Creative Time Reports

Poet Tom Healy sits down with storyteller Mike Daisey to discuss the motivating ethos of his work and political engagement, especially in light of his recent show “American Utopias.”

In October, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments challenging the constitutionality of current surveillance law—or, more precisely, debating who has the right to challenge it. The ACLU’s Jameel Jaffer, lead attorney for the case, reports back.

Award-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras discusses her documentaries centered on post-9/11 America with Creative Time's chief curator, Nato Thompson, in this episode of Forms of Life.

I Ran into Iran’s second episode focuses on what Iran, the United States and Israel have in common: the need for an “enemy.”

In 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments from the ACLU challenging the constitutionality of the FISA Amendments Act of 2008. We spoke with Director of the ACLU, Center for Democracy, Jameel Jaffer the lead attorney appearing before the court prior to the hearing on Monday, October 29th.

In this episode of Forms of Life, Creative Time’s Chief Curator Nato Thompson speaks with Anton Vidokle, artist and co-founder of the international art network e-flux, about alternative economies, the mutability of money and the prospects for a new “.art” Internet domain.

I Ran into Iran talks with artists Dread Scott and Nima Esmailpour about flag burning in the United States and Iran. Who burns a U.S. flag? Why do they do it? Has the context in which the flag is burned changed over the years?

As Occupy Wall Street celebrated its first anniversary, Forms of Life host Nato Thompson talks to artist and activist Mark Read about his street interventions and the fate of the movement.

Haitian writer Jean-Euphèle Milcé documents the political, material and emotional aftermath of the catastrophic 2010 earthquake. “What remains, in spite of everything,” he writes, “is the possibility of spray-painting the walls with long poems like revolt songs on the eve of a big upheaval.”

For this Creative Time Reports Audio Dispatch, Editor Marisa Mazria Katz visits Tunisia-based video artist and photographer Nicène Kossentini one year after the country’s uprising, also known as the Jasmine Revolution, against dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.