Episode 3 (S2): #CareerGoals

Episode 3 (S2): #CareerGoals

Elena and Jay reflect on the decades-long careers of Black artists and consider what their re-emergence says about our current moment and for the future.

Haptic Visions and Ambient Identity: DB Amorin Working in the Wake of the Glitch

DB Amorin explores a queer Native "ambient identity" through video installations that include the geographic, the cognitive, and the historic. 

Sappho’s Body is Leaking: Sacred Enclosures of Queer Desire

From the performance-art practice of Hope Mohr Dance to the Sapphic brilliance of Juliana Huxtable’s poetry and soundscapes, sacred enclosures of queer desire abound.

Stranger Visions: Questioning Tech’s Ethics in a DNA Boom

For her work Stranger Visions, Heather Dewey-Hagborg collected genetic traces left on New York streets. Like the shed DNA, internet data collection leaves a trail through which to trace our digital lives.

Episode 35: Nancy Hom

Weston talks with artist, curator, and cultural organizer Nancy Hom, who has served as an anchor and mentor in the Asian American artistic community, creating platforms to support artists, bring together people, and advance social justice work.

Cybele Lyle: Lured to the Local

Cybele Lyle renegotiates her relationship to the rapidly changing landscape of her childhood home: “I feel like I'm seeing a place I've known forever for the first time.”

Xiaojing Yan and Wen-Li Chen: Between Worlds

Cliff Hengst & Scott Hewicker

"I keep thinking of Prue Leith from the Great British Baking Show (one of the few things these days that calms my rising anxiety) when she says knowingly to the contestants, 'It has got to be worth the calories.' I’m sure there’s a metaphor for art school in there somewhere."

Learning from Ad Minoliti’s Experimental Feminist Heterotopic Fantasy

The Feminist School of Painting is a solo exhibition by the Argentinian artist Ad Minoliti, but it is also an experiment and a “performance that begins with open questions.”

Hands and Feet and Their Supports: Works by Matt Borruso at Cloaca Projects

Amy Kaufman: Recent Work at Traywick Contemporary

Fold, Staple, Embrace: The Body Alive in the Archive

Photographic objects and the subjects within them degrade over time, particularly when discarded through the sieve of archival practices. Do possibilities exist for the body to further live through the photograph? Can photographic objects invoke life over death?

Episode 1: Sound as Sculpture

In the first episode of PRNT SCRN, Dorothy explores the history and convergence of analog and digital technologies in the production of experimental sound.

Magnetic Fields

The Bay Area may be losing some of its soul, but there’s a tenacious spirit here that cannot be eradicated. Ultimately, things boil down to our sense of truth and empathy.

Utopian Visions with Srijon Chowdhury

The Utopian Visions Art Fair in Portland, OR proposes an optimistic alternative to traditional models.

Episode 2, (S2): Deep In My Feelings

On this episode, Jay and Elena visit Bay Area Now 8, the YBCA triennial exhibition, and talk about faves and feelings.

Episode 34: Dinh Q. Lê

In this (un)making episode, Weston talks with Ho Chi Minh City-based artist, curator, and cultural organizer Dinh Q. Lê.

Autumn Knight’s Sanity TV

Autumn Knight's Sanity TV is a performative talk show negotiating the complex socio-policital dynamics of its audience.

Going Outside at NanHai Art: The Solitary Landscapes of He Kunlin and Tong Yi Xin

Going Outside showcases the work of China-born, US-based artists He Kunlin and Tong Yi Xin. The exhibition addresses an ongoing negotiation of masculinity in the contemporary era.

Medusa’s Last Laugh: An Interview with Bri Williams

Bri Williams often sources objects from antique malls, second-hand stores, or simply from the street: materials that were once possessed by someone or something else—and perhaps still are.