PODCAST · arts
OK Radio
by Nature Theater of Oklahoma
Nature Theater of Oklahoma directors Kelly Copper and Pavol Liska talk to artists, curators and people around the world -- from New York to Frankfurt, Brussels, Paris, et. al. These are long form conversations in the spirit of the radio conversations of John Cage and Morton Feldman. Nothing is off limits. (Note: for photos of our guests and more information about the show, please be sure to visit the show website at www.okradio.org)
Episodes
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Daniel Alexander Jones - OK Radio Episode 85
Nature Theater of Oklahoma talks with performance artist/theater maker Daniel Alexander Jones, and also with his alter-ego, the uber-glamorous “soulsonic superstar” - Jomama Jones. A conversation that touches on character, imagination, creativity, realness, possibility, and growth - in all its...
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Natalia Koliada (Belarus Free Theatre) - OK Radio Episode 84
Nature Theater of Oklahoma talks with Natalia Koliada of the Belarus Free Theatre about the challenges of making art in a police state where people are regularly kidnapped, killed and tortured. We’ve blabbed a lot in this podcast about the difficulties of making theater even working in the best...
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Reggie Watts (No. 2) - OK Radio Episode 83
Nature Theater of Oklahoma talks again with the venerable comedian, musician, magpie - Reggie Watts. A conversation about self-image, self-care, imitation and actualization. How does an artist become an original, and what does that even mean? How can we build into this idea of “image” the…
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Ontroerend Goed - OK Radio Episode 82
Nature Theater of Oklahoma talks with Joeri Smet, Karolien De Bleser, and Angelo Tijssens of the Ghent-based company, Ontroerend Goed in our first ever podcast recorded in front of a live audience in Vooruit. Join us as we consider whether or not the audience changes anything about the way we…
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Rik Pinxten - OK Radio Episode 81
Nature Theater of Oklahoma talks with writer, professor and researcher in cultural anthropology, Rik Pinxten of the University of Ghent, about such wide-ranging topics as creativity, animals, intuition, art, religion, science, culture, language, mathematics and finally our potential (and Rik…
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Mammalian Diving Reflex (Eva Verity, Hazel Venzon) - OK Radio Episode 80
Nature Theater of Oklahoma talks with Eva Verity and Hazel Venzon of the Canadian company Mammalian Diving Reflex – all about “art” as a category of human activity. Both of our companies make work which falls under this dubious moniker “art,” but the activity may be in each case very different in...
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Barbara Van Dyck - OK Radio Episode 79
Nature Theater of Oklahoma talks with researcher and activist Barbara Van Dyck, who has been in the news recently in Belgium for her activity against a field of experimental genetically modified potatoes. From Barbara we learned a lot in just one short hour about the scientific concerns…
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Andros Zins-Browne - OK Radio Episode 78
Nature Theater of Oklahoma talks with American dancer/choreographer/artist Andros Zins-Browne about his journey from the world of classical ballet through Chris Burden and Jackass, into modern dance and out again into his current work: Welcome to the Jungle. Join us for a conversation in which we...
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Sarah Vanhee - OK Radio Episode 77
Nature Theater of Oklahoma talks with Belgian artist Sarah Vanhee about her recent project Lecture for Everyone for which she is invited by various groups to speak (always unannounced) in a location where an audience is already gathered for an entirely different situation or event. What does it...
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Barbara Raes - OK Radio Episode 76
Nature Theater of Oklahoma talks with Barbara Raes, artistic director of Vooruit in Ghent. Vooruit, originally the festival center of the Ghent labor movement, and a symbol of the socialist movement, is today a busy arts center and hub of cultural innovation. The name “vooruit” translates in...
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Halory Goerger & Antoine Defoort (L'Amicale de Production) - OK Radio Episode 75
Nature Theater of Oklahoma talks with artists Halory Goerger and Antoine Defoort from the company L’Amicale de Production about finding a productive balance between collaboration and antagonism, both when we make work together as a duo or a team, and also in regard to our relationship with the...
