Podcasts about Theaster Gates

Art has long played a key role in constructing how people understand and imagine America. Starting with contemporary controversies over public monuments in the United States, in Temporary Monuments: Art, Land, and America's Racial Enterprise (University of Chicago Press, 2024), Dr. Rebecca Zorach carefully examines the place of art in the occupation of land and the upholding of White power in the US, arguing that it has been central to the design of America's racial enterprise. Confronting closely held assumptions of art history, Zorach looks to the intersections of art, nature, race, and place, working through a series of symbolic spaces—the museum, the wild, islands, gardens, home, and walls and borders—to open and extend conversations on the political implications of art and design. Against the backdrop of central moments in American art, from the founding of early museums to the ascendancy of abstract expressionism, Dr. Zorach shows how contemporary artists—including Dawoud Bey, Theaster Gates, Maria Gaspar, Kerry James Marshall, Alan Michelson, Dylan Miner, Postcommodity, Cauleen Smith, and Amanda Williams—have mined the relationship between environment and social justice, creating works that investigate and interrupt White supremacist, carceral, and environmentally toxic worlds. The book also draws on poetry, creative nonfiction, hip-hop videos, and Disney films to illuminate crucial topics in art history, from the racial politics of abstraction to the origins of museums and the formation of canons. This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose new book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. You can find Miranda's episodes on New Books with Miranda Melcher, wherever you get your podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies

Art has long played a key role in constructing how people understand and imagine America. Starting with contemporary controversies over public monuments in the United States, in Temporary Monuments: Art, Land, and America's Racial Enterprise (University of Chicago Press, 2024), Dr. Rebecca Zorach carefully examines the place of art in the occupation of land and the upholding of White power in the US, arguing that it has been central to the design of America's racial enterprise. Confronting closely held assumptions of art history, Zorach looks to the intersections of art, nature, race, and place, working through a series of symbolic spaces—the museum, the wild, islands, gardens, home, and walls and borders—to open and extend conversations on the political implications of art and design. Against the backdrop of central moments in American art, from the founding of early museums to the ascendancy of abstract expressionism, Dr. Zorach shows how contemporary artists—including Dawoud Bey, Theaster Gates, Maria Gaspar, Kerry James Marshall, Alan Michelson, Dylan Miner, Postcommodity, Cauleen Smith, and Amanda Williams—have mined the relationship between environment and social justice, creating works that investigate and interrupt White supremacist, carceral, and environmentally toxic worlds. The book also draws on poetry, creative nonfiction, hip-hop videos, and Disney films to illuminate crucial topics in art history, from the racial politics of abstraction to the origins of museums and the formation of canons. This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose new book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. You can find Miranda's episodes on New Books with Miranda Melcher, wherever you get your podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/critical-theory

Art has long played a key role in constructing how people understand and imagine America. Starting with contemporary controversies over public monuments in the United States, in Temporary Monuments: Art, Land, and America's Racial Enterprise (University of Chicago Press, 2024), Dr. Rebecca Zorach carefully examines the place of art in the occupation of land and the upholding of White power in the US, arguing that it has been central to the design of America's racial enterprise. Confronting closely held assumptions of art history, Zorach looks to the intersections of art, nature, race, and place, working through a series of symbolic spaces—the museum, the wild, islands, gardens, home, and walls and borders—to open and extend conversations on the political implications of art and design. Against the backdrop of central moments in American art, from the founding of early museums to the ascendancy of abstract expressionism, Dr. Zorach shows how contemporary artists—including Dawoud Bey, Theaster Gates, Maria Gaspar, Kerry James Marshall, Alan Michelson, Dylan Miner, Postcommodity, Cauleen Smith, and Amanda Williams—have mined the relationship between environment and social justice, creating works that investigate and interrupt White supremacist, carceral, and environmentally toxic worlds. The book also draws on poetry, creative nonfiction, hip-hop videos, and Disney films to illuminate crucial topics in art history, from the racial politics of abstraction to the origins of museums and the formation of canons. This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose new book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. You can find Miranda's episodes on New Books with Miranda Melcher, wherever you get your podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/environmental-studies

Art has long played a key role in constructing how people understand and imagine America. Starting with contemporary controversies over public monuments in the United States, in Temporary Monuments: Art, Land, and America's Racial Enterprise (University of Chicago Press, 2024), Dr. Rebecca Zorach carefully examines the place of art in the occupation of land and the upholding of White power in the US, arguing that it has been central to the design of America's racial enterprise. Confronting closely held assumptions of art history, Zorach looks to the intersections of art, nature, race, and place, working through a series of symbolic spaces—the museum, the wild, islands, gardens, home, and walls and borders—to open and extend conversations on the political implications of art and design. Against the backdrop of central moments in American art, from the founding of early museums to the ascendancy of abstract expressionism, Dr. Zorach shows how contemporary artists—including Dawoud Bey, Theaster Gates, Maria Gaspar, Kerry James Marshall, Alan Michelson, Dylan Miner, Postcommodity, Cauleen Smith, and Amanda Williams—have mined the relationship between environment and social justice, creating works that investigate and interrupt White supremacist, carceral, and environmentally toxic worlds. The book also draws on poetry, creative nonfiction, hip-hop videos, and Disney films to illuminate crucial topics in art history, from the racial politics of abstraction to the origins of museums and the formation of canons. This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose new book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. You can find Miranda's episodes on New Books with Miranda Melcher, wherever you get your podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/art

The internationally acclaimed and hugely influential artist Theaster Gates was born, raised and works in Chicago. He trained as a ceramicist, and still makes pottery, but it's just one part of a diverse artistic output that also includes painting, sculpture and vast installations, in works which often explore the black experience in contemporary America. He is best known for redeveloping derelict buildings for community projects, using art to transform run-down neighbourhoods of his city. A recipient of the prestigious Artes Mundi Prize, Gates is a professor at the University of Chicago and received the French government's prestigious Légion d'Honneur. Theaster Gates is part of the creative team behind the Barack Obama Presidential Centre currently under construction in Chicago. In 2022 he created the annual Serpentine Pavilion in London, a piece called Black Chapel which was conceived as a monument to his father. His most recent exhibition is 1965: Malcolm in Winter: A Translation Exercise at White Cube gallery.Theaster Gates tells John Wilson about the influence of his family upbringing. The youngest of nine siblings, and the only boy, he recalls assisting his father as he worked as a roofer. Later, when he was an established artist, and having inherited his father's tools and tar kettle, Theaster began to make paintings using hot bitumen in tribute to his father's labour. He also explains how, as a high achieving pupil, he was 'bussed' to a predominantly white school far from his home neighbourhood, and benefited from cultural opportunities that he may not have received otherwise. He also chooses the experience of spending a year in Japan learning ancient pottery techniques, and beginning his practise as a ceramicist. Producer Edwina Pitman

