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Fresh Art InternationalAmy Sherald—American SublimeToday, we share with you the finale of the Fresh Art International podcast, ending more than a decade of storytelling from art scenes around the world.
Coming full circle, we’ve returned to Baltimore, Maryland. The Magic City is where we released our very first episode in October 2011. Our guest was MacArthur Genius, artist Joyce J. Scott.
In October 2025, we sit down with another long time friend of Fresh Art International: artist Amy Sherald. Inside the Baltimore Museum of Art, she takes us on a tour of American Sublime, her touring mid...
2025-12-3119 minFresh Art InternationalCannupa Hanska Luger—The Art of 21st Century IndigeneityToday, we introduce Cannupa Hanska Luger, an American artist born on the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, who now lives and works outside Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Our conversation reveals a few of the ways Cannupa acts on his deep respect for heritage and community, belief in ritual and remembrance, and fascination with science fiction and mythology. The artist shares the stories behind his mystical re-creation of Midéegaadi, a traditional buffalo dance he filmed against a green screen to show in exhibition spaces, on digital billboards, and even in a virtual reality app.
The...
2025-11-1225 minFresh Art InternationalVideo Performance Art Reimagines the FutureIn this episode, we explore an emerging microgenre in contemporary performance art. Some of today’s artists create liminal spaces, construct original expressive forms, and make powerful statements in a range of inventive video performances.
The 2025 exhibition (Im)Posibilidades: Performance Art for Video at Ogden Contemporary Arts in Ogden, Utah, reveals the microgenre’s potential. Featured projects from the United States and Mexico envision ways to correct historical distortions and construct new possible futures. They show us a world where everyone’s stories can thrive through performance and reimagination.
Production: Cathy Byrd | Sound Design: Anamnesis Audio
2025-11-0525 minFresh Art InternationalArt and the Struggle for Peace—Reflections from Casa ZemstveiToday’s episode is a poetic epilogue to the nine Student Edition stories we produced in 2020 with university students from the United States and Canada. The students who produced this fresh story are from Chișinău, capital city of the Republic of Moldova. The tiny Eastern European country declared its independence from the Soviet Union not so long ago, in 1991.
In spring 2025, Fresh Art International’s Cathy Byrd introduced podcasting to locals during a 3-day program. They recorded voices and sounds for stories about the independent art scene inside the state-owned architectural monument they call hom...
2025-10-2922 minFresh Art InternationalStarting an Art Podcast in MoldovaTo introduce the new Reflecting Zemstvei podcast produced by local creatives in Chișinău, Moldova, Cathy Byrd and Olga Raileanu take listeners inside an intensive workshop experience that spanned three days in March 2025. In this episode, you’ll meet the young Moldovans who learned to master recording equipment, script stories, and collect sounds and voices to shape stories from their hometown’s independent art scene.
Since 2013, artists and independent initiatives have rented spaces in a center-city building complex known as “Zemstvei,” a state-owned architectural monument that dates from the mid-19th century. They call their impro...
2025-10-2210 minFresh Art InternationalTeresita Fernández / Robert Smithson—A ConversationHow does your art engage the world? How do you speak to the issues and ideas of our time? What do you hope others will remember about your life, your beliefs, your work?
The exhibition Teresita Fernandez / Robert Smithson, SITE Santa Fe opens a portal for us to consider our place in the landscape and explore the legacy of two significant artists. Their vibrant visual exchange feels both time sensitive and timeless.
This dialogue with artist Teresita Fernández and Lisa Le Feuvre, Executive Director of the Holt/Smithson Foundation, deepens our appreciation of resonant a...
2024-09-0335 minFresh Art InternationalCreating Community in Central Asia—with CEC ArtsLinkWhere in the world can you express yourself freely, share cultural knowledge, test inventive art practices, and build a transnational creative community in only 10 days time?
During an intensive CEC ArtsLink program in Kazakhstan, 23 artists and curators from across the region and the U.S. seize the moment to think deeply about their socially engaged projects. Our home base for talks, workshops, field expeditions, and performances is the bULt Collective rave space.
Paying attention to inclusion and access, issues and ideas, concept and creation, they begin to imagine new possible futures for collective a...
2023-12-2022 minFresh Art InternationalTrash Sparks Public Art in Central AsiaToday, we introduce a few of the artists and activists energizing the 2023 Art Prospect & TRASH-5 Festival in Kyrgyzstan. They give voice to the issues, ideas, and intentions that shape their truly creative approaches to mitigate pollution. Their projects illuminate the potential for artists everywhere to build community and drive sustainable solutions to our global environmental crisis.
From the city of Bishkek to the settlement of Altyn Kazyk, we discover myriad ways that socially engaged artists encourage awareness and action. They bring us together from around the world to experience, understand, and create true moments of beauty and m...
2023-12-0725 minFresh Art InternationalListening to St. Louis at the Counterpublic Art TriennialToday, we take you to St. Louis, Missouri, in the United States of America. Home of the Gateway Arch, an Emblem of Manifest Destiny, at the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers. Emblem of Manifest Destiny. St. Louis is nicknamed “‘Mound City”’ because of the number of earthworks built by Indigenous peoples there, before the westward expansion of colonizers conspired to flatten them. Where caves beneath the city sheltered freedom seekers traversing the Underground Railroad in the mid-1800s. Where, from 1959 to 1972—in the span of less than 20 years—residents of the historically Black neighborhoods Mill Creek Valley and Pruitt-I...
2023-05-1826 minFresh Art InternationalSearching for Libertalia in the Indian Ocean—with Shiraz BayjooIn February 2023, we travel to the United Arab Emirates for the first time. We’re here to witness and celebrate Sharjah Biennial 15: Thinking Historically in the Present. Four years in the making, the exhibition is ambitious and expansive. More than 100 artists from 70 countries are presenting projects in 19 venues across the emirate.
One afternoon, we wander through Sharjah’s heritage area to Bait Obaid Al Shamsi, the personal residence of a local pearl merchant and his family from the mid-19th century until the 1970s. In a small courtyard outside his multi chambered installation, we meet artist...
2023-03-1615 minFresh Art InternationalThinking Historically in the Present—with Hoor Al Qasimi in SharjahIn February 2023, we travel to the Arab Emirates for the first time. We’re here to witness and celebrate Sharjah Biennial 15: Thinking Historically in the Present. Four years in the making, the exhibition is ambitious and expansive. More than 100 artists from 70 countries are presenting projects in 19 venues across the emirate. Seventy of those projects are new commissions.
The memory and influence of Nigerian born art historian, author, educator, and curator Okwui Enwezor is deeply felt, despite his physical absence. The Sharjah Art Foundation had invited Enwezor to curate this iteration of the biennial. He envisioned the...
2023-03-0227 min
The Midnight RecordEpisode 32: Sister Cathy CesnikIn this week's episode, Charlotte brings us the disappearance and death of Sister Catherine Cesnik. Charlotte goes over the details of the unsolved 1969 murder of Sister Cathy, some of the theories surrounding her death, as well as the horrors that went on at her time at Baltimore’s Archbishop Keough High School. Buckle up, it's a wild ride. SOURCESThe Hippie Catholic YoutubeThe Keepers Documentary NetflixSister Cathy WikipediaJoseph Maskell WikipediaVoxInside BaltimorePopSugarTW: Listener discretion is advised. Have a personal connection to a...
