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INTERLOCUTOR InterviewsRobin Givhan discusses her new book Make It Ours: Crashing the Gates of Culture with Virgil AblohPulitzer Prize–winning culture critic Robin Givhan discusses her new book about fashion icon Virgil Abloh. She profiles Abloh’s legendary work and impact, revealing how the son of Ghanaian immigrants was able to infiltrate all aspects of our culture and inspire millions. Not only a remarkable biography of his singular creative force, the book is a powerful meditation on fashion and race, taste and exclusivity, genius and luxury. With access to Abloh’s family, friends, collaborators, and contemporaries, and featuring a cast of fascinating characters ranging from groundbreaking Black designers like Ozwald Boateng, to Abloh’s mercurial but critical employer...
2025-08-2256 minINTERLOCUTOR InterviewsBob Holmes talks ACROSS THE HORIZONMusician Bob Holmes of the New York-based trio Suss talks about his unique and ambitious Across the Horizon music series. Bob and Northern Spy Records invited eight innovators from the wide landscape of instrumental music to curate the first volume of Across the Horizon, which was released at regular intervals over the past year, culminating in a double vinyl, which is out now and available to Bandcamp subscribers of the series.Curators and participants in the project include Mark Nelson (Pan American), Luke Schneider, Dave Harrington, Marisa Anderson, Stelth Ulvang, Walt McClements, David Moore, William Tyler...
2025-08-1542 minINTERLOCUTOR InterviewsEstefania Vélez RodriguezEstefanía Vélez Rodríguez (b. 1985, Mayagüez, PR) is a Puerto Rican artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. As a dual-tongued individual, she utilizes the symbolic language of painting as a bridge between many cultures and spaces. Her paintings formally address questions between abstraction, non-representation, simplification, symbol, and painting as a language with ambiguous structural limitations. Her landscapes meander and distort physical spaces like mazes meant to be misleading.Utilizing chemical reactions within a painting, Estefanía experiments with raw pigments, spray materials, oil mediums, and acrylic polymers. Her painting language ruptures visual space...
2025-07-1749 minINTERLOCUTOR InterviewsAmanda Ekery on her new album Árabe, an exploration of Syrian and Mexican shared history and cultureVocalist, multi-instrumentalist, and composer Amanda Ekery collaborates with everyone, literally. Historians, artists, engineers, bakers, you name it. Amanda works with all to create projects that invite others to explore and share their stories. She weaves her experience in improvisatory creative music, research, and jazz into her compositions, workshops, and performances. Her new album, Árabe, is about Syrian and Mexican shared history and culture, and covers everything from food, gambling, and evil eyes, to immigration law, biracial identity, and the fraught relationship between immigrant entrepreneurship and workers’ rights. The vinyl release also includes an art book which cont...
2025-05-1428 minINTERLOCUTOR InterviewsVincent John & Max Perla of Eraserhood Sound discuss scoring for CARL THE COLLECTORFriends since childhood, Eraserhood Sound partners, Vincent John and Max Perla’s unique songcrafting process includes sourcing and learning to play vintage instruments, and using reel-to-reel equipment to create the exact sound they are after. EHS also features an in-house boutique record label that specializes in vinyl releases. Operating out of the studio built for Questlove, EHS is uniquely positioned to carry on Philadelphia’s rich musical legacy.Their latest television project is PBS KIDS’ groundbreaking Carl the Collector, the network’s first animated series spotlighting central characters on the autism spectrum. The team’s handcrafted music for each...
2025-05-0230 minINTERLOCUTOR InterviewsPriya Vulchi discusses her new book GOOD FRIENDS: Bonds That Change Us and the WorldIn Good Friends: Bonds That Change Us and the World, author Priya Vulchi explores friendships across history, continents, and cultures to show how friendship can open up new levels of community. Through her inspiring prose, Vulchi reveals that friendship, in the right hands, is a brilliant act of resistance.Studies show that loneliness is as deadly as smoking fifteen cigarettes a day. We are not taught how to be good friends to one another. We cancel plans, lose touch, blame technology, and neglect our non-romantic loved ones. In Good Friends, author Priya Vulchi explores friendships across histo...