In her new book, The Unseen Truth: When Race Changed Sight in America (Harvard University Press), the historian and Harvard professor Sarah Lewis unpacks a major part of United States history that until now wasn't just brushed over, but was intentionally buried: how the ​​Caucasian War and the end of the Civil War were conflated by P.T. Barnum, former President Woodrow Wilson, and others to shape how we see race in America. Long overdue, The Unseen Truth is a watershed book about photography and visuality that calls to mind works by history-shaping authors such as James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and bell hooks. Lewis is also the founder of the Vision & Justice initiative, which strives to educate the public about the importance of art and culture for equity and justice in the U.S., and is launching a new publishing venture with Aperture this fall.On the episode, she discusses the tension between pedagogy and propaganda; the deep influence of Frederick Douglass's 1861 “Pictures and Progress” lecture on her work; how a near-death car crash altered the course of her life and The Unseen Truth; and the special ability of certain photographs to stop time.Special thanks to our Season 10 presenting sponsor, L'École, School of Jewelry Arts.Show notes:Sarah Lewis[04:01] The Unseen Truth[05:24] Woodrow Wilson[05:24] Frederick Douglass[05:24] P.T. Barnum[06:51] Toni Morrison[06:51] Angela Davis[06:51] Mathew Brady[51:14] Vision & Justice[11:35] Caucasus[14:02] Imam Shamil[17:38] Caucasian War[19:31] MFA Boston[19:31] The Metropolitan Museum[22:30] “Pictures and Progress”[28:41] “A Circassian”[28:41] “Slave Ship”[28:41] “The Gulf Stream”[35:13] Frances Benjamin Johnston[39:20] Jarvis Givens[39:20] Fugitive Pedagogy[44:05] The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search of Mastery[49:08] Montserrat[49:08] Under the Volcano[51:36] Aperture[52:26] Maurice Berger[52:26] Coreen Simpson[52:26] Doug Harris[52:26] Deborah Willis[52:26] Leigh Raiford[52:57] Hal Foster[56:01] Hank Willis Thomas[56:01] Theaster Gates[56:01] Mark Bradford[56:01] Amy Sherald[57:58] Wynton Marsalis[57:58] Charles Black, Jr.[57:58] Louis Armstrong[57:58] Brown v. Board of Education

This week on The Curatorial Blonde we have Allison Glenn. Allison Glenn is a New York-based curator and writer focusing on the intersection of art and public space, through public art and special projects, biennials, and major new commissions by a wide range of contemporary artists. She is a Visiting Curator in the Department of Film Studies at the University of Tulsa, organizing the Sovereign Futures convening, and Artistic Director of The Shepherd, a three-and-a-half-acre arts campus part of the newly christened Little Village cultural district in Detroit.  Previous roles include Co-Curator of Counterpublic Triennial 2023; Senior Curator at New York's Public Art Fund, where she proposed and developed Fred Eversley: Parabolic Light (2023) and Edra Soto Graft (2024) for Doris C. Freedman Plaza; Guest Curator at the Speed Art Museum, and Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. In this role, Glenn shaped how outdoor sculpture activates and engages Crystal Bridges 120-acre campus through a series of new commissions, touring group exhibitions, and long-term loans. She also realized site-specific architectural interventions, such as Joanna Keane Lopez, A dance of us (un baile de nosotros), (2020), as part of State of the Art 2020 at The Momentary. She acted as the Curatorial Associate + Publications Manager for Prospect New Orleans' international art triennial Prospect.4: The Lotus in Spite of the Swamp. A Curatorial Fellowship with the City of Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, culminated with In the beginning, sometimes I left messages in the street (2016), a citywide billboard and performance exhibition. As Program Manager at University of Chicago's Arts Incubator, she worked with a team led by Theaster Gates to develop the emergent space, where she curated exhibitions and commissioned performances such as Amun: The Unseen Legends (2014), a new performance from Terry Adkin's Lone Wolf Recital Corps, that included Kamau Patton. Glenn has been a visiting critic, lecturer, and guest speaker at a number of universities, including The University of Tulsa, University of Pennsylvania, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Louisiana State University, and Pacific Northwest College of Art. Her writing has been featured in catalogues published by The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Neubauer Collegium, Counterpublic Triennial, Prospect New Orleans Triennial, Princeton Architectural Press, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Kemper Museum, Studio Museum in Harlem, and she has contributed to Artforum, ART PAPERS, Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic, ART21 Magazine, Pelican Bomb, Ruckus Journal, and Newcity, amongst others. She has curated notable public commissions, group exhibitions, and site specific artist projects by many artists, including Mendi + Keith Obadike, Matthew Angelo Harrison, Maya Stovall, Rashid Johnson, Basel Abbas + Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Lonnie Holley, Ronny Quevedo, Edra Soto, Terry Adkins, Kamau Patton,Shinique Smith, Torkwase Dyson, George Sanchez-Calderon, Hank Willis Thomas, Odili Donald Odita, Martine Syms, Derrick Adams, Lisa Alvarado, Sarah Braman, Spencer Finch, Jessica Stockholder, Joanna Keane-Lopez, Genevieve Gaignard and others. Her 2021 exhibition Promise, Witness, Remembrance was name one of the Best Art Exhibitions of 2021 by The New York Times. Glenn is a member of Madison Square Park Conservancy's Public Art Consortium Collaboration Committee and sits on the Board of Directors for ARCAthens, a curatorial and artist residency program based in Athens, Greece, New Orleans, LA and The Bronx, New York. She received dual Master's degrees from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Modern Art History, Theory and Criticism and Arts Administration and Policy, and a Bachelor of Fine Art Photography with a co-major in Urban Studies from Wayne State University in Detroit.

Annie Friday is joined this week by Samuel Broaden of Honoring Childhood and Kisa Marx of The Play Lab Foundation to discuss their newly released book titled Rethinking Weapon Play in Early Childhood: How to Encourage Imagination, Kindness, and Consent in Your Classroom. Right away, Kisa and Samuel dive into the reality that many adults feel activated, challenged, or triggered by this type of power play. They offer strategies for reflection and growth for the adults in play spaces while also explaining the benefits of this category of play. In a world filled with violence and a country full gun violence, the fears are valid, and yet as adults it is our moral imperative to face those fears. In that process, we need to decide how we can share our concerns and shift those into boundaries that honor consent and safety. This episode does include references to violence and real life examples of when gun play has turned to tragedy. The Tamir Rice Foundation led by Samaria Rice and Rebuild Foundation led by Theaster Gates are two important organizations preserving the memory of Tamir Rice and uplifting the power and potential of community through ensuring the existence of  safe and culturally-rich spaces specifically for Black children and families. Here 4 The Kids is another organization focused on ending gun violence in the US and hosts weekly community chats every Thursday at 12:00 pm ET. Curious how we can hold space for both the fears around violence and the need for kids to engage in power play? Listen in as Kisa and Samuel share how our feelings toward gun violence are tied to and also separate from the benefits of weapon play.  Thanks for listening! Links Share a comment or ask a questionSupport the show (and save 10%) when you shop early learning trainings at Explorations Early LearningVisit the show archives to browse and search all episodesMore AnnieMore CandisVisit Blue Bridge School's website or Instagram

