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WexCast
by Wexner Center for the Arts
The Wexner Center for the Arts is The Ohio State University's multidisciplinary, international laboratory for the exploration and advancement of contemporary art.Through exhibitions, screenings, performances, artist residencies, and educational programs, the Wexner Center acts as a forum where established and emerging artists can test ideas and where diverse audiences can participate in cultural experiences that enhance understanding of the art of our time.In its programs, the Wexner Center balances a commitment to experimentation with a commitment to traditions of innovation and affirms the university's mission of education, research, and community service.
Episodes
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WexCast: What's New in Accessibility
For this episode, we listen in on a conversation between three Wex staffers who are essential to the center’s efforts to make the arts accessible for all. Wex Accessibility Specialist Tammy Eckard, Events Manager Francesca Mouery, and Social Media and Digital Accessibility Manager Austin Dunn sat...
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WexCast: Sonnets and Cinema 2025
This WexCast features original poems by local poets that were read as part of the January 2025 Sonnets and Cinema film series. Guest curated by poet, Matter News columnist, and Streetlight Guild founder Scott Woods, the series focused on three documentaries that touch on the question of whether…
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Intro: Pre-Code Cinema
For this addition to our "Intro" series, head of film/video Dave Filipi offers a primer on the pre-code era, a time in early Hollywood when rules around sex, violence, and other controversial elements on screen were made to be broken. It's prompted by the film series The Sound of Screaming, which...
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WexCast: The Poets of Sonnets & Cinema
For this episode, we’re throwing back to our February 2024 film series, Sonnets and Cinema, to share audio of the live poetry readings that accompanied each of the programs celebrating poetry in film. Among the poets you’ll hear is the curator of the series, Scott Woods, who’s also a Columbus...
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Intro: Jean Laurenz on Lafcadio Hearn
For this episode, we continue our Intro series on artists and movements you should know about with a primer on the life and work of Lafcadio Hearn, an Irish author who was born in 1850 and died in 1904 and who’s still known for his ghost stories. Our special guest for this Intro episode is...
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WexCast: Hope Ginsburg, Gina Siepel, and Sara Smith on Meditation Ocean
For this episode, we hear from Hope Ginsburg, who conceived and directed the spring 2023 Wex exhibition Meditation Ocean, and some of her collaborators within the Meditation Ocean Constellation, Sara Smith and Gina Siepel. While Meditation Ocean left the Wex in July 2023, a recent Climate Impact...
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Intro: Želimir Žilnik
Intro provides an entry point to the work of artists or works that aren’t household names. In this case, it’s Serbian documentary filmmaker Zelimir Zilnik, the subject of an October 2023 retrospective that will dovetail with this year’s Unorthodocs festival of creation nonfiction films. The event...
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WexCast - Elaine McMillion Sheldon & Brian Harnetty on King Coal
For this episode, we revisit an engaging conversation between central Ohio-based composer and sound artist Brian Harnetty and Elaine McMillion Sheldon, a former Wex Film/Video Studio resident and the director of the beautiful new documentary, King Coal. The film screened at the Wex in September…
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Esra Canoğulları (8ULENTINA)and Lara Sarkissian: UMM / AL ATLAL
UMM / AL ATLAL is a collaborative sound piece composed by Esra Canoğulları and Lara Sarkissian. This hour-long piece deconstructs and abstracts a live performance of Umm Kulthum's song Al Atlal. Umm Kultum was known for live performances that lasted hours, with individual songs lasting up to an...
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Intro: Scott Woods on Dario Argento's Phenomena
For this episode, we’re happy to present an introduction to the wild Dario Argento film from 1985, Phenomena, done by Columbus writer and arts presenter Scott Woods. Phenomena is part of a summer '23 salute to the films of the Italian horror icon. If you missed our screening, the full-length...
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WexCast: Anna Tsouhlarakis on The Native Guide Project
This episode continues our series sharing words from the artists whose work has been presented as part of the Wex’s winter-spring exhibitions. Based out of Colorado, Anna Tsouhlarakis aims to create dialogue and break stereotypes around Indigenous art. For her presentation at the Wex, the artist...
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WexCast: Sa'dia & Bushra Rehman
For this episode, we're happy to present a recent public conversation between Sa'dia Rehman and their sister, Bushra Rehman. Sa'dia's work has been featured in the Wex's winter-spring exhibitions via the solo show "the river runs slow and deep and all the bones of my ancestors / have risen to the...
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WexCast: Filmmaker & 2023 Ohio Shorts Juror Colin West
2023 Ohio Shorts juror Colin West is a Columbus native and a graduate of Ohio State and the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts. He’s directed numerous shorts along with three feature-length films including 2021’s Double Walker, starring Sylvie Mix, and the recently…
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Sanctuary Night residency artists April Sunami & Aimee Wissman
For this episode, we sit down with April Sunami and Aimee Wissman, two highly respected Columbus based artists who've been working with Wex Art & Resilience Director Tracie McCambridge and the leadership and staff of Sanctuary Night, a sacred space for vulnerable women. Sanctuary Night has opened...
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Carol Newhouse, Daniel Marcus & Carmen Winant on Sharing Circles
For this episode, we share thoughts on the fall 2022 exhibition Sharing Circles: Carol Newhouse and the WomanShare Collective from artist and activist Carol Newhouse and the two curators who worked with her on her first major museum show: Wex Associate Curator of Exhibitions Daniel Marcus and...
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Sam Green on 32 Sounds
For this episode, we have a conversation with Sam Green, the subject of a monthlong retrospective at the Wex beginning September 28 and featuring the Ohio premiere of his immersive new documentary, 32 Sounds, September 29. As he explains, Sam’s relationship with the Wex goes back to his first…
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jaamil olawale kosoko & Alexis McCrimmon on Syllabus for Black Love
Syllabus for Black Love is the lush multichannel installation by jaamil olawale kosoko, a recipient of a Wexner Center Artist Residency Award who worked with numerous Wex staffers over a three year period. For this WexCast, we’re excited to share a conversation between kosoko and Alexis…
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Intro: Federico Fellini
For this episode, Film/Video Director Dave Filipi offers a brief intro to Federico Fellini, the legendary Italian filmmaker behind such classics as La Strada, 8 1/2, and La Dolce Vita. All of those films and more will be presented as part of a summer ‘22 retrospective at the Wex, which runs July…
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Hanif Abdurraqib on Car Wash
For this Wexcast, we’re excited to share a micro-essay you won’t find anywhere else, read by its author, MacArthur Genius grant recipient and Columbus native Hanif Abdurraqib. Invited by Wex Film/Video curators to introduce a screening of Michael Schultz’s classic comedy Car Wash, Abdurraqib wove...
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Bill Morrison on The Village Detective: a song cycle
For this episode, we share a conversation between Film/Video Director David Filipi and filmmaker Bill Morrison, who received a Wex Artist Residency Award for his latest project, The Village Detective: a song cycle, a meditation on Soviet cinema and star making built around a print of a 1969 film...
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Climate Changing: Baseera Khan (abridged)
A mini version of the conversation between Wex Associate Curator Lucy Zimmerman, Learning & Public Practice Director Dionne Custer-Edwards, and artist Baseera Khan. Khan has created new commissioned work for the Winter 2021 exhibition Climate Changing: On Artists, Institutions, and the Social...
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Climate Changing: Danielle Julian Norton
Wex Associate Curator Lucy Zimmerman and Learning & Public Practice Director Dionne Custer-Edwards speak with Columbus artist Danielle Julian Norton about her work, the outdoor art studio and residency space Zippitydirtdada, and her commissioned installation for the Winter 2021 exhibition Climate...
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Climate Changing: Baseera Khan
Wex Associate Curator Lucy Zimmerman and Learning & Public Practice Director Dionne Custer-Edwards speak with artist Baseera Khan about her work, her inspirations, and her commission for the Winter 2021 exhibition Climate Changing: On Artists, Institutions, and the Social Environment.
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Behind the scenes of Taryn Simon: Assembled Audience
Taryn Simon: Assembled Audience combines audio of dozens of individuals clapping solo to create computer-generated rounds of applause. For this WexCast, Alana Ryder, the Wex's Manager of Public and University Programs, talks with Senior Design Engineer Steve Jones and Exhibition Designer and...
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Sam Pollard on Two Trains Runnin'
Enjoy a conversation between Wexner Center Assistant Film/Video Curator Chris Stults and Sam Pollard about his 2017 documentary Two Trains Runnin', a fascinating look at political and cultural upheaval during the “Freedom Summer” of 1964. The film follows separate groups of young men—musicians,...
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Reflecting on I Am Not Your Negro with Melissa Crum
Melissa Crum of Mosaic Education Network leads a post-film discussion for Raoul Peck's James Baldwin documentary I Am Not Your Negro following a screening of the film at the Wexner Center for the arts in February 2017. Using the film as a prompt, Crum asks audience members to respond to the...
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Collaborating with Barbara Hammer
For this episode, we connected with three filmmakers who were each tasked by the late filmmaker Barbara Hammer with completing one of the projects she was unable to finish before her death in 2019. Supported in their efforts by Hammer’s multi-year Wexner Center Artist Residency Award, Lynn Sachs,...
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Hlynur Pálmason on A White, White Day
Film/Video Director David Filipi speaks with Icelandic filmmaker Hlynur Pálmason, writer and director of "A White, White Day." The film is streaming through June 4, 2020 in a Wex virtual screening room. More info at wexarts.org/film-video.
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From the Archive: Behind the Scenes of In the Air
We dive into the Wex archives for a 2009 podcast about Liza Johnson's In the Air. Supported by the Wexner Center Film/Video Studio, the short film was shot entirely in Portsmouth, Ohio, with a nonprofessional cast of circus performers in training at Cirque d'Art Theatre. Wex Educator Jean Pitman...
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Sharon Udoh: Wex Pages concert
Columbus, Ohio-based singer-songwriter and Wexner Center Artist Residency Award recipient Sharon Udoh of the rock 'n' roll band Counterfeit Madison performs a concert for students of the Wex's Pages Program. Pages connects central Ohio high school students each year with local resident and...
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From the Archives: Jeanne Liotta
For this episode, we dip into the archives for a 2009 conversation between Wexner Center for the Arts Associate Film/Video Curator Chris Stults and filmmaker Jeanne Liotta about her work Crosswalk, completed with support from the Wex Film/Video Studio. The work is streaming for the month of April...
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Intro: Agnés Varda
Want to know more about the work of the late, great, French filmmaker Agnés Varda? For this edition of Intro, Wex Associate Film/Video Curator Chris Stults, the organizer of the Wexner Center's mini retrospective of Varda's films in March 2020, discusses her work with Vera Brunner-Sung, a...
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Cinema Revival 2020
Wexner Center Film/Video Director David Filipi sits down with PR & Content Manager Melissa Starker to discuss the 6th annual celebration of the art of film restoration, including some of the other fests that helped inspire Cinema Revival and what you can expect to see this year. Image: Buster...
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Intro: Merce Cunningham
We connected with three professors in Ohio State's Department of Dance for a uniquely informed introduction to the work of legendary choreographer Merce Cunningham: David Covey, Karen Eliot, and Daniel Roberts, all of whom have been members of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. Alla Kovgan's 3D...
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Elizabeth Weiser on Jenny Holzer
For this episode, we're sharing a November 2019 talk by Elizabeth Weiser about the work of Jenny Holzer. The Ohio State Department of English professor explores the language Holzer utilizes in her series of Truisms and Inflammatory Essays, on view as part of the exhibition HERE: Ann Hamilton…
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Jennifer Reeder on Knives and Skin
Enjoy a chat with one of our favorite people, filmmaker Jennifer Reeder. An Ohio State alum, former Wex student employee and Wexner Center Artist Residency Award recipient, Reeder has been making waves in the indie film world this fall with her feature debut as writer-director, the atmospheric...
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Julia Reichert & Steven Bognar on American Factory
This WexCast shares a discussion from October 2019 between Wexner Center Film/Video Director David Filipi and the directors of the documentary American Factory, Julia Reichert and Steve Bognar. The talk came about as part of Julia Reichert: A Life in Film, a retrospective on the nearly 50-year...
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Ann Hamilton, Jenny Holzer & Maya Lin
For this WexCast, we share a conversation between Wex Executive Director Johanna Burton and the artists of our fall 2019 exhibition HERE: Ann Hamilton, Jenny Holzer, and Maya Lin. The three Ohio-born makers discuss the works on view in the show, how their connections to the state have informed...
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John Sabraw on Maya Lin
Gallery talk by Ohio University professor of art John Sabraw. The activist and artist joined us to discuss the Wex's fall 2019 exhibition HERE: Ann Hamilton, Jenny Holzer, Maya Lin—specifically, Lin's two installations for this show, which illustrate human-driven changes to Ohio's waterways in...
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Mike Leigh
Thanks to a collaboration between the Wexner Center, Ohio State's Department of English, and the 2019 Victorian Studies Association Conference, the Wex hosted a discussion with the great Mike Leigh on October 17. The writer-director behind such works as Secrets and Lies, Topsy Turvy, Naked, Vera...
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Animator John Canemaker
In fall of 2016, shortly after the announcement that John Canemaker was the recipient of a Wexner Center Artist Residency Award, Canemaker visited the Wex while in the early stages of producing Hands, the film supported by the award. He sat down with Wex Film/Video Director Dave Filipi to discuss...
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Participatory Music Coalition, Black Banana Jam
In advance of her Columbus debut at the Wexner Center for the Arts on Thursday, Oct. 10, Chicago-based multi-instrumentalist Angel Bat Dawid curated this playlist for fans & fellow music lovers. Enjoy!
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Intro: Bill Horrigan on The Chelsea Girls
Wexner Center curator-at-large discusses his first experience with Andy Warhol's The Chelsea Girls, the double-screen film's impact on culture, and why it needs to be experienced in a theatrical setting. The film series The Chelsea Girls Exploded screens at the Wex Sept. 6-25, 2019.
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Intro: Author Bret Wood on Exploitation Films
Bret Wood, filmmaker and author of the new book "Forbidden Fruit: The Golden Age of the Exploitation Picture," offers a brief intro to the classic exploitation genre during a visit to the Wexner Center for the Arts on July 6, 2019. Wood is introduced by Dave Filipi, Director, Film/Video at the…
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Pages 2019
Each year, high school students connect with contemporary art and artists through the Wexner Center's Pages program. The students create responses to what they've experienced, which are collected and printed in the annual Pages Anthology. For this WexCast, Wex educator and Pages coordinator…
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Carlos Reygadas
Enjoy an in-depth discussion between Mexican filmmaker Carlos Reygadas and Ohio State University professor Laura Podalsky about Reygadas's distinct approach to filmmaking. The conversation was recorded at the Wexner Center for the Arts on March 30, 2019, following the local premiere of Our Time,...
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Mark Lomax with Timothy Holley & Karen Walwyn
For this WexCast, we listen in on a phone call between classical pianist and composer Karen Walwyn, cellist Timothy Holley, and drummer, composer, and Wexner Center Artist Residency Award recipient Mark Lomax II. As part of the curating work Lomax has been doing for the Wex this spring, he's...
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Alicia McCarthy & Oliver Hawk Holden
For this Wexcast, we share a conversation between assistant curator Lucy Zimmerman, Alicia McCarthy and her assistant and fellow artist, Oliver Hawk Holden. Fresh from completing McCarthy's site-specific mural No Straight Lines in the Wex lobby, the artists discuss the sometimes disorienting...
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Author David Shields
For this WexCast, we're sharing a recent talk by author David Shields. The bestselling author reads from his 2018 book No One Hates Trump More Than Trump: An Intervention, and shares a preview of his latest book, The Trouble With Men: Reflections on Sex, Love, Marriage, Porn, and Power. Special...
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Bing Liu on Minding the Gap
For this Wexcast, we share a Q&A that was captured during a recent visit from Bing Liu, director of the award-winning documentary Minding the Gap, which was just shortlisted for consideration for an Oscar for Best Documentary Feature. Liu speaks with Chris Stults, Associate Curator, Film/Video at...
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The Wexner Center for the Arts is The Ohio State University's multidisciplinary, international laboratory for the exploration and advancement of contemporary art.Through exhibitions, screenings, performances, artist residencies, and educational programs, the Wexner Center acts as a forum where established and emerging artists can test ideas and where diverse audiences can participate in cultural experiences that enhance understanding of the art of our time.In its programs, the Wexner Center balances a commitment to experimentation with a commitment to traditions of innovation and affirms the university's mission of education, research, and community service.
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