Keep the Channel Open

A biweekly podcast featuring in-depth conversations with artists.

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Rachel Hulin is a photographer and writer based in Providence, Rhode Island. I first came to know Rachel's photographic work several years ago, and when I saw that she'd recently published her first novel, I snapped up a copy as quickly as I could. In our conversation we talked about her book, Hey Harry Hey Matilda, about working in multiple creative disciplines, and the differences between photography and writing. For the second segment, Rachel chose creative flow as her topic.

(Conversation recorded May 4, 2017.)

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Rachel Hulin

Rachel Hulin - Hey Harry Hey Matilda

Lenscratch - Rachel Hulin: Flying Henry

iN-PUBLiC - Blake Andrews

Jiro Dreams of Sushi

Rachel Hulin - Thirty-Five and One

The Lester Dent Pulp Paper Master Fiction Plot

Oliver Sacks

Sally Mann - Hold Still

Ryan Pfluger

Noah Kalina

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Dr. Becky Senf is the Chief Curator at the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona, and the Norton Family Curator of Photography, a joint appointment between the Center and the Phoenix Art Museum. In our conversation, Dr. Senf and I talked about her work at the Center, and what the breadth and depth of the Center's archival collection enables in terms of researching and understanding the artists whose work is housed there. We also talked about a deeply personal exhibition she curated for Art Photo Index, entitled "Not MY Family Values," which is a favorite of mine. For the second segment, we talked about the #BuyArtFriday hashtag that she started, and what her hopes are for the initiative in the future.

(Conversation recorded April 4, 2017.)

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Center for Creative Photography - Rebecca Senf

Center for Creative Photography

Mary Virginia Swanson

Society for Photographic Education

Prison Photography - Oracle, the Annual International Conference for Photography Curators Nobody Knows About

Bill Jay

LA Times - Robert Sobieszek (obituary)

Ansel Adams - Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico

Mark Klett

AIPAD

Phoenix Art Museum

Tina Modotti

Zach Weston

Keep the Channel Open - Lindsay Hatton

Lindsay Hatton - Monterey Bay

Art Photo Index - Not MY Family Values

Center for Creative Photography - Wynn Bullock: Revelations

Phoenix Art Museum - Longer Ways to Go

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Brandon Taylor is a writer and a Ph.D. candidate in biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. One of my favorite contemporary writers, Brandon's short stories are marvelously crafted, understated and emotionally charged, while his personal essays and cultural critique are insightful and often lyrical—all of it is just a joy to read. In today's conversation, Brandon and I talked about his work and his process, how he often finds himself inventing around the margins of the stories he takes in, and how and why he always resists the reductive take. For the second segment, Brandon chose expectation as his topic, both the excitement and terror of one's own anticipation of the future, but also the expectations others can put on us.

(Conversation recorded April 4, 2017.)

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Brandon Taylor

Brandon Taylor - We’re Just People

Brandon Taylor - Frites

Brandon Taylor - Run

Mavis Gallant

Brandon Taylor - There Is No Secret to Writing People Who Do Not Look Like You

Gregory Heisler

Iowa Writers’ Workshop

Catapult Community - TinyLetter of the Month: Brandon Taylor, “Hours”

Brandon Taylor - Virgin Wool (TinyLetter)

Helena Fitzgerald

Alexander Chee

Roxane Gay

Alexander Chee - The Queen of the Night

Ted Chiang

Certain Women

Kelly Reichardt

Maile Meloy

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Jonas Yip is a photographer and musician in the Los Angeles area, not to mention a friend of mine. I first met Jonas several years ago at the first Medium Festival of Photography, where we immediately hit it off. As he puts it in his bio, Jonas is "more interested in capturing feeling than in capturing detail," something that I've always found to be true about his work. For today's show we talked about several of his bodies of work, including his "Somewhere Between" series and his "Paris: Dialogue" series. For the second segment, we talked about the idea of the Internet as an archive, and what that might mean for our culture as we move into the future.

(Conversation recorded March 22, 2017.)

