Fresh Art International

Art with a sense of place is at the center of our show. To set the stage, hear about art throughout the magic city of Miami. We start with Franky Cruz’s butterfly project at Spinello Projects. Next, Hattie Mae Williams‘s use the Miami Marine Stadium as the backdrop for her Tattooed Ballerinas. Finally, we focus on Project 305  which invites people across Miami to submit sounds and images that will become part of an ambitious multimedia orchestral portrait of the city to premiere in October 2017.

With us in the studio at Jolt Radio, Miami are New World Symphony’s Director of Community Engagement Cassidy Fitzpatrick and Project 305 Project Manager Joy Lampkin-Foster. Jonathan David Kane, Filmmaker/Project 305 Lead Artist calls in.

Sound Editor: Guney Ozsan

With curator Catherine Morris, we talk about A Year of Yes: Reimagining Feminism at the Brooklyn Museum. The brilliant series of thematic exhibitions and programs on feminism and feminist art celebrates the 10th anniversary of Museum's Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art.

Judy Chicago's Dinner Party, , a groundbreaking installation in the Brooklyn Museum collection, inspires this complex project. Featured in our conversation: Beverly Buchanan: Rituals and Ruins, Marilyn Minter: Pretty/Dirty, Georgia O'Keeffe: Living Modern, and the 2017 version of Utopia Station.

Sound Editor: Guney Ozsan | Recorded on Skype 14 Jan2017

Related Episode: Topical Playlist—Art and Feminism

Related Links: A Year of Yes: Reimagining Feminism at the Brooklyn Museum, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art

We produced this episode from one of the Fresh Art International radio shows that streamed live from the studio at Jolt Radio Miami. Listen to learn about how culture producers are reinventing urban landscapes with pedestrian paths and temporal public art projects. To begin, Atlanta architect Ryan Gravel introduces the Beltline, his design project that envisioned the transformation of an abandoned railway into a parkscape at the heart of Atlanta. Founder of Miami's Underline Meg Thomson Daly explains how the land below the City's Metrorail will evolve into a 10-mile linear park and urban trail. Curator Amanda Sanfilippo talks about the public art interventions of Fringe Projects Miami, and artist Agustina Woodgate invites listeners to tune in to the latest Radioee.net project: a bike-powered mobile internet radio station that explores the future path of the Underline.

Sound Editor: Guney Ozsan

Related Episodes: Agustina Woodgate on RadioEE, Amanda Sanfilippo on Fringe Projects.

Artist Zoë Buckman is in fight mode. Her own boxing gloves figure in recent mixed media installations, spoken word, and sound art projects that defend women's reproductive rights. This episode is an excerpt from the 3 Dec 2016 Fresh Art International show on Untitled, Radio, Miami Beach.

Sound Editor: Guney Ozsan | Swami Ji spoken word performance audio courtesy Zoë Buckman

Get inspired by our conversations on Fourth Wave Feminist Art. We begin with a flashback to a past conversation with artist Jillian Mayer on her project 400 nudes. Filmmaker Robert Adanto and artist Leah Schrager discuss the F Word Film: a look at radical, 4th wave feminist performance art. You’ll also hear about Adanto’s new documentary titled Born Just Now on artist Marta Jovanovic.

Sound Editor: Guney Ozsan

Lost Spaces and Stories of Vizcaya—Curator Gina Wouters, and artists Mira Lehr and Yara Travieso talk about What This Place Does Not Remember, one of eleven projects in the contemporary art exhibition Lost Spaces and Stories at Vizcaya Museum and Gardens in Miami, Florida.

The inspiration for Mira Lehr's and Yara Travieso's dramatic Baroque performance installation? The wild garden at the edge of the museum's south property and Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, an English opera he composed more than 300 years ago. The opera tells the mythological story of Dido, Queen of Carthage, and her love for the Trojan hero Aeneas. In What This Place Does Not Remember, the two contemporary artists personify Vizcaya as the legendary Queen Dido. Lehr's environmental installation sets the stage for Dido's Lament, the performance that Travieso directs. An opera singer, a dancer, and a cellist enact the queen’s tragic love story within a lyric web of black rope that evokes the surrounding mangroves.

Sound Editor: Guney Ozscan | Dido's Lament performance: Amanda Crider (Mezzo Soprano), Stephanie Jaimes (Cellist)

Immerse yourself in the latest sound art, including some from Miami Art Week 2016. Sound artist Stephen Vitiello introduces the genre before we hear sounds from Faena Art‘s Tide by Side event, and a conversation with Yosvany Terry, who composed the track for Conga Irreversible, a performance designed by the Cuban artist duo los carpinteros. You’ll experience Naama Tsabar‘s Art Basel Public Sector performance, Composition 18. Studio guest Monica McGivern, one of the Composition 18 performers, remembers that night. Monica shares sounds she captured during her year-long artist residency at ArtCenter/South Florida downtown.

Sound Editor: Guney Ozsan

Curator Jochen Volz talks about the 32nd São Paulo Biennial exhibition titled "Live Uncertainty." With curators Júlia Rebouças, Gabi Ngcobo, Lars Bang Larsen and Sofía Olascoaga, Volz designed the exhibition to resonate with the park’s spatial dynamic; many of the installations in the exhibition are living environments. Allowing political protests within the pavilion, taking performances out into the city, and involving local communities in creating projects, the biennial demonstrates the vital role of creativity in a world where the future of free expression, human rights and the environment seems uncertain.

Sound editor: Guney Ozsan

Here's one of the art talk radio shows we hosted during UNTITLED, Art on Miami Beach, December 2016. We’re thrilled to add our energy to an art fair that’s more of an international exhibition than any other we’ve encountered. In this segment, you'll hear host Cathy Byrd in conversation with Vivian Caccuri.

Vivian Caccuri’s work creates interrelations among music, real and virtual architecture, public space, the body and performativity in objects, installations and performances. Vivian has developed projects in many cities in Brazil and abroad, including Manaus (Brazilian Amazon), Helsinki, Riga, Warsaw, Oslo, Valparaiso, Venice and Accra. Her sound works and compositions have been broadcasted in radio stations such as Resonance FM (London), Kunstradio (Vienna) and Rádio Mirabilis (Rio de Janeiro).

Here's one of the art talk radio shows we hosted during UNTITLED, Art on Miami Beach, December 2016. We’re thrilled to add our energy to an art fair that’s more of an international exhibition than any other we’ve encountered. In this segment, you'll hear host Cathy Byrd in conversation with Brook Davis Anderson and Trevor Schoonmaker.

Brooke Davis Anderson is Executive Director of Prospect New Orleans/U.S. Biennial. From 2010 to 2012 Anderson was Deputy Director of Curatorial Planning at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). In this role, Anderson oversaw the Watts Towers Conservation and Community Collaboration, and the “Curatorial Diversity Initiative,” a Mellon-funded pilot program aiming to change the demographics of professionals in museums across the nation.

Trevor Schoonmaker is the Artistic Director of the U.S. Triennial, Prospect New Orleans 4(P.4), scheduled to open November 11, 2017. He is also the Chief Curator and Patsy R. and Raymond D. Nasher Curator of Contemporary Art at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. Hired in 2006 as its first contemporary art curator, he has been instrumental in shaping the museum’s curatorial vision and contemporary art collection.