Working (it) Out: Season TwoLouise Bennett – Everywhere Welcome to the new season of Working (it) Out. This season, I’m asking artists “Where does art belong?” I met with Louise Bennett to discuss her practice, her involvement with the collective and artist-run initiative Accidentally Annie Street. Bennett’s work uses site specificity (be it the Au…

Postcommodity is Raven Chacon, Cristóbal Martínez, and Kade L. Twist. On today’s episode, we discuss at length their work Repellent Fence. A project almost ten years in the making, Repellent Fence will appear floating over the towns of Agua Prieta, Mexico and Douglas, AZ, USA this October – bisecting the US/Mexico border. The work consists of overs…

Working (it) Out 8 Nicole Miller: Conducting SubjectivityI met this week with video and installation artist Nicole Miller. Miller and I discuss her year and a half residency with LACMA’s Redland’s Art + Film Lab and commission to create a project in collaboration with community contributors from neighborhoods around Los Angeles, as well as her rece…

Working (it) Out Ep 7 Roya Akbari: Destiny’s Child Roya Akbari is an experimental filmmaker and visual artist. When we met to discuss her work, she brought up important issues around censorship and the politics of what is allowed to be shown where. For Akbari, discourse isn’t a precursor to categorizing a culture product as art. Akbari’s experiment…

Working (it) Out Ep 6 Andrew Maize: The Tide is HighAndrew Maize has a thoroughly collaborative art practice producing both studio-centric work and participatory, socially engaged performance. He’s currently a nominee for the RBC Painting Competition, I caught up with him from Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.Music: Atlas Sound – Doldrumsphoto credit: Matthe…

Kelly Jazvac is an artist living and working in London Ontario, where she teaches at the University of Western Ontario. She is the co-discoverer of the Plastiglomerate alongside geologist Patricia L. Corcoran and oceanographer Charles J. Moore. Plastiglomerate is a new substance that forms when plastic melts and holds together various debris and na…