Shows
Critical Bounds PodcastBerette Macaulay "BIPOC on Colonialism, Nationalism, and [the harmful illusion of] White Supremacy"Conversation with Berette S. Macaulay, a multidisciplinary artist, curator, and writer from Jamaica and Sierra Leone. Her research and visual arts practice engage themes of belonging, identity-performance, illegibility, love, memory, and mythmaking. We discuss living a multiplicitous life, and the institutional lie that you must focus on One Thing, or be branded a failure. Interrogating the process of critical dialogue. What populations are still being overlooked in the art world? The influence of the Black Portlanders project. Working with artists who are creating work to, “...speak to some of the traumas, but not define ourselves by these traumas.” How institutional raci...2021-06-211h 55
Critical Bounds PodcastEva Mayhabal Davis on "...Colonialism, Nationalism, and [the harmful illusion of] White Supremacy"Conversation our conversation with arts advocate and curator Eva Mayhabal Davis (B. Toluca, Mexico). We talk about our mutual disdain for Picasso, Davis' art journey, her project El Salón, the prospect of gathering together again, our mutual anxiety at onscreen crowds (and the 80s and early 90s lack of cellphones), how she advocates for community through the arts, and what old hobbies became new again during the pandemic.
Davis is a the Intake Paralegal at UnLocal, Inc, a non-profit organization that provides direct immigration legal representation, legal consultations, and community education to New York City’s undocumented immigrant communities. She...2021-05-2455 min
Critical Bounds PodcastSatpreet Kahlon "BIPOC on Colonialism, Nationalism, and [the harmful illusion of] White Supremacy"Conversation with Satpreet Kahlon, a Punjabi-born, Seattle based artist, organizer, and curator, and the editor of New Archives, a nonprofit arts journal which focuses on art in the Pacific Northwest. We talk about Satpreet's work at (now-defunct) The Alice Gallery, including her first experience at curating the show "From Which We Rise", and its familial connections. We discuss the vibrations of Place, and Satpreet's US experiences living around the country. We touch on institutional tokenism, her work with yəhaw̓ Indigenous Collective, and the issues with "decolonizing". Side-eyeing the New York Times. Theories on how some work by BIPOC artists is...2021-05-031h 26
Critical Bounds PodcastSofía Córdova on "BIPOC on Colonialism, Nationalism, and [the harmful illusion of] White Supremacy"A conversation with Sofía Córdova (She/Her/They/Them). We talk about her work Echoes of a Tumbling Throne, the dangerous inequality perpetuated by the tech industry, Her project "A Body Reorganized", which considers Sanctuary Cities, the history of the term "Sanctuary", and the humans affected by these policies. We have a full-on Star Trek tangent, and get into her band XUXA SANTAMARIA's label Ratskin Records, and life raising a tiny human in 2020.
Born in 1985 in Carolina, Puerto Rico and currently based in Oakland, California, Sofía Córdova @yagurmo-yal makes work that considers sci-fi as alternative history, danc...2021-04-2055 min
Critical Bounds PodcastHalim A. Flowers "BIPOC on Colonialism, Nationalism, and [the harmful illusion of] White Supremacy"Conversation with visual artist and formerly incarcerated poet, entrepreneur Halim A. Flowers about growing up in DC, Reaganomics and the myth of the "Superpredator", the importance of education and access beyond Eurocentric knowledge, making space to connect with people as fellow humans, the influence of hip hop and Basquiat on his work, and how art and culture can change minds and our world.2021-04-0451 min
Critical Bounds PodcastMichelle Kumata "BIPOC on Colonialism, Nationalism, and [the harmful illusion of] White Supremacy"Conversation with 3.5 generation Japanese-American artist Michelle Kumata about her time at Wing Luke Museum, her project on the Japanese Diaspora in the US and Brazil, her work "Song For Generations", and how it deals with the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII. We discuss the importance of listening to those from historically marginalized communities and really processing what is happening right now, then taking action as individuals to effect positive change. Plus, shoutouts to Wa Na Wari, Elisheba Johnson and Inye Wokoma, Roger Shimomura, Erin Shigaki, and Louie Gong2021-03-0737 min
Critical Bounds PodcastAfi Ese on "BIPOC on Colonialism, Nationalism, and [the harmful illusion of] White Supremacy"Conversation with African American contemporary realist, and figurative conceptual artist Afi Ese about using art to tell stories, group economics as a form of activism in marginalized groups, her former experience as a forensic psychologist and how we use research about inequity in place of action against inequity in our justice system (and many other places), a different way to look at reparations, the inherent problem with the term "BIPOC", Ese's thoughts on 2020 for art and artists, and how we can have more honest conversations across differences.2021-02-171h 00
