The Quarantine Tapes: Recent Episodes
Paul Holdengräber, dublab Radio, Onassis Foundation LA
“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.“ - Blaise Pascal. The Quarantine Tapes: A week-day program from Onassis LA and dublab. Hosted by Paul Holdengräber, the series chronicles shifting paradigms in the age of social distancing. Each day, Paul calls a guest for a brief discussion about how they are experiencing the global pandemic.
The Quarantine Tapes es un podcast diario de Onassis LA y dublab. El programa es presentado por Paul Holdengräber. Artistas, escritoras y escritores, activistas, líderes, trabajadores y trabajadoras, pensadoras y pensadores charlan con Paul acerca de cómo pasan el tiempo en este momento histórico sin precedentes. Es una crónica de paradigmas cambiantes en la era del distanciamiento social, que destaca las afinidades universales en esta experiencia humana mundial.
La edición Argentina presentada por el periodista Sergio Cohen convoca a invitados con enfoque en América Latina y comunidades de habla hispana alrededor del mundo.
The Quarantine Tapes se emite los días de semana a las 9.30 PT en DUBLAB.com; a partir de las 12 pm PT está disponible en todas las plataformas de podcasts. The Quarantine Tapes Argentina transmite todos los Jueves a las 9.30 PST en DUBLAB.com
No pudo escuchar la transmisión en vivo? Escúchela como podcast en quarantinetapes.com
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En está oportunidad, Sergio Cohen le da la bienvenida al Sociólogo, Doctor en Ciencias Económicas, Periodista y Escritor Jorge Elbaum con el objetivo de desandar un nuevo episodio de “Las cintas de la cuarentena” Argentina.
El diálogo que mantiene el invitado con el anfitrión abre un amplio abanico de temas que hacen a la realidad nacional de Argentina y a los sucesos más salientes del panorama internacional.
La conversación, que se desarrolla en un tono cordial, hace hincapié en los impactos que produjo la pandemia -que aún no se erradicó totalmente- en el invitado y los efectos que provocó en la población global.
Conforman la profundidad de esta charla, un multiplicidad de temas tales como: los atentados que sufrió la Argentina en la Embajada de Israel (1992), que causó 29 muertos y 242 heridos, y a la Amia (1994) que dejó un saldo de 85 muertos y 300 heridos, que aún siguen sin resolverse; la implicancia del ser judío, el crecimiento de la derecha y sus consecuencias; la guerra entre Rusia y Ucrania; la pelea de las corporaciones que pugnan por adueñarse del mundo virtual; la situación actual de América Latina y la muerte del fiscal Alberto Natalio Nisman, que conmocionó a la sociedad argentina.
No están ausentes de esta entrega, el análisis de las conductas humanas en situaciones extremas y las desigualdades económicas, sociales y culturales que hacen al mundo en el que vivimos y que es imprescindible mejorar.
Jorge Elbaum nació en Buenos Aires el 1º de marzo de 1961. Es Sociólogo, Dr. En Ciencias Económicas, Periodista, Profesor concursado Facultad Ciencias sociales, UBA e Ingeniería en la UNLM, Docente del Instituto del Servicio Exterior de la nación, Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores y de posgrado en la Facultad de Derecho de la UBA, ex embajador en la Cancillería, ex director de la Escuela de Defensa Nacional (Ministerio de Defensa). Fue presidente del Llamamiento Argentino Judío e integra en la actualidad su Comisión Directiva. Sus dos últimos libros son “Imperialismo pandémico. América Latina en la nueva configuración geopolítica”, junto a Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein. Editorial Acercándonos, Buenos Aires, 2021 y “Efecto Nisman. Los usos políticos de una muerte". Editorial Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Argentina, Buenos Aires, 2019. Como periodista, es columnista del portal El Cohete a la Luna.
Sergio Cohen Pjaseczny nació en Buenos Aires en 1961. Es Licenciado en Periodismo y Comunicaciones. Se inició en el periodismo en 1982, llevando adelante distintas funciones periodísticas en diversos campos de la profesión, especializándose en el manejo de la entrevista. Fue profesor universitario. Participó en más 30 de revistas y 8 diarios, trabajó en emisoras radiales de AM y FM y se desempeñó en diferentes puestos en programa televisivos. Es guionista humorístico, autor y compositor. Editó los libros de poesía “Algo que decir”, “Los Testaferros de Dios” y de música “Letra y Música”. Escribió el guión del largometraje “Tango y política”. Fue distinguido con diferentes galardones, entre ellos se destacan: "El Periodista", Premio a la Mejor Producción Periodística (1993) y Premio a la Mejor Cobertura Periodística (1997-1998). Actualmente, se desempeña en Diario Popular, periódico en el que reportea a personalidades de las más variadas disciplinas artísticas y culturales del país. Acaba de concluir “Ella”, su cuarto trabajo discográfico.
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Este podcast puede ser subscripto en apple podcast, simplecast, spotify o cualquier otro medio como escuche sus podcasts. Para ver otros podcasts producidos por dublab visite: dublab.com/podcasts.
The Quarantine Tapes es un podcast diario de Onassis LA y dublab. El programa es presentado por Paul Holdengräber. Artistas, escritoras y escritores, activistas, líderes, trabajadores y trabajadoras, pensadoras y pensadores charlan con Paul acerca de cómo pasan el tiempo en este momento histórico sin precedentes. Es una crónica de paradigmas cambiantes en la era del distanciamiento social, que destaca las afinidades universales en esta experiencia humana mundial.
La edición Argentina presentada por el periodista Sergio Cohen convoca a invitados con enfoque en América Latina y comunidades de habla hispana alrededor del mundo.
The Quarantine Tapes se emite los días de semana a las 9.30 PT en DUBLAB.com; a partir de las 12 pm PT está disponible en todas las plataformas de podcasts. The Quarantine Tapes Argentina transmite todos los Jueves a las 9.30 PST en DUBLAB.com
No pudo escuchar la transmisión en vivo? Escúchela como podcast en quarantinetapes.com
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En esta ocasión, Sergio Cohen recibe a la talentosa artista Gabriela Pochinki, con la que lleva adelante un nuevo episodio de “Las cintas de la cuarentena” Argentina. La sensibilidad de la Invitada y el tono afectivo que se percibe en el diálogo que mantiene con el anfitrión va enhebrando, con sutileza, uno a uno los temas que conforman esta entrega.
El diálogo comienza con una minuciosa descripción que Pochinki realiza con relación al impacto que provocó el inicio de la pandemia en la población mundial y prosigue con la narración de los aspectos cotidianos que debió modificar para hacer frente a la imprevista amenaza que se cernía sobre la humanidad.
La entrañable conversación es la llave que permite acceder a la vida intima de esta cantante lírica, que deslumbró con su voz al público de los más encumbrados escenarios mundiales, sin dejar de abordar aquellas zonas más sensibles del alma de una mujer que brilló a lo largo de toda su trayectoria profesional.
Su lucha, su sacrifico, su soledad, su vínculo con la familia de Michael Jackson, el perfeccionamiento de su don, su relación con Dios , el milagro de la maternidad y el futuro que se avecina son sólo algunos de los contenidos de este mágico abanico que se va desplegando a lo largo del presente registro.
Gabriela Edith Pochinki nació en Buenos Aires, Argentina. Dueña de una gran versatilidad, logró abarracar diferentes estilos musicales: la ópera, el pop, el tango, la música popular y el canto litúrgico. Fue elegida “Mejor cantante lírica del mundo” en San Remo. Realizó estudios de técnica vocal y repertorio, bajo la dirección de diferentes maestros, en Italia, Suiza, Austria, Alemania, Estados Unidos e Israel hasta alcanzar la clase magistral de Zurich, con Elizabeth Schwarzkopf. Se graduó en la Manhattan School of Music como Bachelor y Master en Opera y en la Universidad de Medicina del Salvador de Argentina de Fonoaudióloga. Su conocimiento del español, el inglés, el italiano, el alemán, el hebreo y el francés, la habilitaron para abordar los más variados repertorios, que incluyen personajes como Despina en “Così fan tutte”, Gilda en “Rigoletto”, Rosina en “El Barbero de Sevilla”, Valencienne en “La Viuda Alegre”, Marie en “La Hija del Regimiento”, Lucía en “Lucía de Lammermoor”, Linda en “Linda de Chamounix”, Susana en "Las Bodas de Figaro”, Oscar en “Ballo di Maschera”, Nanetta en “Falstaff”, entre otros. Formó parte del elenco estable del Stadttheater Lucerna, donde interpretó distintos roles. Protagonizó “Amor sin Barreras” en tres oportunidades, en diferentes idiomas, la Virgina Opera, la Volksopera de Viena y en el Landestheater Salzburgo, acompañada por la Orquesta del Mozarteum de la ciudad. Fue distinguida en competencias internacionales tales como la de Pavarotti, NATS, Pittsburg, Queens Opera, Verismo Opera de Nueva York. En el Teatro Colón de Argentina debutó con Carmina Burana, junto a la Orquesta Filarmónica de Buenos Aires, dirigida por el maestro Pedro Ignacio Calderón. Gabriela interpretó el rol de “Adèle” de “El Murciélago” en la Opera de Illinois, versión en inglés, en Israel, en la Nueva Opera de Tel Aviv, por primera vez realizada en hebreo y en la Volksopera de Viena. Su trayectoria le abrió la puerta de los grandes medios de Alemania, Italia, Japón, Estados Unidos, Israel, Austria y Argentina. Grabó un amplio repertorio de arias de ópera y cánticos litúrgicos con el acompañamiento de diferentes orquestas sinfónicas. Joe Jackson, el padre de Michael, la inició en la música pop. Con el productor Kenny O 'Brien desarrolló un extenso abanico de canciones populares. En el 2007 Sony BMG lanzó su álbum Opera-Pop “Pájaro Rebelde” cantado íntegramente en español. Durante los últimos años realizó giras por Argentina, Uruguay, Francia e Israel con su espectáculo “Canciones de mi Vida”. En el 2014 fue declarada Personalidad Distinguida de la Cultura Argentina por la Legislatura Porteña.
Sergio Cohen Pjaseczny nació en Buenos Aires en 1961. Es Licenciado en Periodismo y Comunicaciones. Se inició en el periodismo en 1982, llevando adelante distintas funciones periodísticas en diversos campos de la profesión, especializándose en el manejo de la entrevista. Fue profesor universitario. Participó en más 30 de revistas y 8 diarios, trabajó en emisoras radiales de AM y FM y se desempeñó en diferentes puestos en programa televisivos. Es guionista humorístico, autor y compositor. Editó los libros de poesía “Algo que decir”, “Los Testaferros de Dios” y de música “Letra y Música”. Escribió el guión del largometraje “Tango y política”. Fue distinguido con diferentes galardones, entre ellos se destacan: "El Periodista", Premio a la Mejor Producción Periodística (1993) y Premio a la Mejor Cobertura Periodística (1997-1998). Actualmente, se desempeña en Diario Popular, periódico en el que reportea a personalidades de las más variadas disciplinas artísticas y culturales del país. Acaba de concluir “Ella”, su cuarto trabajo discográfico.
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Este podcast puede ser subscripto en apple podcast, simplecast, spotify o cualquier otro medio como escuche sus podcasts. Para ver otros podcasts producidos por dublab visite: dublab.com/podcasts.
The Quarantine Tapes es un podcast diario de Onassis LA y dublab. El programa es presentado por Paul Holdengräber. Artistas, escritoras y escritores, activistas, líderes, trabajadores y trabajadoras, pensadoras y pensadores charlan con Paul acerca de cómo pasan el tiempo en este momento histórico sin precedentes. Es una crónica de paradigmas cambiantes en la era del distanciamiento social, que destaca las afinidades universales en esta experiencia humana mundial.
La edición Argentina presentada por el periodista Sergio Cohen convoca a invitados con enfoque en América Latina y comunidades de habla hispana alrededor del mundo.
The Quarantine Tapes se emite los días de semana a las 9.30 PT en DUBLAB.com; a partir de las 12 pm PT está disponible en todas las plataformas de podcasts. The Quarantine Tapes Argentina transmite todos los Jueves a las 9.30 PST en DUBLAB.com
No pudo escuchar la transmisión en vivo? Escúchela como podcast en quarantinetapes.com
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En este nuevo episodio de “Las cintas de la cuarentena” Argentina, la anfitriona invitada Karina Lorré, recibe a Nancy Jaramillo y juntas emprenden un viaje en el que se alternan la historia de vida de la invitada con las sensaciones que experimentó durante la primera etapa de la pandemia y los efectos de la cuarentena estricta.
De la mano de la anfitriona, Jaramillo se interna en los aspectos poco conocidos de la casi inhumana tarea que lleva adelante el personal que trabaja en los buques pesqueros del cual forma parte; da cuenta de los obstáculos y los prejuicios que debió enfrentar a lo largo de su extensa trayectoria para convertirse en la primera y única mujer que alcanzó en Argentina el grado de Capitán de Pesca y reflexiona, entre otros temas, sobre las enseñanzas que, probablemente, dejé esta situación extrema y atípica en la humanidad.
La cálida conversación que mantienen las protagonistas de este registro concluye con el deseo de llegar a buen puerto, luego de la ajetreada travesía que aún sacude al mundo.
Nancy Viviana Jaramillo nació el 10 de julio de 1976 en Trelew, Chubut. Fue madre a los 17 años. Trabajó como empleada doméstica y desempeñó múltiples tareas informarles para alimentar a su hijo. En 1996 emprendió su primer embarque en el buque “Antonio Álvarez”. Se desempeñó como ayudante de cocina a bordo, cocinera, operaria de planta y marinera de cubierta. Realizó tareas de carga, lavado, pre-procesamiento y estiba. Trabajó en las bodegas y en el sector de clasificado. En el 2003 obtuvo el título de Patrón de Pesca Costera. Durante el 2005 la Asociación de Capitanes y Patrones de Pesca reconoció su trayectoria como trabajadora del sector. Fue en el 2006 cuando cumplió funciones como 2° Oficial de Pesca y en el 2007 cuando obtuvo el título de Piloto de Pesca. Un año más tarde, ejerció como 1° Oficial de Pesca. En el transcurso del 2012, se convirtió en Piloto de Pesca de 1°. Al año siguiente, debutó como capitana del buque “Miss Tide”. En el 2016 llegó a ser capitana efectiva del buque “Erin Bruce”. Culminó su formación en el 2017, al obtener el diploma de Capitán de Pesca, siendo la primera mujer en alcanzar tal graduación. La Escuela Nacional de Pesca colocó en su museo una placa resaltando los logros de Jaramillo. Su personalidad y su empeño le permitieron formarse y enfrentar los límites socialmente impuestos a su condición femenina, llegando a conducir naves de gran tamaño y teniendo la facultad necesaria para manejar numerosas tripulaciones.
Karina Lorré nació en 1981, en Bahía Blanca, aunque pasó su infancia y creció en Cabildo, un pequeño pueblo bonaerense. Es Locutora Nacional, egresada de ISER en 2002. En ese mismo año empezó su carrera profesional en LU3 Radio del Sur, y en distintas radios FM de Bahía Blanca, como locutora y en paralelo, como presentadora de diversos eventos, y trabajos para estudios de grabación. Desde 2003, vive en Puerto Madryn. Allí trabaja como locutora en LU17 Radio Golfo Nuevo, una de las radio AM de la provincia de Chubut, y conduce programa musical en Paraíso FM. En veinte años de trayectoria, también trabajó como periodista de El Diario de Madryn, condujo programas radiales diarios, magazines, en diferentes proyectos independientes y distintas emisoras, en paralelo con su ocupación en LU17. Con amplia experiencia en entrevistas a personajes de todos los ámbitos, desde la cultura a la política provincial y nacional.
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Este podcast puede ser subscripto en apple podcast, simplecast, spotify o cualquier otro medio como escuche sus podcasts. Para ver otros podcasts producidos por dublab visite: dublab.com/podcasts.
En esta nueva entrega de “Las cintas de la cuarentena” Argentina, Sergio Cohen le da la bienvenida a la actriz, performer, dramaturga, directora y docente Mariela Asensio. Juntos se aprestan a realizar una mirada retrospectiva que nos ayuda a poner en perspectiva los difíciles momentos que debimos soportar durante la pandemia.
La agudeza del análisis de la invitada permite reflexionar en profundidad sobre aspectos medulares tales como el valor de la cultura y la trascendencia del arte en circunstancias extremas como las que atravesamos, los efectos de la irrupción de la virtualidad en nuestra vida cotidiana, el temor frente a la inminencia de la fragilidad de la existencia y la urgencia de repensar seriamente el mundo que estamos construyendo para que el rumbo de la humanidad nos conduzca hacia un mundo mejor.
No estuvieron ausentes en este episodio las vivencias personales de la invitada, su devenir profesional y los recursos a los que debió echar mano para lograr surfear con éxito las gigantescas olas del desconcierto pandémico
Mariela Asensio es actriz, performer, dramaturga, directora y docente. Integra la Fundación Carlos Somigliana. Se formó en la Escuela Nacional de Arte Dramático y en el ámbito privado. Se perfeccionó en la Casa de América de Madrid y en el Teatro Lliure de Barcelona. En los últimas dos décadas participó en más de 70 obras, alternando distintos roles. Formó parte de diferentes ciclos y festivales, con creaciones propias y dirigiendo textos de otros autores. En el 2013 publicó su libro “Mujeres en 3D” y en el 2014 “Malditos”. Dirigió espectáculos en España, Francia, México, Panamá y Costa Rica. Varias de sus obras fueron y son representadas en diferentes ciudades del mundo y del interior del país. En el marco académico, dirigió 14 proyectos de graduación en la Universidad Nacional de las Artes y en el Centro de Investigaciones Cinematográficas. Es profesora de Dirección de la puesta en escena, dicta cursos en el Centro Latinoamericano de Creación e Investigación Teatral y en el Teatro del Pueblo, enseña en la diplomatura de dramaturgia y autoría escénica y da seminarios en el interior y exterior del país. Creó “Maratón creativa” y “Lo poético en lo cotidiano”, dos propuestas virtuales de trabajo por el que pasaron personas de todo el mundo. Coordina la plataforma virtual y talleres del teatro del pueblo. Actualmente, actúa en “La casa oscura” y dirige “Mujeres en el baño”.
Sergio Cohen Pjaseczny nació en Buenos Aires en 1961. Es Licenciado en Periodismo y Comunicaciones. Se inició en el periodismo en 1982, llevando adelante distintas funciones periodísticas en diversos campos de la profesión, especializándose en el manejo de la entrevista. Fue profesor universitario. Participó en más 30 de revistas y 8 diarios, trabajó en emisoras radiales de AM y FM y se desempeñó en diferentes puestos en programa televisivos. Es guionista humorístico, autor y compositor. Editó los libros de poesía “Algo que decir”, “Los Testaferros de Dios” y de música “Letra y Música”. Escribió el guión del largometraje “Tango y política”. Fue distinguido con diferentes galardones, entre ellos se destacan: "El Periodista", Premio a la Mejor Producción Periodística (1993) y Premio a la Mejor Cobertura Periodística (1997-1998). Actualmente, se desempeña en Diario Popular, periódico en el que reportea a personalidades de las más variadas disciplinas artísticas y culturales del país. Acaba de concluir “Ella”, su cuarto trabajo discográfico.
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Este podcast puede ser subscripto en apple podcast, simplecast, spotify o cualquier otro medio como escuche sus podcasts. Para ver otros podcasts producidos por dublab visite: dublab.com/podcasts.
The Quarantine Tapes es un podcast diario de Onassis LA y dublab. El programa es presentado por Paul Holdengräber. Artistas, escritoras y escritores, activistas, líderes, trabajadores y trabajadoras, pensadoras y pensadores charlan con Paul acerca de cómo pasan el tiempo en este momento histórico sin precedentes. Es una crónica de paradigmas cambiantes en la era del distanciamiento social, que destaca las afinidades universales en esta experiencia humana mundial.
La edición Argentina presentada por el periodista Sergio Cohen convoca a invitados con enfoque en América Latina y comunidades de habla hispana alrededor del mundo.
The Quarantine Tapes se emite los días de semana a las 9.30 PT en DUBLAB.com; a partir de las 12 pm PT está disponible en todas las plataformas de podcasts. The Quarantine Tapes Argentina transmite todos los Jueves a las 9.30 PST en DUBLAB.com
No pudo escuchar la transmisión en vivo? Escúchela como podcast en quarantinetapes.com
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En el presente episodio de “Las cintas de la cuarentena” Argentina, Lucila Vitale recibe a la escritora, guionista y directora teatral Erika Halvorsen, con la que realizan una mirada retrospectiva que les permite arribar al inicio de la pandemia y a los días de la cuarentena estricta, con el fin de analizar cómo incidieron las medidas que se aplicaron para hacerle frente al Covid que azotó a la humanidad, en la vida profesional y personal de la invitada.
El cordial encuentro entre ambas permite ingresar en la intimidad del mundo creativo de la invitada y conocer algunos aspectos que hacen a la concreción de las ideas, sin dejar de atender temas candentes como la ferviente lucha de las mujeres dentro de la industria audiovisual, un territorio históricamente ocupado sólo por hombres.
A través del afectuoso diálogo los oyentes podrán percibir la pasión que lleva a la invitada a desarrollar su labor creativa, que sería imposible de plasmar sin ese impulso vital.
Erika Halvorsen, nació hace 41 años en Río Gallegos, provincia de Santa Cruz, Patagonia Argentina. Es escritora, guionista y directora de teatro. Es autora de más de una docena de obras de teatro: “Hija de Dios”, “Happy Hour”, “La Persuasión”, “Ser Ellas” y “Bisnietas”, entre otras. En el 2008 escribió la serie multi-plataforma “Amanda O”. Es coautora, junto a Gonzalo Demaría, de “Amar después de amar”, serie que fue adaptada en México, Grecia, España, Portugal y Medio Oriente. Fue cocreadora -junto a Daniel Burman- de “Pequeña Victoria” (Victoria Small), serie coproducida por MediaPro y Viacom. Publicó tres novelas: “El Hilo Rojo”, “Desearás” – ambas fueron adaptadas al cine en el 2016 y 2017 respectivamente- y “WhatsUp Mamis”. Actualmente, trabaja en la revista “Anfibia” y se encuentra escribiendo y dirigiendo “El fin del amor”, una nueva serie que pronto saldrá a la luz. Erica conforma la nueva generación de escritores, es una referente de provincia de Santa Cruz.
Lucila Vitale es egresada de la Escuela Metropolitana de Arte Dramático de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires (EMAD). Tiene un postgrado en Administración en Artes del Espectáculo (UBA) y es Gestora Cultural. Realizó, como productora, diversos espectáculos de música para el gobierno de la ciudad de Buenos Aires y para Cultura de la Nación. Estuvo a cargo de la inauguración de Tecnópolis -una megamuestra de ciencia, tecnología, industria y arte, con sede en Argentina, y la más grande de América Latina - participó de numerosas giras con artistas musicales nacionales e internacionales. En 2021 formó parte del “1° Festival Internacional de Cine del Agua”, que se llevó a cabo en El Calafate, como productora general. Actualmente, conduce un programa radial por Radio Nacional Calafate.
Mica Corbalán es Licenciada en Comunicación Audiovisual (UNSAM) y Productora de Radio egresada de ETER (Escuela de Comunicación). En Buenos Aires, trabajó como coordinadora de producción. Realizó espectáculos de teatro como actriz y asistente. Representó a bailarines de danza en el Teatro Colón y fue productora de radio y televisión. En el ámbito cinematográfico, coordinó equipos para largometrajes. Vivió en Brasil, Río de Janeiro, donde se desempeñó como Productora de Arte, realizando la primera serie internacional de Red Globo junto con SONY "Passaport to Freedom". En 2021 formó parte del “1° Festival Internacional de Cine del Agua”, desarrollado en El Calafate como creadora de contenidos. Actualmente, vive en El Calafate, es productora y conductora en Radio Municipal 88.5.
Sergio Cohen Pjaseczny nació en Buenos Aires en 1961. Es Licenciado en Periodismo y Comunicaciones. Se inició en el periodismo en 1982, llevando adelante distintas funciones periodísticas en diversos campos de la profesión, especializándose en el manejo de la entrevista. Fue profesor universitario. Participó en más 30 de revistas y 8 diarios, trabajó en emisoras radiales de AM y FM y se desempeñó en diferentes puestos en programa televisivos. Es guionista humorístico, autor y compositor. Editó los libros de poesía “Algo que decir”, “Los Testaferros de Dios” y de música “Letra y Música”. Escribió el guión del largometraje “Tango y política”. Fue distinguido con diferentes galardones, entre ellos se destacan: "El Periodista", Premio a la Mejor Producción Periodística (1993) y Premio a la Mejor Cobertura Periodística (1997-1998). Actualmente, se desempeña en Diario Popular, periódico en el que reportea a personalidades de las más variadas disciplinas artísticas y culturales del país. Acaba de concluir “Ella”, su cuarto trabajo discográfico.
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Este podcast puede ser subscripto en apple podcast, simplecast, spotify o cualquier otro medio como escuche sus podcasts. Para ver otros podcasts producidos por dublab visite: dublab.com/podcasts
The Quarantine Tapes es un podcast diario de Onassis LA y dublab. El programa es presentado por Paul Holdengräber. Artistas, escritoras y escritores, activistas, líderes, trabajadores y trabajadoras, pensadoras y pensadores charlan con Paul acerca de cómo pasan el tiempo en este momento histórico sin precedentes. Es una crónica de paradigmas cambiantes en la era del distanciamiento social, que destaca las afinidades universales en esta experiencia humana mundial.
La edición Argentina presentada por el periodista Sergio Cohen convoca a invitados con enfoque en América Latina y comunidades de habla hispana alrededor del mundo.
The Quarantine Tapes se emite los días de semana a las 9.30 PT en DUBLAB.com; a partir de las 12 pm PT está disponible en todas las plataformas de podcasts. The Quarantine Tapes Argentina transmite todos los Jueves a las 9.30 PST en DUBLAB.com
No pudo escuchar la transmisión en vivo? Escúchela como podcast en quarantinetapes.com
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En esta ocasión, Sergio Cohen recibe la visita de Fiorella Luna, una de las actrices más populares de Perú y para dar vida a un nuevo episodio de “Las cintas de la cuarentena” Argentina. La invitada acepta de muy buen grado la propuesta de realizar un análisis sobre los efectos que provocó la pandemia en su país.
A medida que la conversación se focaliza en los aspectos medulares de dicha circunstancias, van emergiendo los flagelos que debió atravesar el pueblo hermano ante el imprevisto azote del Covid. Con simple agudeza, Luna desnuda las enormes dificultades de la gente de su tierra y las consecuencias que se derramaron sobre el mundo del arte que aún perduran sin resolverse.
Pero el diálogo sigue su curso y aborda actitudes solidarias que reconfortan al alma humana y que dejan ver una luz de esperanza con relación a los sucesos acaecidos.
La transparencia de la invitada deja ver con claridad sus aspectos más sensibles y sus pensamientos más profundos sobre el mundo que la rodea, las relaciones interpersonales, el valor del arte y la fragilidad de la vida humana.
Fiorella Luna Cunti nació en Lima. Es una de las actrices de cine, teatro y televisión más populares del Perú, gestora cultural, co-fundadora y productora de “Mamacita Gesta”. Es egresada del Taller de Formación Actoral de Alberto Isola y del Centro de Formación Actoral Aranwa. Estudió en la Escola de Atores Wolf Maya en Brasil. Participó en distintos talleres y Workshops. En teatro protagonizó: “Cyrano de Bergerac”, “Una comedia macabra”, “Rapunzel”, “Súper Pedro y el rescate de las flores”. “Casa Refugio”, “Loco por Sharon”, “Griegas”, “Voley”, “Hijos de la Guerra” y “La farsa”. En el campo cinematográfico se destacó en los siguientes filmes “Calichin”. “Zombies”, “Una Comedia Macabra”, “Amigos en Apuros”, “Mi Novia es... él?”, “Papá X Tres”, “Locos de amor 3” y “Bollywood”. En el ámbito televisivo participó en los siguientes programas: “Locura de Amor”, “Ven baila quinceañera”
“De millonario a mendigo” “Al fondo hay sitio” “De vuelta al barrio” “Señores Papis”, “Dos Hermanas”, y “La Rosa de Guadalupe”.
Sergio Cohen Pjaseczny nació en Buenos Aires en 1961. Es Licenciado en Periodismo y Comunicaciones. Se inició en el periodismo en 1982, llevando adelante distintas funciones periodísticas en diversos campos de la profesión, especializándose en el manejo de la entrevista. Fue profesor universitario. Participó en más 30 de revistas y 8 diarios, trabajó en emisoras radiales de AM y FM y se desempeñó en diferentes puestos en programa televisivos. Es guionista humorístico, autor y compositor. Editó los libros de poesía “Algo que decir”, “Los Testaferros de Dios” y de música “Letra y Música”. Escribió el guión del largometraje “Tango y política”. Fue distinguido con diferentes galardones, entre ellos se destacan: "El Periodista", Premio a la Mejor Producción Periodística (1993) y Premio a la Mejor Cobertura Periodística (1997-1998). Actualmente, se desempeña en Diario Popular, periódico en el que reportea a personalidades de las más variadas disciplinas artísticas y culturales del país. Acaba de concluir “Ella”, su cuarto trabajo discográfico.
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Este podcast puede ser subscripto en apple podcast, simplecast, spotify o cualquier otro medio como escuche sus podcasts. Para ver otros podcasts producidos por dublab visite: dublab.com/podcasts.
The Quarantine Tapes es un podcast diario de Onassis LA y dublab. El programa es presentado por Paul Holdengräber. Artistas, escritoras y escritores, activistas, líderes, trabajadores y trabajadoras, pensadoras y pensadores charlan con Paul acerca de cómo pasan el tiempo en este momento histórico sin precedentes. Es una crónica de paradigmas cambiantes en la era del distanciamiento social, que destaca las afinidades universales en esta experiencia humana mundial.
La edición Argentina presentada por el periodista Sergio Cohen convoca a invitados con enfoque en América Latina y comunidades de habla hispana alrededor del mundo.
The Quarantine Tapes se emite los días de semana a las 9.30 PT en DUBLAB.com; a partir de las 12 pm PT está disponible en todas las plataformas de podcasts. The Quarantine Tapes Argentina transmite todos los Jueves a las 9.30 PST en DUBLAB.com
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En el presente episodio de “Las cintas de la cuarentena” Argentina, Sergio Cohen le da la bienvenida a la Investigadora, socióloga e historiadora feminista, Dora Barrancos quien, de muy buen grado, acepta realizar un paralelismo entre la pandemia que ha venido azotando al mundo en estos últimos tiempos y las distintas plagas y epidemias que padeció la humanidad en otras etapas de su existencia.
La invitada se interesa por los temas que propone el anfitrión y lleva adelante un sesudo análisis sobre cuestiones que van desde el rol histórico de las mujeres en las distintas sociedades, el persistente hostigamiento del patriarcado, la multiplicidad de las tareas que trajo aparejada la contemporaneidad, el incremento de la violencia intrafamiliar, el aumento de los femicidios durante la cuarentena, los aspectos más notables del crecimiento de los revolucionarios movimientos feministas en toda América Latina y la deuda que existe en torno a los derechos de las mujeres.
La entrega concluye con la confesión de la invitada, quien narra sin escatimar detalles las razones que la impulsaron a defender las causas de mujeres, géneros y diversidad.
Dora Beatriz Barrancos, nació en Jacinto Arauz, La Pampa, el 15 de agosto de 1940. Es Licenciada en Sociología de la Universidad de Buenos Aires, Magister en Educación (UFMG-Brasil), Doctora en Historia por la Universidad Estadual de Campina (UNICAMP), Profesora consulta de la (UBA), Investigadora Principal del CONICET y Directora del citado organismo en representación de las Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, desde 2010. Dirigió el Instituto Interdisciplinario de Estudios de Género (FFyL-UBA) y la Maestría y el Doctorado en Ciencias Sociales y Humanas (UNQ). Es autora de varios libros, entre los que se destacan “Anarquismo, educación y costumbres en la Argentina de principios de siglo”, “Cultura, educación y trabajadores”, “La escena iluminada. Ciencias para trabajadores”, “inclusión/Exclusión. Historia con mujeres”, “Mujeres en la sociedad argentina. Una historia de cinco siglos”, “Mujeres entre la casa y la plaza” e “Historia Mínima de los feminismos en América Latina”. Ha sido galardonada por el CENIEH-España: Ciencia y Mujeres: 12 nombres para cambiar el mundo. Declarada Personalidad Ilustre de Ciudad de Buenos Aires. Obtuvo el Premio Excelencia Académica de la UBA, el Premio Konex en Estudios de Género y en 2021 fue distinguida con el Premio Rector Amílcar López, por su valioso recorrido en pos de los Derechos Humanos. Entre 1994 y 1998 fue Legisladora de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires y, en la actualidad, es asesora Ad Honorem del Presidente de la Nación, Alberto Fernández, en materia de género.
Sergio Cohen Pjaseczny nació en Buenos Aires en 1961. Es Licenciado en Periodismo y Comunicaciones. Se inició en el periodismo en 1982, llevando adelante distintas funciones periodísticas en diversos campos de la profesión, especializándose en el manejo de la entrevista. Fue profesor universitario. Participó en más 30 de revistas y 8 diarios, trabajó en emisoras radiales de AM y FM y se desempeñó en diferentes puestos en programa televisivos. Es guionista humorístico, autor y compositor. Editó los libros de poesía “Algo que decir”, “Los Testaferros de Dios” y de música “Letra y Música”. Escribió el guión del largometraje “Tango y política”. Fue distinguido con diferentes galardones, entre ellos se destacan: "El Periodista", Premio a la Mejor Producción Periodística (1993) y Premio a la Mejor Cobertura Periodística (1997-1998). Actualmente, se desempeña en Diario Popular, periódico en el que reportea a personalidades de las más variadas disciplinas artísticas y culturales del país. Acaba de concluir “Ella”, su cuarto trabajo discográfico.
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On episode 250 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber speaks with Maurice Harris. This episode is part of a partnership with OXY ARTS. Maurice is a floral artist and the founder of the floral design studio Bloom & Plume. He joins Paul to talk about beauty, self-discovery during the pandemic, and why he calls himself the Beyonce of flowers.
Maurice tells Paul why he is drawn to working with flowers and explains that you have to be present to enjoy fresh flowers. They discuss the Bloom & Plume coffee shop and Maurice’s incredible photography series, Shades of Blackness. Maurice talks to Paul about how he uses beauty as a tool, the value he places on difference, and how he is pushing back against a system that devalues labor.
Maurice Harris is a Los Angeles based artist who is best known as the visionary behind Bloom & Plume, a bespoke floral design studio located in Echo Park. Maurice's unique point of view, sense of humor, craftsmanship and dedication to his community has made him both one of the most sought after floral designers in Los Angeles and one of the most followed florists on Instagram. Harris' clients include some of the biggest names in Hollywood as well as top tier brands such as Louis Vuitton, The Row, Goop, Opening Ceremony, Dior, Nike, Gucci, Valentino, Dolce & Gabbana, Warby Parker, MOCA and LACMA among others. Harris has been featured in Vogue, W Magazine, LA Times, Hollywood Reporter, Saint Heron, Rip + Tan and appeared on air for Viceland. Additionally, Harris' art career has been emerging with a flower sculpture at MOCA, photography at the San Diego Art Institute and a performance piece at the Broad. Most recently you can see him on his TV show "Centerpiece" for Quibi and the upcoming "Full Bloom" for HBOMax.
You can find Maurice Harris’s website at https://shop.bloomandplume.com.
Paul Holdengräber is an interviewer and curator of public curiosity. He is the Founder and Director of Onassis LA (OLA), a center for dialogue. Previously he was the Founder and Director of LIVE from the NYPL, a cultural series at the New York Public Library, where he hosted over 600 events, holding conversations with everyone from Patti Smith to Zadie Smith, Ricky Jay to Jay-Z, Errol Morris to Jan Morris, Wes Anderson to Helen Mirren, Christopher Hitchens to Mike Tyson. He is the host of "A Phone Call From Paul," a podcast for The Literary Hub.
Wherever we will to root:
Los Angeles-based artist EJ Hill is best known for his rigorous, embodied and durational performances and his exploration of the social construction of identity. This exhibition is the culmination of Hill’s term as the 2021 Wanlass Artist in Residence at OXY ARTS, where he worked collaboratively with his students to unravel and unlearn entrenched ideologies.
This unlearning also takes place in the exhibition, where Hill explores the versatility of his practice freely and unapologetically, insisting that it can and will foreground joy. In this series of new works, Hill departs from his physical practice to access his passion for painting; reframing the painting process as the work itself—in this case the work of care, a therapeutic mechanism for healing, rehabilitation, and even refusal.
Wherever we will to root acts as the pendulum swing to Hill’s physically demanding performances. Right here, the paintings seem to say—in the restful hues of roses and daffodils and daisies—is the place where we bloom, where the body is not tested but nursed back to equanimity. The exhibition invites the viewer to witness the physical evidence of Hill’s process and join in the necessary act of resting, resetting, and finding balance and beauty.
From https://www.ejhill.info/work/wherever-we-will-to-root.
