Artists in the World

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.

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.

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.

Can an augmented forest own and utilize itself? Paul Kolling and Christopher Dake-Outhet, members of the artist collective terra0, and Talia Heiman, curatorial assistant for the 58th Carnegie International, respond to this question, dissecting NFTs (non-fungible tokens), autonomous nature, climate crisis, and radical economies of generative wealth.

Whose experiences are left out of the conversation about mass incarceration? How do we address topics of oppression, confinement, and racial and political violence in the United States? Artist James “Yaya” Hough and members of Let’s Get Free: The Women and Trans Prisoner Defense Committee discuss using art as an organizing and educational tool to shift cultural understandings around harm, healing, justice, and abolition.

Episode two explores the cognitive and physical effects of technology with Tishan Hsu, an artist whose work examines the implications of the accelerated use of technology and artificial intelligence, and Ryan Inouye, associate curator for the 58th Carnegie International.

In this first episode of Artists in the World, poet Solmaz Sharif opens with a live reading of her poetry. Then, writer Negar Azimi and Sharif transition into a reflective conversation, sharing their experiences of what it means to be part of the Middle Eastern diaspora in an increasingly international world.