Artists in the World

In episodes seven and eight, we hear a sonic conversation recorded over three days activating Julian Abraham “Togar” artwork OK Studio, presented for the 58th Carnegie International. Togar, alongside musicians Rizky Sasono, Bri Dominique, Richard Nicol, and Herman “Soy Sauce” Pearl. The group met inside of met inside of OK Studio at Carnegie Museum of Art and built new imagined compositions you’ll hear in this episode.

In episodes seven and eight, we hear a sonic conversation recorded over three days activating Julian Abraham “Togar” artwork OK Studio, presented for the 58th Carnegie International. Togar, alongside musicians Rizky Sasono, Bri Dominique, Richard Nicol, and Herman “Soy Sauce” Pearl. The group met inside of met inside of OK Studio at Carnegie Museum of Art and built new imagined compositions you’ll hear in this episode.

How does knowledge become democratized through transmission? Writer, art historian, and curator Zahia Rahmani and Laurence Glasco, an associate professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh, respond to this question.

In episode five, we hear from Ignacia Biskupovic, a visual artist, educator, and head of community engagement at the Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende (MSSA), and Jennifer Josten, an associate professor of modern and contemporary art at the University of Pittsburgh. The two discuss resistance art and pedagogy, nomadic museums, and MSSA’s exile from and return to Santiago.

terra0 (founded 2016) is a group of developers, theorists, and artists exploring the creation of hybrid ecosystems in the technosphere. The group’s first work, the terra0 whitepaper (2016), based on research in areas of DLT technology, ecology, and economics, proposes technologically augmented ecosystems that are able to act as agents in their own right. terra0’s artistic practice in recent years has focused on conducting experiments that take up, evaluate, and critically reflect on inherent claims of the first white paper. Talia Heiman, curatorial assistant for the 58th Carnegie International, has held curatorial positions at the Center for Contemporary Art in Tel Aviv and the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. She has curated exhibitions and programs at The Kitchen, New York; the Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York; and AA|LA Gallery, Los Angeles. She has published catalogue essays for the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery and the 57th Carnegie International. Heiman received an MA from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College and a BA from New York University.

James “Yaya” Hough has been heavily involved for more than a decade with Mural Arts Philadelphia, creating more than 50 works that have been installed at the State Correctional Institution–Graterford and the State Correctional Institution–Phoenix. In 2019, as part of a program supported by the Art for Justice Fund and Fair and Just Prosecution, Hough was selected to be the inaugural artist-in-residence at the Office of the District Attorney of Philadelphia. Let’s Get Free: The Women and Trans Prisoner Defense Committee (founded 2013, Pittsburgh, PA) is a group working to end perpetual punishment, build a pathway out of the prisons back to our communities through commutation reform, support successful possibilities for people formerly and currently incarcerated, and shift to a culture of transformative justice. The group was formed when Avis Lee, Charmaine Pfender, Donna Hill, and etta cetera all participated in One Billion Rising, a global day of action to end violence against women.

Tishan Hsu (b. 1951, Boston, MA; lives in New York, NY) has been probing the cognitive as well as physical effects of transformative technological advances on our lives since the mid-1980s. Through the use of unusual materials, software tools, and innovative fabrication techniques, his enigmatic paintings and sculptures explore and manifest poetic new ways to engage and reimagine the human body.Tishan Hsu (b. 1951, Boston, MA; lives in New York, NY) has been probing the cognitive as well as physical effects of transformative technological advances on our lives since the mid-1980s. Through the use of unusual materials, software tools, and innovative fabrication techniques, his enigmatic paintings and sculptures explore and manifest poetic new ways to engage and reimagine the human body. Ryan Inouye is associate curator for the 58th Carnegie International. He served most recently as senior curator at Sharjah Art Foundation in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, where he curated exhibitions and co-organized the 2018 edition of the March Meeting, an annual program that explores developments in culture through contemporary art.

Born in Istanbul to Iranian parents, Solmaz Sharif is the author of Customs (Graywolf Press, 2022) and Look (Graywolf Press, 2016), a finalist for the National Book Award. She holds degrees from U.C. Berkeley, where she studied and taught with June Jordan’s Poetry for the People, and New York University. Her work has appeared in Harper’s, The Paris Review, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, the New York Times, and others. Negar Azimi is a writer and editor and occasional curator. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the publishing and curatorial project Bidoun, a former fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, a member of the Beirut-based Arab Image Foundation, and a board member of Artists Space.