Untitled Art Podcast

The body may be a battleground but so is art. People fight over it. Always have. What if art fights back? Speaks its mind? What happens to artists -- and their public -- when an artwork ambushes their expectations? What subjects and materials are vulnerable to changing values? When standards of beauty accepted by one culture are repudiated by another, which becomes the “norm” and who gets to say? Can an artwork affect attitudes or behavior -- particularly in regard to women‘s bodies -- and still retain its integrity as art? What is art, anyway? Shall we discuss?

About Zoë Buckman

Zoë Buckman was born in London, where she is represented by the Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, and by Lyles & King in New York, where she lives now. Much of her transformative work, which involves embroidery (threads of trauma), textiles, video and photography, addresses domestic violence by highlighting women’s resilient capacity for tenderness. In addition to gallery exhibitions – she also has shown with Fort Gansevoort in New York and Gavlak in Los Angeles. Buckman has made several public artworks, including Champs, a lighted sign in Los Angeles commissioned by the Art Production Fund. Every night this month, just before midnight, her large-scale digital animation, MENDED, commissioned by Times Square Arts, is displaying her kaleidoscopic imagery – boxing gloves, mandalas, metal chains, flowers -- across twenty electronic billboards on Broadway at the crossroads of the world.

About Jasmin Wahi

Jasmine Wahi is a curator and social activist who cofounded the nonprofit Project for Empty Space in Newark, NJ and New York City. In addition, Wahi has organized independent projects across the world, including “Abortion Is Normal,” an ongoing series of exhibitions, and “American Truth.” She teaches at the Brooklyn College and is a core mentor of the Pratt School of Art’s Pratt Forward program. Previously, she was the inaugural Holly Block Social Justice Curator at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, and a member of the faculty at the Yale School of Art. She also delivered the TED talk, “All the women. In me. Are Tired.” Wahi lives in Brooklyn with her dog Momo.

About Genevieve Gaignard

Genevieve Gaignard is a multidisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles, where she is represented by the Susanne Vielmetter Gallery. Earlier this year, the gallery presented “Strange Fruit,” an ambitious exploration of the complex links between race, femininity and cultural identity. She was also included in “This Is Not America’s Flag” at the Broad Museum, a group exhibition detailing the fraught symbolism of our national emblem. Her work, including self-portraiture, collage, sculpture and installation, resides in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Perez Art Museum, and the Studio Museum in Harlem, among others. Recently, Gaignard partnered with Orange Barrel Media on “Look At Them Look At Us,” a site sp specific, permanent public art installation in downtown Atlanta, GA.

About Linda Yablonsky

Linda Yablonsky is a renowned critic and arts journalist based in New York. Over the last thirty years her byline has appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Times and T Magazine, Artforum, W Magazine, Art News, Bloomberg, and many more. In 2002 she helped to pioneer the streaming arts radio channel, WPS1 for MoMA PS1. She also founded and directed NightLight Readings (1991-1999), a monthly writers-in-performance series held at The Drawing Center and other art spaces in New York, and from 2002-2004 was literature curator for The Kitchen. Currently, she contributes the monthly column, New York Insider, to The Art Newspaper and is writing a major biography of the artist Jeff Koons.

As part of Untitled Art’s programming during the 11th edition of the fair, [NAME] Publications presents “SWAMP ARCHEOLOGIES,” a series of three podcasts that focus on the often overlooked and forgotten dimensions of Miami's cultural history. Each part aims to reactivate the memory of some of Miami’s vital art scenes from the past 40 years: Part One will feature Dr. Donette Francis and focus on the contributions of Black artists and intellectuals that don’t often figure in local art histories; Part Two will be a behind-the-scenes look at the lost stories of a 80s art scenes in Miami Beach; and Part Three will be an in-depth look at the history of galleries in Miami.

Part 3, Brook Dorsch is the founder of Emerson Dorsch Gallery. Founded in 1991, Emerson Dorsch has shaped the trajectory of the city’s contemporary art by championing artists at all stages of their careers both local and international—cultivating the dynamic exchanges between emerging and established practices.