2025-04-1155 minINTERLOCUTOR InterviewsArtist Heather Benjamin discusses her new painting series NEW STRANGENESS BLOOMArtist Heather Benjamin discusses the works in her first solo show at NYC's Olympia Gallery, NEW STRANGENESS BLOOM. Benjamin’s paintings investigate the hyper-vulnerable experiences of existing in a female body. Building on her formal printmaking background and a prolific, two-decade-long zinemaking practice, her autodidactic paintings emerge as self-portraits.Through a diaristic lens, Benjamin’s figures—part goddess, part flawed protagonist—manifest spiritual transformation. These figures navigate imagined desert landscapes, alive with unnameable flora shimmering under electric skies. Both literal and symbolic, these "strange blooms" embody perseverance and renewal amidst psychic and physical terrains...
2025-03-2124 minINTERLOCUTOR InterviewsJMikal Davis aka Hellbent discusses his unique approach to creating art in public spacesJMikal Davis, aka Hellbent, is a muralist, painter, and street artist who lives and works in Brooklyn. Davis began making street-based artwork in the late 1990s while still in art school at the University of Georgia. Upon graduating and moving to Brooklyn in 2000, he took up the nom de plume Hellbent, experimenting with various media and becoming known for his hand-carved plaques that he pulled throughout New York City and eventually across the globe. Since 2011, the backgrounds that started on these plaques became the focal point of his work both o...
2025-02-2847 minINTERLOCUTOR InterviewsChristiana Ine-Kimba Boyle of CANADA GalleryA candid and expansive talk between INTERLOCUTOR Contributing Editor Logan Royce Beitmen and Christiana Ine-Kimba Boyle, the Managing Partner of CANADA Gallery. She plays a key role in shaping the gallery’s program and strategic direction. She recently returned to CANADA after serving as Senior Director and Global Head of Online at Pace Gallery, where she expanded the gallery’s artist roster by bringing on renowned painter Kylie Manning in Spring 2022 and spearheaded its digital evolution by establishing and activating a robust online sales strategy. Boyle’s curatorial practice is driven by a commitment to equity and in...
2025-02-141h 01INTERLOCUTOR InterviewsAn exploration of mourning and loss: Asa Horvitz & Carmen Quill discuss their new album GHOSTMusicians Asa Horvitz and Carmen Quill discuss GHOST, a multi-format piece of art that began its life as a touring multidisciplinary performance and later took form as a website with video and music components commissioned by Het HEM (NL) before finally taking form as an album with additional contributions from Ariadne Randall, Bryan West, and Wayne Horvitz. The lyrics for the work were generated by a custom Natural Language Processing AI system (designed by Seraphina Goldfarb-Tarrant and Alejandro Calcaño). Part experimental opera, part neo-Medieval reverie, and part avant-pop song cycle, it is now presented as a streamlined album of s...
2025-01-3139 minINTERLOCUTOR InterviewsGame Transfer Phenomena & The Tetris Effect: A Conversation With the Executor of the Estate of Joshua Caleb Weibley & Composer Jordan DykstraA conversation with the executor of the estate of Joshua Caleb Weibley and composer Jordan Dykstra about their installation Projection 010: Game Transfer Phenomena, now up at NYC's Chart Gallery through February 15, which consists of 7 crates made to hold objects derived from Tetris’s 7 Tetromino shapes. The installation, curated by Alex Feim, takes its name from repetitive gameplay’s influence on spatial reasoning and the visual/auditory hallucinations it induces. These perceptual occurrences were first observed following the wider release of Tetris during the late 1980s and are also called “The Tetris Effect.” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more i...
2025-01-2342 minINTERLOCUTOR InterviewsTalia Lavin discusses her new book WILD FAITH: HOW THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT IS TAKING OVER AMERICAINTERLOCUTOR Magazine Contributing Editor Logan Royce Beitmen interviews author and journalist Talia Lavin about her new book Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America. Lavin is also the author of the critically acclaimed book Culture Warlords, in which she invented online personas that allowed her to meet and expose fascist white supremacists who gather in chatrooms and websites; the book also traces the historical roots of these contemporary phenomena. In Wild Faith, she investigates the rise of the Christian Right over the last half-century and lays out the grim vision evangelicals are attempting to enforce in the Un...
