BEST OF Fresh Talk: Joan Jonas

BEST OF Fresh Talk: Joan Jonas
Published 28 May 2012

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Our listeners love Joan Jonas. A seminal contemporary performance artist, she has profoundly influenced the genre. Cathy Byrd watched Joan perform "The Shape, The Scent, The Feel of Things" twice this year—first, in Austin, Texas, and later, in Kassel, Germany. Each time, she and her collaborator, American jazz musician Jason Moran, filled the house and met standing ovations. Having featured Joan's work in a 1994 retrospective, the Stedelijk Museum dedicated a salon to Joan for the venue's re-opening exhibition. Fresh Art International was there.    

Sound Editor: Leonardo Madriz
Photos: known credits noted
Music: Jason Moran, He Takes His Coat and Leaves

Fresh Talk LIVE: Theaster Gates

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Conversations About Creativity in the 21st Century  

In this Fresh Talk LIVE feature, Cathy Byrd meets Chicago-based artist Theaster Gates in Washington, DC, on Election Night 2012. Theaster is the featured speaker in the second annual Kinetic: Conversations in Contemporary Art lecture series at American University. Wilmer Wilson, an alumnus of Howard University, American University graduate students Emily Fransisco and Heather Ravenscroft, and University of Mary Washington senior Sidney Mullis join the conversation.    

Sound Editor: Leonardo Madriz | Photos: Cathy Byrd unless otherwise noted | Music: Theaster Gates + The Black Monks of Mississippi, Shine, 2011

Fresh VUE: Theaster Gates & Huguenot House

Theaster Gates: 12 Ballads for Huguenot House


Pictured here, 12 Ballads for Huguenot House was created by Chicago-based artist and urban planner Theaster Gates. His project for documenta(13) unites two disused buildings—one in Chicago and the other in Kassel, Germany—by dismantling parts of each to reuse in rebuilding the other. The spatial re-imagining is realized in twelve thematic “ballads.”

Theaster speaks about his work at American University, Washington, DC, on November 6, 2012. His talk is the second annual lecture in the new Kinetic: Conversations in Contemporary Art lecture series at the University. Fresh Art International makes history that night by recording the inaugural Fresh Talk LIVE podcast.

Photos: Cathy Byrd, except where noted.

Fresh Talk: Christian Philipp Müller

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Conversations about Creativity in the 21st Century 

In Kassel, Germany, Cathy Byrd meets Swiss artist Christian Philipp Müller to talk about Swiss Chard Ferry, his project for documenta (13). Christian lives in Berlin and Kassel, where since 2011, he's been Dean at the School of Art and Design. He has a history with the international exhibition, having participated in documenta 10 (1997) and is known for his interest in connecting art with the cultural history of plants.  

Sound Editor: Leonardo Madriz 
Photos: Cathy Byrd and the artist, where noted 
Music: Beach Boys, Vege-Tables, 1967

Fresh VUE: dOCUMENTA(13)

A glimpse of the overwhelming display that was dOCUMENTA(13), in Kassel, Germany, this September. Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, artistic director of the international exhibition, included 500 year-old Karlsaue park as a venue for more than 50 projects. 
Cathy Byrd reviews dOCUMENTA(13) in the online art journal ...might be good. 
Upcoming on Fresh TALK: Marcos Lutyens (Hypnotic Sessions in the Reflection Room) and Christian Philipp Müller (Swiss Chard Ferry).

Images: Cathy Byrd

Fresh Talk: Regina Frank

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Conversations About Creativity in the 21st Century

Now living a seaside village just outside Lisbon, German artist Regina Frank has expanded on her central theme, The Artist Is Present, for more than two decades. Regina talks with Cathy Byrd about the political and cultural issues that interest her and how her meditative installation projects explore the tension between analog and digital media. Of Note: For Hermes Mistress(1994), the artist lived inside a remarkable red dress at Exit Art, NYC.

Sound Editor: Jay Agoglia
Photos: Courtesy Regina Frank 
Sound: Astor Piazolla, Tango Milonga del Angel

Actualmente viviendo en un pueblo cerca de Lisboa, la artista alemana Regina Frank ha expandido su tema central The Artist is Present, por más de dos décadas. Regina habla de los temas políticos y culturales que le interesan y cómo sus meditativos proyectos de instalación exploran la tensión entre los medios analógicos y digitales. Para un proyecto en 1994, vivió durante un mes en un gran vestido rojo en Exit Art, NYC.