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[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aASl1B-pOw[/embedyt] Ben Gould tells how a recent diagnosis of Tourette Syndrome precipitated a career shift to performance art, through which he mines the expressive potential of his body's unpredictable energies. Hugo Montoya details how a lifestyle of beachcombing and photographing led to a discipline of...
[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX1FgMXQDfo[/embedyt] Anne Lindberg talks about the temporal effects of landscape, literature as confidence, and discipline as generators for her work. Mary Chatham explains her process as discovery through materials, leaving preconceived ideas at the studio door, and embracing the in-between. ...
Mary Carlson shares her enthusiasm for the lives of female saints and their various depictions in Medieval and Renaissance art. (13:32) Chelsea Culprit talks about the expectations placed on female identity and visual strategies for overturning gender stereotypes. [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI7MjJVKAjA[/embedyt]...
[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bt0iit12Yl4[/embedyt] Luc Sante discusses teaching writing, anarchist legacies, and valuing histories of everyday life--including his own--through old photographs and ephemera. Laurie Lambrecht elaborates a mindset of careful observation, knitting, and playing with the edges of the natural and social orders in which we live....
[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJdOtzQcEvw[/embedyt]Heidi Ewing describes the free license granted by documentary filmmaking and getting into the headspace of different groups and characters. Artist Chris Martin recounts his years as an art therapist and learning to find--and give--pleasure through his own painting....
Ghanaian-Scottish architect and author Lesley Lokko discusses racial identity on different continents and diversity in education as a hope for solving global problems. (14:25) Artist Olaf Breuning talks about lightness and humor as points of entry into darker, more complex subjects. [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO7Dn6Z04sk[/embedyt]...
Mark Dion discusses his appreciation for folly buildings, obscure departments of science, and being implicated in nature's demise. (13:43) Elaine Mayes reflects on forty-five years of documenting hippie culture, rock musicians, and her friendship with photographer Helen Levitt. [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xnAVuDScKk[/embedyt]...
In this episode, recorded in the Catskill Mountains of Upstate New York, Kevin Moore talks with filmmaker Nanette Burstein, director of Hulu's documentary Hillary, and performer Kevin Bewersdorf. Burstein describes biographical filmmaking and the pitfalls of public perception for controversial figures, such as Hillary Clinton. Bewersdorf muses on...
Hugh Hayden considers social camouflage and the underlying discomforts of modern American life. Cheryl Donegan flirts at the edges of categorical thinking and imagines the difficult--and opportune--stages of imminent societal change. [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRI25hPPpGQ[/embedyt]...
[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCYBPowarO0[/embedyt]Tabitha Soren discusses journalism and art as different kinds of storytelling and her embrace of more complex notions of truth over time. Carroll Dunham considers the power and limits of painting and its ability to materialize both personal and historical visions of the world....
