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Kristine Stiles

Dr. Kristine Stiles is Distinguished Professor of Art, Art History and Visual Studies at Duke University. She holds an Honorary Doctorate of Arts from Dartington College of Arts/University of Plymouth, England. She specializes in art-ists’ writings, global contemporary and experimental art, and trauma studies.

She has authored over 100 articles, and her books include Concerning Consequences: Studies in Art, Destruction, and Trauma (2016), Correspondence Course: An Epistolary History of Carolee Schneemann and Her Cir-cle (2010), Theories & Documents of Contemporary Art (1996, 2012). Her essay “Uncorrupted Joy: International Art Actions,” is a monograph-length essay for the exhibition Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object 1949–1979. She has curated several exhibitions at Duke, including Rauschenberg: Collecting & Connecting (2014–2015) and States of Mind: Dan & Lia Perjovschi (2007).

Rachel Adams

Rachel Adams is the Chief Curator and Director of Programs at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts. Past curatorial appointments include Senior Curator at UB Art Galleries, Curator-in-Residence at Disjecta Contemporary Art Center and Associate Curator at Arthouse at the Jones Center (now The Contemporary Austin). Adams holds an MA in Exhibition and Museum Studies from SFAI and a BFA from SAIC.

Her areas of research are varied but include a focus on the crossover between contemporary art and architecture, performance and video and new media practices.

Select exhibitions include All Together, Amongst Many: Reflections on Empathy, Paul Mpagi Sepuya: Drop Scene, Claudia Wieser: Generations (co-curated), Alison O’Daniel: Heavy Air, Jillian Mayer: TIMESHARE, The Language of Objects, Wanderlust: Actions, Traces, Journeys 1967-2017 and Introducing Tony Conrad: A Retrospective (co-curated). Forthcoming projects include exhibitions with Maya Dunietz and the 2023 group exhibition Presence in the Pause.

Installation view: All Together, Amongst Many: Reflections on Empathy at Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, 2021Installation view: Alison O’Daniel: Heavy Air at Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, 2019

Varvara Keidan Shavrova

Blankets Project  2018-2019, Eight felt blankets, screen print, metal hinges. 180cm x 220cm each
This is the project about migration and borders, belonging and alienation, statelessness and trauma. As part of The Sea is the Limit project I made a series of eight printed felt blankets that reflect on the experience of being a migrant. The blankets are conceived as an interactive installation, where the participants are invited to wear the blankets in the exhibition space as an act of sharing and empathy. Picture: Anthony Chappel-Ross

Varvara Keidan Shavrova is a visual artist, curator, educator and researcher. Born in the USSR, she lives and works between London, Dublin and Berlin. She studied at the Moscow State University of Printing Arts, received her MFA from Goldsmiths, University of London, and has been awarded Arts & Humanities Research Council Studentship by London Arts & Humanities Partnership, to conduct her practice-based PhD at the Royal College of Art in London. She has exhibited internationally, including at the Venice Biennale of Architecture, Gallery of Photography Ireland, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Espacio Cultural El Tanque, Tenerife.

Shavrova curated international visual arts projects, including The Sea is the Limit at York Art Gallery (2018) and Virginia Commonwealth University, Qatar (2019), and co-curated Beijing Map Games: Dynamics of Change , an international art and architecture exhibition in Beijing (China), Birmingham (UK) and Terni (Italy).