2021-10-201h 24Fresh Art InternationalMaking Good Time in MiamiIn this episode of Fresh Art’s Fall 2020 Student Edition, University of Miami student Kristian Kranz heads to Books & Books in Coral Gables, Florida, for a conversation with Lynne Barrett, editor of the book Making Good Time, and two of the book’s contributors: author Les Standiford and poet-engineer Richard Blanco. Listen to hear a few ‘only-in-Miami’ stories about getting around South Florida.
Producers: Kristian Kranz/Miami Moves Me, Giselle Heraux/FreshArtINTL
Sound Editor: Anamnesis Audio
Related Episodes: Miami Moves Me/Making Good Time, Fresh Art Student Edition, Fresh Voices Miami
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2020-08-2813 minFresh Art InternationalSacred Land Beneath The SkyscrapersIn this episode of Fresh Art’s Fall 2020 Student Edition, University of Miami students Diana Borras and Kurt Gessler discover sacred land hiding in plain sight at the heart of Miami’s business district. Carib Tribal Queen Catherine Hummingbird Ramirez has come to meet them at the sacred Native American site known as the Miami Circle. Ramirez has come to share her concerns about the ongoing impact of urban development.
The Miami Circle: In 1998, an archaeological investigation at the mouth of the Miami River uncovered evidence of a 2,000 year-old Native American site on land once occupied by the Br...
2020-08-2706 minFresh Art InternationalNew Caribbean CinemaIn this episode of Fresh Art’s Fall 2020 Student Edition, University of Miami student Luz Estrella Cruz makes her way to the Third Horizon Film Festival at the Little Haiti Cultural Complex in Miami. She’s there to meet filmmakers Diana Peralta (De Lo Mio, 2019) and Michael Lees (Uncivilized, 2020), whose work she’s been researching. Interviewing them and watching their films, Cruz discovers the passion behind their stories and immerses herself in two diasporic experiences from the Caribbean.
Producers: Luz Cruz/Miami Moves Me, Giselle Heraux and Jahné King/FreshArtINTL
Sound Editor: Anamnesis Audio
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2020-08-2611 minFresh Art InternationalAt Home in Miami’s Little HaitiIn this episode of Fresh Art’s Fall 2020 Student Edition, University of Miami students Gretchell Cano and Luz Estrella Cruz explore the work of Haitian-born artist Edouard Duval-Carrié. They, along with the rest of the Miami Moves Me team, visit Duval-Carrié’s studio in the Little Haiti district. Listen to find out why the artist chose to call Miami home, and hear his views on how the Caribbean influences the city’s art and culture.
Edouard Duval-Carrié was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in 1954. He was educated at the University of Loyola Montreal, Quebec, in Canada; and at the Ecole...
2020-08-2508 minFresh Art InternationalBlack in Miami—Then and NowIn this episode of Fresh Art’s Fall 2020 Student Edition, University of Miami students Ben Vinarski and Reese McMichael venture to an abandoned hotel in Miami Beach to go behind the scenes of an immersive theater production. Inside a room designed as the well-equipped kitchen of an upper-class home, actress Maggie B. Maxwell has just rolled out a pie crust while introducing her visitors to the city’s Black history.
Producers: Reese McMichael and Ben Vinarski/Miami Moves Me, Jahné King/FreshArtINTL
Sound Editor: Anamnesis Audio
Related Episodes: Miami Moves Me/Maggie Maxwell’s Motel...
2020-08-2410 min
Fresh Art InternationalArt in the Time of CoronaIn today’s prologue to our Fall 2020 Student Edition, University of Miami senior Melissa Huberman tells the story of Art in the Time of Corona. She recorded with Fresh Art International founder Cathy Byrd, local artist Dana Musso, and team members from the Bass Museum of Art in Miami Beach, to find out how some artists, curators, and educators are responding to the impact of the global coronavirus pandemic. Listen to hear some of the ways they are creating and implementing meaningful art encounters for their communities.
The Story Behind The Story
In 2020, hundreds of thousands of people across the Un...
2020-08-1217 minFresh Art InternationalArt in the Time of CoronaIn today’s prologue to our Fall 2020 Student Edition, University of Miami senior Melissa Huberman tells the story of Art in the Time of Corona. She recorded with Fresh Art International founder Cathy Byrd, local artist Dana Musso, and team members from the Bass Museum of Art in Miami Beach, to find out how some artists, curators, and educators are responding to the impact of the global coronavirus pandemic. Listen to hear some of the ways they are creating and implementing meaningful art encounters for their communities.
The Story Behind The Story
In 2020, hund...
2020-08-1217 minFresh Art InternationalFresh Voices MiamiMeet fresh voices from Miami! With educators Giselle Heraux and Jahné King, we talk about art, storytelling, and the next generation of creative podcasters. Heraux and King will set the stage for each episode in our Fall 2020 Student Edition.
The Student Edition
In 2019, we initiated the Student Edition with visits to art schools and universities in the United States and Canada. Recorded at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago/Chicago, Wayne State University/Detroit, and Ontario College of Art and Design University/Toronto, episodes in our Spring 2020 Student Edition revolve around ho...
2020-07-2913 minFresh Art InternationalMusical Manifesto vs. Contested MonumentToday, we’re talking about symbolic statues and monuments. In this moment, many are demanding the removal of memorials believed to perpetuate a legacy of systemic racial and ethnic injustice. Recent acts of violence against Blacks in the United States have brought these memorials to the center of a nationwide debate.
On Memorial Day, in the year 2020, Minneapolis police killed a Black man named George Floyd. The public incident ignited the resurgence of a 21st century civil rights movement known as Black Lives Matter. In 2013, with use of the hashtag BlackLivesMatter, thousands responded on social media to the acquittal of a white man, George Zimmerman. He had been char...
2020-07-1519 minFresh Art InternationalThe Art of Collecting—with Don and Mera RubellToday, we’re in Miami, to introduce you to Don and Mera Rubell, art collectors since 1964. We recorded with the Rubells in December 2019. Since then, the coronavirus pandemic has shaken our planet. We recognize the very real sense of before and after as we share these conversations about creativity.
Today’s episode conveys the excitement that surrounded the opening of the Rubell Family’s new museum. From March 17, 2020, the collection has been closed until further notice, as South Florida awaits the all clear to safely resume public life.
The Rubells started collecting when Don was in med...
2020-04-0114 min
Fresh Art InternationalOCAD University—Curating in the Digital RealmToday, we take you to Toronto. We’re here to meet a group of graduate students at the Ontario College of Art and Design University, also known as OCAD. For the Intro to Curatorial Practices course, their goal is to research, develop and activate an exhibition in the digital realm. Recorded in the first weeks of the semester, our conversation reveals how the students are defining their roles and designing their strategy for curating an online platform.
In the months following our campus visit, the students forged an interdisciplinary curatorial collective. In December 2019, they launched the exhibition tit...
2020-03-0616 minFresh Art InternationalWayne State—Designing for Urban MobilityToday, we take you to Motor City. Once a symbol of the dynamic U.S. economy, Detroit, Michigan, has gone through a major economic and demographic decline since the 1960s. The drastic drop in population created acres of emptiness—vacant lots, abandoned buildings and food deserts.