EJ Hill is an artist whose practice incorporates painting, writing, installation, and performance as a way to elevate bodies and amplify voices that have long been rendered invisible and inaudible by oppressive social structures. This multifaceted approach often stems from an endurance-based performance practice in which Hill pushes his physical and mental limits as a way to expand the conditions, parameters, and possibilities that determine a body.
After receiving his FCA support, Hill presented Excellentia, Mollitia, Victoria at the Hammer Museum's Made in L.A. 2018 biennial, in which he stood unmoving on a plinth in the gallery for the duration of the exhibition. In 2018 Hill also received an Artadia Award, as well as support from the Joan Mitchell Foundation.
Hill's work has been presented domestically and internationally in exhibitions including Rendez-vous/14th Lyon Biennale, Institut d'Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes, France (2017); Artists of Color, The Underground Museum, Los Angeles (2017); Future Generation Art Prize, 57th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (2017); The Necessary Reconditioning of the Highly Deserving, Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles (2017); and Tenses: Artists in Residence 2015-16, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2016).
Hill is the recipient of an Art Matters Foundation Award (2017); The William H. Johnson Prize (2016); and a Fellowship for Visual Artists from the California Community Foundation (2015). He was shortlisted for the Future Generation Art Prize from the Victor Pinchuk Foundation (2017), and was an Artist-in-Residence at The Studio Museum in Harlem (2015-16). Hill received an M.F.A. from University of California, Los Angeles (2013) and a B.F.A. from Columbia College Chicago (2011).
Paul Holdengräber is an interviewer and curator of public curiosity. He is the Founder and Director of Onassis LA (OLA), a center for dialogue. Previously he was the Founder and Director of LIVE from the NYPL, a cultural series at the New York Public Library, where he hosted over 600 events, holding conversations with everyone from Patti Smith to Zadie Smith, Ricky Jay to Jay-Z, Errol Morris to Jan Morris, Wes Anderson to Helen Mirren, Christopher Hitchens to Mike Tyson. He is the host of "A Phone Call From Paul," a podcast for The Literary Hub.
The Quarantine Tapes es un podcast diario de Onassis LA y dublab. El programa es presentado por Paul Holdengräber. Artistas, escritoras y escritores, activistas, líderes, trabajadores y trabajadoras, pensadoras y pensadores charlan con Paul acerca de cómo pasan el tiempo en este momento histórico sin precedentes. Es una crónica de paradigmas cambiantes en la era del distanciamiento social, que destaca las afinidades universales en esta experiencia humana mundial.
La edición Argentina presentada por el periodista Sergio Cohen convoca a invitados con enfoque en América Latina y comunidades de habla hispana alrededor del mundo.
The Quarantine Tapes se emite los días de semana a las 9.30 PT en DUBLAB.com; a partir de las 12 pm PT está disponible en todas las plataformas de podcasts. The Quarantine Tapes Argentina transmite todos los Jueves a las 9.30 PST en DUBLAB.com
No pudo escuchar la transmisión en vivo? Escúchela como podcast en quarantinetapes.com
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En este segundo tramo del diálogo con Ramón “Palito” Ortega, el viaje hacia el pasado, que se inició en el episodio anterior, hace escala en los distintos aspectos íntimos de la vida pública del popular invitado.
El periplo detiene su marcha en la enorme dificultad financiera que debió afrontar Ortega tras la contratación de Sinatra, debido a la imprevisibilidad económica de la Argentina, se adentra en el sincero vínculo que estableció con “La Voz” y narra los detalles de la ayuda que Frank le proporcionó para salir de la crisis.
Las siguientes etapas de este derrotero se centrar en el rol político del invitado, repasan sus días como gobernador en una provincia convulsionada, dan cuenta de su postulación como vicepresidente la nación y de su adiós a la política.
El trayecto continúa hasta la actualidad, pero antes de llegar a destino, aborda la entrañable relación que mantiene con Charly García que, luego de su enaltecedor gesto que, en cierta medida, le salvó la vida al músico, se transformó en una hermandad, repasa los reconocimientos recibidos por su extensa trayectoria y devela las razones que motivan la despedida de los escenarios de este singular artista.
Ramón Bautista Ortega, nació el 8 de marzo de 1941 en Lules, provincia de Tucumán. Está casado desde 1967 con Evangelina Salazar. Es padre de seis hijos. Es actor, músico, cantante, compositor, productor y director de cine y político. En 1963 graba en el sello RCA como Palito Ortega y, tras editar varios álbumes, se incorpora al ciclo televisivo el "Club del Clan". A partir de aquí, genera múltiples récords de ventas de discos y arrasa en sus shows. Al tiempo, suspende sus presentaciones para filmar una serie de películas, entre las que se destacan "Fiebre de primavera", "Mi primera novia" y "Un muchacho como yo". En 1981, crea su empresa "Chango" y contrata a Frank Sinatra. Durante esa década lanza los discos "Creo en Dios", y "Ese hombre agradecido", entre otros. Luego se radica junto a su familia en Miami. Años más tarde retorna a la Argentina. Entre 1991 y 1995 asume como gobernador de su provincia natal. Desde 1998 hasta el 2011 ocupa el cargo de Senador. En las elecciones de 1999 se postula como candidato a vicepresidente de la Nación por el partido Justicialista. Luego deja la política. En el 2008 ayuda a la recuperación del músico Charly García. Dos años más tarde, vuelve a los escenarios, después de tres décadas de ausencia y en el 2011 edita su disco "El concierto". Fue en el 2012 cuando lanzó su álbum "Por los caminos del rey". En el 2013 en Lules bautizan una avenida con su nombre. Ese mismo año, recibe el Premio Grammy Latino a la Excelencia Musical. Desde el 2015 realiza varias presentaciones, edita varios trabajos discográficos y lanza en plataformas digitales la reedición de 7 de sus álbumes más emblemáticos. Cabe destacar que a lo largo de su carrera filmó 33 películas y que sus canciones “La Felicidad” y “Despeinada” llevan vendidos más de 28 millones de discos. Actualmente, el “Rey” Palito Ortega, este artista considerado uno de los más influyentes del siglo XX en Latinoamérica, sigue recorriendo el país con “Gracias –Tour despedida”.
Sergio Cohen Pjaseczny nació en Buenos Aires en 1961. Es Licenciado en Periodismo y Comunicaciones. Se inició en el periodismo en 1982, llevando adelante distintas funciones periodísticas en diversos campos de la profesión, especializándose en el manejo de la entrevista. Fue profesor universitario. Participó en más 30 de revistas y 8 diarios, trabajó en emisoras radiales de AM y FM y se desempeñó en diferentes puestos en programa televisivos. Es guionista humorístico, autor y compositor. Editó los libros de poesía “Algo que decir”, “Los Testaferros de Dios” y de música “Letra y Música”. Escribió el guión del largometraje “Tango y política”. Fue distinguido con diferentes galardones, entre ellos se destacan: "El Periodista", Premio a la Mejor Producción Periodística (1993) y Premio a la Mejor Cobertura Periodística (1997-1998). Actualmente, se desempeña en Diario Popular, periódico en el que reportea a personalidades de las más variadas disciplinas artísticas y culturales del país. Acaba de concluir “Ella”, su cuarto trabajo discográfico.
SITIOS DE INTERÉS
Seguí a Palito Ortega:
http://www.palitoortegaoficial.com
https://www.facebook.com/PalitoOrtegaOficial
https://www.instagram.com/palitoortegaoficial
https://twitter.com/RamonOrtegaOK https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTtdM6vL_eoYUX2sbrt-QQg
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Este podcast puede ser subscripto en apple podcast, simplecast, spotify o cualquier otro medio como escuche sus podcasts. Para ver otros podcasts producidos por dublab visite: "http://dublab.com/podcasts" dublab.com/podcasts
The Quarantine Tapes es un podcast diario de Onassis LA y dublab. El programa es presentado por Paul Holdengräber. Artistas, escritoras y escritores, activistas, líderes, trabajadores y trabajadoras, pensadoras y pensadores charlan con Paul acerca de cómo pasan el tiempo en este momento histórico sin precedentes. Es una crónica de paradigmas cambiantes en la era del distanciamiento social, que destaca las afinidades universales en esta experiencia humana mundial.
La edición Argentina presentada por el periodista Sergio Cohen convoca a invitados con enfoque en América Latina y comunidades de habla hispana alrededor del mundo.
The Quarantine Tapes se emite los días de semana a las 9.30 PT en DUBLAB.com; a partir de las 12 pm PT está disponible en todas las plataformas de podcasts. The Quarantine Tapes Argentina transmite todos los Jueves a las 9.30 PST en DUBLAB.com
No pudo escuchar la transmisión en vivo? Escúchela como podcast en quarantinetapes.com
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En este nuevo episodio de “Las cintas de la cuarentena” Argentina, Sergio Cohen recibe la visita del músico, cantante, compositor, actor, productor, director de cine y político Ramón “Palito” Ortega. El anfitrión le propone al invitado realizar un viaje hacia el pasado y rememorar los tramos más salientes de su vida que, en definitiva, fueron construyendo al ser humano en el que se ha convertido, sin dejar de analizar los momentos que le tocaron atravesar al mundo a causa de la pandemia y revelando como impactaron en él los efectos esta sorpresiva situación.
En esta primera entrega del encuentro, Ortega acepta de buen grado la invitación de Cohen y juntos se detienen en la dura infancia del invitado, que transcurrió en Lules, un pequeño pueblo de Tucumán, una provincia del norte de la Argentina; luego, recalan en las ilusiones, del invitado; evocan las difíciles vicisitudes que tuvo que atravesar a lo largo del camino para concretar sus deseos; reflexionan sobre lo adquirido y lo innato, la voluntad y el azar, la razón y la fe; reviven las sensaciones que invadieron el alma de Ortega cuando daba sus primeros pasos por el mundo artístico, mientras aparecían los leves atisbos de popularidad y cuando se hacia tangible su reconocimiento nacional e internacional.
En esta primera parte, tampoco faltó la oportunidad para dialogar sobre la aparición del amor verdadero y la ferviente decisión de formar una familia.
Ramón Bautista Ortega, nació el 8 de marzo de 1941 en Lules, provincia de Tucumán. Está casado desde 1967 con Evangelina Salazar. Es padre de seis hijos. Es actor, músico, cantante, compositor, productor y director de cine y político. En 1963 graba en el sello RCA como Palito Ortega y, tras editar varios álbumes, se incorpora al ciclo televisivo el "Club del Clan". A partir de aquí, genera múltiples récords de ventas de discos y arrasa en sus shows. Al tiempo, suspende sus presentaciones para filmar una serie de películas, entre las que se destacan "Fiebre de primavera", "Mi primera novia" y "Un muchacho como yo". En 1981, crea su empresa "Chango" y contrata a Frank Sinatra. Durante esa década lanza los discos "Creo en Dios", y "Ese hombre agradecido", entre otros. Luego se radica junto a su familia en Miami. Años más tarde retorna a la Argentina. Entre 1991 y 1995 asume como gobernador de su provincia natal. Desde 1998 hasta el 2011 ocupa el cargo de Senador. En las elecciones de 1999 se postula como candidato a vicepresidente de la Nación por el partido Justicialista. Luego deja la política. En el 2008 ayuda a la recuperación del músico Charly García. Dos años más tarde, vuelve a los escenarios, después de tres décadas de ausencia y en el 2011 edita su disco "El concierto". Fue en el 2012 cuando lanzó su álbum "Por los caminos del rey". En el 2013 en Lules bautizan una avenida con su nombre. Ese mismo año, recibe el Premio Grammy Latino a la Excelencia Musical. Desde el 2015 realiza varias presentaciones, edita varios trabajos discográficos y lanza en plataformas digitales la reedición de 7 de sus álbumes más emblemáticos. Cabe destacar que a lo largo de su carrera filmó 33 películas y que sus canciones “La Felicidad” y “Despeinada” llevan vendidos más de 28 millones de discos. Actualmente, el “Rey” Palito Ortega, este artista considerado uno de los más influyentes del siglo XX en Latinoamérica, sigue recorriendo el país con “Gracias –Tour despedida”.
Sergio Cohen Pjaseczny nació en Buenos Aires en 1961. Es Licenciado en Periodismo y Comunicaciones. Se inició en el periodismo en 1982, llevando adelante distintas funciones periodísticas en diversos campos de la profesión, especializándose en el manejo de la entrevista. Fue profesor universitario. Participó en más 30 de revistas y 8 diarios, trabajó en emisoras radiales de AM y FM y se desempeñó en diferentes puestos en programa televisivos. Es guionista humorístico, autor y compositor. Editó los libros de poesía “Algo que decir”, “Los Testaferros de Dios” y de música “Letra y Música”. Escribió el guión del largometraje “Tango y política”. Fue distinguido con diferentes galardones, entre ellos se destacan: "El Periodista", Premio a la Mejor Producción Periodística (1993) y Premio a la Mejor Cobertura Periodística (1997-1998). Actualmente, se desempeña en Diario Popular, periódico en el que reportea a personalidades de las más variadas disciplinas artísticas y culturales del país. Acaba de concluir “Ella”, su cuarto trabajo discográfico.
SITIOS DE INTERÉS
Seguí a Palito Ortega:
http://www.palitoortegaoficial.com
https://www.facebook.com/PalitoOrtegaOficial
https://www.instagram.com/palitoortegaoficial
https://twitter.com/RamonOrtegaOK https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTtdM6vL_eoYUX2sbrt-QQg
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Este podcast puede ser subscripto en apple podcast, simplecast, spotify o cualquier otro medio como escuche sus podcasts. Para ver otros podcasts producidos por dublab visite: "http://dublab.com/podcasts" dublab.com/podcasts
The Quarantine Tapes es un podcast diario de Onassis LA y dublab. El programa es presentado por Paul Holdengräber. Artistas, escritoras y escritores, activistas, líderes, trabajadores y trabajadoras, pensadoras y pensadores charlan con Paul acerca de cómo pasan el tiempo en este momento histórico sin precedentes. Es una crónica de paradigmas cambiantes en la era del distanciamiento social, que destaca las afinidades universales en esta experiencia humana mundial.
La edición Argentina presentada por el periodista Sergio Cohen convoca a invitados con enfoque en América Latina y comunidades de habla hispana alrededor del mundo.
The Quarantine Tapes se emite los días de semana a las 9.30 PT en DUBLAB.com; a partir de las 12 pm PT está disponible en todas las plataformas de podcasts. The Quarantine Tapes Argentina transmite todos los Jueves a las 9.30 PST en DUBLAB.com
No pudo escuchar la transmisión en vivo? Escúchela como podcast en quarantinetapes.com
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En el presente episodio de “Las cintas de la cuarentena” Argentina, Fabio Santana se une a Sergio Cohen. El cantante y ex combatiente de la Guerra de Malvinas acepta la invitación del anfitrión para viajar hasta el 2 de abril de 1982, cuando con tan solo 19 años tuvo que ser parte del conflicto bélico que estremeció al mundo.
Mediante un conmovedor diálogo, Santana y Cohen, reviven los emotivos sucesos que marcaron a sangre y fuego a varias generaciones de argentinos, trazan un paralelismo entre la pandemia y los hechos que signaron aquellos días, reflexionan sobre el concepto de patria y el valor de los símbolos y se detienen en las sensaciones que estremecieron el alma del invitado.
A días de conmemorarse los cuarenta años de la gesta de Malvinas, este nuevo episodio nos entrega un análisis ecuánime, sobre aquellos acontecimientos históricos en el que ofrendaron la vida seres humanos que se convirtieron en héroes que muchas veces han sido injustamente olvidados.
Fabio Santana nació el 16 de diciembre de 1962. Es cantante. Su infancia entre los barrios de Villa Madero y de Villa Insuperable. Su profesora de música infantil lo estimuló para que emprenda el camino del arte. A los 18 le llegó el turno del servicio militar obligatorio y en 1982, a días de iniciarse la Guerra de Malvinas, lo convocaron para el conflicto bélico. Allí, su misión consistió en colocar campos minados para impedir el avance enemigo. Permaneció en las islas durante 67 jornadas. Entre el 14 y el 18 de junio, cayó prisionero de los británicos. Tras una pausa de doce años, retornó a la senda musical. Actualmente, integra la agrupación de Excombatientes La Matanza, que Junto realiza distintas actividades solidarias, culturales y educativas, buscando generar conciencia sobre Malvinas. El próximo 2 de abril se cumplen 40 años de la gesta de Malvinas y Santa sigue abrazando la causa con el mismo fervor y con la pasión intacta.
Sergio Cohen Pjaseczny nació en Buenos Aires en 1961. Es Licenciado en Periodismo y Comunicaciones. Se inició en el periodismo en 1982, llevando adelante distintas funciones periodísticas en diversos campos de la profesión, especializándose en el manejo de la entrevista. Fue profesor universitario. Participó en más 30 de revistas y 8 diarios, trabajó en emisoras radiales de AM y FM y se desempeñó en diferentes puestos en programa televisivos. Es guionista humorístico, autor y compositor. Editó los libros de poesía “Algo que decir”, “Los Testaferros de Dios” y de música “Letra y Música”. Escribió el guión del largometraje “Tango y política”. Fue distinguido con diferentes galardones, entre ellos se destacan: "El Periodista", Premio a la Mejor Producción Periodística (1993) y Premio a la Mejor Cobertura Periodística (1997-1998). Actualmente, se desempeña en Diario Popular, periódico en el que reportea a personalidades de las más variadas disciplinas artísticas y culturales del país. Acaba de concluir “Ella”, su cuarto trabajo discográfico.
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Este podcast puede ser subscripto en apple podcast, simplecast, spotify o cualquier otro medio como escuche sus podcasts. Para ver otros podcasts producidos por dublab visite: dublab.com/podcasts.
The Quarantine Tapes es un podcast diario de Onassis LA y dublab. El programa es presentado por Paul Holdengräber. Artistas, escritoras y escritores, activistas, líderes, trabajadores y trabajadoras, pensadoras y pensadores charlan con Paul acerca de cómo pasan el tiempo en este momento histórico sin precedentes. Es una crónica de paradigmas cambiantes en la era del distanciamiento social, que destaca las afinidades universales en esta experiencia humana mundial.
La edición Argentina presentada por el periodista Sergio Cohen convoca a invitados con enfoque en América Latina y comunidades de habla hispana alrededor del mundo.
The Quarantine Tapes se emite los días de semana a las 9.30 PT en DUBLAB.com; a partir de las 12 pm PT está disponible en todas las plataformas de podcasts. The Quarantine Tapes Argentina transmite todos los Jueves a las 9.30 PST en DUBLAB.com
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Esta vez, la anfitriona invitada Gabriela Bissaro, le da la bienvenida a la cantautora Teresa Parodi, para desandar un nuevo episodio de “Las cintas de la cuarentena” Argentina, con la intención de examinar los tumultuosos tiempos que nos están tocando atravesar, a causa de está pandemia que viene azotando el mundo y que modificó sustancialmente la existencia de cada uno de los que habitamos esta tierra.
La conversación transcurre en un tono agradable y aborda las disímiles circunstancias que signaron la vida de la invitada.
Dueña de un gran poder narrativo y de una agudeza analítica, Teresa Parodi, conducida por Gabriela Bissaro, detalla la desgarradora época del Golpe Militar de 1976, que ensombreció a nuestro país, reflexiona sobre la necesidad de no olvidar el pasado para construir un futuro mejor, realza la trascendencia de la música y la poesía, que ayudan a dejar registro de los sucesos que nos atravesaron, hablan sobre el proceso de creación, la toma de conciencia de lo que nos edifica como seres humanos y otras cuestiones que hacen que valga la pena descubrir esta nueva entrega.
Teresa Parodi nació en Corrientes el 30 de diciembre de 1947. Es cantante, guitarrista, autora, compositora, docente y maestra rural. A lo largo de su labor profesional, ha compuesto más de quinientas obras, entre las que se destacan “Pedro canoero”, “Cielo del albañil” y “Cielo de Mantilla”, y lleva grabados más de una treintena de discos Durante el 2006 y el 2007, ejerció el cargo de Directora de Música de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires. En el 2008 creó y dirigió el Espacio Cultural Nuestros Hijos (ECuNHj) de las Madres de Plaza de Mayo. Más tarde, integró el Consejo Directivo de la Asociación Argentina de Intérpretes (AADI) y el directorio de la Sociedad Argentina de Autores y Compositores (SADAIC). En el 2014 se desempeñó como Ministra de Cultura de la Nación, constituyéndose en la primera mujer en ostentar dicho rol. Recibió galardones tales como el Premio Consagración Cosquín; el Disco de Oro y de Platino, por su primer trabajo discográfico; el Premio ACE a la mejor solista femenina y el Estrella de Mar; el premio Carmín de Oro a la Trayectoria y el Gran Premio Nacional de las Artes y Ciencias. La trayectoria musical de esta protagonista del movimiento “Canción Nueva Correntina” que le dio un impulso al chamamé, género declarado recientemente Patrimonio inmaterial de la humanidad, la posiciona como una de las cantautoras más importantes de Latinoamérica.
Gabriela Bissaro nació en la provincia de Corrientes hace 38 años, lugar donde reside. Es Periodista recibida en la Universidad Nacional del Nordeste y Psicóloga Social, cuyo título fue expedido por el Instituto de Formación Superior San José. Como periodista trabajó en diversos medios de comunicación correntinos, cubriendo temas vinculados a las agendas de género, cultura y desarrollo humano. Se ha desempeñado como productora de distintos eventos culturales y artísticos en su provincia; integró la producción ejecutiva del Festival del Chamamé; coordinó el programa de Experimentación Artística, impulsado por la Subsecretaría de Cultura de Corrientes; tuvo a su cargo la coordinación del Programa Nacional de Centros de Actividades Infantiles en escuelas de su provincia. Actualmente, es parte del proyecto “Final Abierto”, una propuesta de contenidos para redes sociales y plataformas Web, al que nutre con contenido local y se dedica, esencialmente, a contar historias e investigar las fronteras y sus cruces culturales.
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Este podcast puede ser subscripto en apple podcast, simplecast, spotify o cualquier otro medio como escuche sus podcasts. Para ver otros podcasts producidos por dublab visite: dublab.com/podcasts.
The Quarantine Tapes es un podcast diario de Onassis LA y dublab. El programa es presentado por Paul Holdengräber. Artistas, escritoras y escritores, activistas, líderes, trabajadores y trabajadoras, pensadoras y pensadores charlan con Paul acerca de cómo pasan el tiempo en este momento histórico sin precedentes. Es una crónica de paradigmas cambiantes en la era del distanciamiento social, que destaca las afinidades universales en esta experiencia humana mundial.
La edición Argentina presentada por el periodista Sergio Cohen convoca a invitados con enfoque en América Latina y comunidades de habla hispana alrededor del mundo.
The Quarantine Tapes se emite los días de semana a las 9.30 PT en DUBLAB.com; a partir de las 12 pm PT está disponible en todas las plataformas de podcasts. The Quarantine Tapes Argentina transmite todos los Jueves a las 9.30 PST en DUBLAB.com
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En esta nueva entrega de “Las cintas de la cuarentena” Argentina, la anfitriona invitada Julieta Cravero, recibe a la poeta, escritora e investigadora pedagógica infantil, Silvia Álvarez. Mediante un diálogo afable, las protagonistas de este encuentro, reviven los primeros días del distanciamiento social y reflexionan sobre las consecuencias de la pandemia que modificaron desde nuestros hábitos cotidianos más simples hasta la manera de relacionarnos con nuestros semejantes.
A poco de andar, la conversación que mantienen se centra en la revalorización que adquirieron la lectura y la escritura durante la cuarentena estricta.
Álvarez y Cravero reflexionan sobre los nuevos paradigmas que impactaron en el campo de la literatura infantil tradicional, que debió incorporar nuevas dinámicas, adaptarse a distintas formas de comunicación y asimilar diferentes formatos de expresión.
También forman parte de este episodio, el análisis sobre el rumbo que puede llegar a tomar el género literario dirigido a niños y adolescentes, hablan sobre el poder multiplicador de las redes sociales respecto de los textos que no pasan por el tamiz de las editoriales y discurren sobre la posibilidad de conectar a los niños con un mundo más real a través de los textos.
Silvia Álvarez nació en 1956 en Bahía Blanca, Argentina. Es poeta, escritora e investigadora pedagógica con más de cuarenta obras publicadas en Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador y España. Su producción aborda los géneros de poesía, ensayo, cuento y novela. Es autora de literatura infantil, como así también de manuales escolares y objetos culturales interdisciplinarios para niños, niñas y adolescentes. Se radicó en Bolivia entre 2003 y 2012, donde creó la Fundación para el Estudio y Fomento Educativo en Latinoamérica con sede en La Paz (EFEL), la cual preside. También está al frente del Centro de Investigaciones y Actividades Pedagógicas y Artísticas para América Latina (C.I.A.P.A.) con sede en Buenos Aires. Actualmente, coordina los talleres de Escritura de la Casa del Poeta Agüero en Villa de Merlo, provincia de San Luis, localidad en la que reside.
Julieta Cravero nació en Huinca Renancó, Córdoba, en 1994. Estudió producción televisiva y radiofónica en la Universidad Nacional de San Luis, donde se recibió como Locutora Nacional. Su camino en los medios comenzó en 2015, con participaciones en distintas emisoras de radio de San Luis, hasta desempeñarse en la actualidad como columnista de género en el programa periodístico “Información Sin Ruido”, que se transmite en FM Ciudad. En 2021 creó y condujo la serie de podcast “Enciclopedia Práctica de la Mujer”. En el campo audiovisual, es guionista y asistente de dirección del documental “Francisca Funes, ¿Pancha Hernández?”, proyecto ganador de la Convocatoria de Documentales Temáticos Gerardo Vallejo.
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Este podcast puede ser subscripto en apple podcast, simplecast, spotify o cualquier otro medio como escuche sus podcasts. Para ver otros podcasts producidos por dublab visite: dublab.com/podcasts.
The Quarantine Tapes es un podcast diario de Onassis LA y dublab. El programa es presentado por Paul Holdengräber. Artistas, escritoras y escritores, activistas, líderes, trabajadores y trabajadoras, pensadoras y pensadores charlan con Paul acerca de cómo pasan el tiempo en este momento histórico sin precedentes. Es una crónica de paradigmas cambiantes en la era del distanciamiento social, que destaca las afinidades universales en esta experiencia humana mundial.
La edición Argentina presentada por el periodista Sergio Cohen convoca a invitados con enfoque en América Latina y comunidades de habla hispana alrededor del mundo.
The Quarantine Tapes se emite los días de semana a las 9.30 PT en DUBLAB.com; a partir de las 12 pm PT está disponible en todas las plataformas de podcasts. The Quarantine Tapes Argentina transmite todos los Jueves a las 9.30 PST en DUBLAB.com
No pudo escuchar la transmisión en vivo? Escúchela como podcast en quarantinetapes.com
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En este nuevo episodio de “Las cintas de la cuarentena” Argentina, Sergio Cohen recibe al reconocido actor Ariel Staltari. El amistoso diálogo que surge de inmediato entre ambos, permite realizar un sincero análisis sobre los tiempos que nos están tocando vivir por efectos de la pandemia e intenta descifrar algunos de los nuevos paradigmas que han comenzado a surgir en el mundo.
La conversación no sólo gira en torno de las cuestiones descriptas anteriormente, sino que se interna en los momentos más difíciles que le ha tocado atravesar al invitado y que modificaron su sentido de la existencia para siempre. La emoción, la reflexión, el humor, los deseos y la forma de encarar el devenir de los sucesos que se presentan en el día a día y nos constituyen como seres humanos, son apenas sutiles ingredientes que conforman esta nueva entrega que, a modo de epilogo, deja ver una luz de esperanza ante el panorama global que se avecina.
Ariel Staltari nació en Ciudadela, Provincia de Buenos Aires, el 1º de abril de 1974. Es actor, guionista, director, docente teatral, productor de televisión y músico. A lo largo de su carrera ha participado en más de treinta telenovelas y series televisivas, entre las que se destacan “Okupas, “El puntero”, “Un gallo para Esculapio” y “El Marginal”, todas ellas marcaron un hito histórico en la pantalla chica. Su actividad no se circunscribe al ámbito televisivo. Tmbién se ha desempañado en teatro y en el campo cinematográfico, dejando su impronta en cada uno de sus personajes que le tocó interpretar. Se ha consolidado como director y autor teatral. En el 2003 recibió el premio en el Festival de Cine de Tandil como revelación masculina por su interpretación en el largometraje Buena vida- Delibery. Actualmente, reparte su tiempo entre las clases teatrales, la actuación en distintas propuestas televisivas y como guionista.
Sergio Cohen Pjaseczny nació en Buenos Aires en 1961. Es Licenciado en Periodismo y Comunicaciones. Se inició en el periodismo en 1982, llevando adelante distintas funciones periodísticas en diversos campos de la profesión, especializándose en el manejo de la entrevista. Fue profesor universitario. Participó en más 30 de revistas y 8 diarios, trabajó en emisoras radiales de AM y FM y se desempeñó en diferentes puestos en programa televisivos. Es guionista humorístico, autor y compositor. Editó los libros de poesía “Algo que decir”, “Los Testaferros de Dios” y de música “Letra y Música”. Escribió el guión del largometraje “Tango y política”. Fue distinguido con diferentes galardones, entre ellos se destacan: "El Periodista", Premio a la Mejor Producción Periodística (1993) y Premio a la Mejor Cobertura Periodística (1997-1998). Actualmente, se desempeña en Diario Popular, periódico en el que reportea a personalidades de las más variadas disciplinas artísticas y culturales del país. Acaba de concluir “Ella”, su cuarto trabajo discográfico.
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Este podcast puede ser subscripto en apple podcast, simplecast, spotify o cualquier otro medio como escuche sus podcasts. Para ver otros podcasts producidos por dublab visite: dublab.com/podcasts.
On episode 243 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by musician and composer Jason Moran. This episode comes as part of a partnership with OXY ARTS. Jason and Paul discuss collaboration, improvisation, and what it means to play the room in this thoughtful and illuminating conversation.
Jason talks about the importance of being in action as an artist and recounts his experiences as both a teacher and a student. He tells Paul about his collaborations with his wife, the incredible singer Alicia Hall Moran, and one of their recent projects, Two Wings. Paul and Jason talk about therapy, ancestors, and why Jason doesn’t worry too much about trying to find balance as an artist.
“Follow the Light”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_Zmzy7_QuA
“Two Wings”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9F2WDyvTd0
Since his formidable emergence on the music scene in the late 90s, jazz pianist Jason Moran has proven more than his brilliance as a performer. The Blue Note Records recording artist has established himself as a risk-taker and innovator of new directions for jazz as a whole. In almost every category that matters – improvisation, composition, group concept, repertoire, technique and experimentation – Moran, and his group The Bandwagon – with bassist Tarus Mateen and drummer Nasheet Waits – have challenged the status quo, and earned the reputation as “the future of jazz.”
His ongoing visionary collaborations in the art world have brought him additional fans and respect. Moran’s music is in the collections of both the MOMA and Whitney Museum of American Art. He scored a ballet for renowned Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet, as well as scoring video works for contemporary American artists Glenn Ligon and Kara Walker. Moran also has worked with pivotal visual/performance artists Joan Jonas and Adrian Piper. Moran currently teaches at the New England Conservatory. He lives in New York City with his wife, mezzo soprano Alicia Hall Moran, and their twin toddlers.
You can find Jason Moran’s website at http://jasonmoran.com.
Paul Holdengräber is an interviewer and curator of public curiosity. He is the Founder and Director of Onassis LA (OLA), a center for dialogue. Previously he was the Founder and Director of LIVE from the NYPL, a cultural series at the New York Public Library, where he hosted over 600 events, holding conversations with everyone from Patti Smith to Zadie Smith, Ricky Jay to Jay-Z, Errol Morris to Jan Morris, Wes Anderson to Helen Mirren, Christopher Hitchens to Mike Tyson. He is the host of "A Phone Call From Paul," a podcast for The Literary Hub.
The Quarantine Tapes es un podcast diario de Onassis LA y dublab. El programa es presentado por Paul Holdengräber. Artistas, escritoras y escritores, activistas, líderes, trabajadores y trabajadoras, pensadoras y pensadores charlan con Paul acerca de cómo pasan el tiempo en este momento histórico sin precedentes. Es una crónica de paradigmas cambiantes en la era del distanciamiento social, que destaca las afinidades universales en esta experiencia humana mundial.
La edición Argentina presentada por el periodista Sergio Cohen convoca a invitados con enfoque en América Latina y comunidades de habla hispana alrededor del mundo.
The Quarantine Tapes se emite los días de semana a las 9.30 PT en DUBLAB.com; a partir de las 12 pm PT está disponible en todas las plataformas de podcasts. The Quarantine Tapes Argentina transmite todos los Jueves a las 9.30 PST en DUBLAB.com
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En esta oportunidad, la anfitriona invitada, la Licenciada en Ciencias de la Comunicación Benita Cuellar, recibe al Biólogo y referente en temas relacionados con el medio ambiente Federico Kopta, para dar vida a un nuevo episodio de “Las cintas de la cuarentena” Argentina.
Juntos llevan adelante un afable diálogo que comienza con un análisis acerca del impacto que generó la pandemia en la población y que resalta algunos aspectos en torno al manejo de la información de parte de los medios de comunicación masiva. Poco a poco, los protagonistas de este encuentro se internan en las cuestiones ambientales medulares vinculadas con la provincia mediterránea de Córdoba, una de las más importantes de Argentina, y profundizan sobre el valor del empoderamiento individual y colectivo, la incidencia que debería tener el poder ciudadano a la hora de definir las políticas públicas, la necesidad de tomar de conciencia sobre el cuidado del medio ambiente y la participación de las comunidades en favor de la naturaleza.
No están ausentes de esta charla la caída de las certezas, el abuso del extractivismo y de los agrotóxicos en los alimentos y las distintas alternativas que se pueden tejer para frenar esta realidad.
Federico Kopta nació hace 58 años y reside en la provincia de Córdoba. Es biólogo y referente en temas relacionados con el medio ambiente. Es el creador de la Fundación “Ambiente, Cultura y Desarrollo” (Acude), en la que se desempeñó por un período de catorce años como docente del programa “Educar Forestando”. También impulsó la fundación del “Foro Ambiental Córdoba”, del que es el actual presidente. El objetivo es incidir desde la ciudadanía en políticas públicas ambientales. Trabaja generando informes y recomendaciones técnicas vinculadas al medioambiente. Además, es fuente de consulta de numerosos medios de comunicación, que acuden a él constantemente por noticias sobre temas ambientales. En el año 2013 recibió el premio “Egresado Distinguido” de los cuatrocientos años de la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba.
Benita Cuellar nació en la provincia de Formosa el 12 de abril de 1972. Esta casada y vive en Salsipuedes, provincia de Córdoba. Es licenciada en Ciencias de la Comunicación por la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (UNC), especialista en Periodismo Digital en diversas temáticas. Amante del fotoperiodismo y la narrativa. Trabajó en medios digitales e impresos, como “Revista Aquí Vivimos”, “Rumbos”, “Radio Mitre”, el medio español “Bez.es”, “Somos Iberoamérica” (web de la Secretaría General Iberoamericana) y "La Voz del Interior ”, diario para el que trabaja como corresponsal y, además, actualmente se desempeña como directora de contexto-web.com
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Este podcast puede ser subscripto en apple podcast, simplecast, spotify o cualquier otro medio como escuche sus podcasts. Para ver otros podcasts producidos por dublab visite: dublab.com/podcasts.
The Quarantine Tapes es un podcast diario de Onassis LA y dublab. El programa es presentado por Paul Holdengräber. Artistas, escritoras y escritores, activistas, líderes, trabajadores y trabajadoras, pensadoras y pensadores charlan con Paul acerca de cómo pasan el tiempo en este momento histórico sin precedentes. Es una crónica de paradigmas cambiantes en la era del distanciamiento social, que destaca las afinidades universales en esta experiencia humana mundial.
La edición Argentina presentada por el periodista Sergio Cohen convoca a invitados con enfoque en América Latina y comunidades de habla hispana alrededor del mundo.
The Quarantine Tapes se emite los días de semana a las 9.30 PT en DUBLAB.com; a partir de las 12 pm PT está disponible en todas las plataformas de podcasts. The Quarantine Tapes Argentina transmite todos los Jueves a las 9.30 PST en DUBLAB.com
No pudo escuchar la transmisión en vivo? Escúchela como podcast en quarantinetapes.com
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En esta oportunidad, Sergio Cohen le da la bienvenida a Florencia Bonelli, una de las escritoras más convocantes de Latinoamérica. Juntos desandan un nuevo episodio de “Las cintas de la cuarentena” Argentina.
Mediante un entrañable diálogo, que se mantiene inalterable desde el principio hasta el fin de la entrega, invitada y anfitrión emprenden un viaje, por medio de las palabras, por los distintos mundos que conforman los nuevos paradigmas que nos interpelan a causa de la pandemia en el orden personal y a nivel global.
La invalorable función de la literatura, el exquisito don de la inspiración, el real sentido de la tarea de escritora y la increíble relación que establece con cada una de sus lectoras, son algunos de los ejes que edifican esta conversación que deja ver la simpleza de una mujer que por medio de sus novelas va dando testimonio del tiempo que nos toca vivir.
