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Critical Bounds Podcast
by Nicole Bearden
Critical Bounds is a podcast which considers contemporary art, global issues, and current events that influence and are in turn manifested in artistic practice, through critical conversations with emerging contemporary artists and curators.
Episodes
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Berette Macaulay "BIPOC on Colonialism, Nationalism, and [the harmful illusion of] White Supremacy"
Conversation with Berette S. Macaulay, a multidisciplinary artist, curator, and writer from Jamaica and Sierra Leone. Her research and visual arts practice engage themes of belonging, identity-performance, illegibility, love, memory, and mythmaking. We discuss living a multiplicitous life, and…
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Eva Mayhabal Davis on "...Colonialism, Nationalism, and [the harmful illusion of] White Supremacy"
Conversation our conversation with arts advocate and curator Eva Mayhabal Davis (B. Toluca, Mexico). We talk about our mutual disdain for Picasso, Davis' art journey, her project El Salón, the prospect of gathering together again, our mutual anxiety at onscreen crowds (and the 80s and early 90s...
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Satpreet Kahlon "BIPOC on Colonialism, Nationalism, and [the harmful illusion of] White Supremacy"
Conversation with Satpreet Kahlon, a Punjabi-born, Seattle based artist, organizer, and curator, and the editor of New Archives, a nonprofit arts journal which focuses on art in the Pacific Northwest. We talk about Satpreet's work at (now-defunct) The Alice Gallery, including her first experience...
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Sofía Córdova on "BIPOC on Colonialism, Nationalism, and [the harmful illusion of] White Supremacy"
A conversation with Sofía Córdova (She/Her/They/Them). We talk about her work Echoes of a Tumbling Throne, the dangerous inequality perpetuated by the tech industry, Her project "A Body Reorganized", which considers Sanctuary Cities, the history of the term "Sanctuary", and the humans affected by...
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Halim A. Flowers "BIPOC on Colonialism, Nationalism, and [the harmful illusion of] White Supremacy"
Conversation with visual artist and formerly incarcerated poet, entrepreneur Halim A. Flowers about growing up in DC, Reaganomics and the myth of the "Superpredator", the importance of education and access beyond Eurocentric knowledge, making space to connect with people as fellow humans, the...
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Michelle Kumata "BIPOC on Colonialism, Nationalism, and [the harmful illusion of] White Supremacy"
Conversation with 3.5 generation Japanese-American artist Michelle Kumata about her time at Wing Luke Museum, her project on the Japanese Diaspora in the US and Brazil, her work "Song For Generations", and how it deals with the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII. We discuss the…
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Afi Ese on "BIPOC on Colonialism, Nationalism, and [the harmful illusion of] White Supremacy"
Conversation with African American contemporary realist, and figurative conceptual artist Afi Ese about using art to tell stories, group economics as a form of activism in marginalized groups, her former experience as a forensic psychologist and how we use research about inequity in place of…
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Alexis Silva on "BIPOC on Colonialism, Nationalism, and [the harmful illusion of] White Supremacy"
Conversation with Seattle-based Hispanic Latino artist writer, and curator Alexis L. Silva about finding your community in the art world, redefining success in a non-colonial context, the value of community museums, being a Person of Color in the art world, and why we should be building…
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Adero Knott for "BIPOC on Colonialism, Nationalism, and [the harmful illusion of] White Supremacy
Conversation with Adero Knott, an emerging curator, inventor, and Founder of AK Prosthetics, an AdaptiveTech startup that makes customized prosthetics and adaptive wear accessible and inclusive. Her first foray into curating was with the show "Disability and Perspective", one of four exhibitions...
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Amelia Winger-Bearskin on "Art, AI, and Technology"
Conversation with Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) of the Seneca-Cayuga Nation of Oklahoma, Deer Clan artist and technologist Amelia Winger-Bearskin. We talk about Amelia's podcasts Wampum.codes, a podcast which features Indigenous people working with tech in a multitude of ways, and Dreamstacks, the...
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Meghan Elizabeth Trainor on "Art, AI, and Technology"
Conversation with Seattle-based interdisciplinary artist, writer and performer Meghan Elizabeth Trainor (not THAT one) about Computational Witchcraft, Creating mythologies in order to truly own our places in spaces like tech that are historically unwelcoming to and erasing of womxn and other…
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Jacob Hurwitz - Goodman on "Art, AI, and Technology"
A conversation with director Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman about his film work, the protests happening in both LA (where he is based) and Seattle (where I am based)this summer, police brutality, the houseless crisis, the perils of social media, AI as a symbiotic lifeform, and the rather…
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Bethany Tabor on "Art and Death"
Conversation with curator, writer, and cultural arts programmer Bethany Tabor about her work with Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, creating events that give space for people to talk and learn about Death and Dying. We discuss performance art, John Underwood, the founder of the Death Cafe Movement,...
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AJ Hawkins on "Art and Death"
Conversation with artist AJ Hawkins about how changing relationships to faith can change our relationships to grief and grieving processes, how the death of a beloved pet inspired a search to make sense of her own mortality, the necrobiome as a "microbiological afterlife", her project "The...
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J Simmz on "Art and Death"
Conversation with curator, writer, and researcher J Simmz delves into our personal and larger societal relationships with death, Simmz work as an intuitive and conceptual curator, how she has found ways to move naturally with cycles of life and death in work and beyond, and how we might apply…
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Carrie Redway on "Art and Death"
Conversation with Carrie Redway, a writer, mixed media artist and death doula in Seattle, WA. We discuss her chapbook "Vulpecula" (which she reads from), find out just What IS a Death Doula?, and Carrie's path to becoming one. We talk about her connection with her grandmother through her…
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Dr. Bettina Judd on "Art and Health"
Conversation with visual artist, writer, poet, performer and professor of studies of gender, race, and sexuality, Dr. Bettina Judd(MA PhD). We discuss her award-winning book patient, which examines the history of medical experimentation on, and display of the bodies of Black women through poetry,...