She is the recipient of the National Lottery Arts Council of England Project Awards (2019-2020 and 2020-2021), the Arts Council Ireland Visual Arts Bursary Award (2021), and the Prince’s Trust Individual Artist’s Award, among others. Her work is included in a number of public and private collections worldwide, including at the Department of the Foreign Affairs and Trade of Ireland, at the Office of Public Works art collection in Dublin, at the Ballinglen Arts Foundation collection in County Mayo, and at the Museum of the History of St.Petersburg in Russia. Shavrova is represented by Patrick Heide Contemporary Art, London

Inna’s Dream. 2019 Hand tufted Axminster wool carpet objects, digital embroidery on velvet, acrylic and emulsion on wall. 7 m x 5.5 m x 4 m. In 1930 my great uncle, Vadim Borisovitch Shavrov, a well-known Soviet engineer and author, designed and built the first Soviet amphibious plane Sh-2 in his apartment in Petrograd. Between 1934 and 1964 the Sh-2 flying boat was used by the agricultural, medical and military sectors, as well as in exploration of the Arctic. In my recent installation Inna’s Dream, I reinterpret the Sh-2 by rendering it in carpet and textiles. This demilitarized and domesticized version of a deflated military machine echoes the collapsed Soviet dreamworld, while the materials I use comment on women’s labour.The Palace of the Soviets and King Kong. 2020 Digital knitting, hand stitching and embroidery, wool and synthetic thread. 122cm x 255 cm In these recent works that created during the lockdown, I am questioning the symbols of global power and authority by juxtaposing iconic images from movie stills and archival documents associated with the Communist and the Capitalist empirical architecture, the Palace of the Soviets and the Empire State Building. I employ methodologies of knitting, stitching and embroidery, to physically interlink the historically opponent political narratives that appear uncannily similar.

Erik Beehn

Erik Beehn is an artist and educator working out of Las Vegas. Beehn received his MFA from the School of The Art Institute of Chicago (’15) and is currently adjunct faculty at the University of Nevada Las Vegas.

Beehn’s work employs painting, photography, printmaking and installation to investigate an arc of mark making techniques throughout the 20th century, and the evolution of observational painting into abstraction. Beehn is the founder and director of Test Site Projects, a fine art publishing house located in Las Vegas.

He was interviewed a year earlier on this program, which you can listen to here.

Plum Burst, 2021 28″ x 22″ Acrylic, Ink, Solvents and Oil Pastel on photo paperDeep Space, 2021 28″ x 22″ Acrylic, Ink and Solvents on Photo Paper

Patricia Lee Stotter

Two-time Emmy Award winner Patricia Lee Stotter composes and writes for film, theatre and television. From SESAME STREET to HBO/PBS documentary films, from independent features to plays and musicals, Stotter is all about the right voice at the right time.

Her engagement in veteran issues shows in the films she has both produced and composed music for (and which have been screened on the Hill). Awards: Emmy Awards (two wins, five nominations); American Cine Eagle; Apple Award; Shining Service World Wide Award; Silver Star Award from the Volunteers of America.

The book mentioned in the interview is Apeirogon: A Novel.

Bishakh Som

Bishakh is an Indian-American trans femme visual artist and author. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, We’re Still Here (The first all-trans comics anthology), Beyond, vol. 2, The Strumpet, The Boston Review, Black Warrior Review, VICE, The Brooklyn Rail, Buzzfeed, Ink Brick, The Huffington Post, The Graphic Canon vol. 3 and Little Nemo: Dream Another Dream. She received the Xeric grant in 2003 for her comics collection Angel.  Her graphic novel Apsara Engine (The Feminist Press) is the winner of a 2021 L.A. Times Book Prize for Best Graphic Novel and a 2021 Lambda Literary Award winner for Best LGBTQ Comics. Her graphic memoir Spellbound (Street Noise Books) was also a 2021 Lambda Literary Award finalist.   

Bishakh has illustrated two books about architecture: The Prefab Bathroom: An Architectural History, (McFarland Press) and Cocktails and Conversations: Dialogues on Architectural Design (AIA New York). 

Bishakh’s artwork was featured in solo shows at ArtLexis Gallery and at Jaya Yoga Center and in group shows at The Society of Illustrators in New York, the Bannister Gallery at Rhode Island College, Issyra Gallery, the Grady Alexis Gallery, De Cacaofabriek in the Netherlands and most recently at Art Omi in Ghent, NY.  You can see her work at www.bishakh.com. 

