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I N T E R V I E W S TO SUBSCRIBE TO THE RADIO TANIA NEWSLETTER PLEASE CLICK HERE SIGHT UNSEEN Sight Unseen is a weekly, half hour arts program that speaks with contemporary artists of all different mediums about the ways in which they see the world and the fundamental aspects of the human condition they are trying to unravel through their work. Sight Unseen is unique in public radio in America and airs both in San Francisco and in London. Every week, it asks poignant questions and engages listeners in an intimate dialogue with the artist and themselves, observing the cultural context we live in. The program airs weekly on Fridays from noon to 12:30 p.m. PST on KALX in Berkeley at 90.7 FM and on Resonance FM in London on Sundays at 11:00 p.m. GMT. To listen to a show, click the title of the show.
HIS HOLINESS THE DALAI LAMA and DR. PAUL EKMAN (PART ONE) HIS HOLINESS THE DALAI LAMA and DR. PAUL EKMAN (PART TWO) In 2003, I traveled around asking people about Happiness. I thought, since I am traveling the States and since part of our Declaration of Independence endows us with the right to pursue Happiness, I wondered what were people doing with that right. What did they think happiness was exactly and what were the things that actually made them happy? Around that time, I read a fascinating article by Malcolm Gladwell, in The New Yorker about a scientist who studied the universality of facial expressions and the ways in which our expressions both reflect and create our emotional state. Smile and you will be happy, for instance. Frown and the muscles in your face will stimulate sadness. The scientist is Paul Ekman, I interviewed him, and at the time I never imagined it would lead to an interview with the Dalai Lama. Dr. Ekman and the Dalai Lama had had several meetings by that point, talking about emotions and science, east and west. They were so inspired by eachother, that they decided instead of meeting in bits here and there, they would come together for a week, in India and meet and speak there, almost 10 hours a day for five days. They did just that and the result is the newly released book Emotional Awareness: Overcoming the Obstacles to Emotional Balance and Compassion. The book is an edited transcription of their conversation over that week in Dharmasala, India. It looks at emotions, where they come from, how we are aware of them, or not, anger, hatred, compassion and practice. Coming from the perspective of one of the world's most respected scientist and one of the world's spiritual leaders, Emotional Awareness is a rich book, filled with insights and ways in which we can generate awareness and effect change in ourselves and the lives of others. I spoke with the Dalai Lama and Paul Ekman at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania this summer. Here, the Dalai Lama expresses why he believed it was important to speak with Dr. Ekman and touches upon some of the things they explored together. This is a two part interview. RED POPPY ART HOUSE (PART ONE) RED POPPY ART HOUSE (PART TWO) The Red Poppy Art House sits on the corner of a main thoroughfare of San Francisco, Folsom Street, a wide street, lined with beautiful, massive trees, victorian houses, bodegas, playgrounds, vacant lots, and, on one special corner, a unique art space. I fell upon the Red Poppy when I first moved to San Francisco, to hear the work of Pablo Neruda, right after the 30th anniversary of his death. The Art House had a series of events, a book launch, concerts. And then some more indescribable ones, consisting of dancers and artists, of performances one could not re-create. It seemed almost like a lab, with its warm lighting, its inviting presence, its undefinable and almost intagible nature. The Red Poppy has now become a premoer location in San Francisco for artistic innovation, where artists from all over the world, come to play music, engage with each other's work, learn, teach, have residencies and simply live as artists, creative minds seeking connection. In a highly institutionalized and structured art world, spaces like the red poppy are becoming much more rare and thus more valued. And now Red Poppy has been chosen by Yerba Buena Center for the Arts for a residency where they will have a series of events exploring "The Living presence of Space", looking at the power that small spaces hold as vibrant centers where artists gather, create and make their home, thus the Red Poppy Art House. I spoke with Todd Brown, founder of the Red Poppy Art House, Meklit Hadero, co-director and resident artist and Caleb Duarte, a resident artist at the affectionately called Poppy. Frida Kahlo may be the most reproduced artist ever, or as curator John Zarobell notes, she definitely is in the top ten. She is surely an icon, her open hearts and her serious gaze, her vibrant colors and her notorious relationship, her sublime beauty and her pained physical existence, all of these are known and all the more felt when one looks at her paintings. We see her on the covers of journals, as pins, t-shirts, magnets, people like to dress like her and there are even groups that imitate Frida. While she didn't create art to be used as a consumerist