Image Culture

William Jess Laird

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Image Culture Podcast

I’m William Jess Laird. I started Image Culture to create a space for substantive, meaningful conversations with artists and creative people whose work inspires me. Within these talks my guests discuss their work and their lives beyond the frame. Image Culture is an archive on what it means to live a life with art.

14/04/2021

EP 036: Catherine Opie

William Jess Laird sits down with artist Catherine Opie to discuss her recent work photographing Confederate monuments throughout the United States, as well as her projects 1999 and The Modernist.

49 min
26/05/2020

EP 035: Dan Thawley, EIC of A Magazine Curated By

William Jess Laird in conversation with Dan Thawley, Editor in Chief of A Magazine Curated By, on the occasion of Issue No 21 from Jil Sander creative directors Lucie & Luke Meier.

53 min
14/05/2020

EP 034: SCOTT STERNBERG

William Jess Laird gets on the phone with Scott Sternberg, the designer behind Entireworld and Band of Outsiders, to talk about clothing, creativity, and learning as you go.

48 min
22/04/2020

EP 033: MADELINE HOLLANDER

Artist, choreographer, and dancer Madeline Hollander has a unique way of looking at the world. While creating her performances she never invents new movements. Instead, she’s always pulling from what she observes in the world. She has the amazing ability to isolate the ways we move our bodies in very specific contexts and use these movements as the building blocks for a sequence. For instance, she talks about the specific way our body twitches when we’re playing a pinball machine, the ways we’ve learned to interact with a touch screen, or even the set of movements required to perform the Heimlich maneuver. Beyond that, she also looks at the way our movements manifest themselves in larger systems, such as traffic patterns in New York or the motion of tug boats along the Hudson River. These things have their own ebbs and flows that she samples in her work and applies on a human scale. One of the most interesting aspects of Madeline’s practice is its diversity. She can be found staging performances with LA Dance Project or showing an installation of programmed car tail lights at Bartolami Gallery or even serving as the moment director on Jordan Peele’s latest film Us. Her way of understanding human movement is something that crosses traditional boundaries within the art world. The sensitivity of her eye for body language and gestures coupled with her background in traditional ballet makes her a unique voice working today. You can see more of Madeline’s work at www.madelinehollander.com Her installation Heads/Tails can be viewed at www.bortolamigallery.com/exhibitions/heads-tails/ You can find more information on Madeline’s work and performance at The Whitney at https://whitney.org/watchandlisten/44000

43 min
15/04/2020

EP 032: SARA CWYNAR

This week I’m talking to the artist Sara Cwynar. Sara’s new show Marilyn is currently on view at The Approach in London. Due to Covid-19, all works in the show, including Sara’s newest film Red Film, are currently available to be viewed online at theapproach.co.uk until April 30th. You can find more work at saracwynar.com & on Instagram @cwynars

44 min
07/04/2020

EP 031: SERBAN IONESCU

On the show today is Serban Ionescu whose work blurs the line between sculpture and design. His newest work, the large scale “Chapel for an Apple” will debut this summer. You can see more of Serban’s work at www.serbanionescu.com .

33 min
31/03/2020

EP 030: F TAYLOR COLANTONIO

This week I’m talking with the furniture, object, and interior designer F Taylor Colantonio. F Taylor’s current project, The Primavera Playlists, is a music-sharing project through the global lockdowns of Spring 2020. You can find the playlists, along with more of F Taylor’s work at https://ftaylor.co/pages/primavera as well as on Instagram @ftaylorc

32 min
18/10/2019

EP 029: JARRETT EARNEST

On the show today I’m talking with writer, curator and critic Jarrett Earnest, whose 2018 book What it Means to Write About Art assembles his conversations with thirty of the most influential American art writers. Jarrett’s interviews with figures ranging from Rosalind Krauss to Dave Hickey, Roberta Smith to Kellie Jones, and Jerry Saltz to Hal Foster trace a path through art criticism from the 1960’s up to the present moment. His subjects remind us of the diversity of thought that has defined modern art criticism. It’s truly a rare thing to find a book that offers such a plethora of ideas about how we think about and relate to art. You can find more of Jarrett’s work at www.jarrettearnest.com and on Instagram @jarrettearnest

42 min

I’m William Jess Laird. I started Image Culture to create a space for substantive, meaningful conversations with artists and creative people whose work inspires me. Within these talks my guests discuss their work and their lives beyond the frame. Image Culture is an archive on what it means to live a life with art.

Creator

William Jess Laird
Years Active

2018 - 2021
Episodes

36
Rating

Explicit
Show Website

Image Culture