2024-11-291h 12INTERLOCUTOR InterviewsAlex E. Chávez discusses his new album SONOROUS PRESENTA Cultural Anthropologist trained in Linguistic Anthropology, Ethnomusicology, and Folklore, Alex E. Chávez is the author of the book Sounds of Crossing: (Music, Migration, and the Aural Poetics of Huapango Arribeño).Chávez's debut album, Sonorous Present, an immersive poetic and musical passage, extends sonic meditations on loss, migration, and mourning across America’s borderlands. What began as an improvised performance in 2019—inspired by the music and poetics of Chávez’s book Sounds of Crossing—has been reimagined as a studio album in collaboration with Grammy Award-winning producer Quetzal Flores. Hosted on Acast. See...
2024-10-3042 minINTERLOCUTOR InterviewsSACRED MONSTER ~ Chloë Cassens discusses JEAN COCTEAUChloë Cassens is the representative of the Severin Wunderman Collection, the largest in the world of works by iconoclastic French artist Jean Cocteau. It makes up the entirety of the contents of the Musée Jean Cocteau-collection Severin Wunderman in Menton, France. She is a longtime scholar of Cocteau with a unique perspective, as she is Wunderman’s granddaughter. Her past research has centered around Cocteau’s Les enfants terribles and its echoes in the later life and work of Yves Saint Laurent, as well as Cocteau’s Opium: Journal d’une désintoxication and how it illuminat...
2024-09-1259 minINTERLOCUTOR InterviewsAuthor Julia HannafinJulia Hannafin is a writer and artist from a two-mom family in Berkeley, California. Their first novel, Cascade, was published with Great Place Books in April 2024, an independent press founded by Alex Higley, Emily Adrian, and Monika Woods.Cascade is a propulsive novel set on the Farallons—a rugged set of islands off the coast of San Francisco—about addiction, sex, gender, loss, and whether any of us can escape our biological inheritance. After her mother’s overdose, Lydia goes to work for her ex-boyfriend’s father, tagging and monitoring great white sharks. As rare and unforeseen...
2024-08-2935 minINTERLOCUTOR InterviewsGabriel BirnbaumBrooklyn-based musician Gabriel Birnbaum talks about his new record, Patron Saint of Tireless Losers, along with his developing professional focus on therapy and mental health for musicians, and why adequate mental health care for artists can be difficult to obtain and is often overlooked as a serious issue. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2024-07-1048 minINTERLOCUTOR InterviewsLara Aburamadan's intimate and artistic portrayals of everyday Gazan lifeLara Aburamadan is an independent visual artist, journalist, and co-founder of the Refugee Eye organization. Born in Gaza City, Palestine, she is now based in the United States. She holds a BA in the Faculty of Communication Sciences and Languages from Gaza University.Lara tends to embrace the human perspective through visual storytelling; her work explores the social and political narratives for refugees and marginalized communities. She captures documentary and artistic images of everyday life and excels at catching light and moments with intimacy and humanity.She has been photographing since 2010. Her photogr...
2024-06-1922 minINTERLOCUTOR InterviewsLande YoosufLande Yoosuf is a writer, director, and producer with over 12 years of production development and casting experience, and has worked with several networks, including MTV, NBC, WEtv, truTV, Bravo, and others. Her short film, Privilege Unhinged, screened at the Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival, Big Apple Film Festival, and the DC Black Film Festival, aired on Shorts TV, and is currently streaming on Chicago’s VonTV (Available on Amazon Fire TV, Roku, TV, Apple TV). Yoosuf’s second film, Second Generation Wedding screened at the Bronze Lens Film Festival, and inspired a prequel novel, “Ko-Foe.” She has an affinity for t...
2024-04-0329 minINTERLOCUTOR InterviewsWhy aja monet's poems do what they doaja monet is a poet, lyricist, writer, and community organizer from Brooklyn, now based in Los Angeles. Her debut studio album, when the poems do what they do, was released in 2023 to acclaim, and it earned a GRAMMY® nomination for Best Spoken Word Poetry Album.We published a version of this interview in the online edition of INTERLOCUTOR on February 1, 2024, and this episode is the full and unedited recording of the discussion between aja monet and our Contributing Editor, Logan Royce Beitmen. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2024-02-2139 minINTERLOCUTOR InterviewsThe Metaphysical Dreamworlds of VLMVirginia L. Montgomery (VLM) is a multimedia artist working across video, performance, sound design, and sculpture. She is known for her unique, synthesia-esque, surrealist works that unite elements from mysticism, science, and her own lived experience as a neurodivergent individual. Her artwork is surreal, sensorial, and symbolic. It shifts in subject matter from stones to moths and machines, as VLM deploys an idiosyncratic visual vocabulary of repeating gestures and recursive symbols like circles, holes, and spheres.In this interview, VLM discusses her recent solo exhibition at Austin's Women & Their Work, Eye Moon Cocoon, which featured her o...