Artist LR (Lisa) Vandy shows EMPIRE LINES the ropes in a studio visit to Chatham's Royal Navy Dockyard in Kent, unravelling entangled imperial and industrial relationships, dance in the African diaspora, and women's work in abstract sculpture. In 2022, sculptor LR (Lisa) Vandy relocated her studio from the city of London to Chatham Ropery which, with original machinery from the 19th century, has preserved traditional practices and knowledges. Rope became essential to Britain's burgeoning maritime industry during the Georgian and Victorian eras, tied to the construction of empires, colonial hierarchies, and sites of slavery. Building in collaboration with the resident Master Ropemakers, her sculptures allude to and playfully subvert the media's historic associations and legacy now. From her five-metre-high figure for Liverpool's Canning Dock, to her new, smaller body of works, Lisa walks through her collection and archive on Kent's waterfront. Born in Coventry in the Midlands, she shares her experiences of growing up ‘by the sea' in Sussex as a young person of Nigerian and Irish heritages, and the racialised exclusion some face from leisurely pursuits in natural environments. Inspired by Barbara Ehrenreich's 2006 book, Dancing In The Streets, Lisa unravels ‘collective joy' and the central role of Black women. We see how dance has been used to resist oppression across continents, with spirit dances, raves, festivals, and carnival masquerades, interests shared by contemporaries like Theaster Gates, Hew Locke, Romuald Hazoumè, Zak Ové, and Hassan Hajjaj. Straw-fibre figures recall Grain Mother deities, corn dollies, and Kumpo, spinning dances from the Casamance (Senegal) and Gambia. With her ongoing series of Hulls, comprised of found objects, boats, and fishing floats ‘plundered' from DIY stores, we discuss her interest in the ‘underbelly of empire', knotty relationships between rail, sail, and transport, and ‘migrant crises' in the Mediterranean Sea today. Drawing on her research in museum collections, ancient silverwares, and indigo trade routes, Lisa moves on the discussion about globalised 'African masks' as symbols of ‘aggressive protection'. We discuss gender and identity, and how her curvilinear copper sculptures challenge conventional representations of the ‘female form'. Dynamic drawings of tornados tell of her designs for statues in the landscape - role models for those subject to the male gaze - exposing the empowering potential of contemporary art. Plus, Lisa shares why her tactile public artworks are designed to be destroyed. LR Vandy: Twist runs at the October Gallery in London until 25 May 2024. Dancing In Time: The Ties That Bind Us, commissioned by Liverpool Museums for the International Slavery Museum's Martin Luther King celebrations in 2023, stands at the Historic Dockyard Chatham in Kent until 17 November 2024. On harvest rituals, hear episodes about Ashanti Hare's performances at Against Apartheid at KARST in Plymouth (2023) and Invasion Ecology on Dartmoor (2024), and Learning from Artemisia (2019-2020), by Uriel Orlow and Orchestre Jeunes Étoiles des Astres, at the Eden Project in Cornwall. For more photographs of Black experiences in English coastal towns, and about the transatlantic ‘Triangular Trade' between Europe, Africa, and the Americas, hear Ingrid Pollard on ⁠Carbon Slowly Turning (2022)⁠ at Turner Contemporary in Margate. For more women working in port cities, read into: Lisetta Carmi: Identities, at the Estorick Collection in London. Magdalena Abakanowicz: Every Tangle of Thread and Rope, at Tate Modern in London. And hear Chris Spring on ‘African' textiles and Thabo, Thabiso and Blackx by Araminta de Clermont (2010)⁠ at the British Museum in London. PRODUCER: Jelena Sofronijevic. Editor: Alex Rees. Follow EMPIRE LINES on Instagram: instagram.com/empirelinespodcast And Twitter: twitter.com/jelsofron/status/1306563558063271936 Support EMPIRE LINES on Patreon: patreon.com/empirelines

In this episode, NCCAkron's Executive/Artistic Director, Christy Bolingbroke enters the 'studio' with Chicago Illinois-based, The Era Footwork Crew members Sterling “Steelo” Lofton and Brandon “Chief Manny” Calhoun. The Era Footwork Crew are pioneers of the battle dance known as Chicago footwork. They have performed from Japan to Peru, performing and choreographing alongside leading artists such as Chance the Rapper, DJ Rashad, DJ Spinn, and Theaster Gates. The Eras work has been in short documentaries by VICE, the Canadian Broadcast Company, and the Chicago Tribune.

One reviewer said of Corinne Bailey Rae's new album, Black Rainbows: "It sounds like a departure, but feels like a renaissance." In this episode, Corinne Bailey Rae discusses how industry expectations and massive success had begun to infiltrate her own creativity, and how meeting Chicago artist Theaster Gates, and visiting his Stony Island Arts Bank propelled Corinne Bailey Rae into a transformative period of songwriting and the multidisciplinary project now known as Black Rainbows, and how allowing herself to remove all preconceived notions of her persona ultimately becoming the most fully expressed representation of who she is as an artist and a woman.

In “The Underworld,” journalist Susan Casey takes readers into the deep ocean to explore volcanoes, trenches, and a booming ecosystem that's vital to our survival. Corinne Bailey Rae talks about “Black Rainbows,” which took seven years to make and was inspired by Chicago artist Theaster Gates.  In “Egg,” author Lizzie Stark explores the history of the egg, from Gold Rush-era gang wars in San Francisco to vaccine development and chickens in space.

The team reflects on the year's highlights, including our pop-up studio at Salone del Mobile, a conversation with Theaster Gates and an exhibition about Swedish artist and designer Moki Cherry. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Michalyn Easter-Thomas with Memphis River Parks is curating work around Tom Lee Park's art installation by artist Theaster Gates titled "A Moment to Listening." For the opening, until the remainder of the year, she has gathered local creatives that includes Fenton Wright (The Big We), Jennifer McGrath (Orpheum Memphis) and Gabrielle Brooks (Urban Art Commission) to be guest curators in order to promote the activation of this artwork for Memphians.