commodity, she has been adopted by people around the world as a mirror of their inner turmoil and as a beacon of female power. The current exhibit at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art takes us on a journey through her life, in fact, it was co curated by her biographer and we see Frida as she saw herself in her work. We also see the actual Frida Kahlo through a large collection of photographs. In this interview, the voice of John Zarobell, co curator of the Frida Kahlo exhibit at the MoMA in San Francisco. In this conversation, we look at why this exhibition has a particular resonance in San Francisco, what makes the work so powerful and how Frida was seen as a female artist in her time. CHRIS AND DON (a documentary about the love between writer Christopher Isherwood and artist Don Bachardy) In the early 1950s, a beautiful and, some say, controversial love affair was blossoming. Two men met on a beach in Los Angeles and soon fell in love. They were Christopher Isherwood, acclaimed british author, and well known intellectual and the virtually unknown and significantly younger Don Bachardy. They were 30 years apart in age, they were gay and they were open about their relationship at a time when homosexuality was still very much taboo, even in California. However, what ensued was a 30 year relationship, that only ended with Isherwood's passing and a love story that any couple would want to emulate. Isherwood was the author of Berlin Stories, A Meeting by the River and over twenty other works of fiction and translations. Bachardy is an internationally known artist. This context inspired filmmakers Guido Santi and Tina Mascara to make a film about the love between Isherwood and Bachardy titled Chris and Don: A Love Story. The core of the film is the love, respect, friendship and comraderie between these two men from disparatre backgrounds and different generations. But beyond that is the extended community around Chris and Don, the filmmakers and artists, Tennessee Williams, Raymond Carver, WH Auden, Leslie Caron, Liza Minelli and loads of other well know literary and film figures. There is incredible archival footage of all of these. And of course the art work created by Bachardy himself, decades of portraits that he continues to create today. In this interview, I spoke with filmmakers Guido Santi and Tina Mascara and artist Don Bachardy about the film Chris and Don, about Don's memories of Chris and about the intimacy of portraiture, amongst other things. Islam and homosexuality have never mixed well. the Qu'ran very clearly condemns homosexuality leaving muslim gay men and women to feel a deep conflict. When everything that you have grown up with is in direct opposition to how you feel, a deep tension arises and in that comes suffering. Parvez Sharma was a journalist before he decided to make a documentary and travel to 12 different countries to explore this issue. Over the course of six years, A Jihad for Love was created and that film has now come to San Francisco just in time for Pride week. Sharma himself is gay and muslim, open about his sexuality and committed to his religion. As he points out in this interview, Islam isn't just a religion, it's a culture, a way of living, a language, a sense. To turn away from that is to turn away from so much of what makes up ones foundation. In this film, we see the stories of many men and women exploring, struggling with and making conclusions about their culture and their sexuality. The honesty and nakedness of A Jihad for Love is precisely what has made it a world reknowned film, bringing the discussion of homosexuality and Islam into the forefront. In this interview, we speak about the actual term Jihad, its original meanings and the way it has been transformed over the last few years. San Francisco probably has the highest number of therapists per capita in the US. I haven't checked that fact but given the nature of this city and its residents, it would not surprise me if that were true. It further doesn't surprise me that an artist might explore that phenomena and eight years ago, artist Josh Greene did just that by opening what he called an unlicensed therapy office. It was opened in the Mission district and it garnered a regular clientele but it was soon shut down. Real therapists were not pleased. I mean, what about the thousands of dollars and hours they spent on their education! However, the office has been revived in an exhibition titled Amateurs that is at the Wattis Institute in San Francisco. Curated by former Wattis Institute director Ralph Rugoff, Amateurs presents either collaborations with amateurs or work created as amateurs. Unlicensed Therpay fits perfectly in this description. But this is hardly all JoshGreene has done in his artistic career thus far. He has put his apartment up for sale, he has sold money for less than its value, he has represented the artistic process in gallery spaces, and we speak about all of these in this interview we had at his unlicensed therapy office at the Wattis looking at the ephemeral nature of his work, the sometimes boring therapy sessions he has had and whether being an artist has proven to be the right choice for him. NOTE BY NOTE: The Making of a