Please enjoy my conversation with Caledonia Curry aka Swoon. This is a warm, wide-ranging conversation Callie talks about her journey from street art and wheat-paste portraits to massive collaborative installations built from salvaged materials – including the famous floating rafts seen at the Brooklyn Museum. She shares how reuse has been central to her practice from the start, driven by environmental awareness and a love of found materials. The conversation also touches on her humanitarian work in Haiti, the tension between solo and collaborative creating, her deep connection to the ocean, and her current shift toward storytelling, puppetry, and stop-motion animation.
https://www.uncsa.edu/kenan/artist-as-leader/caledonia-curry.aspx
https://www.heliotropefoundation.org/
TEDxBrooklyn 2010 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5298KZuW_JE
Finding Good in Our Own Limitations, TEDxPittsburghWomen 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUjIlXmXptU
Swimming Cities of Serenissima - Empire Me https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5dwosy
https://swoonstudio.org/#/submergedmotherlands/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Dark_Dark
https://riversofsteel.com/attractions/carrie-furnaces/
This podcast was created by Natalya Khorover. It was produced and recorded by Natalya, as well as researched and edited by her. SALVAGE is a product of ECOLOOP.ART.
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