Florencia Bonelli nació el 5 de mayo de 1971 en la ciudad de Córdoba, Argentina. Estudió Ciencias Económicas y trabajó como contadora pública, profesión que abandonó después de leer “El Árabe”, de Edith Hull, libro que la impulsó a dedicarse profesionalmente a la escritura, en 1999. Su bilogía “Indias Blancas” (2005) y su trilogía “Caballo de Fuego” (2011) la posicionaron como una de las novelistas más populares de Latinoamérica. Sus libros se han traducido a varias lenguas y han conseguido la admiración de lectores en todo el mundo, con los cuales mantiene un vínculo estrecho y personal a través de las redes y en sus presentaciones y firmas de ejemplares. Florencia sostiene que sus lectores han sido los grandes artífices de la realidad que vive hoy. Gracias a ellos, a que recomiendan sus libros, los regalan, los prestan, ella puede dedicarse a lo que más ama: escribir.”El hechizo del agua” es el titulo de su próximo libro que se publicará en el mes de abril.
Sergio Cohen Pjaseczny nació en Buenos Aires en 1961. Es Licenciado en Periodismo y Comunicaciones. En 1982 comenzó a incursionar en distintos medios. En estos cuarenta años de trayectoria llevó adelante distintas tareas periodísticas en los más diversos campos de la profesión, especializándose en el manejo de la entrevista. Fue profesor universitario. Participó en más de treinta revistas y ocho diarios, trabajó en emisoras radiales de AM y FM y se desempeñó en diferentes puestos en programa televisivos. Es guionista humorístico, autor y compositor. Editó dos libros de poesía “Algo que decir” y “Los Testaferros de Dios”. Escribió el guión del largometraje “Tango y política” y, en estos momentos, se encuentra concluyendo su cuarto trabajo discográfico. Actualmente, se desempeña en Diario Popular – tercer periódico en ventas de la Argentina en el que se desarrolla desde hace treinta y dos años – donde está a cargo de una sección en la que reportea a personalidades que representan a las más variadas disciplinas artísticas y culturales del país.
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Este podcast puede ser subscripto en apple podcast, simplecast, spotify o cualquier otro medio como escuche sus podcasts. Para ver otros podcasts producidos por dublab visite: dublab.com/podcasts.
The Quarantine Tapes es un podcast diario de Onassis LA y dublab. El programa es presentado por Paul Holdengräber. Artistas, escritoras y escritores, activistas, líderes, trabajadores y trabajadoras, pensadoras y pensadores charlan con Paul acerca de cómo pasan el tiempo en este momento histórico sin precedentes. Es una crónica de paradigmas cambiantes en la era del distanciamiento social, que destaca las afinidades universales en esta experiencia humana mundial.
La edición Argentina presentada por el periodista Sergio Cohen convoca a invitados con enfoque en América Latina y comunidades de habla hispana alrededor del mundo.
The Quarantine Tapes se emite los días de semana a las 9.30 PT en DUBLAB.com; a partir de las 12 pm PT está disponible en todas las plataformas de podcasts. The Quarantine Tapes Argentina transmite todos los Jueves a las 9.30 PST en DUBLAB.com
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En esta ocasión, la multipremiada actriz y dramaturga Pilar Gamboa se une a Sergio Cohen para dar vida a un nuevo episodio de “Las cintas de la cuarentena” Argentina. Juntos se internan en los primeros tiempos de la pandemia, los de la cuarentena estricta y la invitada revive cómo fueron aquellos días en los que dio a luz a su primer y único hijo.
El emotivo diálogo abunda en sutiles descripciones, aborda el universo de las sensaciones encontradas, se sumerge en las aguas del pensamiento reflexivo sobre las cuestiones medulares que hacen a la esencia humana y se desliza por los distintos senderos que exhibe la realidad circundante en medio de la incertidumbre que aflora en tiempos atípicos como los actuales.
Los miedos, los deseos, el amor, la angustia, la trascendencia del arte y la vida cotidiana de una actriz en este rincón de la tierra conforman esta entrega, que deja ver una luz al final del camino.
Pilar Gamboa nació en Buenos Aires el 7 abril de 1980. Es actriz y dramaturga. Posee una sólida formación profesional. Actualmente, codirige el grupo teatral de trabajo colectivo “Piel de lava” y formó parte de “El silencio”. En televisión fue parte de los programas de ficción “Para vestir Santos”, “Los únicos”, “Tiempos Compulsivos” y “Farsantes”, entre otros. En teatro, recibió el premio ACE a la mejor actriz por su labor en la obra “La terquedad”, galardón que volvió a recibir en el 2019 por su interpretación en “Petróleo”. En el campo cinematográfico, se destacó en películas tales como: “Recreo”, por la que obtuvo la máxima distinción como mejor actriz del Festival de Huelva, “El incendio”, por la que le otorgaron el lauro a la mejor actriz del Festival de Málaga, “Como funcionan casi todas las cosas”, por la que se hizo acreedora del premio Sur a mejor actriz de reparto y “Lo que más quiero”, filme por el que fue premiada en el Bafici 2010 como mejor actriz. Durante el 2021 recibió el Premio Konex por su labor como actriz de teatro de la década.
Sergio Cohen Pjaseczny nació en Buenos Aires en 1961. Es Licenciado en Periodismo y Comunicaciones. En 1982 comenzó a incursionar en distintos medios. En estos cuarenta años de trayectoria llevó adelante distintas tareas periodísticas en los más diversos campos de la profesión, especializándose en el manejo de la entrevista. Fue profesor universitario. Participó en más de treinta revistas y ocho diarios, trabajó en emisoras radiales de AM y FM y se desempeñó en diferentes puestos en programa televisivos. Es guionista humorístico, autor y compositor. Editó dos libros de poesía “Algo que decir” y “Los Testaferros de Dios”. Escribió el guión del largometraje “Tango y política” y, en estos momentos, se encuentra concluyendo su cuarto trabajo discográfico. Actualmente, se desempeña en Diario Popular – tercer periódico en ventas de la Argentina en el que se desarrolla desde hace treinta y dos años – donde está a cargo de una sección en la que reportea a personalidades que representan a las más variadas disciplinas artísticas y culturales del país.
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On episode 239 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by musician Jason Pierce. Jason’s band, Spiritualized, is preparing to release their latest album, Everything Was Beautiful. Jason joins Paul to discuss the making of that album and his influences as an artist.
Jason unpacks the Kurt Vonnegut quotation from which the album draws its title and he tells Paul about the unique experience of producing an album under the conditions of the pandemic. Jason and Paul’s fascinating conversation covers Leonard Cohen, album design, Jason’s upcoming return to touring, and more.
Missed the live broadcast? Listen in to the show on all podcast platforms and on quarantinetapes.com.
Everything Was Beautiful: https://spiritualizedband.bandcamp.com/album/everything-was-beautiful
“Always Together With You”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ME0ji3o05UQ
Jason Pierce is an English musician and the frontman for the band Spiritualized. Pierce formed Spiritualized in 1990 and the band has released eight studio albums. Their latest album, Everything Was Beautiful, will be released in 2022.
Paul Holdengräber is an interviewer and curator of public curiosity. He is the Founder and Director of Onassis LA (OLA), a center for dialogue. Previously he was the Founder and Director of LIVE from the NYPL, a cultural series at the New York Public Library, where he hosted over 600 events, holding conversations with everyone from Patti Smith to Zadie Smith, Ricky Jay to Jay-Z, Errol Morris to Jan Morris, Wes Anderson to Helen Mirren, Christopher Hitchens to Mike Tyson. He is the host of "A Phone Call From Paul," a podcast for The Literary Hub.
The Quarantine Tapes es un podcast diario de Onassis LA y dublab. El programa es presentado por Paul Holdengräber. Artistas, escritoras y escritores, activistas, líderes, trabajadores y trabajadoras, pensadoras y pensadores charlan con Paul acerca de cómo pasan el tiempo en este momento histórico sin precedentes. Es una crónica de paradigmas cambiantes en la era del distanciamiento social, que destaca las afinidades universales en esta experiencia humana mundial.
La edición Argentina presentada por el periodista Sergio Cohen convoca a invitados con enfoque en América Latina y comunidades de habla hispana alrededor del mundo.
The Quarantine Tapes se emite los días de semana a las 9.30 PT en DUBLAB.com; a partir de las 12 pm PT está disponible en todas las plataformas de podcasts. The Quarantine Tapes Argentina transmite todos los Jueves a las 9.30 PST en DUBLAB.com
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En esta ocasión, Sergio Cohen le da la bienvenida a Orlando Carriqueo, referente indígena y actual vocero de la Coordinadora del Parlamento Mapuche Tehuelche de la ciudad de Río Negro. El diálogo entre ambos comienza con una descripción de los hechos históricos, cuyo objetivo es poner en contexto la situación actual de los pueblos originarios y los efectos que la pandemia produce en ellos.
El reclamo de una reparación histórica por parte del Estado de los territorios usurpados tras la Conquista del Desierto, la violencia y la discriminación racial y social a la que se ven sometidos, el valor de la identidad, el real sentido de lo que significa ser mapuche, la férrea resistencia que llevan adelante en oposición a los proyectos petroleros y megamineros, las acusaciones más graves que se esgrimen sobre los pueblos indígenas por cierta parte de la población argentina, son apenas algunas de la cuestiones urticantes que se abordaron en esta franca conversación entre invitado y anfitrión que conforma este capítulo imperdible de “Las cintas de la cuarentena” Argentina.
Orlando Carriqueo Werken nació en 1971 en Valcheta, un pueblo de la región sur de la provincia de Río Negro, considerado el primer campo de concentración en la Campaña del Desierto. Proviene de una familia numerosa. Tiene estudios secundarios. Es padre de tres hijas de su primer matrimonio. A lo largo de su vida, desde muy pequeño, llevó adelante múltiples tareas para subsistir. Fue, entre otras cosas, diariero, carnicero, repartidor de carne, empleado en un club, vendedor de condimentos y obrero en una metalúrgica. Hoy se desempeña en el ANSES –Asociación Nacional de Seguridad Social- convive, desde hace seis años, con Rocío. Vive en General Roca, cuyo nombre original, en Mapuzugun - idioma Mapuche- es Fiske Menuco que significa “Pantano de Aguas Frías”. Carriqueo es un activista de la causa mapuche y actualmente se desempeña como vocero actual de la Coordinadora del Parlamento Mapuche Tehuelche en Río Negro.
Sergio Cohen Pjaseczny nació en Buenos Aires en 1961. Es Licenciado en Periodismo y Comunicaciones. Se inició en el periodismo en 1982, llevando adelante distintas funciones periodísticas en diversos campos de la profesión, especializándose en el manejo de la entrevista. Fue profesor universitario. Participó en más 30 de revistas y 8 diarios, trabajó en emisoras radiales de AM y FM y se desempeñó en diferentes puestos en programa televisivos. Es guionista humorístico, autor y compositor. Editó los libros de poesía “Algo que decir”, “Los Testaferros de Dios” y de música “Letra y Música”. Escribió el guión del largometraje “Tango y política”. Fue distinguido con diferentes galardones, entre ellos se destacan: "El Periodista", Premio a la Mejor Producción Periodística (1993) y Premio a la Mejor Cobertura Periodística (1997-1998). Actualmente, se desempeña en Diario Popular, periódico en el que reportea a personalidades de las más variadas disciplinas artísticas y culturales del país. Acaba de concluir “Ella”, su cuarto trabajo discográfico.
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On episode 237 of The Quarantine Tapes, guest host Sunita Puri is joined by Jonathan Hepfer. Jonathan Hepfer is a musician and the artistic director of Monday Evening Concerts, a long-running contemporary concert series in Los Angeles.
Jonathan joins Sunita to discuss the history of Monday Evening Concerts and how he first encountered the series. They talk about the role he takes on as a curator and what it means to try to make classical music more accessible. The pair mention all of the influences that have helped them form their love of classical music, and the togetherness we all feel while listening with each other. Finally, Sunita asks Jonathan about the impact of the pandemic on his work and they talk about the healing power of music.
Hildegard von Bingen Canticles Of Ecstasy
“Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.”
Gustav Mahler
Harold Budd / Brian Eno - The Pavilion Of Dreams (1978)
Luigi Nono-Luigi Nono: Incontri for 24 Musicians (1955)
"We make a space inside ourselves, so that being can speak."
Martin Heidegger
John Cage Four Minutes Thirty Three Seconds 4'33
Yves Klein Monotone Symphony
Sunita Puri is an author and the Medical Director of the Palliative Medicine and Supportive Care Service at the Keck Hospital and Norris Cancer Center of the University of Southern California, where she also serves as Chair of the Ethics Committee.
She graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in Anthropology and studied Modern History at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. She completed medical school and residency training in Internal Medicine at the University of California San Francisco, and fellowship training in Hospice and Palliative Medicine at Stanford University. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Slate, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and JAMA – Internal Medicine.
For her writing, she has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, UCross Foundation, and Mesa Refuge. In 2018, she received the Etz Chaim Tree of Life Award from the USC Keck School of Medicine, awarded annually to a member of the faculty who, in the eyes of the campus community, models and provides humanistic and compassionate care.
Sunita was born in Kentucky and is the daughter of naturalized citizens from Punjab state, India. Her family now lives in Los Angeles.
That Good Night, by Sunita Puri
Johnathan Hepfer is a percussionist, conductor, and concert curator specializing in avant-garde and experimental music.
Jonathan is the Artistic Director of Monday Evening Concerts in Los Angeles, on which he performs regularly. He has taken part in the US premieres of major works by Salvatore Sciarrino, Gérard Grisey, György Kurtág, Rolf Riehm, Jo Kondo, Aldo Clementi, Klaus Lang, Ramon Lazkano, Francisco Guerrero, Thomas Meadowcroft and Simon Steen-Andersen. His collaborators have included such luminaries as Marino Formenti, Kim Kashkashian, Alexei Lubimov, Séverine Ballon, Natalia Pschenitschnikova, and Mario Caroli. Of particular interest to Jonathan is the alchemical relationship of language and music.
The Quarantine Tapes es un podcast diario de Onassis LA y dublab. El programa es presentado por Paul Holdengräber. Artistas, escritoras y escritores, activistas, líderes, trabajadores y trabajadoras, pensadoras y pensadores charlan con Paul acerca de cómo pasan el tiempo en este momento histórico sin precedentes. Es una crónica de paradigmas cambiantes en la era del distanciamiento social, que destaca las afinidades universales en esta experiencia humana mundial.
La edición Argentina presentada por el periodista Sergio Cohen convoca a invitados con enfoque en América Latina y comunidades de habla hispana alrededor del mundo.
The Quarantine Tapes se emite los días de semana a las 9.30 PT en DUBLAB.com; a partir de las 12 pm PT está disponible en todas las plataformas de podcasts. The Quarantine Tapes Argentina transmite todos los Jueves a las 9.30 PST en DUBLAB.com
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En este nuevo episodio de “Las cintas de la cuarentena” Argentina, Sergio Cohen le de la bienvenida a Quimey Ramos, la primera maestra trans del país. El anfitrión le propone a la invitada dialogar sobre la adaptación que debió realizar en su vida para asimilar el cimbronazo que la pandemia y la cuarentena habían generado en su cotidianeidad.
A podo de andar, la conversación ingresa en el terreno personal de esta docente de 26 años, quien atravesó por circunstancias peculiares vinculadas con la trascendencia de la autopercepción, la identidad sexual, las cuestiones de género, el deseo y su lucha contra el binarismo y las posiciones hegemónicas.
Esta nueva entrega no está exenta del análisis de la dura realidad que atraviesan las personas trans y travestis en Argentina que, a pesar de los mínimos avances que se han hecho en esa dirección, siguen siendo víctimas de la falta de oportunidades, de la represión, de la violencia y de la discriminación, razones por las cuales no logran mitigar el dolor y el sufrimiento que las recorre y que, en la mayoría de los casos, se lleva sus vida a muy temprana edad.
Quimey Ramos nació en la ciudad de La Plata hace 26 años. Además de ser la primera maestra transexual de la Argentina, es artista, activista independiente y representa a una generación trans que no se contenta con las leyes de cupos ni con los nuevos documentos nacionales de identidad. En el 2017, con tan sólo 22 años de edad, hizo pública su conciencia de ser trans mientras enseñaba inglés en una escuela primaria de La Plata. Su caso conmocionó a la opinión pública occidental. Desde entonces, se convirtió en una de las voces jóvenes referentes de un movimiento que no para de crecer. Su lucha se centra en salir de la centralidad del Estado y la totalización de la existencia: Es partidaria de la autogestión y la revolución propia y la del sistema impuesto. Actualmente Trabaja en el Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales (CELS) y es docente de Educación y Género en el segundo año del Bachillerato Popular Travesti-Trans Mocha Celis.
INFORMACIÓN ADICIONAL
GUIA DEL LENGUAJE INCLUSIVO
https://www.cultura.gob.cl/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/guia-lenguaje-inclusivo-genero.pdf
Sergio Cohen Pjaseczny nació en Buenos Aires en 1961. Es Licenciado en Periodismo y Comunicaciones. Se inició en el periodismo en 1982, llevando adelante distintas funciones periodísticas en diversos campos de la profesión, especializándose en el manejo de la entrevista. Fue profesor universitario. Participó en más 30 de revistas y 8 diarios, trabajó en emisoras radiales de AM y FM y se desempeñó en diferentes puestos en programa televisivos. Es guionista humorístico, autor y compositor. Editó los libros de poesía “Algo que decir”, “Los Testaferros de Dios” y de música “Letra y Música”. Escribió el guión del largometraje “Tango y política”. Fue distinguido con diferentes galardones, entre ellos se destacan: "El Periodista", Premio a la Mejor Producción Periodística (1993) y Premio a la Mejor Cobertura Periodística (1997-1998). Actualmente, se desempeña en Diario Popular, periódico en el que reportea a personalidades de las más variadas disciplinas artísticas y culturales del país. Acaba de concluir “Ella”, su cuarto trabajo discográfico.
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Este podcast puede ser subscripto en apple podcast, simplecast, spotify o cualquier otro medio como escuche sus podcasts. Para ver otros podcasts producidos por dublab visite: dublab.com/podcasts.
The Quarantine Tapes es un podcast diario de Onassis LA y dublab. El programa es presentado por Paul Holdengräber. Artistas, escritoras y escritores, activistas, líderes, trabajadores y trabajadoras, pensadoras y pensadores charlan con Paul acerca de cómo pasan el tiempo en este momento histórico sin precedentes. Es una crónica de paradigmas cambiantes en la era del distanciamiento social, que destaca las afinidades universales en esta experiencia humana mundial.
La edición Argentina presentada por el periodista Sergio Cohen convoca a invitados con enfoque en América Latina y comunidades de habla hispana alrededor del mundo.
The Quarantine Tapes se emite los días de semana a las 9.30 PT en DUBLAB.com; a partir de las 12 pm PT está disponible en todas las plataformas de podcasts. The Quarantine Tapes Argentina transmite todos los Jueves a las 9.30 PST en DUBLAB.com
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En esta ocasión, Sergio Cohen recibe a la artista integral Dat Garcia con el propósito de llevar adelante un nuevo episodio de “Las cintas de la cuarentena” Argentina. Con sorpresiva naturalidad, Invitada y anfitrión tejen un delicado entramado que alberga una variada gama de cuestiones, que van desde el cimbronazo que la pandemia le sigue haciendo sentir a la humanidad, hasta los aspectos más íntimos y profundos que forjan la constitución de la personalidad de la singular visitante.
La calidez del diálogo, que se percibe a lo largo de toda la entrega, permite abordar aquellas zonas del alma donde reina la emoción y el arte comienza a darle más sentido a la existencia.
La fluidez que se genera entre ambos protagonistas le imprime a la charla un cariz particular que deja encendido el candil de la esperanza, a pesar de los días tan difíciles que nos están tocando atravesar desde que esta situación pandémica se hizo presente en nuestras vidas.
Dat García nació hace 38 años Monte Grande, provincia de Buenos Aires. Es compositora, productora, intérprete y conferencista, involucrada con la igualdad de género a través de la música y del arte. Desde niña se vinculó con el folclore. En el 2013, se sumergió en la música digital, abriéndose a un mundo de herramientas para crear sus sonidos, fusionando estilos que van desde la chacarera hasta el trip hop e incorporando instrumentos como el sintetizador, el charango y las flautas, a los que le suma letras que invitan a transitar por un mundo diferente. Sin duda, Dat es una de las portavoces del nuevo movimiento de mujeres latinoamericanas que cuestiona los valores tradicionales, haciendo foco en la toma de conciencia corporal, con el objetivo de edificar una sociedad más igualitaria. “Ermitaño Interior” (2014) fue su primer disco solista. Desde entonces, no dejó de producir su música. Actualmente, está rodando 3 nuevos videos y preparando un show muy elaborado en asociación con la Ópera Periférica, con performers y músicos en vivo. Este evento, bajo el marco del MICA (Mercado de Industrias Culturales Argentinas), tendrá lugar este 20 de febrero en Tecnopolis.
Sergio Cohen Pjaseczny nació en Buenos Aires en 1961. Es Licenciado en Periodismo y Comunicaciones. Se inició en el periodismo en 1982, llevando adelante distintas funciones periodísticas en diversos campos de la profesión, especializándose en el manejo de la entrevista. Fue profesor universitario. Participó en más 30 de revistas y 8 diarios, trabajó en emisoras radiales de AM y FM y se desempeñó en diferentes puestos en programa televisivos. Es guionista humorístico, autor y compositor. Editó los libros de poesía “Algo que decir”, “Los Testaferros de Dios” y de música “Letra y Música”. Escribió el guión del largometraje “Tango y política”. Fue distinguido con diferentes galardones, entre ellos se destacan: "El Periodista", Premio a la Mejor Producción Periodística (1993) y Premio a la Mejor Cobertura Periodística (1997-1998). Actualmente, se desempeña en Diario Popular, periódico en el que reportea a personalidades de las más variadas disciplinas artísticas y culturales del país. Acaba de concluir “Ella”, su cuarto trabajo discográfico.
El crédito de la fotografa Nora Lezano.
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Este podcast puede ser subscripto en apple podcast, simplecast, spotify o cualquier otro medio como escuche sus podcasts. Para ver otros podcasts producidos por dublab visite: dublab.com/podcasts.
The Quarantine Tapes es un podcast diario de Onassis LA y dublab. El programa es presentado por Paul Holdengräber. Artistas, escritoras y escritores, activistas, líderes, trabajadores y trabajadoras, pensadoras y pensadores charlan con Paul acerca de cómo pasan el tiempo en este momento histórico sin precedentes. Es una crónica de paradigmas cambiantes en la era del distanciamiento social, que destaca las afinidades universales en esta experiencia humana mundial.
La edición Argentina presentada por el periodista Sergio Cohen convoca a invitados con enfoque en América Latina y comunidades de habla hispana alrededor del mundo.
The Quarantine Tapes se emite los días de semana a las 9.30 PT en DUBLAB.com; a partir de las 12 pm PT está disponible en todas las plataformas de podcasts. The Quarantine Tapes Argentina transmite todos los Jueves a las 9.30 PST en DUBLAB.com
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En este nueva entrega de “Las cintas de la cuarentena” Argentina, Sergio Cohen recibe a la Doctora Mónica Aranda especialista en Sexología y juntos se disponen a analizar las consecuencias que la pandemia ha generado en el campo de la sexualidad humano.
La conversación que el anfitrión lleva adelante con la invitada se desarrolla en el contexto de un lenguaje simple y llano que permite dar cuenta de los cambios que se han venido generando en este último tiempo en el campo de las relacione sexuales.
La irrupción de la virtualidad, la alteración en la convivencia, la rutina amorosa, la necesidad de incorporar estímulos externos frente a la pérdida de deseo, el incremento de las disfunciones sexuales, el agravamiento de las patologías, el sometimiento sexual, las diferentes maneras de encontrar satisfacción y de conectarse con el placer en medio de la triste, sorprendente y desgarradora situación pandémica,, son algunos de los temas que fueron surgiendo a lo largo de este diálogo que no reparó en mitos y tabúes.
Mónica Aranda es Médica especializada en Cardiología. Cursó sus estudios y se graduó de la Universidad de Buenos Aires. La vida la fue llevando por diferentes caminos en materia científica hasta que encontró en la Sexología su vocación más profunda. Comenzó a formarse en este campo en la Universidad de Buenos Aires, donde realizó los postgrados de Sexología Clínica y Terapia Cognitivo Conductual y Sistémica. Luego continuó sus estudios en la SASH (Sociedad Argentina de Sexualidad Humana) donde alcanzó los postgrados de Sexología Clínica y de Pareja y Sexualidad. Es especialista en disfunciones sexuales. En la actualidad, es una de las sexólogas más influyentes de la Argentina. Su página en Instagram “Tu sexóloga clínica” es una de las más consultadas en las redes sociales.
Sergio Cohen Pjaseczny nació en Buenos Aires en 1961. Es Licenciado en Periodismo y Comunicaciones. Se inició en el periodismo en 1982, llevando adelante distintas funciones periodísticas en diversos campos de la profesión, especializándose en el manejo de la entrevista. Fue profesor universitario. Participó en más 30 de revistas y 8 diarios, trabajó en emisoras radiales de AM y FM y se desempeñó en diferentes puestos en programa televisivos. Es guionista humorístico, autor y compositor. Editó los libros de poesía “Algo que decir”, “Los Testaferros de Dios” y de música “Letra y Música”. Escribió el guión del largometraje “Tango y política”. Fue distinguido con diferentes galardones, entre ellos se destacan: "El Periodista", Premio a la Mejor Producción Periodística (1993) y Premio a la Mejor Cobertura Periodística (1997-1998). Actualmente, se desempeña en Diario Popular, periódico en el que reportea a personalidades de las más variadas disciplinas artísticas y culturales del país. Acaba de concluir “Ella”, su cuarto trabajo discográfico.
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Este podcast puede ser subscripto en apple podcast, simplecast, spotify o cualquier otro medio como escuche sus podcasts. Para ver otros podcasts producidos por dublab visite: dublab.com/podcasts.
On episode 233 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by three very special guests. Spencer Bailey and Andrew Zuckerman, hosts of The Slowdown’s At a Distance podcast, come together with philosopher Simon Critchley and Paul for a fascinating conversation looking back on the pandemic thus far.
Spencer and Andrew recently published At a Distance: 100 Visionaries at Home in a Pandemic, a book collecting the interviews they conducted starting in March of 2020. Simon and Paul contributed interviews to the book and together, they discuss the process of putting that book together and what it means to reflect on the moment we are still living through. They discuss everything from the problems with hope to trauma and the body to the urgent need to slow down and understand history in a reflective and illuminating episode.
At a Distance: 100 Visionaries at Home in a Pandemic: https://www.slowdown.tv/atadistancebook
At a Distance podcast: https://www.atadistancepodcast.com
Spencer Bailey is a writer, editor, and journalist. The editor-at-large of the publisher Phaidon and a contributing editor at Town & Country magazine, he has written at length about architecture, art, culture, design, and technology for publications such as The New York Times Magazine, Fortune, Newsweek, and Bloomberg Businessweek. From 2013 to 2018, he was the editor-in-chief of Surface magazine. Spencer has interviewed hundreds of leading architects, artists, designers, and others, including David Adjaye, Tadao Ando, Zaha Hadid, Ian Schrager, and Kanye West. He is the author of In Memory Of: Designing Contemporary Memorials (2020).
Andrew Zuckerman is a photographer, filmmaker, and creative director. Much of his work is concerned with the intersection of nature and technology. He has published multiple books and exhibitions, including Creature (2007), Wisdom (2008), Bird (2009), Music (2010), and Flower (2012). Designed by Apple in California (2016), a book exploring 20 years of Apple design, was the result of a multiyear commission. For Wisdom, Andrew created portraits of, and conducted interviews with, more than 50 luminaries, including Nelson Mandela, Andrew Wyeth, Jane Goodall, and Madeleine Albright.
Simon Critchley is Hans Jonas Professor at the New School for Social Research. His books include Very Little…Almost Nothing (1997), Infinitely Demanding (2007), The Book of Dead Philosophers (2009) and The Faith of the Faithless(2012). Recent works include a novella, Memory Theatre, a book-length essay, Notes on Suicide and studies of David Bowie and Football and Apply-Degger (Onassis, 2020). His most recent books are Tragedy, The Greeks and Us (Pantheon, 2019) and Bald (Yale, 2021). He was series moderator of ‘The Stone’, a philosophy column in The New York Times and co-editor of The Stone Reader (2016) and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Onassis Foundation. He is also 50% of an obscure musical combo called Critchley & Simmons.
Paul Holdengräber is an interviewer and curator of public curiosity. He is the Founder and Director of Onassis LA (OLA), a center for dialogue. Previously he was the Founder and Director of LIVE from the NYPL, a cultural series at the New York Public Library, where he hosted over 600 events, holding conversations with everyone from Patti Smith to Zadie Smith, Ricky Jay to Jay-Z, Errol Morris to Jan Morris, Wes Anderson to Helen Mirren, Christopher Hitchens to Mike Tyson. He is the host of "A Phone Call From Paul," a podcast for The Literary Hub.
The Quarantine Tapes es un podcast diario de Onassis LA y dublab. El programa es presentado por Paul Holdengräber. Artistas, escritoras y escritores, activistas, líderes, trabajadores y trabajadoras, pensadoras y pensadores charlan con Paul acerca de cómo pasan el tiempo en este momento histórico sin precedentes. Es una crónica de paradigmas cambiantes en la era del distanciamiento social, que destaca las afinidades universales en esta experiencia humana mundial.
La edición Argentina, presentada por el periodista Sergio Cohen, convoca a invitados con enfoque en Latinoamérica y las comunidades de habla hispana alrededor del mundo.
The Quarantine Tapes se emite los días de semana a las 9.30 PT en DUBLAB.com; a partir de las 12 pm PT está disponible en todas las plataformas de podcasts. The Quarantine Tapes Argentina transmite todos los Jueves a las 9.30 PST en DUBLAB.com
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En este nuevo episodio de “Las cintas de la cuarentena” Argentina, Sergio Cohen le da la bienvenida al músico, compositor, fundador y pilar esencial del Rock Argentino: Litto Nebbia. Ambos concuerdan en iniciar el diálogo analizando el impacto que aún sigue provocando la pandemia en nuestras mentes y nuestros corazones.
La cálida y afectuosa conversación que mantienen el gran artista y el anfitrión, sienta las bases sobre temas vinculados a la creación musical, como el don de la inspiración, las diferentes motivaciones que van surgiendo con el correr de los años, la búsqueda de la originalidad, la consagración de un estilo propio, el sentido que adquiere cada palabra y cada nota musical y la emoción de encontrar aquello que se quiere contar y cantar
La influencia que aún sigue ejerciendo la música Nebbia en las distintas generaciones, los ejes de su riquísima trayectoria y su lucha contra las leyes del marketing en el orden artístico son apenas algunas de las cuestiones que conforman esta entrega en la se puede alcanzar a ver el alma de un autentico hacedor.
Litto Nebbia nació en Rosario el 21 de junio de 1948. Es cantante, multi-instrumentista, arreglador, productor y uno de los fundadores del rock argentino. A los 15 años debutó con su primera grabación. En 1967 compuso, junto a Tanguito, “La Balsa”, que interpretó con su banda “Los Gatos” y que es considerada la mejor canción de rock de la historia argentina, según la revista Rolling Stone y la cadena MTV. A lo largo de su carrera, incursionó en el rock, el beat, el folclore, el tango, el pop rock, el jazz, el jazz rock, el rock progresivo y el folk. Escribió más de 1200 obras y formó parte de más de 600 álbumes, que engloban a diversas agrupaciones, discos solista y participaciones en trabajos de otros artistas. A fines de los ’70 creó “Melopea”, un sello independiente que registró el paso de los más gloriosos artistas nacionales de todos los géneros musicales. En 1992 fue declarado Ciudadano Ilustre de Rosario y en 2002 recibió idéntica distinción en Buenos Aires. Le otorgaron el premio Konex de Platino en 1985 y en el premio Konex 2015. Actualmente, sigue trabajando con la misma pasión de siempre.
Sergio Cohen Pjaseczny nació en Buenos Aires en 1961. Es Licenciado en Periodismo y Comunicaciones. En 1982 comenzó a incursionar en distintos medios. En estos cuarenta años de trayectoria llevó adelante distintas tareas periodísticas en los más diversos campos de la profesión, especializándose en el manejo de la entrevista. Fue profesor universitario. Participó en más de treinta revistas y ocho diarios, trabajó en emisoras radiales de AM y FM y se desempeñó en diferentes puestos en programa televisivos. Es guionista humorístico, autor y compositor. Editó dos libros de poesía “Algo que decir” y “Los Testaferros de Dios”. Escribió el guión del largometraje “Tango y política” y, en estos momentos, se encuentra concluyendo su cuarto trabajo discográfico. Actualmente, se desempeña en Diario Popular – tercer periódico en ventas de la Argentina en el que se desarrolla desde hace treinta y dos años – donde está a cargo de una sección en la que reportea a personalidades que representan a las más variadas disciplinas artísticas y culturales del país.
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On episode 231 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by Ann Magnuson. Ann is an incredibly multi-talented artist. She joins Paul to talk about her childhood growing up in West Virginia, her time in New York in the 70s and 80s, and so much more in a fascinating episode.
Ann shares her incredible gift for storytelling as she takes Paul back through her life in creativity. She describes the many inspirations and passions of her childhood and tells stories from her days at Club 57 in New York. She and Paul talk Vietnam War protests, David Bowie and Patti Smith, and so much more before turning to Ann’s quarantine web series, WTF 2020, and the dolls from her grandmother that inspired it.
Paul Holdengräber is an interviewer and curator of public curiosity. He is the Founder and Director of Onassis LA (OLA), a center for dialogue. Previously he was the Founder and Director of LIVE from the NYPL, a cultural series at the New York Public Library, where he hosted over 600 events, holding conversations with everyone from Patti Smith to Zadie Smith, Ricky Jay to Jay-Z, Errol Morris to Jan Morris, Wes Anderson to Helen Mirren, Christopher Hitchens to Mike Tyson. He is the host of "A Phone Call From Paul," a podcast for The Literary Hub.
The Quarantine Tapes es un podcast diario de Onassis LA y dublab. El programa es presentado por Paul Holdengräber. Artistas, escritoras y escritores, activistas, líderes, trabajadores y trabajadoras, pensadoras y pensadores charlan con Paul acerca de cómo pasan el tiempo en este momento histórico sin precedentes. Es una crónica de paradigmas cambiantes en la era del distanciamiento social, que destaca las afinidades universales en esta experiencia humana mundial.
La edición Argentina presentada por el periodista Sergio Cohen convoca a invitados con enfoque en América Latina y comunidades de habla hispana alrededor del mundo.
The Quarantine Tapes se emite los días de semana a las 9.30 PT en DUBLAB.com; a partir de las 12 pm PT está disponible en todas las plataformas de podcasts. The Quarantine Tapes Argentina transmite todos los Jueves a las 9.30 PST en DUBLAB.com
No pudo escuchar la transmisión en vivo? Escúchela como podcast en quarantinetapes.com
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Alejandra Darín nació en Buenos Aires el 19 de junio de 1962. Es una actriz con más de 45 años de trayectoria en teatro, cine y televisión. Desde 2011 ocupa el cargo de Presidenta de la Asociación Argentina de Actores, asumiendo el importante compromiso que implica la defensa de los derechos laborales de sus pares. Entre los espectáculos teatrales que ha protagonizado se encuentran: “A la izquierda del roble”, “Tierra del Fuego”, “Copenhague”, “Edipo Rey”, “Moscú”, “El Evangelio de Evita”, “El libro de Ruth”, “Esquirlas” y “Un informe sobre la banalidad del amor”. En televisión, participó en más de cincuenta programas de ficción. En el campo cinematográfico formó parte de películas tales como “De carne somos”, “Samy y yo”, “Un minuto de silencio” “Ni Dios, ni patrón, ni marido” y “Cinco velitas”, entre otras. Por su labor interpretativa ha recibido importantes reconocimientos, entre los que se destacan los premios ACE y María Guerrero.
La primera actriz Alejandra Darín acepta la invitación de Sergio Cohen para llevar adelante un nuevo episodio de “Las cintas de la cuarentena” Argentina. Ambos realizan una mirada restrospectiva sobre las distintas etapas que se debieron atravesar para hacer frente a esta pandemia.
La puesta en foco de las conductas humanas frente a las situaciones límite, la revaloración de los vínculos afectivos, el impacto en la psiquis y en el ánimo de las circunstancias extremas, los nuevos conflictos paradigmáticos que provocan replanteos existenciales, la importancia de darle la verdadera dimensión a las cosas, diferenciando lo banal de lo trascendente, son algunas de las cuestiones que se abordaron en esta nueva entrega cargada de emotividad.
Una vez más, el diálogo sincero entre la invitada y el anfitrión nos acerca la sensación de que a pesar de las insondables dificultades que presentan los tiempos que nos tocan vivir, resulta indispensable la tarea de defender la alegría.
