HU! Gallery in Brussels is currently showing US vs Us, a group exhibition featuring eight artists with works focusing on the divided, polarized, & fractured status of the post-election “disunited States of America”
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Interlocutor Interviews PODCAST ~ Talia Lavin
Logan Royce Beitmen interviews author & journalist Talia Lavin about her new book Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America, an investigation of the Christian Right’s ascent over the last half-century & the grim vision evangelicals are now attempting to enforce in the United States
VLM'S VESTAL VIRGIN VENGEANCE
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
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
From the Frontlines of Gaza to the Runways of New York: An interview with MERHAN KELLER
Activist and model Merhan Keller is an outspoken Palestinian rights advocate. In this interview, she discusses her aid work with the Egyptian Red Crescent & how her viewpoints have negatively impacted her career, & she delves into what it means to live a committed life of direct action
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
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
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
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
Interlocutor Interviews PODCAST ~ aja monet
A full recording of our recent online edition interview between poet, lyricist, writer, and community organizer aja monet and Logan Royce Beitmen
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
Why aja monet's poems do what they do
Poet, writer, lyricist, & community organizer aja monet speaks about her Grammy nomination for Best Spoken Word Poetry Album for her debut when the poems do what they do, those who’ve inspired her, what moves her to action, & why literature liberates
Rosalind Withers discusses Flash Points: The Photography of Ernest C. Withers
Rosalind Withers, daughter of Civil Rights Movement photographer Ernest C. Withers, discusses the exhibition Flash Points: The Photography of Ernest C. Withers
Interlocutor Interviews PODCAST ~ Adele Bertei
A conversation with singer, songwriter, writer, & director Adele Bertei about Twist: An American Girl, her new memoir covering her troubled childhood in 1960s and 1970s Cleveland, and her often risky but also sometimes jubilant process of self-discovery and survival
Adele Bertei discusses TWIST: An American Girl, her wrenching & poignant new memoir
Singer, songwriter, writer, and director Adele Bertei talks about the decades-long journey of writing Twist, her new memoir covering her troubled childhood in 1960s and 1970s Cleveland, and her often risky but also sometimes jubilant process of self-discovery and survival
Taking Heed with JENNIFER ELSTER
We talk with artist Jennifer Elster about her exhibition Take Heed - featuring raw, image and text-heavy paintings, sculptures, assemblages, and photographs - up through January 5 at NYC’s The Development Gallery
Interlocutor Interviews PODCAST ~ Steven Montgomery
In our latest podcast interview, we catch up with experimental ceramics sculptor Steven Montgomery - with a focus on his series TOXIC CON, a visceral commentary on the health of the world’s water supply via the Flint Water Crisis
Highlights of 2021 ~ COBY KENNEDY'S constructed realities
Check out our September deep dive interview covering the career to date of the multidisciplinary and provocative artist Coby Kennedy
COBY KENNEDY'S constructed realities
A deep dive interview covering the career to date of the multidisciplinary and provocative artist Coby Kennedy