Worth Reading WednesdaysEP 12: I Feel Warm and Fuzzy NowIn this episode, Nicole and Tori feature some fiction and nonfiction reads that are receiving some well-deserved buzz! For read and recommended picks, both the co-hosts dug up some reads from the past that had an impact on their thinking and their hearts. The resources talked about in this episode are listed below:
The Stand tv show;
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King;
Steel Magnolias movie;
Black Buck by Mateo Askaripour;
Behind the Scenes by Christina C. Jones;
I Am Every Good Thing...2021-02-1045 min
Critical Bounds PodcastAlexis Silva on "BIPOC on Colonialism, Nationalism, and [the harmful illusion of] White Supremacy"Conversation with Seattle-based Hispanic Latino artist writer, and curator Alexis L. Silva about finding your community in the art world, redefining success in a non-colonial context, the value of community museums, being a Person of Color in the art world, and why we should be building coalitions now, more than ever. (Photo courtesy of the artist)2021-02-0955 min
Critical Bounds PodcastAdero Knott for "BIPOC on Colonialism, Nationalism, and [the harmful illusion of] White SupremacyConversation with Adero Knott, an emerging curator, inventor, and Founder of AK Prosthetics, an AdaptiveTech startup that makes customized prosthetics and adaptive wear accessible and inclusive. Her first foray into curating was with the show "Disability and Perspective", one of four exhibitions from the Commons Artist Project by Norman Teague and Fo Wilson, which debuted at MCA Chicago, about making art and life more accessible, how we might expand sensory experiences at museums and art galleries, being a dark-skinned, Black woman in the tech world, how to invest in her accessible prosthetics app, and her highly varied experiences with racism...2021-01-2458 min
Critical Bounds PodcastAmelia Winger-Bearskin on "Art, AI, and Technology"Conversation with Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) of the Seneca-Cayuga Nation of Oklahoma, Deer Clan artist and technologist Amelia Winger-Bearskin. We talk about Amelia's podcasts Wampum.codes, a podcast which features Indigenous people working with tech in a multitude of ways, and Dreamstacks, the developer podcast by Contentful + Algolia which Amelia hosts. We also discuss her former life as an early-internet hacker and simultaneous opera singer, her Mozilla Fellowship on "trustworthy AI" and using Indigenous value-systems in tech, and much more. (Image courtesy of artist)2021-01-1345 min
Critical Bounds PodcastMeghan Elizabeth Trainor on "Art, AI, and Technology"Conversation with Seattle-based interdisciplinary artist, writer and performer Meghan Elizabeth Trainor (not THAT one) about Computational Witchcraft, Creating mythologies in order to truly own our places in spaces like tech that are historically unwelcoming to and erasing of womxn and other folxs who have been marginalized (because we have always been there, regardless of the dominant mythologies), using her project Witchcraft Memes to try to spark an interest in STEM for teens and tweens, using nurturance in community as a form of activism, her installation Elektron Oracle form the show Good Witch/Bad Witch at Museum of Museums in Seattle...2021-01-011h 08
Critical Bounds PodcastJacob Hurwitz - Goodman on "Art, AI, and Technology"A conversation with director Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman about his film work, the protests happening in both LA (where he is based) and Seattle (where I am based)this summer, police brutality, the houseless crisis, the perils of social media, AI as a symbiotic lifeform, and the rather banal-yet-dangerous role it currently plays in our lives, Star Trek, Covid, how smartphones have changed our brains, and his conversations with Paradise, CA residents that resulted in an upcoming film, "Tips on Surviving the End of the World".2020-12-061h 07
Critical Bounds PodcastBethany Tabor on "Art and Death"Conversation with curator, writer, and cultural arts programmer Bethany Tabor about her work with Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, creating events that give space for people to talk and learn about Death and Dying. We discuss performance art, John Underwood, the founder of the Death Cafe Movement, artist Teresa Margolles, Dia de Los Muertos and the inextricably imperialistic relationship between US and Mexico, and how Covid has not actually changed our proximity to death.2020-11-1138 min
Critical Bounds PodcastAJ Hawkins on "Art and Death"Conversation with artist AJ Hawkins about how changing relationships to faith can change our relationships to grief and grieving processes, how the death of a beloved pet inspired a search to make sense of her own mortality, the necrobiome as a "microbiological afterlife", her project "The Reclamation", How Death Positivity includes issues like bodily autonomy and environmentalism, how art can be used to connect and communicate, and to cope with things that feel "too big", and a crash course on ecological disposition.2020-11-0232 min