Sergio Cohen Pjaseczny nació en Buenos Aires en 1961. Es Licenciado en Periodismo y Comunicaciones. En 1982 comenzó a incursionar en distintos medios. En estos cuarenta años de trayectoria llevó adelante distintas tareas periodísticas en los más diversos campos de la profesión, especializándose en el manejo de la entrevista. Fue profesor universitario. Participó en más de treinta revistas y ocho diarios, trabajó en emisoras radiales de AM y FM y se desempeñó en diferentes puestos en programa televisivos. Es guionista humorístico, autor y compositor. Editó dos libros de poesía “Algo que decir” y “Los Testaferros de Dios”. Escribió el guión del largometraje “Tango y política” y, en estos momentos, se encuentra concluyendo su cuarto trabajo discográfico. Actualmente, se desempeña en Diario Popular – tercer periódico en ventas de la Argentina en el que se desarrolla desde hace treinta y dos años – donde está a cargo de una sección en la que reportea a personalidades que representan a las más variadas disciplinas artísticas y culturales del país.
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En el presente episodio de “Las cintas de la cuarentena”, Argentina, Sergio Cohen recibe al Presidente de la Fundación Marambio, el doctor Juan Carlos Luján. Juntos emprenden un viaje desde el presente que nos circunda hasta el tiempo pretérito, arribando a la Base Marambio emplazada en la Antártida Argentina, donde la pandemia no logró interferir la vida de sus habitantes.
La cálida conversación se desliza hasta aquellos gélidos días de 1968, cuando una veintena de hombres, soportando temperaturas inferiores a los 30º bajo cero y haciéndole frente a vientos de más de 27º km/hora, munidos con picos y palas, lograron construir la primera pista de aterrizaje en el lejano, inmenso e inexpugnable continente blanco.
Invitado y anfitrión posan su mirada sobre la trascendencia de la labor científica que se desarrolla en la zona más austral del mundo, los efectos destructivos que viene generando el cambio climático, la falta de información sobre la Antártida y el dolor que la guerra de Malvinas, aún sigue atravesando la vida de los que formaron parte de aquel desgarrador conflicto militar.
Juan Carlos Luján nació en Buenos Aires el 21 de octubre de 1939. Es Suboficial Mayor de la Fuerza Aérea (Retirado). Fue Expedicionario al Desierto Blanco, Caballero del Desierto Blanco y Combatiente de Malvinas. Ha sido condecorado con la “Medalla la Nación Argentina al Valor en Combate”. Participó de la Campaña Antártica Verano 1967/68. Formó parte de la dotación anual de la Base Matienzo 1968/69, integrando la "Patrulla Soberanía". Fue fundador de la Base Marambio. En la Fuerza Aérea -entre 1956 y 1986- cumplió funciones de a bordo como Operador de Sistemas de Entrega Aérea, tripulando distintos aviones, culminando su carrera en el sistema de armas Hércules C-130. Desde 1972 realizó operaciones aéreas a Malvinas y a la Patagonia, como tripulante de LADE, en los aviones Fokker F-27. Es historiador antártico. Fue nombrado "Embajador de Paz". Es vicepresidente de la Comisión Pro-Museo Histórico y Centro Documental de Vicente López. El 2 de abril de 2019, en Reykjavik, recibió el premio a la “Mejor Trayectoria Circumpolar”, en un encuentro realizado en la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales de la Universidad de Islandia. Es el actual presidente de la Fundación Marambio, de la cual es su fundador.
Sergio Cohen Pjaseczny nació en Buenos Aires en 1961. Es Licenciado en Periodismo y Comunicaciones. En 1982 comenzó a incursionar en distintos medios. En estos cuarenta años de trayectoria llevó adelante distintas tareas periodísticas en los más diversos campos de la profesión, especializándose en el manejo de la entrevista. Fue profesor universitario. Participó en más de treinta revistas y ocho diarios, trabajó en emisoras radiales de AM y FM y se desempeñó en diferentes puestos en programa televisivos. Es guionista humorístico, autor y compositor. Editó dos libros de poesía “Algo que decir” y “Los Testaferros de Dios”. Escribió el guión del largometraje “Tango y política” y, en estos momentos, se encuentra concluyendo su cuarto trabajo discográfico. Actualmente, se desempeña en Diario Popular – tercer periódico en ventas de la Argentina en el que se desarrolla desde hace treinta y dos años – donde está a cargo de una sección en la que reportea a personalidades que representan a las más variadas disciplinas artísticas y culturales del país.
INFORMACIÓN ADICIONAL
Para mayor información sobre la Fundación Marambio, visite: www.marambio.aq
Para mayor información sobre el Museo Antártico de Villa Adelina, visite: www.marambio.aq/museovillaadelina.html
Sobre qué es ser antártico, visite: www.marambio.aq/serantartico.html
Museo "Patrulla Soberanía" en la Base Marambio de la Antártida Argentina: www.marambio.aq/museomarambio.html
La totalidad de esta información con fotos incluidas, se pueden ver, en el hipervínculo que está en: www.marambio.aq/biolujan.html
On episode 228 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by Suzanne Ciani. Suzanne is an incredible pioneer in electronic music. She speaks with Paul about her long history with her instrument, the Buchla, and how her relationship with machines has developed over the course of her career.
Suzanne talks to Paul about her relationship with Don Buchla, the inventor of the Buchla synthesizer. She recounts how she came up in music and advertising, telling stories from creating her iconic Coca-Cola pop-and-pour sound and giving Philip Glass Buchla lessons. They discuss Morton Subotnick, the advantages of analog over digital, and the excitement Suzanne draws from the new generation of electronic musicians on a unique and fascinating episode.
Suzanne Ciani and Morton Subotnick: https://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2016/06/encounters-suzanne-ciani-morton-subotnick
Coca-Cola pop-and-pour sound: https://youtu.be/_5OXU-dAB2M
Suzanne is a five-time Grammy award-nominated composer, electronic music pioneer, and neo-classical recording artist who has released over 20 solo albums including "Seven Waves," and "The Velocity of Love," along with a landmark quad LP “LIVE Quadraphonic,” which restarted her Buchla modular performances. Her work has been featured in films, games, and countless commercials as well.
She was inducted into the first class of Keyboard Magazine's Hall of Fame alongside other synth luminaries, including Bob Moog, Don Buchla and Dave Smith and received the Moog Innovation Award. Most recently, she is the recipient of the Independent Icon Award from A2IM.
Suzanne has provided the voice and sounds for Bally's groundbreaking "Xenon" pinball machine, created Coca-Cola’s pop-and-pour sound, designed logos for Fortune 500 companies, and carved out a niche as one of the most creatively successful female composers in the world. A Life in Waves, a documentary about Ciani’s life and work, debuted at SXSW in 2017 and is available to watch on all digital platforms.
Ciani is a graduate of Wellesley College and holds a Masters in Music Composition from the University of California, Berkeley.
You can find Suzanne Ciani’s website at https://www.sevwave.com.
Paul Holdengräber is an interviewer and curator of public curiosity. He is the Founder and Director of Onassis LA (OLA), a center for dialogue. Previously he was the Founder and Director of LIVE from the NYPL, a cultural series at the New York Public Library, where he hosted over 600 events, holding conversations with everyone from Patti Smith to Zadie Smith, Ricky Jay to Jay-Z, Errol Morris to Jan Morris, Wes Anderson to Helen Mirren, Christopher Hitchens to Mike Tyson. He is the host of "A Phone Call From Paul," a podcast for The Literary Hub.
Music: Morning Spring by Suzanne Ciani.
The Quarantine Tapes es un podcast diario de Onassis LA y dublab. El programa es presentado por Paul Holdengräber. Artistas, escritoras y escritores, activistas, líderes, trabajadores y trabajadoras, pensadoras y pensadores charlan con Paul acerca de cómo pasan el tiempo en este momento histórico sin precedentes. Es una crónica de paradigmas cambiantes en la era del distanciamiento social, que destaca las afinidades universales en esta experiencia humana mundial.
La edición Argentina presentada por el periodista Sergio Cohen convoca a invitados con enfoque en América Latina y comunidades de habla hispana alrededor del mundo.
The Quarantine Tapes se emite los días de semana a las 9.30 PT en DUBLAB.com; a partir de las 12 pm PT está disponible en todas las plataformas de podcasts. The Quarantine Tapes Argentina transmite todos los Jueves a las 9.30 PST en DUBLAB.com
No pudo escuchar la transmisión en vivo? Escúchela como podcast en quarantinetapes.com
En esta ocasión, el reconocido cantante y actor Raúl Lavié se suma a “Las cintas de la cuarentena” Argentina invitado por Sergio Cohen. Mediante un diálogo afable y cordial los protagonistas de este nuevo episodio se disponen a analizar los difíciles avatares que trajo consigo la presencia la actual pandemia que tanto daño sigue causando en el mundo.
La conversación exhibe con elocuencia la templaza que el invitado ha sabido mantener frente a las inéditas circunstancias que le tocó enfrentar, pero que no lograron doblegar su espíritu y su irrefrenable deseo de llevar adelante con pasión su vocación, que abrazó hace más de medio siglo.
La agradable charla, rica en anécdotas, recorre la extensa trayectoria del invitado, desde sus inicios hasta el presente, sin pasar por alto su vínculo con Ástor Piazzolla y Placido Domingo; sus giras internacionales en las que hizo brillar al tango con su voz y sus singulares interpretaciones que, sin duda, constituyen un valioso legado para las nuevas generaciones de artistas. Estos son apenas algunos de los temas por los que circuló este encuentro que se selló con un amoroso deseo para el futuro que se avecina.
Raúl Lavié nació Álvarez, Santa Fe, el 22 de agosto de 1937. Es cantante y actor. A fines de los ‘50 debutó en radio El Mundo e ingresó en la orquesta de Héctor Varela. Cantó en El Club del Clan. Realizó varias giras por Latinoamérica, Europa y EE.UU. con “Tango Argentino” y cinco viajes a Japón. Grabó con Ástor Piazzolla. En cine, actuó en más de 30 películas. En teatro, protagonizó: “Martín Fierro”, “Annie”, “Hello Dolly”, “El hombre de la Mancha”, “Zorba” y “Víctor Victoria”, entre otras. Trabajó en televisión. Fue nominado 5 veces para el Premio Tony en Broadway. Recibió los premios: “Estrella de Mar”, “Martín Fierro”, “Carlos Gardel” y “ACE” de Oro. Fue distinguido con el título de visitante ilustre de Los Ángeles, Tokio, y Ciudadano Ilustre en Buenos Aires, Chubut, Mar del Plata, Bariloche y Rosario. Obtuvo el Konex de Platino en 1995 y en 2005. Actualmente protagoniza como cantante el show musical “Piazzolla Inmortal” que reúne las canciones emblemáticas del reconocido músico y compositor argentino.
Sergio Cohen Pjaseczny nació en Buenos Aires en 1961. Es Licenciado en Periodismo y Comunicaciones. En 1982 comenzó a incursionar en distintos medios. En estos cuarenta años de trayectoria llevó adelante distintas tareas periodísticas en los más diversos campos de la profesión, especializándose en el manejo de la entrevista. Fue profesor universitario. Participó en más de treinta revistas y ocho diarios, trabajó en emisoras radiales de AM y FM y se desempeñó en diferentes puestos en programa televisivos. Es guionista humorístico, autor y compositor. Editó dos libros de poesía “Algo que decir” y “Los Testaferros de Dios”. Escribió el guión del largometraje “Tango y política” y, en estos momentos, se encuentra concluyendo su cuarto trabajo discográfico. Actualmente, se desempeña en Diario Popular – tercer periódico en ventas de la Argentina en el que se desarrolla desde hace treinta y dos años – donde está a cargo de una sección en la que reportea a personalidades que representan a las más variadas disciplinas artísticas y culturales del país.
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Este podcast puede ser subscripto en apple podcast, simplecast, spotify o cualquier otro medio como escuche sus podcasts. Para ver otros podcasts producidos por dublab visite: dublab.com/podcasts.
The Quarantine Tapes es un podcast diario de Onassis LA y dublab. El programa es presentado por Paul Holdengräber. Artistas, escritoras y escritores, activistas, líderes, trabajadores y trabajadoras, pensadoras y pensadores charlan con Paul acerca de cómo pasan el tiempo en este momento histórico sin precedentes. Es una crónica de paradigmas cambiantes en la era del distanciamiento social, que destaca las afinidades universales en esta experiencia humana mundial.
La edición Argentina presentada por el periodista Sergio Cohen convoca a invitados con enfoque en América Latina y comunidades de habla hispana alrededor del mundo.
The Quarantine Tapes se emite los días de semana a las 9.30 PT en DUBLAB.com; a partir de las 12 pm PT está disponible en todas las plataformas de podcasts. The Quarantine Tapes Argentina transmite todos los Jueves a las 9.30 PST en DUBLAB.com
No pudo escuchar la transmisión en vivo? Escúchela como podcast en quarantinetapes.com
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En el presente episodio de “Las cintas de la cuarentena” Argentina, Sergio Cohen recibe al escritor Andrés Neuman quien, con la lucidez y la calidez que lo caracteriza, aborda los distintos efectos que la pandemia produjo en nuestra cotidianeidad.
La intromisión de la virtualidad en nuestras vidas, el uso del fotoshop como cultura visual e ideológica, el sutil intento de la cosmética de invisibilizar los cuerpos reales, la negación del paso del tiempo, la incapacidad de pensar filosóficamente nuestra mortalidad, la dificultad que tenemos para celebrar zonas de nuestra anatomía que han sido ignoradas durante milenios, son tan sólo algunos de los temas sobre los que transita esta animada y amigable conversación.
No están ausentes en esta charla, la fascinación que ejerce la aventura literaria en el invitado ni la relación que establece con sus personajes, como así también la distancia que suele existir entre la idea original y la concreción de la misma en el plano real.
Finalmente, Neuman agradece a “Las cintas del cuarentena” por haber generado un pequeño oasis para reflexionar sobre cuestiones que debido a la vertiginosidad en la que vivimos no le damos el valor que se merecen.
Andrés Neuman nació en Buenos Aires el 28 de enero de 1977. Hijo de músicos argentinos, su familia se exilió a España cuando él contaba con 13 años. Se licenció en Filología Hispánica por la Universidad de Granada, donde impartió clases de literatura hispanoamericana. Desde que en 1995 se dio a conocer en el Certamen Nacional de Relatos de Alfaguara, obtuvo una gran cantidad de reconocimientos y premios literarios de poesía y narrativa. Luego, llevó adelante una intensa labor de estudio y divulgación del relato breve. En el 2009 editó “El viajero del siglo”, libro que le valió su consagración definitiva como novelista. Trabajó como columnista en numerosos medios de España y Latinoamérica. Fue guionista de tiras cómicas en el diario Ideal de Granada. Mantiene vigente su blog personal “Microrréplicas”. Sus libros se tradujeron a más de veinte lenguas. Su obra más reciente es “Anatomía sensible”. Andrés Neuman es uno de los más destacados escritores contemporáneos de habla hispana.
Sergio Cohen Pjaseczny nació en Buenos Aires en 1961. Es Licenciado en Periodismo y Comunicaciones. En 1982 comenzó a incursionar en distintos medios. En estos cuarenta años de trayectoria llevó adelante distintas tareas periodísticas en los más diversos campos de la profesión, especializándose en el manejo de la entrevista. Fue profesor universitario. Participó en más de treinta revistas y ocho diarios, trabajó en emisoras radiales de AM y FM y se desempeñó en diferentes puestos en programa televisivos. Es guionista humorístico, autor y compositor. Editó dos libros de poesía “Algo que decir” y “Los Testaferros de Dios”. Escribió el guión del largometraje “Tango y política” y, en estos momentos, se encuentra concluyendo su cuarto trabajo discográfico. Actualmente, se desempeña en Diario Popular – tercer periódico en ventas de la Argentina en el que se desarrolla desde hace treinta y dos años – donde está a cargo de una sección en la que reportea a personalidades que representan a las más variadas disciplinas artísticas y culturales del país.
ENLACES
http://andresneuman.blogspot.com.es/
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Andr%C3%A9s-Neuman/42495086330
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The Quarantine Tapes es un podcast diario de Onassis LA y dublab. El programa es presentado por Paul Holdengräber. Artistas, escritoras y escritores, activistas, líderes, trabajadores y trabajadoras, pensadoras y pensadores charlan con Paul acerca de cómo pasan el tiempo en este momento histórico sin precedentes. Es una crónica de paradigmas cambiantes en la era del distanciamiento social, que destaca las afinidades universales en esta experiencia humana mundial.
La edición Argentina presentada por el periodista Sergio Cohen convoca a invitados con enfoque en América Latina y comunidades de habla hispana alrededor del mundo.
The Quarantine Tapes se emite los días de semana a las 9.30 PT en DUBLAB.com; a partir de las 12 pm PT está disponible en todas las plataformas de podcasts. The Quarantine Tapes Argentina transmite todos los Jueves a las 9.30 PST en DUBLAB.com
No pudo escuchar la transmisión en vivo? Escúchela como podcast en quarantinetapes.com
En este nuevo episodio de “Las cintas de la cuarentena” Argentina, Sergio Cohen le da la bienvenida a la escritora Mariana Enríquez. Juntos se internan por los intricados caminos que presenta la nueva y sorprendente realidad que trajo aparejada consigo la pandemia, que sigue azotando al mundo.
Invitada y anfitrión desarrollan una fascinante conversación en donde afloran generosas descripciones, sinceras reflexiones e íntimas confesiones que van diagramando un rico entramado sobre cuestiones medulares de nuestra existencia.
El humor forma parte de este diálogo, que no deja de abordar las dificultades que presenta el trabajo literario, las distintas etapas por las que atraviesa la creación de los personajes que protagonizan los cuentos y las novelas de la escritora y la siempre latente posibilidad de llevar alguna de sus historias al cine.
La deliciosa charla concluye con la promesa de un nuevo encuentro en el que se abordarán los temas que quedaron en el tintero.
Mariana Enríquez es periodista, docente y la escritora argentina de terror más relevante en la actualidad. Nació en Buenos Aires en 1973. Es licenciada en Periodismo y Comunicación Social de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Comenzó a escribir impulsada por la lectura de clásicos del terror estadounidense de autores como Stephen King y H.P. Lovecraft. A los 22 años publicó su primera novela: “Bajar es lo peor”. Luego trabajó como periodista y se convirtió en subeditora del suplemento cultural “Radar” del diario “Página/12”. En 2004, lanzó su segunda novela: “Cómo desaparecer completamente” y en el 2016 su libro de cuentos de terror: “Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego”, ganó el Premio Ciutat de Barcelona. En 2019 su novela “Nuestra parte de la noche” obtuvo el Premio Herralde. En 2020, durante el aislamiento social preventivo y obligatorio por efecto de la pandemia, escribió una serie de entradas a modo de “”Diario de cuarentena” en la página oficial del Centro Cultural Kirchner. Hoy es Directora de Letras del Fondo Nacional de las Artes. Su último libro “Alguien camina sobre tu tumba”.
Sergio Cohen Pjaseczny nació en Buenos Aires en 1961. Es Licenciado en Periodismo y Comunicaciones. En 1982 comenzó a incursionar en distintos medios. En estos cuarenta años de trayectoria llevó adelante distintas tareas periodísticas en los más diversos campos de la profesión, especializándose en el manejo de la entrevista. Fue profesor universitario. Participó en más de treinta revistas y ocho diarios, trabajó en emisoras radiales de AM y FM y se desempeñó en diferentes puestos en programa televisivos. Es guionista humorístico, autor y compositor. Editó dos libros de poesía “Algo que decir” y “Los Testaferros de Dios”. Escribió el guión del largometraje “Tango y política” y, en estos momentos, se encuentra concluyendo su cuarto trabajo discográfico. Actualmente, se desempeña en Diario Popular – tercer periódico en ventas de la Argentina en el que se desarrolla desde hace treinta y dos años – donde está a cargo de una sección en la que reportea a personalidades que representan a las más variadas disciplinas artísticas y culturales del país.
The Quarantine Tapes es un podcast diario de Onassis LA y dublab. El programa es presentado por Paul Holdengräber. Artistas, escritoras y escritores, activistas, líderes, trabajadores y trabajadoras, pensadoras y pensadores charlan con Paul acerca de cómo pasan el tiempo en este momento histórico sin precedentes. Es una crónica de paradigmas cambiantes en la era del distanciamiento social, que destaca las afinidades universales en esta experiencia humana mundial.
La edición Argentina presentada por el periodista Sergio Cohen convoca a invitados con enfoque en América Latina y comunidades de habla hispana alrededor del mundo.
The Quarantine Tapes se emite los días de semana a las 9.30 PT en DUBLAB.com; a partir de las 12 pm PT está disponible en todas las plataformas de podcasts. The Quarantine Tapes Argentina transmite todos los Jueves a las 9.30 PST en DUBLAB.com
No pudo escuchar la transmisión en vivo? Escúchela como podcast en quarantinetapes.com
En este nuevo episodio de “Las cintas de la cuarentena” Argentina, Sergio Cohen recibe al multiempresario Carlos Rottemberg. Ambos dan cuenta de las distintas etapas de la cuarentena que debieron transitar por efecto de la pandemia y que afectó la normalidad de la vida en el planeta.
El diálogo entre los protagonistas de este encuentro, mantiene un delicado equilibrio que permite analizar con objetividad las consecuencias devastadoras que produjo en el plano económico y laboral la cuarentena estricta y posibilita introducirse en el sentimiento y en el pensamiento de uno de los hombres más influyentes del mundo del espectáculo nacional y del quehacer cultural.
A lo largo de la charla, el Presidente de la Asociación Argentina de Empresarios Teatrales y Musicales (AADET) y su anfitrión lanzan una mirada cautelosa de cara el futuro porque entienden que sólo el buen comportamiento de la humanidad podrá trazar un mañana venturoso.
Carlos Rottemberg nació el 11 de abril de 1957. Inició su labor profesional en 1975. Se especializó en la construcción de salas de teatro. En el 2001 inauguró el primer Multiteatro argentino y en el 2018 replicó ese formato con el Multitabaris. En Mar del Plata fundó los teatros Corrientes, Bristol y Mar del Plata. Produjo infinidad de estrenos con artistas y técnicos locales, con predominio de autores nacionales. Entre 1990 y 2011 produjo el mítico programa “Almorzando con Mirtha Legrand. Fue distinguido por la Asociación Argentina de Actores, el Sindicato Único de Trabajadores del Espectáculo Público, Argentores, Casa del Teatro, Premio ACE, Premio Estrella de Mar, el Premio Konex de Platino de la década en la disciplina: Producción y en el 2018 fue destacado por la Cámara de Diputados de la Nación por su prolífica carrera vinculada a la cultura, al resultar el empresario teatral que más salas abrió en el país. En la actualidad, dirige la mayor empresa de salas teatrales de Argentina y es el Presidente de la Asociación Argentina de Empresarios Teatrales y Musicales (AADET)
Sergio Cohen Pjaseczny nació en Buenos Aires en 1961. Es Licenciado en Periodismo y Comunicaciones. En 1982 comenzó a incursionar en distintos medios. En estos cuarenta años de trayectoria llevó adelante distintas tareas periodísticas en los más diversos campos de la profesión, especializándose en el manejo de la entrevista. Fue profesor universitario. Participó en más de treinta revistas y ocho diarios, trabajó en emisoras radiales de AM y FM y se desempeñó en diferentes puestos en programa televisivos. Es guionista humorístico, autor y compositor. Editó dos libros de poesía “Algo que decir” y “Los Testaferros de Dios”. Escribió el guión del largometraje “Tango y política” y, en estos momentos, se encuentra concluyendo su cuarto trabajo discográfico. Actualmente, se desempeña en Diario Popular – tercer periódico en ventas de la Argentina en el que se desarrolla desde hace treinta y dos años – donde está a cargo de una sección en la que reportea a personalidades que representan a las más variadas disciplinas artísticas y culturales del país.
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Este podcast puede ser subscripto en apple podcast, simplecast, spotify o cualquier otro medio como escuche sus podcasts. Para ver otros podcasts producidos por dublab visite: dublab.com/podcasts.
The Quarantine Tapes es un podcast diario de Onassis LA y dublab. El programa es presentado por Paul Holdengräber. Artistas, escritoras y escritores, activistas, líderes, trabajadores y trabajadoras, pensadoras y pensadores charlan con Paul acerca de cómo pasan el tiempo en este momento histórico sin precedentes. Es una crónica de paradigmas cambiantes en la era del distanciamiento social, que destaca las afinidades universales en esta experiencia humana mundial.
La edición Argentina presentada por el periodista Sergio Cohen convoca a invitados con enfoque en América Latina y comunidades de habla hispana alrededor del mundo.
The Quarantine Tapes se emite los días de semana a las 9.30 PT en DUBLAB.com; a partir de las 12 pm PT está disponible en todas las plataformas de podcasts. The Quarantine Tapes Argentina transmite todos los Jueves a las 9.30 PST en DUBLAB.com
No pudo escuchar la transmisión en vivo? Escúchela como podcast en quarantinetapes.com
Se abre un nuevo episodio de “Las cintas de la cuarentena” Argentina, en el que Sergio Cohen recibe la visita del filósofo, docente y escritor Tomás Abraham. Ambos reflexionan sobre los avatares que se debieron atravesar a lo largo de una cuarentena tan estricta como la que se vivió en Argentina.
El invitado y el anfitrión ponen en primer plano el tratamiento que se le dio al lenguaje desde los medios de comunicación y revisan los cimbronazos que la situación pandémica provocó en un mundo tan desigual como el muestro.
Abraham y Cohen no se quedan anclados en el presente y, por medio del diálogo, viajan hacia la Antigua Grecia, trazan un paralelismo entre aquella democracia y las actuales, discurren sobre el pensamiento filosófico de los griegos y los filósofos actuales.
También hablan sobre la diferencia entre el pensamiento espontáneo y la creación de pensamiento, el arte, la ciencia y el nuevo horizonte que se nos presentará tras la pandemia.
Tomás Abraham nació en Timisoara, Rumania el 5 de diciembre de 1946. Es filósofo, docente y escritor. Ha publicado en “Revista de Ensayo Negro La Caja” como director y articulista. Fue columnista de periódicos y revistas nacionales e internacionales. Entre sus numerosos libros se encuentran “Historias de la Argentina deseada”, “El último oficio de Nieztche”, “Pensadores bajos”, “La empresa de vivir”, “Situaciones postales”, “La aldea local”, “Fricciones” y “El presente absoluto”. “Shakespeare el antifilósofo”, “Griegos en disputa”, “La dificultad”, “La máscara Foucault” y “La matanza negada”. También publicó ensayos sobre personalidades y temáticas como Fader, Berni, Saïd, Kertesz, Glenn Gould, Daniel Baremboin. En 2004, fue distinguido con el Premio Konex al Ensayo Filosófico.
Sergio Cohen Pjaseczny nació en Buenos Aires en 1961. Es Licenciado en Periodismo y Comunicaciones. En 1982 comenzó a incursionar en distintos medios. En estos cuarenta años de trayectoria llevó adelante distintas tareas periodísticas en los más diversos campos de la profesión, especializándose en el manejo de la entrevista. Fue profesor universitario. Participó en más de treinta revistas y ocho diarios, trabajó en emisoras radiales de AM y FM y se desempeñó en diferentes puestos en programa televisivos. Es guionista humorístico, autor y compositor. Editó dos libros de poesía “Algo que decir” y “Los Testaferros de Dios”. Escribió el guión del largometraje “Tango y política” y, en estos momentos, se encuentra concluyendo su cuarto trabajo discográfico. Actualmente, se desempeña en Diario Popular – tercer periódico en ventas de la Argentina en el que se desarrolla desde hace treinta y dos años – donde está a cargo de una sección en la que reportea a personalidades que representan a las más variadas disciplinas artísticas y culturales del país.
Crédito de la foto: Rafael González Abraham
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Este podcast puede ser subscripto en apple podcast, simplecast, spotify o cualquier otro medio como escuche sus podcasts. Para ver otros podcasts producidos por dublab visite: dublab.com/podcasts.
On episode 221 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by the incredible Michelle Lhooq. Paul asks Michelle to unpack her unique name and her identity as a gonzo journalist, moving from Marcel Duchamp to Hunter S. Thompson and protest to psychedelics on this fascinating episode.
Michelle tells Paul about her experiences reporting on the summer 2020 protests and how she is interrogating the roles of pleasure, drug use, and sobriety in today’s counterculture. They dig into some of Michelle’s incredible writing, from her pieces on music for psychedelic therapy to the rise of shrooms during the pandemic to her interrogations of the meaning of sobriety today.
Michelle Lhooq is an independent journalist, and author of the stoner cult classic, WEED: Everything You Want to Know But Are Always Too Stoned to Ask (Penguin Random House). She writes a gonzo newsletter called Rave New World—a compendium of cultural commentary and field notes from the fringes of underground nightlife and drugs.
Lhooq's work is centered on the themes of counterculture, consciousness, and political autonomy—through the critical lens of parties, protests, and psychedelics. After studying Comparative Literature at Columbia University, Lhooq was a music editor at VICE in NYC from 2014-2017, covering electronic music and global nightlife. Since moving to Los Angeles, she has been reporting on the new frontier of legal cannabis and psychedelics, coining the term "Cali Sober" in 2019. Her writing has appeared in The Los Angeles Times, Bloomberg, New York Magazine, GQ, and others. She also throws a party called Weed Rave.
Paul Holdengräber is an interviewer and curator of public curiosity. He is the Founder and Director of Onassis LA (OLA), a center for dialogue. Previously he was the Founder and Director of LIVE from the NYPL, a cultural series at the New York Public Library, where he hosted over 600 events, holding conversations with everyone from Patti Smith to Zadie Smith, Ricky Jay to Jay-Z, Errol Morris to Jan Morris, Wes Anderson to Helen Mirren, Christopher Hitchens to Mike Tyson. He is the host of "A Phone Call From Paul," a podcast for The Literary Hub.
The Quarantine Tapes es un podcast diario de Onassis LA y dublab. El programa es presentado por Paul Holdengräber. Artistas, escritoras y escritores, activistas, líderes, trabajadores y trabajadoras, pensadoras y pensadores charlan con Paul acerca de cómo pasan el tiempo en este momento histórico sin precedentes. Es una crónica de paradigmas cambiantes en la era del distanciamiento social, que destaca las afinidades universales en esta experiencia humana mundial.
La edición Argentina presentada por el periodista Sergio Cohen convoca a invitados con enfoque en América Latina y comunidades de habla hispana alrededor del mundo.
The Quarantine Tapes se emite los días de semana a las 9.30 PT en DUBLAB.com; a partir de las 12 pm PT está disponible en todas las plataformas de podcasts. The Quarantine Tapes Argentina transmite todos los Jueves a las 9.30 PST en DUBLAB.com
No pudo escuchar la transmisión en vivo? Escúchela como podcast en quarantinetapes.com
En esta oportunidad, el multiinstrumentista Edu Schmidt se une a Sergio Cohen para darle vida a un nuevo episodio de “Las cintas de la cuarentena”, Argentina. La conversación, que se desarrolla en un tono amistoso, muestra con claridad la posición que debió adoptar el invitado ante las nuevas circunstancias que le tocó enfrentar por efecto de la pandemia y que modificaron el curso de su vida.
Su vínculo con el mundo culinario, su pasión por la música, el rol de las distintas expresiones artísticas en tiempos de pandemia, la influencia de la tradiciones familiares, la trascendencia que implica ser judío en Argentina, el valor de la identidad, el crecimiento de la derecha, el verdadero sentido de la felicidad, el aprendizaje que se desprende del deseo y del placer y el futuro que se avecina, son algunos de los temas que se abordaron en este encuentro que mantuvieron Schmidt y Cohen y en el que dejaron en claro que el ejercicio de la solidaridad es esencial en este presente que nos toca vivir y una actitud ineludible frente al mundo que nos espera.
Eduardo Schmidt nació en Buenos Aires el 9 de diciembre de 1973. Este multiinstrumentista, productor artístico, compositor de música incidental, arreglador, pedagogo y actor, reconocido por haber sido líder de la emblemática agrupación “Árbol”, entre los años 1994 a 2006, con la que lanzó cinco trabajos discográficos. Tras su salida de la banda, emprendió su carrera como solista, con la que lleva editados tres materiales grabados de forma independiente. Se formó en la Universidad de La Plata como profesor de armonía, contrapunto y morfología musical y en el Conservatorio Municipal Manuel de Falla. Además, lleva adelante una copiosa tarea en el ámbito de la pedagogía musical y ha creado distintos talleres musicales entre los que se destacan “La Fábrica de Canciones” y “Cocina de Canciones” dictado en Argentina, Uruguay y Paraguay en forma presencial y virtual.
Sergio Cohen Pjaseczny nació en Buenos Aires en 1961. Es Licenciado en Periodismo y Comunicaciones. En 1982 comenzó a incursionar en distintos medios. En estos cuarenta años de trayectoria llevó adelante distintas tareas periodísticas en los más diversos campos de la profesión, especializándose en el manejo de la entrevista. Fue profesor universitario. Participó en más de treinta revistas y ocho diarios, trabajó en emisoras radiales de AM y FM y se desempeñó en diferentes puestos en programa televisivos. Es guionista humorístico, autor y compositor. Editó dos libros de poesía “Algo que decir” y “Los Testaferros de Dios”. Escribió el guión del largometraje “Tango y política” y, en estos momentos, se encuentra concluyendo su cuarto trabajo discográfico. Actualmente, se desempeña en Diario Popular – tercer periódico en ventas de la Argentina en el que se desarrolla desde hace treinta y dos años – donde está a cargo de una sección en la que reportea a personalidades que representan a las más variadas disciplinas artísticas y culturales del país.
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Este podcast puede ser subscripto en apple podcast, simplecast, spotify o cualquier otro medio como escuche sus podcasts. Para ver otros podcasts producidos por dublab visite: dublab.com/podcasts.
The Quarantine Tapes es un podcast diario de Onassis LA y dublab. El programa es presentado por Paul Holdengräber. Artistas, escritoras y escritores, activistas, líderes, trabajadores y trabajadoras, pensadoras y pensadores charlan con Paul acerca de cómo pasan el tiempo en este momento histórico sin precedentes. Es una crónica de paradigmas cambiantes en la era del distanciamiento social, que destaca las afinidades universales en esta experiencia humana mundial.
La edición Argentina presentada por el periodista Sergio Cohen convoca a invitados con enfoque en América Latina y comunidades de habla hispana alrededor del mundo.
The Quarantine Tapes se emite los días de semana a las 9.30 PT en DUBLAB.com; a partir de las 12 pm PT está disponible en todas las plataformas de podcasts. The Quarantine Tapes Argentina transmite todos los Jueves a las 9.30 PST en DUBLAB.com
No pudo escuchar la transmisión en vivo? Escúchela como podcast en quarantinetapes.com
En esta ocasión, Sergio Cohen recibe a la Doctora en Filosofía de la Universidad de Buenos Aires, para llevar adelante un nuevo episodio de “Las cintas de la cuarentena”, Argentina. Juntos se sumergen en temas incandescentes, que hacen a la realidad de la inmensa mayoría de los países de América Latina.
El rol del feminismo en la sociedad contemporánea, el aumento de los femicidios durante la cuarentena por efecto de la pandemia, el acoso laboral, el abuso sexual, la prostitución, la trata de personas, la violencia de género y hasta la difícil situación que atraviesan las mujeres dentro del campo científico, fueron algunas de las cuestiones medulares que se abordaron en el transcurso de esta conversación.
Invitada y anfitrión dan cuenta de los difíciles avances que se vienen desarrollando en estos escarpados terrenos de la sociedad con la única intención de lograr que el paso por este mundo de cada persona sea un poco más digno.
Diana Maffía nació en Buenos Aires (CABA) el 19 de septiembre de 1953. Es Doctora en Filosofía de la Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA). Actualmente, es la Directora del Observatorio de Género en la Justicia del Consejo de la Magistratura de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, docente e investigadora de la UBA y otras reconocidas instituciones. Autora de numerosas publicaciones. Ha sido Diputada de la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, miembro del Centro de Formación Judicial del Consejo de la Magistratura de CABA y defensora adjunta del pueblo. Sus principales líneas de intervención han girado en torno a los derechos de las mujeres; niños, niñas y adolescentes; minorías sexuales; personas en prostitución; afrodescendientes; derecho a la información; conflictos por el uso del espacio público.
Sergio Cohen Pjaseczny nació en Buenos Aires en 1961. Es Licenciado en Periodismo y Comunicaciones. En 1982 comenzó a incursionar en distintos medios. En estos cuarenta años de trayectoria llevó adelante distintas tareas periodísticas en los más diversos campos de la profesión, especializándose en el manejo de la entrevista. Fue profesor universitario. Participó en más de treinta revistas y ocho diarios, trabajó en emisoras radiales de AM y FM y se desempeñó en diferentes puestos en programa televisivos. Es guionista humorístico, autor y compositor. Editó dos libros de poesía “Algo que decir” y “Los Testaferros de Dios”. Escribió el guión del largometraje “Tango y política” y, en estos momentos, se encuentra concluyendo su cuarto trabajo discográfico. Actualmente, se desempeña en Diario Popular – tercer periódico en ventas de la Argentina en el que se desarrolla desde hace treinta y dos años – donde está a cargo de una sección en la que reportea a personalidades que representan a las más variadas disciplinas artísticas y culturales del país.
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Este podcast puede ser subscripto en apple podcast, simplecast, spotify o cualquier otro medio como escuche sus podcasts. Para ver otros podcasts producidos por dublab visite: dublab.com/podcasts
Paul Holdengräber is joined by poet D. A. Powell on episode 219 of The Quarantine Tapes.
D. A. Powell and Paul dig into film, living through pandemics, inspiration, and so much more on this incredible two-part episode.
Powell talks about his experience of the early days of the pandemic and delves into how he approaches writing about grief and loss. They discuss Iris Murdoch, John Cage, Mark Strand, and much more before Powell ends the episode by reading the brilliant poem he wrote back in March of 2020, “Palm Sunday.”
D. A. Powell is the author of five collections of poetry, including Chronic, winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, and Repast: Tea,Lunch, and Cocktails. Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys received the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry. He lives in San Francisco.
Paul Holdengräber is an interviewer and curator of public curiosity. He is the Founder and Director of Onassis LA (OLA), a center for dialogue. Previously he was the Founder and Director of LIVE from the NYPL, a cultural series at the New York Public Library, where he hosted over 600 events, holding conversations with everyone from Patti Smith to Zadie Smith, Ricky Jay to Jay-Z, Errol Morris to Jan Morris, Wes Anderson to Helen Mirren, Christopher Hitchens to Mike Tyson. He is the host of "A Phone Call From Paul," a podcast for The Literary Hub.
On episode 218 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by writer Catherine Lacey. Calling in from the closet of her home, Catherine talks with Paul about her writing process and what she has been working on lately.
Catherine’s most recent book is Pew, published in January 2020. Catherine tells Paul about how her writing process for that book was drastically different from her usual method and they discuss its epigraph, from Ursula K. Le Guin’s “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas.” They discuss Donald Barthelme's Not-Knowing and Catherine talks about her experience of finishing writing one novel without having another to work on for the first time in years.
Catherine Lacey is the author of four works of fiction: Nobody Is Ever Missing, The Answers, Certain American States, and Pew. Her honors include a Guggenheim Fellow, a Whiting Award, and twice being a finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award. Her work has been translated into a dozen languages and published by The New Yorker, Harper's, The Believer, The New York Times, Playboy, and elsewhere. Her fifth book, Biography of X, is forthcoming from Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 2023. Born in Mississippi, she is based in Chicago.
Paul Holdengräber is an interviewer and curator of public curiosity. He is the Founder and Director of Onassis LA (OLA), a center for dialogue. Previously he was the Founder and Director of LIVE from the NYPL, a cultural series at the New York Public Library, where he hosted over 600 events, holding conversations with everyone from Patti Smith to Zadie Smith, Ricky Jay to Jay-Z, Errol Morris to Jan Morris, Wes Anderson to Helen Mirren, Christopher Hitchens to Mike Tyson. He is the host of "A Phone Call From Paul," a podcast for The Literary Hub.
The Quarantine Tapes es un podcast diario de Onassis LA y dublab. El programa es presentado por Paul Holdengräber. Artistas, escritoras y escritores, activistas, líderes, trabajadores y trabajadoras, pensadoras y pensadores charlan con Paul acerca de cómo pasan el tiempo en este momento histórico sin precedentes. Es una crónica de paradigmas cambiantes en la era del distanciamiento social, que destaca las afinidades universales en esta experiencia humana mundial.
La edición Argentina presentada por el periodista Sergio Cohen convoca a invitados con enfoque en América Latina y comunidades de habla hispana alrededor del mundo.
The Quarantine Tapes se emite los días de semana a las 9.30 PT en DUBLAB.com; a partir de las 12 pm PT está disponible en todas las plataformas de podcasts. The Quarantine Tapes Argentina transmite todos los Jueves a las 9.30 PST en DUBLAB.com
No pudo escuchar la transmisión en vivo? Escúchela como podcast en quarantinetapes.com
En el siguiente episodio de “Las cintas de la cuarentena” Argentina, Sergio Cohen recibe al Médico intensivista, profesor e investigador de la Facultad de Ciencias Médicas de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Arnaldo Dubin. Ambos repasan las distintas facetas que ha tenido la pandemia desde que se instaló de nuestras vidas.
A medida que el diálogo se desarrolla, los interlocutores profundizan en los aspectos que tuvieron en vilo a la población mundial, haciendo foco en las difíciles circunstancias que se debieron atravesar en países que no contaban con un sistema de salud robusto para enfrentar con mayor éxito esta situación que tomó por sorpresa a gran parte de la humanidad.
Ni Dubin ni Cohen dejaron fuera de la conversación, la ciclópea tarea que llevaron adelante los trabajadores de la salud, las sensaciones encontradas que experimentaban aquellos que, día tras día, se enfrentaban con un virus que arrasaba todo a su paso, el temor al contagio, a perder la vida y el deseo de hallar una luz entre tanta oscuridad.
Arnaldo Dubin nació en Buenos Aires el 26 de octubre de 1953. Está casado con Elisa Estenssoro. Es padre de un hijo y abuelo de dos nietas. Se recibió de médico en Facultad de Ciencias Médicas de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP) y obtuvo su doctorado en la Universidad de Ámsterdam. En la UNLP, se desempeña como Profesor Adjunto de la Cátedra de Farmacología Aplicada, responsable de la materia optativa Terapia Intensiva y director del Laboratorio de Transporte de oxígeno y Oxigenación Tisular. Es médico intensivista y Jefe del Servicio de Terapia Intensiva del Sanatorio Otamendi. Es integrante de la Sociedad Argentina de Terapia Intensiva (SATI).
Sergio Cohen Pjaseczny nació en Buenos Aires en 1961. Es Licenciado en Periodismo y Comunicaciones. En 1982 comenzó a incursionar en distintos medios. En estos cuarenta años de trayectoria llevó adelante distintas tareas periodísticas en los más diversos campos de la profesión, especializándose en el manejo de la entrevista. Fue profesor universitario. Participó en más de treinta revistas y ocho diarios, trabajó en emisoras radiales de AM y FM y se desempeñó en diferentes puestos en programa televisivos. Es guionista humorístico, autor y compositor. Editó dos libros de poesía “Algo que decir” y “Los Testaferros de Dios”. Escribió el guión del largometraje “Tango y política” y, en estos momentos, se encuentra concluyendo su cuarto trabajo discográfico. Actualmente, se desempeña en Diario Popular – tercer periódico en ventas de la Argentina en el que se desarrolla desde hace treinta y dos años – donde está a cargo de una sección en la que reportea a personalidades que representan a las más variadas disciplinas artísticas y culturales del país.
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Este podcast puede ser subscripto en apple podcast, simplecast, spotify o cualquier otro medio como escuche sus podcasts. Para ver otros podcasts producidos por dublab visite: dublab.com/podcasts.
The Quarantine Tapes es un podcast diario de Onassis LA y dublab. El programa es presentado por Paul Holdengräber. Artistas, escritoras y escritores, activistas, líderes, trabajadores y trabajadoras, pensadoras y pensadores charlan con Paul acerca de cómo pasan el tiempo en este momento histórico sin precedentes. Es una crónica de paradigmas cambiantes en la era del distanciamiento social, que destaca las afinidades universales en esta experiencia humana mundial.
La edición Argentina presentada por el periodista Sergio Cohen convoca a invitados con enfoque en Latino América y comunidades de habla hispana alrededor del mundo.
The Quarantine Tapes se emite los días de semana a las 9.30 PT en DUBLAB.com; a partir de las 12 pm PT está disponible en todas las plataformas de podcasts. The Quarantine Tapes Argentina transmite todos los Jueves a las 9.30 PST en DUBLAB.com
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En este nuevo episodio de “Las cintas de la cuarentena” Argentina, Sergio Cohen le da la bienvenida al especialista en Psiquiatría y Doctor en Medicina Santiago Levín. Juntos se proponen llevar adelante una mirada retrospectiva que los pone, indefectiblemente, de frente a diferentes aspectos de la pandemia.
En la cordial conversación que mantienen, hacen énfasis en la repercusión que ha tenido y aún tiene en la población, la utilización de la terminología bélica por parte de los medios de comunicación para referirse a la situación pandémica.
El incremento de la tasa de suicidios a nivel global; el bombardeo de la información; el valor de la solidaridad frente a situaciones límite; el agravamiento de las patologías tradicionales y la aparición de nuevas sintomatologías; el derecho a una muerte en compañía, son algunos de los temas por los que circuló este diálogo enriquecedor.
A lo largo del presente episodio, invitado y anfitrión intentan proyectar un haz de luz frente al profundo desconcierto que le plantea a la humanidad el futuro que se avecina.
Santiago Andrés Levín nació en Buenos Aires en 1967. Es médico especialista en Psiquiatría y Doctor en Medicina. En el 2017 obtuvo el premio Facultad de Medicina a la mejor tesis en el área de Humanidades Médicas. En el año 2018 editó por Eudeba su primer libro: “La Psiquiatría en la encrucijada”. Es docente autorizado de la Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Entre los años 2019 y parte del 2021 fue Presidente de la Asociación de Psiquiatras Argentinos (APSA). Es Representante de Zona 5 -Cono Sur de América del Sur- en la World Psychiatric Association (WPA).
Sergio Cohen Pjaseczny nació en Buenos Aires en 1961. Es Licenciado en Periodismo y Comunicaciones. En 1982 comenzó a incursionar en distintos medios. En estos cuarenta años de trayectoria llevó adelante distintas tareas periodísticas en los más diversos campos de la profesión, especializándose en el manejo de la entrevista. Fue profesor universitario. Participó en más de treinta revistas y ocho diarios, trabajó en emisoras radiales de AM y FM y se desempeñó en diferentes puestos en programa televisivos. Es guionista humorístico, autor y compositor. Editó dos libros de poesía “Algo que decir” y “Los Testaferros de Dios”. Escribió el guión del largometraje “Tango y política” y, en estos momentos, se encuentra concluyendo su cuarto trabajo discográfico. Actualmente, se desempeña en Diario Popular – tercer periódico en ventas de la Argentina en el que se desarrolla desde hace treinta y dos años – donde está a cargo de una sección en la que reportea a personalidades que representan a las más variadas disciplinas artísticas y culturales del país.
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Oliver Stone is the multiple Oscar-winning writer and director of Platoon, JFK, Born on the Fourth of July, Natural Born Killer, Midnight Express, and many other films.
Born in Russia, in the Ural region, Lena Herzog moved to St Petersburg to study at the Philological Faculty to study Language and Literature. She moved to the United States in 1990, where she studied History and Philosophy of Science. Herzog is a multidisciplinary artist, she is the author of six books of photography and a contributor to Harper’s Magazine. Her work also appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Los Angeles Times, The Paris Review and Cabinet among other publications and has been widely exhibited in Europe and in the United States. Her most recent conceptual work was dedicated to the loss of world’s linguistic diversity and it is called Last Whispers: Oratorio for Vanishing Voices, Collapsing Universes and A Falling Tree. Last Whispers is a multimedia, audio video installation, a public platform and a virtual reality (VR). The project is an ecosystem that explores the global mass extinction of languages. It premiered at the British Museum in London in 2016, and has traveled around the world. Last Whispers Virtual Reality premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, and garnered acclaim and prizes at over twenty major international VR festivals. Last Whispers’ 45 min immersive installation was shown at major concert halls and theaters: The Kennedy Center in Washington DC, while in France, it showed at the drama theater Le Théâtre de la Ville and at the Paris opera house Le Théâtre du Châtelet.
The Quarantine Tapes es un podcast diario de Onassis LA y dublab. El programa es presentado por Paul Holdengräber. Artistas, escritoras y escritores, activistas, líderes, trabajadores y trabajadoras, pensadoras y pensadores charlan con Paul acerca de cómo pasan el tiempo en este momento histórico sin precedentes. Es una crónica de paradigmas cambiantes en la era del distanciamiento social, que destaca las afinidades universales en esta experiencia humana mundial.
La edición Argentina presentada por el periodista Sergio Cohen convoca a invitados con enfoque en América Latina y comunidades de habla hispana alrededor del mundo.
The Quarantine Tapes se emite los días de semana a las 9.30 PT en DUBLAB.com; a partir de las 12 pm PT está disponible en todas las plataformas de podcasts. The Quarantine Tapes Argentina transmite todos los Jueves a las 9.30 PST en DUBLAB.com
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En este episodio de “Las Cintas de la Cuarentena”, Argentina, el periodista Ernesto Cherquis Bialo se une a Sergio Cohen para llevar adelante una conversación, en la que ahondan en los significativos cambios que atravesaron la vida personal del invitado a raíz de la pandemia.
De inmediato, se internan en el terreno del valor relativo que tiene el tiempo en las distintas etapas de la vida y reflexionan sobre la toma de conciencia de nuestra finitud a partir del simbólico cuadro de Salvador Dalí “La persistencia de la memoria”.
Abordan los recuerdos que afloran en la mente del periodista en torno a la travesía que debieron hacer sus abuelos y sus padres desde la Europa devastada hacia América del Sur buscando paz y repasan el camino que edificó hasta convertirse en el referente periodístico de varias generaciones.
El dialogo se extiende hacia el impacto que han venido ejerciendo los distintos medios de comunicación en la población y la responsabilidad de los mensajes emitidos en esta nueva era que estamos atravesando.
Ernesto Cherquis Bialo nació en Montevideo, Uruguay, el 30 de septiembre de 1940. En 1962 ingresó como pasante al diario “Clarín” y en 1963 a la revista “El Gráfico”, de la que fue director entre 1982 y 1990. Ocupó cargos de decisión en distintos medios radiales y televisivos. Trabajó como comentarista deportivo distintas emisoras y ciclos televisivos y fue docente. Se desempeñó como Director de Medios de Comunicación de la Asociación del Fútbol Argentino entre el 2009 y el 2016. A lo largo de su carrera, ganó cuatro premios Martín Fierro y el Konex. Escribió “Mi verdadera vida”, biografía del boxeador Carlos Monzón y fue coautor de la autobiografía testimonial de Diego Maradona “Yo soy el Diego de la gente”, Desde 2016 escribe en el sitio web Infobae y es columnista en el canal de noticias C5N
Sergio Cohen Pjaseczny nació en Buenos Aires en 1961. Es Licenciado en Periodismo y Comunicaciones. En 1982 comenzó a incursionar en distintos medios. En estos cuarenta años de trayectoria llevó adelante distintas tareas periodísticas en los más diversos campos de la profesión, especializándose en el manejo de la entrevista. Fue profesor universitario. Participó en más de treinta revistas y ocho diarios, trabajó en emisoras radiales de AM y FM y se desempeñó en diferentes puestos en programa televisivos. Es guionista humorístico, autor y compositor. Editó dos libros de poesía “Algo que decir” y “Los Testaferros de Dios”. Escribió el guión del largometraje “Tango y política” y, en estos momentos, se encuentra concluyendo su cuarto trabajo discográfico. Actualmente, se desempeña en Diario Popular – tercer periódico en ventas de la Argentina en el que se desarrolla desde hace treinta y dos años – donde está a cargo de una sección en la que reportea a personalidades que representan a las más variadas disciplinas artísticas y culturales del país.
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Este podcast puede ser subscripto en apple podcast, simplecast, spotify o cualquier otro medio como escuche sus podcasts. Para ver otros podcasts producidos por dublab visite: dublab.com/podcasts.
Maria Popova is a reader and a writer, and writes about what she reads on The Marginalian, formerly Brain Pickings (themarginalian.org), which is included in the Library of Congress’s permanent digital archive of culturally valuable materials. She hosts The Universe in Verse—an annual celebration of science through poetry—at the interdisciplinary cultural center Pioneer Works in Brooklyn. She grew up in Bulgaria immersed in music and mathematics.
Jacqueline Novogratz is the Founder and CEO of Acumen. In 2001, Jacqueline founded Acumen with the idea of investing philanthropic patient capital in entrepreneurs seeking to solve the toughest issues of poverty. As a pioneer of impact investing, Acumen and its investments have brought critical services like healthcare, education and clean energy to hundreds of millions of low-income people.
Jacqueline is the New York Times best-selling author of The Blue Sweater and Manifesto for a Moral Revolution: Practices to Build a Better World. She has been named one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy, one of the 25 Smartest People of the Decade by the Daily Beast, and one of the world’s 100 Greatest Living Business Minds by Forbes, which also honored her with the Forbes 400 Lifetime Achievement Award for Social Entrepreneurship.
Born in London, Hari Kunzru is the author of the novels The Impressionist, Transmission, My Revolutions, Gods Without Men, and White Tears, as well as a short story collection, Noise and a novella, Memory Palace. His new novel Red Pill will be published in September 2020. He is an honorary fellow of Wadham College Oxford, and has received fellowships from the Cullman Center at the New York Public Library, the Guggenheim Foundation and the American Academy in Berlin. He is the host of the podcast Into The Zone, coming in September from Pushkin Industries. He lives in New York City.
The Quarantine Tapes es un podcast diario de Onassis LA y dublab. El programa es presentado por Paul Holdengräber. Artistas, escritoras y escritores, activistas, líderes, trabajadores y trabajadoras, pensadoras y pensadores charlan con Paul acerca de cómo pasan el tiempo en este momento histórico sin precedentes. Es una crónica de paradigmas cambiantes en la era del distanciamiento social, que destaca las afinidades universales en esta experiencia humana mundial.
La edición Argentina presentada por el periodista Sergio Cohen convoca a invitados con enfoque en América Latina y comunidades de habla hispana alrededor del mundo.
The Quarantine Tapes se emite los días de semana a las 9.30 PT en DUBLAB.com; a partir de las 12 pm PT está disponible en todas las plataformas de podcasts. The Quarantine Tapes Argentina transmite todos los Jueves a las 9.30 PST en DUBLAB.com
No pudo escuchar la transmisión en vivo? Escúchela como podcast en quarantinetapes.com
En este nuevo episodio de “Las cintas de la cuarentena” Argentina, Sergio Cohen le da la bienvenida a Estela de Carlotto y conversan sobre la cuarentena que debió llevar adelante la invitada para protegerse del coronavirus y la injerencia que tuvo en su vida.
El diálogo afectuoso y cordial que se genera entre ambos, permite que abra su corazón y describa, con la calidez y la sencillez que la caracteriza, aspectos de su historia desconocidos que permiten palpar la transparencia de una mujer, a la que las circunstancias la fueron convirtiendo en una luchadora inclaudicable por los Derechos Humanos.
La relación con su hija Laura, asesinada durante la dictadura militar, el vínculo con su esposo, el único hombre de su vida, y sus otros hijos, sus sueños, sus proyectos, los giros imprevistos del destino, su enojo y reconciliación con Dios, el efecto del paso de los años, la sensación que experimentó cuando encontró a su nieto, tras 36 años de búsqueda, las heridas que sangran, las llagas perpetuas, el miedo a la muerte y su inquebrantable optimismo, son algunos de los temas que invitan a ser parte de este encuentro.
Estela Barnes, nació el 22 de octubre de 1930 en Capital Federal, Argentina. Se casó con Guido Carlotto, con quien tuvo cuatro hijos. Se desempeñó como maestra de grado y luego como directora de escuela. El 24 de marzo de 1976, las Fuerzas Armadas dieron un golpe de Estado y llevaron adelante una política de terror: la “desaparición” de 30 mil personas. Laura, su primera hija, fue secuestrada el 26 de noviembre de 1977, cursando un embarazo de dos meses y medio. Estela inició su búsqueda, a riesgo de ser secuestrada. El 2 de junio, su hija Laura, en cautiverio, dio a luz a un niño, al que llamó Guido, que le fue arrebatado a las cinco horas de nacido. El 25 de agosto de 1978, fue asesinada por personal militar. Su cuerpo les fue entregado a sus padres. Tras su entierro, Estela siguió buscando a su nieto Guido, a quien halló 36 años más tarde. En 1978 ingresó al grupo de mujeres que buscaban a sus seres queridos. Desde 1989 preside la Asociación Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo, tarea que les permitió encontrar 130 nietos y nietas Por su trayectoria recibió innumerables reconocimientos dentro y fuera del país.
Sergio Cohen Pjaseczny nació en Buenos Aires en 1961. Es Licenciado en Periodismo y Comunicaciones. En 1982 comenzó a incursionar en distintos medios. En estos cuarenta años de trayectoria llevó adelante distintas tareas periodísticas en los más diversos campos de la profesión, especializándose en el manejo de la entrevista. Fue profesor universitario. Participó en más de treinta revistas y ocho diarios, trabajó en emisoras radiales de AM y FM y se desempeñó en diferentes puestos en programa televisivos. Es guionista humorístico, autor y compositor. Editó dos libros de poesía “Algo que decir” y “Los Testaferros de Dios”. Escribió el guión del largometraje “Tango y política” y, en estos momentos, se encuentra concluyendo su cuarto trabajo discográfico. Actualmente, se desempeña en Diario Popular – tercer periódico en ventas de la Argentina en el que se desarrolla desde hace treinta y dos años – donde está a cargo de una sección en la que reportea a personalidades que representan a las más variadas disciplinas artísticas y culturales del país.
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Este podcast puede ser subscripto en apple podcast, simplecast, spotify o cualquier otro medio como escuche sus podcasts. Para ver otros podcasts producidos por dublab visite: dublab.com/podcasts.
Derecka Purnell is a lawyer, writer, organizer, and author of forthcoming Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom. She works to end police and prison violence by providing legal assistance, research, and trainings in community based organizations through an abolitionist framework.
As a Skadden Fellow, she helped to build the Justice Project at Advancement Project’s National Office which focused on consent decrees, police and prosecutor accountability, and jail closures, providing community training, political education and legal representation to organizers. Her advocacy efforts led to the dismissal of over 3,000 cases based on unconstitutional policing practices. Additionally, she supports several campaigns and grassroots organizations around the criminal legal system, electoral justice, and community investment, including Action St. Louis, Dream Defenders, Communities Against Police Crimes and Repression, the Ferguson Collaborative, and the Movement for Black Lives. Derecka also organized the founding steering committee for Law for Black Lives, a growing network of 5,000 law students, lawyers, and legal workers to support social movements.
In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, Derecka co-created the COVID19 Policing Project at the Community Resource Hub for Safety Accountability. The project tracks police arrests, harassment, citations and other enforcement through public health orders related to the pandemic.
Derecka received her JD from Harvard Law School, her BA from the University of Missouri- Kansas City, and studied public policy and economics at the University of California- Berkeley as a Public Policy and International Affairs Law Fellow. Her writing has been published in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Cosmopolitan, Harper’s Bazaar, Teen Vogue, The Appeal, Truthout, Slate, Boston Review, Huffington Post, Vox, and In These Times. She’s been on NPR, Democracy Now!, Slate’s What Next, and MSNBC, and is the former Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard Journal of African American Public Policy. Derecka has lectured, studied, and strategized around social movements across the United States, The Netherlands, Belgium, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and Australia. She is from St. Louis and lives in D.C.
Born in the Mojave Desert in Barstow, California, Forrest Gander grew up in Virginia and spent significant years with the poet CD Wright, in San Francisco, Dolores Hidalgo, Mexico, Eureka Springs, AR, and Providence, RI. With CD Wright, he has a son, the artist Brecht Wright Gander. Forrest holds degrees in both geology and English literature. He lives now in northern California with the artist Ashwini Bhat.
Gander's book Be With was awarded the 2019 Pulitzer Prize. Concerned with the way we are revised and translated in encounters with the foreign, his book Core Samples from the World was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Gander has collaborated frequently with other artists including photographers Sally Mann, Graciela Iturbide, Raymond Meeks, and Lucas Foglia, glass artist Michael Rogers, ceramic artists Rick Hirsch and Ashwini Bhat, artists Ann Hamilton,Tjibbe Hooghiemstra, dancers Eiko & Koma, and musicians Vic Chesnutt and Brady Earnhart, among others.
The author of numerous other books of poetry, including Redstart: An Ecological Poetics and Science & Steepleflower, Gander also writes novels (As a Friend; The Trace), essays(A Faithful Existence) and translates. His most recent translations are Alice Iris Red Horse: Poems of Gozo Yoshimasu, Then Come Back: the Lost Neruda Poems and Fungus Skull Eye Wing: Selected Poems of Alfonso D'Aquino. His most recent anthologies are Pinholes in the Night: Essential Poems from Latin American (selected by Raúl Zurita) and Panic Cure: Poems from Spain for the 21st Century.
Gander's books have been translated and published in more than a dozen other languages. He is a United States Artists Rockefeller Fellow and has received fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim, Whiting, and Howard Foundations. In 2011, he was awarded the Library of Congress Witter Bynner Fellowship. Gander was the Briggs-Copeland poet at Harvard University before becoming The Adele Kellenberg Seaver Professor of Literary Arts and Comparative Literature at Brown University where he taught courses such as Poetry & Ethics, EcoPoetics, Latin American Death Trip, and Translation Theory & Practice. He is a Chancellor for the Academy of American Poets and an elected member of The Academy of Arts & Sciences.
The Quarantine Tapes es un podcast diario de Onassis LA y dublab. El programa es presentado por Paul Holdengräber. Artistas, escritoras y escritores, activistas, líderes, trabajadores y trabajadoras, pensadoras y pensadores charlan con Paul acerca de cómo pasan el tiempo en este momento histórico sin precedentes. Es una crónica de paradigmas cambiantes en la era del distanciamiento social, que destaca las afinidades universales en esta experiencia humana mundial.
La edición Argentina presentada por el periodista Sergio Cohen convoca a invitados con enfoque en América Latina y comunidades de habla hispana alrededor del mundo.
The Quarantine Tapes se emite los días de semana a las 9.30 PT en DUBLAB.com; a partir de las 12 pm PT está disponible en todas las plataformas de podcasts. The Quarantine Tapes Argentina transmite todos los Jueves a las 9.30 PST en DUBLAB.com
No pudo escuchar la transmisión en vivo? Escúchela como podcast en quarantinetapes.com
En el episodio 2 de “Las cintas de la cuarentena” Argentina, Sergio Cohen se encuentra con Karina K y juntos desandan la incidencia que ha tenido la cuarentena en la vida personal y profesional de la invitada.
La cálida conversación ahonda en la búsqueda espiritual de Karina K, que comenzó a temprana edad, con la intención de hallar respuesta a sus inquietudes existenciales y que, tras navegar por distintas aguas, la llevó a inclinarse por la práctica del budismo japonés de Daisaku Ikeda.
La invitada, que se formó en Argentina, Barcelona, Estados Unidos, Francia, Canadá e Inglaterra y que en el año 2014 recibió el premio a la Personalidad Destacada de la Cultura, otorgado por la Legislatura de la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, describe cómo le resulta la experiencia de llevar adelante está disciplina espiritual en medio de una sociedad occidental tan convulsionada y caótica.
En el diálogo no están ausentes temas candentes como la situación de las mujeres en Afganistán, los focos de violencia que atraviesan al mundo contemporáneo y la misión humanista que puede desprenderse del arte y que ayuda a mejorar la calidad de vida de la gente.
INFORMACIÓN COMPLEMENTARIA
Página Oficial de la Organización SOKA GAKKAI
https://www.sokaglobal.org/
Centro Internacional Daisaku Ikeda De Estudios Para La Paz
Daisaku Ikeda International Center For Peace Studies
https://cidiep.org.ar/cidiep_spanish.html
Sintoísmo
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinto%C3%ADsmo
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Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East and the Balkans for fifteen years for The New York Times. He previously worked overseas for The Dallas Morning News, The Christian Science Monitor, and NPR. He is host of the Emmy Award–nominated RT America show On Contact. Hedges, who holds a Master of Divinity from Harvard University, is the author of numerous books and was a National Book Critics Circle finalist for War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning. He has taught at Columbia University, New York University, Princeton University, and the University of Toronto. He has taught college credit courses through Rutgers University since 2013 in the New Jersey prison system.
Born in Russia, in the Ural region, Lena Herzog moved to St Petersburg to study at the Philological Faculty to study Language and Literature. She moved to the United States in 1990, where she studied History and Philosophy of Science. Herzog is a multidisciplinary artist, she is the author of six books of photography and a contributor to Harper’s Magazine. Her work also appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Los Angeles Times, The Paris Review and Cabinet among other publications and has been widely exhibited in Europe and in the United States. Her most recent conceptual work was dedicated to the loss of world’s linguistic diversity and it is called Last Whispers: Oratorio for Vanishing Voices, Collapsing Universes and A Falling Tree. Last Whispers is a multimedia, audio video installation, a public platform and a virtual reality (VR). The project is an ecosystem that explores the global mass extinction of languages. It premiered at the British Museum in London in 2016, and has traveled around the world. Last Whispers Virtual Reality premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, and garnered acclaim and prizes at over twenty major international VR festivals. Last Whispers’ 45 min immersive installation was shown at major concert halls and theaters: The Kennedy Center in Washington DC, while in France, it showed at the drama theater Le Théâtre de la Ville and at the Paris opera house Le Théâtre du Châtelet.
Paul Holdengräber is joined by the brilliant Melvin Gibbs on this episode of The Quarantine Tapes. They discuss the release of Melvin’s latest EP, 4 + 1 equals 5 for May 25, five tracks created in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd in May 2020. Paul and Melvin dig into Melvin’s experience visiting the site of George Floyd’s death and the incredible statement he wrote to accompany the album.
Melvin and Paul go on to dig deep into Melvin’s career and the many amazing musicians he’s worked with and been inspired by over the years. They talk about Body Meπa, his latest collaboration with Greg Fox, Grey McMurray, and previous Quarantine Tapes guest Sasha Frere-Jones. In a fascinating episode, their conversation touches on the history of jazz, the connection between protest and music, and Melvin’s tentative hopes for the future.
Melvin Gibbs is a Grammy nominated composer, musician, artist, and writer, born, raised, and currently based in Brooklyn, N.Y. He has been called "the greatest bassist in the world" by Time Out New York magazine and was the 2019 winner of JazzTimes Magazine's Critics Poll in the category: Electric Bass.
Paul Holdengräber is an interviewer and curator of public curiosity. He is the Founder and Director of Onassis LA (OLA), a center for dialogue. Previously he was the Founder and Director of LIVE from the NYPL, a cultural series at the New York Public Library, where he hosted over 600 events, holding conversations with everyone from Patti Smith to Zadie Smith, Ricky Jay to Jay-Z, Errol Morris to Jan Morris, Wes Anderson to Helen Mirren, Christopher Hitchens to Mike Tyson. He is the host of "A Phone Call From Paul," a podcast for The Literary Hub.
Paul Holdengräber is joined by Lisa Fancher on episode 205 of The Quarantine Tapes. Lisa is the owner of the independent record label Frontier Records. On this episode, she talks with Paul about the 40th anniversary of Frontier, how the label has weathered the pandemic, and what it has meant for the label to remain independent.
Paul and Lisa discuss Henry Rollins, Lisa’s brilliant alternative radio station KXFU, and what the return of live music and concerts may look like. Paul asks Lisa to go back into her archive of the incredible releases of Frontier Records—Flyboys, the Adolescents, Thin White Rope, and many more—as they talk about the past and future of vinyl.
Lisa Fancher is the founder and owner of Frontier Records, an independent record label based in Sun Valley, California. She has been described as one of the “unsung heroines of L.A. punk rock history” and has played a pivotal role in the punk rock scene for more than forty years.
The Quarantine Tapes es un podcast diario de Onassis LA y dublab. El programa es presentado por Paul Holdengräber. Artistas, escritoras y escritores, activistas, líderes, trabajadores y trabajadoras, pensadoras y pensadores charlan con Paul acerca de cómo pasan el tiempo en este momento histórico sin precedentes. Es una crónica de paradigmas cambiantes en la era del distanciamiento social, que destaca las afinidades universales en esta experiencia humana mundial.
La edición Argentina presentada por el periodista Sergio Cohen convoca a invitados con enfoque en América Latina y comunidades de habla hispana alrededor del mundo.
The Quarantine Tapes se emite los días de semana a las 9.30 PT en DUBLAB.com; a partir de las 12 pm PT está disponible en todas las plataformas de podcasts. The Quarantine Tapes Argentina transmite todos los Jueves a las 9.30 PST en DUBLAB.com
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En el presente episodio de “Las cintas de la cuarentena” Argentina, Sergio Cohen recibe al Padre Pepe con quien dialoga acerca de los efectos que causa la pandemia en los barrios más pobres del país, donde el sacerdote lleva una encomiable labor.
Invitado y anfitrión desgranan las cuestiones medulares que atraviesan la vida de la gente más necesitada y reflexionan sobre el desconocimiento que existe por parte de la clase dirigente respecto de la realidad que circunda a los que deben hacer frente día tras día las enormes dificultades que se profundizaron debido a la pandemia.
El desempleo, el aumento de la pobreza, el incremento del consumo de drogas, el alto nivel de violencia y la extrema marginalidad son abordados en el transcurso de esta cordial conversación, en la que también se develaron detalles del vínculo que el padre forjó con el Papa Francisco y la necesidad de tomar conciencia de que la solidaridad es el camino que nos permitirá salir de la pandemia que sacude al mundo.
El Padre Pepe nació en el 12 de mayo de 1962. En 1987 fue ordenado sacerdote de la arquidiócesis de Buenos Aires. Nueve años más tarde fue destinado a Ciudad Oculta. Al tiempo, fue nombrado Párroco de la Parroquia Virgen de los Milagros de Caacupé, donde llevó adelante su misión.
En el 2008, junto a otros curas, funda “El hogar de Cristo”, cuyo objetivo era dar respuestas a las acuciantes situaciones de vulnerabilidad y al consumo de drogas en los barrios pobres. Tras denunciar al narcotráfico, sufre varias amenazas de muerte, razón por la que se refugió en Campo Gallo, Santiago del Estero. A su regreso, llevó adelante su labor en la capilla “Nuestra Señora del Milagro” y la Parroquia San Juan Bosco.
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On episode 203 of The Quarantine Tapes, guest host Jacqueline Novogratz is joined by Tim Brown. Tim is the chair of design company IDEO. He speaks with Jacqueline on this two-part episode on the subjects of his changing experience of work in the past year and a half, the role of design during the pandemic, and much more.
Tim offers Jacqueline his definition of design in their fascinating conversation on the role of design and what it means to shape our world to meet our needs. They discuss the failures of our big systems and how the pandemic has revealed the depth of our global interconnectedness before covering utopianism, beauty, and their expansive understanding of what it means to be a neighbor.
Tim Brown is chair of IDEO. He frequently speaks about the value of design thinking, creative leadership, and innovation to business leaders and designers around the world. He participates in the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and his talks Serious Play and Change by Design appear on TED.com.
An industrial designer by training, Tim has earned numerous design awards and has exhibited work at the Axis Gallery in Tokyo, the Design Museum in London, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He takes special interest in the convergence of technology and the arts, as well as the ways in which design can be used to promote the well-being of people living in emerging economies.
Tim advises senior executives and boards of global Fortune 100 companies. He serves on the Board of Directors of Steelcase Inc. and is member of the board of trustees of IDEO.org. In addition, he is a member of the Board of Advisors for the World Economic Forum Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution and writes for the Harvard Business Review, The Economist, and other prominent publications. His book on how design thinking transforms organizations, Change by Design, was released by Harper Business in September 2009, and revised and updated in 2019. Tim holds honorary doctorates from The Royal College of Art (London), Keio University (Tokyo), Claremont McKenna Graduate University (Los Angeles), and Art Center College of Art and Design (Los Angeles).
Tim contributes as one of LinkedIn's original top 150 Influencers. He is also an instructor for the IDEO U Leading for Creativity course.
Jacqueline Novogratz is the Founder and CEO of Acumen. In 2001, Jacqueline founded Acumen with the idea of investing philanthropic patient capital in entrepreneurs seeking to solve the toughest issues of poverty. As a pioneer of impact investing, Acumen and its investments have brought critical services like healthcare, education and clean energy to hundreds of millions of low-income people.
Jacqueline is the New York Times best-selling author of The Blue Sweater and Manifesto for a Moral Revolution: Practices to Build a Better World. She has been named one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy, one of the 25 Smartest People of the Decade by the Daily Beast, and one of the world’s 100 Greatest Living Business Minds by Forbes, which also honored her with the Forbes 400 Lifetime Achievement Award for Social Entrepreneurship.
On episode 202 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by Nato Thompson. Nato’s most recent project is The Alternative Art School, an online arts program launched in 2020. Paul and Nato talk in depth about Nato’s history in the art world and this thrilling new endeavor.
Nato explains what excites him about the possibilities this online-only school creates and discusses their mission to approach art as a life project. They discuss some of the artists Nato has worked with, from Trevor Paglen and Tracy K. Smith to Werner Herzog. Paul and Nato dig into the issues with existing structures in the art world, from museums to non-profits, and go back and forth about the problems and potential of virtual space.
Nato Thompson is an author, curator, and what he describes as “cultural infrastructure builder”. He has worked as Artistic Director at Philadelphia Contemporary, and Creative Time as Artistic Director and as Curator at MASS MoCA. He is currently the founder of an online global art school titled The Alternative Art School which began after the summer of 2020.
Thompson organized major Creative Time projects including The Creative Time Summit (2009–2015), Pedro Reyes’ Doomocracy (2016), Kara Walker’s A Subtlety (2014), Living as Form (2011), Trevor Paglen’s The Last Pictures (2012), Paul Ramírez Jonas’s Key to the City (2010), Jeremy Deller’s It is What it is (2009, with New Museum curators Laura Hoptman and Amy Mackie), Democracy in America: The National Campaign (2008), and Paul Chan’s Waiting for Godot in New Orleans (2007), among others.
