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In 2014, we sit down with Janet Biggs, a Brooklyn-based artist whose video projects tell stories of toxic environments and endangered cultures. She explains what led her to follow miners inside a volcano in Indonesia and embed herself in a community at the edge of China’s Silk Road. Her next destination is South of the border. In Mexico, she’ll be donning an ice suit to explore a spectacular, white-hot crystal cave that lies 300 meters below the Earth’s surface.

Sound Editor: Kris McConnachie | Production Assistant: Amy Sherald | Special Audio, courtesy Janet Biggs

Related Episode: Janet Biggs and the Power of Desire

Related Links: Janet Biggs, Ijen Volcano, Taklamakan Desert, Cave of Crystals

Recorded at Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, Miami, this Fresh Talk episode features 3 of 8 projects presented at A Futurist Evening during Art Basel Miami Beach 2013. Curator Gina Wouters introduces this performance-based event that features Miami-based artists.

Antonia Wright: Suddenly We Jumped Wright is catapulted upward to break panes of glass suspended 17 and 20 feet above the East Terrace at Vizcaya.The artist's body becomes a machine and the breaking of two physical and metaphoric 'glass ceiling' simultaneously embody and question the merciless, misogynist, weaponized industrialization of a Futurist world.

Juraj Kojs David Almeida, Kim Yantis, Hisa-Hua Liang and Angie Lu: Replacement In the Center Garden, techno plants invade the formal landscape with intoxicating artificial life. Inspired by Luigi Russolo’s noisemakers (called intonarumori) and Fedele Azari’s manifesto, The Futurist Flora and the Plastic Equivalents of Artificial Odors.

Susan Lee-Chun: Untitled (Ruins) Shouldering a hybrid sculpture that fuses traditional architecture with Futurist aesthetics, the artist's time-based performance embodies the endurance and eventual collision of conflicting ideologies.

This is the launch of Fresh TalkUNCUT, a new series of unedited podcasts. In February 2013, Fresh Talk producer Cathy Byrd recorded a conversation with artistTrenton Doyle Hancock, in hisHouston, Texas, studio. Trenton talks about the mythology he created to filterhis artmaking and about the personal histories that lie beneath his work.

Sound Editor: EricSchwartz            Episode Sound: TrentonDoyle Hancock, performing Devotion at CAMH

Thisis our first broadcast of Fresh Talk UNCUT, a new series of unedited podcasts.In October 2012, Cathy Byrd, Fresh Talk producer, made a field recording with Jean-Ulrick Désert during her residencyin Berlin. Born in Haiti, Jean-Ulrick lived in the U.S. and France beforemigrating to Germany. He talks about how moving through these cultures hasmarked his artmaking.

Sound Editor: EricSchwartz