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.
Fresh BC Podcasts available every other Wednesday, so check back here or subscribe to Bemis Center Podcasts on iTunes to receive them automatically.
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Tune in next time for an interview with current artist-in-residence.
Dawn Gettler creates temporary installations that respond to the habitual nature of daily life. Her installations consist of common materials, such as sugar and soap, that hold cultural associations. Gettler is interested in finding the beauty in ritual and the act of complacency.
Released 7/21/10
Hong Seon Jang's intricate installations are created from found objects and everyday products, such as matches and string. Jang's work and materials echo his interest in vulnerability and the cycles of destruction and creation. Eastern philosophies of circulatory life processes are influential to Jang's work.
Released 7/7/10
Amherst based artist Angela Zammarelli creates playful installations, videos and performances using textiles, objects and domestic imagery.
Released 6/16/10
Us, is a performance project that began on June 1, 2005. Matt Wycoff began with the intention of traveling from New York City to the Pacific Ocean and back to New York without using or handling money. This podcast is presented as part of the exhibition Hopey Changey Things.
Released 6/9/10
Ben Kinsley is a multidisciplinary artist who creates site-specific responses to particular situations, often through collaboration and playful exchange with local residents. His projects have ranged from conducting an orchestra of screaming humans, directing a maritime-themed play for boaters on a lake in Maine, organizing a shadow play in the middle of the California High Desert, and choreographing a neighborhood intervention into Google Street View.
Released 5/5/10
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
And after you listen, tell us what you think! We want -- and value -- your feedback. So, let us know at info@bemiscenter.org.
For more podcasts visit the archive.