Exceprt from “Swandive” from the graphic novel Apsara EngineExcerpt from “Apsara Engine” from the graphic Novel Apsara Engine.

Traci Brimhall

Traci Brimhall is the author of four poetry collections: Come the Slumberless from the Land of Nod (Copper Canyon); Saudade (Copper Canyon); Our Lady of the Ruins (W.W. Norton), winner of the Barnard Women Poets Prize; and Rookery (Southern Illinois University Press), winner of the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award.

Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The Believer, The New Republic, Orion, New York Times Magazine, and Best American Poetry.  She’s received fellowships from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing and the National Endowment for the Arts.  She’s the Director of Creative Writing at Kansas State University and lives in Manhattan, KS.

Sir Norman Rosenthal

The musical concerts mentioned at the end of the interview can be explored through this link. Below are two examples of concerts and Sir Norman Rosenthal’s biography is beneath that.

Norman Rosenthal was born in Cambridge, UK, in 1944, the son of Paul
Rosenthal and Kaethe Zucker, who came to England in 1941 and 1939
respectively. He was educated at Westminster City Grammar School and the
University of Leicester, where he graduated in 1966 with a degree in history. He
undertook postgraduate studies at the School of Slavonic and Eastern Studies, as
well as the Free University of Berlin.

Norman Rosenthal organised his first exhibition in 1965 Artists in Cornwall at the
Leicester Museum and Art Gallery in connection with the University Arts
Festival. Since that time his professional career took him to Thomas Agnew &
Sons, the well known firm of London art dealers, as librarian and researcher
from 1966 – 1970; Brighton Museum and Art Gallery as exhibition officer from
1970 – 1971; Artist’s Market, a non-profit making gallery in Covent Garden, as
organiser; from 1973 to 1976 director of European art exhibitions at The
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, responsible for two festivals, one in
1974 devoted to contemporary German culture, which inter alia brought Joseph
Beuys to London for the first time, where he made his famous blackboard
environment Richtkräfte, now belonging to the Nationalgalerie Berlin. The other,
in 1975, was devoted to contemporary Greek culture, which brought inter alia
Jannis Kounellis to London.

From 1977 –December 2007 Norman Rosenthal was Exhibitions Secretary of the
Royal Academy of Arts, London, where he enabled and organised all loan
exhibitions, including Robert Motherwell 1978; Post Impressionism 1979-1980;
A New Spirit in Painting 1981; Painting in Naples 1981;  David Hockney: A Drawing Retrospective 1995; Sensation 1997; Joseph Beuys: The Secret Block for a Secret
Person in Ireland 1999; Georg Baselitz 2007; and many more.

Many of the above exhibitions were organised in conjunction with major
museums, largely in Europe and in North America.
Norman Rosenthal has been particularly associated with a series of exhibitions
at the Royal Academy documenting the art of the 20th Century, including German
art in the Twentieth Century 1985; British Art in the Twentieth Century 1987;
Italian Art in the Twentieth Century 1989; Pop Art 1991; American Art in the
Twentieth Century 1993.

At the Martin Gropius-Bau, the leading exhibition venue in Berlin, Norman
Rosenthal was jointly responsible for two ground-breaking exhibitions of
contemporary art: Zeitgeist in 1982 and Metropolis 1991, as well as The Age of
Modernism- Art in the 20th Century, 1997.
In 2005 Norman Rosenthal was curator of the exhibition From Luther to the
Bauhaus – National Treasures from Germany, for the Konferenz National
Kultureinrichtungen [KNK], in collaboration with the Kunst – und
Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland [KAH], Bonn.

