Feminist Perspectives in Performance & Art with MICOL HEBRON - Highlights

Feminist Perspectives in Performance & Art with MICOL HEBRON - Highlights

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Interdisciplinary Artist, Curator & Feminist Activist

Now I think we’re in another culture war. I think we’re in, as we see the realm of cancel culture in social media and this very polarising war between the liberal left and the conservative right. I think that we’re in another culture and a lot of it is centering around gender and race. If you look at what’s happened to black women athletes in the last couples of months, the censuring of their bodies either because of hormones in the case of Caster Semenya or Naomi Osaka, there’s a lot of ways that our society has found to police black bodies for being too exceptional in a lot of ways. For performing in exceptional ways, and the white patriarchy doesn’t like to see that because it starts to diminish their power.


MICOL HEBRON - Interdisciplinary Artist, Curator & Feminist Activist

MICOL HEBRON - Interdisciplinary Artist, Curator & Feminist Activist

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Interdisciplinary Artist, Curator & Feminist Activist

Now I think we’re in another culture war. I think we’re in, as we see the realm of cancel culture in social media and this very polarising war between the liberal left and the conservative right. I think that we’re in another culture and a lot of it is centering around gender and race. If you look at what’s happened to black women athletes in the last couples of months, the censuring of their bodies either because of hormones in the case of Caster Semenya or Naomi Osaka, there’s a lot of ways that our society has found to police black bodies for being too exceptional in a lot of ways. For performing in exceptional ways, and the white patriarchy doesn’t like to see that because it starts to diminish their power.


Championing Gender Equality in Hollywood: TEMA STAIG, ALLISON VANORE - Women in Media - Highlights

Championing Gender Equality in Hollywood: TEMA STAIG, ALLISON VANORE - Women in Media - Highlights

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Tema Staig · Women in Media Executive Director & Art Director
Allison Vanore · WIM Secretary & Emmy-Winning Producer of After Forever

I started Women in Media in 2010 as a sort of community group. We talked about women above and below the line because there weren’t any organizations or conversations really happening about women in the below the line positions, meaning women in the crew who are in the camera, art, grip and electronics departments. There were only conversations happening about more women directors and, being a scenic artist and production designer, I knew that there are so many women in the crew and there’s only one director. So if we only aimed for one, we would never get to parity and there would never be room like myself who wanted to advance from these crew positions.

Women in Media - Exec. Director & Art Director TEMA STAIG & ALLISON VANORE - Emmy-Winning Producer

Women in Media - Exec. Director & Art Director TEMA STAIG & ALLISON VANORE - Emmy-Winning Producer

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Tema Staig · Women in Media Executive Director & Art Director
Allison Vanore · WIM Secretary & Emmy-Winning Producer of After Forever

I started Women in Media in 2010 as a sort of community group. We talked about women above and below the line because there weren’t any organizations or conversations really happening about women in the below the line positions, meaning women in the crew who are in the camera, art, grip and electronics departments. There were only conversations happening about more women directors and, being a scenic artist and production designer, I knew that there are so many women in the crew and there’s only one director. So if we only aimed for one, we would never get to parity and there would never be room like myself who wanted to advance from these crew positions.

Bridging Art & Culture in Athens: Inside the MUSEUM HERAKLEIDON - Highlights

Bridging Art & Culture in Athens: Inside the MUSEUM HERAKLEIDON - Highlights

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General Manager & Communications Director
Herakleidon Museum, Athens

Art, Culture & History: MUSEUM HERAKLEIDON, Athens

Art, Culture & History: MUSEUM HERAKLEIDON, Athens

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General Manager & Communications Director
Herakleidon Museum, Athens

A Sculptor's Life: The Monumental Art of MARK MENNIN - Highlights

A Sculptor's Life: The Monumental Art of MARK MENNIN - Highlights

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Sculptor

I think direct contact with the material should be important to every sculptor because I think once you lose that it becomes a second hand process. It’s one of the reasons the casting process isn’t so interesting to me just because the final product, the final piece has not been touched by the artist. There’s no relationship with the mind that conceived the piece or designed it. I think something is lost when that happens. And it becomes something else.