Critical Bounds PodcastJ Simmz on "Art and Death"Conversation with curator, writer, and researcher J Simmz delves into our personal and larger societal relationships with death, Simmz work as an intuitive and conceptual curator, how she has found ways to move naturally with cycles of life and death in work and beyond, and how we might apply that philosophy to our current state—the possible deaths of our own harmful institutions—and what our might our roles at this moment in time be.2020-11-0157 min
Critical Bounds PodcastCarrie Redway on "Art and Death"Conversation with Carrie Redway, a writer, mixed media artist and death doula in Seattle, WA. We discuss her chapbook "Vulpecula" (which she reads from), find out just What IS a Death Doula?, and Carrie's path to becoming one. We talk about her connection with her grandmother through her childhood zines about death, Tips for people caring for dying loved ones in person and via distance, Sacred Passing organization and training communities to do the work that our ancestors used to do, the invisibility of death in our (predominantly Western) culture, and movement as a tool for both grieving and creative...2020-10-3138 min
Critical Bounds PodcastDr. Bettina Judd on "Art and Health"Conversation with visual artist, writer, poet, performer and professor of studies of gender, race, and sexuality, Dr. Bettina Judd(MA PhD). We discuss her award-winning book patient, which examines the history of medical experimentation on, and display of the bodies of Black women through poetry, as well as why racism is a public health issue, the presumed danger of Black embodiment, how to have community in isolation, and the inherent problem of a surgeon founding the modern field of gynecology--and how many are going back to traditional, community, and Indigenous forms of medicine as a result, and much, much more.2020-10-251h 16
Critical Bounds PodcastDr. Eric Avery on "Art and Health"Conversation with visual artist and physician Dr. Eric Avery about his intersecting practices in art and medicine. We discuss the AIDS crisis, living and making art in New York in the 1970s, his humanitarian work around the world, bringing medicine into the museum, the opioid crisis, printmaking, and how he believes art can change the world.2020-10-231h 19
Critical Bounds PodcastSusan Aldworth on "Art and Health"Conversation with visual artist, experimental printmaker and filmmaker Susan Aldworth about consciousness and the human brain. We talk about the influence of both philosophy and science in her work, and her latest projects, including "Out of the Blue", a kinectic sculpture installation project that looks at epilepsy through the stories of 100 people.2020-10-0934 min
Critical Bounds PodcastAdela Goldsmith on "Art, Gender, and Sexuality"Conversation with emerging, independent scholar and curator Adela Goldsmith about queer elders, our love/hate relationship with museums (some we really love), the value of experiential knowledge, the importance and innate queerness of archives, the future of museums (is there one?), the roles of care networks, mutual aid, and queer methodologies during this historic moment, what the Critical Bounds drinking game would look like, and "What is a Career?".2020-09-151h 26
Critical Bounds PodcastT.s. Flock on "Art, Gender, and Sexuality"Conversation with T.s. Flock, art critic and co-founder of Vanguard Seattle where we discuss the titular subjects of "Art, Gender, and Sexuality", as well as etymology, the importance of aesthetic literacy, embodiment, and a plethora of other things2020-09-011h 20
Critical Bounds PodcastZulfikar Ali Bhutto on "Art, Gender, and Sexuality"Conversation with Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, visual artist, performer, and curator about Queer Muslim Futurisms, why working in futurisms requires collaboration to succeed, and his alter-ego Faluda Islam.2020-07-311h 29
Critical Bounds PodcastTiffany Shaw Collinge on "Art and Climate Crisis"Conversation with Edmonton artist, curator, and architect Tiffany Shaw-Collinge (Métis from Fort McMurray via the Red River) about holistic sustainability, Ocicicwan Contemporary Art Collective, and Contemporary Indigenous Art and Architecture.2020-07-2347 min
Critical Bounds PodcastPinar Yoldas on "Art and Climate Crisis"Conversation with artist, designer, researcher Pinar Yoldas about the importance of art in tackling the climate crisis, her work Ecosystem of Excess, and working in the crux of Art and Science.2020-07-1055 min
Critical Bounds PodcastCarol Rashawnna Williams on "Art and Climate Crisis"Conversation with artist and activist Carol Rashawnna Williams on Art and Climate Crisis, the intersections of race and the environment, her work in community building and activism, and the changing face of Seattle.2020-05-261h 01
Critical Bounds PodcastSharon Arnold on "Connections Between Spiritual and Artistic Practice" Track 4Tune in to our Very Last Episode in our segment on Connections Between Spiritual and Artistic Practice with Sharon Arnold.