Appointments and awards include:
1985-2000 Member of the Board of the Palazzo Grassi, Venice
1987 Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Art, London
1988 Chevalier de l’Ordre de Arts et Lettres of the French Republic
1989 Cavaliere Ufficiale of the Italian Republic
1993 Bundesverdienstkreuz of the Federal Republic of Germany
1994-1998 Opera Advisory Board, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
2002-2012 Appointed to Board of Trustees, Thyssen Bornemisza Foundation, Madrid
2003 Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et Lettres of the French Republic
2003 Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters [D, Litt] University of Southampton
2004-2007 Member of Board of Trustees, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead
2005 Member of Comité Scientifique, Réunion des Museés Nationaux, Paris
2006 Honorary degree of Doctor of Letters [D, Litt] University of Leicester
2006 Member of the Order of the Aguila Azteca of the Federal Republic of Mexico
2007 Member of the Order of Knights Batchelor, Queen’s Birthday Honours, June 2007
2006- Member of the International Board of the Sanbanci Museum, Istanbul
2010-2015 Member of the Board of English National Ballet

Norman Rosenthal has undertaken many television and radio broadcasts over the years.
He frequently addresses international conferences and contributes numerous articles and
essays to catalogues and journals throughout the world. After 31 years, he retired from hisposition at the Royal Academy of Arts and currently works as a free-lance consultant and curator to public institutions and private individuals in the United Kingdom, Europe, Turkey and the USA.

Robert(a) Marshall

Photo credit: Gina Ruggeri

Robert(a) Marshall’s biography of Carlos Castaneda, American Trickster, is due out from University of California Press in 2022. Their novel, A Separate Reality, was published by Carroll & Graf in 2006; their writing has also appeared in Salon, The Evergreen Review, N + 1 Online, the Kenyon Review, Barcelona Review, Another Chicago Magazine and numerous other publications.

Their paintings, photographs, and videos have been shown at Participant Inc, White Columns, Art in General, Baxter Street, Studio One Gallery, and many other venues in the United States, Europe, and Latin America. They are the coproducer of Trickster, a podcast about Castaneda.

Double Self portrait 1 42 x 36 UV Curable Ink on Mirrored Dibond 2020Car Window 42 (JFK) 42 x 56 UV curable ink on Mirrored Dibond 2019

Dr. Seema Yasmin

Seema Yasmin is an Emmy Award-winning journalist, medical doctor, professor and author. She is director of the Stanford Health Communication Initiative,  clinical assistant professor in Stanford University’s Department of Medicine, and visiting professor at the Anderson School of Management at UCLA where she teaches crisis management and communications.

Yasmin was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in breaking news in 2017 with a team from The Dallas Morning News for coverage of a mass shooting. She is the recipient of two awards from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. Her reporting appears in Rolling Stone, The New York Times, WIRED, Scientific American, and other outlets. She is a medical analyst for CNN and a correspondent for Conde Nast Entertainment.

Yasmin is a fiction fellow of the Kundiman and Tin House writing workshops. Her poems and short stories have been published in literary magazines and anthologies including The BreakBeat Poets Vol 3: Halal If You Hear Me, New Moons: Contemporary Writing by North American Muslims, The Georgia Review, The Literary Review, Foundry, The Los Angeles Review, and others. Her writing has earned awards and residencies from the Millay Colony for the Arts, the Mid Atlantic Arts Council, Hedgebrook, and others.

After training in medicine at the University of Cambridge, Yasmin served as an officer in the Epidemic Intelligence Service at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where she investigated outbreaks in prisons, hospitals, reservations and other settings; principal investigator for a number of epidemiologic studies; and deployed as strategic advisor to foreign ministries of health. She trained in journalism at the University of Toronto and worked as a staff writer at The Dallas Morning News covering Ebola’s arrival in Texas.

Her scholarly work focuses on the spread of health misinformation and disinformation, the growth of medical and news deserts, and the impact on public health. She teaches creative nonfiction including health and science journalism, global health storytelling, practicing medicine with empathy and compassion, and advanced clinical communication skills.

Her unique combination of expertise in epidemics, science communication and journalism has been called upon by the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, the Aspen Ideas Festival and the Skoll World Forum.