutes).
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Malcolm McLaren: The Look of Music and the Sound of Fashion
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In this exclusive, two-part program from 2004, legendary entrepreneur Malcolm McLaren (1946-2010), performs an impromptu monologue, spins a few tunes and discusses his long career in fashion and pop. McLaren's work at the time involved experimentation with bastard blues, chip music, post-karaoke, rock and roll Gameboy music and mash-ups, which he here exemplifies with a fusion of Captain and Tenille's Love Will Bring Us Together and New Order's cover of Love Will Tear Us Apart.
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Headspace: Scent, Sensors and the Expanded Realm of Sensation
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First broadcast April 5, 2010
Scent, Sensors and the Expanded Realm of Sensation, a panel presented as part of the one-day symposium, Headspace: On Scent as Design, featured Majora Carter, founder of Majora Carter Group and Sustainable South Bronx; Leslie B. Vosshall, Head of the Laboratory of Neurogenetics and
Behavior at The Rockefeller University; Susana Soares, Senior Lecturer at London South Bank University; and Dr. C. William Hanson, III, Professor of Anesthesiology and
Critical Care at the Hospital of the
University of Pennsylvania. Moderated by Adam Bly, founder and CEO of Seed, the talk traversed such wide olfactory terrain as the how to best deodorize the Bronx, the process of creating and interpreting scent and how smell helps orient--or disorient--us from ourselves and our environments.
Headspace: On Scent as Design, a one-day symposium on
the conception, impact, and potential applications of scent, took place on March 26, 2010. It was presented by Parsons and MoMA in collaboration with with IFF, Seed and Coty. The event coincided with the inauguration of the MFA in Transdisciplinary Design at Parsons.
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Malcolm McLaren and Cay Sophie Rabinowitz
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First broadcast February 12, 2010
Artist and pop culture visionary Malcolm McLaren and writer, curator and editor Cay Sophie Rabinowitz held a conversation at the New York Public Library on February 2, 2010, beneath projected images of their respective projects. A good portion of the evening centered on Shallow, McLaren’s filmic mashup of pre-home video sex movies and popular music fragments. Between the master raconteur's numerous anecdotes illuminating his adventures surrounding his various projects, he also discusses his as-of-the-moment-unreleased film Paris, also culled largely from archival footage. The event was co-presented by the NYPL’s An Art Book Series and D.A.P. (Distributed Art Publishers) in celebration of McLaren’s 2010 book Malcolm McLaren: Musical Paintings and the US release of FANTOM, a photographic quarterly co-edited by Rabinowitz. The program is introduced by Arezoo Moseni, Senior Art Librarian at the New York Public Library (1 hour 14 minutes).
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Architect Talks: Avi Oster
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First broadcast February 5, 2010
Architect Avi Oster led a discussion in the Architect Talks lecture series' Focus on 13th Street series, hosted by the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation and the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at Parsons. Oster discusses his studio's mixed-use project at 3 West 13th Street, which juxtaposes masonry walls and large plate glass windows on an otherwise fairly traditionally "Village-esque" block in New York's Greenwich Village. Sandwiched between taller buildings, the design stands out among its residential, institutional and commercial neighbors thanks to its dramatic use of materials and lights and mixed-use purposes. The lecture took place January 21, 2010 at the New School in New York City (1 hour).
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Vincenzo Lombardo, Virtual Electronic Poem Project
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First broadcast January 29, 2010
This presentation by Vincenzo Lombardo, of Turino's Virtual Reality & Multimedia Park, took place at the Judson Church in New York in January 2010. The talk, with surround sound and a virtual video recreation, revealed the content and technique that became the legendary Poème électronique at the 1958 Brussels World's Fair's Philips Pavilion, created by Le Corbusier, Iannis Xenakis and Edgard Varese. We offer here the audio portion; you can follow along with the images at the Virtual Electronic Poem Project site. The program was produced by Joel Chadabe and the Electronic Music Foundation and ran in parallel with an exhibit of Xenakis scores and publications at The Drawing Center in New York, which ran January 15 – April 8, 2010. If this landmark work fascinates you as it does us, we recommend the book Space Calculated in Seconds by Marc Treib. It's out of print and quite pricey, but hunt it down: as Prof. Treib told us, it's all in there (1 hour 7 minutes).
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Reckoning with Torture: Memos and Testimonies
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First broadcast October 23, 2009
Reckoning with Torture: Memos and Testimonies from the "War on Terror" was presented at the Cooper Union in New York on October 13, 2009, sponsored by the ACLU, PEN American Center and the Cooper Union.
