Arranging Tangerines Episode 39 - A Conversation with Lau Wai
Arranging Tangerines presented by Lydian Stater
Release Date: 12/16/2022
Arranging Tangerines Episode 43 - A Conversation with Kris Graves
Arranging Tangerines presented by Lydian Stater
In this week’s episode, we welcome Kris Graves (and his associate Frank Francis) to our gallery and onto the podcast to discuss a multitude of topics including life with a baby, the charm and uniqueness of Queens, the origins of Hip Hop, Graves’ early commissioned work, museums’ and cultural institutions’ feelings about NFTs, Black Lives Matter, the role that race plays in art, history, and society, working day jobs, and how NFTs can be gate keeper resistant, and what is next for Graves. Originally recorded February 13, 2023 Kris Graves (b. 1982 New York, NY) is an artist and publisher...
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Arranging Tangerines Episode 42 - A Conversation with Matthew Porter and Carlo Van de Roer
Arranging Tangerines presented by Lydian Stater
In this episode, we talk with artists and about how they first met, the acquisition of NFT works by institutions and museums, the ever-changing attitudes of art collectors, the challenges and strengths of working with traditional artists in the NFT space, the idea of hybridity, and what Matthew and Carlo have queued up for the future. Episode recorded on February 21, 2023. Mathew Porter and Carlo Van de Roer have formed a dynamic partnership known as , an artist-run collective focused on collaborating with artists in the NFT space. Within this innovative venture, they...
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Arranging Tangerines Episode 41 - A Conversation with Mitchell F Chan
Arranging Tangerines presented by Lydian Stater
In this episode, we talk with artist about his early NFT project titled , ideas of ownership and locating the source of value, techno utopianism, conceputalism within the NFT space and much much more. Mitchell F Chan has created innovative works about technology since 2006. He creates large-scale public works, gallery installations, and digital artworks. He is best-known for creating one of the earliest non-fungible token artworks, which linked the immateriality of blockchain to the conceptual art practice of Yves Klein. In 2009, he was awarded the School of the Art Institute of...
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Arranging Tangerines Episode 40 - A Conversation with Mike Varley
Arranging Tangerines presented by Lydian Stater
In our most recent installment, Mike Varley (one half of the artistic duo Highley Varlet) has (half of) us over to his very official podcast studio (in his apartment) to discuss his and their artistic endeavors including the “2020: Total Clarity” project where they walked a marathon a day, five days a week, for a full calendar year, the people they met, the podcast episodes they produced, the bagels they ate, the weed bags they picked up, the subsequent NFT collections they produced and how this all helped him to broaden his understanding of New York City, create community, and think about...
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Arranging Tangerines Episode 39 - A Conversation with Lau Wai
Arranging Tangerines presented by Lydian Stater
In this episode, we talk with about their practice and process with discussions around Chinese naming conventions, the use of (or reference to) mocap suits, the differences between consumer and commercial software, how avatars can represent or misrepresent us, deep fakes, the influence of Hong Kong cinema, hybridity, NFTs, virtual galleries, and what the future holds. Lau Wai 劉 衛 is a multidisciplinary artist, former photographer, storyteller, teacher, gamer, cat companion and more. Born and raised in Hong Kong and currently based in New York, Lau utilizes photography, moving image, new...
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Arranging Tangerines Episode 38 - The Lydian Stater Collector Pass
Arranging Tangerines presented by Lydian Stater
In this very special podcast, Alexandro and Joseph do their best infomercial impression to pitch our new gallery initiative, the Lydian Stater Collector Pass. The Lydian Stater Collector Pass is an annual pass issued in the form of an that guarantees ownership of exclusive physical and digital artworks from every artist exhibited in our 2023 season in addition to bonus perks. Listen to learn more about the pass or click the link below.
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Arranging Tangerines Episode 37 - A Conversation with Elisa Gutiérrez Eriksen
Arranging Tangerines presented by Lydian Stater
This week, we have on the show to talk about her curatorial practice including the current exhibition at her experience working as a cultural specialist in Mexico, how she carved a path to the visual arts, NFTs as a medium rather than a container, her recent exhibitions in New York and the merits of artists choosing a curator instead vice versa, her brief art practice, virtual reality as an expansion, and her collective approach to curation. Elisa Gutiérrez Eriksen is a Mexican, Brooklyn based Curator and Arts and cultural producer who has collaborated with artists and institutions to...
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Arranging Tangerines Episode 36 - A Conversation with Huidi Xiang
Arranging Tangerines presented by Lydian Stater
In this week’s episode, we sit down with to talk about her work in our current exhibition at in addition to how gaming influences her work, the overlaps between digital gaming assets and NFTs, the ethics of underpaying oneself, the problems of underpaying others, repetition as a metaphor for labor, the tragedy of The Villager’s Down Special Move in Super Smash Brothers, the importance of faux material in her sculptures, the impossibility of building the ideal IKEA product, and repetition as a metaphor for labor. Huidi Xiang (b. Chengdu, China) is an artist and researcher currently based...
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Arranging Tangerines Episode 35 - A Conversation with Nando Alvarez-Perez
Arranging Tangerines presented by Lydian Stater
In this episode we speak with We reflect on our previous exhibition, , and discuss the politics of being a triplet, when the right time to “retire” a body of work is, image selection and the flattening of history, the indirect impact Walter Benjamin has had on his practice, deskilling, , and recent activities at , , and the . Nando Alvarez-Perez is a native of Buffalo, New York. In 2014 he graduated from SFAI, where he received the Master of Fine Arts Fellowship in Photography. He uses his work to investigate the boundaries between the personal and the political, the fitness of...
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Arranging Tangerines Episode 34 - A Conversation with Christos Makridis
Arranging Tangerines presented by Lydian Stater
In this week’s episode, we catch up with , the CTO/COO and co-founder of the Web3 multimedia startup Living Opera, to discuss how writing can be an approach to understanding the world, human capital, how NFTs and music are such a natural fit, the way Living Opera is working to support emerging opera musicians, the Magic Mozart NFT project, AI’s potential role in the arts, and the possibility of Web3 becoming a space for the common good. Christos Makridis is the CTO/COO and co-founder of , a web3 multimedia startup that brings together classical music and blockchain technologies to...
info_outlineIn this episode, we talk with Lau Wai about their practice and process with discussions around Chinese naming conventions, the use of (or reference to) mocap suits, the differences between consumer and commercial software, how avatars can represent or misrepresent us, deep fakes, the influence of Hong Kong cinema, hybridity, NFTs, virtual galleries, and what the future holds.
Lau Wai 劉 衛 is a multidisciplinary artist, former photographer, storyteller, teacher, gamer, cat companion and more. Born and raised in Hong Kong and currently based in New York, Lau utilizes photography, moving image, new media, sculptural objects, and installation to investigate how history, fiction, personal memory and virtuality collide in the process of identity formation. Their research and material sources range from personal and historical archives to cinematic imagery and popular culture. Their works are collected by The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (United States); Alexander Tutsek – Stiftung Foundation (Germany) and M+ Museum (Hong Kong), among others. They have exhibited in Europe, Asia, and North America, including Brandts Museum of Art and Visual Culture, Denmark (2016); Power Station of Art, Shanghai (2018); Para Site, Hong Kong (2015, 2018); Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong (2019, 2021); Kuandu Biennale, Taiwan (2018); Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale, Japan (2015); The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, United States (2019) and Yokohama Triennale, Japan (2020). They are also a former resident at NARS Foundation, New York and Institute for Electronic Arts, Alfred University, New York.
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