Artists In Presidents: Transmissions to Power
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Artists-In-Presidents: Transmissions to Power – Outro Message
16 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Outro Message to “Artists-In-Presidents: Transmissions to Power” is a soundscape bringing together messages from across the 21 episodes, and n...
Transmission: Constance Hockaday
09 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“We can’t lose sight of the fact that we need each other, especially because we don’t have precisely the same experiences, feelings, or words.”...
Transmission: Raqs Media Collective
03 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“There is an urgency to save our time from becoming the cost of business.” Raqs Media Collective’s trio-logue binds economics to climate change...
Transmission: Ramin Mazhar
26 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“Resistance, and the fight for freedom are still sacred for us. We must not lose our last hope or abandon our dreams. And we want you not to lose yo...
Transmission: Ramin Mazhar (in Farsi)
26 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“Resistance, and the fight for freedom are still sacred for us. We must not lose our last hope or abandon our dreams. And we want you not to lose yo...
Transmission: Paulo Tavares
19 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“[O]urs was a struggle not to take power. But to dismantle power altogether. We made presidency an empty seat, a void, a space never to be acquired ...
Transmission: Cheryl L'Hirondelle
12 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“A healthy ecosystem is a multitude of life forces. So love yourself. Be fulfilled in your meadow flower-ness, your mossiness, your grassiness, your...
Transmission: Raji Aujla (in Punjabi)
05 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“Not too long ago, humans and nonhumans lived in co-dependency. We intuited, breathed, and created together. Their offspring was mine and my offspri...
Transmission: Raji Aujla
05 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“Not too long ago, humans and nonhumans lived in co-dependency. We intuited, breathed, and created together. Their offspring was mine and my offspri...
Transmission: Roy Dib
29 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“I’m scared. I’m fragile, weak, and scared.” Roy Dib smokes, checks Instagram, and looks out onto the Mediterranean while delivering a pensiv...
Transmission: Emily Johnson
22 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“How do our cells become oriented to justice?” Dancer and activist Emily Johnson invites us to embody justice through song, dance, and vibration...
Transmission: Melati Suryodarmo
15 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“This body is a shelter, / of networking, of systems, / which give a complete life / and responsibilities / beyond culture, classes, and language.”...
Transmission: Esra'a Al Shafei
08 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“Never let go of your authentic self, even if it must be in hiding for now. Protect it like a lit match in the wind. Don’t let fear blow it out.”...
Transmission: Adrian Stimson
01 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“Today we see that the past is the future, and what once was will be once again.” Stimson offers a powerful call-and-response to John F. Kennedy’...
Transmission: Irmgard Emmelhainz (en Español)
24 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“Only we, the people together, can inhabit the world differently. We are not united by the illusion of saving the world but defending life, binding ...
Transmission: Irmgard Emmelhainz
24 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“Only we, the people together, can inhabit the world differently. We are not united by the illusion of saving the world but defending life, binding ...
Transmission: d'bi.young anitafrika
17 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“Is it my greed? Is it my greed that propels me to behave like this? How do I learn to share? Is it my fear? Is it my fear that propels me to behave...
Transmission: Luis Jacob
10 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“Do you even know what you want to want?” Jacob takes us on a looping and circuitous path through self-care and empowerment rhetoric. “Own it!”...
Transmission: Fariha Róisín
01 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“Hope has always been necessary, but I do wonder if we’ve ever really had it.” Set against the backdrop of COVID-19 in New York, and rooted in ...
Transmission: Kevin Gotkin
26 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“When I say ‘Let’s get cozy,’ I’m asking you to join me in the making of a new and better world.” Gotkin reflects on the historical, soci...
Transmission: Romily Alice Walden
20 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“drag your body into the sunlight / dig a hole and bury yourself in it” Delivered via distorted and whispering proxy, Walden sends a biocentric m...
Transmission: Macarena Gómez-Barris
13 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“We envision a timeless and a historical future. We bury our seen and unseen dead. We mourn all of our losses. We catalogue our human and more-than-...
Transmission: Ravyn Wngz
06 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“Keep going, keep going.” Wngz sings, whispers, and celebrates the legacies and histories that helped her find her voice: Sankofa; Harriet Tubman...
