Pratt Fine Arts: Project Third

Speech Acts

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Speech Acts is the podcast of Pratt Fine Arts' Project Third (P3). Each semester, a faculty member sits down with artists, curators, and cultural producers whose work engages deeply with social, political, and community-based issues. These conversations explore practices that defy traditional categories, experiment across disciplines, and respond to the urgent conditions of our time. Speech Acts features original music by Alejandra Tokatlian. About Project Third (P3) Pratt Fine Arts Forum for Research & Community Engagement Project Third (P3) is a Pratt Fine Arts forum for students, visiting a...

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Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo: Lady Liberty 15.05.2026 50:07

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....

Macon Reed: Heart and Teeth 06.03.2026 57:27

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...

Taja Cheek: Sonic Rapture 02.05.2025 1:00:09

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...