EP26 JOSÉ NOÉ SURO Fundador de Cerámica Suro, un taller que se ha convertido en un referente del mundo del arte, la arquitectura, el interiorismo e incluso la gastronomía. Suro ha construido una incubadora de artistas, diseñadores y otros creativos que desarrollan proyectos que permiten la experimentación y creación de nuevos estilos artísticos. Se ha convertido en una de las fábricas mexicanas más importantes a nivel internacional. Sus piezas están presentes en restaurantes como Pujol, Manta y Máximo. También se han involucrado en el arte mural con artistas como Felipe Baeza, Sarah Morris, Beatriz Milhazes, Jorge Pardo y David Adjaye. Han producido proyectos de arte contemporáneo de artistas internacionales Suro ha promovido y producido proyectos de arte contemporáneo de destacados artistas nacionales e internacionales como Walead Beshty, Nathan Carter, Theaster Gates y Rirkrit Tiravanija, entre otros. Sus proyectos se han exhibido en museos y galerías en distintas partes del mundo y se han atrevido a trabajar con materiales como bronce, aluminio, fibra de vidrio, vidrio soplado, madera, acero e impresiones digitales.

Michalyn Easter-Thomas with Memphis River Parks is curating work around Tom Lee Park's art installation by artist Theaster Gates titled "A Moment to Listening." For the opening, until the remainder of the year, she has gathered local creatives that includes Fenton Wright (The Big We), Jennifer McGrath (Orpheum Memphis) and Gabrielle Brooks (Urban Art Commission) to be guest curators in order to promote the activation of this artwork for Memphians.

A special edition for Black History Month celebrating the lives and music of black women. Michael Berkeley revisits some of the many inspiring guests from the last few years who chose music written or performed by black women, and who have made their own important contributions to black history: artists Helen Cammock and Theaster Gates, writers Kit de Waal, Nadifa Mohamed and Isabel Wilkerson, jazz saxophonist YolanDa Brown, broadcaster Johny Pitts, and Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason, mother of seven brilliant young musicians including 2023 BBC Proms stars cellist Sheku and pianist Isata. Their choices range from music by Florence Price to performances by Nina Simone and soprano Jessye Norman. Producer: Graham Rogers

Governor Gavin Newsom appointed Laphonza Butler to complete Senator Dianne Feinstein's term in the Senate. Will she run for the full term?  U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, 90, died last week. The centrist sought bipartisan solutions and advocated for gun control, reproductive rights, and environmental issues.  The Supreme Court's term begins today, and this year the justices will consider big cases concerning the administrative state, free speech, voting rights, and guns. The Renaissance and Eras Tours are hitting the big screen. It's an economic boost and a way for fans to access the musicians without spending big bucks on live concerts.  Corinne Bailey Rae talks about Black Rainbows, her most recent album that took seven years to make and was inspired by Chicago artist Theaster Gates. 

This American artist not only creates beautiful things, but also beautiful communities. Through his groundbreaking installations, sculptures, performances, and public programs, he preserves the past and translates it into meaningful experiences for the present. On this episode, Dan speaks with the Chicago-based visionary on the power of ceramics, how the Black experience shapes his work, how he came to hold the archive of Frankie Knuckles records, and more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

English chanteuse Corinne Bailey Rae made her world wide live radio debut on MBE when we kicked off 2006 with a week's worth of broadcasts from the BBC in London, and returned to the big show a few months later when she touched down in Southern California before becoming a superstar. While not prolific, Corinne's albums are a treat from top to bottom. Her newly-minted fourth album Black Rainbows took years to make and is inspired by the artwork and objects collected by Theaster Gates at the Stony Island Arts Bank in Chicago.

Il nuovo disco di Corinne Bailey Rae, un sentito omaggio all'artista Theaster Gates. Parliamo del ParmaJazz Frontiere Festival con il suo direttore artistico, Roberto Bonati. Francesco Paracchini ci illustra le iniziative di "Quel gran genio", una tre giorni milanese dedicata a Lucio Battisti (29 settembre - 1° ottobre)

Corinne Bailey Rae of “Put Your Records On” fame has released her fourth studio album, called 'Black Rainbows.' It was largely inspired by Theaster Gates' arts-focused restoration of The Stony Island Arts Bank, a former community savings and loan building in the south side of Chicago that has been transformed into what's been described as a cathedral of Black art. On this episode, Corinne Bailey Rae talks about the history of the building and what kind of art and artifacts it now showcases, and how those collections have inspired songs on the record. She also talks about getting "extraterrestrial" on this album as she explored the idea of transformation.Support the show: https://www.kexp.org/sound/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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We report from the Venice Biennale in Italy, one of the world's most important architecture events. We speak to artist Theaster Gates, Mariam Issoufou Kamara, and the team behind the Nordic pavilion.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Founded by artist Theaster Gates, the Rebuild Foundation has been transforming buildings and neighborhoods on the South Side of Chicago since 2009 with art projects, community gathering spaces, small businesses, and more. Their latest venture is a vinyl shop called Miyagi Records. On this episode we do a little crate digging with the project leaders, Nigel Ridgeway and Marco Jacobo.

*Please note that the sound quality in this episode is compromised due to an unstable internet connection between London and Lagos, where this conversation was recorded. However, Aindrea's insights are not to be missed!Aindrea Emelife is a Nigerian-British curator and art historian specialising in modern and contemporary art, with a focus on questions around colonial and decolonial histories in Africa, transnationalism and the politics of representation. Aindrea is currently the Curator, Modern and Contemporary at EMOWAA (Edo Museum of West African Art), a new David Adjaye designed museum complex and cultural district in Benin City, Nigeria due to open in stages from 2024. Born in London, United Kingdom, Emelife studied at The Courtauld Institute of Art before embarking on a multifaceted career as a curator and art historian, producing highly acclaimed exhibitions for museum, galleries and private collections internationally. Recent exhibitions include BLACK VENUS; a survey of the legacy of the Black woman in visual culture which opened at Fotografiska NY and will tour to MOAD (San Francisco, USA) and Somerset House (London, UK) in 2023. Emelife's first book, A Brief History of Protest Art was released by Tate in March 2022, Emelife has contributed to exhibition catalogues and publications, most recently including Revising Modern British Art (Lund Humphries, 2022) In 2021, Emelife was appointed to the Mayor of London's Commission for Diversity in the Public Realm.Lou and Aindrea consider Theaster Gates idea that “Black autonomy alone is too radical for current America” within the context of developing dialogues in contemporary art. We discuss the themes in her recent show 'Black Venus' and round up considering a key question of the series: 'Has the BLM period impacted art sector strategy?' We also find out how Aindrea navigates social media as a Black curator.Shade Podcast is written, hosted and produced by Lou MensahMusic generously composed for Shade by Brian JacksonThank you for listening and for supporting Shade - an independent art show highlighting the work of Black art practitioners via Patreon and Ko-fiShade InstagramShade websiteEMOWAA websiteAindrea Emelife websiteAindrea Emelife instagramSee you next time! Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/shadepodcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

n the 14th installment of the podcast's Virtual Café, we take as our prompt a Dec. review by NYTimes art critic Holland Cotter about politics in art: About 10 artists in the Virtual Café (including past guests Ianna Frisby of Art Advice and William Powhida) talk about art and politics, including successful examples of political art; the nimbleness of capitalism to absorb all things protest; the challenges and failures of artists to organize, particularly artist unions; the question of whether artwork being in a gallery is neutered, in terms of its political/social power; virtue signaling in art, particularly political art; Theaster Gates as a strong example of an artist changing a community, and of socially engaged art; the importance of the rhetoric around so-called political art (including the good side of the word ‘didactic'); the lack of transparency in galleries reporting where their donations to (political) causes are allocated; and how to take political art to the people, as opposed to through the gallery system.

