Episodes

We talk about: curatorial practice, radical hospitality in performance, ethical grantmaking in the arts, softening the architecture of engagement, operationalizing "art for change," the current state of arts funding, and much more… ABOUT THE ARTIST Since retiring as a dancer and choreographer, Michèle has managed performing arts projects and professional development programs for On the Boards (Seattle), New England Foundation for the Arts/National Dance Project (Boston), DanceUSA (DC), and the ...

We talk about: scores for performance, weaving politics and abstraction, dance and visual art in conversation, revolutionary time, Ranu's painting process, the importance of sari fabric in her work, hybridity, installation "versus" performance, the fires in LA and much more… ABOUT THE ARTIST Ranu Mukherjee makes hybrid work in painting, film installation and performance to expand imaginative capacities. Commissioned projects have been presented by Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, 18th Street Ar...

"The way to strengthen our rights is to continually use them and demand that they be recognized." -- Annie Dorsen We talk about: the Artist Open Letter to the NEA, resistance strategies, algorithmic theater, speechmaking as an embodied practice, and much more... ABOUT THE ARTIST Annie Dorsen is a MacArthur Fellowship awarded director and writer whose works explore the intersection of algorithmic art and live performance. Most recently, her piece Prometheus Firebringer was presented at Theater ...

"At the core of nonstopping is a very political stance of each individual, maintaining, cultivating, nurturing, sustaining the agency of their attention." -Jeanine Durning We talk about: the practice of "nonstopping," embracing not knowing as a generative state, going before we're ready, sustainability as an artist, Steve Paxton, Deborah Hay, Pema Chodron, and much more…. ABOUT THE FEATURED ARTIST Jeanine Durning is an Alpert Award winning choreographer and performer whose work has been descri...