Fresh Art International

Now living a seaside village just outside Lisbon, German artist Regina Frank has expanded on her central theme, The Artist Is Present, for more than two decades. Regina talks about the political and cultural issues that interest her and how her meditative installation projects explore the tension between analog and digital media. Sound Editor: Jay Agoglia Photos: Courtesy Regina Frank Music: Astor Piazolla, Tango Milonga del Angel

This episode features Papo Colo, a Puerto Rican born artist who founded Exit Art, an important nonprofit contemporary art center, with his partner, the late Jeanette Ingberman. Their work as artists and activists has made a tremendous impact on the contemporary art scene since 1982. In May 2012, an exhibition and events in the space mark the closing of Exit Art, as Papo prepares to launch a new venture: a finishing school for young creatives in the Puerto Rican rainforest.  Sound Editor: Leo Madriz.  Images: Courtesy of Exit Art.  Music: Papo Colo, Clara Luna.

Spanish artist Antoni Muntadas talks about how language and the social body figure into the multi-media conceptual art projects he's been producing since the 1970s.Living and working in New York and Barcelona, Spanish artist Muntadas talks about the importance of language and the social body in the multi-media work he's been creating globally since the 1970s. His complex conceptual projects were featured in exhibitions in the Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona earlier this year.  Sound Editor: Leonardo Madriz.  Sound: Muntadas, Stadium, 1988 El artista español Muntadas, que vive y trabaja entre Nueva York y Barcelona, habla de la importancia del lenguaje y el cuerpo social en las obras multimedia que ha ido creando a nivel mundial desde la década de los 70. Sus complejos proyectos conceptuales se presentan este año en exposiciones en el Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid, y el Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Barcelona.

Khadijah Queen talks about what is essential in her creative practice and shares poems from her latest book, Black Peculiar.  Sound Editor: Jason Agoglia.  Music: Denelda Queen, Lush Life, 2007

A visual artist, musician, music producer and event designer based in Lisbon, João Paulo Feliciano talks about how he manages to fit all those elements into his creative practice.  Sound Editor: Leonardo Madriz  Images: Cathy Byrd  Sound: courtesy of Feliciano’s dance orchestra Real Combo Lisbonense, a group dedicated to exploring the heritage of early Portuguese pop music.

Cathy Byrd shares her first encounter with Spain's annual contemporary art fair, ARCO Madrid 2012. Conversations: Suzanne Rietdijk,curator, ZINGERpresents, Amsterdam;Voluspa Jarapa, artist, Galeria Isabel Aninat, Santiago; and Anna Pahissa, owner/director, múltiplos, Barcelona Sounds: Fernando Gutierrez +.tape., Rapsodia; Jonathan Harker + Donna Conlon: Tapitapultas; Karl Holmqvist: Old News; Laia Estruch: Jingle Sound Editor: Leo Madriz Photos: Cathy Byrd

Ex-Designer Martí Guixé talks to Cathy Byrd about his concepts for Camper pop-up shops, food design and work as a recreational activity.  Sound Editor: Leonardo Madriz  Photos: Imagekontainer/Knölke, except where noted.  Music: Rechenzentrum, the John Peel Session

Artist, curator, art consultant and Fresh Rx contributor, Kesha Bruce talks to Cathy Byrd about her creative platforms and offers advice to artists.  Sound Editor: Leonardo Madriz Photos: Kesha Bruce  Music: Slim Harpo

Danny Simmons, a high profile Brooklyn-based artist, shares the essential elements of his creative practice—writing, painting, collecting and, most of all, philanthropy.  Sound Editor: Leonardo Madriz Photos: Mark Blackshear

In this episode, theater director Ira Kip talks about the raw space between medical politics and domestic violence in the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transsexual community. The celebration of her new play She'Baltimore begins with a February 14, 2012 benefit at the LOFTheatre in Baltimore to raise funds for a local charity assisting young women who are victims of domestic violence. The play  premieres on February 17, at the LOFT. Sound Editor: Ira Kip Photos Courtesy Ira Kip

In this episode, Paris-based artist Frédéric Nauczyciel describes an elusive subculture that he explored in Baltimore, Washington DC and New York City, and introduces his new photo series: Men In Heels.  Sound Editor: Ira Kip  Photos: Fred Nauczyciel  Music: DDM!, Legendary

In this episode, Chicago-based video performance artist Jefferson Pinder explains the importance of physical exertion in his work. Hear how his fascination with Houdini and street theater led to his new live performance series: The Escape Artist. Jefferson makes his first appearance as the Escape Artist at 8:05pm, Sunday, December 4, 2011, in Salisbury, Maryland. The premiere performance commemorates the death of Matthew Williams, who was confined to a straightjacket when he was lynched in front of the Wicomico courthouse on December 4, 1931.  Sound Editor: Ira Kip Photos Courtesy Jefferson Pinder

New York-based video artist Janet Biggs makes an extreme sport of her creative expression. In this conversation, Janet considers the psychological and physical challenges behind the video projects on view in No Limit, her current mid-career survey organized by the Tampa Museum of Art. The exhibition runs from October 8, 2011 through January 8, 2012. Sound Editor: Jeff T. Byrd Photos Courtesy Janet Biggs and Cathy Byrd

In this episode of Art Talk, Kate Hers, a Korean-born video artist based in Berlin, describes the German art scene and explains how she raised funds through Kickstarter for Dr. Rhee's Kimtschi Shop. The artist and her partner, physicist Hanjo Rhee, will trade their special version of Korea’s national treasure for cultural artifacts from the shop's customers from November 19 to 25, 2011, at Das Gift, in Berlin. Sound Editor: Ira Kip Photos: Kate Hers

William Pope.L, a performance artist and interventionist based in Chicago and Lewiston, Maine, presented a magic lantern show titled Blink for Prospect.2 New Orleans, the 2011 U.S. Biennial. For his project, the artist composed a film from more than a thousand images donated by the people of New Orleans.  Sound Editor: Jeff T. Byrd Photos: Cathy Byrd

This fall, Joyce Scott, a venerated visual and performing artist based in Baltimore, Maryland, is participating in Prospect.2, New Orleans, a biennial of international contemporary art. Joyce considers the state of art in her home town and talks about her Prospect.2 projects. Performing at Cafe Istanbul on Saturday, October 22, she will tell the story of Miss V, a worldly incarnation of Saint Veronica, who is frustrated by the chasm between men and women in the 21st century. Sound Editor: Ira Kip  Photos courtesy Goya Contemporary  Music: Joyce Scott