Steinway L1037 One cannot deny the fact that in the western world, we live in a mass production culture. The notion that something can and is handmade seems tremendously outdated. With the influx of technology and its promises of speed and efficiency, it almost seems illogical to make something by hand. That was the first thing that caught filmmaker Ben Niles by surprise when he read an article about the Steinway company, a 150 year old company that has been making each of their pianos, and tuning them, by hand since their inception. The skill it takes to make a grand piano is extraordinary, let alone the time—a full year. In the newly released film Note by Note, Ben Niles tracks the process of making a Steinway L1037. We travel through the factory, with the men and women who craft these fine objects, we observe the characters of the pianos, of the masters that play them and we return to a time where the piano was a galvanizing force, central to the family and community, a time before technology, and we re-visit the strength and potency of craft and the individuality of an object. In 2001, when I was living in the East Village of New York City, I was talking a walk through the tree lined streets, a stroll really. I wasn't headed anywhere in particular and so I wasn't concerned with time. I happened upon a conversation with a young man, sitting on a stoop, reading a book. He was strangely aloof and intriguing and there seemed to be no agenda on either of our parts. We were just engaging in a conversation for this particular period of time We spoke for two hours and then I never saw him in person again and it didn't matter. That wasn't the point. A few months later, I was looking at the photographs of Ryan McGinley, an artist who later would be the youngest perosn to have a solo show at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and in it was that young man I spoke with, Eric, laying next to a friend, looking passed out, on a ruffled bed, its sheets seemingly in card for, an arm above his head, stopped in a moment of time, much like we were on that stoop in the Fall of 2001. Ryan McGinley has since gone one to win prestigious awards, to show his work in all parts of the world and in international magazines. He has done several series of works for the New York Times and the New Yorker recently commented on his current exhibition, I Know Where the Summer Goes, and I am paraphrasing here, as nearly perfect. Spring and By Summer Fall is McGinley's latest exhibition and it is here in San Francisco at Ratio 3. When walking into the light filled space, one is struck by large and small color photographs of young and supple and naked men and women jumping through the air, standing against cliffs, being embraced by bears, standing in fields, living and experiencing what seems like an utterly carefree existence. McGinley has often observed young people as they let themselves go, be it with drugs or sex, at concerts or in water. There's always this sense of release and in that release a deeper sense of mystery and surprise. It is this surprise element that McGinley tends to be attracted to. In this interview with Ryan McGinley, he speaks about the work at Ratio 3, about the element of fantasy, about the medium of photography and about being an observer. I spoke with Ryan at the gallery as they were setting up for the show so you may hear some noise in the background. PHILIP WOOD and CITIZEN: CITIZEN—PART ONE PHILIP WOOD and CITIZEN: CITIZEN—PART TWO Philip Wood, creative director and founder of the internationally recognized art and design company Citizen: Citizen, grew up and lived in a small town on the South Coast of England until he was 34 years old. Thomas Hardy's birthplace, Dorchester, nurtured his craving for beauty and history but left him hungering for a culture he couldn't find there. He became a woodworker, designed and manufactured furniture, opened a furniture and interiors store, then opened a retail clothing store and then left all of this in 2002 to travel the world for a year. He was on a quest to discover what he truly wanted to do in life, where he wanted to live and how. He is now in San Francisco, and by his account, he seems to have found just that. As he recently said while leaving the launch of "Untitled", one of his latest products, "I look at projects like this and I think to myself there is nothing else in the world I would rather be doing." Citizen:Citizen was initially established in 2004 with two partners, one of whom Philip had known from his days in England, a friend and colleague whom he believed saw the world in similar ways that he did. And that is precisely what Citizen continues to be founded upon, ways of seeing. In 2005, Citizen took a journey across the states, this time with one owner, Philip himself, and a curatorial vision that continues to manifest itself. It is nearly impossible to describe what Citizen is exactly and at the same time it is simply one thing, a landscape within which objects live to inspire thought and engagement enhancing the way we see and live our daily lives. Philip is the curator of the collection of objects ranging from books, to jewelry, to vibrators, to tables, to ceramics. He manufactures these objects