He has written two books of cultural criticism, Seeing Power: Art and Activism in the 21st Century (2015) and Culture as Weapon: The Art of Influence in Everyday Life (2017).
Starting with Victoria’s most recent book of poems, Obit, Paul and Victoria have a fascinating and deeply considered conversation about grief, craft, and the joys of obsessions.
Victoria talks about the experience of writing about her grief in Obit and how the obituary form helped to guide her process. They discuss how Obit felt suited to the grief of the past year before Victoria shares her own poems and unpacks her latest obsessions, including her upcoming books and her fascination with tiny poems.
Victoria Chang’s latest poetry book is OBIT, which was named a New York Times Notable Book and received the LA Times Book Prize, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, and the PEN Voelcker Award. It was also longlisted for a National Book Award and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Griffin International Poetry Prize. Her forthcoming hybrid nonfiction book is Dear Memory. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and lives in Los Angeles.
The Quarantine Tapes es un podcast diario de Onassis LA y dublab. El programa es presentado por Paul Holdengräber. Artistas, escritoras y escritores, activistas, líderes, trabajadores y trabajadoras, pensadoras y pensadores charlan con Paul acerca de cómo pasan el tiempo en este momento histórico sin precedentes. Es una crónica de paradigmas cambiantes en la era del distanciamiento social, que destaca las afinidades universales en esta experiencia humana mundial.
La edición Argentina presentada por el periodista Sergio Cohen convoca a invitados con enfoque en América Latina y comunidades de habla hispana alrededor del mundo.
The Quarantine Tapes se emite los días de semana a las 9.30 PT en DUBLAB.com; a partir de las 12 pm PT está disponible en todas las plataformas de podcasts. The Quarantine Tapes Argentina transmite todos los Jueves a las 9.30 PST en DUBLAB.com
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En el primer episodio de “Las cintas de la cuarentena” Argentina, Sergio Cohen dialoga con María Kodama sobre el impacto que generó la cuarentena en la vida cotidiana de la invitada y las modificaciones que ha debido llevar adelante para desarrollar su labor profesional. La conversación entre ambos transcurre de una manera amistosa, cordial y amable en la que abundan las anécdotas que conforman aspectos poco conocidos de María. Rica en detalles, la charla se desliza con calidez hacia los terrenos del amor que Kodama sintió por Jorge Luis Borges y que el genial escritor le prodigó.
También forman parte de este episodio los puntos de vista de la invitada sobre el valor de la libertad, su posición en torno a las democracias en America del Sur, el legado que su padre le dejó sobre aspectos medulares de la existencia, la reencarnación, las ausencias de los seres amados y los fantasmas que nos habitan.
María Kodama es escritora, traductora y profesora de letras. Nació en Buenos Aires el 10 de marzo de 1937, hija de María Antonia Schweizer, de ascendencia suizo-alemana, inglesa y española, y del japonés Yosaburo Kodama.
Estuvo casada con Jorge Luis Borges, con él que compartió la escritura y la traducción de obras como “Breve antología anglosajona”, “La alucinación de Gylfi o El libro de la almohada”.
En 1988 creó la Fundación Internacional Jorge Luis Borges, de la que es la actual presidenta. María Kodama también dirige las revistas literarias Prisma y Proa. Dedicada a la difusión de la obra del genial escritor, viaja por el mundo realizando conferencias sobre él y su trayectoria.
En 2016 Kodama publica Homenaje a Borges y, cuatro años después, Relatos, su revelación literaria en primera persona.
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Paul Holdengräber is joined by writer Rebecca Mead on episode 199 of The Quarantine Tapes. A longtime contributor to The New Yorker, Rebecca talks with Paul about writing and the changing experience of time under quarantine.
Rebecca and Paul dig into some of her recent writing. They talk about her article, The Therapeutic Power of Gardening, and how Rebecca was able to feel closer to her mother thanks to her new gardening practice. Then, Rebecca explains the unique practice of cold water swimming in the UK and discusses Oliver Sacks’ “Water Babies.” In a fascinating and focused discussion, Paul and Rebecca cover Winnicott, wild swimming, and Rebecca’s upcoming book, Home/Land.
Rebecca Mead was born in England and studied at Oxford and NYU. She joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 1997; among the many subjects she has profiled for the magazine are Lin-Manuel Miranda, Margaret Atwood, Nico Muhly, Slavoj Zizek, and Mary Beard. She has written hundreds of Talk of the Town stories and is a frequent contributor of essays and commentary to newyorker.com. She is the author of “My Life in Middlemarch” (2014), a New York Times bestseller; and “One Perfect Day: The Selling of the American Wedding” (2007). In 2018, Mead returned to England after three decades living in New York City. She is at work on a non-fiction book about that transition.
Photo Credit: James Prochnik
On episode 198 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by Sasha Frere-Jones. Sasha is a music critic and writer. In his conversation with Paul, Sasha begins by discussing the past year in his life with a personal and moving account of the experience of loss under the unique circumstances of the pandemic.
Paul and Sasha go on to discuss music and a return to in-person experiences. They discuss Alex Ross’s article on the return to live performance, The New York Philharmonic Mourns and Rebuilds, and Sasha expresses his excitement for a return to live music as well as his wariness about how it may feel to readjust to those experiences. Sasha talks about both his hopes and deep fears for where we are and where we will go after this moment.
Sasha Frere-Jones is a writer and musician from New York.
On episode 197 of The Quarantine Tapes, guest host Alex Vitale is joined by Amanda Alexander. Amanda is the Executive Director of the Detroit Justice Center, a non-profit law firm. She talks with Alex about the police abolition movement, the rise of “Defund the Police” last summer, and the ongoing work of community organizers within Detroit.
Speaking on what would have been Mike Brown’s 25th birthday, Amanda explains to Alex how she thinks about justice in terms of what needs to change for everyone we have lost to violence and the many other causes of premature death to be alive with their loved ones today. She speaks passionately about the decades-long work being done within the Detroit community to imagine and create the neighborhoods that they want to live in, her writing on the central role of Black women to these movements, and how her organization tries to keep their work sustainable.
https://www.detroitjustice.org/amanda-alexander-bio
https://blac.media/people-places/amanda-alexander-founder-and-executive-director-detroit-justice-center
Amanda Alexander, founding Executive Director of the Detroit Justice Center, is a racial justice lawyer and historian who works alongside community-based movements to end mass incarceration and build thriving and inclusive cities. Originally from Michigan, Amanda has worked at the intersection of racial justice and community development in Detroit, New York, and South Africa for more than 15 years.
Amanda is a Senior Research Scholar at University of Michigan Law School, where she has taught Law & Social Movements and was an attorney in the Child Advocacy Law Clinic. As a Fulbright-Hays Scholar, Amanda conducted research on land, housing, and inclusive cities in South Africa. Her writing has been published in The Globe & Mail, Detroit Free Press, Michigan Journal of Race & Law, Harvard Journal of African-American Public Policy, Michigan Child Welfare Law Journal, Journal of Asian and African Studies, Review of African Political Economy, and other publications.
GUEST HOST BIO
Alex S. Vitale is Professor of Sociology and Coordinator of the Policing and Social Justice Project at Brooklyn College and a Visiting Professor at London Southbank University. He has spent the last 30 years writing about policing and consults both police departments and human rights organizations internationally. Prof. Vitale is the author of City of Disorder: How the Quality of Life Campaign Transformed New York Politics and The End of Policing. His academic writings on policing have appeared in Policing and Society, Police Practice and Research, Mobilization, and Contemporary Sociology. He is also a frequent essayist, whose writings have appeared in The NY Times, Washington Post, The Guardian, The Nation, Vice News, Fortune, and USA Today.
On episode 196 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by Arman Naféei. Paul and Arman discuss Los Angeles, influences, Arman’s new podcast, and much more in a lively and enthralling episode.
Arman launched a music podcast a little over a year ago, Are We On Air. He explains the podcast’s origins and structure before Paul turns the tables on him to ask Arman one of his own classic interview questions. In this fascinating episode, Arman breaks down his unique title of directeur d’ambiance, talks about Hugh Hefner’s jazz record collection, and more.
Arman Naféei is the host and creator of the culture podcast Are We On Air and Directeur d’ambiance at the Chateau Marmont in LA. After a chance meeting at Jay Joplin’s White Cube Gallery in London, Arman Nafeei was handpicked by André Balazs in 2010 as the Music Director of all of his properties including The Boom Boom Room at The Standard Hotels, Sunset Beach in the Hamptons, celebrity favourite Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles, and the Chiltern Firehouse in London.
In 2013, Arman launched StudioNeu, a creative agency specializing in Music direction, Sound Design, spatial strategies and cultural programming. Here, Arman has worked with a wide range of clients in the cultural sector. Ranging from Nile Rodgers’ “Freak Out Let’s Dance” Festival to the weddings of both Gwyneth Paltrow and Heidi Klum. StudioNeu has also helped to define the sound identities of Fashion houses such as Giorgio Armani, Moncler, Chanel and Prada.
In 2020, Arman launched Are We On Air. The interview series was launched in April during the first lockdown to share some inspiring stories and sounds with the world and since then developed into a cultural audio magazine with some incredible personalities giving an intimate glimpse into their musical taste, creative process and entertaining stories. Arman plans to spend 2021 between LA, Berlin and Milan, developing Are We On Air further, delving into the on-screen realm, as well as spearheading several music direction projects for fashion brands in Milan.
Additional Content:
Hafez
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/hafez
"Nessun Dorma" from Turandot by Puccini, sung by Luciano Pavarotti: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uqPnY5hQDs
Teddy Pendergrass
https://teddypendergrassofficial.com
“If I Ever Feel Better” from United by Phoenix
https://youtu.be/ub36ffWAqgQ
Patti Smith & Paul Holdengraber LIVE from the NYPL:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33QXPCAdoX8
Dizzy Gillespie: "Dizzy on the French Riviera":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-a_RISEa1sA
Ariana Papademetropoulos:
https://www.vitoschnabel.com/artists/ariana-papademetropoulo
ARE WE ON AIR:
https://areweonair.com/
On episode 195 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by Ron Hanson. Ron is the founding editor of White Fungus, an arts magazine based in Taiwan. He talks with Paul about the successes and struggles of the COVID response in Taiwan before turning to his fascinating work with his magazine.
Ron tells Paul the story of the magazine’s unique name — White Fungus — and discusses the origin and mission of the publication. They talk about the engaging and varied articles published by White Fungus, including a recent piece on Paul Celan and an extensive interview with the late artist Carolee Schneemann. Their conversation is engaging and unique, ranging from Ron’s perspective as a New Zealander living in Taiwan to the magazine’s desire to attract curious and adventurous readers.
Ron Hanson is the founding editor of the Taiwan-based arts magazine White Fungus. Hanson started the publication in 2004 with his brother Mark in Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand. White Fungus began as an intended one-off protest zine opposing the construction of an inner-city motorway. Now it is an internationally distributed arts publication covering art, music, history, and politics.
Hanson was in Taiwan during the SARS pandemic of 2003. Recently, he has been reporting in the New Zealand media on Taiwan’s COVID-19 response.
Where to Buy White Fungus
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Paul Holdengräber is joined by Max Levine on episode 194 of The Quarantine Tapes. Max is the co-founder of Nico, the Neighborhood Investment Company in Los Angeles. Paul and Max talk about the work that Nico does to change the dynamics of property ownership and local investment within neighborhoods.
They discuss Nico’s model of investment and how it differs from traditional investment models. Max emphasizes the relationship to the community in Nico’s work and their desire for the people in a neighborhood to be the financial stakeholders in their communities. Paul and Max break down the problems with landlords, the inspiration that they drew from the Green Bay Packers, and the unique measures that Nico took to support their community during the pandemic.
Max is co-founder and CEO of Nico, the Neighborhood Investment Company. Nico has pioneered a new model for community wealth and is the sponsor of Nico Echo Park, Benefit Corp., the world’s first Neighborhood REIT. Nico is a certified B-Corporation and was named as one of Fast Company’s “World Changing Ideas” in 2020.
Max has worked in real estate investment and the hospitality industries for 15 years, including as CFO of Storage Deluxe/Uovo Fine Art and a principal of Mile End Delicatessen in Brooklyn.
Max enjoys exploring neighborhoods, spending time with his family, and cooking. He is a renter and lives in Silver Lake with his wife Kari, son Oliver, and dogs Bako and Remy.
Wallace Shawn started writing plays in 1967. His plays have been performed at the Public Theater and The New Group in New York and in London at the National Theatre and the Royal Court Theatre. His latest book is a long essay, NIGHT THOUGHTS. His earlier essays are collected in ESSAYS. Both books are published by Haymarket Books.
Shawn became a professional actor in 1977 when he appeared on stage at the Public Theater in New York in his own translation of Machiavelli's The Mandrake, directed by Wilford Leach. His film work includes appearances in Manhattan, Radio Days, Clueless, The Princess Bride, and others.
He has been a recurring character on many television shows, including Taxi, Murphy Brown, Gossip Girls, and many others. He can currently be seen on Young Sheldon, where he plays the role of Dr. John Sturgis.
Why I Call Myself A Socialist
Essays
Waiting For Godot
On episode 192 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by Kevin Young. Kevin is a poet and the new director of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. As the museum prepares to reopen this spring and approaches its fifth anniversary later this year, Kevin talks about what the museum means to him, as a museum director and as a poet.
Paul asks Kevin about the collection of poetry he edited, African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song. They unpack the similarities between poetry and museum collections and discuss some of the art and objects on display in the museum. Paul asks Kevin what artifacts he would save from this moment and Kevin talks about some of his influences from his hometown of Topeka before ending the episode with a moving reading of two of Kevin’s poems.
Listen to Kevin Young reciting "Won't You Celebrate With Me," a poem by Lucille Clifton.
Kevin Young is the Andrew W. Mellon Director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. As the nation's largest museum dedicated to telling the African American story, the 19th and newest museum in the Smithsonian complex welcomes 2 million annual visitors and engages an international audience through world-class online programming and digital access to its collections. Young holds a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard College and a Master of Fine Arts from Brown University. He has held a Stegner Fellowship in Poetry at Stanford, a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, and a NEA fellowship. Director Young is active across the art and cultural community. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and was named a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 2020.
On episode 191 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by Rebecca Solnit. Rebecca and Paul think back to a year ago, nearly to the day, when Rebecca was sharing fairy tales online in the early days of the pandemic. She tells Paul about her upcoming book on George Orwell, Orwell’s Roses, and reflects on what kinds of connections she has seen arise out of the isolation of this past year.
Rebecca offers Paul beautiful observations from her walks in nature. As a climate activist, she talks about the interesting implications of this moment of great change for the climate movement and discusses how the work of both activists and artists is to invite people to imagine.
Writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit is the author of more than twenty books on feminism, western and indigenous history, popular power, social change and insurrection, wandering and walking, hope and disaster, including Whose Story Is This?, Call Them By Their True Names (Winner of the 2018 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction), Cinderella Liberator, Men Explain Things to Me, The Mother of All Questions, and Hope in the Dark, and co-creator of the City of Women map, all published by Haymarket Books; a trilogy of atlases of American cities, The Faraway Nearby, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster, A Field Guide to Getting Lost, Wanderlust: A History of Walking, and River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West (for which she received a Guggenheim, the National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism, and the Lannan Literary Award). Her forthcoming memoir, Recollections of My Nonexistence, is scheduled to release in March, 2020. A product of the California public education system from kindergarten to graduate school, she is a columnist at the Guardian and a regular contributor to Literary Hub.
Paul Holdengräber is joined by John Freeman on episode 190 of The Quarantine Tapes. John is an editor and writer and he talks to Paul about some of his most recent work, including the newly released There’s a Revolution Outside, My Love, an anthology edited by John and another former Quarantine Tapes guest, Tracy K. Smith.
John speaks movingly to the topics of collaboration and friendship. He discusses his influences and friendships with other writers, including Tracy and Barry Lopez. Paul and John go on to discuss John’s Dictionary of the Undoing, letter writing, utopia, and much more in a thoughtful and fascinating conversation.
Extras:
I Am Waiting, by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Dusk, for Barry Lopez, by John Freeman, from Orion magazine.
John Freeman is the editor of Freeman's, a literary annual of new writing, and executive editor at Alfred A. Knopf. His books include How to Read a Novelist and Dictionary of the Undoing, as well as Tales of Two Americas, an anthology about income inequality in America, and Tales of Two Planets, an anthology of new writing about inequality and the climate crisis globally. He is also the author of two poetry collections, Maps and The Park. His work is translated into more than twenty languages, and has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and The New York Times. The former editor of Granta, he teaches writing at New York University.
On episode 189 of The Quarantine Tapes, guest host Naveen Kishore is joined by Durs Grünbein. A writer and poet from Germany, Durs talks to Naveen about his most recent book of poetry, Porcelain: Poem on the Downfall of My City.
In Porcelain, Durs writes about Dresden, the city he grew up in. Durs expresses how his childhood felt determined by history, growing up still surrounded by the ruins of the bombing of Dresden years earlier. He and Naveen talk about how his work struggles against that feeling of determination and what it was like to return to poems Durs wrote years ago. They discuss Kurt Vonnegut, Durs’ Oxford Lectures, and his hesitancy to try to reflect in the midst of the pandemic.
Durs Grünbein, 1962 born in Dresden, lives in Berlin and Rome. After the decline of the Soviet Empire he started travelling throughout Europe, South Asia and the United States. Since 2005 Professor for Poetics and Aesthetics at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Member of several German Academies and since 2009 member of the Order Pour le mérite for Science and Arts in Germany. He published fifteen collections of poetry, one diary, a book of memories and four books of essays. Also translations of Aischylos, Seneca, Juvenal. His work has been awarded many major German and International literary prizes, including Georg-Büchner-Price 1995, Friedrich-Nietzsche-Price 2004, Friedrich-Hölderlin-Price 2005, Pier-Paolo-Pasolini-Price in Italy 2006, Tomas-Transtömer-Price in Sweden 2012 and Zbigniew-Herbert-Price for International Poetry in Poland 2020. His poetry has been widely acclaimed and translated into several languages. Italian edition, translated by Anna Maria Carpi: »A metà partita«, 1999. »Il primo anno«, 2004. »Della neve«, 2005. »Strofe per dopodomani«, 2011. (Einaudi Editore Torino) English edition, translated by Michael Hofmann: »Ashes for breakfast. Selected Poems«, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York 2005. »The Bars of Atlantis. Selected Essays« Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York 2010 + Faber&Faber, London. »Descartes’ Devil. Three Meditations« (transl. by Anthea Bell), »The Vocation of Poetry«, »Mortal Diamond« (transl. by M. Eskin), Upper West Side Philosophers, Inc., New York, 2010, »Porcelain« (transl. by Karen Leeder), Seagull, London, New York, Calcutta, 2020. Forthcoming: »For the dying calfs. Oxford Lectures« (trans. by Karen Leeder), Seagull 2021.
In episode 188 of the Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by author Tracy K. Smith. In this conversation, Paul and Tracy discuss the intensity of this moment in history, and explore the precision and power of poetry. Tracy describes the necessity for working together to develop a new vocabulary, and shares her thoughts about the essential role poetry plays in saving the soul of America.
Tracy reads her poem We Feel Now a Largeness Coming On, and the pair unpack ideas about reanimating imagination and conquering fear. In advance of publishing, Tracy then shares part of a poem called benediction by Joshua Bennett, chosen from There’s a Revolution Outside, edited by Tracy Smith and John Freeman. Paul and Tracy elaborate about the multiplicity of possibility that imagination provides, and how poetic vocabulary helps us all to reclaim joy in these calamitous times.
Tracy K. Smith is the Pulitzer Prize winning author of four books of poetry, most recently Wade in the Water, winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. She is also the editor of the anthology American Journal: Fifty Poems for Our Time, and cotranslator (with Changtai Bi) of My Name Will Grow Wide Like a Tree: Selected Poems by Yi Lei. Smith’s memoir, Ordinary Light, was named a finalist for the National Book Award. From 2017 to 2019, she served as the twenty-second Poet Laureate of the United States. She is currently a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.
Guest host Naveen Kishore is joined by journalist Nilanjana Bhowmick on episode 187 of The Quarantine Tapes. Nilanjana wrote a recent Time cover story on the women leading the farmers’ protests in India. She talks with Naveen about the hope she has seen in those protests and what it means to have women at the front of that movement.
Nilanjana and Naveen discuss what is unique about these protests compared to what has come before and Nilanjana offers her sharp analysis of how they fit into the current social and political scene in India. Then, Nilanjana tells him about the women who have inspired her own work as a feminist and as a writer and previews her upcoming book.
Nilanjana Bhowmick is a New Delhi-based award winning freelance journalist and writer with a passion for telling stories about social justice, environment and gender. Her works have appeared in radio and print in publications like TIME, the Washington Post, National Geographic, BBC, RadioLab, Voice of America, Al Jazeera, etc etc. She's a columnist for the New Internationalist magazine. www.datelinenewdelhi.com
Naveen Kishore is the founder and managing director of Seagull Books - a publishing house located in Calcutta, India, which began primarily as a response to the growing need for an Indian publishing house focused on theatre and other arts. Seagull Books has translated just about more foreign literature than any other major publishing house in the world. He was the recipient of the Goethe Medal and the Chevalier Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Kishore lives and works in Calcutta.
On episode 186 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by Trevor Paglen. Trevor is an artist and he talks with Paul about surprising himself with the type of work he found himself interested in this year. They discuss his focus on flowers in his most recent project, “Bloom.”
Trevor and Paul dig into how images are changing in recent years and talk about Trevor’s essay, “Invisible Images.” They discuss the proliferation of algorithms and computer vision and talk about NFTs, Walter Benjamin, and the changing meaning of images under the pandemic. Then, Trevor unpacks the worrisome implications of images being separated from human eyes and his concerns over how these systems monitor and extract value from our lives.
Trevor Paglen is an artist whose work spans image-making, sculpture, investigative journalism, writing, engineering, and numerous other disciplines. Paglen’s work has had one-person exhibitions at the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington D.C.; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Fondazione Prada, Milan; the Barbican Centre, London; Vienna Secession, Vienna; and Protocinema Istanbul, and participated in group exhibitions the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Tate Modern, and numerous other venues. Paglen has launched an artwork into distant orbit around Earth in collaboration with Creative Time and MIT, contributed research and cinematography to the Academy Award-winning film Citizenfour, and created a radioactive public sculpture for the exclusion zone in Fukushima, Japan. Paglen is the author of several books and numerous articles on subjects including experimental geography, artificial intelligence, state secrecy, military symbology, photography, and visuality. Paglen’s work has been profiled in the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Wall Street Journal, Wired, the Financial Times, Art Forum, and Aperture. In 2014, he received the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Pioneer Award and in 2016, he won the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize. Paglen was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2017. Paglen holds a B.A. from U.C. Berkeley, an MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago, and a Ph.D. in Geography from U.C. Berkeley.
On episode 185 of The Quarantine Tapes, guest host Naomi Shihab Nye returns for a conversation with actress Debra Winger. Speaking from rural New York, Debra tells Naomi about the places she has spent the past year. They talk about her unique experience of traveling to New Zealand for work and undergoing both the harsh quarantine and the freedom of emerging into a place without COVID.
Debra and Naomi have a remarkable and honest conversation about their experiences of the past year. Debra talks about the challenges of starting and not finishing tasks in this time and her desire to go forwards instead of returning back to before. Then, Debra and Naomi speak movingly about loss in the past year and beyond, with Debra sharing her experiences of what it means to gain the whole of a relationship when you lose someone.
Debra Winger is an actress best known for her Academy Award-winning roles in Shadowlands, An Officer and a Gentleman, and Terms of Endearment, but it was her co-starring role with John Travolta in Urban Cowboy that brought her to the world’s attention. She has appeared in several plays at the A.R.T. has toured with Michael Tilson-Thomas and the New World Symphony and received a fellowship at Harvard University with Dr. Robert Coles – teaching The Literature of Social Reflection. She starred in a season of HBO’s series In Treatment and was nominated for an Independent Spirit award for Best Actress in Jonathan Demme’s Rachel Getting Married. She made her Broadway debut in 2012, starring in David Mamet’s play The Anarchist. She co-produced the documentary Gasland which was nominated for an Academy Award and helped to ban hydro-fracking in the state of New York.
Naomi Shihab Nye is the Young People's Poet Laureate (Poetry Foundation), the Poetry Editor for the New York Times Magazine, on faculty at Texas State University, and author or editor of more than 30 books. She was selected by the National Book Critics Circle to receive the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, 2020.
Episode 180 of The Quarantine Tapes concludes the two-part special video presentation of the conversation featuring Henry Rollins, the first guest on The Quarantine Tapes one year ago. Henry Rollins joins Onassis LA Executive Director Paul Holdengräber, dublab co-founder Mark “Frosty” McNeill, and dublab Executive Director Alejandro Cohen for a socially distant conversation on the past year of The Quarantine Tapes, art during the pandemic, and what might be next after this moment.
Their conversation touches on what the role of radio has been during the pandemic, the process of working during this time, and what it means to create and nurture community over the radio. Then, the guests discuss the origins of dublab and the joys of connecting dublab’s community to The Quarantine Tapes’ community over the past year and consider what might come next as we move beyond this time.
About Henry Rollins:
In describing Henry Rollins, the tendency is to try to squeeze as many labels as possible into a single sentence. “Rollins is many things,” says The Washington Post, “diatribist, confessor, provocateur, humorist, even motivational speaker…his is an enthusiastic and engaging chatter.”
Entertainment Weekly’s list includes “Punk Rock icon. Spoken word poet. Actor. Author. DJ. Is there anything this guy can’t do?” TV Guide has more concisely called him a “Renaissance Man” but if Henry Rollins could be reduced to a single word, that word would undoubtedly be “workaholic.” When he’s not traveling, Rollins prefers to keep a relentless schedule full of work, with gigs as an actor, author, DJ, voice-over artist and TV show host to name a few of the roles that keep his schedule full. Rollins has toured the world as a spoken word artist, as frontman for both Rollins Band and Black Flag and as a solitary traveler with insatiable curiosity, favoring road-less-traveled locales in places such as Nepal, Sri Lanka, Siberia, North Korea, South Sudan and Iran.
About Mark “Frosty” McNeill:
Mark “Frosty” McNeill is a DJ, radio producer, curator, and filmmaker based in Los Angeles. He’s the founder of dublab.com, a pioneering web radio station that has been exploring wide-spectrum music since 1999. McNeill hosts weekly radio shows for dublab and Red Bull Music Academy Radio. As Adventure Time, he and Daedelus have created new worlds of sound and alongside dublab colleagues he activates the Golden Hits dream machine. Frosty has performed high concept DJ sets around the globe with the mission of sharing transcendent sonic experiences.
About Alejandro Cohen:
Alejandro Cohen is a musician and composer from Los Angeles, California, and the executive director of DUBLAB. Over the last two decades, Cohen has released music under numerous projects and groups including Languis and Pharaohs. He’s composed music for TV shows, documentaries and educational materials, and recorded more than two hundred solo artists and bands as a sound engineer and consultant for dublab, KPFK 90.7 FM, Sony/Columbia and the Society for the Activation of Social Space Through Art and Sound (SASSAS). As dublab’s Executive Director, Cohen curates the station’s programming and podcast offerings, fundraises for the organization and curates the annual ambient music event Tonalism.
About Paul Holdengräber:
Paul Holdengräber is an interviewer and curator. He is the Founding Executive Director of Onassis Los Angeles (OLA). Previously, and for 14 years, he was Founder and Director of The New York Public Library’s LIVE from the NYPL cultural series where he interviewed and hosted over 600 events, holding conversations with everyone from Patti Smith to Zadie Smith, Ricky Jay to Jay-Z, Errol Morris to Jan Morris, Wes Anderson to Helen Mirren, Werner Herzog to Mike Tyson.
Before his tenure at the Library, Holdengräber was the Founder and Director of “The Institute for Art & Cultures” at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and a Fellow at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. He has a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Princeton University and has taught at Princeton University, Williams College, Claremont Graduate University among others. In 2003, the French Government named Holdengräber Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, and then promoted him in 2012 to the rank of Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres. In 2010, The President of Austria awarded him the Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art.
About DUBLAB:
DUBLAB is a non-profit radio station based in Los Angeles. Since 1999, DUBLAB has been broadcasting wide spectrum music from around the world daily. Their programming has expanded to include the production of original art exhibitions, films, record releases, education programs related to health, youth, development, education creative processes and events with leading institutions in LA and beyond. DUBLAB is a platform for discovery and cultivation of next - wave music, arts and culture.
On episode 184 of The Quarantine Tapes, guest host Naveen Kishore is joined by Tess Lewis. Tess is a translator and she and Naveen dig into how she has experienced translation during this time of quarantine. Tess explains how she sees translation as an act of intimacy, something she welcomes in this time of physical distance.
Naveen and Tess touch on the recent controversy around the Dutch translation of Amanda Gorman’s work and discuss the politics and ethics of translation. They talk about the incredible diversity that exists within languages and how translation can work to give smaller languages their due. Tess ends the episode by reading from two of the writers whose work she has translated, Philippe Jaccottet and Maja Haderlap.
Tess Lewis is a writer and translator from French and German. Her translations include works by Walter Benjamin, Hans-Magnus Enzensberger, Christine Angot, Philippe Jaccottet and Peter Handke. Her recent awards include the 2017 PEN Translation Prize for Maja Haderlap’s Angel of Oblivion and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Her essays and reviews have appeared in The New Criterion, The Hudson Review, World Literature Today, The Wall Street Journal, The American Scholar, and Bookforum. She is an Advisory Editor for The Hudson Review and co-curator of the Festival Neue Literature, New York City’s annual festival of German language literature in English.
Naveen Kishore is the founder and managing director of Seagull Books - a publishing house located in Calcutta, India, which began primarily as a response to the growing need for an Indian publishing house focused on theatre and other arts. Seagull Books has translated just about more foreign literature than any other major publishing house in the world. He was the recipient of the Goethe Medal and the Chevalier Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Kishore lives and works in Calcutta.
On episode 183 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by poet and professor, Paul Muldoon. In this conversation, Paul offers a thoughtful look at his process as a poet and what it means to write work that speaks to this moment.
The pair discuss some of Paul’s influences, as a writer, including T.S. Eliot and John Donne. He reads from a poem he worked on in the early weeks of the pandemic, “Plaguey Hill,” and previews his recently-announced project with Paul McCartney. Paul brings us all into his practice as both a teacher and a writer, and explains how important unknowing is to writing, and confronts what it means to approach the page from a place of innocence and ignorance
READ: Plaguey Hill, a new poem by Paul Muldoon
Paul Muldoon was born in County Armagh in 1951. He now lives in New York. A former radio and television producer for the BBC in Belfast, he has taught at Princeton University for more than thirty years. He is the author of fourteen collections of poetry including Howdie-Skelp, due from FSG and Faber and Faber in 2021. Among his awards are the 1972 Eric Gregory Award, the 1980 Sir Geoffrey Faber Memorial Award, the 1994 T.S. Eliot Prize, the 1997 Irish Times Poetry Prize, the 2003 Pulitzer Prize, the 2003 Griffin International Prize for Poetry, the 2004 American Ireland Fund Literary Award, the 2004 Shakespeare Prize, the 2006 European Prize for Poetry, the 2015 Pigott Poetry Prize, the 2017 Queens Gold Medal for Poetry, and the 2020 Michael Marks Award. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Literature and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Guest host Naomi Shihab Nye is joined by Paul Haller on episode 182 of The Quarantine Tapes. Paul is the former abbot of the San Francisco Zen Center. Naomi and Paul talk about how his practice has changed in the past year, with Paul sharing how his community has been affected by this moment.
As the vaccination begins to enter our lives, Paul talks about the experience of reconnecting with friends. He expresses his gratitude for how we are able to appreciate those connections in a new way after our time apart. Paul shares stories from this time at home, introducing listeners to the European bee in his backyard and the other realizations that have come out of this deeper connection to physical space. In their fascinating and thoughtful conversation, Naomi and Paul discuss poetry, silence, and the connections they’ve experienced in the past year.
Ryushin Paul Haller has lived and practiced at San Francisco Zen Center since the 1970s and held many positions at Tassajara and City Center. He received Dharma Transmission from Sojun Mel Weitsman and has been teaching for over 30 years. He served as Abiding Abbot at City Center from 2003 to 2012, and is currently the Urban Temple Dharma Teacher at City Center. Originally from Belfast, Northern Ireland, he teaches throughout the US and Europe and has led mindfulness programs to assist with depression and recovery. Paul has also taught in prisons and has a long involvement with the Zen Hospice Project. He has been practicing yoga for 30 years.
Naomi Shihab Nye is the Young People's Poet Laureate (Poetry Foundation), the Poetry Editor for the New York Times Magazine, on faculty at Texas State University, and author or editor of more than 30 books. She was selected by the National Book Critics Circle to receive the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, 2020.
Paul Holdengräber is joined by Sven Birkerts on episode 181 of The Quarantine Tapes. Sven is a writer and he talks with Paul today about his recent move. He describes his experience of packing and unpacking his library and they discuss the meditation of looking through old books and seeing your own changing tastes and interests.
Paul asks Sven about his books,The Gutenberg Elegies and Changing the Subject. They discuss how this past year has increased our reliance on technology and Sven’s discomfort with what the world of algorithms demands from us before turning to his upcoming book on Nabokov’s Speak, Memory and his relationship to serendipity.
Sven Birkerts is the author of 11 books of essays and memoir, including The Gutenberg Elegies, The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again. His most recent his book is on SPEAK, MEMORY in Ig Publishing's Bookmarked series. Currently the co-editor of the journal AGNI, he was for many years the Director of the Bennington Writing Seminars. He recently moved to Amherst, Ma.
Celebrating one year of recording the Quarantine Tapes, episode 180 of the Quarantine Tapes is part one of a two part special video presentation of a conversation featuring the first Quarantine Tapes guest, Henry Rollins.
In this episode, Henry Rollins engages in a lively, socially distant, conversation, about the importance of art and culture, with Onassis LA Executive Director Paul Holdengräber, dublab co-founder Mark ‘Frosty’ McNeill, and dublab Executive Director Alejandro Cohen.
On March 7th, 2020, just days before the pandemic lockdown, OLA and dublab recorded a live interview with Paul Holdengräber at the OLA house as part of dublab’s annual Creative Cultivation Salon. At that moment, Henry spoke about the necessity of preserving and supporting independent creative communities, a discussion that feels more relevant than ever, as we look back at the reorientation of the next wave of expression during the quarantine era. That moment heralds as the beginning of the Quarantine Tapes.
Filmed at Onassis LA, this Anniversary episode continues the conversation, exploring the essential role artists play in all cultures. Through the magic of radio, and particularly in these times of isolation, artists serve as a beacon, and shine like a light in the dark, for everyone.
"When you lose art and culture in a society you lose the society itself; and when a society becomes more coarse, when museums and galleries close, when there's less opportunity to hear any kind of music, less opportunity to dance, to paint, to express yourself, what you get in that vacuum, is ignorance, bigotry, and brutality. When art gets pushed to the side what comes in its place you don't want any part of it -- you will not like what comes in its place."
- Henry Rollins, in conversation on March 7th, 2020, Onassis LA.
On episode 179 of The Quarantine Tapes, guest host Naveen Kishore is joined by writer Annie Zaidi. Naveen reads from Annie’s new book, titled Prelude to a Riot and the pair discuss Annie’s love of all writing disciplines. Annie discusses her tendency toward quiet, the importance of listening and reflection, and her personal journey toward self expression, and self awareness.
Annie and Naveen share stories about life growing up, particularly in India, and what kind of effects archaic laws of censorship, and little support for the arts, have on communities. The two discuss the interesting role theater plays in a culture, and how important it is for artists to find solidarity and gather together for collective action, to build communities, and form new ways of growing, together.
Naveen Kishore is the founder and managing director of Seagull Books - a publishing house located in Calcutta, India, which began primarily as a response to the growing need for an Indian publishing house focused on theatre and other arts. Seagull Books has translated just about more foreign literature than any other major publishing house in the world. He was the recipient of the Goethe Medal and the Chevalier Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Kishore lives and works in Calcutta.
Annie Zaidi (born 1978) is an English-language writer from India. Her collection of essays, Known Turf: Bantering with Bandits and Other True Tales, was short-listed for the Vodafone Crossword Book Award in 2010. In addition to essays, she also writes poetry (Crush, 2007), short stories (The Good Indian Girl, 2011), plays and has published a novella. She won The Hindu Playwright Award in 2018 and the Nine Dots Prize in 2019 that included a cash prize of $100,000 for her work Bread, Cement, Cactus — combining memoir and reportage.
http://knownturf.blogspot.com
On episode 178 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by Jacqueline Novogratz. Jacqueline is the founder and CEO of the non-profit Acumen. Jacqueline and Paul celebrate their birthday, both born on the Ides of March, before turning to how Jacqueline approaches her work with Acumen, both during the pandemic and beyond.
Jacqueline talks about how Acumen engages with investment and how the pandemic drove them to understand their role in community-building on a deeper level. They talk about the need for moral imagination and the essential role of reading in building understanding, touching on Mary Oliver, Gabriel García Márquez, and more.
Jacqueline Novogratz is the Founder and CEO of Acumen. In 2001, Jacqueline founded Acumen with the idea of investing philanthropic patient capital in entrepreneurs seeking to solve the toughest issues of poverty. As a pioneer of impact investing, Acumen and its investments have brought critical services like healthcare, education and clean energy to hundreds of millions of low-income people.