Ben Luke talks to Theaster Gates about his influences—including writers, musicians, film-makers and, of course, other artists—and the cultural experiences that have shaped his life and work. Gates is an artist whose every gesture is transformative, whether that's in the form of social projects in his native Chicago, works repurposing found materials from significant disused spaces in the city, presentations honouring and reimagining collections of materials he's gathered over time, or the ceramic sculptures that were his earliest medium and remain at the heart of his work today. He discusses his engagement with artists as diverse as El Lissitzky, Agnes Martin and Arthur Jafa; his transformative encounters with Martin Puryear and bell hooks; how he came to be custodian of Chicago House pioneer Frankie Knuckles's personal vinyl collection; and his abiding passion for ceramics, which, he says, are “made for the eternal as much as they are made for tea”. Gates also gives insight into his life in the studio and answers our usual questions, including the ultimate one: what is art for?Theaster Gates: Young Lords and Their Traces, New Museum, New York, until 5 February 2023; Vestment, Gagosian, New York, until 23 December; A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration, Baltimore Museum of Art, until 29 January 2023. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We meet Chicago-based artist Theaster Gates, swivel on public chairs with Dutch designer Sabine Marcelis and learn about Thai architect Chatpong Chuenrudeemol's favourite work of design.

Selected as one of the creatives in the Theaster Gates x Prada design programme, Catherine Sarr is a jewellery designer for our times. Her sustainable jewellery line, Almasika, was snapped up by Vogue and has adorned the likes of Michelle Obama and Reese Witherspoon; she is also co-founder of the Prix Sarr at Les Beaux-Arts Paris, which presents three awards annually to students for excellence in a body of artistic work. She speaks to Danielle about philanthropy and being a "vector of change".

Theaster Gates talks about the importance of the church to a black child growing up in Chicago. Anna Smith explains the difficulties of trying to portray the Resurrection in films. Larry Gentis describes the people of Israel trying to survive on Manna and Quails in the desert.

Chicago based artist Theaster Gates on The Black Chapel - his design for this year's Serpentine Gallery pavilion, which is created each year by world class artists who have included Ai Wei Wei, Olafur Eliasson, Zaha Hadid, and Rem Koolhaus. The latest Pixar film is Lightyear, which tells the story of Buzz, the square-jawed astronaut, before he touched down in Andy's toybox in Toy Story. After being marooned on a hostile planet with his commander and crew, Buzz valiantly tries to find his way back home through space and time, while, of course, also confronting a threat to the universe's safety. But does this space odyssey fly? Catherine Bray gives her verdict. Music back catalogues: as Kate Bush's 1985 hit Running Up That Hill and decades old-catalogues sell for huge sums, we speak to former Spotify Chief Economist Will Page on the new frontiers of the pop music business, and the impact of streaming, licensing and TikTok. Poet Dean Atta's first young adult novel in verse, The Black Flamingo, won the 2020 Stonewall Book Award. He joins Samira to discuss his second, Only On The Weekends, telling the story of Mack - a gay teenager who finds himself at the centre of a queer love triangle as he attempts a long distance relationship between London and Glasgow. Presenter: Samira Ahmed Producer: Julian May

Der US-Künstler Theaster Gates hat dieses Jahr den 21. Serpentine Pavillon in London als "Black Chapel" gestaltet. Das Loch in der Decke des kreisförmigen Holzbaus dürfte bei den geplanten Konzertveranstaltungen für einen besonderen Klang sorgen.Laura Helena Wurth im Gespräch mit Marietta Schwarz www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de, FazitDirekter Link zur Audiodatei

Can't wait to share this chat with Annie Ball with you!   Annie is a Chicago transplant originally from the Boise, Idaho. Her passion for learning about progressive architecture, urbanism and equitable spaces led her to attend the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. While working on her Masters of Architecture at SAIC she spent time collaborating with visiting artist Theaster Gates in the Geoffrey Design Studio. It was during this experience she learned how art and architecture can serve as a purposeful, exploratory, and consequential cultural catalyst.   Annie is driven by the notion that strong designs can transcend scale and project typology. She believes architecture is context and through this lens design has the potential to foster positive growth of communities, existing infrastructure, and ecological networks.   When Annie is not at work you can typically find her along the lake – either training for her next marathon, reading, or watercolor painting.   Today on Studio.chats: Navigating transitions from engineering to architecture  Ways to take initiative and make moves in your career Focusing on sustainability and teaching   Connect with Annie: Instagram: @aball0112 LinkedIn: annieball9028   Connect with Kelsey: Instagram: @studio.chats hellostudio.chats@gmail.com www.studiochats.com   Thank you for being here! Thank you for committing to your growth as a designer, architect and human

Hospitality of the Soul: Visual designer and mental health professional Judy Ko speaks with artist Maria Eugenia Fee about art, theology, and hospitality. This excerpt of their conversation is from a video created by videographer Allen Wong. As an artist, theologian, and educator, Maria Eugenia Fee embraces the term mestizaje to reference her bi-culture identity, a multi-ethnically rich urban upbringing, and interdisciplinary studies in art and religion. Mestizo is visually represented through the mixed-media composition of her artwork. These notions also drive her theological research explored in the upcoming book The Art of Theaster Gates and a Theology of Hospitality. She is currently an adjunct professor at Seattle Pacific University and The Seattle School. Judy Ko is interested in the intersections of faith, creativity, beauty, truth, trauma, and soul care. She received a design education from Carnegie Mellon and worked as a visual designer in Manhattan before deciding to pursue the field of therapy. She moved to the Pacific Northwest to earn a counseling psychology degree at The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology. Judy is currently a Licensed Mental Health Associate working as a play therapist in the Seattle area. Photographer and videographer Allen Wong was trained classically on the piano and violin, and later studied viola. He has played with the Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra and was a finalist in the Washington State Solo & Ensemble Contest. After picking up the guitar, bass, and drums, he recorded his first EP, As Headaway Ahem. After graduating from the University of Washington with a Bachelors in Chemical Engineering, he produced the Theotech Podcast and had a quick run on YouTube before taking on photography. Join the conversation! Read the Winter issue, follow us on Instagram and Facebook, and leave us a voice message here on the podcast. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/vita-poetica/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/vita-poetica/support