Show Notes:

Jonas Yip

Jonas Yip - Instagram

Jonas Yip Photography - Instagram

Jonas Yip - re:place

Jonas Yip - Somewhere Between

Jonas Yip - Paris: Dialogue

Medium Festival of Photography

Jeremias Paul

Jardin des Tuileries

Jonas Yip - Dresses from the Small Years

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Barbarella Fokos is a writer and filmmaker based in San Diego, CA. I came to know Barbarella's work through The Artist Odyssey where, as one of the executive producers, she creates documentary films about artists and their processes and motivations. In our conversation, we talked about her work with The Artist Odyssey as well as her previous work, including her Emmy-winning show Art Pulse TV. I was also pleased to get her perspective on San Diego's burgeoning art scene. Finally, in the second segment, Barbarella chose as her topic the distinction between art and craft.

(Conversation recorded February 27, 2017.)

Show Notes:

Barbarella Fokos

The Artist Odyssey

David Fokos

David Fokos - The Book Pages Project

Keep the Channel Open - Episode 1: Trinh Mai

The Artist Odyssey - Trinh Mai

The Artist Odyssey - Tribal Baroque

The Artist Odyssey - Frank Lee Drennen

Art Pulse TV

San Diego City Beat - Q: What does San Diego’s art scene need to thrive?

John Raymond Mireles - Why I Left San Diego’s Art Scene Behind

Adrian Sierra Garcia

The Artist Odyssey - A Look at the Latest Show at basileIE Gallery

Melissa Walter

Arthur Danto - What Art Is

Rebecca L. Webb

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Paul Turounet is a photographer who lives and works in the San Diego area. Paul's work focuses on the border region between the United States and Mexico, which is a topic that is always relevant here in San Diego, but which has taken on even greater import over the past few months. Using forms from traditional darkroom prints to artist books to site-specific installations, Paul's photography encompasses a wide range of experiences, and I was happy to get the chance to talk with him for today's show. We talked about three of his series, "Tierra Brava," "Bajo La Luna Verde," and "Estamos Buscando A," all of which deal with various psychological aspects of the border region. For the second segment, we talked about the idea of artistic commitment.

(Conversation recorded February 24, 2017.)

Show Notes:

Paul Turounet

Paul Turounet - Tierra Brava

Paul Turounet - Bajo La Luna Verde

Paul Turounet - Estamos Buscando A

La Jolla Historical Society - Weather on Steroids: the Art of Climate Change Science

Open Show San Diego #4

Bomb Magazine - Frayed at the Edges

Pedro Meyer

jdc Fine Art

Raymond Meeks

Steidl Verlag

TBW Books

Trans-Border Institute

Retablo (Wikipedia)

William Kentridge

Anselm Kiefer

John Chiara

Commitment - John Szarkowski

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Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib is a poet from Columbus, Ohio. For today's episode I was pleased to talk to Hanif about his 2016 book The Crown Ain't Worth Much, one of my favorite reads of 2016. The poems in this book are an intensely personal account of his experiences growing up in Columbus, and in our conversation we talked about Hanif's approach to writing from experience, and how art can engender empathy. We also talked about music, a subject he's very familiar with as a music and culture writer for MTV News. For the second segment, we talked about a subject near and dear to Hanif's heart: the Columbus Blue Jackets.

(Conversation recorded January 23, 2017.)

Show Notes:

Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib

Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib - The Crown Ain't Worth Much

Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib - They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib (MTV.com)

Button Poetry

Belly

Nate Marshall

Nate Marshall - Wild Hundreds

Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City

Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib - Chance the Rapper: Artist of the Year

Chance the Rapper - Coloring Book

Donnie Trumpet & the Social Experiment - Surf

Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib - We Can’t Stop Livin’: Listening to Marvin Gaye On the Morning After

Jay-Z/Kanye West - Watch the Throne

Columbus Blue Jackets

Hannah Stephenson

Keep the Channel Open - Episode 20: Hannah Stephenson

Columbus Crew SC

Columbus Arena District

Columbus Clippers

Aziza Barnes - i be, but i ain’t

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José Olivarez is a poet living and working in Chicago, Illinois, and is also co-host of one of my all-time favorite podcasts, The Poetry Gods. In our wide-ranging conversation we talked about how The Poetry Gods came to be, toxic masculinity in the poetry world, and how discovering poetry allowed José to find his artistic voice. In the second segment, we talked about beginnings and endings.

(Conversation recorded January 1, 2017.)