After supporting hundreds of entrepreneurs, Jacqueline and her team recognized character as the crucial ingredient for success; in 2020, they launched Acumen Academy to instruct others in global social change. Under Jacqueline’s leadership, Acumen also has launched several for-profit impact funds designed to invest at the intersection of poverty and climate change, and has spun off 60 Decibels, founded on the principle that serving all stakeholders is as important as enriching shareholders.
Jacqueline is the New York Times best-selling author of The Blue Sweater and Manifesto for a Moral Revolution: Practices to Build a Better World. She has been named one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy, one of the 25 Smartest People of the Decade by the Daily Beast, and one of the world’s 100 Greatest Living Business Minds by Forbes, which also honored her with the Forbes 400 Lifetime Achievement Award for Social Entrepreneurship.
This incredible array of guests speak to how this moment has changed our sense of time, the healing we will need as we move forward from the pandemic, the opportunities that may come next, and much more in a fascinating reminder of where the past year has taken us. From dire to hopeful to funny, these clips reflect the best of one year of The Quarantine Tapes.
Symphony of Voices Part 2 features the following Quarantine Tapes Guests:
Derek Delgaudio, Lena Herzog, Rachel Kushner, Jorie Graham, Julie Mehretu, Christopher Knight, William Kentridge, David Rieff, Etgar Keret, Calvin Trillin, Andy Borowitz, Abraham Verghese, George Prochnik, and Jerry Saltz.
On episode 176 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by author Nathalie Etoke. Recorded during the time of the historic trials surrounding the death of George Floyd, Nathalie expands on the way that the pandemic has brought into focus many things that were dormant. In this moment of reckoning, Nathalie expertly addresses the truth about what shapes racism, and asks us all to consider what are the consequences of imperialism on our notions of collective human culture.
Paul and Nathalie continue to dig into the challenging questions that explore how to be human in a dehumanized world, and how we experience the fullness of life, in the face of death and disaster. Nathalie also shares a passage from her new book called Shades of Black, soon to be published in April 2021, by Seagull Books, and the pair discuss further ways we create the connection to living with history, and the need to find a way to get along, to live together and share it.
Nathalie Etoke is Associate Professor of Francophone and Africana Studies at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Her articles have appeared in Research in African Literatures, French Politics and Culture, Nouvelles Études Francophones, Présence Francophone, the International Journal of Francophone Studies,and the Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy.
She is the author of L’Écriture du corps féminin dans la littérature de l’Afrique francophone au sud du Sahara and of Melancholia Africana the Indispensable Overcoming of The Black Condition which won the Frantz Fanon Prize from the Caribbean Philosophical Association. In 2011, she directed Afro Diasporic French Identities, a documentary on race, identity and citizenship in contemporary France.Her upcoming book Shades of Black will be published in April 2021.
Additional links:
https://www.gc.cuny.edu/Page-Elements/Academics-Research-Centers-Initiatives/Doctoral-Programs/French/Faculty-Bios/Nathalie-Etoke
https://blog.apaonline.org/2020/03/17/review-of-nathalie-etokes-melancholia-africana/
This episode of The Quarantine Tapes is a very special episode bringing together clips from the past one year of the podcast. With these clips, join us in returning to some of the most thoughtful, interesting, and moving moments from this chronicle of our past year in quarantine. We hear from Werner Herzog, Naveen Kishore, and Rosanne Cash on their hopes and fears in the early days of this crisis, and from Patton Oswalt, Joy Harjo, Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., and many more over the course of the past year.
These luminous voices speak to the despair of the beginning of the pandemic and look forward with hope to what we might be able to change when we come out of this moment. These clips address the many topics that have been on our minds this past year, from the books that kept us company to the moment the world turned off last March to the reckoning of last summer’s protests. The reflections from our past guests range from moving to funny to heartfelt in this unique look back at one year of The Quarantine Tapes.
Part 1 Symphony of voices features the following Quarantine Tapes Guests: Pico Iyer, Elif Shafak, Daniel Mendelsohn, Simon Critchley, Julian Sands, Henry Rollins, Lynette Wallworth, Naomi Shihab Nye, Werner Herzog, Maira Kalman, Joy Harjo, Romila Thapar, Lynell George, Sister Judy Vaughn, Naveen Kishore, Rosanne Cash, Baz Dreisinger, Kwame Dawes, Patton Oswalt, Jackie Goldberg, Viet Thanh Ngyuen, Isabella Rossellini, Mona Eltahawy, Howard Bryant, James McBride, “SARAH”, Sunita Puri, Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
Paul Holdengräber is joined by Thelma Golden on episode 174 of The Quarantine Tapes. Thelma is the director of the Studio Museum in Harlem. She tells Paul about that museum’s history and mission as well as how they have adjusted their programming to address this moment of the pandemic.
Thelma tells Paul about how the Studio Museum interacts with its community in Harlem and talks about the value of being able to think of that space both as it was and as it will be. They dig into digital programming, the museum’s new building, and the role of institutions led by people of color in this time of reckoning. Finally, Thelma and Paul chat Lucille Clifton and how we look back at the art that influenced us in the past.
Thelma Golden is Director and Chief Curator of The Studio Museum in Harlem, the world’s leading institution devoted to visual art by artists of African descent.
In episode 173 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by writer and poet Edward Hirsch. Edward talks with Paul about the busy-ness of the past year, and the challenge of spending this time away from his poetry library. Without his books to reference, Edward talks about what it means to internalize the magical moments when literature speaks to you.
His upcoming book, 100 Poems to Break Your Heart, will be published later this month. Edward and Paul talk about how American culture, in particular, is unprepared for grief, and often forgets to feel the heartbreak. He then describes the power poetry can play in addressing grief, tapping in to the place that allows one to feel. Edward shares two of the one hundred poems from his new book, before turning to his own poetry, and digging in to the interesting, and opposite, challenge of finding a language for happiness in poetry.
Edward Hirsch is a celebrated poet and peerless advocate for poetry. He was born in Chicago in 1950—his accent makes it impossible for him to hide his origins—and educated at Grinnell College and the University of Pennsylvania, where he received a Ph.D. in Folklore.
On episode 172 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by Danielle Spencer. Danielle’s most recent book is Metagnosis: Revelatory Narratives of Health and Identity. Danielle and Paul talk about how her book examines the phenomenon of learning as an adult about a longstanding medical condition.
Danielle tells Paul about the inspiration that led her to write this book and explains how the book fits into her field of narrative medicine. They discuss the relationship between medicine and storytelling and how examining that relationship can help to address some of the ongoing issues with the healthcare system.
Danielle Spencer is a scholar and writer, author of Metagnosis: Revelatory Narratives of Health and Identity, just released by Oxford University Press. Metagnosis names and explores the experience of learning in adulthood of a longstanding undetected condition, such as mid-life ADHD diagnoses.
Sparked by her experience working with David Byrne (who self-diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome; Spencer was Byrne’s Art Director for a decade) and then animated by her own metagnostic experience, the book explores the ways metagnosis subverts customary terms and categories such as disease, disability, etc., and often prompts its own distinctive narrative arc. Drawing upon a wide range of sources—from Aristotle to Blade Runner—the book also situates metagnosis in relation to genetic revelations and the broader discourses concerning identity. Spencer proposes that better understanding metagnosis will not simply aid those directly affected, but will serve as a bellwether for how we will all navigate advancing biomedical and genomic knowledge, and how we may fruitfully interrogate the very notion of identity.
Spencer is the Academic Director of the Columbia University Master of Science in Narrative Medicine Program. Narrative Medicine is a method of fortifying clinical practice with attentiveness to narrative as well as an evolving transdisciplinary field which investigates illness, health, healthcare, and social justice. Her scholarly and creative work appears in diverse outlets, from The Lancet to Ploughshares, and she is a co-author of Perkins-Prize-winning The Principles and Practice of Narrative Medicine (OUP, 2017). Formerly artist/musician David Byrne’s Art Director, Spencer holds a B.A. from Yale University, an M.S. in Narrative Medicine from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. She is a 2019 MacDowell Fellow and 2021 Yaddo Fellow. Spencer lives in New York city.
On this two-part episode 171 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by Samantha Rose Hill. Samantha is the author of an upcoming book on Hannah Arendt. She talks with Paul about her work on Arendt, Walter Benjamin, and more. Then, they discuss how her year of writing, teaching, and researching in quarantine has gone and Samantha reveals how this time has brought her to question her motto of “embrace despair.”
Samantha and Paul discuss how to think about loneliness in this moment and talk about her Quarantine Journal from last April. Then, Samantha takes Paul back to her first experience entering an archive as a researcher before talking about how she has experienced teaching remotely in the past year.
https://aeon.co/essays/for-hannah-arendt-totalitarianism-is-rooted-in-loneliness
Samantha Rose Hill is the assistant director of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities and visiting assistant professor of political studies at Bard College. She is also associate faculty at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. She is the author of a forthcoming biography on Hannah Arendt, and Hannah Arendt’s Poems.
You can find her work here: www.samantharosehill.com
Paul Holdengräber is joined by Merve Emre on episode 170 of The Quarantine Tapes. Merve spent time in quarantine working on her upcoming annotated version of Mrs. Dalloway. She tells Paul about her extraordinary experience of getting closer to that text by transcribing it in full as she annotated and considers how reading an annotated edition is always an act of rereading.
Paul asks Merve about her writing on Critical Love Studies and the work of Sam See. Then, they discuss the applications of literary pedagogy outside of traditional literary spaces and the questions that those applications raise. Finally, Merve tells Paul about the new documentary, Persona, based on her book The Personality Brokers and what that project reveals about the growing role of personality assessments.
Merve Emre is an associate professor of English at the University of Oxford. She is the author of several books, including The Personality Brokers (selected by the New York Times book critics as one of the best books of 2018), and a regular critic for the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books. Her next book is The Annotated Mrs. Dalloway, forthcoming from Liveright in August 2021.
On episode 169 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by documentarian Fred Wiseman. Fred’s time in quarantine has been his first break without a film to work on in about fifty years. He tells Paul about how he has been filling this in-between time and what he hopes to work on when the pandemic passes.
Paul asks Fred about his filmmaking process and they discuss the fictional elements of documentaries. Fred talks about why he chooses institutions as the subjects of his films, how he approaches the editing process, and the role of luck in his work. In their conversation, Fred and Paul discuss a clip from his recent documentary on the New York Public Library, Ex Libris.
Mr. Wiseman is a film and theater director of 45 films, primarily focusing on American institutions. His most recent film CITY HALL was released in October 2020. In 2019, he was the honoree of the Library Lions Award from the New York Public Library and received the Pennebaker Award for Lifetime Achievement at the Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards. In 2018, he was the Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard University. In 2016, he received an Honorary Award for lifetime achievement from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Board of Directors. He is a MacArthur Fellow, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and an Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has won numerous awards, including four Emmys. In recent years, he directed The Belle of Amherst, Beckett’s Happy Days in Paris and Vasily Grossman’s The Last Letter at the Comédie-Française in Paris and Theatre for a New Audience in New York. A ballet inspired by his first film, TITICUT FOLLIES (1967), premiered at the New York University Skirball Theater in 2017.
On episode 168 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by Salman Rushdie for a two-part conversation. Salman recounts his own experience with COVID that prevented him from appearing on The Quarantine Tapes last year. Then, he and Paul dive into a fascinating discussion of film, music, and writing.
Salman tells Paul about his recent return to the movies of his youth, ruminating on what holds up and what falls short of his memories. Then, they talk about some of his recent writing projects and dig into how historical fiction can speak to the present as much as to the past. Finally, Paul and Salman end with a look at the music that has stuck with them across the years.
Salman Rushdie is the author of thirteen novels: Grimus, Midnight’s Children (which was awarded the Booker Prize in 1981), Shame, The Satanic Verses, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, The Moor’s Last Sigh, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Fury, Shalimar the Clown, The Enchantress of Florence, Luka and the Fire of Life, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights, and The Golden House. His fourteenth novel, Quichotte, is forthcoming from Random House in the Fall of 2019.Rushdie is also the author of a book of stories, East, West, and four works of non-fiction – Joseph Anton – A Memoir, Imaginary Homelands, The Jaguar Smile, and Step Across This Line. He is the co-editor of Mirrorwork, an anthology of contemporary Indian writing, and of the 2008 Best American Short Stories anthology.
A Fellow of the British Royal Society of Literature, Salman Rushdie has received, among other honours, the Whitbread Prize for Best Novel (twice), the Writers’ Guild Award, the James Tait Black Prize, the European Union’s Aristeion Prize for Literature, Author of the Year Prizes in both Britain and Germany, the French Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger, the Budapest Grand Prize for Literature, the Premio Grinzane Cavour in Italy, the Crossword Book Award in India, the Austrian State Prize for European Literature, the London International Writers’ Award, the James Joyce award of University College Dublin, the St Louis Literary Prize, the Carl Sandburg Prize of the Chicago Public Library, and a U.S. National Arts Award. He holds honorary doctorates and fellowships at six European and six American universities, is an Honorary Professor in the Humanities at M.I.T, and University Distinguished Professor at Emory University. Currently, Rushdie is a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University.
Paul Holdengräber is joined by Johnny Temple on episode 167 of The Quarantine Tapes. A musician and publisher, Johnny tells Paul about his experience of the pandemic, talking about how this time at home has deepened Johnny’s relationship to books and music.
Johnny talks about his work as both a musician and book publisher, and explains how his publisher, Akashic Books, approaches publishing differently from the major corporations in the industry. Johnny shares how musician, and independent book publisher, Henry Rollins, influenced his career. Paul and Johnny discuss the writers and musicians that inspire them, Johnny’s recent children’s book project, and the latest music from Johnny’s band, Fake Names. Johnny shares one of the songs off of their debut album, “All for Sale.”
Johnny Temple is the publisher and editor in chief of Akashic Books, an award-winning Brooklyn-based independent company dedicated to publishing urban literary fiction and political nonfiction. He won the 2013 Ellery Queen Award and is the editor of the anthology USA Noir, which was selected as a New York TimesEditors’ Choice. Temple has taught courses on the publishing business at Wilkes University, Wesleyan University, and Pratt Institute; and is the Co-chair of the Brooklyn Book Festival Literary Council, which organizes the annual Brooklyn Book Festival. He also plays bass guitar in the bands Girls Against Boys, Soulside, and Fake Names, which have toured extensively across the globe and released numerous albums on independent and major record companies. He has contributed articles and political essays to various publications, including The Nation, Publishers Weekly, AlterNet, Poets & Writers, and BookForum.
Paul Holdengräber is joined by Wayne Koestenbaum on episode 166 of The Quarantine Tapes. They have a thoughtful conversation on daily life under quarantine. Wayne talks about his habits under quarantine, discussing music, figure drawing, and reading poetry.
Wayne tells Paul about discovering new music and points to the Bob Andy song “Life” as one thing that has brought him joy in this time. Paul and Wayne have a fascinating conversation, touching on themes of slowing down, serendipity, and how to maximize delight and enthusiasm under the current conditions of quarantine.
Wayne Koestenbaum—poet, critic, novelist, artist, performer—has published 21 books, including The Cheerful Scapegoat, Figure It Out, Camp Marmalade, My 1980s & Other Essays, The Anatomy of Harpo Marx, Humiliation, Hotel Theory, Circus, Andy Warhol, Jackie Under My Skin, and The Queen’s Throat (nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award). In 2020 he received an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature. He has exhibited his paintings in solo shows at White Columns (New York), 356 Mission (L.A.), and the University of Kentucky Art Museum. His first piano/vocal record, Lounge Act, was released by Ugly Duckling Presse Records in 2017; he has given musical performances at The Kitchen, REDCAT, Centre Pompidou, The Walker Art Center, The Artist’s Institute, The Poetry Project, and the Renaissance Society. Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library acquired his literary archive in 2019. He is a Distinguished Professor of English, French, and Comparative Literature at the City University of New York Graduate Center.
https://www.waynekoestenbaum.com/bio
On episode 165 of The Quarantine Tapes, guest host Imani Perry is joined by Sanford Biggers. Sanford is an artist working across a wide range of disciplines. He talks with Imani about some of his recent work with quilting, describing how he came to that medium and talking about the cultural and historical elements of that work.
Imani asks Sanford about his beginnings in art and about the range of his work, from sculpture to music to textiles. Sanford offers a brilliant view into his process as an artist, talking about creating pieces that speak to police brutality, remixing classical European and African art, and the kinship between hip hop and quilting.
Sanford Biggers’ work is an interplay of narrative, perspective and history that speaks to current social, political and economic happenings while also examining the contexts that bore them. His diverse practice positions him as a collaborator with the past through explorations of often overlooked cultural and political narratives from American history. Working with antique quilts that echo rumors of their use as signposts on the Underground Railroad, he engages these legends and contributes to this narrative by drawing and painting directly onto them. In response to ongoing occurrences of police brutality against Black Americans, Biggers’ BAM series is composed of bronze sculptures recast from fragments of wooden African statues that have been anonymized through dipping in wax and then ballistically ‘resculpted’. Following a residency as a 2017 American Academy Fellow in Rome, the artist recently began working in marble. Drawing on and playing with the tradition of working in this medium, Biggers creates hybridized forms that transpose, combine and juxtapose classical and historical subjects to create alternative meanings and produce what he calls “future ethnographies”. As creative director and keyboardist, he fronts Moon Medicin, a multimedia concept band that straddles visual art and music with performances staged against a backdrop of curated sound effects and video. Moon Medicin performed at Open Spaces Kansas City in October 2018 and at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. in 2019.
Guest host Imani Perry is joined by Esther Choo on episode 164 of The Quarantine Tapes. As an emergency physician, Esther lends her perspective on this moment, from the early days of the crisis to the inequities in the pandemic response to the distribution of the vaccine.
Esther talks with Imani about how she came to medicine and what brought her to working in the ER. She and Imani compare their experiences with social media and online harassment and Esther digs into how she connects to social justice in her work in medicine, speaking thoughtfully to the systemic barriers to equity in her field.
Imani Perry is an intellectual, a professor, and a writer who was born in Birmingham, Alabama at the dawn of the Freedom movement. She lives the life of the mind through literature, criticism, music and art. Perry's hallmarks are passionate curiosity, rigorous contemplation, and dedication to the collective "we." Her children, Freeman and Issa Rabb, keep her honest and dreaming.
Dr. Choo joined the Department of Emergency Medicine at Oregon Health and Science University in 2016 as full-time faculty. Her research interests include substance use disorders, violence, women's health, health disparities, gender medicine, digital health, intervention development, and faculty development.
On episode 163 of The Quarantine Tapes, guest host Imani Perry is joined by Alicia Hall Moran for a two-part episode. Imani and Alicia have a fascinating and wide-reaching conversation about Alicia’s work as an artist and vocalist.
Alicia pulls on varied threads of history and music in their discussion about art, family history, and collaboration. She tells Imani about her Black Wall Street project, discussing the project’s connections to her father and her family. Ranging from Carmen to Roots to figure skating, Imani and Alicia’s conversation is an incredible and insightful look at everything that surrounds the work of making art.
Imani Perry is an intellectual, a professor, and a writer who was born in Birmingham, Alabama at the dawn of the Freedom movement. She lives the life of the mind through literature, criticism, music and art. Perry's hallmarks are passionate curiosity, rigorous contemplation, and dedication to the collective "we." Her children, Freeman and Issa Rabb, keep her honest and dreaming.
Alicia Hall Moran, mezzo-soprano, is a multi-dimensional artist performing and composing between the genres of Opera, Art, Theater, and Jazz. Ms. Moran made her Broadway debut in the Tony-winning revival The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess, starring as Bess on the celebrated 20-city American tour. "Moran finds the truth of the character in her magnificent voice," Los Angeles Times.
A unique vocalist performing across the fine arts and in her own contemporary work, Ms. Moran's creativity has been nurtured by, and tapped by celebrated artists including Carrie Mae Weems, Adam Pendleton, Joan Jonas, Ragnar Kjartansson, Simone Leigh, Liz Magic Laser, curator Okwui Enwezor, and choreographer Bill T. Jones, musicians like Bill Frisell, Charles Lloyd, and the band Harriet Tubman, diverse writers from Simon Schama to Carl Hancock Rux, as well as institutions at the forefront of art and ideas worldwide.
On episode 162 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by writer George Prochnik. As George reflects on his observations of the past year, George and Paul’s conversation quickly turns to George’s recent essay, “Orpheus Revolving,” on art and the trauma of the pandemic.
Paul and George have a personal and insightful conversation about the position of art during this moment of pandemic. George expands on his essay, talking movingly about his relationship with his son and how they talked about art addressing the trauma of this moment. Paul and George examine what divisions this crisis has revealed and what role art may play in shaping what comes next.
George Prochnik’s new book, Heinrich Heine: Writing the Revolution was published in November 2020 as part of Yale University Press’s Jewish Lives series. His previous book, Stranger in a Strange Land: Searching for Gershom Scholem and Jerusalem was a New York Times “Editor’s Choice” and was short-listed for the Wingate Prize in the UK. He is an editor at large for Cabinet magazine.
On episode 161 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by writer Calvin “Bud” Trillin. In their engaging conversation, Bud and Paul cover a range of topics from restaurants to parenthood to humor.
As a humorist and poet, Bud runs Paul through the public figures whose names have been the best and worst for rhyming in his work. They talk about Bud’s book, Messages from My Father, and how Bud approached raising his own children. Finally, they discuss the indefensibility of humor and Paul prompts Bud to share his own favorite jokes.
Calvin (Bud) Marshall Trillin is an American journalist, humorist, and novelist. He is best known for his humorous writings about food and eating, but he has also written much serious journalism, comic verse, and several books of fiction.
Trillin attended public schools in Kansas City and went on to Yale University, where he served as chairman of the Yale Daily News and became a member of Scroll and Key before graduating in 1957; he later served as a trustee of the university. After a stint in the U.S. Army, he worked as a reporter for Time magazine before joining the staff of The New Yorker in 1963. His reporting for The New Yorker on the racial integration of the University of Georgia was published in his first book, An Education in Georgia. He wrote the magazine's "U.S. Journal" series from 1967 to 1982, covering local events both serious and quirky throughout the United States.
Paul Holdengräber is joined by writer Nicholson Baker for this two-part episode 160 of The Quarantine Tapes. They talk about the changes and constants of daily life under the pandemic, card catalogs, and Defoe before turning to Nicholson’s recent work on the pandemic itself.
Nicholson published a New York Magazine piece asking “Did the Coronavirus Escape From a Lab?,” examining the possible origins of the pandemic. He talks with Paul about what motivated him to write that piece and why he thinks we need a thorough investigation into the origins of the virus.
Nicholson Baker is the author of seventeen books—his most recent is Baseless: My Search for Secrets Among the Ruins of the Freedom of Information Act. Baker and his wife Margaret Brentano have two children; they live on the Penobscot River in Maine.
Paul Holdengräber is joined by filmmaker Astra Taylor for a two-part conversation on episode 159 of The Quarantine Tapes. Astra talks with Paul about her work around issues of debt. They start by discussing Astra’s own history with organizing around debt.
Astra tells Paul about her childhood and her relationship to education. She identifies a disconnect between education and the structures of schooling, as well as issues with our current system of student debt. In this episode, Paul and Astra have a generative and thoughtful conversation about the importance of listening, the challenges of technology that values efficiency above all else, and the need for solidarity to change our current system of indebtedness.
You Are Not A Loan, a documentary directed by Astra Taylor and produced by Onassis LA, in collaboration with UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy and the Debt Collective, about student loan debt is available to watch here: https://theintercept.com/2021/01/25/student-debt-you-are-not-a-loan-film/
For more information about Astra Taylor’s work, visit https://www.whatisdemocracy.info
Astra Taylor is a documentary filmmaker, writer, and political organizer. She is the director, most recently, of “What Is Democracy?” and the author of “Democracy May Not Exist, but We’ll Miss It When It’s Gone.” Her previous work includes The People’s Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age, winner of a 2015 American Book Award. She is co-founder of the Debt Collective.
On episode 158 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by Naomi Klein. Naomi is a writer. Together with Paul, Naomi takes a deep and incisive look at the conditions of this moment, digging into climate change, the pandemic, capitalism and much more.
Naomi talks about the importance of creating visions of the future and talks about her video project, A Message from the Future. Her and Paul then go on to unpack how our relationship to technology has changed as a result of the pandemic. She presents her own insightful ideas for what we will need to take from this experience and how to approach what comes next after the pandemic.
Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, columnist, and author of the New York Times and international bestsellers No Logo, The Shock Doctrine, This Changes Everything, No Is Not Enough and On Fire, which have been translated into over 30 languages. Senior Correspondent for The Intercept, Puffin Writing Fellow at Type Media Center, and contributor for The Nation and The Guardian, Klein is the inaugural Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture and Feminist Studies at Rutgers University. She is cofounder of the climate justice organization The Leap.
Follow this link to read Naomi’s article about Bernie Sanders’ mittens, published by the Intercept: https://theintercept.com/2021/01/21/inauguration-bernie-sanders-mittens/
On episode 157 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by lawyer Steven Donziger for a two-part conversation. Steven tells the staggering story of his role in bringing a successful case against Chevron for their deliberate pollution in the Amazon and Chevron’s subsequent case against him that has led to Steven living under house arrest for more than 500 days awaiting a trial.
Steven breaks down how his case reached this point and why he feels he has been unable to get a fair trial. Postponements due to COVID, judges with conflicts of interest, and a lack of media attention have all played a role in this extraordinary case. Steven calls himself a canary in the coal mine for other human rights lawyers and environmental activists who could be affected by the precedent set in his case.
Steven Donziger is a renowned advocate, writer, and public speaker with a focus on addressing human rights abuses and corporate malfeasance. He is part of the team working with indigenous and farmer communities in an area of the Ecuadorian Amazon rainforest suffering from high cancer rates and other health ailments related to the massive oil pollution caused by Texaco, now owned by Chevron. In 2011, the affected communities won a historic $9.5 billion judgment against Chevron for the environmental cleanup of what experts consider to be one of the worst oil-related catastrophes in the world. Known for his “Herculean tenacity” (Business Week), Steven has represented the affected communities since first visiting the region in 1993. Steven also founded Project Due Process, a legal advocacy group for Cuban detainees who arrived in the United States in the Mariel boatlift. He is the former director of the non-partisan National Criminal Justice Commission that in 1996 produced the landmark study, The Real War On Crime, published as a book by HarperPerennial. Steven’s analysis and commentary on human rights, environmental, and criminal justice matters has been featured in numerous legal publications, academic journals, and news outlets. He is the former chief correspondent for United Press International in Nicaragua, where he reported for a variety of publications during the U.S.-backed contra war. After graduating from Harvard Law School in 1991, Steven worked as a trial attorney for the District of Columbia Public Defender Service. He currently serves on the Board of Advisors to the Fortune Society, the largest self-help organization for ex-offenders in the United States. In 1991, Steven led a mission to Iraq of lawyers, public health specialists, and military experts to assess the impact on civilians of the bombing during the first Gulf War. The group’s report, which found that an estimated 100,000 children would die following the cessation of hostilities because of damage to the Iraqi health care infrastructure, was adopted by the United Nations and attracted coverage in more than 400 newspaper and media outlets throughout the world. Steven lives in New York City with his wife and son. (Note: In July 2018, consistent with the retaliatory litigation campaign described in the accompanying video, New York bar authorities suspended Steven's license to practice law in New York. Steven is not currently practicing law in New York.)
On episode 156 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by writer Ayad Akhtar. They talk about Ayad’s most recent novel, Homeland Elegies, and how Ayad thinks the book’s reception has been shaped by the ongoing pandemic.
Paul and Ayad have a wide-ranging conversation, touching on issues of debt, American individualism, a writer’s relationship to ideology. Then, Paul asks Ayad about some of his influences. They discuss Salman Rushdie, Toni Morrison, and the year that Ayad spent with Jerzy Grotowski.
Ayad Akhtar is a novelist and playwright. His work has been published and performed in over two dozen languages. He is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Ayad is the author of Homeland Elegies (Little, Brown & Co.), which The Washington Post called “a tour de force” and The New York Times selected as a Top 10 Book of 2020, calling it “pitch-perfect…virtuosic.” His first novel, American Dervish (Little, Brown & Co.), was published in over 20 languages. As a playwright, he has written Junk (Lincoln Center, Broadway; Kennedy Prize for American Drama, Tony nomination); Disgraced (Lincoln Center, Broadway; Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Tony nomination); The Who & The What (Lincoln Center); and The Invisible Hand (NYTW; Obie Award, Outer Critics Circle John Gassner Award, Olivier, and Evening Standard nominations).
Among other honors, Akhtar is the recipient of the Steinberg Playwriting Award, the Nestroy Award, the Erwin Piscator Award, as well as fellowships from the American Academy in Rome, MacDowell, the Sundance Institute, and Yaddo, where he serves as a Board Director. Additionally, Ayad is a Board Trustee at New York Theatre Workshop and PEN America, where he will serve as the next president beginning in December 2020.
Paul Holdengräber is joined by writer Elizabeth Gilbert on episode 155 of The Quarantine Tapes. Elizabeth has spent the pandemic living alone and she tells Paul about gifts she has found in that experience. She shares a poem she wrote on the subject for a friend and talks about what it means to savor the small things nicely done.
Elizabeth goes on to talk about how she has balanced living outwardly and inwardly this year. She tells Paul about her current writing project, her amusement with the idea of grief management, and her experience of creativity as a relationship.
Elizabeth Gilbert was born in Waterbury, Connecticut in 1969, and grew up on a small family Christmas tree farm. She attended New York University, where she studied political science by day and worked on her short stories by night. After college, she spent several years traveling around the country, working in bars, diners and ranches, collecting experiences to transform into fiction.
These explorations eventually formed the basis of her first book – a short story collection called PILGRIMS, which was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway award, and which moved Annie Proulx to call her “a young writer of incandescent talent”.
Elizabeth is best known for her 2006 memoir EAT PRAY LOVE, which chronicled her journey alone around the world, looking for solace after a difficult divorce. The book was an international bestseller, translated into over thirty languages, with over 12 million copies sold worldwide. In 2010, EAT PRAY LOVE was made into a film starring Julia Roberts. The book became so popular that Time Magazine named Elizabeth as one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
Her latest novel is CITY OF GIRLS — a rollicking, sexy tale of the New York City theater world during the 1940s. It will be published in June of 2019.
Elizabeth divides her time between New York City, rural New Jersey, and everywhere else.
On episode 154 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by Spanish artist Eugenio Ampudia. In a conversation conducted in Spanish, Eugenio and Paul talk about his experience working under quarantine in Spain. His most recent project is his Concert for the Biocene, performed to an audience of plants filling the concert hall.
Eugenio talks to Paul about the inspiration behind that concert and the message he hoped to convey about the relationship between humans and the natural world. They discuss the influence of audiences on his work and how he investigates the relationship between power and culture, including in his fascinating Where to Sleep project, which has sent him to spend the night at museums, libraries, and more.
For more information about Eugenio’s project Concert for the Biocene:
ttps://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2020/jun/22/barcelona-opera-reopens-with-performance-for-nearly-3000-potted-plants-video
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jun/17/spanish-opera-house-reopens-with-concert-for-plants-barcelona
En el episodio 154 de The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber se une al artista español Eugenio Ampudia. Es una conversación realizada en español, Eugenio y Paul hablan de su experiencia trabajando en cuarentena en España. Su proyecto más reciente es su Concierto para el Bioceno, realizado ante una audiencia de plantas que llenan la sala de conciertos.
Eugenio habla con Paul sobre la inspiración detrás de ese concierto y el mensaje que esperaba transmitir sobre la relación entre los humanos y el mundo natural. Discuten la influencia de las audiencias en su trabajo y cómo investiga la relación entre poder y cultura, incluso en su fascinante proyecto Dónde dormir, que lo ha enviado a pasar la noche en museos, bibliotecas y más.
Para más información, sobre el proyecto Concert for the Biocene:
ttps://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2020/jun/22/barcelona-opera-reopens-with-performance-for-nearly-3000-potted-plants-video
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jun/17/spanish-opera-house-reopens-with-concert-for-plants-barcelona
Eugenio Ampudia Melgar, Valladolid (Spain), 1958. Lives and works in Madrid.
As a multidisciplinary artist, his work approaches the artistic processes from a critical point of view; the artist as a promoter of ideas, the political role of creators, the meaning of art pieces, the strategies that allow to bring them to life, their mechanisms of production, promotion and consumption, the efficiency of spaces assigned to art, as well as the analysis and experience of those who watch and interprets them.
His work has been internationally exhibited in places as ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany; Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts, Amman, Jordan; Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico DF, Centro de las Artes de Monterrey and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca, Mexico; Boston Center for the Arts, Boston (MA), USA; Ayala Museum, Manila, Philippines; The Whitechapel Gallery in London; Abierto X Obras, Matadero Madrid, Spain; MAC Gas Natural Fenosa, La Coruña, Spain; and in Biennials such as Singapore and Havana’s The End of the World Biennial. His work is also held in collections at MNCARS, MUSAC, ARTIUM, IVAM, and La Caixa, among others.
Eugenio Ampudia Melgar, Valladolid, 1958. Vive y trabaja en Madrid.
En la actualidad Eugenio es uno de los artistas españoles más reconocidos. Su trabajo multidisciplinario ha recibido el Premio AECA al mejor artista español en vida, representado en ARCO18 – que ya obtuvo en 2008-, y el Premio ARCO-BEEP, Colección de Arte Electrónico. Además de estos varios reconocimientos, en el 2008, obtuvo la beca The Delfina Foundation (Londres).
Su trabajo indaga, bajo una actitud crítica, sobre los procesos artísticos, el artista como gestor de ideas, el papel político de los creadores, el significado de la obra de arte, las estrategias que permiten ponerla en pie, sus mecanismos de producción, promoción y consumo, la eficacia de los espacios asignados al arte, así como sobre el análisis y experiencia de quien las contempla e interpreta.
Sus obras se han expuesto internacionalmente en lugares como ZKM, Karlsruhe, Alemania; Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts, Ammán, Jordania; Museo Carrillo Gil, México; Boston Center for the Arts, Boston (MA), Estados Unidos; Ayala Museum, Manila, Filipinas; la Whitechapel de Londres; La Real Academia de España en Roma; en Bienales como la de Singapur, la Havana, la Bienal del Fin del Mundo, y forma parte de colecciones como las de MNCARS, MUSAC, ARTIUM, IVAM, La Caixa, entre otras.
Actualmente presenta el trabajo interactivo Almendra, en la fachada de Medialab Prado de Madrid.
En su exposición individual “La razón es una planta”, en la galería Max Estrella de Madrid, se muestran los resultados del Concierto para el Bioceno, llevado a cabo el pasado 22 de junio en el Teatro del Liceu de Barcelona, que se puede visitar hasta el 30 de diciembre.
Paul Holdengräber is joined by poet Joy Harjo on episode 153 of The Quarantine Tapes. Joy and Paul discuss the relationship between different art forms as Joy talks about her poetry, music, and painting practices.
Joy speaks beautifully about the relationship between memory and poetry. She tells stories about her relationship to robins, talks about her upcoming memoir Poet Warrior, and shares a song from her latest album, titled I Pray for My Enemies, due out March 5th on Sunyata Records.
Here is a link to Joy’s poem with the same title:
I Pray for My Enemies, by Joy Harjo
Joy Harjo is an internationally renowned performer and writer of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. She is serving her second term as the 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States.
The author of nine books of poetry, including the highly acclaimed An American Sunrise, several plays and children's books, and two memoirs, Crazy Brave and Poet Warrior: A Call for Love and Justice, her many honors include the Ruth Lily Prize for Lifetime Achievement from the Poetry Foundation, the Academy of American Poets Wallace Stevens Award, two NEA fellowships, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. As a musician and performer, Harjo has produced six award-winning music albums including her newest, I Pray for My Enemies (Sunyata Records). She is Executive Editor of the anthology When the Light of the World was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through — A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry and the editor of Living Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry, the companion anthology to her signature Poet Laureate project. She is a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, Board of Directors Chair of the Native Arts & Cultures Foundation, and holds a Tulsa Artist Fellowship. She lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
On episode 152 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by Andy Borowitz. Andy is a writer for The New Yorker and he talks with Paul about some of the fascinating challenges and successes of writing satire.
Speaking on Inauguration Day, they dig into Andy’s experiences writing political comedy in the Bush, Obama, and Trump eras. Andy talks about the challenges of being misunderstood as a satirist, discusses some of his comedy influences, and offers his perspective on what satire might look like under the Biden administration.