Theaster Gates is a potter, a sculptor, a film-maker, a curator of black history, a real estate developer and a professor of fine art in Chicago, where he lives - and where he's also transformed a whole run-down area near the university. When he was made a professor in 2007, he bought a derelict bank for a dollar, tore out the urinals, cut them up and sold them off at five thousand dollars each as artworks – thereby raising enough money to create a large new art centre. That was just the beginning, as he explains. Gates's art and installation work is shown all over the world, and current projects include a library for Obama and this year's Serpentine Pavilion building. As his recent show at the Whitechapel revealed, his work is ambitious and provocative - he takes pots and deconstructs them so that they're exploding, back to the original clay. He films his work in dream-like spaces - a huge abandoned factory, for instance, full of broken bricks and haunting music, including his own singing. Theaster Gates is also a musician, the founder of a group called The Black Monks of Mississippi, which aims to rescue old songs from the black South. He brings Michael Berkeley a playlist that includes Scott Joplin, Joseph Boulogne, Rachmaninoff and gospel music sung by Leontyne Price. A Loftus Media production for BBC Radio 3 Produced by Elizabeth Burke

Inland Empire + Family: Visions of a Shared Humanity To belatedly celebrate the release of another exciting book by our heroes at Fireflies press we are reviewing one of our all time favourite films David Lynch and Laura Dern's Inland Empire and Melissa Anderson's monograph about the film. We also spotlight the generous video art curation on offer at AGNSW Family: Visions of a Shared Humanity featuring work by John Akomfrah, Garrett Bradley, Stan Douglas, Theaster Gates, Arthur Jafa, Kahlil Joseph, Isaac Julien, Steve McQueen and Carrie Mae Weems. It's so fun being back in the studio getting corrected on our botched (Łódź) Polish pronunciation by Maia. Do widzenia i dziękuję! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Have you ever been told to smile and put on a happy face? Well, get out your face-paint and join us as we speak with Joe Harjo, an artist who is drawn to this origin story of a killer comedian who takes vengeance on a community of villains. With inspiration regarding Joker's transformation, Joe makes multi-faceted work about his lived experiences and his Native American heritage, often confronting mainstream misrepresentation and single-mindedness. We invite you to hop on this rollercoaster of reality verses fantasy as we delve into dark questions such as "DId you pick Joker or did Joker pick you?". Tangents include: dickful thinking, billionaires as politicians, caveman diets, QAnon Shaman, The Master, toxic positivity, Theaster Gates, Mark Hamill's Joker, staircases in art, Gray Gardens, Sarah Silverman, Edger Heap of Birds For more information about Joe's studio practice, check out his website www.joeharjo.com and Instagram @ndnstagram Follow us on Instagram @artists.talk.movies --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/erin-stafford/support

Episode 89 features Antwaun Sargent. He is a writer, curator, art critic and director at Gagosian Gallery in New York City. He is the author of “The New Black Vanguard: Photography between Art and Fashion” (Aperture 2019) and the editor of “Young, Gifted and Black: A New Generation of Artists” (DAP 2020). Mr. Sargent was the guest editor of “Art In America” magazine's, New Talent Issue, May/June 2021. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, The New Yorker, and in museum and gallery publications for artists Mickalene Thomas, Arthur Jafa, Meleko Mokgosi, Nick Cave, Yinka Shonibare and Ed Clark, among many others. In mid-2021, Gagosian New York City, presented Social Works I, a group exhibition curated by Antwaun with participating artists David Adjaye, Zalika Azim, Allana Clarke, Kenturah Davis, Theaster Gates, Linda Goode Bryant, Lauren Halsey, Titus Kaphar, Rick Lowe, Christie Neptune, Alexandria Smith, and Carrie Mae Weems. In late 2021, Antwaun curated the sequel, Social Works II, Gagosian located in Grosvenor Hill, London. “The New Black Vanguard” and “Young, Gifted and Black” are currently on view. Photo credit: Chase Hall Gagosian https://gagosian.com/exhibitions/2021/social-works-curated-by-antwaun-sargent/ Gagosian Quarterly https://gagosian.com/quarterly/2021/06/25/interview-social-works-rick-lowe-and-walter-hood/ Vulture https://www.vulture.com/2020/08/young-gifted-and-black-artists-book.html New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/23/arts/design/gagosian-antwaun-sargent-social-works.html Culture Type https://www.culturetype.com/2021/09/05/on-view-social-works-curated-by-antwaun-sargent-at-gagosian-in-new-york-exhibition-will-have-a-sequel-in-london-in-october/ Forbes https://www.forbes.com/sites/chaddscott/2020/10/18/antwuan-sargent-curated-just-pictures-exhibition-proves-to-be-much-more/?sh=e2e8b1d15b3c ARTnews https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/antwaun-sargent-artnews-live-interview-1234579985/ Projects+Gallery http://www.projects-gallery.com/just-pictures-antwaun-sargent i-D https://i-d.vice.com/en_uk/article/5dmwdd/antwaun-sargent-bernard-lumpkin-young-gifted-black-davey-adesida Fad Magazine https://fadmagazine.com/2021/10/05/social-works-ii-curated-by-antwaun-sargent/ DAZED https://www.dazeddigital.com/art-photography/article/48097/1/antwaun-sargent-bernard-lumpkin-on-curating-for-the-black-community

