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Fresh Art International episodes

  • Fresh Talk: Laurie Anderson

    Artist Laurie Anderson talks about her new film Heart of a Dog in this episode recorded at The Wolfsonian museum on Miami Beach. The film brings together everything we love about Anderson’s experimental music, visual art, poetry, film, and photography: in her own voice, with her own artwork, animation and 8mm home video, and a score made of her own compositions, she tells an exquisite, heartbreaking story about her little dog Lolabelle.

    8 min
  • Fresh Talk: Contemporary Istanbul with Ali Güreli
    Turkish art collector and hotelier Ali Güreli talks about the evolution of Contemporary Istanbul, the international fair also known as CI. The regional show that Güreli founded  in 2005 has grown to feature 102 galleries from 24 countries. This November, the tenth fair brought 86,000 visitors to Istanbul.

    Sound Editor: Kris McConnachie | Sound Effects: Contemporary Istanbul
    9 min
  • Fresh Talk: Oliver Beer
    British artist Oliver Beer talks about how he explores the acoustical character of Kiliç Ali Paşa Hamam, a stunning Turkish bath designed more than 400 years ago by the legendary architect Sinan. Inside the hot, steamy, inner chamber of this historic space, a small group of young Turkish opera singers rehearse Beer's composition "Call to Sound." Their public performance will take place for one night only, on the eve of the 14th Istanbul Biennial.
    10 min
  • Fresh Talk: Felipe Dulzaides
    Cuban artist Felipe Dulzaides talks about FD Plays FD, the multi-media installation he created in memory of his father for the 12th Havana Biennial. For more than four decades—before and after Fidel Castro established his revolutionary government in 1959, the highly regarded jazz musician was active on the Cuban music scene. Our conversation takes place in a penthouse apartment of Edificio FOCSA, the tallest building in Havana.

    Sound Editor: Kris McConnachie
    9 min
  • When Poland Takes Haiti to Venice

    Artist Joanna Malinowska talks about Halka/Haiti, the panoramic film project she and her partner CT Jasper produced for the Polish Pavilion at the 56th Venice Art Bienniale. Inspired by a little known chapter in Polish history and Werner Herzog's film Fitzcarraldo, they brought the Polish national opera company to the mountain village of Cazale, in Haiti. With Polish performers, and local musicians and dancers, they presented Poland's national opera Halka to the Haitian town's Polish descendants. The film of the performance on view in the Bienniale effectively brings Haiti to Venice.

    Sound Editor: Kris McConnachie

    Related Episode: Contemporary Psyche on View in Venice Art Biennale

    Related Links: Joanna Malinowska, Halka/Haiti, CT Jasper, Fitzcarraldo, Halka 

    10 min
  • Fresh Talk: Anish Kapoor

    In France, renowned sculptor Anish Kapoor presents his singular work in two landmark settings—the Dominican convent of Sainte Marie de la Tourette and the royal palace of Versailles. He talks about his experiences during the press preview for Lyon's 13th Contemporary Art Biennial.

    Sound Editor: Kris McConnachie

    10 min
  • Fresh Talk: The Studios of Key West
    The Studios of Key West is the latest feature in our series about international residency programs for artists, writers, and musicians. Director Jed Dodds, and residents Josie Sigler, Lori Swartz, and Cara Bonewitz talk about what it's like to create new work on the legendary island that sits at the southern tip of U.S. Route 1.
    9 min
  • Fresh Talk: Jérôme Sans and Liu Xiaodong
    French curator Jérôme Sans and Chinese artist Liu Xiaodong talk about Xiaodong's exhibition Painting as Shooting at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice, Italy. On view for three months during the 56th Venice Art Biennale, the show reveals how Xiaodong approaches his work with the eyes and the storyboard practice of a filmmaker. His daily diary entries, the photos he takes, and the people he meets come to life in his paintings—his subjects play lead roles in paintings that depict contemporary life in unsettled environments the world over.
    8 min
  • Fresh Talk: Cesar Cornejo
    Peruvian artist Cesar Cornejo talks about how his project for the 12th Havana Biennial expands on a concept he first realized in Puno, Peru. In Cuba, the project site is a local family's home on the hillside of Casablanca, a neighborhood near the entrance to Havana Harbor. His unique sculptural intervention evokes both the family's history and the architectural design of the Guggenheim museum in Bilbao, Spain.
    9 min
  • Fresh Talk: Marinella Senatore
    Italian artist Marinella Senatore is known internationally for producing vivid community performances. In this episode, we talk about how she connected with locals to create the three very different performance projects for the 13th Lyon Biennial exhibition, La Vie Moderne (Modern Life).

    Sound Editor: Kris McConnachie
    13 min

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Writer/curator Cathy Byrd sparks conversations about today’s art, design, and film on the Fresh Art International podcast. Synthesizing interviews and field recordings with critical commentary since…