Listening with Artists

Listening with Artists

Dr. O with Hrair Sarkissian

Season 2 finale

In the finale of season 2, Dr. O convenes with long-time friend and collaborator, Hrair Sarkissian for an intimate tête-à-tête about life and art. One of the leading conceptual photographers of our time, Sarkissian, unfolds  entertaining details of his life, from growing up in his father’s photo studio in Syria and his ongoing engagement with Armenian cultural heritage. Tears and fears are relieved and released through the sounds of a past that is no longer our own.

This episode marks the culmination of a two year programme of ‘Listening with Artists’.

Fall 2024 will see the birth of a new podcast series. Stay tuned by visiting www.artpost21.com

Hrair Sarkissian is nominated for the Deutsch Börse Photography Prize, which can be visited at The Photographers’ Gallery London from February 24th and will continue to tour internationally.

In our first podcast take-over, Professor Sarah Perks invites listeners into a special workshop-led podcast and meditation session with a dollop of karaoke thrown in to boot! Sarah  weaves in around a conversation held in NYC between Dr. O aka Omar Kholeif, and pluridimensional, award-winning artist, Trevor Paglen. Here, you are invited to deep listen and engage your love affair with the internet. 

Season 2 of the artPost21 podcast coincides with the release of Internet_Art: From the Birth of the Web to the Rise of NFTs published by Phaidon. More info at Phaidon.com/internetart

Image credit: You've Just Been F**cked by PSYOPS courtesy of Trevor Paglen and Pace Gallery. 

Sarah Perks is Professor of Curating at MIMA x Teesside University and a director of artPost21. 

Produced by Moe Choucair  

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Zach Blas takes us on a journey from Point Pleasant, West Virginia through to Dorothy’s Yellow Brick Road in The Wizard of Oz. The significance of Queer Technologies, Tori Amos, and media archaeology unfold in this conversation mapping over a decade of friendship between artist and theorist, Zach Blas and Dr. O.

Season 2 of the Listening with Artists podcast coincides with the release of Internet_Art: From the Birth of the Web to the Rise of NFTs published by Phaidon. More info at Phaidon.com/internetart 

In this Listening with Artists special, Hans Ulrich Obrist—widely acknowledged to be the world’s most prolific living curator interviews author and curator, Omar Kholeif about their new memoir,Internet_Art: From the Birth of the Web to the Rise of NFTs—together, the duo freewheel from subjects as varied as the poetry of Etel Adnan to gold book covers, the birth of WWW, futurism, filter bubbles and unrealised projects! 

With an unnamed special guest appearance.

Produced by Moe Choucair.

With extra special thanks to Gagosian, London

For more info visit: www.Phaidon.com/internetart.

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In this intimate conversation, Dr. O aka Dr. Omar Kholeif sits down with the pioneering artist, Lynn Hershman Leeson. Together, they explore antecedents to contemporary avatars, Artificial intelligence, psychoanalysis, speech, and the power of silence. Across the hour, they revisit the artist’s path-breaking experiments in art, film, and technology—tracing the roots of Hershman Leeson’s expressive imagination back to the artist’s childhood. 

Season 2 of the artPost21 Podcast coincides with the release of Internet_Art: From the Birth of the Web to the Rise of NFTs by Omar Kholeif, and published by Phaidon. Visit www.Phaidon.com/internetart.

Produced by Moe Choucair.

Season 2 kicks off with a series of encounters with some of contemporary culture’s living legends. The first of these is artist, composer, and writer, Cory Arcangel, whose experiments with art, tech, and music have pioneered how people see, hear and feel the world around us. Together, Dr. O and Arcangel freewheel from Buffalo, NY to Pasadena, CA—reflecting on everything from guitar solos and Andy Warhol, through to the birth of Arcangel Surfware. 

Hosted by Dr. Omar Kholeif. 

Produced by Moe Choucair.

Season 2 coincides with the launch of Internet_Art: From the Birth of the Web to the Rise of NFTs. 

In the season 1 finale, Dr. O aka Dr. Omar Kholeif sits down with Iraqi-American-Swedish artist, Hayv Kahrman to discuss what listening means to her. For Kahraman, music serves as a haunting, a spectre of a past skin, one that has been shed and left behind across numerous places. In this rare interview, Kahrman opens up about her frustrations and her embodied avatar, and unfurls mythologies that lead us to a realm of science fiction. 

Who is Simon Denny, asks Dr. O aka one of the avatars of Omar Kholeif? More than just a superstar artist, Denny is a pop psychologist with a pan-optical purview, a mentor, a collaborator with an infectious spirit, as well as an educator and scholar of all things weird and wonderful. In this special Xmas edition of the artPost21 Podcast, the duo dig into the aesthetics of technology, the rise and fall of NFTs, blockchain technologies, and the utopia of our shared digital culture. A listening-session not to be missed!