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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 Follow our host @the_real_o ...
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Episode 7 Dr. O with Hrair Sarkissian
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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 fa…
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A Listening with Artists Special by Prof. Sarah Perks, with Dr. O and Trevor Paglen
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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 list…
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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 Artis…
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Season 2: Episode 4 - a Listening with Artists Special with Hans Ulrich Obrist and Dr. Omar Kholeif
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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 cove…
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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…
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Season 2: Episode 2 - Lynn Hershman Leeson
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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…
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Season 2: Episode 1 - Cory Arcangel
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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—re…
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Episode 8 with Hayv Kahraman and Omar Kholeif
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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 h…
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The artPost21 Podcast/Episode 7: Simon Denny with Dr. O
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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…
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Episode 6: What is the Metaverse with Dr. O & Dr Omar Kholeif
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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. …
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Episode 5: Godard Tribute by Peter Webber with Omar Kholeif
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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.By Omar Kholeif
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Episode 4 Listening with Otobong Nkanga and Omar Kholeif
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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 …
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Episode 3 Curating the Summer Pt.2 with Professor Sarah Perks
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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,…
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Episode 3 Curating the Summer Pt.1 with Professor Sarah Perks
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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 in…
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Dr. O takes us deep into the metaverse of island books with actress and author, India Ennenga and publishing polymath, Sebastian Clark—the duo behind isolarii, the avant-garde media company that they founded in 2020. The episode features a reading and insights into the duo's latest release, In the Face of War: Ukraine 2022, an exhibition catalogue …
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This is the Pilot with Lawrence Abu Hamdan
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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 performanc…
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