and retails them in stores across North America. Some of his works are in galleries and museums. Beyond that, Citizen offers a whole host of experiences, from virtual galleries to national events, interactive e.mails to blogs. I spoke with Philip Wood at his home in San Francisco, a home filled with furniture he made himself in his former incarnation. It was 1994 when I first learned of Lawrence Ferlinghetti's work. Even though I had lived in San Francisco and had visited the bookstore and publishing company he had started in 1953, City Lights Books, it was until a very close friend from NY suggested I read A Coney Island of the Mind. Just the title itself was enough to enchant, the idea of Coney Island, a coastal place of all sorts, walking down a board walk with images of hot dogs and the zooming sounds of roller coasters. The reality of Coney Island is fantastic enough. To actually make it a place of the mnid seems even more extreme. This collection poems is seeing its 50th anniversary this year and for that reason, I had the opportunity to interview Lawrence Ferlinghetti the day before he was slated to leave for Italy and France. He's 89 years old, he has lived in San Francisco for 57 years, he published Allen Ginsberg's HOWL, he created the center for the beats, he was San Francisco's first poet laureate, there is a street named after him , he has traveled the world, he saw the destruction of Nagasaki, charred bodies, that changed his idea of politics and the "truth" forever. I visited Lawrence Ferlinghetti at his home in North Beach, a quintessential San Francisco neighborhood that still has the energy of another time, with its winding streets, its Italian trattoria's, and, at its center, City Lights Books. Ferlinghetti's most recent book of poetry is titled Poetry as Insurgent Art and in this interview, part one of two, we visit the power of poetry, the evolution of political action, and what it feels like to be 89 years old. Filmmaker, writer, actor, cinematographer, artist, collector and producer John Waters has always been a performer. When he was in highschool, he put on puppet shows for kids and later, finding himself a bit bored by the cleanliness of the shows, decided to throw in some blood and guts....He knew what his calling was from early on and he had the community and the stamina to bring his calling to fruition. His first film, Hag in a Black Leather Jacket, was made when he was 18 years old but the film that made him infamous was the one that came 8 years later, Pink Flamingos. In preperation for this interview, I watched Pink Flamingos for the first time having heard it countlessly referenced but never really knowing what it was about. I was shocked, truly shocked. I wondered how a filmmaker who had directed a 200+ cross dressing actor to bend down and eat dog feces had become so famous, and now, almost, just almost mainstream. What makes Pink Flamingos and all of John Waters' subsequent films so special is not the shock effect (one that comes naturally to Waters). One of the things that makes his work stand out is the compassion in them, the sensitivity, the sense of comraderie. and all of this is reflected very much in his character. The latest incarnation of John Waters is Hairspray. It was first made by him in 1988, it then turned into a huge Broadway hit and now he has executive produced the remake of the film. Needless to say, John Waters has surely developed since his earlier films that were made on the smallest of budgets and consisted of a cast of characters that were his friends. The thing is that, as much as he could, John Waters did things his way, and this, along with so many other talents, makes him one of the best filmmakers today. Recently John Waters has had a more recent incarnation, that of artist and art collector. His new show titled, Reckless Eyeballs, is a reflection of some of John Waters' social fascinations. The work in the show, most of which is photography but also includes a sculpture and two sound pieces, looks at the world of film, of art, and of politics. Waters holds no punches and the show is irreverent and hilarious and poignant. It is at the Rena Bransten gallery and I spoke with John Waters at the gallery. Steve Buscemi has been a fixture in the independent film circuit for nearly 20 years and has been acting for most of his life. He has over 100 acting credits to his name, he has written, produced, been part of soundtracks and directed. His most recent film, Interview, which he both directed and stars in, marks the first in yet another foray of Buscemi's, bringing the films of assassinated filmmaker Theo Van Gogh to the screen. You may remember the violent death of Theo Van Gogh at the hands of an Islamist fundamentalist in the streets of Amsterdam. Theo Van Gogh was shot and then nearly decapitated, a 5 page note was attached to his body with a knife. Theo Van Gogh was quite vocal about his anti Islamic sentiments yet the backlash that he received seemed to shock the world. Now, in his memory, Steve Buscemi has created the film company Triple Theo and will re-create three of Theo Van Gogh's films. Interview is the first. Steve Buscemi was born in Brooklyn NY, his father was a sanitation worker, his mom