Barbara London Calling

In the fifth episode of "Barbara London Calling" 2.0, Barbara speaks with Amar Kanwar, an Indian artist whose masterful films and multimedia work explore the politics of power, violence and justice. Born in 1964 in New Delhi, where he is still based, Amar was a researcher for occupational health and safety in the coal mining belt of central India. He turned to art making in 1990, with work that weaves together critical issues of indigenous rights, gender, religious fundamentalism and ecology.

In the fourth episode of "Barbara London Calling" 2.0, Barbara speaks with Australian artist Tracey Moffat. A true innovator, Tracey began her career as an experimental filmmaker; she has since shown all over the world, including at the Venice Biennale. Her unflinching artwork is a mix of childhood memories, popular culture, history, film, television, literature and dreams, as she uses fiction to comment on her own personal history and on serious issues of social history and the volatile political landscape.

The third episode of Season 2.0 features a conversation with artist Lorraine O'Grady, whose monumental career was recently showcased at the Brooklyn Museum in her first-ever retrospective, “Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And.” Revisiting her trenchant performances and artwork from the past 60 years, Lorraine speaks with Barbara about changing dynamics in the art world and the struggles she faced trying to reveal the art world to itself.

In the second episode of Season 2.0, Barbara speaks with software-savvy artist Jakob Kudsk Steensen, whose immersive installations have been seen in the Venice Biennale and in the Berlin megaclub Berghain. Jakob tells Barbara about his first forays into Unreal Engine, plus the sights and sounds—and smells—he discovered in his adventurous field recordings.

In the season premiere of Barbara London Calling 2.0, Barbara speaks with boundary-breaking artist Auriea Harvey. An internet art pioneer, Auriea was a member of the legendary collective hell.com. She speaks with Barbara about the early days of internet art, the role of video games and augmented reality, and how NFTs combine her twin passions for digital art and sculpture.

It's Barbara London Calling 2.0! In the trailer Season 2, curator and author Barbara London lays out her vision for another 12 conversations with artists from all over the world, each working at the forefront of technology and creativity.

Season finale! For the thirteenth episode of "Barbara London Calling"—the final episode of Season 1—Barbara changes things up. After 12 conversations with artists, for this special episode she speaks with a curator: namely, Chrissie Iles, a leading authority on contemporary art and the moving image. As the Anne & Joel Ehrenkranz curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Chrissie is helping to build new spaces and platforms for artists to continue their exploration of technology and creativity.

For the twelfth episode of "Barbara London Calling," Barbara speaks with Didem Pekün, a Turkish–British artist now based in Berlin. Didem's lyrical video installations interrogate ideas of identity, displacement and statelessness, as she "changes languages, changes SIM cards, changes cities" in what she calls a "perpetual effort to reach and keep my people close to me."

In the eleventh episode of "Barbara London Calling," Barbara speaks with Brooklyn-based artist Marina Rosenfeld. As a composer, Marina orchestrated a performance art piece called "Shear Frost Orchestra," which featured 17 women each playing an electric guitar using nothing but bottles of nail polish. Sitting in a line, the women were directed to play their guitars in a series of choreographed actions: drop, hop, drone, scratch, and "A" for anything. Marina is currently artist in residence at Nokia Bell Labs, where she found inspiration in an experimental prototype for a multi-microphone nicknamed the Deathstar.

In the tenth episode of "Barbara London Calling," Barbara speaks with artist Bani Haykal. Born in 1985 and based in Singapore, Bani straddles the world of language, art and music, as he picks apart the nuances of our technology-filled lives. His work explores the power of commonalities across different languages—but also the deeper power of incongruencies across those same languages.