Agitated Histories curator Irene Hofmann will moderate a conversation with exhibiting artists Mark Tribe and Geof Oppenheimer about their use of reenactments as an artistic strategy to explore, challenge, and understand potent events in political history. Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:13:51 — 108.3MB)

Exploring the Origins of Performance Art in Southern California A talk by Carol Stakenas, Executive Director, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE). Los Angeles Goes Live explores histories and legacies of performance art in Southern California in the 1970s emphasizing the evolution of performance within a broader drive toward artistic experimentation that cuts across many spheres of cultural production. Podcast: Download (Duration: 58:55 — 116.1MB)

SITE’s audience gets a sneak preview of Constance Lewallen and Karen Moss’ upcoming exhibition State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970. Co-organized by Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA) and UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA), it is the most comprehensive exhibition to date to focus on Conceptual art and related new genres in both Northern and Southern California during this pivotal period in contemporary art.

An overview by Getty curator, Glenn Phillips. Glenn Phillips is Principal Project Specialist and Consulting Curator in the Department of Architecture and Contemporary Art at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. He is currently a member of the curatorial team for Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A.1945–1980. Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:17:32 — 152.4MB)

The Heretics is a feature-length experimental documentary film about the Women’s Art Movement of the 1970s, specifically the Heresies Collective, a feminist journal on art and politics. Director Joan Braderman, a founding member of Heresies, has reunited Collective members to share their story. In her film, Braderman takes her camera crew on the road – from New Mexico to Venice – to revisit her collective sisters. Now ages 54 to

Robert Atkins is a writer, art historian, and journalist. Trained at the University of California, Berkeley, he has written for more than 100 publications throughout the world ranging from the New York Times and Newsday, to Japanese Wired and Esquire, and contributes regularly to Art in America. He is a former staff columnist for The Village Voice. Podcast: Download (Duration: 48:44 — 95.9MB)

Irene Hofmann is SITE’s new Phillips Director and Chief Curator. In addition to her most recent position in Baltimore, she has held positions at the Orange County Museum of Art in Newport Beach, California; Cranbrook Art Museum in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, and the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York. Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:05:03 — 127.5MB)

During the past decade, Amy Cutler (b. 1974 in Poughkeepsie, New York) has become internationally known for exquisitely detailed narrative works of art. Inspired by stories and images encountered in current events, art history, fairy tales, and personal experiences, Cutler creates exquisitely detailed, enigmatic paintings of women, animals, and hybrid beings involved in fantastic, dreamlike activities. Podcast: Download (Duration: 42:09 — 83.8MB)

A number of important developments in the area of video technology from the mid 1960’s to the early 1970’s facilitated artists’ use of the medium during this era and set the groundwork for the development of video’s dominant role in contemporary art practice. Janet Dees, SITE’s Thaw Curatorial Fellow, will discuss the work of some of the artists who pioneered the use of video, and the continued relevance of their

Joanne Lefrak, SITE’s Education and Catalogue Manager, contextualizes the work of biennial artists Lotte Reiniger, Kara Walker, and Paul Chan through the history of shadows and silhouettes. Touching on subjects such as Victorian silhouette portraiture, Lefrak sheds new light on the shadows and silhouettes of three artists included in The Dissolve. Podcast: Download (Duration: 57:52 — 138.6MB)