Detroit’s art scene is known for countering negative growth with a resilient DIY attitude. While locals respect and sustain the history of innovation in the place they call home, the gritty urban landscape has begun to attract newcomers. Creatives from other cities are heading here to seek affordable studios and fresh...
2020-03-0417 minFresh Art InternationalSAIC—Imagining TomorrowToday, we take you to The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, also known as SAIC. We’re here to meet participants in Imagining Tomorrow. The yearly experiential learning opportunity brings together students from schools in the Netherlands, Germany, the United States and Pakistan.
During each two-week seminar, they gather in a different host community to envision possible futures through design thinking. The clients are local organizations who ask the students to imagine solutions to real-life challenges—such as environmental sustainability and immigrant integration.
Chicago-based artists Kirsten Leenaars and Laura Davis co-created this international proje...
2020-03-0221 minFresh Art InternationalAlla Kovgan Channels Merce Cunningham in 3DWith filmmaker Alla Kovgan, we spark a conversation to find out why and how she realized CUNNINGHAM. The 2019 documentary traces American choreographer Merce Cunningham's artistic evolution over three decades.
Kovgan directed the immersive film that took seven years to make. She and her collaborators channel the spirit and image of Merce Cunningham—from his early years as a struggling dancer in postwar New York to his emergence as one of the world’s most visionary choreographers. With new technology, Kovgan creates the film in both 2D and 3D versions. She frees Cunningham’s oeuvre from the constrictions of the...
2020-02-1818 min
Fresh Art InternationalEdra Soto on the Architecture of Connecting with CommunitiesEdra Soto is a Puerto Rico born, Chicago based, interdisciplinary artist, educator and curator whose architectural projects connect with communities. Soto's temporary modular SCREENHOUSE pavilions are evocative symbols of her cultural assimilation that we can enter and share. Each free-standing structure functions as both sculptural object and social gathering place. Couched in beauty, her ongoing OPEN 24 HOURS project offers a different visceral encounter — with evidence of displacement and want. The aesthetic display of cast-off liquor bottles culled from steadily accumulating detritus in the historically Black neighborhood she now calls home suggests that we consider the personal and communal impact of...
2020-02-0412 min
Fresh Art InternationalFilming Rhythm, Stories and Soul in the Toronto SubwayThe Toronto-made film RISE embodies the creative force of a local youth-led spoken word movement known as RISE Edutainment. A subway station serves as the set where the collective’s poets, rappers, and musicians voice their experiences as first and second generation immigrants from the Caribbean and Africa.
Emelie Chhangur, curator of The Art Gallery of York University, sparked the film project in 2017, by inviting Bárbara Wagner and Benjamin de Burca to Toronto. Based in Recife, Brazil, the two artist filmmakers are known for examining cultural change in the making. Through film and photography, they document pop...
2020-01-2117 minFresh Art InternationalJana Winderen on The Art of Listening Under WaterNorwegian artist Jana Winderen records sounds above and below the surface of our blue planet to compose site-specific sonic environments. For four days during Miami Art Week 2019, she invites you to step inside the Collins Park Rotunda on Miami Beach, for The Art of Listening: Under Water. Miami’s waterways, the Barents Sea and the Tropical Oceans come together within the spherical space, to immerse you in an acoustic collage.
The Art of Listening: Under Water portrays the fragile and complex beauty that circulates through the currents of the interconnected marine world. Winderen’s ephemeral installation promises to l...
2019-11-2623 minFresh Art InternationalExperts Guide to Miami Art Week 2019Today, we take you to meet three globally engaged, Miami-based contemporary art experts. Ombretta Agro Andruff, Tami Katz-Freiman and Kathryn Mikesell are here to help you navigate the city and enjoy the intense burst of international art that transfigures the cultural landscape every December.
Miami Art Week brings together local and international art worlds. This is not only an opportunity for globally active galleries to present the best work of artists they represent. Miami art spaces, museums, community initiatives, individual artists and designers and collectives all rise to the occasion, too, to show their creative force to...
2019-11-1921 min
AWAKEN Inner Wisdom @BethBellLIVE“Living a Previous Life as Lou Gehrig" with Cathy ByrdThis weeks Episode on the “Pollinating 🐝 the Planet 🌎 with L❤️VE” Show with host Beth Bell: “Living a Previous Life as Lou Gehrig" with Cathy ByrdThe Online TV version is launched! Catch the video version of this episode on BethBell.me/YouTubeEPISODE DESCRIPTION:Children are sensitive in so many ways. But what if your child was describing memories that start or end with “When I was big like daddy”? Beliefs and discussions go deep on if this is imagination or real. The fascinating facts from Cathy’s story are mesmerising and potentially life changing as you s...
2019-11-1447 minFresh Art InternationalThe Mind-Bending Mythology of Trenton Doyle HancockIn November 2019, Houston-based artist Trenton Doyle Hancock brings his mythological “Moundverse” to Miami. Locust Projects gives over the entire space to his site-specific installation. The artist will immerse us in a world inspired by comic books, toys, horror films and animations.
For decades, Hancock has been telling the story of the Mounds (gentle hybrid plant-like creatures) protected by Torpedo Boy (Hancock’s alter ego), and their enemies, the Vegans (mutants who consume tofu and spill Mound blood every chance they get). In paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints, video and installation, the artist explores good and evil, authority, race and cl...
2019-11-1218 min
Fresh Art InternationalArtist Playlist—Regina Frank Listens to Joan JonasThis episode is part of our Playlist series. We’re inviting artists, curators, architects, filmmakers, cultural producers and other listeners to share favorites from the archive.
Based in Lisbon, German born artist Regina Frank has shown her work in New York, London, Los Angeles and Tokyo, among other cities globally. In recent projects, she explored environmental issues in performative installations at the Museum of Art Architecture and Technology, Lisbon, and BioArt 2018, Seoul, South Korea.
Here, Regina Frank introduces our conversation with renowned video and performance artist Joan Jonas, an episode first released on June 5, 2012.
Revisiting this episode is a moment to...
2019-09-1614 minFresh Art InternationalArtist Playlist—Regina Frank Listens to Joan JonasThis episode is part of our Playlist series. We’re inviting artists, curators, architects, filmmakers, cultural producers and other listeners to share favorites from the archive.
Based in Lisbon, German born artist Regina Frank has shown her work in New York, London, Los Angeles and Tokyo, among other cities globally. In recent projects, she explored environmental issues in performative installations at the Museum of Art Architecture and Technology, Lisbon, and BioArt 2018, Seoul, South Korea.
Here, Regina Frank introduces our conversation with renowned video and performance artist Joan Jonas, an episode first released on June 5, 2012.
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2019-09-1614 minFresh Art InternationalArtist Playlist—Nadine Hall Listens to Diaspora Vibe: Art with Caribbean RootsJamaican-born artist Nadine Hall introduces Diaspora Vibe: Art with Caribbean Roots, a personally significant episode from her Fresh Art playlist. First published on July 26, 2017, this segment reveals the complex and diverse influence of the Caribbean on contemporary art.
Franklin Sirmans, director of the Perez Art Museum, Miami, talks about the pivotal role of art from the Global South in the triennial art exhibition known as Prospect New Orleans. Prospect returns to the Crescent City in November 2020.
Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator founder and curator Rosie Gordon Wallace and Miami-affiliated artists describe how the Caribbean is e...