MARK MENNIN - Sculpture, History, Landscape

MARK MENNIN - Sculpture, History, Landscape

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Sculptor

I think direct contact with the material should be important to every sculptor because I think once you lose that it becomes a second hand process. It’s one of the reasons the casting process isn’t so interesting to me just because the final product, the final piece has not been touched by the artist. There’s no relationship with the mind that conceived the piece or designed it. I think something is lost when that happens. And it becomes something else.

From Pompidou to the National Museum of Immigration: SÉBASTIEN GOKALP on Curating Art & History

From Pompidou to the National Museum of Immigration: SÉBASTIEN GOKALP on Curating Art & History

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Sébastien Gokalp · Director of France’s National Museum of Immigration
Curator of Exhibitions at Centre Pompidou, Musée d’art Moderne de la Ville de Paris & Louis Vuitton Foundation

We have a motto that says that ‘we want to change the gaze on immigration or to open the eyes on immigration’. We’re not here to make action in society, but we want people who come here to have elements of reflection, perception about the question of immigration. To change a mind, because immigration is about the stories of people who come from another country–they are someone else, basically–by assisting them we want to show how someone else can be great for us and not a stranger, foreigner, nor an enemy, but a friend. Someone who will bring us many things about culture, about work, about a way of meaning, of thinking. We have a historical point of view. We want to show that from the French Revolution until now, so two centuries of stories.

RICK MOODY: From The Ice Storm to The Long Accomplishment – A Literary Journey

RICK MOODY: From The Ice Storm to The Long Accomplishment – A Literary Journey

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Novelist & Memoirist

Words are the oldest information storage and retrieval system ever devised…The written word will remain, scribbled on collapsed highway overpasses, as a testament to love and rage, as evidence of the wanderers in the ruin.

Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl w/ JEANNIE VANASCO - Highlights

Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl w/ JEANNIE VANASCO - Highlights

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Award-Winning Memoirist, Author & Educator

What interested me about this particular experience is that I didn’t have the language to attach to it in the way I had the language to attach to a later experience that I would have no trouble calling rape, but happened to me and I call Mark in the book. I didn’t know what to call that for the longest time, so I didn’t know what to feel about it, and so as a writer that interests me. When I don’t have the words for something, when I sense that inevitably I’m going to fail.


Breaking the Silence: JEANNIE VANASCO on Trauma, Healing & Writing the Unspoken

Breaking the Silence: JEANNIE VANASCO on Trauma, Healing & Writing the Unspoken

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Award-Winning Memoirist, Author & Educator

What interested me about this particular experience is that I didn’t have the language to attach to it in the way I had the language to attach to a later experience that I would have no trouble calling rape, but happened to me and I call Mark in the book. I didn’t know what to call that for the longest time, so I didn’t know what to feel about it, and so as a writer that interests me. When I don’t have the words for something, when I sense that inevitably I’m going to fail.


Exploring Identity, Culture & The Art of Translation w/ JENNY BHATT - Highlights

Exploring Identity, Culture & The Art of Translation w/ JENNY BHATT - Highlights

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Writer, Literary Translator, Book Critic & Host of Desi Books Podcast

People talk about the work life, the line between your work and your life and keeping them separate and keeping the balance. For me, it’s always been that my work defines who I am and who I am in my personal life also defines who I am at my workplace. I don’t know how you separate those identities because I take all my belief systems and who I am to my workplace.

On Work. Life, Culture & Creativity with JENNY BHATT

On Work. Life, Culture & Creativity with JENNY BHATT

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Writer, Literary Translator, Book Critic & Host of Desi Books Podcast

People talk about the work life, the line between your work and your life and keeping them separate and keeping the balance. For me, it’s always been that my work defines who I am and who I am in my personal life also defines who I am at my workplace. I don’t know how you separate those identities because I take all my belief systems and who I am to my workplace.