Transmission: Mkomose (Dr. Andrew Judge)
06 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“There is no doubt our future will be unlike any other in the history of humanity, when we choose to remember. When we choose to restore the stories...
Transmission: Françoise Vergès
06 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“To live, we need to breathe, to be held and to hold, to love and be loved, to make kin and communities. Yes, to love and be loved.” In a rousin...
Artists-In-Presidents: Transmissions to Power – Welcome Message
04 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Returning in a new iteration for 2021, "Artists-In-Presidents: Transmissions to Power” invites artists, public intellectuals, and writers to radical...
Coco Fusco
14 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Coco Fusco is a Cuban-American interdisciplinary artist, writer, and curator whose work has been exhibited and published internationally. Fusco's work...
Madame Gandhi X Richie Reseda
14 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
RICHIE RESEDA: Freed from prison in 2018, Richie is a music and content producer, abolitionist-feminist community organizer and the founder of Questi...
Nafis M. White
14 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Nafis White is an interdisciplinary, multihyphenate artist whose recent body of works are created from objects commonly found in beauty supply stores,...
Mary F. Conrad
14 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Marfeco is a multi-media visual art practice about glowy things, packaging, land, motherhood, humor and identity. A book of poetry, “Like Finding Mo...
Ann Hamilton
06 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ann Hamilton is a visual artist internationally acclaimed for her large-scale multimedia installations, public projects, and performance collaboration...
Mel Chin
06 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Mel Chin is a conceptual visual artist. Motivated largely by political, cultural, and social circumstances, Chin works in a variety of art media to ca...
Rosamond S. King
06 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Rosamond S. King is a creative and critical writer, performer, and artist whose work is deeply informed by the cultures and communities she is part of...
Sofia Cordova
06 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sofía Córdova, born in Carolina, Puerto Rico, and currently based in Oakland, is an artist whose work considers sci-fi, dance and music culture(s), ...
Carmelita Tropicana
30 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Carmelita Tropicana is a Cuban-American stage and film lesbian actress who lives and works in New York City. She has been performing in New York’s d...
Jonathan Gonzalez
30 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jonathan González is an artist working at the intersections of choreography, sculpture, text, and time-based media. Their practice speculates on circ...
Celeste Headlee
30 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Celeste Headlee is a Communication and Human Nature Expert, Award-winning journalist, Author, and musician. She is the best-selling author of We Need ...
Roger Guenveur Smith
30 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Roger Guenveur Smith adapted his Obie Award-winning solo performance of A HUEY P. NEWTON STORY into a Peabody Award-winning telefilm. His Bessie Awar...
Mariana Dietl
30 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Mariana Dietl is an Argentine-American writer and novelist. In her last novel, Confined, Mariana speaks the voice of the unheard women in the Argentin...
Philth Haus
30 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
PHILTH HAUS is an art collective of 6 members, or entities: ANDRA, SYLLA, LYLEX, COLY, ROCO, and PHILIP. This community is channeled through ANDRA and...
BAKING AMERICA: A Presidential Address by Dr. Amma
26 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Amma Y. Ghartey-Tagoe Kootin (Scholartist + Performing Historian)born to African immigrants in Tuskegee, Alabama and raised in Kansas, “Dr. Amma...
Nibia Pastrana Santiago
26 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Nibia Pastrana Santiago is a Puerto Rican artist based in San Juan. She develops site-specific “choreographic events” to experiment with time, fic...
My Other Me- Fireside Chat # 2
26 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
My Other Me, is a collective acknowledgement of a seamless kinship across the we. Composed of Zoe Blaq an artist, poet and urban gardner who teaches g...
گاف
26 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
گاف is an undisciplinary artist and writer who, in 2009 was transplanted from street protests in a city of four seasons to the windowless rooms of ...
Sasha Debevec - McKenney
16 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sasha Debevec-McKenney is a poet who studies the presidents. She is currently the Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the University of Wisconsin I...
Nao Bustamante
16 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Nao Bustamante is a legendary artist, residing in Los Angeles, California. Bustamante's precarious work encompasses performance art, video installatio...
Brontez Purnell
16 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Brontez Purnell is a writer, musician, dancer, and director. He is the author of the books The Cruising Diaries (2014), Johnny Would You Love Me If M...