2019-08-1959 minFresh Art InternationalEllen Harvey on Public Art and Climate ActionToday, we take you to Miami Beach, Florida, for a conversation with British-born artist Ellen Harvey.
In 2002, the art fair known as Art Basel traveled here from Switzerland, to set up a winter home. While the South Florida metropolis has grown into an international contemporary art mecca, this coast has also become recognized as ground zero for sea level rise.
Despite increased flooding from high tides, the population keeps growing. Public and private investments continue to pour in. In 2015, the City of Miami Beach allocated 620 million dollars to renovate and expand the Convention Center where t...
2019-07-1112 minFresh Art InternationalArt Historian Playlist: Deborah Barkun Listens to Joana ChoumaliToday’s conversation continues our Playlist series. We’re inviting artists, curators, architects, writers, filmmakers, cultural producers and other listeners to introduce episodes from our archive.
Based in the United States, art historian and curator Deborah Barkun is Chair of the Department of Art and Art History and Director of Museum Studies at Ursinus College, outside Philadelphia. Her research centers on the social dynamics of artistic collaboration. Barkun is contributing to our stories from the 58th Venice Art Biennale. Here, she introduces our conversation with Ivorian artist Joana Choumali, first released on April 30, 2018.
Deborah Barkun writ...
2019-05-1320 minFresh Art InternationalCurator Playlist: Sasha Dees Listens to Remy JungermanToday’s conversation is the first in our new Playlist series. We’re inviting artists, curators, architects, writers, filmmakers and cultural producers to introduce their favorite episodes from our archive.
From the Netherlands, curator, writer and arts producer Sasha Dees works internationally. An advisor to numerous festivals and arts venues, she’s known for encouraging artists to experiment with classical art forms. Her practice centers on creating new dialogues and forging collaborations across cultures, traditions, genders and art disciplines. Here, she introduces my conversation with Remy Jungerman, first released on September 18, 2014.
The Surinamese-Dutch artist talks about the...
2019-05-0618 minFresh Art InternationalSound Art and Contemporary Culture in Norway with IKTThis flashback to Norway 2017 features our sonic encounters and conversations with artists, curators and cultural producers in the capital city of Oslo and in Tromsø, a small town north of the Arctic Circle.
In 2017, Fresh Art International founder and artistic director Cathy Byrd traveled to Norway as a new member of the International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art (IKT), an organization designed to support and connect curators in our global community. The Office for Contemporary Art, Norway, and Oslo Pilot (now known as osloBiennalen) guided our first experience of contemporary Nordic art and culture.
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2019-04-0854 minFresh Art InternationalLive from the Everglades, Part TwoSouth Florida’s subtropical wilderness inspired us to stage a remote radio broadcast from the Everglades. On February 24, 2019, we brought live and pre-recorded conversations with artists, scientists, rangers, educators and Miccosukee activists to a live audience on the porch of the Ernest F. Coe Visitor Center.
Voices in Part Two (alpha order): Warren Abrahamson, Miguel Alejandro Castillo, Robert Chambers, Houston Cypress, Jose Elias, Nathan Fox, Ellen Harvey, Jenny Hipscher, Lori Marois, Deborah Mitchell, Cristina Molina, Adam Nadel, Paula Nelson-Shokar, Sarah Michelle Rupert, Dara Silverman, Hilary Swain
Sound Editor: Anamnesis Audio | Special Audio: Jack Tamul & James T. Mil...
2019-04-011h 01
Our Paranormal Afterlife : Finding Proof of Life After DeathThe Past Lives Podcast Ep56 – Cathy ByrdChildren with past life memories. My guest this week is Cathy Byrd. Cathy's son Christian has past life memories of being a famous baseball player. We talk about her experiences with Christian and her own past life regressions. The book 'The Boy Who Knew Too Much' is soon to be made into a movie.At the tender age of two, baseball prodigy Christian Haupt began sharing vivid memories of being a baseball player in the 1920s and ’30s. From riding cross-country on trains, to his fierce rivalry with Babe Ruth, Christian described historical facts about the life of...
2019-03-2455 minFresh Art InternationalLive from the Everglades, Part OneSouth Florida's subtropical wilderness inspired us to stage a remote radio broadcast from the Everglades on February 24, 2019. We brought live and pre-recorded conversations with artists, scientists, rangers, educators and Miccosukee activists to a live audience on the porch of the Ernest F. Coe Visitor Center. This episode is Part One of our two-hour program.
Voices in Part One: AIRIE Creative Director Deborah Mitchell, Miccosukee activist Betty Osceola, Celeste DePalma of Audubon Florida, Park Rangers Daniel Agudelo, Nathan Fox, Leon Howell, Lori Marois and Emily Wong, Park volunteer Barbara Hedges, Park hydrologists Steven Tennis and Adam Thime, and A...
2019-03-1852 min
Oh My Dollar!The Art of Debt ft. Cathy ByrdToday’s guest is not to be missed. Cathy Byrd from Fresh Art International reinvented herself as an artistic nomad after she got laid off in her mid-50’s while in debt. She paid off all her debt a few months after unemployment, including short selling her house and despite being unemployed for 2.5 years, she emerged from unemployment with $22,000 in savings and a new career.
We talked about the relationship between art and debt, what emerging artists need to do become financially successful, Cathy’s own story of debt and recovery, and some of the unbelievable relationships between...
2018-09-0524 min
Fresh Art InternationalSounds of Summer in the CitySome might think that art descends on Miami just once a year in December for Art Week. In fact, this city has a year round cultural life. On our radio show, meet a few of the curators, gallerists and artists who animate South Florida’s year round contemporary art scene. Listen to locals in conversations about urban development and gentrification, racial and social issues, and experimental music and sound art. Featuring Gustavo Matamoros and Alba Triana (subtropics24/ArtCenter/South Florida), Anthony Spinello and Natalie Alfonso of Spinello Projects and Maria Elena Ortiz, Perez Art Museum Miami.
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2017-08-2355 min
Fresh Art InternationalDiaspora Vibe in MiamiArt with Caribbean roots inspires this episode of our radio show. Franklin Sirmans, Director of Perez Art Museum, Miami, sets the tone, in his conversation with Cathy Byrd about art from the Global South. We’ll introduce the role of Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator, Inc., in nurturing the work of artists of the Caribbean diaspora in Miami and beyond. You’ll hear from Rosie Gordon-Wallace, founder of DVCAI, Haitian-born artist Asser Saint-Val who lives and works in Miami, and artists in residence Gerard Caliste (Houston, by way of New Orleans) Ashley Teamer (New Orleans) and Nadine Hall (Jamaica).
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2017-07-2656 min
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2017-07-116h 37
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Author: Cathy Byrd
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Length: 6 hours 37 minutes
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Title: The Boy Who Knew Too Much
Author: Cathy Byrd
Narrator: Cathy Byrd
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 6 hours 37 minutes
Release date: July 11, 2017
Genres: Counseling & Inspirational
Publisher's Summary:
'Mommy, I used to be a tall baseball player.''Yes, you will be a tall baseball player someday.'With a look of exasperation, he stomped his foot and hollered.'No! I was a tall baseball player-tall like Daddy!' What was my son trying to say to me? Did he mean . . . he couldn't mean . . . was he trying to tell me that he...