2024-01-101h 01INTERLOCUTOR InterviewsBlaise Agüera y ArcasTyler Nesler talks with leading AI researcher, author, and TED speaker Blaise Agüera y Arcas about his new book, Who Are We Now? - an exploration of how biology, ecology, sexuality, history, and culture have intertwined to create a dynamic “us” that can neither be called natural nor artificial.Identity politics occupies the front line in today’s culture wars, pitting generations against each other, and progressive cities against the rural traditions of our past. Rich in data and detail, Who Are We Now? goes beyond today’s headlines to connect our current reality to a larger mo...
2023-12-1340 minINTERLOCUTOR InterviewsMiles HymanFrench-American artist Miles Hyman has a solo show, Secret Lives, up at NYC's Philippe Labaune Gallery through December 23. Hyman's recent paintings lead us on a journey through his sources of inspiration. From his early childhood memories of the Ferris wheel in Bennington, Vermont, to his travels with his jazz musician father, to the bustling streets of New York, to the romantic embrace of Paris, where he has made his home for the past two decades, every stroke of his brush is a testament to that odyssey. The culmination of his artistic pilgrimage leads him to Italy, a countr...
2023-11-2446 minINTERLOCUTOR InterviewsHallie PackardHallie Packard's works depict a place nostalgic and foreign—comfortable and untouchable at once. A place through which the presence of humanity echoes, but from a source that has long since expired. Human-made relics interact with the natural world, confirming the question of previous human existence and conforming to—even mutating to become one with—the wildly organic environment surrounding them. As reminders of the wonder that abounds and the respect it deserves, her works are dedicated to rediscovering and cultivating the magic of this world. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2023-10-2545 minINTERLOCUTOR InterviewsHarper Simon's MEDITATIONS ON CRIME“Everyone is fascinated by crime,” says author/musician Harper Simon. “When you look at the history of song, romantic love songs may be the dominant mode of songwriting, but second would probably be songs involving crime—murder ballads, for one. Crime is a major theme in all songwriting.”Simon offers a new and expansive contribution to this legacy with Meditations on Crime, an ambitious multi-media project that includes an album he produced of musical collaborations with a sweeping range of contributors (Julia Holter, Gang Gang Dance, King Khan, the Sun Ra Arkestra) and a book he edited featuri...
2023-10-131h 00INTERLOCUTOR InterviewsAnthony Wilson explores new sonic territories with COLLODIONBorn in Los Angeles in 1968, guitarist and composer Anthony Wilson is known for a body of work that moves fluidly across genres. The son of legendary jazz trumpeter and bandleader Gerald Wilson, his musical lineage has deeply influenced his creative trajectory, compositional choices, instrumental groupings, and the wide-ranging twelve-album discography that blooms out of them.In this interview, Anthony discusses his newly released album Collodion, which he recorded with producer and engineer Pete Min for Los Angeles’s innovative Colorfield Records. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2023-09-2954 minINTERLOCUTOR InterviewsGigi Chen's Neon NaturalismGigi Chen’s work creates an aesthetic that combines her training as a traditional animator and painter, along with her love of the techniques of Old Masters. Entrenched in the art of storytelling, the work pulls together her love of contemporary idioms of cartooning, photorealism, texture, and design to produce works that coalesce into Love, Craft, and Fun. Born in Guang Dong, China, and raised in New York, Gigi’s exhibition credits include Stone Sparrow Gallery, Superfine! Art Fair, Deep Space Gallery, and Antler Gallery. In this interview, Gigi discusses her deep admiration of b...
2023-08-241h 01INTERLOCUTOR InterviewsPete Min of Colorfield RecordsPete Min co-runs the innovative Los Angeles label Colorfield Records. At Colorfield, artists are encouraged to compose in the studio and often play instruments they’re unused to. There’s as much emphasis on sound as there is on composition and musicianship, and “chaos and chance are a big part of the process.” In this interview, Pete delves into what he calls his "sherpa" approach to guiding musicians out of their comfort zones and allowing them to express themselves in new and exciting ways. He talks about his background in music production and the freeform pandemic jam sess...
