Undercurrent
26 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsUndercurrent releases short conversations with artists exhibiting at Undercurrent and other guests about ten times a year.
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un/mute - Alex Mirutziu
September 23, 2021 04:41 - 1 hour - 133 MBAdriana and Moacir had a long chat with Alex Mirutziu a few months ago and are releasing that chat now to coincide with the opening of the un/mute exhibition. Mirutziu’s collaboration with Sydney Shavers will appear at Austrian Cultural Forum NY. Additionally, this Friday, September 24, Undercurrent invites you to meet some of the un/mute artists at a special un/mute talk and reception. It begins aat 6pm, and please bring appropriate masking and proof of vaccination. Podcast by Adriana Fur...
un/mute - H. Lan Thao Lam
August 16, 2021 05:05 - 1 hour - 131 MBAdriana and Moacir had a long chat with H. Lan Thao Lam a few months ago and are releasing that chat now to coincide with the announcement of the un/mute exhibition. Stay tuned to this podcast as more information about the exhibition gets released. Lam’s collaboration with Sanne De Wilde will appear both at Undercurrent and the Austrian Cultural Forum NY. Additionally, Adriana co-curated (with Jonah Schwimmer and Reny Adolphus Marte) the current show at Undercurrent, Break Room. It closes o...
Meghan Cox
May 19, 2021 02:14 - 54 minutes - 124 MBAdriana talks to Meghan Cox about her show, Hours and Hours, teaching (and learning) art, what you are and aren’t supposed to do in art, and emo-formalism. Hours and Hours will close on June 6. Undercurrent also invites you to a poetry reading on May 22 to support Meghan’s show. Starting at 3pm, the following poets will give short readings outside of Undercurrent: Sheila Maldonado, who also organized the reading David Pemberton Stella Padnos Bakar Wilson Meghan made reference at one po...
UN/MUTE - Consultant Roundtable
April 25, 2021 03:21 - 51 minutes - 117 MBAdriana and Moacir facilitate a discussion with representatives of Team Arrow, the ten consultants who each collaborated with one team in UN/MUTE 10002. Adriana Blidaru, Sozita Goudouna, Elena Siyanko, Petra Valentova, and Raúl Zamudio opined on opportunities and challenges for solidarity in art during the pandemic and afterward. Follow the consultants: Adriana: https://www.livingcontent.online/, http://instagram.com/livingcontent_online Sozita: https://cuny.academia.edu/DrSozitaGoudouna...
UN/MUTE - Barbara Maria Neu
April 05, 2021 06:33 - 37 minutes - 85.2 MBAdriana and Moacir talk to Barbara Maria Neu of Team Profile for the first UN/MUTE-10002 podcast interview. Barbara talks about her expanding on her artistic sensibility as a clarinetist to become the performance artist she is today. And they talk about rules. A lot. More about Barbara: http://www.barbaramarianeu.at/ and http://instagram.com/barbaramarianeu. Podcast by Adriana Furlong and Moacir P. de Sá Pereira. Ⓒ 2021 CC BY-SA-NC, Undercurrent and 1984 PRODUKTS. Subscribe, rate, and re...
Ryan Cosbert
March 29, 2021 03:14 - 34 minutes - 80 MBRyan Cosbert joins Adriana and Moacir to discuss her practice and research on the African Diaspora as well as her current show at Undercurrent, I Am What I Am. The show opened on March 12 and runs through April 18. More about Ryan: http://ryancosbert.com and https://www.instagram.com/bcosryan/. Podcast by Adriana Furlong and Moacir P. de Sá Pereira. Ⓒ 2021 CC BY-SA-NC, Undercurrent and 1984 PRODUKTS. Subscribe, rate, and review Undercurrent, our podcast, on iTunes, Spotify, or PocketCas...