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Title: The Boy Who Knew Too Much
Author: Cathy Byrd
Narrator: Cathy Byrd
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 6 hours 37 minutes
Release date: July 11, 2017
Genres: Medicine & Naturopathy
Publisher's Summary:
'Mommy, I used to be a tall baseball player.''Yes, you will be a tall baseball player someday.'With a look of exasperation, he stomped his foot and hollered.'No! I was a tall baseball player-tall like Daddy!' What was my son trying to say to me? Did he mean . . . he couldn't mean . . . was he trying to tell me that he...
2017-07-116h 37
Fresh Art InternationalSounds of Berlin - Radio VersionOn this live streaming show, host Cathy Byrd calls in from Paris to Jolt Radio to share some of her sonic adventures in Berlin, the city where she spent two of her six weeks in Europe this year. Hear drummers performing in the Karneval der Kulturen and encounter the music scene in Mauer Park. Learn about the sound art featured on Deutschlandfunk Kultur from curator Marcus Gammel. Meet Ahmet Ögüt, one of the hosts on the documenta 14 radio program coming to Berlin. Visit the studio of artist and musician Satch Hoyt to experience his Unpacking Sonic Migrations: From Slave Sh...
2017-07-081h 00
Provocative Enlightenment RadioThe Boy Who Knew Too Much with Cathy ByrdKirkus Reviews says this about Byrd’s book, “Byrd’s memoir almost reads like a suspenseful novel, and readers are sure to be gripped by the possible explanations she provides for (her son’s) seemingly inexplicable memories. She also thoughtfully reflects on her own spirituality, and the ways in which her son’s revelations challenged her Christian faith . . . On the whole, this is an affecting portrayal of parenthood, and an affectionate love letter from a mother to her unusual child. An eclectic mix of mystery, memoir, and the supernatural.”
Cathy Byrd is a busy realtor and mother of two young ch...
2017-06-1500 min
Fresh Art InternationalSounds of Venice Art Biennale - radio version - 17May2017Sounds of Venice Art Biennale 2017
On this live streaming show, Cathy Byrd calls in to Jolt Radio from Athens, Greece, to talk about the 57th Venice Art Biennale in Italy, and share some of her sound encounters during preview days of the international art exhibition. Her field recordings feature the voices of biennial curators, artists, projects, performances and events.
From Cathy’s notes:
This year, the French Pavilion is a sound space. At the opening event, after the speeches and applause for artist Xavier Veilhan and curators Christian Marclay and Lionel Bovier, I follow the crowd to experience a performance by...
2017-05-261h 02
Fresh Art InternationalSpring Contemporary 2017 at Miami's Deering EstateLive streaming our radio show from the studio at Jolt Radio, Miami, we delve into the Deering Estate, where contemporary art meets nature, history, science and new technologies. Our show begins with a conversation that Cathy Byrd recorded in Havana with artist Mary Mattinglyabout Pull, a project Ms. Mattingly realized through the Bronx Museum of the Arts and the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana. Pull was on view during the 12th annual Havana Biennial.
Introducing the environmental focus of the Spring Contemporary 2017 exhibition at the Deering Estate: Kim Yantis, the Cultural Arts Curator for the Deering Esta...
2017-04-1955 min
Fresh Art InternationalVivian Caccuri on Tambon BassHere's one of the art talk shows we hosted during UNTITLED, Art on Miami Beach, December 2016, via Wynwood Radio. We’re thrilled to add our energy to an art fair that’s more of an international exhibition than any other we’ve encountered. In this segment, you'll hear host Cathy Byrd in conversation with Vivian Caccuri.
Vivian Caccuri’s work creates interrelations among music, real and virtual architecture, public space, the body and performativity in objects, installations and performances. Vivian has developed projects in many cities in Brazil and abroad, including Manaus (Brazilian Amazon), Helsinki, Riga, Warsaw, Oslo, Valparaiso, Ve...
2016-12-0428 min
Fresh Art InternationalProspect 4 New Orleans RevealedHere's one of the art talk shows we hosted during UNTITLED, Art on Miami Beach, December 2016, via Wynwood Radio. We’re thrilled to add our energy to an art fair that’s more of an international exhibition than any other we’ve encountered. In this segment, you'll hear host Cathy Byrd in conversation with Brook Davis Anderson and Trevor Schoonmaker.
Brooke Davis Anderson is Executive Director of Prospect New Orleans/U.S. Biennial. From 2010 to 2012 Anderson was Deputy Director of Curatorial Planning at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). In this role, Anderson oversaw the Watts Towers Conservat...
2016-12-0229 min
Fresh Art InternationalChristie van der Haak on More is MoreHere's one of the art talk shows we hosted during UNTITLED, Art on Miami Beach, December 2016, via Wynwood Radio. We’re thrilled to add our energy to an art fair that’s more of an international exhibition than any other we’ve encountered. In this segment, you'll hear host Cathy Byrd in conversation with Christie van der Haak, Sharon Aponte Misdea, and Silvia Barisione.
Christie van der Haak is from The Hague, the Netherlands, studied design and fashion before becoming a painter interested in high color and decorative patterns. Her intricate and colorful patterns and designs are translated into tapestries and wall...
2016-12-0118 min
Fresh Art InternationalNew Performance Art in Miami - 16Nov2016Our show is a feast of new performance art projects. Hear the conversation Cathy Byrd recorded with artist William Pope.L one night during the roving street performance he created for the 32nd Bienal São Paulo. Learn about the Tide by Side processional event planned for the Faena Art District on Miami Beach from curator Claire Tancons and artist Marinella Senatore. Also in the studio, Alexis Gideon introduces the multi-media opera The Comet and the Glacier he brings to Locust Projects, Miami.
Photo: Host Cathy Byrd, with guests Alexis Gideon, Claire Tancons, and Marinella Senatore.
2016-11-2450 min
Fresh Art InternationalNew Performance ArtOur show is a feast of new performance art projects. Hear the conversation Cathy Byrd recorded with artist William Pope.L one night during the roving street performance he created for the 32nd Bienal São Paulo. Learn about the Tide by Side processional event planned for the Faena Art District on Miami Beach from curator Claire Tancons and artist Marinella Senatore. Also in the studio, Alexis Gideon introduces the multi-media opera The Comet and the Glacier he brings to Locust Projects, Miami.
2016-11-1656 min
Fresh Art InternationalPremiere Broadcast on Jolt Radio Miamirtists Joyce J. Scott and Antonia Wright join Cathy Byrd for the first Miami broadcast of the Fresh Art International show on Jolt Radio.
Baltimore-based Joyce J. Scott is a jewelry maker and sculptor repositioning craft, and in particular beadwork, as a potent platform for commentary on social and political injustices. She shares recent projects and comments on the recent honor of a MacArthur Genius award.
Miami-based Antonia Wright is an artist working in performance, video, and installation. She talks about her traumatic fall through the ice on a frozen lake in a filmed re-enactment that is a fea...
2016-10-1254 min
Fresh Art InternationalFresh Talk: Franky CruzArtist Franky Cruz talks about how Miami, and the art space known as Spinello Projects, became the laboratory for his creation of Sistema, an uncommon butterfly experience.
Sound Editor: Guney Ozsan | Sound Effects: Franky Cruz and Cathy Byrd
2016-05-1908 minFresh Art InternationalFresh Talk: Creative Mornings MiamiCathy Byrd talks about change as a creative opportunity when she makes an appearance at Creative Mornings/Miami. She recorded this Fresh Talk episode with rapt listeners in a secret garden at Vizcaya Museum and Gardens.