Sharon Arnold is an independent scholar, writer, and educator working in arts, philosophy, and cultural histories. They approach this work through the examination of histories, folklore, community ecosystems, and solidarity networks to support new paths forward. Sharon has a BFA from Cornish College of the Arts with a focus on critical theory and cultural criticism; and went on to found Bridge Productions in 2011. They co-teach various drop-in and year long classes at Madrona House Apothecary with founder Vanessa Ainslie; and...2020-04-191h 01
Critical Bounds PodcastKat Larson on "Connections Between Spiritual and Artistic Practice" Track 3Conversation with multimedia artist and healer Kat Larson, owner of Inner+Vision Healing in Seattle. Tune in to hear us discuss her original inspiration for her project The Ghost from Vega, emotional intelligence, Carl Sagan, Standing Rock, tarot, reiki, and the ways that art and spirit strive for human connection.2020-03-1751 min
Critical Bounds PodcastKira Wisniewski on Art, Gender, and Sexuality Track 1Conversation with Kira Wisniewksi, the Executive Director for At+Feminism, a non-profit that addresses the information gap gender, feminism, and the arts on the internet through education, and community-building. We talk about March edit-a-thons, and Kira's other creative work.2020-03-0438 min
Critical Bounds PodcastNegarra Kudumu on "Connections Between Spiritual and Artistic Practice" Track 2A conversation with Negarra A. Kudumu -- "independent scholar, author of the e-book Spiritual Hygiene, and healer working at the intersection of art and healing with a focus on contemporary art from Africa, South Asia, and their respective diasporas as well as African Diasporic knowledge systems. She holds the title of Yayi Nkisi Malongo in the Brama Con Brama lineage of Palo Mayombe; she is a lay person in the Lukumi Pimienta lineage; a practitioner of Espiritismo Cruzado, and a level II Reiki practitioner."2020-02-181h 12
Critical Bounds PodcastTemar France on "Connections Between Spiritual and Artistic Practice" Track 1A conversation with interdisciplinary artist and scholar Temar France. We discuss their podcasts Marginalia and [formerly] The Rap Scholars, upcoming visual art projects, their career in Social Work, our time at Smith College, their Astrology Column at Bloom Magazine, and What is Coming up Next.2020-02-0550 min
Critical Bounds PodcastVick Quezada on "Borders" Track 3A conversation with sculptural, photographic, and performance artist artist Vick Quezada about cultural connections to materiality, growing up on the border of US and Mexico, the longevity of language, and Mestizaje culture.
For more information about their work, please visit Vick's website: http://www.vickquezada.com/about.html2019-05-0228 min
Critical Bounds PodcastBIBIANA on "Borders" Track 2Critical Bounds host Nicole Bearden speaks with artist BIBIANA [Medkova] about the role of capitalism and militarization in current events, and how they influence artistic practice. We speak about cultural exchange over time, if queerness in contemporary art upholds traditional gazes, and the consumption of "Othered" bodies for commercialization.
For more information on BIBIANA's work, visit their website: https://bibiana.co2019-05-0229 min
Critical Bounds PodcastRodrigo Valenzuela on "Borders" Track 1A conversation with contemporary artist and UCLA professor Rodrigo Valenzuela about "Borders" in the world of emerging contemporary art. We talk about everything from US visions of Latinx culture to Art Fairs and Biennales. BONUS: Rodrigo talks briefly about his time in Northampton (home of Smith College)
Find more about Rodrigo and his work here: http://www.rodrigovalenzuela.com2019-05-0225 min