UN/MUTE-10002
February 15, 2021 22:46 - 22 minutes - 51.1 MBThe twenty artists from the EU and New York City participating in UN/MUTE-10002 introduced themselves during the lottery that aired on Friday, February 12, 2021. Moacir replays the audio of those introductions here. Follow along as the project develops at http://unmute.nyc The teams are: Team /web: Olesja Katšanovskaja–Münd (Estonia) and Mo Kong (NYC) Team /ram: Gabrielė Gervickaitė (Lithuania) and Yi Hsuan Lai (NYC) Team /profile: Barbara Maria Neu (Austria) and Kris Grey (NYC) Team...
Habby Osk
January 27, 2021 02:03 - 35 minutes - 81 MBHabby Osk joins Adriana and Moacir to discuss balance, Iceland, and her upcoming show at Undercurrent, Connectivity. Come to the opening at Undercurrent on January 29. More about Habby: http://habbyosk.com and http://instagram.com/habbyo Adriana referred to Caspar David Friedrich’s Der Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer. Podcast by Adriana Furlong and Moacir P. de Sá Pereira. Ⓒ 2021 CC BY-SA-NC, Undercurrent and 1984 PRODUKTS. Subscribe, rate, and review Undercurrent, our podcast, on iTunes, S...
Loy Luo, Patricija Gilytė, and Open Call
December 01, 2020 21:51 - 47 minutes - 108 MBAdriana and Moacir are back on the mics to discuss Loy Luo (羅一)’s show at Undercurrent, Homeless. They also encourage you and your friends to apply to Undercurrent’s first Open Call. Finally, Moacir describes to Adriana Patricija Gilytė’s show Solo Circuit, which ran for most of November. There’s also an extended digression on Lite-Brites. Luo’s show will open on December 4 at Undercurrent, with a reception from 5–9pm. Submit to the Open Call: https://undercurrent.nyc/open-call-submissio...
“10001” Unveiling Announcement
September 10, 2020 02:27 - 4 minutes - 10 MBMoacir quickly reminds everyone to tune in to the “10001” Unveiling announcement on Friday, September 11, at 1pm Eastern Daylight Time. Find out more at: http://10001.undercurrent.nyc/unveiling Or go direct to Undercurrent’s Zoom channel or Facebook page which will link to Facebook Live. Moacir also briefly introduces the three consultants who joined the “10001” project, Carolina Rubio-MacWright, John Baldacchino, and Sozita Goudouna. Finally, don’t forget about Daniel Jodocy’s show, Sou...
“10001” Pressing On
September 02, 2020 00:16 - 16 minutes - 37.4 MBAdriana and Moacir review the second week of videos to the virtual collaboration “10001,” focusing on Team T, featuring Saddie Choua and Anna Bera, and Team I, with Kira Nova and Jonas Tarm. Saddie and Anna seem like a terrible fit as a team, but their eagerness to work around their differences is inspiring. In the meantime, Kira and Jonas take advantage of a rooftop in Manhattan to meet up. Adriana also talks about what she’s learning from editing team videos. Follow “10001” at 10001.under...
Daniel Jodocy
August 28, 2020 01:37 - 28 minutes - 65 MBAdriana and Moacir discuss Daniel Jodocy’s upcoming show, Soundboxgarden, which opens on August 29 at Undercurrent, as the first show back onsite at 70 John Street in Brooklyn since quarantine began. Bring your PPE! In the meantime, the collaborative online virtual project “10001” continues to grow at 10001.undercurrent.nyc. Sorry for Adriana’s audio, but thank heavens for backup recordings! Podcast by Adriana Furlong and Moacir P. de Sá Pereira. Ⓒ 2020 CC BY-SA-NC, Undercurrent and 1984...
