Fresh Art International

We produced this episode from one of the Fresh Art International radio shows that streamed live from the studio at Jolt Radio Miami. Listen to learn about how culture producers are reinventing urban landscapes with pedestrian paths and temporal public art projects. To begin, Atlanta architect Ryan Gravel introduces the Beltline, his design project that envisioned the transformation of an abandoned...

Artist Zoë Buckman is in fight mode. Her own boxing gloves figure in recent mixed media installations, spoken word, and sound art projects that defend women's reproductive rights. This episode is an excerpt from the 3 Dec 2016 Fresh Art International show on Untitled, Radio, Miami Beach.   Sound Editor: Guney Ozsan | Swami Ji spoken word performance audio courtesy Zoë Buckman

Get inspired by our conversations on Fourth Wave Feminist Art. We begin with a flashback to a past conversation with artist  Jillian Mayer  on her project  400 nudes . Filmmaker  Robert Adanto  and artist  Leah Schrager  discuss the  F Word Film : a look at radical, 4th wave feminist performance art. You’ll also hear about Adanto’s new documentary titled  Born Just Now  on artist  Marta Jovanovic...

Lost Spaces and Stories of Vizcaya—Curator Gina Wouters , and artists Mira Lehr and Yara Travieso  talk about What This Place Does Not Remember , one of eleven projects in the contemporary art exhibition  Lost Spaces and Stories  at  Vizcaya Museum and Gardens  in Miami, Florida. The inspiration for Mira Lehr's and Yara Travieso's dramatic Baroque performance installation? The wild garden at the e...

Immerse yourself in the latest sound art, including some from  Miami Art Week 2016 . Sound artist  Stephen Vitiello  introduces the genre before we hear sounds from  Faena Art ‘s  Tide by Side  event, and a conversation with  Yosvany Terry,  who composed the track for  Conga Irreversible , a performance designed by the Cuban artist duo  los carpinteros . You’ll experience  Naama Tsabar ‘s Art Base...

Curator Jochen Volz talks about the 32nd São Paulo Biennial exhibition titled " Live Uncertainty ." With curators  Júlia Rebouças , Gabi Ngcobo , Lars Bang Larsen and Sofía Olascoaga , Volz designed the exhibition to resonate with the park’s spatial dynamic; many of the installations in the exhibition are living environments. Allowing political protests within the pavilion, taking performances out...

Here's one of the art talk radio shows we hosted during UNTITLED, Art on Miami Beach, December 2016. We’re thrilled to add our energy to an art fair that’s more of an international exhibition than any other we’ve encountered. In this segment, you'll hear host Cathy Byrd in conversation with Vivian Caccuri. Vivian Caccuri’s work creates interrelations among music, real and virtual architecture, pub...

Here's one of the art talk radio shows we hosted during UNTITLED, Art on Miami Beach, December 2016. We’re thrilled to add our energy to an art fair that’s more of an international exhibition than any other we’ve encountered. In this segment, you'll hear host Cathy Byrd in conversation with Brook Davis Anderson and Trevor Schoonmaker. Brooke Davis An...

Here's one of the art talk radio shows we hosted during UNTITLED, Art on Miami Beach, December 2016. We’re thrilled to add our energy to an art fair that’s more of an international exhibition than any other we’ve encountered. In this segment, you'll hear host Cathy Byrd in conversation with Christie van der Haak, Sharon Aponte Misdea, and Silvia Barisione.   Christie van der Haak is from The Hague...

Follow along as we preview Miami Art Week 2016—from performances planned for  Art Basel ‘s Public Sector to a look behind the scenes of Untitled Art Fair. First, we hear how New York-based artist  Naama Tsabar ‘s and  Tom Tom magazine  publisher  Mindy Abovitz’ s art and music worlds collide. Next, we visit  Spinello Projects  to catch up with  Naama Tsabar  and learn about Transitions #3, her Mia...

Artist Alexis Gideon talks about myth and memory in his newest animated video opera: The Comet and The Glacier . He brings this musical narrative to life at Locust Projects , Miami, Florida. Gideon's intense multi-media environmental installation takes visitors on a journey into his imagination and serves as the stage for his performances during Miami Art Week 2016 . Sound Editor: Guney Ozsan | So...

Today, our show on Jolt Radio, Miami, is a feast of new performance art projects. Hear the conversation Cathy Byrd recorded with artist William Pope. L  one night during the roving street performance he created for the 32nd  Bienal São Paulo . Learn about the  Tide by Side  processional event planned for the  Faena Art  District on Miami Beach from curator  Claire Tancons  and artist  Marinella Se...

