Proust Questionnaire Podcast
86 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 year ago -What motivates creative people to do what they do, especially when they use their drive, determination and talents to change the world? The Proust Questionnaire is thought in action. It's a personality test that allows us a glimpse behind the proverbial curtain of creative people's minds. Each guest answers the same 35 questions that were first popularized as a parlor game by French novelist Marcel Proust about a hundred years ago. But these questions are timeless, and you’ll quickly find yourself thinking with our guests, rather than about their answers. Be moved, entertained, and inspired to do good yourself when you listen to our guests tell us what they love, fear, and hope for in these oral portraits of great minds.
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Proust Questionnaire 38: Ricardo Alberto Maldonado
July 01, 2023 08:00 - 57 minutesRicardo Alberto Maldonado is a poet residing in New York City who was born and raised in Puerto Rico. His first collection of poems, The Life Assignment, was a finalist for the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award. He is the executive director and president of the Academy of American Poets, a leading nonprofit that established April as National Poetry Month and brings verse to a wide audience through its Poem-a-Day series with more than 330,000 daily subscribers. The Acad...
Proust Questionnaire 37: Dame Zandra Rhodes, Fashion Designer
October 24, 2022 08:00 - 37 minutesDame Zandra Rhodes is an English fashion and textile designer who has designed garments for Diana, Princess of Wales and numerous celebrities such as rock stars Freddie Mercury and Marc Bolan. In 2003, she founded the Fashion and Textile Museum in London. Her signature, recognizable design aesthetic has left an indelible mark on the history of fashion. In 2019, Rhodes celebrated her 50th year as a legendary figurehead of British fashion with a retrospective exhibition at the Fashion and Texti...
Proust Questionnaire 36: Haaz Sleiman, Actor
December 30, 2021 09:00 - 59 minutesHaaz Sleiman (هاز سليمان) is a Lebanese actor who has appeared as Tarek in Tom McCarthy’s 2007 award-winning film The Visitor, for which he was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male and the role of Jesus in the American TV mini-series Killing Jesus. He’s also appeared alongside Edie Falco and Anna Deavere Smith (guest on The Proust Questionnaire) in the hit show Nurse Jackie, and stars in Chloe Zhao’s 2021 blockbuster Eternals, where he plays (spoiler alert!) the...
PROUST QUESTIONNAIRE 35: Calvin Sun | Emergency Physician, World Traveler: Monsoon Diaries.
July 08, 2021 22:03 - 1 hour - 118 MBThe Proust Questionnaire hosts individuals who make a difference in various ways. Meet Calvin D. Sun, M.D., an emergency room physician who's worked at several of New York City's major hospitals all throughout Covid. He was a frequent frontline contributor to CNN and other major news programs for Covid-related news. His daily account of helping people during this harrowing time is forthcoming as Covid Diaries by a major publisher. Calvin is also known as a travel convener who's visited 190 c...
Proust Questionnaire 35: Calvin Sun, Emergency Physician, World Traveler: Monsoon Diaries
July 08, 2021 22:03 - 1 hourThe Proust Questionnaire hosts individuals who make a difference in various ways. Meet Calvin D. Sun, M.D., an emergency room physician who's worked at several of New York City's major hospitals all throughout Covid. He was a frequent frontline contributor to CNN and other major news programs for Covid-related news. His daily account of helping people during this harrowing time is forthcoming as Covid Diaries by a major publisher. Calvin is also known as a travel convener who's visited 190 co...
PROUST QUESTIONNAIRE 34: Kasi Lemmons | Film Director
March 13, 2021 22:19 - 55 minutes - 102 MBKasi Lemmons is an award-winning director, writer, actress and professor who has been a staple in Hollywood for nearly three decades. Her acclaimed 1997 feature directorial debut, “Eve’s Bayou, was inducted into the National Film Registry, and is considered among the first to showcase the beauty of African American Southern culture. The film received the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature, and the National Board of Review bestowed her with a special first-time director award. “E...
