talkPOPc's Podcast
Episodes
Episode 40: Stephen Hanson: Galleries, Museums, and Embodied Experience
20 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Stephen, who worked until recently at David Zwirner Gallery, discusses the differences in the audience experiences in a gallery as opposed to a museum...
Episode 39: Hoover Chung: Fashion, Gender, and Art versus Design Debate
13 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The fashion designed Hoover Chung speaks to Resident Philosopher Carolina Flores about his interest in gender-fluid fashion. He points out that it&a...
Episode 38: Arion Toles: Power, Identity and the Art of Being "Unresolved"
06 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Arion references the book The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study, by Stefano Harney and Fred Moten, which criticizes and tries to refor...
Episode 37: Bogyi Banovich: Body/Mind - Art Makes Our Minds Manifest
29 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The artist Bogyi Banovich explains creativity as where the body is trying to "catch up" to what the mind has wanted and designed. Bogyi disc...
Episode 36: Kaya Simmons: Acting, Vulnerability, and Truth
22 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In a fascinating conversation about theatre and acting, the actor Kaya Simmons explains both why people act and why people go to see others act. "...
Episode 32: Beth: Covid, BLM protests, and Reclaiming Urban Places
15 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As an urban planner, Beth notes how the city is now reclaiming the public arena: the visual experience of the urban experience during the times of COV...
Episode 33: Will Smith: What Both Country and Rap Can Do for You
08 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Will, another one of our Participants who just happened to be wandering by and kindly stopped into the tent and had a conversation, is from South Caro...
Episode 34: Charles: Animals, Evolution, and the Naturalness of Aesthetics
01 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Charles gives an extremely interesting viewpoint on the naturalness of aesthetics, drawing from the way ants build symmetrical ant piles, birds flying...
Episode 35: Steven: Theatre, Empathy, and Knowledge
25 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As a life-long practitioner in theatre, Steven articulates how it is that we use the journey as described by the playwright: we "exercise" o...
Episode 31: Richard: Art, Civil War Monuments, and the Collective Thought
18 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Art makes people do this introspective work. He discusses the civil war monuments in the south (in Richmond, VA) that glorify the confederate side, an...
Episode 30: Robert & The Sensory Pleasure of Art
11 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Robert discusses the relationship of looking at art, listening to music, and eating: saying yes to those things that we like, figuring out why, and th...
Episode 29: George: architecture and social usage
04 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
George gives an architect's view on the relationship between the social function of buildings and how it is that we aesthetically experience them...
Episode 28: Ulysses Pizarro: Unmediated, Direct Gaze
02 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ulysses discusses looking at art without the preconceptions of gallery owners or museum directors; he and Resident Philosopher Shottenkirk explore the...
Episode 27: Dan Durso talks about art, evolution, and social bonding.
28 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dan Durso, artist and PhD student at the University of Illinois, talks about art as evolutionarily adapting, how it helped early humans to bond and wo...
Episode 26: Jeremy. A critic's POV. Interrogating yourself to learn, think and communicate.
10 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jeremy Barker, a performance critic, joins Resident Philosopher Carolina Flores for the seventh and final installment of our Postmasters Gallery serie...
Episode 25: Beth. Art in the environment. A reconfiguration of thought
03 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Beth Evans joins Resident Philosopher Carolina Flores for the sixth part of our postmasters series. They discuss visual art, in particular performance...
Episode 24: John. A photographer's gaze. Mechanical over artistic.
26 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
John McCarten joins Resident Philosopher Vincent Peluce for the fifth part of our postmasters series. John discusses photography as seeing through the...
Episode 23: Caron. Spirituality of art. Nigunim and the levels of music.
19 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Caron Shapiro joins Resident Philosopher Vincent Peluce for the fourth part of our postmasters series. They discuss Hebrew music and the spirituality ...
Episode 22: Jesi. Who is art for? Creating to create, or creating for an audience?
12 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jesi Taylor Cruz joins Resident Philosopher Vincent Peluce for the third part of our postmasters series. As they discuss art as cognition, Jesi points...
Episode 21: Nicholas. Art's duality. When you create, you don't think. When you consume, you contemplate.