2023-08-1039 minINTERLOCUTOR InterviewsMartine JohannaMartine Johanna is a Dutch-born female artist who has been actively exhibiting her work since 2007, starting from little daily drawings to Amsterdam street art with a small band of brothers. Within two years, she developed into a full-blown painter, saying farewell to her job in design and going back to her artistic roots while part-time residing as a freelance lecturer at the HVA.Johanna has exhibited internationally, including exhibitions at commercial galleries in Amsterdam, San Francisco, New York, Aalborg, Los Angeles, and San Diego. She has participated in exhibitions at cultural institutions, including the Mesa Arts...
2023-07-271h 06INTERLOCUTOR InterviewsSayazakeSayazake is a visual artist who operates in the realm of Photography, Illustration, and Painting. His work speaks to a conversation of adventure, spirituality, anime, and eccentricity.In this interview, Sayazake talks about his expressive origins in performance and theater and what attracted him to pursue visual art in his early twenties, plus his thoughts on artistic influences, the commercial art world, his unique approaches to portraiture in both illustration and photography, and much more.Sayazake will release his latest body of work, Erasure, available exclusively on his website starting July 5, 2023, about which...
2023-07-0459 minINTERLOCUTOR InterviewsKIDLEW - Part IIKIDLEW is an NYC-based color-blind Chorean (half-Chinese/half-Korean) artist. Born in Queens, NY, and raised on Strong Island, he started doodling the cartoon characters he saw daily on TV as a kid and soon discovered graffiti art on 1970s NYC subway trips with his grandmother. Big into skateboarding and metal music as teen, he segued into the music scene in the 90s and then studied toy design before returning to graffiti art as a part of the EX VANDALS crew. Now he may be best known for his character Lumpy Bumpkin, who has made appearances all around NYC and...
2023-06-271h 27INTERLOCUTOR InterviewsJeffrey EverettJeffrey Everett is a successful designer, illustrator, and author working outside of Washington, DC. Jeffrey has had the pleasure of designing and illustrating for a wide variety of entertainment, corporate, and non-profit clients. Jeffrey has created designs for such bands as Jason Mraz, Social Distortion, Foo Fighters, The Decemberists, Flight of the Conchords, Gaslight Anthem, Lou Reed, The Bouncing Souls, and A Day to Remember. He has created work for companies such as RedBull, Simon and Schuster, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Washingtonian, Variety, Universal Records, LiveNation, Dreamworks, and more.Jeffrey's Kickstarter-funded book L...
2023-06-081h 21INTERLOCUTOR InterviewsPhilippe Labaune's Narrative Journeys Founded in 2020, Philippe Labaune Gallery focuses on graphic design by featuring high-level artists whose common point is to explore new territories and to decompartmentalize the borders separating various modes of expression: illustration, painting, comic strips and animation. In this interview, Philippe talks in-depth about his lifelong passion for narrative art and how he came to start his gallery after a long career in the finance industry, in addition to the different ways that comic art has been perceived in Europe compared to the United States, and why those perceptions are now changing. Hosted on...
2023-05-1750 minINTERLOCUTOR InterviewsAdele BerteiThe creator of the band the Bloods—the first out, queer, all-women-rock band—Adele Bertei has made a career as a singer, songwriter, writer, and director. Her resume, which spans decades and disciplines, is a who's who of the ’80s underground—performing and recording for artists such as Culture Club, Whitney Houston, Sandra Bernhard, and Matthew Sweet, to name a few.But her formative years bore little resemblance to her celebrity-studded adult life. In Twist: An American Girl, Bertei recounts her troubled childhood in 1960s and 1970s Cleveland, telling the story through the eyes of “Maddie Twist,” a...
2023-05-0956 minINTERLOCUTOR InterviewsScott ListfieldKnown for his paintings featuring a solitary astronaut wandering through scenes filled with pop culture iconography, Scott Listfield creates works which invite viewers to perceive the contemporary world from a slightly askew and alienated perspective. He currently has a solo show, AM Gold, at NYC's Harman Projects, up through April 29. Listfield calls AM Gold, "a show about music and time travel. I was inspired by the kind of physical artifacts we mostly don't have, don't need, or don't care about anymore: Album covers, CDs, posters, cassette tapes, stereo equipment (with actual knobs), band flyers, zines, photos...