Proust Questionnaire 34: Kasi Lemmons, Film Director
March 13, 2021 22:19 - 57 minutesKasi Lemmons is an award-winning director, writer, actress and professor who has been a staple in Hollywood for nearly three decades. Her acclaimed 1997 feature directorial debut, “Eve’s Bayou, was inducted into the National Film Registry, and is considered among the first to showcase the beauty of African American Southern culture. The film received the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature, and the National Board of Review bestowed her with a special first-time director award. “Ev...
PROUST QUESTIONNAIRE 33: Cécile David-Weill | Novelist
January 28, 2021 19:04 - 55 minutes - 101 MBCécile David-Weill is a French American author who is born and based in New York. She published her first novel Crush (Grove Press, 1997) under the name of Cécile de la Baume. Her next two novels are wickedly funny comedies of manners set in glamorous French locales. The first, Femme de… ( in French, Grasset), follows three senior executives and their wives on a weekend corporate retreat in a luxurious hotel off season in La Baule, a beach resort in West of France, and offers a satirical t...
Proust Questionnaire 33: Cécile David-Weill, Novelist
January 28, 2021 19:04 - 57 minutesCécile David-Weill is a French American author who is born and based in New York. She published her first novel Crush (Grove Press, 1997) under the name of Cécile de la Baume. Her next two novels are wickedly funny comedies of manners set in glamorous French locales. The first, Femme de… ( in French, Grasset), follows three senior executives and their wives on a weekend corporate retreat in a luxurious hotel off season in La Baule, a beach resort in West of France, and offers a satirical take...
PROUST QUESTIONNAIRE 32: Daniel Kehlmann | Novelist
December 30, 2020 21:23 - 1 hour - 111 MBDaniel Kehlmann is a German-language novelist and playwright of both Austrian and German nationality. His novel Die Vermessung der Welt (translated into English by Carol Brown Janeway as Measuring the World, 2006) is the best selling book in the German language since Patrick Süskind's Perfume was released in 1985. According to The New York Times, it was the world's second-best selling novel in 2006. All his subsequent novels reached the number one spot on Germany's Spiegel bestseller l...
Proust Questionnaire 32: Daniel Kehlmann, Novelist
December 30, 2020 21:23 - 1 hourDaniel Kehlmann is a German-language novelist and playwright of both Austrian and German nationality. His novel Die Vermessung der Welt (translated into English by Carol Brown Janeway as Measuring the World, 2006) is the best selling book in the German language since Patrick Süskind's Perfume was released in 1985. According to The New York Times, it was the world's second-best selling novel in 2006. All his subsequent novels reached the number one spot on Germany's Spiegel bestseller list and...
PROUST QUESTIONNAIRE 31: Maurice Samuels | Historian
December 13, 2020 22:09 - 49 minutes - 45.5 MBMaurice Samuels is the author of several books on 19th-century French literature and culture and Jewish Studies: The Spectacular Past: Popular History and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century France, which examines new forms of historical representation in post-Revolutionary France; Inventing the Israelite: Jewish Fiction in Nineteenth-Century France brings to light the first Jewish fiction writers in French; The Right to Difference: French Universalism and the Jews studies how French writers an...
Proust Questionnaire 31: Maurice Samuels, Historian
December 13, 2020 22:09 - 51 minutesMaurice Samuels is the author of several books: The Spectacular Past: Popular History and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century France; Inventing the Israelite: Jewish Fiction in Nineteenth-Century France; The Right to Difference: French Universalism and the Jews, and The Betrayal of the Duchess, a study of France’s first antisemitic affair. A recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship, he directs Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism and Judaic Studies Program. Ulrich Baer is University Professor...
PROUST QUESTIONNAIRE 30: Ori Gersht | Photographer
November 25, 2020 17:35 - 1 hour - 142 MBExploding flower arrangements, meticulously staged scenes of beautiful destruction, haunted landscapes, still lives brought to their sublime end as if a host of angels unfolded their terrible wings just a bit too close.... Ori Gersht's photographs are unlike anything you've seen before. Gersht was born in Israel in 1967, but has lived in London for over 30 years. His photographs, films and books are concerned with the relationships between history, memory and landscape - and with the way w...