05 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Nicholas Accetura joins Resident Philosopher Vincent Peluce for the second part of our postmasters series. When discussing art, Nicholas denotes a sig...
Episode 20: João, Art as a system of signs. A language of exception.
29 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
João Enxuto joins Resident Philosopher Vincent Peluce as they kick off the first part of our Postmasters series. They discuss art as cognition, and J...
Episode 19: Keith: Is Art Defined by Our Reaction?
08 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Keith Moss, a management consultant from the UK, and is speaking to the Resident Philosopher Martina Botti. Keith, on a business trip, is visiting the...
Episode 18: Gilles: Art is What Art Does
01 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The art historian and art critic Gilles Heno-Coe, who was the former Associate Director of Matthew Marks Gallery, speaks with Resident Philosopher Mar...
Episode 17: Patrice, Choreography and World-Building
23 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The choreographer and performance artist Patrice Miller’s conversation with RP Martina Botti (phd candidate from Columbia University) starts out wit...
Episode 16: Raffle-winner Destin: It Moves Us. We Call it "Art"
19 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Destin was the winner of our raffle at our fundraising event at Postmasters Gallery in October, 2019. It was a contest to raffle off a philosopher, an...
Episode 15: Boredom, Anxiety, and Being an Artist
12 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kunning posits that the function of art is to give yourself a different kind of life-style. He says it’s a way of spending time that is not very “...
Episode 14: Dr. Sascha Benjamin Fink + talkPOPc Resident Philosopher Andrew Rubner explore Topic #3 "Art as Cognition"
05 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode from our talkPOPc event, held in our tent at Lincoln Terrace Park in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, we invite two philosophers to converse a...
Episode 13: Crystal: Feeling/Meaning in Art
29 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
As a lover and maker of fashion, Crystal talks about what makes both fashion and art in general meaningful to her. The conversation at first seems to ...
Episode 12: Jasmine & The Butterfly
22 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
After weaving in a discussion of writing and what happens in writing, Jasmine relates a story about the astounding experience of sitting with a friend...
Episode 11: Mr. Walcott and Landscaping
15 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Mr. Raul Walcott, who is from Guyana and works as a landscaper, talks to Resident Philosopher Andrew Rubner about how the process of making something ...
Episode 10: Erline and the Purpose of Uniform. Expression and Meaning Through Clothing
08 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Erline, a seamstress from St. Vincent, discusses the importance of clothes in her life: the personal associations with clothes. As a child living in a...
Episode 9: Flora, Art History and Voyeurism
01 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Flora, a performance art scholar, talks about the politics of the artworld's elitism (driven in large part by its role as a leisure activity), an...
Episode 8: Mark's Math and Surrealism
24 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Mark, an investment banker (and wanderer through Lincoln Terrace Park, where this talkPOPc was held), knows about math, and he knows about the aesthet...
Episode 7: Charlexia's City Murals & City Parks
17 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Charlexia connects the amazement she feels in nature – parks – and the emotion that she experiences when in front of a street mural. Nature is in ...
Episode 6: Angelie: Science, Creativity, and Getting it Right
16 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This conversation started out as a query about art and turned into a conversation about decision theory. Or more specifically about how creativity is ...
Episode 5: Jake: The Soteriological Role of Art
16 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This conversation tackles head-on what art is meant to do. Jake takes issue with the recent 75 years or so of visual art, particularly since Conceptua...
Episode 4: Marina and the Stained Glass Experience
11 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This is part of talkPOPc's #3 project: Art as CognitionMarina has deep feelings about the kind of visual art she encounters in churches, particul...
Episode 3: Tom and Art as Education for Children
11 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This is part of talkPOPc's #3 project: Art as CognitionAs a kindergarten teacher, Tom, in his conversation with Resident Philosopher Agule, is gi...
Episode 2: Marcus on Rasta, Music, and Being Happy
11 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This is part of talkPOPc's #3 project: Art as CognitionMarcus speaks about his love of diverse kinds of music- Indian, Chinese, Sukka. This is in...
Episode 1: Pessy and Ultra Orthodox Upbringing
11 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This is part of talkPOPc's #2 project: CensorshipPessy is a woman who broke out from a religious fundamentalist community, and she insisted on he...