INTERLOCUTOR Interviews

Tyler Nesler
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INTERLOCUTOR Interviews is the podcast for Interlocutor Magazine, which features in-depth interview-focused coverage of arts, culture, and activism. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  1. 12/11/2025

    Mieke Marple talks about her ongoing art project LIVE, LAUGH, LUBE

    Live, Laugh, Lube is an ongoing art project by artist and former art dealer Mieke Marple, probing in the superficial depths of social media with fellow clowns, comedians, and fools.  A kind of "exquisite corpse” project in which comedians provide language that Mieke creates a painting with, then both create a video together for IG explaining the collaboration. Mieke then gifts the painting to the participant, who must recommend two other comedians as the next participants (one with more visibility and one with less), and the cycle repeats ad infinitum. She’s so far worked with the likes of actress and comedian Melinda Hill, The Simpsons writers Dan Greaney and Broti Gupta, head writer and executive producer of The Office and King of the Hill, Brent Forrester, writer, actor, and comedian Obehi Janice, and others.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    58 min

  2. 11/19/2025

    Joseph Keckler on his new performance piece A GOOD NIGHT IN THE TRAUMA GARDEN

    Joseph Keckler is a singer, writer, and multifaceted creator. Keckler has performed everywhere from dive bars and DIY venues to NPR Tiny Desk, Centre Pompidou, and Lincoln Center. His story and essay collection Dragon at the Edge of a Flat World was published by Turtle Point Press. His new performance piece, A Good Night in the Trauma Garden, was commissioned by The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Department of Live Arts and co-commissioned by ArtYard and Coffey Street Studios. He will be performing the latest version of it on Saturday, November 22, at ArtYard in Frenchtown, NJ. This piece weaves together original new songs with a vivid narrative portrait of a wild and unforgettable friend, meditating on what it means to be a classic. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    39 min

  3. 11/06/2025

    Musician, educator, activist, & organizer Amirtha Kidambi

    Educator, activist, and organizer Amirtha Kidambi discusses her newly launched podcast, "Outernational,” her new album with her ensemble Elder Ones, New Monuments Live in Vilnius, out on November 14, and her upcoming performances with Elder Ones at the Le Guess Who? festival in Utrecht on Friday, November 7. She also talks about her guest curation event at the festival on November 8, featuring performances by Dirar Kalash; Ghadr غدر (Jad Atoui, Sandy Chamoun, Anthony Sahyoun); One Leg One Eye (ft. Ian Lynch from Lankum); Saint Abdullah & Jason Nazary; Elder Ones; and various collaborative combinations of the above, plus an "Outernational" panel discussion moderated by Kidambi and improv performance with Saul Williams, Dirar Kalash, and Masello Motana   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    57 min

  4. 10/22/2025

    A talk with olfactory artist Simon Daniel Tegnander Wenzel

    Logan Royce Beitmen interviews Simon Daniel Tegnander Wenzel, who works intersectionally with scent, performance, video, sound, and installation. His work is currently in the group show Winter Nights (Vetrnætr) at The Association of Visual Artists in Oslo, Norway, on display until November 2, 2025. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    34 min

  5. 10/08/2025

    Filmmaker Peter Pavlakis discusses his debut feature APOSTASY BLUES

    Brooklyn-based filmmaker Peter Pavlakis discusses his debut feature, APOSTASY BLUES. The film focuses on two cult members who expect to be raptured at an appointed time. However, their leader appears to have raptured without them, taking their donation money with him, so the two members head out to look for him while they deal with their personal issues as they readapt to the secular world.  The film will be shown at the Soho International Film Festival in NYC on Friday, October 10, and the Buffalo International Film Festival on Sunday, October 12. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    28 min

  6. 09/16/2025

    Charlie Wells on his new book WHAT HAPPENED TO MILLENNIALS: In Defense of a Generation

    Author and journalist Charlie Wells discusses his new book, What Happened to Millennials: In Defense of a Generation. At the birth of America’s largest living generation, the outlook was strong: unparalleled economic growth, the emerging Internet, the rise of the cell phone, and a geopolitics that had allegedly reached “the end of history” all set expectations exceedingly high for a cohort entering adulthood at the dawn of the new millennium. That adulthood—a work in progress for more than a quarter century—has been disrupted by war, recession, pandemic, and a sharp turn toward cultural and economic polarization. It has also been endlessly critiqued by others as immature, lazy, weak, incomplete, selfish, and supposedly riddled with failure. Now, 25 years after the first millennials began turning 18, Bloomberg News reporter Charlie Wells comes to the generation’s defense with a cultural history of an adulthood disrupted. Drawing on hundreds of hours of intimate interviews with five millennials from across the country, he explores how the biggest events, ideas, and transformations of the century played out in private lives. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    43 min

  7. 09/04/2025

    Dan Alvarado talks PANDORA'S SWIPE - his solo show satirizing the dating app dystopia

    Artist Dan Alvarado discusses his solo exhibition PANDORA'S SWIPE, a satirical take on the temptation, overstimulation, and hypersexualization of online dating apps. Opening on September 5 and running through September 22 at Bushwick, Brooklyn's Botanica Grove, Alvarado’s paintings, composed of digitally altered and collaged dating profiles, become a landscape of portraits across the ether. Complimentary bright, colorful emojis accentuate the sexual stimulation and dopamine that dating profiles promote, and comment on how human society interacts and flirts with one another. To create a feeling of overstimulation, the profile images and emojis are screen-printed in vibrant colors before being hand-painted for their final touches, resulting in portraits with a more playful take on profiles users would see on dating apps. Significant events in the first half of this decade, such as the COVID pandemic and the correlation of ramped-up usage of dating apps during this time, inspired Alvarado to explore creating works on this particular topic.​ With dating app companies like Hinge, Tinder, and even Facebook promoting the idea that you can find love, many individuals are persuaded to take the leap and rely on these digital platforms to find their partners or significant others. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1h 5m

  8. 08/22/2025

    Robin Givhan discusses her new book Make It Ours: Crashing the Gates of Culture with Virgil Abloh

    Pulitzer Prize–winning culture critic Robin Givhan discusses her new book about fashion icon Virgil Abloh. She profiles Abloh’s legendary work and impact, revealing how the son of Ghanaian immigrants was able to infiltrate all aspects of our culture and inspire millions. Not only a remarkable biography of his singular creative force, the book is a powerful meditation on fashion and race, taste and exclusivity, genius and luxury. With access to Abloh’s family, friends, collaborators, and contemporaries, and featuring a cast of fascinating characters ranging from groundbreaking Black designers like Ozwald Boateng, to Abloh’s mercurial but critical employer and mentor Kanye West, Givhan tells a captivating, great American story of how a young man’s rise amid this cultural moment would upend a century’s worth of ideas about luxury and taste. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    57 min
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INTERLOCUTOR Interviews is the podcast for Interlocutor Magazine, which features in-depth interview-focused coverage of arts, culture, and activism. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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  • Creator
    Tyler Nesler
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2025
  • Episodes
    51
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Tyler Nesler
  • Show Website
    INTERLOCUTOR Interviews