Artists in the World

WQED Multimedia, Carnegie Museum of Art

A new series that opens conversations between artists and their contemporaries. "Artists in the World" uplifts artistic voices and explores multiple histories, geographies, and current events while creating space for new ideas and possibilities. Hosted by Carnegie Museum of Art's director of education and public programs, Dana Bishop-Root, and WQED-FM's artistic director, Jim Cunningham, the new podcast series features cross-disciplinary conversations, artist talks, readings, and performances that position artists in conversation with individuals across disciplines, practice, and place. read less

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Art lovers might enjoy the Artists in the World podcast. This show offers insight into today's contemporary artists. On the podcast, artists and art critics discuss art history, the art market, activism, and the creative process. These discussions invite listeners to open themselves to new thoughts and feelings. Innovative ideas emerge through encountering and creating art. Art facilitates imagination, change, and hope.

Many people know the stories of legendary artists like Vincent van Gogh. The Impressionist artist cut his ear off. This was allegedly because of a fit of jealousy, rage, and temper. Artists are notorious for their high-strung temperaments. But their works of art reveal the world's beauty, pain, and complexity. The creations of today's professional artists appear in museums like the Museum of Modern Art. From fine art to street art, visual culture fills enthusiasts and novices with wonder. The Artists in the World podcast tells these stories.

Hosts Dana and Jim provide listeners with elite access to the art world in this podcast. Their years of experience lend authenticity. Besides visual art, they explore poetry, music, and the performing arts. When poet Solmaz Sharif joins Negar Azimi, they discuss the power of language. During their live conversation, Solmaz brings listeners into her writing process. As a poet, she resists society's limits on ways of living. She asks, why do people call on artists in times of emergency? How can language transform experience? Following a reading, they reflect on art's political or personal importance.

The world of art is vast and filled with endless possibilities. Further guests include Tishan Hsu, Ryan Inouye, and Talia Heiman. In these talks, they question the human body's and technology's limits. Tishan Hsu uses sculpture, fabric, and software to create strange bodies. James Yaya" Hough creates visual art installations for prisons. He talks with the group Let's Get Free about ending cycles of imprisonment. In such conversations, listeners learn how artists interact with the world today. New episodes of the Artists in the World podcast appear monthly.

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Sonic Discussions with Julian Abraham “Togar” and Friends, Part 2

Sonic Discussions with Julian Abraham “Togar” and Friends, Part 2

In episodes seven and eight, we hear a sonic conversation recorded over three days activating Julian Abraham “Togar” artwork OK Studio, presented for the 58th Carnegie International. Togar, alongside musicians Rizky Sasono, Bri Dominique, Richard Nicol, and Herman “Soy Sauce” Pearl. The group met inside of met inside of OK Studio at Carnegie Museum of Art and built new imagined compositions you’ll hear in this episode.

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Sonic Discussions with Julian Abraham “Togar” and Friends, Part 2

Sonic Discussions with Julian Abraham “Togar” and Friends, Part 2

In episodes seven and eight, we hear a sonic conversation recorded over three days activating Julian Abraham “Togar” artwork OK Studio, presented for the 58th Carnegie International. Togar, alongside musicians Rizky Sasono, Bri Dominique, Richard Nicol, and Herman “Soy Sauce” Pearl. The group met inside of met inside of OK Studio at Carnegie Museum of Art and built new imagined compositions you’ll hear in this episode.

Sonic Discussions with Julian Abraham “Togar” and Friends, Part 1

Sonic Discussions with Julian Abraham “Togar” and Friends, Part 1

In episodes seven and eight, we hear a sonic conversation recorded over three days activating Julian Abraham “Togar” artwork OK Studio, presented for the 58th Carnegie International. Togar, alongside musicians Rizky Sasono, Bri Dominique, Richard Nicol, and Herman “Soy Sauce” Pearl. The group met inside of met inside of OK Studio at Carnegie Museum of Art and built new imagined compositions you’ll hear in this episode.

