Listening with Artists

Award-winning author, museum curator, and multi-hyphenate, Omar Kholeif aka Dr. O, takes us on a series of adventures through today’s contorted world of art and culture. Each episode invites you to a collective listening session, with luminaries in art, film, music, and poetry, dropping in. Together, they laugh, cry, and sing, as they try to figure out what exactly makes the art of the freewheeling 21st century so special. An artPost21 Production www.artpost21.com Produced by Moe Choucair Follow our host @dromarkholeif

Episode 7 Dr. O with Hrair Sarkissian 02/16/2024

Episode 7 Dr. O with Hrair Sarkissian Listening with Artists Dr. O with Hrair Sarkissian Season 2 finale In the finale of season 2, Dr. O convenes with long-time friend and collaborator, Hrair Sarkissian for an intimate tête-à-tête about life and art. One of the leading conceptual photographers of our time, Sarkissian, unfolds entertaining details of his life, from growing up in his father’s photo studio in Syria and his ongoing engagement with Armenian cultural heritage. Tears and fears are relieved and released through the sounds of a past that is no longer our own. This episode marks the culmination of a two year programme of ‘Listening with Artists’. Fall 2024 will see the birth of a new podcast series. Stay tuned by visiting Hrair Sarkissian is nominated for the Deutsch Börse Photography Prize, which can be visited at The Photographers’ Gallery London from February 24th and will continue to tour internationally. /episode/index/show/a4740367-f6dc-4f9d-ab1f-c916e9850bb4/id/29992003

A Listening with Artists Special by Prof. Sarah Perks, with Dr. O and Trevor Paglen 08/28/2023

A Listening with Artists Special by Prof. Sarah Perks, with Dr. O and Trevor Paglen In our first podcast take-over, Professor Sarah Perks invites listeners into a special workshop-led podcast and meditation session with a dollop of karaoke thrown in to boot! Sarah weaves in around a conversation held in NYC between Dr. O aka Omar Kholeif, and pluridimensional, award-winning artist, Trevor Paglen. Here, you are invited to deep listen and engage your love affair with the internet. Season 2 of the artPost21 podcast coincides with the release of Internet_Art: From the Birth of the Web to the Rise of NFTs published by Phaidon. More info at Image credit: You've Just Been F**cked by PSYOPS courtesy of Trevor Paglen and Pace Gallery. Sarah Perks is Professor of Curating at MIMA x Teesside University and a director of artPost21. Produced by Moe Choucair Want to follow someone new (?) @TrevorPaglen @perks.sarah @dromarkholeif @notbakisa @mimauseful @teesunicreativearts /episode/index/show/a4740367-f6dc-4f9d-ab1f-c916e9850bb4/id/27875703

Season 2: Episode 5 - Zach Blas 07/23/2023

Season 2: Episode 5 - Zach Blas Zach Blas takes us on a journey from Point Pleasant, West Virginia through to Dorothy’s Yellow Brick Road in The Wizard of Oz. The significance of Queer Technologies, Tori Amos, and media archaeology unfold in this conversation mapping over a decade of friendship between artist and theorist, Zach Blas and Dr. O. Season 2 of the Listening with Artists podcast coincides with the release of Internet_Art: From the Birth of the Web to the Rise of NFTs published by Phaidon. More info at /episode/index/show/a4740367-f6dc-4f9d-ab1f-c916e9850bb4/id/27542790

Season 2: Episode 4 - a Listening with Artists Special with Hans Ulrich Obrist and Dr. Omar Kholeif 05/09/2023

Season 2: Episode 4 - a Listening with Artists Special with Hans Ulrich Obrist and Dr. Omar Kholeif In this Listening with Artists special, Hans Ulrich Obrist—widely acknowledged to be the world’s most prolific living curator interviews author and curator, Omar Kholeif about their new memoir,Internet_Art: From the Birth of the Web to the Rise of NFTs—together, the duo freewheel from subjects as varied as the poetry of Etel Adnan to gold book covers, the birth of WWW, futurism, filter bubbles and unrealised projects! With an unnamed special guest appearance. Produced by Moe Choucair. With extra special thanks to Gagosian, London For more info visit: . Tags: #HanUlrichObrist, #HUO, #omarkholeif, #art #Post21, #internetart, #Phaidon, #book, #memoir, #Serpentine, #Gagosian, #tech, #WWW /episode/index/show/a4740367-f6dc-4f9d-ab1f-c916e9850bb4/id/26785899