Proust Questionnaire 30: Ori Gersht, Photographer
November 25, 2020 17:35 - 1 hourExploding flower arrangements, meticulously staged scenes of beautiful destruction, haunted landscapes, still lives brought to their sublime end as if a host of angels unfolded their terrible wings just a bit too close.... Ori Gersht's photographs are unlike anything you've seen before. Gersht was born in Israel in 1967, but has lived in London for over 30 years. His photographs, films and books are concerned with the relationships between history, memory and landscape - and they are stunning...
PROUST QUESTIONNAIRE 29: Elliot Ackerman and Lea Carpenter | Novelists
November 18, 2020 22:21 - 1 hour - 79.2 MBThis episode features a married couple, both esteemed novelists. Elliot Ackerman is the author of the novels 2034: A Novel of the Next World War, Red Dress In Black and White, Waiting for Eden, Dark at the Crossing, and Green on Blue, as well as the memoir Places and Names: On War, Revolution and Returning. His books have been nominated for the National Book Award, the Andrew Carnegie Medal in both fiction and non-fiction, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. He is a former White House Fell...
Proust Questionnaire 29: Elliot Ackerman and Lea Carpenter, Novelists
November 18, 2020 22:21 - 1 hourToday's we're speaking to a married couple, both esteemed novelists. Elliot Ackerman is the author of the novels 2034: A Novel of the Next World War, Red Dress In Black and White, Waiting for Eden, Dark at the Crossing, and Green on Blue, and the memoir Places and Names: On War, Revolution and Returning. Lea Carpenter is the author of the novels Eleven Days, and Red, White, Blue, and the screenplay for Mile 22, the 2018 film directed by Peter Berg and starring Mark Wahlberg and John Malkovich...
PROUST QUESTIONNAIRE 28: Samantha Boardman | Psychiatrist
November 02, 2020 23:46 - 1 hour - 68.8 MBSamantha Boardman, MD, is a psychiatrist and a Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry and Assistant Attending Psychiatrist at Weill-Cornell Medical College in New York City. In her private practice as well as in her blog, www.PositivePrescription.com, and her forthcoming book, Everyday Strong, Samantha’s focus is not on mental illness but on mental wellness: on practical strategies for enhancing wellbeing and cultivating resilience in the face of life’s daily challenges. /////////////// Foll...
Proust Questionnaire 28: Samantha Boardman, Psychiatrist
November 02, 2020 23:46 - 1 hourSamantha Boardman, MD, is a psychiatrist and a Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry and Assistant Attending Psychiatrist at Weill-Cornell Medical College in New York City. In her private practice as well as in her blog, www.PositivePrescription.com, and her forthcoming book, Everyday Strong, Samantha’s focus is not on mental illness but on mental wellness: on practical strategies for enhancing wellbeing and cultivating resilience in the face of life’s daily challenges. Ulrich Baer is University ...
PROUST QUESTIONNAIRE 27: Alice Wu | Filmmaker
October 23, 2020 16:00 - 1 hour - 84 MBAlice Wu's debut feature, Saving Face, is a three-generation romantic comedy set in today's Chinatown in Queens, New York, where two smart, ambitious, and charismatic young women fall in love, against the backdrop of their traditional Chinese-American families. Alice Wu won the Visionary Award at the San Diego Asian Film Festival and the Audience Award for Best Narrative at the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival for her feature. In 2020 Netflix released her new feature,...
Proust Questionnaire 27: Alice Wu, Filmmaker
October 23, 2020 16:00 - 1 hourAlice Wu's debut feature, Saving Face, is a three-generation romantic comedy set in today's Chinatown in Queens, New York. Wu won the Visionary Award at the San Diego Asian Film Festival and the Audience Award for Best Narrative at the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival for her feature. In 2020 Netflix released her new feature, The Half of It, which won the Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival. Ulrich Baer is University Professor a...
