Nina Katchadourian

In this episode, host David Humphrey invites guest Nina Katchadourian, a comic, taxonomist, researcher, and inventor of novel ways to project meaning onto experience, to discuss her 2005 exhibit at Sarah Melter's gallery. Katchadourian's exhibit, called Zoo, features footage that Katchadourian shot in zoos over the past six to seven years and aims to recognize the double bind that comes with enjoying zoos despite their depressing and tragic aspects. In this episode, Katchadourian also shares her love for sounds and languages that are only partially known, and plays a Finnish song from the 1950s called "Dili Dili" to kick off the thematic thread of music and sounds from far away.  Nina Katchadourian (b. 1968, CA) is an interdisciplinary artist whose work includes video, performance, sound, sculpture, photography, and public projects. Image: Artificial Insemination II, 1998. Courtesy of Pace Gallery.