Season 2: Episode 3 - Haroon Mirza 04/03/2023

Season 2: Episode 3 - Haroon Mirza Haroon Mirza and Dr. O aka Dr. Omar Kholeif convene to discuss frequencies of sound and experience. This free-wheeling session encompasses fervent debates about electricity, psychedelics, and memory. Careening down lanes of memory, sh$t gets emotional. While listening to Alt Bollywood soundtracks, the pair venture into the details of generative art, synth, techno music, and more. Existential listening. This episode is released on the eve of the exhibition, Haroon Mirza: III on view at Lisson Gallery. Find out more at: . Season 2 of the artPost21 podcast Listening with artists coincides with the launch of Internet_Art: From the Birth of the Web to the Rise of NFTs published by Phaidon. Find out more at . the artPost21 Podcast is produced by Moe Choucair. /episode/index/show/a4740367-f6dc-4f9d-ab1f-c916e9850bb4/id/26424042

Season 2: Episode 2 - Lynn Hershman Leeson 03/20/2023

Season 2: Episode 2 - Lynn Hershman Leeson In this intimate conversation, Dr. O aka Dr. Omar Kholeif sits down with the pioneering artist, Lynn Hershman Leeson. Together, they explore antecedents to contemporary avatars, Artificial intelligence, psychoanalysis, speech, and the power of silence. Across the hour, they revisit the artist’s path-breaking experiments in art, film, and technology—tracing the roots of Hershman Leeson’s expressive imagination back to the artist’s childhood. Season 2 of the artPost21 Podcast coincides with the release of Internet_Art: From the Birth of the Web to the Rise of NFTs by Omar Kholeif, and published by Phaidon. Visit . Produced by Moe Choucair. /episode/index/show/a4740367-f6dc-4f9d-ab1f-c916e9850bb4/id/26281611

Season 2: Episode 1 - Cory Arcangel 03/07/2023

Season 2: Episode 1 - Cory Arcangel Season 2 kicks off with a series of encounters with some of contemporary culture’s living legends. The first of these is artist, composer, and writer, Cory Arcangel, whose experiments with art, tech, and music have pioneered how people see, hear and feel the world around us. Together, Dr. O and Arcangel freewheel from Buffalo, NY to Pasadena, CA—reflecting on everything from guitar solos and Andy Warhol, through to the birth of Arcangel Surfware. Hosted by Dr. Omar Kholeif. Produced by Moe Choucair. Season 2 coincides with the launch of Internet_Art: From the Birth of the Web to the Rise of NFTs. /episode/index/show/a4740367-f6dc-4f9d-ab1f-c916e9850bb4/id/26149500

Episode 8 with Hayv Kahraman and Omar Kholeif 01/22/2023

Episode 8 with Hayv Kahraman and Omar Kholeif In the season 1 finale, Dr. O aka Dr. Omar Kholeif sits down with Iraqi-American-Swedish artist, Hayv Kahrman to discuss what listening means to her. For Kahraman, music serves as a haunting, a spectre of a past skin, one that has been shed and left behind across numerous places. In this rare interview, Kahrman opens up about her frustrations and her embodied avatar, and unfurls mythologies that lead us to a realm of science fiction. /episode/index/show/a4740367-f6dc-4f9d-ab1f-c916e9850bb4/id/25691226

The artPost21 Podcast/Episode 7: Simon Denny with Dr. O 12/25/2022

The artPost21 Podcast/Episode 7: Simon Denny with Dr. O Who is Simon Denny, asks Dr. O aka one of the avatars of Omar Kholeif? More than just a superstar artist, Denny is a pop psychologist with a pan-optical purview, a mentor, a collaborator with an infectious spirit, as well as an educator and scholar of all things weird and wonderful. In this special Xmas edition of the artPost21 Podcast, the duo dig into the aesthetics of technology, the rise and fall of NFTs, blockchain technologies, and the utopia of our shared digital culture. A listening-session not to be missed! /episode/index/show/a4740367-f6dc-4f9d-ab1f-c916e9850bb4/id/25427205