American artist  William Pope. L  talks about endurance in performance art and shares the story of  Baile , or Ball, the project he created for the  32nd São Paulo Biennial . Based on Pope. L’s research into recent political frictions and social inequalities in Brazil, the theatrical endurance project involves three pairs of professional dancers taking 8 hour shifts to perform 24 hours a day, for...

Artist  Martha Wilson  talks about her political performance art and why she took on the guise of Republican candidate Donald Trump during the 2016 United States Presidential election season. Wilson is a pioneering feminist artist known for her politically charged photography, video and performance work. She’s also founder of  Franklin Furnace , an artist-run performance and exhibition space in Ne...

Bringing local creatives into the studio at  Jolt Radio, Miami,  we dig into contemporary art and the black imagination. Curator  Valerie Cassel Oliver  sets the tone in a conversation we recorded about her exhibition project:  Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art . We expand the dialogue to include introduce artists, filmmakers and curators working with black art, film and coll...

Artist  Sarah Oppenheimer  and curator René Morales talk about Sarah’s project titled  S-281913  at Perez Art Museum Miami. The context for her newest work is the recently built museum designed by architects  Herzog and De Meuron . Sarah’s project in the Meyerhoff Green Gallery represents a ground-breaking moment in her practice. That’s because the 'S' in the title of the work stands for 'switch.'...

Enter the world of art activism through the recent  Rauschenberg Residency  on Rising Water, listen to conversations recorded on Captiva Island in Florida, and learn about Activating Democracy with artist  Sheryl Oring , about her  I Wish To Say project . Finally, hear about Miami’s very own  Common Field  convening.   In the Studio: Artist  Naomi Fisher , Director of  DimensionsVariable   Leyden...

At the  Rauschenberg Residency  on the island of  Captiva  just off the west coast of Florida, we meet artists, writers, and scientists working on projects related to the environment. They’re here for a special session known as the  Rising Water Confab , a month-long program exploring the topic of climate change. Featured in this episode:  Amy Balkin , an artist based in San Francisco, invites con...

rtists  Joyce J. Scott  and  Antonia Wright  join Cathy Byrd for the first Miami broadcast of the  Fresh Art International show  on  Jolt Radio . Baltimore-based Joyce J. Scott is a jewelry maker and sculptor repositioning craft, and in particular beadwork, as a potent platform for commentary on social and political injustices. She shares recent projects and comments on the recent honor of a  MacA...

South African artist  Donna Kukama  is creating an unusual book project for the  32nd Sao Paulo Biennial . During opening days of the international exhibition, she presents three chapters of the book in performances at three local cultural sites: the Consolação Cemetery, the Afro-Brazil Museum, and the Ciccillo Matarazzo pavilion where the biennial is held. Local history and current events inspire...

Today, we share our final live broadcast on  Jolt Radio, Miami , from inside the exhibition pavilion of the  32nd São Paulo Biennial ! We have quite the line-up! Brazilian artist  Vivian Caccuri  talks about her Afro-Brazilian sound project to kick off the show. Yvette Mutumba and Julia Grosse, Germany-based editors of  Contemporary And  (C&), follow, with their impressions of the exhibition and a...

Today, we’re sharing one of the three shows we broadcast this month on  Jolt Radio, Miami , from inside the exhibition pavilion of the  32ndSão Paulo Biennial ! Our special guest is  Pia Lindman,  an artist from Finland whose project Nose Ears Eyes centers on the hut made of mud and bamboo that you see in the photo gallery below. Later in the show,  Eduardo Navarro , an artist from Argentina, drop...

Today, we share our first-ever  Fresh Art International radio broadcast , recorded live in Brazil! For three days only, we were livestreaming from inside the  São Paulo Biennial  pavilion on  Jolt Radio . Our new hour-long show expands on conversations about creativity that we’ve been recording with contemporary artists, curators, filmmakers, and architects since 2011 for the  Fresh Art Internatio...

Anawana Haloba , an artist born in Zambia and based in Norway, talks about vanishing cultures in her project for the  32nd Sao Paulo Biennial . Her poetic sound installation titled Close-Up poses questions on the subject of globalization and the loss of cultural diversity. Recorded on Skype, this episode is the first in a new series we’re producing for  Contemporary And , a platform for internatio...

Amanda Sanfilippo talks about public art and Miami’s  Fringe Projects , an independent public art agency that commissions temporary art and performance projects in connection with the Miami’s annual Downtown Art Days. Ever since she became curator four years ago, Amanda has been expanding on the potential for temporal public art to make a lasting impression on Miami’s cultural landscape. Listen to...