New York-based Chinese artist and photographer O Zhang discusses her early life in China and her subsequent travels and artistic journey. From formal state-sponsored art training in the PROC to academies in Europe and galleries in the USA this is an extraordinary story and remarkable body of work. The talk took place at Ch’i Contemporary Fine Art in Brooklyn on March 23, 2008, as part of the exhibition Out of the Spotlight: Contemporary Chinese Art (March 13 – April 7, 2008) which includes artists Ma Leonn, Liang Quan, Yu Xing Ze, Liu Liyun, Zhang Ping, and Yang Yan and is curated by Liu Jian. This Art Radio coverage is part of our partnership with Asian Contemporary Art Week 2008 and we thank Leeza Ahmady and Eunyoung Ju for their assistance.

• Asian Contemporary Art Week ::

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Another hair-raising episode in this exclusive series on art and biology, as the “Cowboy Science” – eugenics – comes under fire during Suzanne Anker’s roundtable on reproduction (human and mechanical) and the beauty ideal. Her guests: science writer Robin Marantz Henig, photographer (and M.D.), Mark Kessell, and activist art critic, Kirby Gookin.

• The Bio-Blurb Show ::

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Host Jill Spalding with guests Mauro Herlitzka and Liliana Porter, in a special edition highlighting Pinta (The Contemporary Latin American Art Fair), which was open November 16-20, 2007 at The Metropolitan Pavilion in New York City.

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The artist/historian/adventurer Duke Riley is an activist using a wide range of skills and tools: drawing, printmaking, mosaic, sculpture, performative interventions, and video/multimedia installations. His Web site is worth your time. WPS1’s David Weinstein interviewed him at the 2007 Armory Show.

• The Armory Show 2007 ::

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Alanna Heiss hosts a spirited and fascinating bilingual discussion with artists and officials from the China Pavilion, which was organized and sponsored by the Chinese government. From artist/curator Cai Guo-Qiang’s statement: There is a 110-year gap between the induction of the China pavilion and the establishment of the first national pavilion in the Venice Biennale 2005. Hence, this selection of artists is essentially an investigation into the nature of national pavilions and, in the context of a multinational arena, how to represent the inaugural China pavilion in 2005 or any national pavilion in the 21st century. Featuring discussions with Ho Chang, Fan Di’an, Cai Guo-Qiang, Jennifer Ma, Liu Wei, Yung Peng Yu, Sun Yuan, and Xu Zhen.

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The young, gifted, and (some say) goth artist Banks Violette speaks with host Michael Rush about murder, Black Metal music and the Columbia MFA program. You may be surprised how articulate, self -effacing and in control of his sculptural practice this non-shrinking violet is.

• Rush Interactive ::

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Performance art of the 70s was provocative and radical. Since then it has become recognized as a fundable, collectible commodity. How does the insertion of the museum into the equation affect the creation, experience and preservation of performance? Art historian and critic RoseLee Goldberg moderates a panel of artist Marina Abramovic, Cuban-born artist Tania Bruguera, philosopher, critic and curator Klaus Ottman, and curator Debra Singer, now Executive Director of The Kitchen. Among many highlights, Ottmann’s extraordinary account of the life, death and work of James Lee Byars.

• Not for Sale / Performa ::

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The panel is moderated by art historian and critic RoseLee Goldberg, featuring comments and discussion by: Elizabeth LeCompte, theater director for The Wooster Group Ron Kuivila, artist and composer Christian Marclay, artist and Christoph Cox, philosopher and critic. Highlights include LeCompte’s recollection of her early innovative use of video and Kuivila’s virtuosic deconstruction of John Cage. David Ross added concluding remarks. This panel discussion was sponsored by Performa, and recorded on April 21, 2005, at New York University.

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How do artists today give shape to radical notions in performance work? As more and more museums, galleries, and art fairs add performance to their programs, can this material still carry the provocative edge of its precedents? A panel of artists, writers, and curators discuss whether the term “radical” still holds today, in the art world and in the broader social and political sphere. This panel discussion was sponsored by Performa, and recorded on April 12, 2007, at New York University.

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Host Daniel Durning discusses the education of animators with two other educators from colleges in New York City. Guests Anezka Sebek (Parsons School of Design, MFA in Design and Technology) and John McIntosh (Chair of the Computer Art Department, School of Visual Arts) talk about the challenges in educating students who wish to enter the field. This Art & Technology edition intitates an ongoing series surveying trends in education.

• Art & Technology ::

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For fifteen years Callie Angell has been living with Andy Warhol, at least with all 290 hours of his film work. She joins host Michael Rush to discuss her new Catalogue Raisonne of Warhol’s widely influential film and video works.

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PS1 Director of Curatorial Affairs Eugenie Tsai and our own Jeannie Hopper tracks down artist Merle Laderman Ukeles next to her Armory Show 2007 exhibit featuring a tricked out sanitation truck. Ukeles has been the official artist in residence of the NYC Dept. of Sanitation for decades and is a dedicated advocate, observer, and creative interpreter of urban ecology.

• The Armory Show 2007 ::

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