a hostess at the local Howard Johnson motel. Before he began his acting career, Buscemi was a NY city firefighter in Little Italy, NYC for four years. He joined the experimental theatre company The Wooster Group and his acting career grew. Steve Buscemi often plays neurotic characters, full of angst and frustration. He is a permanent fixture in films by the Coen brothers but the role that really put him in the spotlight was that of Mr. Pink in Reservoir Dogs. Buscemi's character in Interview is not neurotic but quite persistent. The story is this: Pierre Peders, a war reporter for a Washington newspaper is asked to do a fluff piece on a well known b actress, the reason being that his "facts" in his political pieces have not been very reliable. Uninterested and frustrated with this assignment, he does nothing to learn about the actress who gets extraordinarily frustrated herself. What ensues is a seeming cat and mouse chase in the actress' loft where each party reveals more or maybe less than they would like to. The film is disquieting and uncomfortable and memorable. I spoke with Steve Buscemi while he was in San Francisco promoting his film, Interview. BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION | WOMAN'S HOUR For over 50 years Woman's Hour has featured the famous and infamous, men and women who have, quite literally, defined their times. Live broadcasting, with all its risks and rewards, has always been fundamental to Woman's Hour. Even in the early days, when a slip of the tongue could prompt a national outrage, the programme never shirked from tackling inflammatory items. Today Woman's Hour combines live and pre-recorded material and is the longest running and one of the most listened to programs on the BBC. For more information, visit the Woman's Hour website. Gee’s Bend is a small rural community nestled into a curve in the Alabama River. Known during the Depression years as "Alabama Africa", it was the site of cotton plantations owned primarily by Joseph Gee. The poor rural hamlet has recently enjoyed huge success as an exhibition of quilts has toured the United States. The town’s women have developed a distinctive, bold style based on African American colours, but with a geometric simplicity reminiscent of Amish quilts. The New York Times called their quilts "some of the most miraculous works of modern art America has produced." Tania Ketenjian visited the exhibition, which has now reached de Young Museum in San Francisco, where she met curator Diane Mott and some of the quilt makers, namely Lucy Marie Mingo, Loretta Petway, Louisiana Petway Bendolph and Mary Lee Bendolph. BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION | THE WORLD SERVICE—CULTURE SHOCK The BBC World Service is the leading international broadcaster. Services are also available online and on video. Our network of correspondents provide impartial news, reports and analysis in 33 languages from locations around the world. We are celebrating our 75th anniversary. Culture Shock, The Ticket and The Strand are arts and culture programs. I have helped produceseveral pieces. Please click here to listen to Culture Shock. FIXED GEAR BIKES TREND IN SAN FRANCISCO BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION | THE WORLD SERVICE—THE TICKET RACE EXCHANGEABILITY IN THEATRE ROLES RTE-Ireland's national RADIO BROADCASTER | THE ELEVENTH HOUR The Eleventh Hour is RTÉ Radio 1's new late night arts and culture show, presented by Páraic Breathnach. As well as covering arts and cultural events and festivals, The Eleventh Hour will initiate debate, argument and creative participation among its late night audience. The programme will also be working with arts and cultural groups on projects and events that will allow listeners to get involved in the creative process. For more information, visit the The Eleventh Hour website. Vivienne Westwood, the one-time creator of the punk aesthetic with Malcolm McLaren, is now one of the leading figures in haute couture. Much of Westwood's work is inspired by painting and costume history. A major exhibition of her work took place in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London last year, and the same exhibition is now on view in San Francisco. Tania Ketenjian is a radio presenter living in San Francisco who met Vivienne Westwood, and on tonight's show we hear her interview with the designer. ACCENT ELIMINATION by NINA KATCHADOURIAN Artist Nina Katchadourian lives in New York and every day she comes across posters advertising courses in "accent elimination". Both her parents have very strong and very distinct accents. Her father is Armenian, raised in Lebanon and French educated and her mother was born in Finland and speaks Swedish (she also happens to be quite the linguist and can pick up all kinds of languages). As a child, Nina would always try and imitate her parents' accents to no avail. For this project, she invited her parents towork with a speech coach to try and eliminate their accents as she conversely tried to adopt theirs. This project reflects "the tricky maneuvering between the desire to preserve the distinctive marks of one's culture, on one hand, and to decrease them in order to seem less foreign, on the other."
CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION | DEFINITELY NOT THE OPERA Definitely Not the Opera is created by a dedicated and talented gang of audio mercenaries based in Winnipeg and Toronto. We survive on an unhealthy diet of celebrity gossip, TV show recaps and office dance-offs. For this program, DNTO interviewed me about a piece I had done almost two years ago about an exhibition at POND gallery called Shopdropping. They focused particularly on a project by Marc Horowitz called "Dinner with Marc". Listen to the INTERVIEW WITH DNTO AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION | THE NIGHT AIR The Night Air is broadcast each Sunday from 8.30pm. Part one is repeated on Fridays at 9.35pm, Part Two is repeated on Saturdays at midnight. The Night Air is a new kind of venture for Radio National - an ever-changing, 90-minute radio composition of music, sounds, ideas and stories. The program is a seductive mix of forms ranging through short monologues, songs, dialogues, essays, poems, short stories, cut-ups, columns, speeches, recipes, sound art, rants, environmental recordings, weather reports and instrumental music. For more information, visit The Night Air website. The Collector’s Edition the works of some contributors to The Night Air including a potted history of LSD; a visit to some sound artists in a San Francisco gallery, and a backdrop of local found sound. Works by: Tania Ketenjian; Dean Champ; Fiona Negrin; and Annlise Friend. PUBLIC RADIO INTERNATIONAL | STUDIO 360 Current issues, events and trends in art are a jumping off point for an exploration of ideas that aren't necessarily "news," yet are provocative and offer a lens on experience that only art can provide. Studio 360 presents richly textured and emotionally resonant stories that look at art's creative influence and transformative power in everyday life. Studio 360 is a weekly show that airs nationally through Public Radio International. For times on your local NPR station, visit Studio 360 for station listings. POP-UP TATTOO PARLOR AT ART BASEL MIAMI BEACH 2007 Last year at Art Basel Miami Beach, I came across something I was truly surprised by, a tattoo parlor that was only up for three days where collectors could get pieces they would never be able to sell again, unless they took their skin off. Click here for the longer version I made for Dazed and Confused Magazine. For three months, my great friend Michael and I traveled across the United States and I asked people what they thought Happiness is and what are five things that make them happy. These were their answers. For this program, i interviewed members of the San Francisco based collective Quorum about thieir project at Art Basel Miami 2006 called Blood for Art. The largest collection of Matisse's outside of the Matisse Museum in Paris, Picasso's first sculptures ever made in concrete, Miros, Giacomettis, David Smith, Lichtenstein, Antony Gormley, James Turrell, these are just a selection of works that Raymond Nasher and his wife Patsy have collected over the past 50 years. Raymond Nasher passed away on March 16, 2007. This is a small tribute to his life. Above is a longer interview. Click here to listen to the piece. PUBLIC RADIO INTERNATIONAL | THE WORLD During the 1930's and 40's the Nazis stole countless works of art throughout Europe. A new documentary called "The Rape of Europa" tells the story of the massive plunder of Europe's finest treasures...and the art experts who were sent to Europe to help recover them. AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA | WEEKEND AMERICA Weekend America is a two-hour program service designed to fit the weekend state of mind. Barbara Bogaev and Bill Radke host the program each week from Los Angeles, inviting listeners to a lively conversation about the issues of the week, the arts, and public affairs. We have some time, on weekends, to see the world through each other's eyes. To walk in someone else's shoes a bit, and go to places we wouldn't otherwise go. Stop by for a weekly visit with 300 million neighbors. For times on your local NPR station, visit Weekend America for station listings. EMOTIONS, ANGER AND COMPASSION—A conversation between The Dalai Lama and Dr. Paul Ekman What do a spiritual leader and a scientist have