Farrah Karapetian is an artist based in California. Known for her large-scale photograms, Farrah’s wide-ranging practice incorporates sculpture, performance, and different forms of mark-making to stretch the photographic medium as she is driven by her intense and rigorous curiosity. In our conversation, Farrah and I talked about the appeal of the photographic medium, the tension between constructing an image and the happy accident, and the ethics of artistic beauty. Then in the second segment, we discussed the Nardal sisters and how we develop a language around issues like exoticization.

(Conversation recorded March 24, 2021.)

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Show Notes:

• Farrah Karapetian
• Farrah Karapetian - Muscle Memory
• Farrah Karapetian - Stagecraft
• Farrah Karapetian - Slips & Pushes
• HereIn Journal - “Chantel Paul on Farrah Karapetian”
• AnomolousCo - Beckett & The Virtual tickets
• Diane Rosenstein Gallery - Expo Chicago Online 2021
• Farrah Karapetian in Conversation with Tracy Sharpley-Whiting
• Venice Family Clinic Art Walk + Auction 2021
• Orange County Museum of Art - 2013 California-Pacific Triennial
• Erving Goffman - The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
• Claire A. Warden
• Paula Riff
• Thomas Demand
• Vik Muniz
• Farrah Karapetian - “The Kitchen”
• Farrah Karapetian - “Its Negative”
• Vanessa Beecroft
• Tino Sehgal
• James Van Der Zee
• Rineke Dijkstra
• Bertholt Brecht
• Augusto Boal
• Farrah Karapetian - Relief
• Farrah Karapetian - Flags & Teleprompters
• Ingrid Sischy - “Good Intentions”
• David Levi Strauss - Between the Eyes: Essays on Photography and Politics
• André Breton - Nadja
• Anahid Nersessian - Keats’s Odes: A Lover’s Discourse
• Jeanne Nardal
• Paulette Nardal
• Alain Locke
• W. E. B. Du Bois
• Steven Y. Wong - Circles and Circuits: Chinese Caribbean Art
• Mark Sealy - Decolonising the Camera: Photography in Racial Time
• Robert Rauschenberg - Borealis 1988-92
• Marie-Magdaleine Carbet - “Obeah” and Other Martinican Stories
• Langston Hughes - I Wonder as I Wander: An Autobiographical Journey
• Lola Álvarez Bravo
• Setting Sun: Writings by Japanese Photographers

Transcript Episode Credits

• Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa
• Music: Podington Bear
• Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo