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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.
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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 down to discuss the role each of them play in this work, how the work is evolving, and how Tammy is building on the efforts of her predecessor, the late Helyn Marshall.
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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 art can change the world. Each screening was preceded by readings by Woods and another Columbus poet: Sayuri Ayers for Jodorowsky’s Dune, Aaron Alsop for Museum Town, and Hanif Abdurraqib for Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry. Woods also offers an introduction to each film and shares his thinking behind the selections. In case you missed the films, links to watch each are in the blog post that accompanies this podcast at wexarts.org/blog.
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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 offers three double features of genuinely creepy early horror films including genre classics such as Freaks and the original Dracula. It runs October 9th through the 31st. For more info, go to wexarts.org.
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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 Metropolitan Library worker and a columnist for Matter News as well the proprietor of the arts space Streetlight Guild. Woods gathered fellow Columbus poets Louise Robertson, Dr. Sidney Jones, Jr., and Zach Hannah to perform before screenings of Lee Chang-Dong’s 2010 drama Poetry, the 2001 biopic Pinero, and the 1998 documentary SlamNation. We thought the best way to share with those who weren’t able to see the readings in person is to hear each in the writer’s voice. And we’ve included Woods’s intro for each poet as a guide. (Photo: poet Zach Hannah, courtesy of Scott Woods)
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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 trumpeter and vocalist Jean Laurenz, Hearn’s great-great grandniece. Laurenz will be coming to the Wex March 23, 2024, with multimedia sound artist Maria Finkelmeier and percussionist Greg Jukes to perform two shows of Descended, a combination of chamber music, media art, film, and theater inspired by the writings of Hearn, who’s best known as a teller of ghost stories. Laurenz shares a view of Lafcadio Hearn as someone who was called to create at a young age, and who ultimately brought ancient stories from historically marginalized cultures to white Western audiences. Laurenz goes on to share some details about Descended - how it has a similar goal as Hearn’s work of creating something new and more personal from something that has come before. She discusses its exploration of the connections between the physical and the spiritual, the past and the present. Laurenz also touches on its personal meaning for her, the universal connections she sees within it, and the beauty that can be found in fear.
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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 Report on the exhibition for the collective Artists Commit brought to light the resources saved and emissions reduced through sustainability strategies between the artists’ and the Wex. These include elements like a longer rotation period for the installation, and the seating within the space. With sustainability and environmental connection in mind, we revisit the Meditation Ocean Constellation, learning more about biological interconnectedness not just through Meditation Ocean, but through Smith’s project Inside the Breath: INT (In Network Time) and Siepel’s work To Understand a Tree. Together, they consider the intersections of their work and the breathing practices that weave them together. They discuss what it means to be present, to sit in awareness of an environment and its ties to human history, and to understand one’s exchanges with the natural world. You'll find a link to the report in the blog post accompanying this podcast at wexarts.org/blog.
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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 includes a visit from the filmmaker for screenings October 26 and 28.. Chris Stults, the lead programmer for Unorthodocs and the Zilnik retrospective, connected virtually with Greg de Cuir, an independent curator based in Belgrade, Serbia, who organized the Zilnik series and a larger cross-country tour for the artist. They share information about Zilnik’s background and his radical, empathy-driven work, along with some of the films they’re excited to share with audiences.
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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 and is currently making its way across the country in a limited engagement. Together, they discuss the use of sound in King Coal, how coal is embedded in the culture of the central Appalachian town in which she grew up, how she wanted to take a different approach to the standard stories that come out of the region, and the unique sources of inspiration she took with her own tale.
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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 hour each, the crowd participation playing an essential role in these durational and enchanting live shows. UMM / AL ATLAL takes a similar approach to abstraction as Sahar’s sculptural radio tower- isolating and embedding individual lyrics while reinterpreting their form. The collaborative nature of this sound sculpture is our contemporary version of the audience call and response participation that is present in all of Umm Kulthum’s live performances.
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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 Integral cut that we presented is available in a limited box set through Synapse Films, and the slightly shorter International Cut is now streaming on Shudder.
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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 continued The Native Guide Project. Tsouhlarakis speaks specifically about the Columbus edition of this project and how it’s spread beyond the galleries. She also discusses the origins of the project and the unique way she first shared it with the world, as well as why she chose to expand on it in Columbus.