In front of a remarkable and chilling projected backdrop by Jenny Holzer, artists, activists and operatives read memos, testimonials, and transcripts documenting torture and torture policies. With writers and artists Don DeLillo, Jonathan Ames, Eve Ensler, Paul Auster, Nell Freudenberger, A.M. Homes, Susanna Moore, George Saunders, Jonathan Ames, and Art Spiegelman alongside Ishmael Beah (author and former child soldier), David Cole (author of The Torture Memos), Matthew Alexander (a former senior military interrogator), Jack Rice (former CIA special agent), and Amrit Singh (a former ACLU attorney who litigated post-9/11 abuse cases). With remarks by K. Anthony Appiah of PEN and Jameel Jaffer of the ACLU. Plus hear testimony from former Guantanamo detainees.
(80 minutes)
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Fred Forest, The Experimental Center of the Territory
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First broadcast July 31, 2009
New media artist Fred Forest presents a lecture on the current moral crisis he sees affecting the world, one intrinsically connected to the economic crisis. Forest combines his knack for provocation - uneasily situated between ironic dispassion and sincere anger - with his continued exploration of notions of territory in this new work, The Experimental Center of the Territory, which also engages in the world of Second Life and explores how the artist invents new languages for communication, in this instance through new technologies and technological worlds. The event, produced by host ferdinand(corte)™, was recorded at the Gershwin Hotel on July 2, 2009. In English and French with English translation (46 minutes).
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The Triangle Fire Remembrance Coalition
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First broadcast April 12, 2009
On March 25, 1911, New York's Triangle Shirtwaist Factory caught fire; as a result of the building's unsafe working
conditions and bolted exits doors, 146 people died, most of them young Jewish and Italian immigrant women. This tragedy, the largest industrial disaster in the history of New York City, led to improvements in fire safety legislation
and helped spur the labor movement. Host Rose Imperato speaks with
The Triangle Fire Remembrance Coalition, an organization dedicated to honoring the memory of those who died in the fire, which held an event on the ninety-eighth anniversary of the fire in order to plan for its Centenary Memorial in 2011 (33 minutes).
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Peter Saville
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First broadcast November 17, 2008
Matthew Higgs, Director of White Columns, interviews artist Peter Saville about the recent release of his new book, Estate,
as well as the birth of his career designing record sleeves for
Factory Records artists, most notably Joy Division and New Order. This
event took place on October 3rd, 2008 at New York's White Columns.
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Art Is
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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.
Part One features such artists as Alex Katz, Meredith Monk, Gary Hill, Marina Abramović, Cecilia Vicuña, Martin Lam Nguyen and more.
Part Two features such artists as Carolee Schneemann, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Carl Skelton, Yayoi Kusama, Ann Messner, Xu Bing and more.
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.
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Janine Antoni
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First broadcast July 3, 2006
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)
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The Art of 9/11@Apex Art: Arthur C. Danto
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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.
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Harry Belafonte and Walter Mosley
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First broadcast March 13, 2006
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).
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Becoming Justice Harry Blackmun: Linda Greenhouse
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First broadcast January 16, 2006
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.
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Behind Beauty: A Panel Discussion
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First broadcast November 6, 2006
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)
The Panel:
Richmond Burton, painter
Mónica de la Torre, poet and poetry editor of The Brooklyn Rail
Crispin Sartwell, philosopher and journalist
Amy Wilson, artist/writer, SVA faculty
Moderator Raphael Rubinstein, senior editor at Art in America, SVA faculty
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New School University's Poetry Forum: Stephanie Brown
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First broadcast April 24, 2006
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).
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Cabinet Magazine's Chromophilia
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Sina Najafi, Editor-in-Chief of Cabinet Magazine, introduces the performers at this reading to benefit the art quarterly, recorded live at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center on Saturday, October 23, 2004. They appear on the program, which included several Powerpoint presentations of the columns, with commentary by senior editor Jeffrey Kastner, as follows: Andrea Codrington: Biege, Tim Griffin: Safety Orange, Albert Mobilio: Rust, Frances Richard: Indigo, and Jonathan Ames: Bice. Ames closes the program with the first-ever mass Luscher Color Test.
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Cave Canem: Toi Derricotte with Naomi Long Madgett
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First broadcast June 5, 2006
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)
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Paul Chan, The Spirit of Recession
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First broadcast May 19, 2008
Paul Chan's work is practically a meteorological occasion, and tonight the Public Art Fund plays storm chaser. His 7 Lights series, displayed 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 this discussion, titled The Spirit of Recession. Recorded at The New School on April 30, 2008 (45 minutes).
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Double Talk/Double Think: The Art and Politics of Language
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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 C. 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 C. 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.
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Daniel Eisenberg
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First broadcast May 2, 2005
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 feature length 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 Department of Film and Media introduced the program.
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Nick Flynn
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First broadcast November 21, 2005
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.
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