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Jeffrey M. Jones - OK Radio Episode 74
Nature Theater of Oklahoma talks with playwright Jeffrey M. Jones (aka Jeff Jones) about death, politics and money. A podcast in which we dare to ask the question: who IS the President of the United States? And what does the answer potentially imply about my mental competence? (Plus – added…
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Philip Bither - OK Radio Episode 73
Nature Theater of Oklahoma talks to Philip Bither, Senior Curator of Performing Arts at Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, about ego, humility, and identity. Is it an arrogant act to program work (or make work) that you may personally feel is important -- for an audience who may not want that kind...
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Avdal & Shinozaki - OK Radio Episode 72
Nature Theater of Oklahoma talks with artist/choreographers Heine Avdal and Yukiko Shinozaki about performances in and out of the theater space. Yukiko and Heine have made performances in their hotel room, in rented offices, shopping centers; Nature Theater has also worked inside and outside the...
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Rabih Mroué - OK Radio Episode 71
Nature Theater of Oklahoma talks with Lebanese visual and performing artist Rabih Mroué - about so many things! - but mainly about difference and similarity, self and community, solo and group, inside and outside, original and imitation. Though we both make performance and theater, we come from...
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Gob Squad - OK Radio Episode 70
Nature Theater of Oklahoma talks with Sean Patten & Bastian Trost of the Berlin-based group Gob Squad about the social relations, work ethics - and just plain ethics - of collective art-making. How do we negotiate making group work and – quite frankly - DOES the group work? How do we come…
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Jonathan Meese - OK Radio Episode 69
Nature Theater of Oklahoma talks with painter, sculptor, performing artist and German enfant terrible Jonathan Meese – all about art and ideology, insider and outsider, and risk and responsibility. Do artists need to remain playful, irresponsible, provocative – even untrustworthy– to make our…
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Reggie Watts - OK Radio Episode 68
Nature Theater of Oklahoma talks today with the extremely inspirational artist – and comedian – and musician – Reggie Watts. All about stuff and nonsense, conscious and unconscious, perception, and improvisation – not just in performance but as philosophy, as a way of living and being in the world.
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Oskar Eustis - OK Radio Episode 67
Nature Theater of Oklahoma talks with Oskar Eustis, director of The Public Theater in New York City about leadership, ethics, and idealism. How does Oskar navigate the economic disparity he encounters every day – running an arts institution that has to both market itself to wealthy backers and...
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Lucy Alibar - OK Radio Episode 66
Nature Theater of Oklahoma talks with writer Lucy Alibar (whose film Beasts of the Southern Wild was just nominated for four Academy Awards), about how she straddles the worlds of both stage and film. Also, how has it been to negotiate that success with its looming opposite: failure? When you…
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Lenore Manderson - OK Radio Episode 65
Nature Theater of Oklahoma talks with Lenore Manderson, writer, researcher and medical anthropologist at Monash University in Australia about our mutual fascination with the human body. Join us as we discuss the body in practice and in performance, as signifier of vulnerability, power…
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Robyn Archer - OK Radio Episode 64
Nature Theater of Oklahoma talks with Australian arts advocate, festival director, and world-renowned singer and performance artist Robyn Archer about building a life for herself in the theater – what about the resistance she’s faced along the way? How do we continually track that resistance and...
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Erica Meyer - OK Radio Episode 63
Nature Theater of Oklahoma talks with Erica Meyer, an Episcopal priest at the Church of the Good Shepherd in New York City about how she came to her calling as a religious leader. How does she lead a community of people toward wholeness and sanctification? Where does her belief come from and what...
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Lundhal & Seitl - OK Radio Episode 62
Nature Theater of Oklahoma talks with artists Christer Lundhal & Martina Seitl about shared practice and crossed disciplines. How do we open up new possibilities in perception, and create room for ambiguity and playful slippage in roles, in context, and in life. Do we have to go all the way to…
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Gunilla Heilborn - OK Radio Episode 61
Nature Theater of Oklahoma talks with Swedish choreographer and filmmaker Gunilla Heilborn about levels of commitment. Do we always need to push it 200%? What about we just try 80% and call it a day? Join us as we examine our minimalist and maximalist tendencies and trace the influence of these...