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Dr. Eric Avery on "Art and Health"
Conversation with visual artist and physician Dr. Eric Avery about his intersecting practices in art and medicine. We discuss the AIDS crisis, living and making art in New York in the 1970s, his humanitarian work around the world, bringing medicine into the museum, the opioid crisis, printmaking,...
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Susan Aldworth on "Art and Health"
Conversation with visual artist, experimental printmaker and filmmaker Susan Aldworth about consciousness and the human brain. We talk about the influence of both philosophy and science in her work, and her latest projects, including "Out of the Blue", a kinectic sculpture installation project…
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Adela Goldsmith on "Art, Gender, and Sexuality"
Conversation with emerging, independent scholar and curator Adela Goldsmith about queer elders, our love/hate relationship with museums (some we really love), the value of experiential knowledge, the importance and innate queerness of archives, the future of museums (is there one?), the roles of...
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T.s. Flock on "Art, Gender, and Sexuality"
Conversation with T.s. Flock, art critic and co-founder of Vanguard Seattle where we discuss the titular subjects of "Art, Gender, and Sexuality", as well as etymology, the importance of aesthetic literacy, embodiment, and a plethora of other things
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Zulfikar Ali Bhutto on "Art, Gender, and Sexuality"
Conversation with Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, visual artist, performer, and curator about Queer Muslim Futurisms, why working in futurisms requires collaboration to succeed, and his alter-ego Faluda Islam.
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Tiffany Shaw Collinge on "Art and Climate Crisis"
Conversation with Edmonton artist, curator, and architect Tiffany Shaw-Collinge (Métis from Fort McMurray via the Red River) about holistic sustainability, Ocicicwan Contemporary Art Collective, and Contemporary Indigenous Art and Architecture.
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Pinar Yoldas on "Art and Climate Crisis"
Conversation with artist, designer, researcher Pinar Yoldas about the importance of art in tackling the climate crisis, her work Ecosystem of Excess, and working in the crux of Art and Science.
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Carol Rashawnna Williams on "Art and Climate Crisis"
Conversation with artist and activist Carol Rashawnna Williams on Art and Climate Crisis, the intersections of race and the environment, her work in community building and activism, and the changing face of Seattle.
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Sharon Arnold on "Connections Between Spiritual and Artistic Practice" Track 4
Tune in to our Very Last Episode in our segment on Connections Between Spiritual and Artistic Practice with Sharon Arnold. Sharon Arnold is an independent scholar, writer, and educator working in arts, philosophy, and cultural histories. They approach this work through the examination of…
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Kat Larson on "Connections Between Spiritual and Artistic Practice" Track 3
Conversation with multimedia artist and healer Kat Larson, owner of Inner+Vision Healing in Seattle. Tune in to hear us discuss her original inspiration for her project The Ghost from Vega, emotional intelligence, Carl Sagan, Standing Rock, tarot, reiki, and the ways that art and spirit strive…
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Kira Wisniewski on Art, Gender, and Sexuality Track 1
Conversation with Kira Wisniewksi, the Executive Director for At+Feminism, a non-profit that addresses the information gap gender, feminism, and the arts on the internet through education, and community-building. We talk about March edit-a-thons, and Kira's other creative work.
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Negarra Kudumu on "Connections Between Spiritual and Artistic Practice" Track 2
A conversation with Negarra A. Kudumu -- "independent scholar, author of the e-book Spiritual Hygiene, and healer working at the intersection of art and healing with a focus on contemporary art from Africa, South Asia, and their respective diasporas as well as African Diasporic knowledge systems....
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Temar France on "Connections Between Spiritual and Artistic Practice" Track 1
A conversation with interdisciplinary artist and scholar Temar France. We discuss their podcasts Marginalia and [formerly] The Rap Scholars, upcoming visual art projects, their career in Social Work, our time at Smith College, their Astrology Column at Bloom Magazine, and What is Coming up Next.
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Vick Quezada on "Borders" Track 3
A conversation with sculptural, photographic, and performance artist artist Vick Quezada about cultural connections to materiality, growing up on the border of US and Mexico, the longevity of language, and Mestizaje culture. For more information about their work, please visit Vick's website:...
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BIBIANA on "Borders" Track 2
Critical Bounds host Nicole Bearden speaks with artist BIBIANA [Medkova] about the role of capitalism and militarization in current events, and how they influence artistic practice. We speak about cultural exchange over time, if queerness in contemporary art upholds traditional gazes, and the...
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Rodrigo Valenzuela on "Borders" Track 1
A conversation with contemporary artist and UCLA professor Rodrigo Valenzuela about "Borders" in the world of emerging contemporary art. We talk about everything from US visions of Latinx culture to Art Fairs and Biennales. BONUS: Rodrigo talks briefly about his time in Northampton (home of Smith...
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Critical Bounds is a podcast which considers contemporary art, global issues, and current events that influence and are in turn manifested in artistic practice, through critical conversations with emerging contemporary artists and curators.
HOSTED BY
Nicole Bearden
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Critical Bounds is a podcast which considers contemporary art, global issues, and current events that influence and are in turn manifested in artistic practice, through critical conversations with emerging contemporary artists and curators.
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