First aired: January 11th, 2022
Station: WIOX, Roxbury, NY (91.3FM)
Show: Liberal Arts Audio
Host: Nathaniel Hitchcock

Live introduction script:
"On the show, I've been speaking to a number of artists who run galleries, residencies and exhibitions programs. The first interview of the series was with Anthony Discenza who at the time had just founded the artist residency program called Lower Cavity, in Holyoke Mass. Since its founding, he has hosted five artists in residence. 

Discenza himself is an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores relationships between textual, auditory, and visual systems of representation, in projects that have taken the form of video, signage, 
digital photography, audio, sculptural installations, and writing.

As a part of the program, each artist may elect to produce a work or an exhibition in the programs space, which is located on the ground floor of a formerly abandoned paper mill in downtown Holyoke that Discenza and his partner have been restoring.

Today we will hear a conversation between Discenza and the most recent resident:

Tania Colette B.--an American artist, writer, and researcher whose work explores the sculptural byproducts of political capitalism and state power. With sculpture, installation, found photography/video, and a broad range of other media, she re-stages sites of economic failure, environmental exploitation, and social resistance in order to examine them from a material vantage point. Her current projects center on tactics of “sculptural resistance”: barriers and monuments built by protestors in order to circumvent, resist, and critique state violence. These spontaneously constructed barricades are rapidly assembled by civilians during periods of political revolution in order to block 

the advancement of government forces and give themselves tactical advantage. In recent years, imagery of these structures—captured with smartphones by civilians and journalists on the ground, 
and shared instantly across social media—has operated not only as documentation of protests "past", but as a kind of insurrectionary instruction manual for citizens around the globe fighting their own localized battles.  

 Tania holds an MA in Culture Industry from Goldsmiths, University of London (2020) and a BFA in Sculpture from California College of the Arts (2014). She lives and works in Seattle."

https://www.lowercavity.space/tania-colette-b
https://www.taniacb.com/
http://anthonydiscenza.info/

Anthony Discenza in conversation with Tania Collette B, lower_cavity, Holyoke, MA

First aired: April 20th, 2022
Station: WIOX, Roxbury, NY (91.3FM)
Show: An Uncanny Valley
Host: Nathaniel Hitchcock

Live Introduction Script:

"Angelo Plessas is an Athens, Greece-based artist working across a number of mediums. His practice incorporates both online and offline artworks and projects that reflect on the role and possibilities of networks, relationships, ritual and spirituality. 

His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens; The DESTE Foundation; at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Jeu de Paume, Paris; Frieze Projects in London; and in Documenta 14 in both Kassel and Athens.

He founded the Eternal Internet Brother and Sisterhood in 2012–a annual camp for artists working online. Editions took place on Anafi Island, in San Luis Potosi, at the Dead Sea among other sites.

After the final edition in 2017 at the Dornberg Nature Reserve, near Kassel, he founded PET Projects in 2019 at his studio in the Kypseli neighborhood of Athens. PET projects mounts exhibitions, workshops and performances. And also hosts artists in residence and guest curators.

Today we will hear from him about this project."

http://www.petprojects.studio/
http://noosphericsociety.com/
https://eternalinternetbrotherhood.com/

Angelo Plessas of P.E.T. Projects, Athens, GR

First aired: May 3rd, 2022
Station: WIOX, Roxbury, NY (91.3FM)
Show: An Uncanny Valley
Host: Nathaniel Hitchcock

Live Introduction Script:

"Today we will start the show with a conversation with painter Joshua Abelow who is based in Harris, New York--that's in Sullivan County--about his experience founding and organizing his project Freddy. Freddy was first founded in Baltimore Maryland, the artist's homestate. Then, Six years ago, he purchased and restored a vacant church in the town of Harris, where the gallery is now based. 

During the pandemic, the gallery has been hybernating--with only two shows mounted in the past two years--but will open a solo exhibition by Cheryl Donegan on the 14th of this month. 

Abelow currently has five solo and two-person exhibitions on view: Zoom at Jir Sandel, Copenhagen, Joshua Abelow: 1982-2022 at Baader-Meinhof, Omaha, Nebraska, Joshua 
Abelow featuring Joshua Boulos at A.D.NYC, New York, NY, Joshua Abelow: 2022 at Apartment 13, Providence, RI, and Anti-Magic with Dani Arnica at Et al., San Francisco, CA. 
For more information about the artist please visit www.joshuaabelow.com."

https://freddygallery.biz/
https://www.contemporaryartlibrary.org/venue/freddy-8251
https://joshuaabelow.com/

Joshua Abelow of Freddy, Harris, NY

First aired: June 24th, 2022
Station: WIOX, Roxbury, NY (91.3FM)
Show: An Uncanny Valley
Host: Nathaniel Hitchcock

Introduction transcription:

"Today we will hear a conversation with artist and curator Brent Birnbaum.

Birnbaum is currently based between Amsterdam New York and Rockaway Beach. His current project called Walter's is the contemporary wing of the Walter Elwood Museum in Amsterdam, with satellite exhibitions in Rockaway Beach, scheduled for this summer. 

From 2014 through 2016, he co-ran the project Topless in Rockaway Beach with Jenni Crane. 

Birnbaum has mounted solo exhibitions at Denny Demin Gallery, in New York City; Space Gallery in Portland; the Museum Wilhelm Morgner in Germany, and Casino in Luxembourg, among others.
In February, he opened a solo exhibition at Galerie PJ, in Metz, France where his work is represented."

https://walters.art/
http://www.rockawaytopless.com/
https://brentbirnbaum.com/

Brent Birnbaum of Walter Elwood Contemporary, Amsterdam, NY

An Uncanny Valley is a radio program focused on contemporary art and artists as curators. It airs interviews and listenings with artists, administrators and cultural producers. 
It is produced and hosted by Nathaniel Hitchcock.

This account is an archive of aired interviews.

An Uncanny Valley broadcasts live, alternate Tuesdays from 1-2PM ET, on WIOX Roxbury at 91.3FM, 107.5FM from the campus of S.U.N.Y, Delhi, Margaretville Telephone Company cable channel 20 (MTC-20), and everywhere at wioxradio.org.

WIOX is an FCC licensed 501(c)3 not-for-profit FM radio station in the hamlet of Roxbury, in eastern Delaware County.

The program was formerly titled "Liberal Arts Audio" (May 2nd, 2020-January 25th, 2022)

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