Critical Bounds Podcast

Nicole Bearden

Critical Bounds is a podcast which considers contemporary art, global issues, and current events that influence and are in turn manifested in artistic practice, through critical conversations with emerging contemporary artists and curators.

  1. Berette Macaulay "BIPOC on Colonialism, Nationalism, and [the harmful illusion of] White Supremacy"

    06/21/2021

    Berette Macaulay "BIPOC on Colonialism, Nationalism, and [the harmful illusion of] White Supremacy"

    Conversation with Berette S. Macaulay, a multidisciplinary artist, curator, and writer from Jamaica and Sierra Leone. Her research and visual arts practice engage themes of belonging, identity-performance, illegibility, love, memory, and mythmaking. We discuss living a multiplicitous life, and the institutional lie that you must focus on One Thing, or be branded a failure. Interrogating the process of critical dialogue. What populations are still being overlooked in the art world? The influence of the Black Portlanders project. Working with artists who are creating work to, “...speak to some of the traumas, but not define ourselves by these traumas.” How institutional racism creates a challenge in even putting together a show that is about Black people. Tokenism in cultural institutions. The invisibility of power. Interrogating terms like “white privilege” and “white supremacy”, to unroot the mythologies of “Whiteness”. And so much more.

    1h 56m
  2. Eva Mayhabal Davis on "...Colonialism, Nationalism, and [the harmful illusion of] White Supremacy"

    05/24/2021

    Eva Mayhabal Davis on "...Colonialism, Nationalism, and [the harmful illusion of] White Supremacy"

    Conversation our conversation with arts advocate and curator Eva Mayhabal Davis (B. Toluca, Mexico). We talk about our mutual disdain for Picasso, Davis' art journey, her project El Salón, the prospect of gathering together again, our mutual anxiety at onscreen crowds (and the 80s and early 90s lack of cellphones), how she advocates for community through the arts, and what old hobbies became new again during the pandemic. Davis is a the Intake Paralegal at UnLocal, Inc, a non-profit organization that provides direct immigration legal representation, legal consultations, and community education to New York City’s undocumented immigrant communities. She is also a founding member of El Salón, Director of Transmitter NYC, curator for NYC Crit Club, and her writing has been featured in many publications such as Foundwork, Arte Fuse, Art Spiel, the Hemispheric Institute’s Cuadernos, Nueva Luz: Photographic Journal, Guggenheim Museum Blog, and Cultureworks Magazine.

    55 min
  3. Satpreet Kahlon "BIPOC on Colonialism, Nationalism, and [the harmful illusion of] White Supremacy"

    05/03/2021

    Satpreet Kahlon "BIPOC on Colonialism, Nationalism, and [the harmful illusion of] White Supremacy"

    Conversation with Satpreet Kahlon, a Punjabi-born, Seattle based artist, organizer, and curator, and the editor of New Archives, a nonprofit arts journal which focuses on art in the Pacific Northwest. We talk about Satpreet's work at (now-defunct) The Alice Gallery, including her first experience at curating the show "From Which We Rise", and its familial connections. We discuss the vibrations of Place, and Satpreet's US experiences living around the country. We touch on institutional tokenism, her work with yəhaw̓ Indigenous Collective, and the issues with "decolonizing". Side-eyeing the New York Times. Theories on how some work by BIPOC artists is largely ignored because it isn't easily digestible for hegemonic consumption. We hear about Satpreet's own artistic practice, the ways she interrogates space, and how her work "...moves against the framework of metal penii", embodying anti-monumentalism. The influence of Archive, and the words of Saidiya Hartman, and how not all curators are created equal.

    1h 27m
  4. Sofía Córdova on "BIPOC on Colonialism, Nationalism, and [the harmful illusion of] White Supremacy"

    04/19/2021

    Sofía Córdova on "BIPOC on Colonialism, Nationalism, and [the harmful illusion of] White Supremacy"

    A conversation with Sofía Córdova (She/Her/They/Them). We talk about her work Echoes of a Tumbling Throne, the dangerous inequality perpetuated by the tech industry, Her project "A Body Reorganized", which considers Sanctuary Cities, the history of the term "Sanctuary", and the humans affected by these policies. We have a full-on Star Trek tangent, and get into her band XUXA SANTAMARIA's label Ratskin Records, and life raising a tiny human in 2020. Born in 1985 in Carolina, Puerto Rico and currently based in Oakland, California, Sofía Córdova @yagurmo-yal makes work that considers sci-fi as alternative history, dance music's liberatory potential, the internet, colonial contamination, mystical objects, and extinction and mutation as evolution, within the matrix of class, gender, race, late capitalism and its technologies. She works in performance, video, sound, installation, photography, and sometimes taxidermy.

    55 min
  5. Halim A. Flowers "BIPOC on Colonialism, Nationalism, and [the harmful illusion of] White Supremacy"

    04/04/2021

    Halim A. Flowers "BIPOC on Colonialism, Nationalism, and [the harmful illusion of] White Supremacy"

    Conversation with visual artist and formerly incarcerated poet, entrepreneur Halim A. Flowers about growing up in DC, Reaganomics and the myth of the "Superpredator", the importance of education and access beyond Eurocentric knowledge, making space to connect with people as fellow humans, the influence of hip hop and Basquiat on his work, and how art and culture can change minds and our world.

    52 min
  6. Michelle Kumata "BIPOC on Colonialism, Nationalism, and [the harmful illusion of] White Supremacy"

    03/07/2021

    Michelle Kumata "BIPOC on Colonialism, Nationalism, and [the harmful illusion of] White Supremacy"

    Conversation with 3.5 generation Japanese-American artist Michelle Kumata about her time at Wing Luke Museum, her project on the Japanese Diaspora in the US and Brazil, her work "Song For Generations", and how it deals with the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII. We discuss the importance of listening to those from historically marginalized communities and really processing what is happening right now, then taking action as individuals to effect positive change. Plus, shoutouts to Wa Na Wari, Elisheba Johnson and Inye Wokoma, Roger Shimomura, Erin Shigaki, and Louie Gong

    37 min
  7. Afi Ese on "BIPOC on Colonialism, Nationalism, and [the harmful illusion of] White Supremacy"

    02/17/2021

    Afi Ese on "BIPOC on Colonialism, Nationalism, and [the harmful illusion of] White Supremacy"

    Conversation with African American contemporary realist, and figurative conceptual artist Afi Ese about using art to tell stories, group economics as a form of activism in marginalized groups, her former experience as a forensic psychologist and how we use research about inequity in place of action against inequity in our justice system (and many other places), a different way to look at reparations, the inherent problem with the term "BIPOC", Ese's thoughts on 2020 for art and artists, and how we can have more honest conversations across differences.

    1h 1m
  8. Alexis Silva on "BIPOC on Colonialism, Nationalism, and [the harmful illusion of] White Supremacy"

    02/09/2021

    Alexis Silva on "BIPOC on Colonialism, Nationalism, and [the harmful illusion of] White Supremacy"

    Conversation with Seattle-based Hispanic Latino artist writer, and curator Alexis L. Silva about finding your community in the art world, redefining success in a non-colonial context, the value of community museums, being a Person of Color in the art world, and why we should be building coalitions now, more than ever. (Photo courtesy of the artist)

    55 min
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Critical Bounds is a podcast which considers contemporary art, global issues, and current events that influence and are in turn manifested in artistic practice, through critical conversations with emerging contemporary artists and curators.

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  • Creator
    Nicole Bearden
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2021
  • Episodes
    33
  • Rating
    Explicit
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