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cultivate., with jessica taghapEpisode 04: María "Mafe" Izaguirre, Part TwoWelcome to cultivate., with Jessica Taghap – a new podcast exploring different art forms and their creative processes through interviews with some of the most exciting artists working today.In the second of my two-part chat with Mafe, I catch up with the artist shortly after attending the first of four performances of The Postpoetic Machine. We get into more detail about her guest performers (which consisted of movement artist Yoko Murakami, interdisciplinary performer Peter Sciscioli, and bird linguist Enrique Enriquez) and her thoughts and process with each one. We also talk about the important intersection between science an...2024-12-0243 min
cultivate., with jessica taghapEpisode 03: María "Mafe" Izaguirre, Part IWelcome to cultivate., with Jessica Taghap – a new podcast exploring different art forms and their creative processes through interviews with some of the most exciting artists working today. This week’s episode has me sitting down over Zoom with TheaterLab’s interdisciplinary artist-in-residence, María “Mafe” Izaguirre, on the first of two conversations. Born in Venezuela, Mafe eventually settled in New York, where her work in cybernetics seeks to explore “the ways in which humans and technology could cooperate to amplify consciousness.” In anticipation of her multimedia performance art piece, The Postpoetic Machine (which ran earlier this month alongside gue...2024-11-2439 min