“Les Flammes“ L'Âge de la céramiqueau Musée d'Art moderne de Parisdu 15 octobre 2021 au 6 février 2022Interview de Anne Dressen, commissaire de l'exposition,par Anne-Frédérique Fer, à Paris, le 14 octobre 2021, durée 21'49.© FranceFineArt.Communiqué de presseCommissaire : Anne Dressen assistée de Margot NguyenL'exposition Les Flammes. L'Âge de la céramique propose une immersion dans le médium de la céramique et associe plus de 350 pièces allant du néolithique jusqu'à nos jours, créant un dialogue inédit et fécond entre des typologies d'objets issus d'époques et de contextes variés, cherchant à déceler les influences autant que les coïncidences.Source constante d'inspiration et d'expression pour artisans, artistes ou designers, la céramique – de keramos signifiant « argile » en grec – est l'une des plus anciennes manifestations culturelles de l'humanité, utilisée dès la préhistoire pour la confection d'idoles, d'architecture, et de contenants culinaires.L'exposition Les Flammes présente ainsi des céramiques réalisées par des artistes ou des céramistes modernes et contemporains (de Jean Carriès, Georg Ohr, Paul Gauguin, Shoji Hamada, Bernard Leach, Marcel Duchamp, Meret Oppenheim, Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Raoul Dufy, Lucio Fontana, BeatriceWood, Ken Price, Ron Nagle, Cindy Sherman, Judy Chicago, Miquel Barceló , JeanGirel, Simone Leigh, Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel, Theaster Gates, Mai ThuPerret, Clare Twomey, Takuro Kuwata, Natsuko Uchino…), des productions historiques signées (de Bernard Palissy, Marie Talbot, Dave the Potter, ou des Manufactures nationales), ou anonymes (vénus préhistoriques, vases grecs antiques, poterie vernaculaire), ou encore non européennes (poterie Nok, jarres Mochica, figures Tang, réticulés iraniens, rakus japonais).Trans-historique, cette exposition porte sur la céramique dans ses rapports intrinsèques à l'art et plus largement à l'humain. Longtemps minoré dans l'échelle des arts, ce médium peut être à la fois fonctionnel et sculptural et oblige à repenser les catégories existantes et les hiérarchies traditionnelles. Entre l'art, le design et l'artisanat, l'exposition explore ses rapports au décoratif, au culinaire, à la performance, mais aussi la multitude de ses applications dans les champs du médical, de l'aéronautique ou de l'écologie.Les Flammes aborde ainsi la céramique selon trois thématiques : les techniques(terres et cuissons, formes, décors), les usages (utilitaires, artistiques, rituels) et les messages (trompe-l'oeil, anticlassiques, politiques). Elle révèle également des pièces qui dérogent aux règles, réinventent les codes et bousculent les approches et ce, même si les recettes, proches de l'alchimie, n'ont quasiment pas évolué au cours de l'histoire.Telle le Phénix qui renait constamment de ses cendres, la céramique exerce une fascination, croissante bien que cyclique, liée à l'imprédictibilité technique de la cuisson et du four qui ne se laisse jamais complètement apprivoiser. Sa tactilité, mais aussi sa rudesse, ont toujours inspiré des artisans, et ne cessent d'attirer les artistes depuis la fin du XIXe, ainsi qu'un large public d'amateurs en général.Le feu, qui a inspiré le titre de l'exposition, est à la fois une donnée technique, d'où découlent des propriétés et des fonctions bien précises mais aussi des contre-esthétiques spécifiques, ainsi qu'un imaginaire riche pouvant toucher à l'utopie radicale.[...] Voir Acast.com/privacy pour les informations sur la vie privée et l'opt-out.

En esta emisión de #Entusiasta, platicamos con José Noé Suro, empresario de la cerámica, abogado e intenso coleccionista de arte que ha impulsado la escena del arte contemporáneo en Guadalajra, su ciudad de residencia, y la Ciudad de México.También ha promovido y producido proyectos de arte contemporáneo de destacados artistas nacionales e internacionales como Walead Beshty, Milena Muzquiz, Gonzalo Lebrija, Jose Dávila, Jorge Méndez Blake, Nathan Carter, Theaster Gates y Rirkrit Tiravanija, entre otros.Bienvenidos a un nuevo episodio de #Entusiasta, el #podcast de Ilan Katz Mayo Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, is a curator best known as the artistic director of SAVVY—The Laboratory of Form-Ideas, a self-organized art institution located in Berlin. He has recently been appointed as the new director at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) in Berlin. We hear from Bonaventure on the importance of positioning oneself, within collaboration but always in response and with response-ability. He is someone who didn't wait for legitimization and instead went ahead to create a space, and let things emerge from that space and from the people who end up hanging out there. Episode Notes & LinksThis episode was recorded during the Mediterranean wildfires that have taken place in Greece, Turkey, Italy, Algeria and Tunisia.SAVVY, the laboratory of form and ideas is a public cultural institution located in Berlin. https://savvy-contemporary.comTo go further deep into Bonaventure's thinking, check out this talk organized by the After the Archive? Initiative. https://open.spotify.com/episode/6SbXJlNDSJjYQPN5tWjM93?si=F0kjcbEERPOIJTQdSmVPqQ&dl_branch=1To get a better sense of his story of becoming, check out this conversation for the NKATA podcast. He also touches on the impact of the life, work and untimely deaths of two giants of contemporary art: Bisi Silva and Okwui Enwezor. https://nkatapodcast.com/2019/04/05/nkata-with-bonaventure-soh-bejeng-ndikung/At documenta 14 in Athens and in Kassel, the slogan “Wir (alle) sind das Volk” [We (all) are the people] was displayed on banners and posters in German and Greek and the languages understood by most foreign Documenta visitors, as well as the languages of the migrants and refugees who are exposed to xenophobic aggression in Europe. Among the languages are Arabic, Kurdish, Turkish, Farsi (as spoken in Afghanistan), and the language of refugees from Eritrea.https://www.documenta14.de/en/artists/13591/hans-haackeCurated by Bonaventure, the 13th edition of the Bamako Encounters - African Biennale of Photography will be on view in Bamako, Mali from November 20, 2021–January 20, 2022.In his essay titled “The Globalized Museum? Decanonization as Method: A Reflection in Three Acts”, Bonaventure proposes to utilize decanonization as method for “what might be a global museum of self-reflexivity, whereby the idea will not be to create new or parallel canons, or place them side by side, or universalize the Western canon, but to decanonize the entire notion of the canon.” https://www.moussemagazine.it/magazine/the-globalized-museum-bonaventure-soh-bejeng-ndikung-documenta-14-2017/Thomas Mann was a writer known for his highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas which are noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_MannHenry Louis Gates is a literary critic, teacher, historian and filmmaker that conceptualized Signifyin', a critical approach to context-bound significance of words, which is accessible only to those who share the cultural values of a given speech community. The expression comes from stories about the Signifying Monkey, a trickster figure said to have originated during slavery in the United. States. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Louis_Gates_Jr.Theaster Gates is a Chicago based artist whose work sources from social practice. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theaster_GatesThe Nettelbeckplatz is a square in the Berlin district of Wedding. https://second.wiki/wiki/nettelbeckplatzAn originally well known Armenian/Greek Christian neighborhood called Tatavla, Kurtuluş is a district of Istanbul. Meaning "liberation", "salvation", "independence" or "deliverance" in Turkish, Kurtuluş's non muslim population of the neighborhood is greatly diminished. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KurtuluşSonsbeek is an international exhibition in Arnhem, Netherlands which largely focuses on public works of contemporary art. https://www.sonsbeek20-24.org“Chercher midi à quatorze heures" is a quirky way of telling someone that it is making an issue more difficult than it needs to be—turning something simple into something complicated in French.Director Jef Cornelis made an in-situ documentary about the Sonsbeek that had taken place in 1971 titled “Sonsbeek: buiten de perken” for the Belgian TV Channel VRT. His body of work is influential to imagine what television can be and how it can be used to document and represent art. https://vimeo.com/433640306Known as the founder of the art movement fluxus, Joseph Beuys was an influential teacher and artist who was influential in the latter half of the 20th century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_BeuysA champion of Africa's oral tradition and traditional knowledge, Amadou Hampâté Bâ was a writer, historian and ethnologist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amadou_Hampâté_BâCuratorial Statement of Bamako Biennial quotes Amadou Hampâté Bâ's statement (Aspects de la civilisation africaine, Éditions Présence Africaine, 1972) presiding over the manifestation, Maa ka Maaya ka ca a yere kono, translates to, “the persons of the person are multiple in the person.”https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/361013/rencontres-de-bamako-african-biennale-of-photographymaa-ka-maaya-ka-ca-a-yere-kono/Sun Ra, was a jazz composer, bandleader, piano and synthesizer player, and poet known for his experimental music, "cosmic" philosophy, prolific output, and theatrical performances. For much of his career, Ra led "The Arkestra," an ensemble with an ever-changing name and flexible line-up.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_RaThelonious Monk was a seminal jazz pianist and composer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thelonious_MonkStephen Wright is a writer and gardener based in France. He was the first guest of the previous season of Ahali. Listen at https://www.ahali.space/episodes/episode-1-stephen-wrightAssembled by the king of 6/8, the living legend Brice WassyKelin-Kelin Orchestra is a big band that consists of twelve musicians. Called the "queen of Taarab and Unyago music, Fatima binti Baraka also known as Bi Kidude, was a Zanzibari-born Tanzanian Taarab singer.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bi_Kidude Influenced by the musical traditions of the African Great Lakes, North Africa, the Middle East, and the Indian subcontinent. Taarab is a music genre popular in Tanzania and Kenya.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TaarabNatasha Ginwala is a curator working in​​ the field of contemporary art.Ayesha Hameed is a lecturer, writer and practitioner who produces videos, audio essays and performance lectures.Matana Roberts is a sound experimentalist, visual artist, jazz saxophonist, clarinetist and composer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matana_RobertsFormed in 1979 by Pierre-Edouard Décimus and Jacob Desvarieux, Kassav' is a Zouk band that makes Guadeloupean carnival music recording it in a more fully orchestrated yet modern and polished style. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kassav%27Jacob Desvarieux was a singer, arranger, and music producer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_DesvarieuxJocelyne Béroard is a singer and songwriter. She is one of the lead singers of the Kassav'. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jocelyne_BéroardZouk is a musical movement pioneered by the French Antillean band Kassav' in the early 1980s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZoukNégritude (from French "Nègre" and "-itude" to denote a condition that can be translated as "Blackness") is a framework of critique and literary theory, developed mainly by francophone intellectuals, writers, and politicians of the African diaspora during the 1930s, aimed at raising and cultivating "Black consciousness" across Africa and its diaspora. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NégritudeOne of the founders of the Négritude movement, Aimé Césaire was a Martinican poet, author, and politician. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aimé_CésaireServed as the first president of Senegal from 1960 to 1980, Léopold Sédar Senghor was a poet, politician and cultural theorist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Léopold_Sédar_Senghor Episode recorded on Zoom on August 4th, 2021. Interview by Can Altay. Produced by Aslı Altay & Sarp Renk Özer. Music by Grup Ses.