2023-04-2435 minINTERLOCUTOR InterviewsThe transcendental aesthetics of Zhivago DuncanZhivago Duncan was born to a Syrian mother and a Danish father in Terre Haute, Indiana. His fluidity across materials and cultural signifiers reflects the relentlessness of an investigative mind. With freewheeling creativity spurred by his curiosity, Duncan’s lifelong impulse towards painting demonstrates his desire to contemplate, negotiate and comprehend the “big picture”: the origins of sentient life and the universality of consciousness. In this interview, Zhivago deeply explores his process, motivations, and ambitious themes. He also discusses the series of works and the unique nature of the gallery layout of his current exhibition Mapping Out Un...
2023-04-071h 08INTERLOCUTOR InterviewsVonn Cummings Sumner Samples & Remixes Krazy KatAn interview with artist Vonn Cummings Sumner about his visual takes on the iconic cartoon character Krazy Kat, from George Herriman's wildly weird and wonderful newspaper comic strip that ran from 1913 to 1944 and influenced countless artists working in many styles. Sumner currently has a solo show called Second Nature at Washington DC's Morton Fine Art, which is his second show at the gallery featuring Krazy Kat works. The gallery writes, "Sumner returns to the wandering, curious avatar with Second Nature, escorting the titular figure through newly verdant, water-pooled landscapes, open spaces and art historical-coded landscapes, longing...
2023-03-2458 minINTERLOCUTOR InterviewsKIDLEWKIDLEW is an NYC-based color-blind Chorean (half-Chinese/half-Korean) artist. Born in Queens, NY, and raised on Strong Island, he started doodling the cartoon characters he saw daily on TV as a kid and soon discovered graffiti art on 1970s NYC subway trips with his grandmother. Big into skateboarding and metal music as teen, he segued into the music scene in the 90s and then studied toy design before returning to graffiti art as a part of the EX VANDALS crew. Now he may be best known for his character Lumpy Bumpkin, who has made appearances all around NYC and...
2023-03-071h 25INTERLOCUTOR InterviewsAi Yo! A Chat With Artist Jenny WuJenny Wu is an artist and educator. Wu’s work acknowledges the sensational and perceptual properties of materiality and then transforms the materials from their original forms and purpose to present them within new contexts. Her solo show at Morton Fine Art, Ai Yo!, is up through March 8, 2023. Long interested in tactility, in-betweenness, embodiedness, and construction (Wu has a background in architectural studies), the exhibition questions our basic assumptions about what paintings and sculptures can be. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2023-03-0153 minINTERLOCUTOR InterviewsTuning Into Uhl's ChannelsShapeshifting through time, space, and spirit, Uhl’s debut EP Channels is a genre-bending and vocally explorative collection of songs threaded together not as much by their similarities as by their nuanced differences. Showcasing her operatic background through a pop lens, Uhl makes dynamic music that is as informed by Mozart and Puccini as it is by art pop divas Kate Bush and Annie Lennox. The results are enigmatic, dramatic, and transportive and will certainly appeal to fans of contemporaries like Weyes Blood, Perfume Genius, and Cate Le Bon. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com...
2023-02-081h 11INTERLOCUTOR InterviewsJoseph Keckler's Underworld VoyagesJoseph Keckler is a singular artist, a performer and creator known for his expressive and powerful voice, sharp prose and stirring songs, and absurdist, bizarrely heroic operatic monologues, which "dance between comedy, commentary, and communion."Hailed by the New York Times as “major vocal talent…a singer whose range shatters the conventional boundaries…with a trickster’s dark humor,” his original performances have been presented by Lincoln Center, Cenre Pompidou, NPR Tiny Desk and many others. His first collection of writing, Dragon at the Edge of a Flat World, was published by Turtle Point Press in 2018. Hos...