Icebreaking at “10001”
August 22, 2020 20:49 - 14 minutes - 34.1 MBMoacir introduces the six teams making up the collaborative virtual project “10001”: Team Z: Justyna Górowska (Poland) and Ieva Mediodia (Lithuania) Team I: Kira Nova (Lithuania) and Jonas Tarm (Estonia) Team T: Saddie Choua (Flanders, Belgium) and Anna Bera (Poland) Team S: Ada Van Hoorebeke (Flanders, Belgium) and Luisa Muhr (Austria) Team L: Mariella Cassar-Cordina (Malta) and Nicola Ginzel (Austria) Team J: Alex Camilleri (Malta) and Terttu Uibopuu (Estonia) He talks about how the...
“10001” Preview
August 05, 2020 21:23 - 16 minutes - 37.8 MBAdriana and Moacir preview the collaborative virtual project “10001,” featuring six two-person teams made up of European Union artists Anna Bera (Poland), Alex Camilleri (Malta), Mariella Cassar-Cordina (Malta), Saddie Choua (Flanders, Belgium), Nicola Ginzel (Austria), Justyna Górowska (Poland), Ada Van Hoorebeke (Flanders, Belgium), Ieva Mediodia (Lithuania), Luisa Muhr (Austria), Kira Nova (Lithuania), Jonas Tarm (Estonia), and Terttu Uibopuu (Estonia). “10001” will be growing during Augu...
A Conversation with Tom McGlynn and Gelah Penn
April 03, 2020 05:42 - 1 hour - 73 MBArtist and Brooklyn Rail Editor-at-Large Tom McGlynn speaks with artist Gelah Penn about her current exhibition, materiality and abstraction, film and fiction, and everything in between. Podcast by Adriana Furlong and Moacir P. de Sá Pereira. Ⓒ 2020 CC BY-SA-NC, Undercurrent and 1984 PRODUKTS. Subscribe, rate, and review Undercurrent, our podcast, on iTunes, Spotify, or PocketCasts.
Panel Discussion “Working Artist”
March 31, 2020 00:19 - 1 hour - 124 MBJeanne Brasile moderates a conversation with artists Travis LeRoy Southworth, Gianluca Bianchino, Lorrie Fredette, and Shoshanna Weinberger. They discuss artists and their day jobs. Labor, both in and out of the studio, is a seldom discussed topic. The artists delved into how they negotiate the reality of balancing the space/time/work conundrum, and how these concerns inadvertently or intentionally shape their artistic practices. Podcast by Adriana Furlong and Moacir P. de Sá Pereira. Ⓒ 20...
Gelah Penn
February 11, 2020 14:54 - 34 minutes - 39.7 MBGelah Penn discusses intertextuality, film noir, and Samuel Richardson with Moacir. Penn’s show, Uneasy Terms, opens on Thursday, February 13, at 6pm. Podcast by Adriana Furlong and Moacir P. de Sá Pereira. Ⓒ 2020 CC BY-SA-NC, Undercurrent and 1984 PRODUKTS.
Travis LeRoy Southworth
January 07, 2020 12:20 - 47 minutes - 54.5 MBTravis LeRoy Southworth discusses how one’s “day job” and artistic practice can be indelibly intertwined, and Moacir and Adriana ask about the underlying order of both the cosmos and cosmetics. Travis’s show, I Am a Portrait, opens on Friday, January 10, at 6pm. Adriana recommends the show Theater of Operations: The Gulf Wars, 1991 – 2011 at MoMA PS1. Moacir describes designing a synthesizer case with some aesthetic relationship to the work done by Bastl Instruments, specifically their Rum...
2019 Winter Holiday Mixtape
December 24, 2019 06:12 - 1 hour - 78.2 MBHappy Holidays! Here’s a stocking stuffer for you all: a sampler mix of five musical acts that performed at Undercurrent in 2019. Enjoy and we hope you attend the next concert in person! Track listing: 1. “سانس لو (Sāns Lo).” Lyrics by Annie Ali Khan. Performed by Arooj Aftab and Kenji Herbert. Recorded on July 20, 2019. 2. “Undercurrent Jam.” Performed by Dizzy Ventilators (Daniel Jodocy and Yusuke Yamamoto). Recorded on July 12, 2019. 3. “Wild Santana Girl.” Written and performed by Mi...