Show Notes:

José Olivarez

The Poetry Gods

Adirondack Center for Writing - Online Writing Class Registration

Jon Sands

Aziza Barnes

Jamie Foxx Ruins Doug Williams

T-Pain: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

Louder Than a Bomb

Celeste Ng - Everything I Never Told You

José Olivarez - I Walk Into the Ocean

Young Chicago Authors

Urban Word NYC

Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib - Searching for a New Kind of Optimism

Maria Popova - Hope, Cynicism, and the Stories We Tell Ourselves

Patricia Smith

Gloria Anzaldúa - Borderlands

Eduardo Galeano - Open Veins of Latin America

Keah Brown

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Ginger Shulick Porcella is the Executive Director of the San Diego Art Institute, an experimental, bi-national contemporary arts center in San Diego, CA. In the three years since Ginger has been leading SDAI, it has grown to become one of most vibrant, innovative art spaces in San Diego, something that has been exciting for art-minded folks in San Diego, like me. In our conversation, Ginger and I talked her curatorial background, the changes she's made at SDAI, how it's grown, what's to come, and how she engages with the San Diego arts community. In the second segment, we talked about one of Ginger's favorite topics: conspiracy theories.

(Conversation recorded December 5, 2016.)

Show Notes:

San Diego Art Institute

AMT Festival

2016 Southern California/Baja Biennial

MIXTAPE: Volume 2

Kite

Sticks of the Sun, Ashes of the Night

SDAI Project Space @ Horton Plaza

Medium Festival of Photography

Unarius Academy of Science

Heaven’s Gate

Vice - The Berenst(E)ain Bears Conspiracy Theory That Has Convinced the Internet There Are Parallel Universes

Mark Geston - Mirror to the Sky

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Christina Riley is a photographer and musician currently based in Seaside, California. When I first saw Christina's 2014 book Back to Me, I was immediately blown away by the emotional power and authenticity of the photographs. We talked about Christina's experience with bipolar disorder, her photographic process, and what it's like to move from Ontario, Canada to a small coastal community in Northern California. For the second segment, Christina chose change as her topic.

Show Notes:

Christina Riley

Christina Riley - Back to Me

Christina Riley - Instagram

Tony Fouhse

Straylight Press

Tony Fouhse - drool

Burnt Palms

Burnt Palms - Instagram

Burnt Palms - Facebook

And Gone

Kurt Vile

Carrie Brownstein - Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl

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Rachael Short is a fine art photographer based in Carmel, California. After graduating from the Brooks Institute, Rachael had a thriving wedding and portrait photography business, which ended in 2010 when she was in a car accident that broke her neck and left her paraplegic. Nowadays, Rachael uses her iPhone as her primary tool, and makes beautiful platinum prints from her iPhone images. I talked with Rachael about her work, the town we're both from, the gallery she owns, and her experience as a board member with the Center for Photographic Art. For the second segment, we talked about the importance of supporting the people in our communities.

(Conversation recorded November 20, 2016)

Show Notes:

Rachael Short

Gallery Exposed

Viktor Klinger

Evynn LeValley

Zach Weston

Tom Gundelfinger O'Neal

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Déjà Vu

Center for Photographic Art

Anthony Carbajal

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Matt Eich is a documentary and editorial photographer based in Charlottesville, Virginia. I've been a fan of Matt's work for several years now, and I was excited to get the chance to talk about his four-part project The Invisible Yoke. We talked about his approach to documentary photography, how he reckons with and avoids stereotypes in his work, and what he hopes the work can accomplish. For the second segment, we talked about how to balance family live with an art practice.

(Recorded November 3, 2016)

Show Notes:

Matt Eich

Conscientious Extended - A Conversation With Matt Eich

Matt Eich - Love in the First Person

Eugene Richards - Cocaine True, Cocaine Blue

James Nachtwey

Matt Eich - Carry Me Ohio

Matt Eich - Sin and Salvation in Baptist Town

Matt Eich - The Seven Cities

Matt Eich - We, the Free

Stacy Kranitz - Speak Your Piece

Shane Lavalette - One Sun, One Shadow

John Francis Peters - Falling

Gregory Halpern - ZZYZX

Curran Hatleberg - Lost Coast

Matt Eich - Shop

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Rachael Short is a fine art photographer based in Carmel, California. After graduating from the Brooks Institute, Rachael had a thriving wedding and portrait photography business, which ended in 2010 when she was in a car accident that broke her neck and left her paraplegic. Nowadays, Rachael uses her iPhone as her primary tool, and makes beautiful platinum prints from her iPhone images. I talked with Rachael about her work, the town we're both from, the gallery she owns, and her experience as a board member with the Center for Photographic Art. For the second segment, we talked about the importance of supporting the people in our communities.

