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Transmission: Fariha Róisín
From: Fraser McCallum
Series: Artists-In-Presidents: Transmissions to Power
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“Hope has always been necessary, but I do wonder if we’ve really ever had it.” Set against the backdrop of COVID-19 in New York, and rooted in com...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Sep 02, 2021
  • Length: 07:05
  • Purchases: 1
Transmission: Kevin Gotkin
From: Fraser McCallum
Series: Artists-In-Presidents: Transmissions to Power
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“When I say ‘Let’s get cozy,’ I’m asking you to join me in the making of a new and better world.” Gotkin reflects on the historical, social, and p...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Aug 27, 2021
  • Length: 07:47
  • Purchases: 1
Transmission: Romily Alice Walden
From: Fraser McCallum
Series: Artists-In-Presidents: Transmissions to Power
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“drag your body into the sunlight / dig a hole and bury yourself in it” Delivered via distorted and whispering proxy, Walden sends a biocentric me...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Aug 20, 2021
  • Length: 02:40
  • Purchases: 1
Transmission: Macarena Gómez-Barris
From: Fraser McCallum
Series: Artists-In-Presidents: Transmissions to Power
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“We envision a timeless and a historical future. We bury our seen and unseen dead. We mourn all of our losses. We catalogue our human and more-than...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Aug 12, 2021
  • Length: 07:13
  • Purchases: 1
Transmission: Françoise Vergès
From: Fraser McCallum
Series: Artists-In-Presidents: Transmissions to Power
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“To live, we need to breathe, to be held and to hold, to love and be loved, to make kin and communities. Yes, to love and be loved.” In a rousing...

  • Added: Aug 09, 2021
  • Length: 08:39
Transmission: Ravyn Wngz
From: Fraser McCallum
Series: Artists-In-Presidents: Transmissions to Power
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“Keep going, keep going.” Wngz sings, whispers, and celebrates the legacies and histories that helped her find her voice: Sankofa; Harriet Tubman;...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Aug 09, 2021
  • Length: 04:55
  • Purchases: 1
Welcome Message
From: Fraser McCallum
Series: Artists-In-Presidents: Transmissions to Power
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Returning in a new iteration for 2021, "Artists-In-Presidents: Transmissions to Power” invites artists, public intellectuals, and writers to radica...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Aug 09, 2021
  • Length: 03:35
  • Purchases: 1
The Write Question - Kelly Schirmann
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Artist Kelly Schirmann discusses her newest book of poetry and prose, "The New World."

Bought by KWMR, Yellowstone Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 21, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Margaret Bourke-White’s Focus on Apartheid: The Remix Edition
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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This is a remix of our show Focus on Apartheid from July 2016 with guest Alex Lichtenstein, Professor of History at Indiana University. Our topic i...

Bought by KTSW 89.9 and RADIOLEX


  • Added: Jun 08, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Public Water—with Mary Mattingly
From: Cathy Byrd
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With American-born artist Mary Mattingly, we delve into her collaborative environmental interventions over time.

  • Added: May 20, 2021
  • Length: 11:23
I Wish to Say—with Sheryl Oring
From: Cathy Byrd
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Artist Sheryl Oring began "I Wish to Say" in 2004. For this project, Oring sets up a portable public office—complete with a manual typewriter—and i...

  • Added: May 04, 2021
  • Length: 13:44
Paul Robeson: An Essential American
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Our show is about the great Paul Robeson. Our guests are Sharon Rudahl about her new graphic biography Ballad of an America published by (Rutgers U...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and RADIOLEX


  • Added: Feb 23, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 2
The Awakening
From: Cathy Byrd
Series: Fresh Art International
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What part can creativity play in such turbulent times? We speak to six women artists and curators responding to the challenges of the past year wi...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2021
  • Length: 28:24
How to Be Anti-Fascist: Muriel Rukeyser and The Life of Poetry
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: A BAGGAGE TICKET FROM RUKEYSER’S TRANSATLANTIC VOYAGE FROM NEW YORK TO LONDON (1936)
Our show centers on the book The Life of Poetry by Muriel Rukeyser which can be seen as an anti-fascist manifesto pitting poetry - the poetic as a ...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Jan 26, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Art Against War & Capital: On the Cartoons of Art Young
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Looking for Peace, Credit: Art Young
Art Young, like many others, was “converted” or radicalized by the injustice of the arrest, trial, and executions of the so-called Haymarket Anarch...

Bought by RADIOLEX and WGHC-LP 98.3 FM Chicago


  • Added: Jan 12, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 2
Experiments in Alignment and the Persistence of the Motley Crew
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Hélio Oiticica and C.L.R. James
Laura Harris utilizes the figuration of the motley crew - sailors from every geography finding labor solidarity in the middle of the ocean - and ex...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Jan 05, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Against Moral Saints: Kristian Williams on George Orwell and Oscar Wilde
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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The show is Against Moral Saints: on the politics and philosophy of two writers who, by reputation at least, must stand as almost antithetical figu...

  • Added: Jul 21, 2020
  • Length: 59:02
The Journey Through Sorrow: Mary Shelley’s Post-Apocalyptic Novel The Last Man
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Woman at Sunset (1818), Caspar David Friedrich
Coping with being totally alone and the sorrow of loss after a global plague are powerfully depicted in Mary Shelley’s 1826 novel The Last Man. Eil...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
Prospero’s Roaring War: The Rough Magic of Shakespeare’s Tempest
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Helen Scott’s book tracks the way productions of the play reveal the politics of each successive age – how to some Prospero is the benevolent mage ...

  • Added: Apr 07, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
Immersive Exhibits
From: KUNM
Series: Augmented Humanity
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Talking about the whys and hows of immersive exhibits.

  • Added: Dec 13, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
Panther Cubs
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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We don'y just plant the seeds so we can eat the fruit. We plant the seeds so the fruit will be there for generations.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 10, 2019
  • Length: 04:12
  • Purchases: 1
The Writing on the Wall
From: Israel Story
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For everything the West Bank barrier represents to people on both sides, it’s easy to forget that it is an actual physical structure. And as Joel S...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Aug 26, 2019
  • Length: 17:45
  • Purchases: 1
Postcard Activism in Texas - Lisa in Austin
From: Pius Wong
Series: Megaphone Texas
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Lisa from Austin describes postcard activism projects in Texas and around the country. She explains how postcards can help get out the vote and in...

  • Added: Aug 16, 2019
  • Length: 05:33
Charles Gaines on Philosophy and Politics in Conceptual Art
From: Cathy Byrd
Series: Fresh Art International
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Artist Charles Gaines has been delving into philosophy, abstraction and mathematics to address politics and race since the 1970s. In August 2019, G...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2019
  • Length: 19:29
The Art of Exposing Rape in America
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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American artists such as Faith Ringgold, Suzanne Lacy, and Judy Chicago insisted on ending the silence surrounding sexual violence and helped const...

  • Added: Jul 02, 2019
  • Length: 59:05