Sound Editor: Guney Ozsan | Sound effects: Creative Mornings/Miami
2016-04-0709 minFresh Art InternationalFresh Talk: The Origin Story
Curator Cathy Byrd and architecture historian Sarah Rovang talk about the origins of Fresh Art International—what sparked the launch of our website, our Fresh Talk podcast and our digital guide to contemporary art, Fresh Art International NOW.
Rovang, a PhD Candidate in Brown University’s History of Art and Architecture Department, is a contributing editor for Fresh Art International NOW.
Sound Editor: Kris McConnachie
2016-01-2208 minFresh Art InternationalFresh Talk: New POV at the Venice Art BiennaleNigerian-born curator Okwui Enwezor, director of the 56th Venice Art Biennale, sparked this conversation about the expanded black presence in the global contemporary art scene. Recording in Venice, during preview days the international exhibition, Cathy Byrd connects with Canadian curators Camille Turner, Andrea Fatona, Sally Frater, and Pamela Edmonds to speak about this new development.
Sound Editor: Kris McConnachie
2015-05-2109 min
Fresh Art InternationalFinding True North—with Irene Hofmann at SITE Santa FeThe remote landscape and native culture of the American Southwest has long inspired artists and writers. Before the 1995, traditional landscape painting, pottery, weaving, and silver jewelry were perhaps the best-known regional aesthetics. And then came the nonprofit art space SITE Santa Fe, the first official outpost of contemporary art in New Mexico, and home to one of the first international biennials.
On Skype, Cathy Byrd speaks with Irene Hofmann, Director and Chief Curator of SITE, about radical changes in the way the space connects with artists and communities in the Americas.
Sound Editor: Kris McConnachie
Sound cr...
2014-07-0226 minFresh Art InternationalFresh Talk: Sylvie FortinThis Fresh Talk episode features Cathy Byrd in conversation with Sylvie Fortin, Executive and Artistic Director of the 2014 Montreal Biennial. Czech artist Klara Hobza's Diving Through Europe project is emblematic of the possible futures envisioned in L’avenir or What Is To Come. Presented in partnership with the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, the multi-venue exhibition reinvents the city's Triennial, juxtaposing the work of 25 Canadian artists with that of their global peers. The environment, geo-politics and artistic agency are explored by artists such as Hobza, Kevin Schmidt, Susan Norrie, Taysir Batniji, and Krzysztof Wodiczko, and the activist collectives Arctic Per...
2014-06-1217 minFresh Art InternationalFresh Talk: Art x Hip-HopOn Skype with Cathy Byrd, Atlanta-based artist and scholar Fahamu Pecou introduces his brand, explains why he's working toward a doctoral degree at Emory University and describes what it means to curate an art magazine at the intersection of art and hip-hop.
Sound Editor: Jeff T. Byrd | Episode Sound: Fahamu Pecou and Killer Mike
2014-02-1327 minFresh Art InternationalFresh Talk UNCUT: Trenton Doyle HancockThis is the launch of Fresh TalkUNCUT, a new series of unedited podcasts. In February 2013, Fresh Talk producer Cathy Byrd recorded a conversation with artistTrenton Doyle Hancock, in hisHouston, Texas, studio. Trenton talks about the mythology he created to filterhis artmaking and about the personal histories that lie beneath his work.
Sound Editor: EricSchwartz Episode Sound: TrentonDoyle Hancock, performing Devotion at CAMH
2013-10-2424 minFresh Art InternationalFresh Talk UNCUT: Jean-Ulrick Désert
Thisis our first broadcast of Fresh Talk UNCUT, a new series of unedited podcasts.In October 2012, Cathy Byrd, Fresh Talk producer, made a field recording with Jean-Ulrick Désert during her residencyin Berlin. Born in Haiti, Jean-Ulrick lived in the U.S. and France beforemigrating to Germany. He talks about how moving through these cultures hasmarked his artmaking.
Sound Editor: EricSchwartz
2013-10-2334 minFresh Art InternationalFresh Talk: Stephen VitielloIn this episode, Cathy Byrd connects on Skype with sound artist Stephen Vitiello. Stephen shares recordings he made during residencies in New York, Australia, and on the island of Captiva, and talks about the challenges of archiving new media. Stephen’s 2010 project A Bell for Every Minute is currently installed in the Museum of Modern Art Sculpture Garden as part of Soundings: A Contemporary Score. Curated by Barbara London, this is MoMA’s first exhibition dedicated exclusively to sound art.
2013-09-0714 minFresh Art InternationalFresh Talk: Shadow HealerWhat does it mean for a story to be new age noir? At KUT 90.5 studios in Austin, Texas, Cathy Byrd meets local authors Morgan Coy and Karen Davidson to find out. They talk about about Shadow Healer, the four-part graphic novel the two Austinites created with London-based artist Chris Chalik. Here's their free five page preview.
Sound Editor: Eric Schwartz | Episode sound: Morgan Coy
2013-07-2809 minFresh Art InternationalFresh Talk: Burning ManAt South By South West, in Austin, Texas, Cathy Byrd meets Steve Brown and Jessie Deeter, the team that directed and produced the documentary Spark: A Burning Man Story. Steve and Jessie explain what they learned about the individuals and ideas behind the legendary desert rituals of Burning Man.
Sound Editor: Eric Schwartz | Episode Sound, from Spark: A Burning Man Story
2013-07-0122 minFresh Art InternationalFresh Talk: Rijin SahakianVia Skype, Cathy Byrd speaks with international curator and producer Rijin Sahakian in Beirut, Lebanon. Rijin describes how the American invasion in 2003 impacted Iraq's cultural scene and introduces SADA, the experimental new media project she created to support the creative practices of emerging Iraqi artists.
Sound Editor: Eric Schwartz
2013-06-1020 minFresh Art InternationalFresh Talk: Louis GrachosRecorded at the KUT/NPR studio in Austin, Texas, this Fresh Talk episode features Louis Grachos, new director of Austin Museum of Art-Arthouse (currently known as AMOA-Arthouse). Louis has been an arts leader on the move. His career has taken him across the country—to New York, San Diego, Toronto, Miami, Santa Fe and Buffalo. Before moving to Austin, he directed the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo for a decade. Cathy Byrd speaks with Louis about how he landed in Austin and what he hopes to do there.
Sound Editor: Eric Schwartz
2013-05-2009 minFresh Art InternationalFresh Talk: CatVidFestThe renowned Walker Art Center in Minneapolis staged a one-night Internet Cat Video Festival in August 2012 that drew an astounding 10,000 people to the Center’s Open Field. During South By South West 2013, Cathy Byrd meets curators Scott Stulen and Katie Hill in the KUT/NPR studios to talk about the legendary project.
Sound Editor: Eric Schwartz | Episode Sound courtesy Walker Art Center
2013-04-2908 minFresh Art InternationalFresh Talk: Roman MarsAt South By South West Interactive, in Austin, Texas, Roman Mars speaks with Cathy Byrd about what inspired him to create 99% Invisible, a radio show and podcast series featuring architecture and design. Based in San Francisco, Mars is a super hero in a world of passionate and mostly bootstrapped podcasters. Last year, the 99% Invisible Kickstarter campaign was the most successful journalism project ever funded. This recording session takes place inside the SXSW Interactive presenters' lounge, a room buzzing with creative energy.
