FAI reaches across the world for conversations about creativity. Our listeners chose these episodes for BEST OF Fresh Talk 2012:
Franklin Sirmans, Contemporary Art Curator, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Artistic Director of Prospect.3 New Orleans, spoke to us by phone from LA about his projects at LACMA and plans for Prospect.
Jack Sanders, the Texan artist architect who founded Design, Build, Adventure, invited us to his studio in East Austin to talk about the summer camp he leads in Marfa, Texas every year.
Carolina Grau, Barcelona-based curator, met us in Madrid at Sala Alcala where she was presenting Cosas/Things, a solo exhibition of work by Turner prize-winning artist Martin Creed.
We met instructor Chris Taylor and student participants in Texas Tech University’s Land Arts of the American West, in a warehouse on the outskirts of Lubbock to view an exhibition of findings from their road trip.
An FAI friend on Twitter, German filmmaker Luci Westphal invited us to her flat in Prinzlauerberg, Berlin, to talk about her documentaries and moving postcards.
The venerable New York-based performance artist Joan Jonas spoke with us at the University of Texas, Austin, before she performed “The Shape, The Scent, The Feel of Things” with jazz improvisationist Jason Moran.
We connected with American laptop musician Jason Forrest by Skype in Berlin to find out about his new webTV venture: Network Awesome.
Radical performance artist William Pope.L met with us on a street corner in NOLA to introduce BLINK, a public art project that involved local residents in a magic lantern show during Prospect.2 New Orleans.