Bridging Cultures Through Music & Composition with BRIGHT SHENG - Highlights

Bridging Cultures Through Music & Composition with BRIGHT SHENG - Highlights

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MacArthur & ASCAP Award-Winning Composer, Conductor & Pianist

I try to preserve the Chinese music flavor. So, you imagine in Chinese band, the country music that people usually reserve for weddings or for big moments or for funerals. That kind of a feeling. Drums and music playing. I try to preserve it from my memory because what we have now is just a tune. You can probably recognize the tune, but the execution of translating that for a Western orchestra and make it sound like it’s a Chinese band playing Chinese instruments.

BRIGHT SHENG - MacArthur & ASCAP Award-Winning Composer, Conductor & Pianist

BRIGHT SHENG - MacArthur & ASCAP Award-Winning Composer, Conductor & Pianist

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MacArthur & ASCAP Award-Winning Composer, Conductor & Pianist

I try to preserve the Chinese music flavor. So, you imagine in Chinese band, the country music that people usually reserve for weddings or for big moments or for funerals. That kind of a feeling. Drums and music playing. I try to preserve it from my memory because what we have now is just a tune. You can probably recognize the tune, but the execution of translating that for a Western orchestra and make it sound like it’s a Chinese band playing Chinese instruments.

Exploring Music, Writing & the Cultural Life of Athens with KIRIAKOS SPIROU - Highlights

Exploring Music, Writing & the Cultural Life of Athens with KIRIAKOS SPIROU - Highlights

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Editor, Writer, Curator, Content Creator, Pianist & Composer

This particular exhibition definitely had to do with my close relationship to dance. I have collaborated a lot with choreographers for contemporary dance theater, and I was often advising collaborators, so we would create the tasks and the content of the choreography together. We would exchange the tasks. We would create the score and narrative together. Also, because I’m a pianist, which is a very physically demanding instrument, you have this geography of the piano. I think this exhibitions links to my own experience as a performer and composer for dance and the relationship that music has with the body.

KIRIAKOS SPIROU - Editor, Writer, Curator, Content Creator, Pianist & Composer

KIRIAKOS SPIROU - Editor, Writer, Curator, Content Creator, Pianist & Composer

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Editor, Writer, Curator, Content Creator, Pianist & Composer

This particular exhibition definitely had to do with my close relationship to dance. I have collaborated a lot with choreographers for contemporary dance theater, and I was often advising collaborators, so we would create the tasks and the content of the choreography together. We would exchange the tasks. We would create the score and narrative together. Also, because I’m a pianist, which is a very physically demanding instrument, you have this geography of the piano. I think this exhibitions links to my own experience as a performer and composer for dance and the relationship that music has with the body.

Colombian Jazz Harpist Virtuoso EDMAR CASTANEDA on Family, Faith & the Creative Process - Highlights

Colombian Jazz Harpist Virtuoso EDMAR CASTANEDA on Family, Faith & the Creative Process - Highlights

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Jazz Harpist

The harp or the instrument that I play is a traditional instrument from Columbia (I’m from Bogota, Columbia). We have traditional music there called Janetta music. It’s the music from the plains of Colombia and Venezuala. It’s like the cowboy music… I met the harp when I was seven years old. That’s the first time I saw this instrument. I was like–Wow! I knew I was born to play the harp that day!

EDMAR CASTANEDA - Jazz Harpist Virtuoso

EDMAR CASTANEDA - Jazz Harpist Virtuoso

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Jazz Harpist

The harp or the instrument that I play is a traditional instrument from Columbia (I’m from Bogota, Columbia). We have traditional music there called Janetta music. It’s the music from the plains of Colombia and Venezuala. It’s like the cowboy music… I met the harp when I was seven years old. That’s the first time I saw this instrument. I was like–Wow! I knew I was born to play the harp that day!