Experimental filmmaker & multimedia artist VLM discusses “Vestal Virgin Vengeance,” a capsule collection of new video work & photographic prints inspired by the Vestal Virgins of ancient Rome, & the contentious state of women's healthcare in Texas
All in Visual Artists
Censored? Shadowbanned? Elizabeth Larison of the NATIONAL COALITION AGAINST CENSORSHIP Discusses How to Fight Back
Elizabeth Larison, Director of the National Coalition Against Censorship’s Arts & Culture Advocacy Program, talks in-depth with Logan Royce Beitmen about leading initiatives in advising & educating artists on how to address the presentation of controversial works
DANIELLE SEEWALKER on her cancelled residency over her pro-Palestine activism & the resulting ACLU lawsuit
Artist Danielle SeeWalker talks about her cancelled residency in Vail, Colorado due to her pro-Palestine activism, and the lawsuit against Vail the ACLU has filed on her behalf
Didi Jackson's MY INFINITY
Poet Didi Jackson talks with Isabelle Sakelaris about her new collection My Infinity, an exploration of joy and sorrow ordered around the work of the Swedish visual artist Hilma af Klint
Sequins and Bunions: A Conversation With POL MORTON
Logan Royce Beitmen interviews Pol Morton about their solo show Get Well at NYC's Olympia Gallery and the ways their non-binary identity, along with their psychological and physical issues, are expressed with humor and beauty
SACRED MONSTER ~ Chloë Cassens discusses JEAN COCTEAU
Chloë Cassens represents the Severin Wunderman Collection, the largest collection of works by iconoclastic French artist Jean Cocteau. In this podcast interview with Logan Royce Beitmen, Cassens discusses Cocteau’s massive cultural influence & her efforts to increase awareness about his life and legacy.
STEAL THIS HOLZER
Want to steal an original Jenny Holzer? Joshua Caleb Weibley gives you some tips on just how you might do that (if you're so inclined), along with his unflinching review of the confusing, problematic, and underwhelming exhibition Jenny Holzer: Light Line, up through September 29 at NYC's Guggenheim Museum
Curator Marissa Del Toro discusses DESERVE WHAT YOU DREAM at NXTHVN
An interview with curator Marissa Del Toro about Deserve What You Dream, an art exhibition at NXTHVN in New Haven, CT, that explores the healing power of daydreaming amid racial disparities in sleep quality
STEVEN SEIDENBERG'S architectures of silence
Lens-based artist Steven Seidenberg in conversation with Isabel Hou about his series/book, The Architecture of Silence, which documents the abandoned lives in the Italian South and the failed post-war land reform movement (Riforma Fondiaria)
Interlocutor Interviews PODCAST ~ Lara Aburamadan
Independent Palestinian visual artist & journalist Lara Aburamadan discusses her aim to artistically portray images of Gaza that show its people's everyday life & culture
Gemma Rolls-Bentley discusses QUEER ART: FROM CANVAS TO CLUB, AND THE SPACES BETWEEN
Gemma Rolls-Bentley talks about her new book Queer Art: From Canvas to Club, and the Spaces Between & the ways it considers queer art within the context of the current moment
The persuasive intuitions of ANNE CARSON
Poet, essayist, professor of Classics, and translator Anne Carson discusses her new book of poetic prose pieces and images, Wrong Norma
PATRICIA CARR MORGAN'S explorations of memory, loss, & reality
An interview with conceptual artist Patricia Carr Morgan about her wide-ranging work exploring memory, loss, reality, & the impacts of climate change
The pure abstractions of JERRY MCLAUGHLIN
Isabel Hou talks with Mexico-based artist Jerry McLaughlin about his abstract artworks, which incorporate unusual materials like ash from bog peat and willow fires, his inspiration from architectural elements & surfaces in central Mexico, & more
Interlocutor Interviews PODCAST ~ Lande Yoosuf
Lande Yoosuf is a writer, director, and producer. In this interview, she discusses her unusual approach of turning her short film, Second Generation Wedding, into a full-length screenplay, then adapting that screenplay into her novel, Ko-Foe: The Story of a Nigerian, Muslim Family in the New York Diaspora
Conjuring spirits & the spirit of art with NICKOLA POTTINGER
An interview with Jamaican-born, Brooklyn-based artist Nickola Pottinger about her solo exhibition at Mrs., like yuh neva lef’ yaad, up through March 9
YOKO SHIOYA discusses her 20 years as Artistic Director of the Japan Society, NYC
Yoko Shioya, Artistic Director of the Japan Society, NYC, talks with Catherine Tharin about her 20 years as Director of Programming
KAREN FINLEY will not be redacted
Performance artist, poet, educator, and musician Karen Finley talks about her long career of disrupting the delicate sensibilities of senators, provoking the patriarchy, and the ways her work is newly resonating in today’s regressive cultural climate
Interlocutor Interviews PODCAST ~ VLM
Virginia L. Montgomery (VLM) is a multimedia artist working across video, performance, sound design, & sculpture. In this interview, she discusses her recent solo exhibition at Austin's Women & Their Work, Eye Moon Cocoon, along with her unique parallel career as a Graphic Facilitator
Highlights of 2023
A look back at some of the notable INTERLOCUTOR interviews, reviews, and podcast episodes from 2023