2023-01-2759 minINTERLOCUTOR InterviewsSiobhan McBride's Quiet TensionsThe works of Siobhan McBride are imbued with a sense of quiet mystery, often with slightly skewed perspectives and containing objects imprinted with unseen energies or tensions. In this interview, she discusses the inspirations and methods behind her beguiling creations. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2023-01-1853 minINTERLOCUTOR InterviewsNick Bautista's Mantras and Methods Artist Nick Bautista writes, "I have often been reluctant to talk about my work. I have even been hesitant showing or exhibiting it - I suppose that can be problematic for a painter. The images I choose to paint, rather the ideas of the images, I treat very personally, almost protectively. I see them as fragments of private journal entries. After all, they address my personal situations and struggles, or whatever I might be experiencing in my life."Despite his reluctance to talk about his work, Nick sat down with INTERLOCUTOR Magazine founder Tyler Nesler for...
2022-12-181h 25INTERLOCUTOR InterviewsSteven Montgomery's Aesthetics of DamageBorn and raised in Detroit, Michigan, Steven Montgomery describes himself as having, “...an affinity for the aesthetics of damage, destruction or any evidence of the passage of time.” His earthenware creations pay homage to the once-thriving industrial capital, its degradation, and subsequent resurgence. Incorporating elements that honor the regality of Detroit’s auto industry and its machinery and recognize its more recent issues with the safety of its water supply, Montgomery creates vessels that look more like futuristic Bronze Age sculptures than pottery.In this episode, we catch up with Steven and dig deeper into his work w...
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INTERLOCUTOR InterviewsRyan Sarah Murphy, Cardboard WhispererRyan Sarah Murphy's reclaimed cardboard relief sculptures, powered by the visceral impact of color combinations, act as visual meditations on geographical location, placemaking, architecture, and spatial awareness. Her videos, generated through multiple digital interventions on random images and movements, are enigmatic, animated paintings that look like pixels, binary code, or even deconstructed maps, a visual reference to her fixed cardboard works. Her drawings, which begin as tracings of stills from her videos, complete the multi-dimensional deconstruction of her creative cycle. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2022-10-2058 min
INTERLOCUTOR InterviewsEszter Balint Only Sort of Hates MemorySongwriter/violinist/actress Eszter Balint’s stage production of I Hate Memory, originally set to premiere in 2020 but postponed due to the pandemic, finally premiered this past summer with two performances at Joe's Pub in NYC, and now she is set to release an album of songs from the show (available November 18 via Red Herring Records). Written by Eszter and based on an original concept by her and Tony Award-winner Stew, I Hate Memory is an “anti-musical” “co-starring the Streets of New York and the Late 20th Century featuring Family, Film, Fame, Immigration, Joy, Theater, Shame, Dance Floors, Open Doors, P...
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The Racer X Podcast NetworkMoto Marketing Podcast 97 - Creating Better Moto Content with Tyler PearceLuke Nesler is joined by the Vegan Cyclist to talk about some game-changing content creation strategies that brands in moto can use to grow their following and customer connection. Get more moto business talk at www.thebusinessofmoto.com. Follow Luke Nesler on Instagram: www.instagram.com/lukenesler www.instagram.com/impakt_results Visit Impakt Results Online: www.thinkimpakt.com.
2021-11-1242 min
The Racer X Podcast NetworkMoto Marketing Podcast #59: Sponsorship Deep Dive with the Vegan CyclistLuke Nesler is joined by moto enthusiast Tyler Pearce—or as most know him, the Vegan Cyclist—to take a deep dive on the topic of getting sponsored. Tyler works with several large brands and has created the "dream life" that any moto fan or cyclist would love to live. He shares some critical points that any aspiring pro or moto content creator should know when looking to work with brands on a sponsorship level. Get more moto business talk at www.thebusinessofmoto.com. Follow Luke Nesler on Instagram: www.instagram.com/lukenesler
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The Racer X Podcast NetworkMoto Marketing Podcast #19: Tyler Pierce, the Vegan CyclistLuke Nesler is joined by the Vegan Cyclist, Tyler Pierce, to talk about how non-online moto businesses are getting squeezed and how to adjust in the future. Tyler, a former moto dealership owner who lost it all and rebuilt his empire via online businesses and personal branding, talks about how the COVID-19 crisis is squeezing brick-and-mortar shops and how an online presence moving forward could save their businesses. Follow VC on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_vegan_cyclist Follow VC on Youtube: @TheVeganCyclist Follow Luke Nesler on Instagram: www.instagram...
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