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Mattias Andersson - OK Radio Episode 60
Nature Theater of Oklahoma talks with Swedish playwright and director Mattias Andersson of Backa Teater in Göteborg about local and global art. What does it mean to have a theater and to make work in the city where you grew up, to be in dialogue with a city of intimates? How do we make the…
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Tom Sellar - OK Radio Episode 59
Nature Theater of Oklahoma talks with writer, editor, and theater thinker Tom Sellar about surrender and control – physical, mental, and structural. Join us as we clear the air – talking about artists and critics, and the whole interdependency and strangeness around that relationship. We rely on...
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Aaron Landsman - OK Radio Episode 58
Nature Theater of Oklahoma talks with theater-maker Aaron Landsman about our mutual time together growing up in NY theater in the 1990s. We examine how and why we are still here – still doing this. Join us as we talk with Aaron, too, about his new work, City Council Meeting, and probe the...
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Richard Foreman (No. 2) - OK Radio Episode 57
Nature Theater of Oklahoma talks again with New York avant-garde legend Richard Foreman about sardines, and (reluctantly) also about theater. We discuss his new play, Old-Fashioned Prostitutes, which opens next week at The Public Theater, and also his critically-acclaimed film Once Every Day…
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David Garland - OK Radio Episode 56
Nature Theater of Oklahoma talks with David Garland, composer and creator of the music program Spinning on Air on WNYC in New York City – about host and guest, yin and yang, creative and receptive, intent and effect. David also plays two of his own musical compositions, made with some very...
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Mark Russell - OK Radio Episode 55
Nature Theater of Oklahoma looks backward (and forward!) in theater time with curator Mark Russell of Under the Radar Festival in New York City. Join us as we chat with Mark about his early years in the Austin, TX music scene, his tenure at PS122, the invention of UTR, and hopes and fears about…
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Mårten Spångberg (No. 2) - OK Radio Episode 54
Nature Theater of Oklahoma talks again with choreographer/dancer/artist Mårten Spångberg about conning, cunning, consciousness, unconsciousness and – hey, by the way, are we just maybe making religious art? What? Political art? What do we stand for? What is an example of an idea that would be bad...
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Mike Iveson, Jr. - OK Radio Episode 53
Nature Theater of Oklahoma goes off the leash with the devilishly gifted and multi-talented performer/dancer/composer Mike Iveson, Jr. Join us as we talk about about pride, prejudice and process. Are we ever ONLY devised, dictatorial, collaborative, impulsive? Top down authoritative or totally...
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Xaviera Simmons - OK Radio Episode 52
Nature Theater of Oklahoma goes deep with artist Xaviera Simmons, talking about infection, inspiration, difference, and indifference – race and (like - ohmigod!) audience. What were we thinking? Is anger, aggression and dissatisfaction a prod to artistic enterprise? or a burden we should leave...
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Mårten Spångberg - OK Radio Episode 51
Nature Theater of Oklahoma talks to choreographer/dancer/artist Mårten Spångberg. A far-fetched discourse on corruption, bullshit, undermining, alchemy, pain-in-the-ass, architecture - and so much more! Including also rodents, moles, foxes, dragons, aliens, monsters and other totem species of the...
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Robert Smith - OK Radio Episode 50
Nature Theater of Oklahoma talks to NPR correspondent Robert Smith about radio, reporting, and storytelling. What happens when we put extreme constraints of time on narrative – as in durational theater and art projects (such as Chris Marclay’s The Clock and our current project, Life and Times) –...
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Scott Shepherd - OK Radio Episode 49
Nature Theater of Oklahoma talks to actor Scott Shepherd of ERS and the Wooster Group about strictures, exposures – and helicopters! We also ponder the intangible and ineffable in theater and the surprising and inevitable consequences of vitamins, nutrition, and bad shellfish on acting
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Sibyl Kempson - OK Radio Episode 48
Nature Theater of Oklahoma talks to playwright and performer Sibyl Kempson about adjustments we have to make when real life gets more dramatic than theater. How do we weigh life and death against the old showbiz notion of “the show must go on”? Also, enjoy as we share a few choice words about...