PROUST QUESTIONNAIRE 26: Miranda Penn Turin | Photographer
October 22, 2020 16:00 - 1 hour - 73.8 MBMiranda Penn Turin is a freelance photographer and director who has been specializing in portraiture, fashion and beauty for over thirty years. She was born in Boston, Massachusetts and splits her time between New York and LA - she shoots all over the world and is grateful to have the best crew on the planet. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in creative writing, but her passion for photography overrode her major. Miranda's intention when she shoots is to rev...
Proust Questionnaire 26: Miranda Penn Turin, Photographer
October 22, 2020 16:00 - 1 hourMiranda Penn Turin is a freelance photographer and director who has been specializing in portraiture, fashion and beauty for over thirty years. She was born in Boston, Massachusetts and splits her time between New York and LA - she shoots all over the world and is grateful to have the best crew on the planet. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in creative writing, but her passion for photography overrode her major. Miranda's intention when she shoots is to reveal...
PROUST QUESTIONNAIRE 25: Jeremy Harris | Playwright
September 19, 2020 19:23 - 45 minutes - 41.9 MBJeremy O. Harris is an American actor and playwright, known for his plays Daddy and Slave Play. He was the winner of the 2018 Paula Vogel Playwriting Award, given by the Vineyard Theatre in New York City. A profile in the New York Times said that Harris's "ability to render subconscious trauma into provocative theatrical expression, as potentially unsettling as entertaining, has earned him a lot of attention in a very short time."[1] Out called him "The queer black savior the theater world n...
Proust Questionnaire 25: Jeremy Harris, Playwright
September 19, 2020 19:23 - 47 minutesJeremy O. Harris is an American actor and playwright, known for his plays Daddy and Slave Play. He was the winner of the 2018 Paula Vogel Playwriting Award, given by the Vineyard Theatre in New York City. A profile in the New York Times said that Harris's "ability to render subconscious trauma into provocative theatrical expression, as potentially unsettling as entertaining, has earned him a lot of attention in a very short time."[1]Out called him "The queer black savior the theater world nee...
PROUST QUESTIONNAIRE 24: Christine Coulson | Writer
August 31, 2020 21:07 - 1 hour - 96 MBWhat happens in museum when the crowds have gone? Christine Coulson's exquisite book, Metropolitan Stories, imagines the inner lives of the artworks and precious objects that tell us so much about the past, the present but also our human future, while enduring stoically the millions of museum visitors' inquisitive, appreciative or indifferent gazes. Christine was a senior curator at the Metropolitan Museum where she worked for over 25 years before becoming a full-time writer. The book i...
Proust Questionnaire 24: Christine Coulson, Writer
August 31, 2020 21:07 - 1 hourWhat happens in museum when the crowds have gone? Christine Coulson's exquisite book, Metropolitan Stories, imagines the inner lives of the artworks and precious objects that tell us so much about the past, the present but also our human future, while enduring stoically the millions of museum visitors' inquisitive, appreciative or indifferent gazes. Christine was a senior curator at the Metropolitan Museum where she worked for over 25 years before becoming a full-time writer. The book is a l...
PROUST QUESTIONNAIRE 24: Sameh Zoabi | Filmmaker/Director
August 22, 2020 17:07 - 1 hour - 75.5 MBSameh Zoabi is a Palestinian filmmaker who was born and raised in Israel. His feature film, Tel Aviv on Fire, chronicles the making of a daytime soap opera in contemporary Israel. It is a comedy-drama satire film directed by Zoabi and co-written by Zoabi and Dan Kleinman. The film premiered internationally at the 75th Venice International Film Festival in the Orizzonti section, where Kais Nashef won the Best Actor award. The Israeli premiere was at the Haifa International Film Festival, wher...