On Curating “After Light”
December 12, 2019 22:05 - 39 minutes - 45.8 MBUndercurrent Co-Director and curator of the group show After Light Daina Mattis joins Moacir and Adriana to talk about curation and its relationship with artistic practice. An artist and educator herself, Mattis approaches the art world from many perspectives. Additionally, we have a bonus mini-interview from October between Moacir and Ashley Jonas, discussing curation and vulnerability. Jennifer Slavin Harris’s show, The (missing) Piece, remains up until December 29. The next show, Travis...
Jennifer Slavin Harris
November 19, 2019 01:07 - 59 minutes - 68.1 MBJennifer Slavin Harris drops by Undercurrent Studios to discuss assemblage and the Optimistic Post-Apocalyptic with Adriana and Moacir. Be sure to come to the opening of Jennifer’s show at Undercurrent, The (missing) Piece, on Thursday November 21 at 6pm. Then, come on by on November 23 at 7pm, pay a suggested $8 donation, and enjoy a concert double-header with lo-fi musician Scott Rudd and the droning soundscapes of Dalius Naujokaitis-Naujo and Panagiotis Mavridis. Adriana recommends seei...
Migloko
October 29, 2019 17:31 - 39 minutes - 45.6 MBMigloko, a singer-songwriter from Lithuania, performed at Undercurrent on October 10. The evening before, she gave us an interview. The interview precedes three songs from the concert, “I Know It,” “Come to Me,” and “Skumba Tarška.” You have until November 9 to see the After Light group show at Undercurrent. The next show, Jennifer Slavin Harris’s The (missing) Piece, opens on November 21. On November 23, Undercurrent will host a musical double-header with lo-fi singer-songwriter Scott Rudd...
After Light
October 23, 2019 00:08 - 24 minutes - 28.7 MBUndercurrent’s first group show is After Light, curated by Undercurrent Co-Director Daina Mattis. The show features works by five artists, Michael Villarreal, Megan Stroech, Ashley Jonas, Saar Shemesh, and Elisabeth Roth. The show closes November 9. This episode was narrated by Undercurrent’s Adriana Furlong. Subscribe, rate, and review Undercurrent, our podcast, on iTunes, Spotify, or plain ol’ RSS.
Migloko Teaser
October 08, 2019 02:22 - 2 minutes - 7.31 MBSinger-songwriter Migloko is performing at Undercurrent on October 10 at 7pm. Come on by to 70 John St., Brooklyn. Rate and subscribe this podcast on iTunes or Spotify.
Rodney Dickson
September 02, 2019 18:19 - 29 minutes - 69.1 MBArtist Rodney Dickson speaks with Undercurrent’s Adriana Furlong about his show, Rodney Dickson Paintings, 2009–2019, which opens Thursday, Sept. 5, 2019, at 6pm at Undercurrent, 70 John St., Brooklyn. The show presents three different aspects of Dickson’s creative interests. The large paintings (8ft x 5ft) are paired with smaller works (2ft x 2ft) as well as 22 of the artist’s sketchbooks and the immense installation or painting or sculpture Shanty Town, never before exhibited. The show c...
Carl Lee and “Myoptic”
July 15, 2019 16:29 - 35 minutes - 87.8 MBCarl Lee, a Buffalo-based artist, discusses his show “Myoptic.” “Myoptic” was the inaugural exhibition at Undercurrent, and it closed on July 13th. “Myoptic” was made up of four pieces. Three are sculptural: “Telescope House,” “Home Movies,” and “Vision Test.” The fourth is the video installation “Last House.” During the conversation, Carl discusses the personal nature of the works, how they foreground the act of seeing, and how “Last House” in particular addresses the loss brought about b...