Xandra Ibarra
16 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Xandra Ibarra is an Oakland-based artist from the El Paso/Juarez border that uses performance, video and sculpture to address abjection and joy and th...
Edgar Fabian Frias
16 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Edgar Fabián Frías, MA MFT is a nonbinary, queer, indigenous (Wixarika) and Brown interdisciplinary artist, curator, educator, and psychotherapist. ...
Miguel Gutierrez
16 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Miguel Gutierrez is a choreographer, composer, performer, singer, writer, educator, and Feldenkrais Method practitioner based in Lenapehoking aka Broo...
Jasmine Nyende
16 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jasmine Nyende is a fiber, performance and sculptural artist and musician from South Central Los Angeles. Her work explores holding space in community...
Daniel Alexander Jones
09 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Daniel Alexander Jones exemplifies the artist as energy worker. His wildflower body of original work includes plays, performance pieces, recorded musi...
Gabrielle Civil
09 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Gabrielle Civil is a black feminist performance artist and poet, originally from Detroit, MI. She has premiered 50 performance artworks around the wor...
Yasmine Nasser Diaz
09 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Yasmine Nasser Diaz is a first generation Yemeni-American and multidisciplinary artist whose practice navigates overlapping tensions around religion, ...
Sarita Dougherty
09 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sarita Dougherty is a painter, collaborator and educator for the Ecocene, an imagined and emerging era where humans live in deep connection to their h...
Pavithra Prasad
09 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Pavithra Prasad is an immigrant writer, critical scholar, and performer from Tamil Nadu in southern India. Her creative work invokes such confabulatio...
Okwui Okpokwasili
09 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Okwui Okpokwasili is an Igbo-Nigerian American artist, performer, choreographer, and writer. Her multidisciplinary performances draw on practices of b...
Miranda July
02 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Miranda July is a writer, filmmaker, and artist. Her most recent book published by Prestel April 2020, Miranda July, has re-imagined the art monograph...
A. Haq
02 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A. Haq works across film, visual art, performance and sound. Her body of work stems from the complexities of inhabiting multiple personas —woman, Mu...
Ishmael Reed
02 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ishmael Scott Reed is an American poet, novelist, essayist, songwriter, playwright, editor and publisher known for his satirical works challenging Ame...
Eiko Otake
02 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Eiko Otake is a movement–based, interdisciplinary artist born and raised in Japan and a resident of New York since 1976. She worked for more than 40...
Lewis Hyde
02 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Lewis Hyde is a poet, essayist, translator, and cultural critic with a particular interest in the public life of the imagination. He is most known for...
Alice Sheppard
02 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Alice Sheppard is a choreographer and dance artist creating movement that challenges conventional understandings of disabled and dancing bodies. Engag...
My Other Me # 1
02 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
My Other Me, is a collective acknowledgement of a seamless kinship across the we. Composed of Zoe Blaq an artist, poet and urban garner who teaches ga...
Kanyon Sayers Roods
02 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kanyon Sayers-Roods is Costanoan Ohlone-Mutsun and Chumash; she also goes by her given Native name, “Coyote Woman.” The daughter of Ann-Marie Saye...
Jen Delos Reyes- Fireside Chat
25 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jen Delos Reyes is a creative laborer, educator, writer, and radical community arts organizer. Her practice is as much about working with institutions...
Kennedi Tezano- Fireside Chat
25 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kennedi Tezano is a writer/artist born and raised in South Central Los Angeles. She is a 2020 graduate of Oakwood High School. And currently works at ...
Deana Haggag- Fireside Chat
25 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Deana Haggag is a curator and the President & CEO of United States Artists, a national arts funding organization based in Chicago, IL. She is a disabl...
Asher Hartman- Fireside Chat
25 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Asher Hartman is a multidisciplinary artist, author, and playwright. His work explores personal and emotional history in relation to the ideologies th...
Cara Levine- Fireside Chat
25 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Cara Levine is an artist exploring the intersections of the physical, metaphysical, traumatic and illusionary through sculpture, video and socially en...
Ridykeulous- Fireside Chat
25 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ridykeulous is a collaborative initiative founded by artists Nicole Eisenman and A.L. Steiner in 2006 to subvert theoretical and visual languages comm...
Welcome
17 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Artists In Presidents. This is a provocation inspired by Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Depression-era Fireside Chats. Today, Americans are f...