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Happy 250th: Five Dispatches From Everywhere Else
The companion podcast to Issue No.82 of The Intersect. Chelsea and Georgia shut the curtains on the fireworks next door to ask a quietly provocative question: does great work require leaving home, or just knowing exactly where home is so you can leave it on purpose? An hour of looking everywhere but here — and wondering whether that's the most patriotic move of all.
Contents- 00:00 Birthday Curator's Outward Eye
- 00:01 Bjork Beyond the Album
- 00:04 Aurora Turned to Sound
- 00:07 Silent Lives in the Frame
- 00:11 Rippled Glass and Credit
- 00:13 Resistance Abroad in LED
In this episode
Birthday Curator's Outward Eye Why an issue with zero American stories — released on America's 250th — might be the most earned kind of celebration. Chelsea and Georgia trace the curatorial logic back to a Brooklyn courthouse and a deliberately outward gaze.
Bjork Beyond the Album Reykjavik hangs Bjork on a gallery wall as painter, video artist, and musician all at once. When a song stops being only a song, where does the artwork begin?
Aurora Turned to Sound A Norwegian artist builds her own crystal radio to transpose the northern lights into sound — and the result raises an uncomfortable question about the gap between a compelling concept and a compelling experience.
Silent Lives in the Frame Photographs of extinct birds, lit so tenderly they seem to breathe, with the stitches left visible. A deliberately non-AI pick that asks when technology has to look like technology to count.
Rippled Glass and Credit A Brisbane theater whose facade ripples like water — and a thorny question about who gets to claim a vision when a new tool makes it thinkable for the first time.
Resistance Abroad in LED Jenny Holzer stages American political resistance in Porto, in spinning LED and stone. When does a word stop being a word and start becoming a machine for moving people?
Stay in the loopIf this conversation sparked something, follow along and help keep The Intersect running.
- Website: theintersect.art
- Instagram: @theintersectnews
- Threads: @jberkessel
- BlueSky: @polymash.bsky.social
- Substack: The Intersect on Substack
- LinkedIn: Juergen Berkessel
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By Juergen BerkesselThe companion podcast to Issue No.82 of The Intersect. Chelsea and Georgia shut the curtains on the fireworks next door to ask a quietly provocative question: does great work require leaving home, or just knowing exactly where home is so you can leave it on purpose? An hour of looking everywhere but here — and wondering whether that's the most patriotic move of all.
Contents- 00:00 Birthday Curator's Outward Eye
- 00:01 Bjork Beyond the Album
- 00:04 Aurora Turned to Sound
- 00:07 Silent Lives in the Frame
- 00:11 Rippled Glass and Credit
- 00:13 Resistance Abroad in LED
In this episode
Birthday Curator's Outward Eye Why an issue with zero American stories — released on America's 250th — might be the most earned kind of celebration. Chelsea and Georgia trace the curatorial logic back to a Brooklyn courthouse and a deliberately outward gaze.
Bjork Beyond the Album Reykjavik hangs Bjork on a gallery wall as painter, video artist, and musician all at once. When a song stops being only a song, where does the artwork begin?
Aurora Turned to Sound A Norwegian artist builds her own crystal radio to transpose the northern lights into sound — and the result raises an uncomfortable question about the gap between a compelling concept and a compelling experience.
Silent Lives in the Frame Photographs of extinct birds, lit so tenderly they seem to breathe, with the stitches left visible. A deliberately non-AI pick that asks when technology has to look like technology to count.
Rippled Glass and Credit A Brisbane theater whose facade ripples like water — and a thorny question about who gets to claim a vision when a new tool makes it thinkable for the first time.
Resistance Abroad in LED Jenny Holzer stages American political resistance in Porto, in spinning LED and stone. When does a word stop being a word and start becoming a machine for moving people?
Stay in the loopIf this conversation sparked something, follow along and help keep The Intersect running.
- Website: theintersect.art
- Instagram: @theintersectnews
- Threads: @jberkessel
- BlueSky: @polymash.bsky.social
- Substack: The Intersect on Substack
- LinkedIn: Juergen Berkessel