(Conversation recorded November 20, 2016)

Show Notes:

Rachael Short

Gallery Exposed

Viktor Klinger

Evynn LeValley

Zach Weston

Tom Gundelfinger O'Neal

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Déjà Vu

Center for Photographic Art

Anthony Carbajal

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Alexander Kohnke is a San Diego-based artist and graphic designer (originally from Germany) whose work incorporates a variety of different disciplines and genres, from printmaking to drawing to photography. Alex and I had a great conversation about his artistic process, especially about the value of randomness and how that interacts with intention. In the second segment we talked about politics.

Show Notes:

Alexander Kohnke

Keep the Channel Open - Episode 14: Pastilla

Alexander Kohnke - Untitled Dots 15 x 22

Alexander Kohnke - A-A-Alpha-B ___Bet

This American Life - Episode 596: Becoming a Badger

Stranger Things

Denis Johnson - Jesus' Son

The Mountain Goats - All Hail West Texas

2016 Southern California/Baja Biennial - San Diego Art Institute

Airlock Gallery

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I knew that I was going to read Lindsay Hatton's debut novel, Monterey Bay, as soon as I saw the title—I grew up in that area, after all—and I was pleased to discover that between the covers of the book lay a story that is by turns funny, sexy, and profound, an alternate history of a place I know and love so well. I talked to Lindsay about her book, about our shared experiences growing up on the Monterey Peninsula, and a lot about John Steinbeck (both as a real-world literary figure and as a character in her book). In the second segment, we talked about how to navigate multiple modes of creative expression, parenting, and artistic legacy.

Show Notes:

Lindsay Hatton

Lindsay Hatton - Monterey Bay

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Connie Chiang - Shaping the Shoreline

John Steinbeck - Working Days

Lindsay Hatton - My Mother, Monterey, and the Haunted Beauty of Aquariums (LitHub)

Monterey Herald - Suicides: High Rate Among Carmel Class Leaves Many Asking 'Why'

Diane Arbus

Claire-Louise Bennett - Pond

Emma Rathbone - Losing It

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Chantel Paul is the Program Coordinator of the San Diego State University Downtown Gallery, a space which has rapidly become an important part of the vibrant art scene here in San Diego. In this wide-ranging conversation we talked about the Downtown Gallery, her role as a curator, the burgeoning San Diego arts community, and photography portfolio reviews from the reviewer's perspective. In the second segment we talked about slowing down, technology, and its effect on our quality of life.

(Recorded August 25, 2016)

Show Notes:

Chantel Paul

SDSU Downtown Gallery

San Diego Art Institute

With Abandon: Works by SDSU Alumni 2011-2016

Museum of Photographic Arts

Ship in the Woods

Space 4 Art

Helmuth Projects

Public Art in the San Diego Central Library

San Diego Airport Art Program

Joseph Bellows Gallery

Quint Gallery

Morrison Hotel Gallery

Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib - The Crown Ain’t Worth Much

Sandow Birk: Monuments and Depravities

Sandow Birk: Monuments and Depravities - Opening Reception

Sandow Birk: Monuments and Deprativites - Exhibition Tour and Lecture

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David Emitt Adams recently won the 2016 Clarence John Laughlin award for his photography, and if you've ever seen it before, you know why. In his work, David uses the wet-plate collodion process to create images on objects from his students' used film canisters to discarded cans found in the desert to oil drum lids, and the interplay between the photographs and the objects on which they're exposed adds a whole new dimension. (No pun intended.) David and I had a great talk about his work, and then in the second segment we moved on to discuss the ideas of permanence and impermanence.

Show Notes:

David Emitt Adams

2016 Clarence John Laughlin Award

David Emitt Adams - 36 Exposures

David Emitt Adams - Conversations With History

Etherton Gallery

photo-eye

Roswell Museum and Art Center

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