Writer, editor and curator, Antwaun Sargent, joins our hosts for this episode of The Accutron Show. Together they discuss the fabric of his role as Director of the iconic Gagosian Gallery and redefining the rules of art curation today. For most of his career, Antwaun has written about and curated exhibitions devoted to Black artists. His 2019 book titled, The New Black Vanguard: Photography Between Art and Fashion, which examined growing Black representation in fashion photography, was met with acclaim. Tune in to learn more.Episode Highlights:7:30 I am always after works that have certain originality, tension, and uniqueness. You have to examine each artist and artwork within the context that's being produced. 19:40 At the moment we are featuring an installation of Theaster Gates, steward of the Frankie Knuckles record collection who is engaging with the late DJ and musician's archive of records, playing and digitizing them live at the gallery.47:09 The book and exhibition The New Black Vanguard explores a group of Black photographers around the world that created a community centered around their work, publishing it only on Instagram and not in museums or galleries. Learn more about the Accutron watch here, and follow @AccutronWatch:InstagramTwitterFacebook Subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts and Spotify to hear new episodes as soon as they're released.Follow our hosts on social media:Bill McCuddy: Facebook  / TwitterDavid Graver: Instagram  / TwitterAntwaun Sargent: Instagram / Facebook  / Twitter

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On this episode of Art Affairs, i talk with, artist, Hebru Brantley.We discuss growing up painting graffiti in the streets of Chicago, his desire to create characters that are more representative of and relatable to the black community, his upcoming solo show at Ross-Sutton Gallery, and a ton more! A legit Chicago legend, on Art Affairs 45.Also mentioned in this episode: Little Black Pearl, The Zhou Brothers, Theaster Gates, Derrick Adams, Nina Chanel Abney, Brandon Deener, James Jean, and Madsaki.Follow Hebru:Website: hebrubrantley.comInstagram: @hebrubrantleyFollow the Show:Website: artaffairspodcast.comPatreon: artaffairsInstagram: @artaffairspodcastFacebook: @artaffairspodcastTwitter: @art_affairs

Sarah Miller compares the Feeding of the 5000 to artist Theaster Gates' Soul Food Pavilion, and considers how we can use material things to share God's grace and love. Descriptions of Soul Food Pavilion are drawn from Maria Reyes Fee's dissertation "The Art of Theaster Gates and a Theology of Hospitality” and article "The Art of Theaster Gates: To 'Conjure the Symbolic.'” Learn more about Theaster Gates at art21.org/theaster-gates/.

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"How exactly do we listen to images? We listen by feeling. We listen by attending to what I call 'felt sound'." Helga Davis invites Scholar and Author Tina Campt to explore her relationship to her practice and her family, centering the conversation on the power and pleasure of listening to images. Tina L. Campt is Owen F. Walker Professor of Humanities and Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. Campt is a black feminist theorist of visual culture and contemporary art. She leads the Black Visualities Initiative at the Cogut Institute for Humanities and is the founding convenor of the Practicing Refusal Collective. Campt is the author of three books: Other Germans: Black Germans and the Politics of Race, Gender and Memory in the Third Reich(University Michigan Press, 2004), Image Matters: Archive, Photography and the African Diaspora in Europe (Duke University Press, 2012), Listening to Images (Duke University Press, 2017), and most recently, A Black Gaze (MIT Press, 2021). She has held faculty positions at the Technical University of Berlin, the University of California, Santa Cruz, Duke University, and Barnard College, and currently serves as a Research Associate at the Visual Identities in Art and Design Research Centre at the University of Johannesburg. Professor Tina Campt has provided scholarly advice and inspiration for many Park Avenue Armory Public Programs over the past six years, most recently as a Keynote Speaker for Theaster Gates's Black Artist Retreat and advisor to the collaborative project 100 Years | 100 Women. 

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