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Adina Tal - OK Radio Episode 47
Nature Theater of Oklahoma talks to Adina Tal, director and founder of Nalaga’at Center in Tel Aviv about her work with a diverse company of deaf-blind actors (Muslims, Jews and Samaritans working together) in Israel. How can you direct someone who can neither see nor hear you - and who can…
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Joris Lacoste - OK Radio Episode 46
Nature Theater of Oklahoma talks to theatre artist/dream-maker Joris Lacoste about his work with found audio in performance, and the issues it raises about originality, reproduction, truth and faithfulness. We also talk about his recent work involving hypnosis.
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Annemie Vanackere - OK Radio Episode 45
Nature Theater of Oklahoma talks to Annemie Vanackere, the new director of the Hebbel am Ufer in Berlin, about the relative merits and certain pitfalls of too much leadership. Also too much dependency. How can artists develop and maintain a share of agency in the work, as well as a healthy…
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Tina Satter - OK Radio Episode 44
Nature Theater of Oklahoma talks to playwright/director Tina Satter of the New York company Half Straddle about sports, rigor, training, discipline and commitment. Also up for consideration: should experimental theater be looking more ambitiously at stadiums and mass audience? Do revolutions…
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Bruce Gladwin - OK Radio Episode 43
Nature Theater of Oklahoma talks to Bruce Gladwin, director of Back to Back Theatre, based in Geelong, Australia, about ability, disability, inability, responsibility – obstacles – and audience. (And also, while we’re at it – let’s talk about being “special” and the many pitfalls of that label.)
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Cynthia Hopkins - OK Radio Episode 42
Nature Theater of Oklahoma talks to writer, composer and performer Cynthia Hopkins about her trip to the Arctic Circle and what she discovered there – also about meditation, crisis, climate change, the future, the primordial past, artistic genius, ecstatic experience, the unseen world, the…
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Jim Findlay - OK Radio Episode 41
Nature Theater of Oklahoma talks to designer, director and performer Jim Findlay about his work both within and without Collapsable Giraffe. Join us as we delve into the deep love and attachment (and nostalgia) we feel for feral work and feral spaces, William Boroughs, Artaud, Werner Schroeter,...
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Gavin Quinn - OK Radio Episode 40
Nature Theater of Oklahoma talks with Gavin Quinn, director of Dublin-based Pan Pan Theatre company, about empathy and the physical presence of actors. When you remove the actor from performance (as they do in All That Fall) -- what possibilities does that lack of an obvious physical and…
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Miguel Gutierrez - OK Radio Episode 39
Nature Theater of Oklahoma meets with choreographer/dancer/performance artist Miguel Gutierrez , who braves athsma and kittens, to explore with us the nature of stunt, risk, and personal necessity in the work. Also, honestly – how complicated is our relationship to audience? And to museums, for...
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John Collins - OK Radio Episode 38
Nature Theater of Oklahoma talks with John Collins, director of Elevator Repair Service in New York, about sleepless nights, Supreme Court oral arguments, gun control, the Newtown school shootings, benevolent dictatorships, emancipation, risk, responsibility, reason, and other things that have...
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Gideon Lester - OK Radio Episode 37
Nature Theater of Oklahoma talks to Gideon Lester, Director of Theater Programs and Professor of Theater at Bard College, also one of the curators of the Crossing the Line Festival in New York, about becoming brave and strategies for inscribing that bravery into our cultural institutions and...
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Paul Lazar - OK Radio Episode 36
Nature Theater of Oklahoma talks to actor/director Paul Lazar of Big Dance Theater about navigating a tremendously diverse body of work. Paul has worked in everything from the Wooster Group’s Brace Up to Hollywood gangster flics, from Korean monster movies to modern dance (he’s currently working...
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Nature Theater of Oklahoma directors Kelly Copper and Pavol Liska talk to artists, curators and people around the world -- from New York to Frankfurt, Brussels, Paris, et. al. These are long form conversations in the spirit of the radio conversations of John Cage and Morton Feldman. Nothing is off limits. (Note: for photos of our guests and more information about the show, please be sure to visit the show website at www.okradio.org)
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