Specific Objects: Talks on Art in the Catskills

On this month's edition of "Specific Objects: Talks on Art in the Catskills," host Miriam Atkin speaks with Albany-based poet Amie Zimmerman. Amie reads from her new poetry collection, False Spring, published by Roof Books in January, and we discuss themes of collectivity, selfhood, and uncertainty in the poems. Also starlings. "Specific Objects" is a monthly freeform discu...

On this month's edition of "Specific Objects: Talks on Art in the Catskills," host Miriam Atkin speaks with Woodstock-based multidisciplinary artist Viktorsha Uliyanova. We discuss her recent solo show at Roundabouts Now gallery in Kingston titled "Quieter than Water Lower than Grass." Viktorsha Uliyanova is a multidisciplinary artist and educator working with alternative photography, installation...

On this month's edition of "Specific Objects: Talks on Art in the Catskills," host Miriam Atkin speaks with musician/writer Erica Dawn Lyle. We discuss her new album, On Fire, in which she transforms and deforms Van Halen's classic live opener and "tunes her antenna deeply to The Moment, channeling abandon and grief in equal measure." Lyle also gives a reading of recent...

This month, Chris Funkhouser visits the studio to discuss the life and work of poet, translator, musician, and professor Cole Heinowitz. Chris and Cole played music together in multiple Hudson Valley ensembles; we listen to audio from those projects as well as archival recordings of Cole reading her poetry. Poet Ray'd Yo: Cole Heinowitz Tribute Cole Heinowitz's PennSound Page Satan's B...

Robbie Wing and Ryan Skrabalak talk about their current work in an open discussion hosted by Miriam Atkin. Robbie Wing is an artist and musician from Tulsa, Oklahoma. A citizen of the Cherokee Nation, his practice encompasses composition, sonic sculpture, and performance. His installation, Cross Ties Song (2024), is currently on view at Tinworks Art in Bozeman, Montana. Robbie is pursuing an MFA i...

This month's episode is a departure from the typical Specific Objects format. I invited two artists to the studio to share their work. What differed this time is that none of us had had prior exposure to the work in question; we were all encountering it for the first time. A meandering conversation ensued. Evan Lindorff-Ellery is a sound and visual artist based in the Hudson Valley, and he is...

On this month's edition of "Specific Objects: Talks on Art in the Catskills," host Miriam Atkin speaks with Bryan Zanisnik, an artist working in sculpture, performance, video and photography who lives in the Catskill Mountains. We discuss his fascination with discarded objects and overlooked spaces, and the way artworks can assemble fragments of our material and cultural histories in...

On this month's edition of "Specific Objects: Talks on Art in the Catskills," host Miriam Atkin speaks with painter Jan Razauskas and printmaker Gary Kachadourian, both based in Lanesville. We talk about chance and control in abstract painting, and get deep into the nuts and bolts of analog processes for the reproduction of photographic images.  Jan Razauskas is a visual artist who c...

On this month's edition of "Specific Objects: Talks on Art in the Catskills," host Miriam Atkin speaks with Catskill-based composer and instrumentalist, Larry Chernicoff. We discuss his new compositions, which are informed by a long-standing interest in cloudy skies, architectural forms, the teachings of Thich Nhat Hanh, and numerous other elemental, spiritual, and aesthetic influences. Larry’s mo...

On this month's edition of "Specific Objects: Talks on Art in the Catskills," host Miriam Atkin speaks with Catskill-based poet Stacy Szymaszek. Stacy reads from their forthcoming book-length poem titled ESSAY (Krupskaya, 2025), and we discuss the poems, covering topics such as loving beyond usefulness, the essay as form, literary lineages, cows, and poetry as a means of / challenge...

This month's broadcast is different in that, rather than conducting an interview, host Miriam Atkin shares archival recordings of conversations with artists she admires. The first half of the broadcast is an interview with WIlliam S. Burroughs by Kathy Acker. The second half is an interview with Will Alexander by Douglas Manuel. Videos of these talks are available at: https://ubu.com/film/burr...

On this month's edition of "Specific Objects: Talks on Art in the Catskills," host Miriam Atkin speaks with Athens and NYC-based interdisciplinary artist Patrick Costello. We discuss some of Patrick's recent projects (My Pizza, My Idea!, And Eat It Too, and Privy Privy), as well as his experiments in collective art-making and ecological horticulture on 10 acres of raw land in Gre...

On this month's edition of "Specific Objects: Talks on Art in the Catskills," host Miriam Atkin speaks with Kingston-based movement artist Lina Azalea Dahbour and Cairo-based noise musician Matt Luczak. We discuss their sound-movement duo DSM-69. Specific Objects is a monthly freeform discussion, hosted by Miriam Atkin, that invites artists from a variety of disciplines to describe,...

On this month's edition of "Specific Objects: Talks on Art in the Catskills," host Miriam Atkin speaks with  Kimberly Alidio , a Catskill-based poet, essayist, historian, and teacher. We discuss Kimberly's summer 2023 book of poems,  Teeter  (Nightboat), and the essay she wrote about it,  "On Being Porous,"  which was recently published in  e-flux  journal. The show con...

On this month's edition of  "Specific Objects: Talks on Art in the Catskills,"  host Miriam Atkin speaks with Amanda Turner Pohan (known as Pohan), a Lanesville-based interdisciplinary artist. The discussion revolves around Pohan's outdoor sculpture titled between  Scylla and Charybdis , which was created in collaboration with the United States Geological Survey and is currently...

On this month's edition of  Specific Objects: Talks on Art in the Catskills , host Miriam Atkin speaks with Lea Bertucci, a Kingston-based artist, composer, and performer. The discussion revolves around Lea’s 2023 album,  Of Shadow and Substance , and her forthcoming album,  I Know the Number of the Sand and the Measure of the Sea . We also talk about Lea’s graphic scores, one of which can be...

Specific Objects welcomes Hudson-based movement artist Charlotte Stickles to the studio to discuss her recent projects in performance, film, choreography, and education. More information about Charlotte's work can be found at  charlottestickles.com.