2013-04-0813 minFresh Art InternationalFresh Talk: Pussy RiotThe 2013 South By South West Film Festival, in Austin, Texas, is the setting for this Fresh Talk feature. Cathy Byrd meets filmmakers Mike Lerner and Maxim Pozdorovkin to learn more about Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer, the documentary they recently completed.The film tells the story of Nadezhda Tolokonnikova (Nadia), Maria Alyokhina (Masha), and Yekaterina Samutsevich (Katia), members of the radical feminist art collective Pussy Riot. In early 2012, the three were arrested and put on trial for performing a 40 second "punk prayer" inside Moscow’s main orthodox cathedral. The world has been calling for the young women's release ever since Nadia, M...
2013-03-1812 minFresh Art InternationalFresh Talk: Valerie Cassel OliverIn Houston, Cathy Byrd meets Senior Curator Valerie Cassel Oliver at the Contemporary Arts Museum to tour Valerie’s latest exhibition project: Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art. Recipient of the 2011 David C. Driskell Prize for her contribution to the field of African American art history, Valerie talks about what it means to be a curator and how everything starts with a question.
Sound Editor: Eric Schwartz | Photos: Joe DeMarco and CAMH | Episode Sound: Excerpts of performance art projects in this order: Ben Patterson, Pond, 1962; Shaun El C. Leonardo, The Arena, 2012; Trenton Doyle Hancock, Devotion, 2013; Ben Patterson, Ant, 1960-2010
2013-02-2512 minFresh Art InternationalFresh Talk: Adam SchreiberCathy Byrd meets Chicago-based photographer Adam Schreiber at an outdoor coffee house on East 5th Street in Austin,Texas. Adam talks about the sense of place that influenced his 2010 residency project at ArtPace San Antonio and how spatial dynamics affected the way he photographed the contemporary art collection of philanthropist and artist Linda Pace in her San Antonio residence.
2013-02-0412 minFresh Art InternationalFresh Talk: Rashid NovaireWhile in residence at Open Ateliers Zuidoost, in Southeast Amsterdam, Cathy Byrd meets Dutch novelist Rashid Novaire. Of Dutch and Moroccan descent, Rashid is an author whose heritage is intrinsic to his imagination. Rashid started penning stories when he was in elementary school. Hubris, his fourth novel, will be published in February 2013.Sound Editor: Eric Schwartz | Photos: courtesy Rashid Novaire| Episode Sound: radiobooks.com
2013-01-2116 minFresh Art InternationalFresh Talk: Agnes Meyer-BrandisIn Berlin, Cathy Byrd meets German artist Agnes Meyer-Brandis in the control tower of Tempelhof, an abandoned airport at the edge of the city, to see the artist's installation "Up In the Air: Control Room Tempelhof." Agnes fuses pure science and creativity to explore the zone between fact and fiction, fantasy and technology. So far, her projects have taken Agnes to the U.S., Russia, Brazil, Switzerland, Austria, Argentina and Australia. The artist rarely works in a typical studio or gallery setting. You're more likely to find Agnes exploring the poetics of glaciers beneath ice skating rinks and raising moon...
2013-01-1421 minFresh Art InternationalFresh Talk: Sarah HobbsCathy Byrd speaks on Skype with photographer Sarah Hobbs on a night when Sarah is testing materials she collected for Overpacked, a set of site-specific installations to be on view in Midtown Atlanta for a few days next week. Sarah's interest in human obsessions has led her to depict a range of neuroses and human foibles. Known for immersing her viewers in large scale photographs staged in familiar domestic interiors, this time, Sarah invites us into an experiential space: three hotel rooms that appear to be occupied by individuals trying very hard to make themselves feel at home.
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2012-12-1115 minFresh Art InternationalFresh Talk: Luci WestphalIn Berlin, Cathy Byrd meets Luci Westphal, a German filmmaker based in New York and Berlin, to talk about Luci's love for street art, music, film and the D.I.Y. style. Luci shares the inside story on her moving postcard series In A Berlin Minute and her latest documentary All's Well and Fair.
Sound Editor: Leonardo Madriz
Photographs courtesy the artist
Music: "Frogfly Buzzing," by Dioxin Dolly (Rachel Iannelli, Margaret Briggs, Tina Bushnell), 1996, from Luci Westphal, All's Well and Fair, 2012.
2012-11-2619 minFresh Art InternationalFresh Talk: Sarah OppenheimerConversations About Creativity in the 21st CenturyCathy Byrd meets Sarah Oppenheimer at the Baltimore Museum of Art to talk about Sarah's stunning architectural interventions in the museum's renewed Contemporary Wing. Kristen Hileman, the BMA's contemporary art curator, creates unique relationships between Sarah’s newly commissioned projects and other work from the collection, including The Shallow Sea, a haunting sound art piece by Turner Prize winner Susan Philipsz. An ambient recording of the 2010 sound art work is a special feature of this podcast.
Sound Editor: Leonardo Madriz
Photographs: Sarah Oppenheimer. W-120301. 2012, and P-010100. 2012. The Baltimore Museum of Art: Nathan L. and...
2012-11-1913 minFresh Art InternationalFresh Talk: Yane CalovskiIn Istanbul, Cathy Byrd meets Yane Calovski, a transmedia artist and curator based in Skopje, Macedonia. Since 1998, his research-based works have been exhibited at Tate Britain, Manifesta 7, European Kunsthalle, Baltic Art Center, and Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje, among other venues. Yane is the artistic director of Press to Exit, an organization founded in 2004 as a special program-based artist initiative for research and production in the field of visual arts and curatorial practices.
Sound Editor: Jeff T. Byrd, with Leonardo Madriz
Photos, courtesy the artist except where noted.
Sound: Yane Calovski,Everything is after something, 2004. Produced by Baltic Art Cen...
2012-11-131h 38Fresh Art InternationalFresh Talk: Theaster GatesIn this Fresh Talk LIVE feature, Cathy Byrd meets Chicago-based artist Theaster Gates in Washington, DC, on Election Night 2012. Theaster is the featured speaker in the second annual Kinetic: Conversations in Contemporary Art lecture series at American University. Wilmer Wilson, an alumnus of Howard University, American University graduate students Emily Fransisco and Heather Ravenscroft, and University of Mary Washington senior Sidney Mullis join the conversation.
Sound Editor: Leonardo Madriz
Photos: Cathy Byrd unless otherwise noted
Music: Theaster Gates + The Black Monks of Mississippi, Shine, 2011
2012-11-0735 minFresh Art InternationalFresh Talk: Marcos LutyensIn Kassel, Germany, Cathy Byrd joins documenta(13)artist Marcos Lutyens for a Hypnotic Session in the Reflection Room. Based in Los Angeles, the London-born intermedia artist works with other artists and curators to develop events and exhibits that reflect his research into the mind and the unconscious. Marcos collaborated with artist, curator and writer Raimundas Malašauskas and smell researcher and artist Sissel Tolass to create this Hypnotic Session.
Sound Editor: Leonardo Madriz
Photos: courtesy the artist, except where noted
Music: Bill Frisell, Richter 858-8
2012-10-2921 minFresh Art InternationalFresh Talk: Christian Philipp MuellerIn Kassel, Germany, Cathy Byrd meets Swiss artist Christian Philipp Müller to talk about Swiss Chard Ferry, his project for documenta (13). Christian lives in Berlin and Kassel, where since 2011, he's been Dean at the School of Art and Design. He has a history with the international exhibition, having participated in documenta 10 (1997) and is known for his interest in connecting art with the cultural history of plants.
