Bemis Center Podcasts
BC PODCASTS BRING YOU INTO THE ARTIST'S STUDIO
Galleries and museums are great ways to experience contemporary art. But viewers don't always get to experience the artist's take on what happens in their studios. For over twenty-five years, more than 600 artists have participated in the Bemis Center's international residency program. That's why we've added BC Podcasts. Beginning in 2007, BC Podcasts take you behind the scenes for interviews with our Artists-in-Residence and Visiting Artists. Each interview captures the creative process and brings it directly to you, no matter where you are.
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Tune in next time for an interview with current artist-in-residence.
In researching and appropriating cultural iconography, Tannaz Farsi utilizes non-linear narratives to create installations that focus on the gaze of the individual and its spatial location. Working with objects and image her installations choose the language of synesthetic intimacy, the absence of cinematic climax and the specificity of poetry to question the framework of identity in contemporary culture.
Released 3/17/10
Dallas based artist Margaret Meehan's concern with locating the sublime in the grotesque is as grounded in a traditional Victorian obsession with medical anomalies as it is with defying our more recent attempt to banish all nastiness and discomfort from our daily experience.
Released 2/17/10
Mayumi Amada creates installations out of a wide variety of materials, including, but not limited to discarded plastic bottles, bones, metal, live swimmers, mirrors and rope. She is interested in ancestry, the circular nature of life cycles, and the environment.
Released 1/20/10
Laurie Frick creates large and vibrantly colorful collages. She is interested in patterns, memory, and time. Frick is interested in the way past experiences influence the way the brain processes and interprets images and information.
Released 1/6/10
Born in South Korea, Min Kim Park focuses on exploring the issues revolving around gender, ethnicity and identity using multimedia performance, video, photography, and sound installation. The artist draws from her experience as a journalist in both South Korea and the United States.
Released 12/17/09
Adam Shecter lives in New York City. His animation, performances and installations are influenced by contemporary cultural media sources including cinema, Saturday morning cartoons, literature and music. Shecter has maintained his online test-site, theworldofadam.com, since 2002.
Released 12/2/09
Morgan Schwartz creates video installations, single-channel videos, urban actions and interactive media projects. He creates structures that encourage social interaction and respond directly to specific sites and cultural systems.
Released 8/26/09
With a playful twist on schoolgirl plaid outfits for her characters Sioux and Sue, artist Susan Lee-Chun creates a powerful narrative in her performance, video and installation work incorporating the two dueling figures. VERSUS is her latest piece involving the characters that touch on ideas of assimilation and identity politics. “Through subtle representations and actions in the work, Susan investigates the pervasive struggles of being classified as an 'other', and one's innate desire to fit in”.
Released 7/1/09
The transformations of the mundane to myth, the absurd into custom, and the coalescences of ephemeral are intrinsic to Kambui Olujimi's work regardless of medium or genre. Whether they are dream books, rock skipping contests, or wanted posters for clouds, Olujimi inhabits the spaces where myth is made fact and forgotten. Olujimi describes his work as the space "where our pennies are turned into wishes and where history is cured.
Released 6/3/09
Kate Tessa Lee creates conceptual cartography through the collection, documentation, and translation of mundane information into patterns, rhythms, and structures. Using symbolic narrative to connect the personal and universal, Lee’s current project transforms her body’s scars, blemishes, and spots into an unpredictable allegory of rotating stars, constellations, and nebulas.
Released 5/13/09
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