Zahia Rahmani & Ryan Inouye

Zahia Rahmani & Ryan Inouye

How does knowledge become democratized through transmission? Writer, art historian, and curator Zahia Rahmani and Laurence Glasco, an associate professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh, respond to this question.

Ignacia Biskupovic and Jennifer Josten

Ignacia Biskupovic and Jennifer Josten

In episode five, we hear from Ignacia Biskupovic, a visual artist, educator, and head of community engagement at the Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende (MSSA), and Jennifer Josten, an associate professor of modern and contemporary art at the University of Pittsburgh. The two discuss resistance art and pedagogy, nomadic museums, and MSSA’s exile from and return to Santiago.

terra0 & Talia Heiman

terra0 & Talia Heiman

terra0 (founded 2016) is a group of developers, theorists, and artists exploring the creation of hybrid ecosystems in the technosphere. The group’s first work, the terra0 whitepaper (2016), based on research in areas of DLT technology, ecology, and economics, proposes technologically augmented ecosystems that are able to act as agents in their own right. terra0’s artistic practice in recent years has focused on conducting experiments that take up, evaluate, and critically reflect on inherent claims of the first white paper.Talia Heiman, curatorial assistant for the 58th Carnegie International, has held curatorial positions at the Center for Contemporary Art in Tel Aviv and the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. She has curated exhibitions and programs at The Kitchen, New York; the Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York; and AA|LA Gallery, Los Angeles. She has published catalogue essays for the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery and the 57th Carnegie International. Heiman received an MA from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College and a BA from New York University.

James “Yaya” Hough & Let's Get Free

James “Yaya” Hough & Let's Get Free

James “Yaya” Hough has been heavily involved for more than a decade with Mural Arts Philadelphia, creating more than 50 works that have been installed at the State Correctional Institution–Graterford and the State Correctional Institution–Phoenix. In 2019, as part of a program supported by the Art for Justice Fund and Fair and Just Prosecution, Hough was selected to be the inaugural artist-in-residence at the Office of the District Attorney of Philadelphia.Let’s Get Free: The Women and Trans Prisoner Defense Committee (founded 2013, Pittsburgh, PA) is a group working to end perpetual punishment, build a pathway out of the prisons back to our communities through commutation reform, support successful possibilities for people formerly and currently incarcerated, and shift to a culture of transformative justice. The group was formed when Avis Lee, Charmaine Pfender, Donna Hill, and etta cetera all participated in One Billion Rising, a global day of action to end violence against women.

Tishan Hsu & Ryan Inouye

Tishan Hsu & Ryan Inouye

Tishan Hsu (b. 1951, Boston, MA; lives in New York, NY) has been probing the cognitive as well as physical effects of transformative technological advances on our lives since the mid-1980s. Through the use of unusual materials, software tools, and innovative fabrication techniques, his enigmatic paintings and sculptures explore and manifest poetic new ways to engage and reimagine the human body.Tishan Hsu (b. 1951, Boston, MA; lives in New York, NY) has been probing the cognitive as well as physical effects of transformative technological advances on our lives since the mid-1980s. Through the use of unusual materials, software tools, and innovative fabrication techniques, his enigmatic paintings and sculptures explore and manifest poetic new ways to engage and reimagine the human body.Ryan Inouye is associate curator for the 58th Carnegie International. He served most recently as senior curator at Sharjah Art Foundation in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, where he curated exhibitions and co-organized the 2018 edition of the March Meeting, an annual program that explores developments in culture through contemporary art.

Negar Azimi & Solmaz Sharif

Negar Azimi & Solmaz Sharif

Born in Istanbul to Iranian parents, Solmaz Sharif is the author of Customs (Graywolf Press, 2022) and Look (Graywolf Press, 2016), a finalist for the National Book Award. She holds degrees from U.C. Berkeley, where she studied and taught with June Jordan’s Poetry for the People, and New York University. Her work has appeared in Harper’s, The Paris Review, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, the New York Times, and others. Negar Azimi is a writer and editor and occasional curator. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the publishing and curatorial project Bidoun, a former fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, a member of the Beirut-based Arab Image Foundation, and a board member of Artists Space.