As part of Untitled Art’s programming during the 11th edition of the fair, [NAME] Publications presents “SWAMP ARCHEOLOGIES,” a series of three podcasts that focus on the often overlooked and forgotten dimensions of Miami's cultural history. Each part aims to reactivate the memory of some of Miami’s vital art scenes from the past 40 years: Part One will feature Dr. Donette Francis and focus on the contributions of Black artists and intellectuals that don’t often figure in local art histories; Part Two will be a behind-the-scenes look at the lost stories of a 80s art scenes in Miami Beach; and Part Three will be an in-depth look at the history of galleries in Miami.

Part 2, Kevin Arrow is a multifaceted artist and cultural producer living and working in Miami, Florida. His work has been exhibited in South Florida since the mid-1980s and is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, (MOCA), the Perez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), the Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, and Miami Beach Art in Public Places.

As part of Untitled Art’s programming during the 11th edition of the fair, [NAME] Publications presents “SWAMP ARCHEOLOGIES,” a series of three podcasts that focus on the often overlooked and forgotten dimensions of Miami's cultural history. Each part aims to reactivate the memory of some of Miami’s vital art scenes from the past 40 years: Part One will feature Dr. Donette Francis and focus on the contributions of Black artists and intellectuals that don’t often figure in local art histories; Part Two will be a behind-the-scenes look at the lost stories of a 80s art scenes in Miami Beach; and Part Three will be an in-depth look at the history of galleries in Miami.

Part 1, Donette Francis is the founding co-director for the Center for Global Black Studies and an Associate Professor of English at the University of Miami. Her research and writing investigate place, aesthetics, and cultural politics in the African Diaspora. Professor Francis is the author of “Fictions of Feminine Citizenship: Sexuality and the Nation in Contemporary Caribbean Literature.” She is currently working on two book projects: “Illegibilities: Caribbean Cosmopolitanisms and the Problem of Form,” an intellectual history of the Anglophone Caribbean’s transnational literary culture, 1940-1970; and “Creole Miami: Black Arts in the Magic City,” a sociocultural history of Black arts practice in Miami from 1970s to present.

The second part of this series welcomes back Omar López-Chahoud, Artistic Director and Curator of Untitled Art, in conversation with Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova (Co-Founder and Co-Director of Dimensions Variable), Brook Dorsch (Founder of Emerson Dorsch), and Grant Bonnier (Owner and Curator of The Bonnier Gallery). The panel was organized by Untitled Art in collaboration with Art Club at Soho House, Miami Beach, and focuses on emerging galleries and art spaces in Miami, as the city's dynamic arts scene continues to expand.

Omar López-Chahoud, the Artistic Director and Curator of Untitled Art, in conversation with leading New York gallery directors exhibiting with Untitled Art, Miami Beach 2022: Henrique Faria of Henrique Faria, C. Sean Horton of Sean Horton (Presents) and Jennifer Carvalho of CARVALHO PARK. This panel discussion is a sneak preview of the fair’s 11th edition in Miami Beach this December during the iconic Miami Art Week and part of a programming collaboration between Untitled Art and Soho House.

Untitled Art's Artistic Director & Curator Omar Lopez-Chahoud in conversation with independent curator and editor Natalia Zuluaga, co-director of [NAME] Publications, and Gabriel Kilongo, founder of Jupiter Contemporary, one of Miami's newest galleries. The panel was organized by Untitled Art in collaboration with Art Club at Soho House, Miami Beach, and focuses on emerging galleries and art spaces in Miami, as the city's dynamic arts scene continues to expand.

The Supper Club: What Comes After? centers on artist Elia Alba’s Supper Club, a multi-faceted art project that has brought together more than 50 contemporary artists of color from the United States through portraiture, food, and dialogue.

Future Knowing: Gallerists in Conversation, moderated by Untitled Art Miami Beach guest curator Natasha Becker.

A Conversation on Queer Space & Care co-presented by Oolite Arts and Untitled, with film maker GeoVanna Gonzalez and her collaborator, Monica Sorelle. The talk is moderated by Sally Eaves Hughes, curator of the exhibition Common Space, currently on view at Oolite Arts.

The experimental dance film explores the role of queer clubs as spaces of communal care, liberation, and self-preservation. This program is presented in conjunction with the exhibition, Common Space, currently on view at Oolite Arts.