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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 surface to knock and click like the sounds of trees in the air". Bushra is an acclaimed poet and storyteller; her latest book, the coming-of-age novel "Roses, In the Mouth of a Lion," was a New York Times Book Review editor's choice and was named one of the best books of 2022 by NPR. The talk shares the warm and supportive dynamic between the siblings as it illuminates their respective working processes, how they approach medium, and how the history of their family has fueled what they created. It begins with a reading of Bushra's fiction and poetry.
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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 released, critically acclaimed Linoleum, starring Jim Gaffigan and Rhea Seahorn, which won the Sloan Science on Screen Award at the San Francisco International Film Festival. Double Walker and Linoleum are both currently available to stream. West is also an alum of the Wex's Ohio Shorts programs from 2007 and 2009. Our conversation touches on those early films, how he got started directing, his move from the fine art world to the mainstream film school setting of USC, his unique style of storytelling, and his experience culling through films from around the state for this year's program. It screens Saturday, April 22. More info: https://wexarts.org/film-video/ohio-shorts-2023
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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 the doors of its location on the west side of Columbus to artists through a residency program run by Art & Resilience. Sunami was the first residency artist, followed closely by Wissman, and together they talk about their experience working on site and learning how their work could best serve the organization's goals.
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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 Carmen Winant, an associate professor and the Roy Lichtenstein Chair of Studio Art at Ohio State, and an artist whose own work has been exhibited internationally.
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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 film, 1997’s Rainbow Man/John 3:16, and includes an Artist Residency Award for A Thousand Thoughts, his 2018 collaboration with Kronos Quartet. Sam also discusses his inspirations for 32 Sounds, including the wonderful 1993 movie 32 Short Films About Glenn Gould, his work with soundtrack artist JD Samson, and why he asks audiences to wear headphones for his latest.
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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 McCrimmon, an editor in the Wex Film/Video Studio and a filmmaker in her own right, moderated by Film/Video Studio Curator Jennifer Lange. Syllabus for Black Love is on view now in the Wex galleries as part of the summer 2022 interdisiplinary platform Portal For(e) the Ephemeral Passage, and it’s the second collaboration between kosoko and McCrimmon, following the film Chameleon (A Visual Album). That work, codirected by Ima Iduozee, won the Best Experimental Short award at the Slamdance Film Festival earlier this year and it’s also on view now at the Wex. Theirs has been a close and fruitful partnership, and in the talk that follows, each of the artists speaks about the relationship they developed and what they learned from each other.
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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 7 through August 18. Dave discusses the trajectory of Fellini’s career, the big break that helped launch it, the filmmaker’s distinctive, evolving style, and a couple of the notable directors Fellini has influenced. And if you listen to the end, you’ll a sneak preview of what’s coming to the Wex next summer.
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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 stories from his neighborhood, the making of the film and its score, the performance politics of Soul Train, and the pleasure of adding a soundtrack to a cleaning task into an electrifying seven minute monologue.
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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 starring Russian actor Mikhail Zharov that was found a few years ago on the ocean floor off the coast of Iceland. At the Wex for the Columbus premiere of the film, Morrison discusses his previous work, his fascination with degraded film imagery, and how the film’s distinctive accordion score came together.
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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 Environment. Image: Baseera Khan, Column 6, 2019. Pink Panther foamular, plywood, resin dye, custom handmade silk rugs made in Kashmir, India. 72 x 22 x 72 in. Image courtesy of the artist and Simone Subal Gallery, New York Photo: Dario Lasagni
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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 Changing: On Artists, Institutions, and the Social Environment.
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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 Preparator Nick Stull about what went into constructing a space for the sound installation at the Wex as part of Fall 2020 exhibitions. The podcast begins with a sample of the Simon's sound work.
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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, college students, and record collectors—who head south to coax long-retired bluesmen Son House and Skip James out of hiding. A director, editor, producer, Emmy winner and Academy Award nominee, Pollard's credits include numerous projects for PBS such as Eyes on the Prize II, and several films with Spike Lee as editor or producer. This is best listened to after watching Two Trains Runnin'. The film is available to stream through Hulu, Amazon, and Vimeo.
