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The Evergreen Review Podcast is hosted by editor-in-chief Dale Peck.
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"Although the attraction to artificial images and bodies could be rooted in an attraction to some version of real women, it has evolved into something largely alien. Cosmetic surgery and photo alteration are similar in that sense to corn syrup, plastic, smart phones, and pornography: once exposed to this technology, humans cannot be trusted to use them tactfully and mindfully."
MATERIAL WORLDS is an ongoing series at Evergreen where contemporary video artists and experimental animators discuss their relationship to tools, technology, and the history of art. Kangmin Kim is a powerful example of the modern independent filmmaker. Collaborative, decisive, and ultimately singular in his vision, he’s screened at major festivals like Sundance, Annecy, SXSW, and Glas. KKUM, his most recent project, took home the grand prize and audience prize at Ottawa, a tremendous achievement. What makes Kangmin’s short films about family and inner friction resonate with audiences is hard to pin down. Is it the tactility of his figurines, puppets, and models? Is it his off-kilter and nuanced storytelling, or perhaps his natural facility with the camera? Hard to say, but what remains after viewing his multimedia short films are lingering questions about symbolism, relationships, and of course, the nature of movement. He guides us into microscopic worlds and outward to the expanding cosmos, but in the end he always delivers us back to a very recognizable planet Earth.
MATERIAL WORLDS is an ongoing series at Evergreen where contemporary video artists and experimental animators discuss their relationship to tools, technology, and the history of art.Utilizing the universal tools of graphite and paper as a base, Amanda Bonaiuto draws and redraws sequences of flora and fauna in powerful clusters that punctuate short films, music videos, and documentaries. She’s made videos for popular touring bands like Rubblebucket and King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. She’s screened her morphing hand-drawn stories at festivals across the globe, such as Annecy and Ottawa. She was nominated for an Oscar after collaborating with the production team of the hilarious short film My Year of Dicks, and currently Amanda shares her curiosity and her rhythmic approach to animation with her students at Parsons School of Design in New York.
MATERIAL WORLDS is an ongoing series at Evergreen where contemporary video artists and experimental animators discuss their relationship to tools, technology, and the history of art.Nazanin Noroozi is a multidisciplinary artist who makes films, prints, handmade paper, and books referencing family histories, injustice, natural disasters, and the ongoing humanitarian crisis in her home country of Iran.
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MATERIAL WORLDS is an ongoing series at Evergreen where contemporary video artists and experimental animators discuss their relationship to tools, technology, and the history of art.The creator of the popular video sketchbook, Erik Winkowski conducts mixed-media imagery like an orchestra. He uses vintage footage, paper cutouts, photography, drawings, and paintings for his wide output of animations and digital experiments that reference play, openhearted experimentation, the history of art, and daily living. He’s screened work in New York and Paris through CADAF, and he’s made experimental digital art for Prada, Gucci, Hermès, and the Rolling Stones. He lives and works in New Orleans.
Miracle Jones talks with novelist and conspiracy expert/enthusiast Robert Guffey (author of Chameleo and Bela Lugosi's Dead) about the true origin of QAnon and its goals after the 2020 election. They also discuss taboos in movies and conspiracy theory as both an existential challenge and an art form.
On the first day of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, five Asian women writers read from their work and address the rise of anti-Asian bigotry in the United States. Coming from a variety of perspectives and backgrounds, Jerrine Tan, Paula Mendoza, Celina Su, Devi S. Laskar, and Pauline Park together throw a powerful light on the past and present of American racial capitalism, patriarchy, and imperialism. They draw from intimate personal experience and strong political convictions to propose an intersectional and international feminism as the way forward. Reading co-presented by The Evergreen Review and Singapore Unbound.
Dale Peck talks with Jeanne Thornton, author of the novel The Dream of Doctor Bantam and the collection The Black Emerald. They discuss Thornton’s relationship with the editing process, her experiences growing up in Texas, Ayn Rand, and Dirty Dancing. Her forthcoming novel Summer Fun is set to be released this summer, published by Soho Press. Thornton’s story “The Fountainhead” appears in Evergreen's Spring/Summer 2019 issue.
Mariam Bazeed reads “Found Poem Composed in Dearborn, Michigan” and its lineage. The poem appears in Evergreen's Fall/Winter 2020 issue. Mariam Bazeed [they/them] is a nonbinary Egyptian immigrant, writer, performer, and cook living in a rent-stabilized apartment in Brooklyn. An alliteration-leaning writer of prose, poetry, plays, and personal essays, Mariam received an MFA in Fiction from Hunter College in 2018.
Editor-in-chief Dale Peck has a conversation with Chicago-based writer, academic, and activist Yasmin Nair. The two discuss the concept of genre, love and identity in activism, unconscious and structural racism in Chicago, and more. Nair is the co-founder of the radical queer editorial collective Against Equality, editor-at-large at Current Affairs and a member of Gender JUST Chicago. Her most recent essay, "So Long, and Thanks for Nothing," appeared in Evergreen’s summer 2020 issue. Her work can be found at yasminnair.net.
In 2018, during their last Eastern European tour, the Russian-American band Mad Meg recorded an entire album at Panevezys Correction House, the only women’s prison in Lithuania. The live album recorded at the prison was released right before the COVID-19 pandemic and the video for the single “Functioning Adult” was created and released while the band was in quarantine. Miracle Jones interviews Mad Meg about making the album and playing Eastern Europe in general.
At the 4th Singapore Literature Festival in NYC, poet, scholar, and activist Jackie Wang (Carceral Capitalism) speaks on the necessity for and future of the abolitionist approach to social reform. Moderated by journalist and activist Kirsten Han.
Dale Peck and Jeffery Renard Allen discuss the American mythology, William Faulkner, the African-American diaspora, and Allen's forthcoming memoir about his mother. Allen is an American poet, essayist, short story writer, and novelist. His essay "African Lives Matter: The Future Crisis," on the COVID-19 crisis in South Africa, was published in The Evergreen Review in summer 2020.
Dale Peck chats with Calvin Baker, author of the critically-acclaimed novels Naming the New World, Once Two Heroes, Dominion, and Grace. The two discuss the past and future of integration in the United States, race as the "organizing principle of American society," and Baker's new novel A More Perfect Reunion: Race Integration, and the Future of America, which is available now. The Evergreen Review published an excerpt from the novel in its summer 2020 issue.
In the first episode of The Evergreen Review Podcast, Dale Peck, editor-in-chief of The Evergreen Review and John Oakes, publisher of The Evergreen Review, discuss the magazine’s history, resurrection, and plans for the future.