Sound Editor: Leonardo Madriz
Photos: Cathy Byrd and the artist, where noted
Music: Beach Boys, Vege-Tables, 1967
2012-10-2219 minFresh Art InternationalBallroom Marfa Imagines a Drive-In TheaterOn a spring 2012 road trip in the American Southwest, we drive through the desert to Marfa, home of the Chinati Foundation, a museum designed by artist Donald Judd to present art in conversation with the surrounding landscape. We stop to explore Ballroom Marfa, where then director Fairfax Dorn and project manager Melissa McDonnell sit down with us to talk about the genesis of the contemporary art space. Architect Michael Meredith meets us at an outdoor cafe to share his perspective on how a drive-in theater might come to life in this remote setting.
Sound Editor: Leo Madriz
2012-10-0816 minFresh Art InternationalArtist as Laptop Musician—with Jason Forrest in BerlinCathy Byrd connects by Skype with artist Jason Forrest. Aka DJ DonnaSummer, the laptop musician has been based in Berlin for the past eight of years with his artist wife Jennifer Ray. Jason talks about how he became part of an international music scene and introduces his new platform: Network Awesome.
Sound Editor: Leo Madriz
Special Audio featured in this order: "New Religion" from The Everything, Jason Forrest; "Close to the Edge" from Close to the Edge, Yes;"The Exquisite Organs" from The Everything, Jason Forrest; "Bring that Beat Back" from Bring that Beat Back...
2012-10-0118 minFresh Art InternationalThe Brave New World of Webcasting—with Tolly Moseley in East AustinIn East Austin, Tolly Moseley in Austin shares the facets of her creative practice. A book publicist by day, Tolly spends evenings writing for her blog. She’s also a passionate aerial silks dancer who keeps a vivid blue silk hanging from a tree outside her back door. Earlier this year, Tolly started producing and hosting a series of webisodes for "Austin Eavesdropper TV" in which she interviews a certain quirky character and shares insider tips about Austin. In this episode, Cathy gets a sneak peek at Tolly's brand new project for YouTube.
Sound Editor: Le...
2012-08-1312 minFresh Art InternationalThe Life of a Roving Curator—with Sasha Dees in AmsterdamCathy Byrd connects on skype with Sasha Dees, an independent curator/producer/consultant who lives and works between Amsterdam and New York. In the Netherlands, Sasha curates the residency program Open Ateliers in the area of Amsterdam known as Zuidoost. In the U.S., Sasha is the producer of a roving video performance project with Sietske Tjallingii, the protagonist in Miss T - My American Dream. Their road trips in search of mid-century roadside icons have led them to gigantic versions of a guitar, a blue whale, a sombrero and more.
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2012-07-0211 minFresh Art InternationalThe Call of the American Southwest—An Artist Residency in New MexicoThis episode features conversations with five current participants in the Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program. Established in 1967 by artist and art collector Don Anderson, the program offers visual artists the unique opportunity to spend a year concentrating on their work. The voices you'll hear are those of Sarah Bostwick, Jon-Paul Villegas, Brian Kluge, Corwin Levi (aka RadioSebastian), and Siobhan McBride.
Sound Editor: Leo Madriz Photos courtesy Cathy Byrd and RAiR artists RAiR acoustics: Sarah Bostwick Music: Paper Bird, The Train Song
2012-06-2513 minFresh Art InternationalEdible Concepts—with The Food Cultura Museum in BarcelonaIn Barcelona, we meet creatives at the intersection of contemporary art and food. Iranian-born Mariam Shambayati talks about her multi-media art project Moulinex-Me and the conceptual dinner parties she stages in the Food Cultura Museum. The anti-museum's founders Montse Guillén and Antoni Miralda have mixed art and food cocktails for decades. They introduce their most recent collaborative project, Off Menu—a series of fantastical events that offered a creative alternative to Alimentaria, Barcelona's annual culinary festival.
Sound Editor: Jay Agoglia
Special Audio, in order of appearance: Moulinex-Me Cena3 dinner conversation; Disco Kitchen, Off Menu 2012
Related Episodes: The Art o...
2012-05-3118 minFresh Art InternationalMaking and Meaning in Public Art—with Franklin Sirmans in Los AngelesCathy Byrd talks on the phone with Franklin Sirmans, curator of contemporary art at Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). Their conversation considers the essential role of public art at LACMA, covers the latest news on Michael Heizer's Levitated Mass installation and previews upcoming LACMA exhibitions to feature the Broad Collection (2012) and the work of Noah Purifoy (2014). Recently appointed Artistic Director for the third iteration of the art triennial known as Prospect New Orleans, Franklin shares some of this thoughts about the 2014 exhibition.
Sound Editor: Leo Madriz
Special Audio: Recorded while moving...
2012-05-1413 minFresh Art InternationalHow Does an Art Fair Sound in Madrid?
In 2012, Cathy Byrd shares her first encounter with ARCO Madrid, Spain's annual contemporary art fair.
Conversations: Suzanne Rietdijk, curator, ZINGERpresents, Amsterdam; Voluspa Jarpa, artist, Galeria Isabel Aninat, Santiago; and Anna Pahissa, owner/director, múltiplos, Barcelona.
Sounds: Fernando Gutierrez +.tape., Rapsodia; Jonathan Harker + Donna Conlon: Tapitapultas; Karl Holmqvist: Old News; Laia Estruch: Jingle
Sound Editor: Leo Madriz | Photography: Cathy Byrd
2012-02-2813 minFresh Art InternationalThe Pop-Up Design Lab—with Martí Guixé in BarcelonaIn his Barcelona studio, designer Martí Guixé talks to Cathy Byrd about his first experimental concepts for Camper pop-up shops, food design and work as a recreational activity.
Sound Editor: Leonardo Madriz
Photography: Imagekontainer/Knölke, except where noted.
Special Audio: Rechenzentrum, the John Peel Session
2012-02-2315 minFresh Art InternationalJanet Biggs—The Ineffable Power of Desire
New York-based video artist Janet Biggs makes an extreme sport of her creative expression. In this conversation, Janet considers the power of desire and the physical challenges she met while producing the complex video projects we experience in No Limits, her current mid-career survey. Organized by the Tampa Museum of Art, the exhibition runs from October 8, 2011 through January 8, 2012.
Sound Editor: Jeff T. Byrd | Special Audio courtesy Janet Biggs
Related Episodes: Janet Biggs on Artmaking at the Edge of the World
Related Links: Janet Biggs, Tampa Museum of Art
2011-11-2108 minFresh Art InternationalWilliam Pope.L Takes Magic to the Streets of New OrleansWilliam Pope.L, a performance artist and interventionist based in Chicago and Lewiston, Maine, is presenting a magic lantern show titled Blink for Prospect.2 New Orleans, the 2011 U.S. Biennial. For his project, the artist made a film from more than a thousand images donated by the people of New Orleans. On the night of October 22, Pope.L projected the film through the back of an old ice cream truck (previously, The Black Factory) as a team of volunteers pulled it across the dark city. Blink came to rest at Xavier University where it will remain on view through J...
2011-11-0406 min