PROUST QUESTIONNAIRE 23: Sameh Zoabi | Filmmaker/Director
August 22, 2020 17:07 - 1 hour - 75.5 MBSameh Zoabi is a Palestinian filmmaker who was born and raised in Israel. His feature film, Tel Aviv on Fire, chronicles the making of a daytime soap opera in contemporary Israel. It is a comedy-drama satire film directed by Zoabi and co-written by Zoabi and Dan Kleinman. The film premiered internationally at the 75th Venice International Film Festival in the Orizzonti section, where Kais Nashef won the Best Actor award. The Israeli premiere was at the Haifa International Film Festival, wher...
Proust Questionnaire 23: Sameh Zoabi, Filmmaker/Director
August 22, 2020 17:07 - 1 hourSameh Zoabi is a Palestinian filmmaker who was born and raised in Israel. His feature film, Tel Aviv on Fire, chronicles the making of a daytime soap opera in contemporary Israel. It is a comedy-drama satire directed by Zoabi and co-written by Zoabi and Dan Kleinman. The film premiered internationally at the 75th Venice International Film Festival, where Kais Nashef won the Best Actor award. It won Best Film and Best Screenplay awards at the Haifa International Film Festival. Ulrich Baer is U...
PROUST QUESTIONNAIRE 22: Miriam Bridenne | Bookseller
August 18, 2020 13:21 - 46 minutes - 42.4 MBMiriam Bridenne is the Deputy Director of Albertine Books, the French bookstore housed in the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in New York City. Prior to coming to Albertine, Miriam worked in publishing for almost twenty years. She co-leads Albertine’s popular French Book Club and regularly makes reading recommendations on the store’s popular blog. /////////////// Follow us: TWITTER - @ulibaer / @corklinedRoom INSTAGRAM - @ulinyc / @carolineweber2020 (PROUST QUESTIONNAIRE P...
Proust Questionnaire 22: Miriam Bridenne, Bookseller
August 18, 2020 13:21 - 48 minutesMiriam Bridenne is the Deputy Director of Albertine Books, the French bookstore housed in the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in New York City. Prior to coming to Albertine, Miriam worked in publishing for almost twenty years. She co-leads Albertine’s popular French Book Club and regularly makes reading recommendations on the store’s popular blog. Ulrich Baer is University Professor at New York University where he teaches literature and photography, and writes frequently about photog...
PROUST QUESTIONNAIRE 21: Hugh Evans | Humanitarian
August 15, 2020 13:43 - 46 minutes - 52.7 MBHugh Evans is an Australian humanitarian, co-founder of both The Oaktree Foundation and Global Citizen, a Global Poverty Project. At age 14, Evans spent the night in a Manila slum. The harsh realities of his hosts’ lives motivated Evans to challenge the status quo of extreme poverty. Following a trip to South Africa in 2002 as World Vision's inaugural Youth Ambassador, Evans worked on the Make Poverty History campaign and helped stage the Make Poverty History Concert (fronted by Pearl Jam...
Proust Questionnaire 21: Hugh Evans, Humanitarian
August 15, 2020 13:43 - 47 minutesHugh Evans is an Australian humanitarian, co-founder of both The Oaktree Foundation and Global Citizen, a Global Poverty Project. At 14, Evans spent the night in a Manila slum. The harsh realities of his hosts’ lives motivated him to challenge the status quo of extreme poverty. He has received domestic and international accolades for his work in promoting youth advocacy and volunteerism in order to reduce extreme poverty in developing countries. Ulrich Baer is University Professor at New York...
Proust Questionnaire 20: Maira Kalman, Artist
August 11, 2020 14:00 - 41 minutesMaira Kalman was born in Tel Aviv and moved to New York with her family at the age of four. She was raised in bucolic Riverdale, the Bronx. Maira has written and illustrated Eighteen children’s books, including Ooh-la-la-Max in Love, What Pete Ate, 13 WORDS, a collaboration with Lemony Snicket, Why We Broke Up, with Daniel Handler, and the Pursuit of Everything and more. She is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker Magazine, and is well known for her collaboration with Rick Meyerowitz o...
