Speech Acts

Visiting Associate Professor Alex Strada speaks with Fine Arts Civic Engagement Fellow, Kamau Amu Patton, an intermedia artist whose practice engages history and culture through archives, documents, stories, sound, and sites. Drawing on improvisation, experimentation, and processes of listening, his practice considers how artistic encounters can generate new forms of attention, connection, and col...

Associate Professor Carlos Motta speaks with Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo—also known in the art world as Puppies Puppies— an artist who moves fluidly across performance, sculpture, installation, and community activism. Jade's work questions notions of what is and isn't art, blurs the line between the personal and the public, and explores how identity is shaped by the commodities and media we consume....

Visiting Assistant Professor Langdon Graves speak to Macon Reed, a New Orleans-based artist working in sculpture, video, painting, and social practice, for projects that bridge participatory approaches with intensive object-making and research. Their work has been shown at venues such as Transmediale Vorspiel (Berlin), La Patinoire Royale (Brussels), the University of New South Wales Gallery (Sydn...

Associate Professor and artist Carlos Motta speaks with Taja Cheek, a Brooklyn-born curator and musician based in New York City. Taja is presently Artistic Director of Performance Space New York, a radical interdisciplinary performance institution in the East Village, founded in 1980 as PS122 and is also a multi-instrumentalist and songwriter who frequently records and performs under the name L’Ra...