in common in their views about emotions and compassion? Here's what. How do you turn a Crate & Barrel catalog into a giant social experiment? Artist Marc Horowitz found a way and it was as simple as writing his cell phone number on a piece of paper. How do you manage your life knowing you're only on the earth for a short time? Filmmakers David and Hi-Jin Hodge have created a video exhibit called: Impermanence: the Time of Man. Their work is part of an international program called The Missing Peace Project. The program's purpose is to renew and revitalize global dialogue about peace. Weekend America sat down with the filmmakers to talk about how their thoughts on impermanence changed during the making of their work. As a child, Brian Copeland was noticed quickly in his San Leandro neighborhood. He was Black. His neighbors were nearly all white and many of them were heavily racist. He shares his experiences from that time in his one-man show called "Not A Genuine Black Man." Producer Tania Ketenjian joined him recently for a walk through his old neighborhood. NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO | DAY TO DAY French video artist Sylvie Blocher makes sight specific pieces. She calls these works Universal Local Art or ULA’s. Blocher goes to a place and creates a work of art based on a universal issue that manifests itself locally so when the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art called upon her to make a ULA in San Francisco, she decided to do a piece on money, an issue she believes has a strong presence here. WPS1 ART RADIO WPS1 is the world's first internet art radio station.The station's programs combine talk and music shows hosted by contemporary writers, artists and musicians with rare historic material that includes the entire audio archive of the Museum of Modern Art. WPS1 has become a live audio museum in cyberspace, extending the visual art, book, music, film, video and performance programs that P.S.1 and MoMA are known for in ways previously unforeseen. Here, at www.wps1.org, is the first all-art, all-the-time radio station, where expression of all kinds remains truly free. Shows air for one week, twice a day. San Francisco: Our Correspondent airs approximately every 2-4 weeks. It seems like issues of gender roles and identity continue coming to the forefront, especially in the art world. As we look back on history, it was the male artists that always took the lead, women were not meant to be artists. They were the subject of great art works but as artists themselves, they faded in the background. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has a series called New Work and this year, curator Joshua Shirkey has chosen three young male artists who directly look at notions of masculinity and the ways in which these manifest through image and medium. CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS | PODCAST Over the next few months, I will be producing a podcast for the California College of the Arts titled The Future of Culture. To hear the podcast, please click here. KALW is a pioneering educational radio station licensed to the San Francisco Unified School District and broadcast at 91.7 FM. KAWL was the first FM station in San Francisco, as well as the first educational FM station in the United States, and the first station in San Francisco to broadcast NPR. Programming includes National Public Radio, Canadian and British broadcasting, as well as local productions. A Few Things Considered airs weekly on Sundays 3:30-4:00 p.m. PST on KALW. ART AND SPACE Real estate prices in San Francisco are forcing
artists to move out. Not only is housing ourtrageous but finding a place
to work has become more and more of a challenge. What creative solutions
are artists coming up with, where are they now finding themselves and
what is the future of an art community in the city. SORORITIES (THE BBC | WOMAN'S HOUR) FOG AS ARCHITECTURE (STUDIO 360 | PUBLIC RADIO INTERNATIONAL) UNLICENSED THERAPIST (STUDIO 360) LUSCIOUS GARAGE FOR HYBRIDS (CULTURE SHOCK) DALAI LAMA AND PAUL EKMAN (REPORTING RELIGION) A WALK THROUGH SAN FRANCISCO WITH LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI (THE STRAND—BBC WS) © 2008 All Rights Reserved. |
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