PROUST QUESTIONNAIRE 20: Maira Kalman | Artist
August 11, 2020 14:00 - 39 minutes - 36.3 MBMaira Kalman was born in Tel Aviv and moved to New York with her family at the age of four. She was raised in bucolic Riverdale, the Bronx. Maira has written and illustrated Eighteen children’s books, including Ooh-la-la-Max in Love, What Pete Ate, 13 WORDS, a collaboration with Lemony Snicket, Why We Broke Up, with Daniel Handler, and the Pursuit of Everything and more. She is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker Magazine, and is well known for her collaboration with Rick Meyerow...
PROUST QUESTIONNAIRE 19: Seph Rodney | Writer/Editor
August 08, 2020 14:05 - 1 hour - 89.5 MBDeeply informed, passionately committed and always invested in the truth, Seph Rodney's writings about art and culture have earned him a broad following among those who like their criticism not to soothe and tranquilize but to invigorate the mind, eyes, ears, and soul. Rodney is a staff writer and editor for Hyperallergic and has written for CNN, MSNBC, American Craft magazine, and other publications. He is featured on the podcast The American Age. His book, The Personalization of the Museum...
Proust Questionnaire 19: Seph Rodney, Writer/Editor
August 08, 2020 14:05 - 1 hourDeeply informed, passionately committed and always invested in the truth, Seph Rodney's writings about art and culture have earned him a broad following among those who like their criticism not to soothe and tranquilize but to invigorate the mind, eyes, ears, and soul. Rodney is a staff writer and editor for Hyperallergic and has published a book, The Personalization of the Museum Visit, in 2019. In 2020 he was awarded the Rabkin Arts Journalism Prize. Find him at sephrodney.com. Ulrich Baer ...
PROUST QUESTIONNAIRE 18: Anna Condo | Artist
August 04, 2020 13:57 - 49 minutes - 56.2 MBAnna Condo is a French director and photographer who was born in Armenia and now lives in New York. She began an acting career, then in 1988 turned to photography. In 1989, Anna moved to the United States and worked on many projects. She started writing and making movies. During this period, Anna continued to take photographs and collaborated with many artists. In 1998, She published her first book “AH Allen,” a powerful tribute to her friend and poet Allen Ginsberg. Since 2013, Anna has b...
Proust Questionnaire 18: Anna Condo, Artist
August 04, 2020 13:57 - 50 minutesAnna is a French director and photographer who was born in Armenia and now lives in New York City. A trained actor and film director, in 1998 she published her first book “AH Allen,” a powerful tribute to her friend and poet Allen Ginsberg. Since 2013, Anna has been focusing on flower photography which have been exhibited internationally and won her wide acclaim. Ulrich Baer is University Professor at New York University where he teaches literature and photography, and writes frequently about...
PROUST QUESTIONNAIRE 17: Etgar Keret | Writer/Filmmaker
August 01, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour - 62.5 MBEtgar Keret is a globally celebrated author of stories and memoirs that expose the absurdity of daily life in our modern world, and through this often unexpected and very funny lens remind us that things could and ought to be better. His last short-story collection, Fly Already (2019), has been rewarded with the 2019 National Jewish Book Award. He also won in 2007 the Camera d'Or at Cannes for the film Jellyfish (2007). Adumbrating the strangeness of our shared existence in comical, Kafkae...
Proust Questionnaire 17: Etgar Keret, Writer/Filmmaker
August 01, 2020 14:00 - 1 hourEtgar Keret is a globally celebrated author and filmmaker who exposes the absurdity of daily life in our modern world, and through a Kafkaesque lens remind us that things ought to be better. Fly Already (2019) was rewarded with the 2019 National Jewish Book Award, and Jellyfish won in 2007 the Camera d'Or at Cannes. Keret’s unforgettable, heart-shattering and funny stories make us see that things should be otherwise and, in spite of historical and political roadblocks, can become better. Ulri...
