Episode 230 with Agathe Snow, Artist, Farmer, Community Builder

Today I’m joined by Agathe Snow, an artist whose life has moved between worlds and mediums.She spent part of her childhood in Corsica before moving to New York at eleven, an age when everything feels heightened and unsettled. That early shift between cultures, languages, and identities, would quietly shape the way she sees the world. Before she ever imagined becoming an artist, she was immersed in the energy of restaurants, helping her mother build community through food, first in Corsica and later in New York. That sense of gathering—of performance and nourishment intertwined, would later echo through her work.In the early 2000s, she became a defining presence in downtown Manhattan’s art scene, creating immersive, chaotic, unforgettable environments, including a now-legendary 24-hour dance party near Ground Zero in 2005 that captured the restless spirit of post-9/11 New York.In 2008, she moved to Long Island, where an almost accidental experiment grew into Mattituck Mushrooms, a working farm that feels less like a departure from art and more like its evolution.Today, we talk about migration and belonging, about downtown’s electric years, and about her belief that art and food are, in many ways, the same thing.