Episode 6: What is the Metaverse with Dr. O & Dr Omar Kholeif 12/18/2022

Episode 6: What is the Metaverse with Dr. O & Dr Omar Kholeif What the heck is the 'metaverse'? Are you curious about the #metaverse space? #Web3? Decentralised everything? Journey with Dr. O on this extra special episode as they deconstruct the concept of metaverse, revealing how avatars have roamed the Earth throughout history, what will you become? Produced and developed in collaboration with Moe Chocair. Learn More about the Metaverse in Dr. O's new book Internet_Art available to pre-order from Phaidon.com/internetart. /episode/index/show/a4740367-f6dc-4f9d-ab1f-c916e9850bb4/id/25361670

Episode 5: Godard Tribute by Peter Webber with Omar Kholeif 10/30/2022

Episode 5: Godard Tribute by Peter Webber with Omar Kholeif An homage, not a memorial, to late New Wave filmmaker, Jean-Luc Godard. Featuring special guest, Peter Webber, Director of films such as, Girl with a Pearl Earring, Inna De Yard: The Soul of Jamaica, Hannibal Rising, and more. /episode/index/show/a4740367-f6dc-4f9d-ab1f-c916e9850bb4/id/24846795

Episode 4 Listening with Otobong Nkanga and Omar Kholeif 10/13/2022

Episode 4 Listening with Otobong Nkanga and Omar Kholeif Longing and Belonging with Otobong Nkanga Regarded globally as one of the most important contemporary artists of our time, Nigerian-born, Antwerp-based artist, Otobong Nkanga invites listeners into her studio after a long day's work. Here, the artist describes rarely known aspects of her artistic biography, specifically, the love and longing found in the songs she sings, and the ones she listens to. Enter into her aural sphere before the mic drops. /episode/index/show/a4740367-f6dc-4f9d-ab1f-c916e9850bb4/id/24673848

Episode 3 Curating the Summer Pt.2 with Professor Sarah Perks 09/01/2022

Episode 3 Curating the Summer Pt.2 with Professor Sarah Perks Summer’s almost over, but the “Art Pop” continues. In Part 2 of the aP21 Listening with Artists summer special, Professor Sarah Perks reflects on her collaborations, including the exhibition La Movida about Spain's countercultural movement. Here, Professor Perks and Dr. O explore the contours of political correctness, alongside perceptions of race, gender, and class. It all ends with a karaoke breakdown, and the return of a summer anthem that never was! /episode/index/show/a4740367-f6dc-4f9d-ab1f-c916e9850bb4/id/24236826

Episode 3 Curating the Summer Pt.1 with Professor Sarah Perks 08/29/2022

Episode 3 Curating the Summer Pt.1 with Professor Sarah Perks It’s the summer, baby! Well, at least it feels like it somewhere. In Part 1 of this summer special, Dr. O meets up with Professor Sarah Perks—one of the youngest female-identifying professors and art leaders in the UK, to discuss her beginnings in a call centre, working at Cornerhouse and the life of the Manchester art scene. They close out with intellectual natter about Imitation of Life: Melodrama and Race in the 21st Century from 2016. All set a global suite of pop anthem-mania! /episode/index/show/a4740367-f6dc-4f9d-ab1f-c916e9850bb4/id/24199287

Episode 2 with isolarii 07/25/2022

Episode 2 with isolarii takes us deep into the metaverse of island books with actress and author, and publishing polymath, Sebastian Clark—the duo behind the avant-garde media company that they founded in 2020. The episode features a reading and insights into the duo's latest release, : Ukraine 2022, an exhibition catalogue and diary that unfurls the interior world and life of artist and author, . /episode/index/show/a4740367-f6dc-4f9d-ab1f-c916e9850bb4/id/23854596

This is the Pilot with Lawrence Abu Hamdan 06/10/2022

This is the Pilot with Lawrence Abu Hamdan Turner-Prize winning artist and Private Ear, Lawrence Abu Hamdan is known for the explosive revelations that emerge from his investigations with sound. Presenting us with sonic images that reveal “dirty evidence” –Abu Hamdan unspools that which is buried or dormant. Perhaps most well-known for giving voice to marginalised figures through performance, theatre, and installation, this Private Ear, some may be surprised to know, also boasts a sense of humour. In the Pilot episode of artPost21’s flagship podcast: Listening with Artists, Kholeif invites the artist to think back to the Pre-Borat mankini days, when Spandex was still considered fashionable attire for a rock-star to be. Together, they discuss the politics of language, and the learned act of code-switching. airpressure.info /episode/index/show/a4740367-f6dc-4f9d-ab1f-c916e9850bb4/id/23385827

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