Proust Questionnaire 16: Sarah McNally, Bookseller
July 28, 2020 14:00 - 1 hourSarah McNally is the founder and owner of three windows into the world of letters in New York City: the McNally bookstores, renowned not only in NYC but around the country and world for independent, well-curated, smart bookselling. We spoke with Sarah during the lockdown of New York City to find out what she cares about and values, and also to speak with one of our personal heroines: someone who comes from a family of booksellers and keeps the great tradition of independent bookstores alive t...
PROUST QUESTIONNAIRE 16: Sarah McNally | Bookseller
July 28, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour - 57.3 MBSarah McNally is the founder and owner of three windows into the world of letters in New York City: the McNally bookstores, renowned not only in NYC but around the country and world for independent, well-curated, smart bookselling. We spoke with Sarah during the lockdown of New York City to find out what she cares about and values, and also to speak with one of our personal heroines: someone who comes from a family of booksellers and keeps the great tradition of independent bookstores alive ...
PROUST QUESTIONNAIRE 15: Omar Victor Diop | Photographer
July 25, 2020 13:56 - 49 minutes - 56.2 MBOmar Victor Diop is a Senegalese photographer whose historical auto-portraits, where he places himself in settings and poses previously occupied by historical figures, have been exhibited around the world. Born in Dakar in 1980, Diop developed an interest in photography and design as a means to capture the diversity of modern African societies and lifestyles. The success of his first conceptual project Fashion 2112, Le Futur du Beau which was featured at the Pan African Exhibition of...
Proust Questionnaire 15: Omar Victor Diop, Photographer
July 25, 2020 13:56 - 50 minutesOmar Victor Diop is a Senegalese photographer whose historical auto-portraits, where he places himself in settings and poses previously occupied by historical figures, have been exhibited around the world. Born in Dakar in 1980, Diop developed an interest in photography and design as a means to capture the diversity of modern African societies and lifestyles. Ulrich Baer is University Professor at New York University where he teaches literature and photography, and writes frequently about ph...
Proust Questionnaire 14: Sarah Meyohas, Artist
July 21, 2020 14:00 - 53 minutesSarah Meyohas is a French-American conceptual artist working across media and emerging technologies. Artificial intelligence, cryptocurrency, the stock market, virtual reality, and augmented reality are materials she molds into visions of beauty, bringing the concept of value into focus. Meyohas inserts subjectivity into the mechanized, creating performative situations out of which artworks emerge as reflections. She has had solo exhibitions in New York at Red Bull Arts and 303 Gallery. Her w...
PROUST QUESTIONNAIRE 14: Sarah Meyohas | Artist
July 21, 2020 14:00 - 52 minutes - 47.8 MBSarah Meyohas is a French-American conceptual artist working across media and emerging technologies. Artificial intelligence, cryptocurrency, the stock market, virtual reality, and augmented reality are materials she molds into visions of beauty, bringing the concept of value into focus. Meyohas inserts subjectivity into the mechanized, creating performative situations out of which artworks emerge as reflections. She has had solo exhibitions in New York at Red Bull Arts and 303 Gallery. Her ...
Proust Questionnaire 13: Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Poet
July 18, 2020 14:00 - 1 hourRowan Ricardo Phillips is a poet, writer and literary and art critic - and sports writer! - who was born and raised in New York City. He is the author of the poetry collections The Ground (2012), Heaven (2015; a finalist for the National Book Award), and Living Weapon (2019). In addition to his collections of poetry, Phillips is author of the critical volume When Blackness Rhymes with Blackness (2010) where Uli has hosted him on his podcast on Great Books to talk about Phillis Wheatley, P...
PROUST QUESTIONNAIRE 13: Rowan Ricardo Phillips | Poet
July 18, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour - 55.7 MBRowan Ricardo Phillips is a poet, writer and literary and art critic - and sports writer! - who was born and raised in New York City. He is the author of the poetry collections The Ground (2012), Heaven (2015; a finalist for the National Book Award), and Living Weapon (2019). In addition to his collections of poetry, Phillips is author of the critical volume When Blackness Rhymes with Blackness (2010) where Uli has hosted him on his podcast on Great Books to talk about Phillis Wheatley,...