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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 questions, "What is equality?" and "What role does white supremacy play in preventing us from living in the country we think we live in?" Image: Melissa Crum at the Wexner Center; photo: Brooke LaValley
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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, Deborah Stratman, and Mark Street each discuss their relationship with Hammer and how their respective final films came together. And though each had a distinctive approach to the work, they all eventually fell into a kind of conversation with Hammer through her archived footage. First you’ll hear from Mark Street, who made the film So Many Ideas Impossible to Do all using interviews Hammer shot with Jane Brakhage, an artist and writer who was married for years to filmmaker Stan Brakhage. After that, Deborah Stratman discusses Vever (For Barbara), which she made from footage of Hammer ’s 1975 trip to Guatemala, and how the presence of experimental film legend Maya Deren ended up working its way into the film. Finally, Lynne Sachs talks about A Month of Single Frames, which combines images from Hammer’s 1998 residency in a shack on the sand dunes of Provincetown, Massachusetts with audio that Sachs captured as she and Hammer first discussed the project. The films screened in November 2019 at the Wexner Center and have gone on to play film festivals and win awards; most recently, Sachs’s film won the grand prize at Germany’s International Short Film Festival Oberhausen. You can check out the page for this podcast at wexarts.org/blog for links with more info on the filmmakers and these works. Music: "Undying" by Blue Dot Sessions, licensed under Creative Commons through Free Music Archive. More info: https://www.freemusicarchive.org/music/Blue_Dot_Sessions
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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 has a short chat with the young performers and their instructors for a look at how they worked with Johnson on the film. Image: John Chandler and Heather White in In the Air, courtesy of the filmmaker.
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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 international visiting artists to inspire original art and writing. Udoh is introduced by Pages coordinator and Wex Education Director Dionne Custer Edwards, and her set is followed by a Q&A with Columbus writer and Streetlight Guild proprietor Scott Woods.
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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 2020 at wexarts.org.
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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 filmmaker, Ohio State professor, and fellow Varda fan. They cover some of their own experiences watching Varda's work and why it remains essential viewing nearly 50 years after her breakthrough film, 1961's Cleo from 5 to 7.
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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 Keaton in Go West, courtesy of Cohen Film Collection
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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 documentary CUNNINGHAM screens January 24-26 at the Wexner Center for the Arts. (Image of Cunningham with collaborators Robert Rauschenberg and John Cage courtesy of Magnolia Pictures)
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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, Jenny Holzer, Maya Lin. She also touches on the reactions they spur, and how a museum setting provides important context for the words Holzer initially wheat pasted on the streets of New York City. And Weiser discusses the work in relation to her most recent book, Museum Rhetoric: Building Civic Identity in National Spaces.
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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 thriller KNIVES AND SKIN. The work was completed with help from the residency award and the talk followed the film’s Columbus premiere at the Wex on September 13, 2019. She speaks with Film/Video Studio curator Jennifer Lange, a longtime supporter of Reeder's work, and Mike Olenick, a former Wex full-timer who’s edited most of Reeder’s films, including this one.
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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 career of the Academy Award-nominated Ohio filmmaker that's touring the US through June 2020. If you missed our screening but you’ve seen American Factory on Netflix, this is a terrific companion piece to your viewing experience.
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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 their respective practices, and the one other place on earth where you might’ve seen their work together. But first, an intro from Wex Senior Curator of Exhibitions Michael Goodson.
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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 dense concentrations of recycled steel pins and small glass beads.
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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 Drake, and this year's Peterloo talked with Ohio State associate professor Sean O' Sullivan about his career and his approach to filmmaking.
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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 his vision for the hand-drawn short, as well as his approach to storytelling, his encounters with animation legends, and the continued importance of drawing in a field with ever-advancing digital innovations. With the world premiere of Hands coming to the Wex this Thursday, it's time to share their conversation. Got to wexarts.org/blog for a list of related links.
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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 Wex. Our summer film series "B-Movie Mania: A Low Budget Summer" continues through August 15.
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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 Dionne Custer Edwards traveled to Big Walnut High School in Sunbury to talk with Bri and Sofia, two participants in the Pages program for 2018-19. Photo: Katie Spengler Gentry
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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, the new film by Reygadas starring the director and his real-life wife, Natalia.
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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 bringing Holley and Walwyn to Columbus on Sunday, April 7 for a performance of contemporary classical works by a roster of African-American composers that includes Lomax. More information about the show is available at wexarts.org. (Image: Karen Walwyn, courtesy of the artist)
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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 effects of working large scale. McCarthy also covers her relationship to graffiti, past and present, and how her time spent at the Humboldt School in California was as impactful as her experience as part of the group of artists later to be loosely known as the Mission School.
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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 thanks to Ohio State's Project Narrative for cosponsoring this event.
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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 the Wex, following the Columbus premiere screening of Minding the Gap on October 27, 2018, as part of the annual festival Unorthodocs.
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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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