In this conversation, Andy and Paul talk about two particular Reports:
“Fauci Says Immunity from Trump Requires Two Doses of Impeachment” by Andy Borowitz, January 10, 2021.
https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/fauci-says-immunity-from-trump-requires-two-doses-of-impeachment
“Majority of Americans Say This Is Their Favorite Impeachment of Trump” by Andy Borowitz, January 12th, 2021.
https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/majority-of-americans-say-this-is-their-favorite-impeachment-of-trump
Andy Borowitz is a New York Times best-selling author and a comedian who has written for The New Yorker since 1998. In 2001, he created the Borowitz Report, a satirical news column that has millions of readers around the world, for which he won the first-ever National Press Club award for humor. The Borowitz Report was acquired by The New Yorker in 2012. His two most recent books were both best-sellers: “The 50 Funniest American Writers,” which became the first title in the history of the Library of America to make the Times best-seller list; and a memoir, “An Unexpected Twist,” a No. 1 best-seller, which Amazon named the Best Kindle Single of 2012. As a comedian, he has performed around the world and made countless television and radio appearances, including on National Public Radio, VH1, and Comedy Central. His solo comedy show, “Make America Not Embarrassing Again,” played to sold-out theaters across the U.S. from 2018 to 2020. He has been called a “Swiftian satirist” (the Wall Street Journal), “America’s satire king” (the Daily Beast), “America's finest fake-news creator and sharpest political satirist” (the Washington Post), “one of the country’s finest satirists” (the Times), and “one of the funniest people in America” (CBS News “Sunday Morning”).
Poet Nikky Finney joins guest host Walter Mosley for a two-part discussion on episode 151 of The Quarantine Tapes. Nikky speaks with great thoughtfulness about the responsibilities of a working poet and of a teacher and how she feels humbled by both those jobs.
Nikky talks to Walter about the need she feels as an artist to speak the truth by addressing both the trauma and the love in her life. They also discuss what she saw in the people marching into the Capitol on January 6th and the contrasts with what she saw in the Black Lives Matter protests.
Nikky Finney was born by the sea in South Carolina and raised during the Civil Rights, Black Power, and Black Arts Movements. She is the author of On Wings Made of Gauze; Rice; The World Is Round; and Head Off & Split, which won the National Book Award for Poetry in 2011. Her new collection of poems, Love Child’s Hotbed of Occasional Poetry, was released from TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press in 2020.
Walter Mosley is one of the most versatile and admired writers in America. He is the author of more than 60 critically-acclaimed books including the just released Elements of Fiction, a nonfiction book about the art of writing fiction; the novel John Woman ,Down the River and Unto the Sea (which won an Edgar Award for “Best Novel”) and the bestselling mystery series featuring “Easy Rawlins.” His work has been translated into 25 languages and includes literary fiction, science fiction, political monographs, and a young adult novel. His short fiction has been widely published, and his nonfiction has appeared in the New York Times and The Nation, among other publications. He is also a writer and an executive producer on the John Singleton FX show, “Snowfall.”
On episode 150 of The Quarantine Tapes, guest host Walter Mosley is joined by Katrina vanden Heuvel. Editor and former publisher of The Nation, Katrina joins Walter for a discussion on optimism, politics, and change in the immediate aftermath of the January 6th events at the Capitol.
Walter and Katrina talk about the Georgia elections and the change in the South. They also dig into the velocity of debate on social media, the need for understanding, and the U.S.’s role in the world. Katrina touches on the importance of balancing optimism and realism and the need for more joy on the left.
Katrina vanden Heuvel is editorial director and publisher of The Nation, America’s leading source of progressive politics and culture. A frequent commentator on U.S. and international politics for ABC, MSNBC, CNN and PBS, her articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times and The Boston Globe and she writes a weekly column for The Washington Post. Vanden Heuvel is also the author of several books, including The Change I Believe In: Fighting for Progress in The Age of Obama.
Vanden Heuvel has been recognized for her journalism and public service by organizations as diverse as Planned Parenthood, the National Women's Political Caucus, the New York Civil Liberties Union, the Center for Community Change, the Norman Mailer Center, the Eleanor Roosevelt Center at Val-Kill, American Rights at Work, Progressive Congress, and more. During her tenure, The Nation's journalism has been recognized for excellence by the National Magazine Awards, the Society of Professional Journalists, GLAAD, the National Association of Black Journalists, and the Webby Awards, among others.
Vanden Heuvel serves on the boards of The Institute for Policy Studies, The Campaign for America's Future, The Roosevelt Institute, The Women’s Media Center, and The Sidney Hillman Media Foundation.
Walter Mosley is one of the most versatile and admired writers in America. He is the author of more than 60 critically-acclaimed books including the just released Elements of Fiction, a nonfiction book about the art of writing fiction; the novel John Woman,Down the River and Unto the Sea (which won an Edgar Award for “Best Novel”) and the bestselling mystery series featuring “Easy Rawlins.” His work has been translated into 25 languages and includes literary fiction, science fiction, political monographs, and a young adult novel. His short fiction has been widely published, and his nonfiction has appeared in the New York Times and The Nation, among other publications. He is also a writer and an executive producer on the John Singleton FX show, “Snowfall.”
In 2013 he was inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame, and he is the winner of numerous awards, including an O. Henry Award, The Mystery Writers of America’s Grand Master Award, a Grammy®, and PEN America’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
Guest host Walter Mosley is joined by W. Paul Coates on episode 149 of The Quarantine Tapes. Paul is a publisher and the founder of Black Classic Press.
Walter opens the conversation with a question about what hope Paul is finding in this moment. This leads into a deep and generative discussion about the definition of hope. They discuss Paul’s history with the Black Panthers, Medgar Evers, and Walter’s writing in their attempts to parse the difference between each of their understandings of hope, struggle, and optimism.
W. Paul Coates is the founder of Black Classic Press and BCP Digital Printing. Black Classic Press, founded in 1978, specializes in republishing obscure and significant works by and about people of African descent. BCP Digital Printing was founded in 1996 as a parallel entity of the Press. The printing company uses state of the art digital technology to produce books and documents On Demand. The acquisition of digital printing technology distinguishes the press from other small publishing companies and places Black Classic Press on the cutting edge of 21st century technology.
As a former African American Studies reference and acquisition librarian at Howard University's Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Mr.. Coates was responsible for collection development of African American books and related materials. His responsibilities included the selection and purchase of rare and non-rare items.
Mr. Coates is a graduate of Atlanta University's School of Library and Information Studies (1980) and SDC/Antioch University (1979). He is an active Black bibliophile and collector of cultural artifacts. Mr. Coates is co-editor of Black Bibliophiles and Collectors: Preservers of Black History (1990, Howard Univ. Press). He is a founding member and chair of the National Association of Black Book Publishers. In addition, he served as adjunct instructor of African American Studies at Sojourner-Douglass College, Baltimore, MD. He formerly owned and operated The Black Book (1972-1978), a Baltimore-based bookstore. His experience with the purchase, sale, and collection of books by and about Blacks is a love affair that has continued more than two and one half decades.
Walter Mosley is one of the most versatile and admired writers in America. He is the author of more than 60 critically-acclaimed books including the just released Elements of Fiction, a nonfiction book about the art of writing fiction; the novel John Woman,Down the River and Unto the Sea (which won an Edgar Award for “Best Novel”) and the bestselling mystery series featuring “Easy Rawlins.” His work has been translated into 25 languages and includes literary fiction, science fiction, political monographs, and a young adult novel. His short fiction has been widely published, and his nonfiction has appeared in the New York Times and The Nation, among other publications. He is also a writer and an executive producer on the John Singleton FX show, “Snowfall.”
In 2013 he was inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame, and he is the winner of numerous awards, including an O. Henry Award, The Mystery Writers of America’s Grand Master Award, a Grammy®, and PEN America’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
On episode 149 of The Quarantine Tapes, guest host Walter Mosley is joined by Morgan Entrekin. Morgan is the publisher of Grove Atlantic. He tells Walter about his experience being in New York and weathering COVID early in the pandemic.
Walter and Morgan discuss how the publishing industry has been affected by the pandemic. They talk virtual events, the changing role of books, and technology’s role in publishing. Morgan expresses both his hopes and fears for publishing, ending the episode with a note of optimism for the future.
Morgan Entrekin grew up in Nashville, Tennessee. After graduating from Stanford and the Radcliffe Publishing Course, he joined Delacorte Press in 1977, where he worked with such authors as Kurt Vonnegut and Richard Brautigan. In 1984 he started his own imprint at Atlantic Monthly Press, publishing books by P.J. O’Rourke, Ron Chernow, and Francisco Goldman, among others. In 1993, Morgan merged Atlantic Monthly Press with Grove Press, the publisher of authors including Samuel Beckett, William Burroughs, Harold Pinter, and Tom Stoppard. Morgan is currently the CEO and Publisher of Grove Atlantic, Inc, which publishes 120 books a year ranging from general nonfiction, current affairs, history, biography, and narrative journalism to fiction, drama, and poetry. Authors include Mark Bowden, Aminatta Forna, Jim Harrison, Donna Leon, Yan Lianke, Helen Macdonald, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Kenzaburo Oe, Sarah Broom, Bernadine Evaristo, and Douglas Stuart. In 2015, Morgan launched the Literary Hub, a website that features original content from over 200 partners including publishers large and small, literary journals, not-for-profits, and booksellers. Lit Hub now has over 3 million visitors a month.
Walter Mosley is one of the most versatile and admired writers in America. He is the author of more than 60 critically-acclaimed books including the just released Elements of Fiction, a nonfiction book about the art of writing fiction; the novel John Woman,Down the River and Unto the Sea (which won an Edgar Award for “Best Novel”) and the bestselling mystery series featuring “Easy Rawlins.” His work has been translated into 25 languages and includes literary fiction, science fiction, political monographs, and a young adult novel. His short fiction has been widely published, and his nonfiction has appeared in the New York Times and The Nation, among other publications. He is also a writer and an executive producer on the John Singleton FX show, “Snowfall.”
In 2013 he was inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame, and he is the winner of numerous awards, including an O. Henry Award, The Mystery Writers of America’s Grand Master Award, a Grammy®, and PEN America’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
Mosley lives in New York City and Los Angeles.
On episode 147 of The Quarantine Tapes, guest host Eddie Glaude is joined by Reverend William Barber. Eddie and Williams have a stirring conversation about how this moment of death and grief fits into a long history of acceptable deaths in the United States.
William calls this a Christmas moment for America, urging us to understand the work that needs to be done in order to reach for healing and justice. They talk about what faith can mean in this moment as William draws lessons from the Bible about how to be critical of the system and continue pushing for real justice.
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The Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II is the President & Senior Lecturer of Repairers of the Breach, Co-Chair of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call For Moral Revival; Bishop with The Fellowship of Affirming Ministries; Visiting Professor at Union Theological Seminary; Pastor of Greenleaf Christian Church, Disciples of Christ in Goldsboro, North Carolina, and the author of four books: We Are Called To Be A Movement; Revive Us Again: Vision and Action in Moral Organizing; The Third Reconstruction: Moral Mondays, Fusion Politics, and The Rise of a New Justice Movement; and Forward Together: A Moral Message For The Nation.
Guest host Eddie Glaude is joined by writer Kiese Laymon on episode 146 of The Quarantine Tapes. They connect over their shared background as writers from Mississippi and Eddie asks Kiese about his worries prior to the release of his recent memoir.
Kiese talks about his relationship to the margins in his writing. They take a deep look at the craft of writing, discussing influences, revision, and what makes a Kiese Laymon sentence. Finally, Kiese talks movingly about the relationship he finds between writing and prayer.
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Kiese Laymon is a Black southern writer from Jackson, Mississippi. Laymon’s bestselling memoir, Heavy: An American Memoir, won the 2019 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, the 2018 Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose, the Austen Riggs Erikson Prize for Excellence in Mental Health Media, and was named one of the 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years by The New York Times.
Laymon is a Contributing Editor at Vanity Fair and Oxford American. He has written for New York Times, Esquire, VSB, ESPN The Magazine, Paris Review, NPR, Colorlines, The Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Ebony, Guernica, Fader, Travel & Leisure, Lit Hub, and many others. A graduate of Oberlin College, he holds an MFA in creative writing from Indiana University.
Guest host Eddie Glaude is joined by poet Natasha Trethewey on episode 145 of The Quarantine Tapes. Natasha’s most recent book is her memoir, Memorial Drive. In their conversation, Eddie asks her about the process of writing and releasing that book into this moment of political and social reckoning.
Natasha offers a deep look at her process of crafting this book in an emotional and thoughtful episode. She talks about why she found it so important to tell her mother’s story in this book and how she took control of that narrative in her writing process. Eddie and Natasha’s conversation is warm, familiar, and wide-reaching, ranging from comparing gumbo recipes to parsing the role of silence in writing.
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Natasha Trethewey served two terms as the 19th Poet Laureate of the United States (2012-2014). She is the author of five collections of poetry, Monument (2018), which was longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award; Thrall (2012); Native Guard (2006), for which she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, Bellocq’s Ophelia (2002); and Domestic Work (2000), which was selected by Rita Dove as the winner of the inaugural Cave Canem Poetry Prize for the best first book by an African American poet and won both the 2001 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Book Prize and the 2001 Lillian Smith Award for Poetry. She is also the author of the memoir Memorial Drive(2020). Her book of nonfiction, Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, appeared in 2010. She is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Beinecke Library at Yale, and the Bunting Fellowship Program of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard. At Northwestern University she is a Board of Trustees Professor of English in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. In 2012 she was named Poet Laureate of the State of Mississippi and in 2013 she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
On episode 144 of The Quarantine Tapes, guest host Eddie Glaude is joined by writer Sarah Broom. Eddie and Sarah’s conversation dives deep into the craft and practice of writing. Sarah reflects on the time she is spending with visual art lately and the influence of painting and color theory on how she thinks about writing.
Eddie and Sarah are both writers from the Gulf Coast. Sarah talks about how her relationship to that place and its history comes out in her writing. Their conversation offers striking meditations on form, dialogue, and how to write as a witness to this moment.
Sarah Broom is a trained journalist and author. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, O, The Oprah Magazine and elsewhere. In 2016, she received the prestigious Whiting Award for Creative Nonfiction, which allowed her to finish her first book, THE YELLOW HOUSE (Grove Press). She received her undergraduate degree in anthropology and mass communications from the University of North Texas before earning a Master’s degree in Journalism from the University of California, Berkeley. She began my writing career as a newspaper journalist working in Rhode Island, Dallas, New Orleans and Hong Kong (for TIME Asia). She worked as an editor at O, The Oprah Magazine for several years, writing in the hours before and after work. In the years following, she’s worked extensively in the nonprofit world, including as Executive Director of the global nonprofit, Village Health Works, which has offices in Burundi and New York. She has taught nonfiction in Columbia University’s creative writing department. She loves solitude, travel, making a beautiful room and the possibility of getting lost. She is a native New Orleanian, the youngest of twelve children. She makes a home in New York City.
On episode 143 of The Quarantine Tapes, guest host Naomi Shihab Nye is joined by poet Cathy Song. Cathy describes her experience of the past months from her home in Hawaii and the unique isolation of living through quarantine on an island.
Naomi and Cathy’s conversation centers around family, discussing Cathy’s latest book, her debut short story collection, All the Love in the World. They dig into the line between fiction and nonfiction and Cathy talks about the powerful role her father held in her family. She reads from her book and tells stories from her father’s fascinating life, from his career as a pilot to his later years riding the bus around Hawaii.
Cathy Song is the author of five books of poetry, including Picture Bride, which won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award and was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award. A recipient of the Hawai'i Award for Literature, All the Love in the World, a collection of short stories was recently published by Bamboo Ridge Press.
Guest host Naomi Shihab Nye is joined by poet Harryette Mullen on episode 142 of The Quarantine Tapes. Harryette reflects on her habit of walking in Los Angeles and how that has served her well during the isolation of quarantine. She talks about her poetry practice and how walking and the city have inspired her work.
Naomi and Harryette dig into the challenges and complications of teaching during this time. Harryette talks about teaching Ntozake Shange and offers up advice for pushing yourself to experiment with writing and art. In this reflective, heartfelt conversation, Naomi celebrates Harryette’s work, lifting up her use of language and inviting Harryette to read from her poems.
Harryette Mullen was born in Florence, Alabama, and raised in Fort Worth, Texas. She has earned a B.A. in English from the University of Texas at Austin and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Early in her career as a poet, she worked in the Artists in Schools program sponsored by the Texas Commission on the Arts, and for six years she taught literature at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
Mullen's work is driven by wordplay and allusion, centered in a larger tradition of African American writing and representations of black women. The 2009 recipient of the Academy of American Poets Fellowship, Mullen is also the recipient of grants from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico, and the Texas Institute of Letters. Mullen's other honors include a Gertrude Stein Award in Innovative American Poetry and the Jackson Poetry Prize, as well as a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship; a Rockefeller Fellowship from the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Women's Studies at the University of Rochester; and a United States Artist Fellowship. She teaches African American literature and creative writing in the English Department at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Poet Kim Stafford joins guest host Naomi Shihab Nye on episode 141 of The Quarantine Tapes. The former Poet Laureate of Oregon, Kim offers beautiful reflections on the meaning of poetry today. He talks about what it means to make poetry that addresses this moment and why he has shifted to sending poems out immediately.
Naomi asks Kim about his writing practice. He compares writing to alchemy, describing the refuge that writing creates inside your own, and expresses his hope that more people will find the power of writing. Then, they talk about what it means to be a good citizen and how poetry fits into politics and community.
Our Singer Come from Afar—for Naomi Shihab Nye
Be our wren or warbler lit in willow
swaying with your tender weight
of songs, sipping the sky to tell us
hard things from far away you
freighted for our understanding and
comfort. Sing the mysterious harmony
of news and blessing, hurt and healing
offered with head high, eye bright
until with a friendly shrug
you flit away and leave us
strangely younger.
From Singer Come from Afar, by Kim Stafford (forthcoming from Red Hen Press, 2021)
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On episode 140 of The Quarantine Tapes, guest host Naomi Shihab Nye is joined by Helen Drutt English. Helen is a longtime champion of the contemporary craft movement. She and Naomi discuss her history with crafts and collecting, digging into the tension between mechanization and handmade objects in the twentieth century.
Helen and Naomi lift up the value of rituals in these months of quarantine. They talk about the positives of isolation, from improved concentration to time to connect more deeply with friends. Finally, Helen shares a fascinating recent discovery found sorting through the materials in her own basement.
Helen W. Drutt English (Helen Drutt) was Founder/Director of her eponymous gallery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1973–2002), which was among the first galleries in the United States to make a commitment to the modern and contemporary craft movement. In 1979, American Craft magazine stated that the gallery was to crafts, what Alfred Stieglitz’s Gallery 291 was to photography, earlier in the twentieth century. Drutt developed the first syllabus for a college-level course in the history of the field in 1973. She has published numerous essays; conceived many exhibitions, e.g., Brooching It Diplomatically: A Tribute to Madeleine K. Albright (1998), Poetics of Clay: An International Perspective (2001–03), Challenging the Châtelaine! (2007–09); and curated American studio jewelry for the Museo del Gioiello, Vicenza, Italy (2016–18). The Helen Williams Drutt Collection of international studio jewelry has been exhibited internationally. In 2002, 800 works entered the permanent collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Drutt has built a permanent collection of contemporary crafts for The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia (2014), and is currently building a collection of American crafts for the National Museum of Sweden and a collection for the Ilias LaLaounis Museum of Jewelry, Athens, Greece. In 1984 Drutt established the Maurice English Poetry Award (MEPA), which has supported a yearly award for a distinguished book of poetry (1985–2005) and annual poetry readings (2006–present). In 2012 she established the H. Peter Stern Lecture under the auspices of the World Monuments Fund, given semi-annually. In 2020, Drutt announced that she is donating her expansive collection of art books to Temple University. Drutt has received numerous awards and three honorary degrees. She is a trustee of the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution; Fellow of the American Craft Council; and a recipient of the Distinguished Educator’s Award 2018, James Renwick Alliance, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Drutt is currently researching a book that documents activities central to the craft field from 1960 to the present.
Paul Holdengräber is joined by writer Jorie Graham on episode 139 of The Quarantine Tapes.
A celebrated poet and educator, Jorie talks with Paul about the current state of the world, and how the memory of history impacts our future.
Paul and Jorie take the time to go in depth in this conversation; Jorie tells stories of her childhood in Europe and her coming of age in the street protests in Paris, and her current life while existing in these confines of the pandemic. They talk of poetry, extinction, oblivion, and how our present is giving new meanings to old words. The pair also unpacks the politics and problems of mob consciousness, and how the future is defined by the human gift of imagination and honoring the past.
Their conversation picks up with a look at how the technologies of social media and the internet are shaping people’s beliefs and our sense of agency. Jorie expresses her fears of our society’s amnesia, worrying that when this pandemic ends, we will act as though it never happened and try to move on without learning anything.
Then, Jorie takes a look at the letter left by George H. W. Bush for incoming president Bill Clinton. In a fascinating close reading, she compares that hand-off of power to this year’s election, shining a light at what has changed politically at the level of language.
Jorie Graham was born in New York City in 1950, the daughter of a journalist and a sculptor. She was raised in Rome, Italy and educated in French schools. She studied philosophy at the Sorbonne in Paris before attending New York University as an undergraduate, where she studied filmmaking. She received an MFA in poetry from the University of Iowa.
Graham is the author of numerous collections of poetry, most recently Sea Change (Ecco, 2008), Never (2002), Swarm (2000), and The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974-1994, which won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Graham has also edited two anthologies, Earth Took of Earth: 100 Great Poems of the English Language (1996) and The Best American Poetry 1990.
Her many honors include a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship and the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from The American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.
She has taught at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop and is currently the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University. She served as a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets from 1997 to 2003.
On episode 138 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber talks with Jeffrey Sterling. Jeffrey is a former CIA analyst and the author of Unwanted Spy: The Persecution of an American Whistleblower. He recounts his career within the CIA and his experience being convicted under the Espionage Act, a law that has been used increasingly in recent years to go after whistleblowers.
Jeffrey explains the danger that precedent sets for whistleblowers and journalists and the threat being posed to our ability to demand accountability from our government. In a riveting conversation about the meaning of justice and accountability, Paul and Jeffrey touch on Julian Assange’s trial, the need for change in the CIA, and reading Martin Luther King, Jr., from prison.
Jeffrey Sterling grew up in a small, segregated town in Missouri, never feeling that he completely belonged. He jumped at the chance to broaden his world and serve his country, first in law school and, later, in the CIA. However, after an impressive rise, Sterling’s career began to stagnate when he was continuously denied opportunities because of his race. He refused to be silent on this and blew the whistle by suing the CIA for their blatant discrimination.
Sterling soon found reason to speak out about something even more serious. During the early years of the War on Terror, Sterling testified to Senate investigators about the CIA’s botched covert operation in Iran, codenamed Operation Merlin. Driven by an intense commitment to his country, Sterling wanted to highlight for Congress the real dangers that were being ignored by CIA leaders. Sadly, the members of Congress charged with oversight of intelligence matters ignored him too.
After being pushed out of the CIA and spending a few quiet years in Missouri with his wife, he was arrested suddenly and charged with espionage, becoming the CIA’s scapegoat. He served over two years in prison and his life has been irrevocably changed. Yet despite his hardships, Sterling always felt he did the right thing in testifying to the Senate and exposing the discrimination he faced at the CIA.
From Chelsea Manning to Reality Winner, in recent years the U.S. government has been draconian in their crackdown on alleged leakers and whistleblowers—and Sterling is no exception. Unwanted Spy is an inspiring account of one man’s uncompromising commitment to the truth and a reminder of the principles of justice and integrity that should define America.
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Paul Holdengräber is joined by writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o on episode 137 of The Quarantine Tapes. A celebrated author of novels, plays, essays, and more, Ngũgĩ talks with Paul about how the themes of his most recent book, The Perfect Nine, resonate in this moment.
Ngũgĩ tells stories of meeting Langston Hughes as a young man before unpacking his own theories about what makes a truly good storyteller. In a thoughtful and wide-reaching conversation, he and Paul dig into questions of the oral tradition of literature, the value of multilingualism, and how colonizing powers leverage language and memory to suppress the colonized.
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, currently Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine, was born in Kenya, in 1938 into a large peasant family. Ngũgĩ burst onto the literary scene in East Africa with the performance of his first major play, The Black Hermit, at the National Theatre in Kampala, Uganda, in 1962. His first volume of literary essays, Homecoming, appeared in print in 1969, followed, in later years, by other volumes including Writers in Politics (1981 and 1997); Decolonising the Mind (1986); Moving the Center (1994); and Penpoints, Gunpoints and Dreams (1998).
Ngũgĩ has continued to write prolifically, publishing, in 2006, what some have described as his crowning achievement, Wizard of the Crow, an English translation of the Gikuyu language novel, Murogi wa Kagogo. Ngũgĩ’s books have been translated into more than thirty languages and they continue to be the subject of books, critical monographs, and dissertations. Paralleling his academic and literary life has been his role in the production of literature, providing, as an editor, a platform for other people’s voices. He has edited the following literary journals: Penpoint (1963-64); Zuka (1965 -1970); Ghala (guest editor for one issue, 1964?); and Mutiiri (1992-). He has also continued to speak around the world at numerous universities and as a distinguished speaker. These appearances include: the 1984 Robb Lectures at Auckland University in New Zealand; the1996 Clarendon Lectures in English at Oxford University; the 1999 Ashby Lecture at Cambridge; and the 2006 MacMillan Stewart Lectures at Harvard. He is recipient of many honors, including the 2001 Nonino International Prize for Literature and eleven honorary doctorates.
On episode 136 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber talks with writer Terry Tempest Williams. Terry shares beautifully observed stories of nature from her home in the desert, where she has been spending the past months of the pandemic.
Terry’s most recent book, Erosion: Essays of Undoing, was just released in paperback. She talks with Paul about the themes she explores in the book, including nature, wilderness, and care. Terry speaks movingly about what it means to not avert one’s eyes and how to look for moments of grace in the horror that surrounds us.
Terry Tempest Williams is the author of eighteen books on ecological dignity and social justice. Her most recent book is “Erosion - Essays of Undoing. She is currently writer-in-residence at the Harvard Divinity School and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in the red rock desert of Utah.
Paul Holdengräber talks with musician Marc Ribot on episode 135 of The Quarantine Tapes. Marc is also involved with the Music Workers Alliance, an organization advocating for independent musicians. Most recently, MWA held the Emergency March for Survival in New York, demanding more support for music workers.
Marc talks with Paul about how the pandemic is severely impacting musicians and the need to come up with safe plans for reopening. He tells stories about playing music with Chuck Berry and McCoy Tyner and discusses the issues with streaming services and what the future of music might look like in the aftermath of the pandemic.
Marc Ribot, who the New York Times describes as “a deceptively articulate artist who uses inarticulateness as an expressive device,” has released 25 albums under his own name over a 40-year career, exploring everything from the pioneering jazz of Albert Ayler to the Cuban son of Arsenio Rodríguez.
Additional recording credits include Tom Waits, Neko Case, Diana Krall, Elton John/Leon Russell’s The Union, Solomon Burke, John Lurie’s Lounge Lizards, Marianne Faithful, Joe Henry, Allen Toussaint, Medeski Martin & Wood, Caetono Veloso, Susana Baca, Allen Ginsburg, Madeline Peyroux, Nora Jones, Jolie Holland, Akiko Yano, The Black Keys, and many others. Marc works regularly with Grammy® award winning producer T Bone Burnett and NY composer John Zorn. He has also composed and performed on numerous film scores such as "Walk The Line” (Mangold), "The Kids Are All Right," and "The Departed" (Scorcese).
On episode 134 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by composer Morton Subotnick. Morton is a pioneering composer in electronic music. Morton and Paul discuss the changes in music since the 1950s and when Morton realized that he was living through a pivotal moment in the history of music.
Morton worked on the development of early electronic instruments. He talks about how technology has changed the process of making and listening to music. Then, Paul and Morton touch on Mozart, Stan Brakhage, and the challenge of trying to make “new new” music instead of just “new old” music.
Morton Subotnick is one of the pioneers in the development of electronic music and multi-media performance and an innovator in works involving instruments and other media, including interactive computer music systems. Most of his music calls for a computer part, or live electronic processing; his oeuvre utilizes many of the important technological breakthroughs in the history of the genre. His work Silver Apples of the Moon has become a modern classic and was recently entered into the National Registry of Recorded works at the Library of Congress. Only 300 recordings throughout the entire history of recordings have been chosen.
Subotnick is also doing pioneering work to offer musical creative tools to young children. He has authored a series of six CD ROMS for children, a children's website, and developing a program for classroom and after school programs that will soon become available internationally.
He tours extensively throughout the U.S. and Europe as a lecturer, composer, and performer.
On episode 133 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by author Casey Gerald. Casey talks with Paul about his recent move from New York to Austin, Texas. He speaks frankly about his experience of writing about grief during the pandemic and digs into his experience of spirituality.
Casey tells the strange story of the time he met George W. Bush and the unique experience of hearing his own story later retold by the former president. In expressing his hopes for the future, Casey emphasizes the need to let go of American myths and embrace the possibilities that come with the end of one world.
Casey Gerald is the author of There Will Be No Miracles Here, a memoir that stands the American Dream narrative on its head, while straddling the complex intersection of race, class, religion and sexuality. TWBNMH was named a Best Book of 2018 by NPR and the New York Times, and novelist Marlon James called Casey's book, "the most urgently political, most deeply personal, and most engagingly spiritual statement of our time.” Casey most recently published “The Black Art of Escape: A New Vision for Black Americans” in New York Magazine, which reflects on the 400th anniversary of the first enslaved Africans’ arrival in Virginia, in 1619. A native Texan, he is a graduate of Harvard Business School and Yale College.
On episode 132 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by Antony Anderson. Antony is the current Commissioner of Police of Jamaica. Antony talks with Paul about his own recent bout of COVID-19 as well as about how the work of the police has been impacted by the pandemic.
Antony and Paul discuss the police force in Jamaica, talking about gun violence, tourism, and the role of technology in policing. Then, Antony offers his opinions on the movement calling to defund the police in the US.
Major General Antony Anderson was appointed Commissioner of Police on 19 March 2018. Prior to this appointment, Major General Anderson served as Jamaica’s first National Security Advisor and as the Chief of Defence Staff.
Since his appointment as Commissioner of Police, he has been instrumental in modernizing the physical infrastructure, improving the Force's technology capabilities and developing personnel to create a more capacity-driven workforce.
Commissioner Anderson holds a Master's degree in Defence Administration from Cranfield University, United Kingdom and Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering.
He served as a Member of the Board of Directors of the Jamaica Fire Brigade, Heart Trust/NTA and Chairman of the Firearm Licensing Authority and is a Justice of the Peace for the parish of Kingston.
Paul Holdengräber is joined by Alex Vitale on episode 131 of The Quarantine Tapes. Alex is a Professor of Sociology who has written extensively on policing. In the last few months, Alex has found himself incredibly busy working to translate the message of “Defund the Police” and what it could mean to rethink our reliance on police as the solution to social problems.
Alex and Paul have a fascinating conversation about the origins of policing, how Alex came to this subject, and what it can look like to start shrinking the influence of police and reinvesting in community programs. Alex breaks down his perspective on abolition and offers a vision for a future with a radically different understanding of justice and public safety.
Alex S. Vitale is Professor of Sociology and Coordinator of the Policing and Social Justice Project at Brooklyn College and a Visiting Professor at London Southbank University. He has spent the last 30 years writing about policing and consults both police departments and human rights organizations internationally. Prof. Vitale is the author of City of Disorder: How the Quality of Life Campaign Transformed New York Politics and The End of Policing. His academic writings on policing have appeared in Policing and Society, Police Practice and Research, Mobilization, and Contemporary Sociology. He is also a frequent essayist, whose writings have appeared in The NY Times, Washington Post, The Guardian, The Nation, Vice News, Fortune, and USA Today.
On episode 130 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by acclaimed jazz musician Sonny Rollins. Sonny and Paul talk about the importance of always continuing to learn. Sonny tells stories from his early days as a musician, from first meeting his influences like Coleman Hawkins and Thelonious Monk to the hours he spent playing music on the Williamsburg Bridge.
Sonny says that bravery and freedom have always been inherent elements of jazz that differentiate it from other genres of music. He tells Paul about the spiritual nature of improvisation and how music affects him today in a fascinating conversation that draws from Sonny’s decades playing music and learning.
Walter Theodore Rollins was born in Harlem, New York on September 7, 1930, of parents native to the Virgin Islands. His older brother Valdemar and sister Gloria were also musically inclined but only Sonny veered away from classical music after his uncle, a professional saxophonist, introduced him to jazz and blues.
He gravitated to the tenor saxophone in high school, inspired in particular by Coleman Hawkins. By the time he was out of school, Rollins was already working with cutting edge modernists such as Bud Powell, Fats Navarro, and Roy Haynes. In 1951 he debuted as a leader on Prestige; his affiliation with that label also produced classics such as
Saxophone Colossus, Worktime, and Tenor Madness (with John Coltrane).Rollins won his first performance Grammy for This Is What I Do (2000), and his second for 2005’s Without a Song (The 9/11 Concert), in the Best Jazz Instrumental Solo category (for “Why Was I Born”). Sonny, Please was nominated for a best jazz album Grammy in 2006. In addition, Sonny received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences in 2004. In June 2006 Rollins was inducted into the Academy of Achievement at the International Achievement Summit in Los Angeles. In May 2007 was a recipient of the Polar Music Prize, presented in Stockholm, and in 2009 he became the third American (after Frank Sinatra and Jessye Norman) to be awarded the Austrian Cross for Science and Art, First Class. Which isn’t to say that Rollins isn’t equally honored at home. In 2011 President Barack Obama presented him with the Medal of Arts at the White House, and the following year Rollins was named a Kennedy Center Honoree.
Rollins’s latest album is “Rollins in Holland: The 1967 Studio & Live Recordings” (Resonance Records).
On episode 129 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber speaks with Ruha Benjamin. Ruha is an Associate Professor of African American Studies. As a teacher, she has found it essential that she and her students extend grace to each other as they navigate the uniquely challenging circumstances of teaching and learning under the pressures of the pandemic. Ruha expresses the difficulties posed by teaching remotely and interrogates our relationship to the technologies used to connect us in these times.
Ruha and Paul discuss what Ruha has been considering lately about pattern-making, worldbuilding, and imagination. Ruha talks about how to begin challenging our assumptions about the neutrality of technology. As we come through this pandemic, they talk about what it will mean to choose to create a world we want instead of re-entrenching the problems and inequities of our existing world.
Ruha Benjamin is Associate Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, Founding Director of the Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab, and author of the award-winning book Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code (2019) among other publications. For more info please visit www.ruhabenjamin.com.
On episode 128 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by Suzanne Nossel. Suzanne is the Chief Executive Officer of PEN America, an organization that advocates for the right to free expression. Suzanne recently published Dare to Speak: Defending Free Speech for All, a book that examines the current threats to free speech and provides guidance for how to promote and defend free expression in our lives.
Paul and Suzanne discuss how PEN has adapted their work to a virtual environment. They dig into the greatest threats to free speech at the moment, including the current US administration and the decline of local journalism. Suzanne offers a sharp and critical look at the risks posed by the control and censorship on social media platforms, legislation curbing the right to protests, and the erosion of trust in credible, fact-based journalism.
Suzanne Nossel is Chief Executive Officer at PEN America. Prior to joining PEN America, she served as the Chief Operating Officer of Human Rights Watch and as Executive Director of Amnesty International USA. She has served in the Obama Administration as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Organizations, leading US engagement in the UN and multilateral institutions on human right issues, and in the Clinton Administration as Deputy to the US Ambassador for UN Management and Reform. Nossel coined the term “Smart Power,” which was the title of a 2004 article she published in Foreign Affairs Magazine and later became the theme of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s tenure in office. She is a featured columnist for Foreign Policy magazine and has published op-eds in The New York Times, Washington Post, and LA Times, as well as scholarly articles in Foreign Affairs, Dissent, and Democracy, among others. Nossel serves on the Board of Directors of the Tides Foundation. She is a former senior fellow at the Century Foundation, the Center for American Progress, and the Council on Foreign Relations. Nossel is a magna cum laude graduate of both Harvard College and Harvard Law School.
On episode 127 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by Vivek Murthy. Vivek is a doctor and the former U.S. Surgeon General. His first book, Together: The Healing Power of Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World, came out this spring and explores the topic of loneliness and public health.
In their conversation, Vivek talks with Paul about what he has learned about the wide-reaching impact of loneliness in his medical career. Vivek argues for the need to get past the stigma around loneliness and the importance of prioritizing human connections. Finally, he offers his thoughts on the opioid crisis, the role of the surgeon general, and the recent endorsements of Joe Biden by the scientific community in the New England Journal of Medicine and more.
Dr. Vivek H. Murthy served as the 19th Surgeon General of the United States appointed by President Barack Obama. As the Vice Admiral of the US Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, he commanded a uniformed service of 6,600 public health officers globally. During his tenure, Dr. Murthy launched the TurnTheTide campaign, catalyzing a movement among health professionals to address the nation’s opioid crisis. He also issued the first Surgeon General’s Report on Alcohol, Drugs, and Health, calling for expanded access to prevention and treatment and for recognizing addiction as a chronic illness, not a character flaw. An internal medicine physician and entrepreneur. In 2017, Dr. Murthy focused his attention on chronic stress and isolation as prevalent problems that have profound implications for health, productivity, and happiness. He has co-founded a number of organizations: VISIONS, an HIV/AIDS education program in India; Swasthya, a community health partnership in rural India training women as health providers and educators; software company TrialNetworks; and Doctors for America.
Dr. Murthy received his bachelor’s degree from Harvard and his M.D. and M.B.A. degrees from Yale. He completed his internal medicine residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and later joined Harvard Medical School as faculty in internal medicine. His research focused on vaccine development and later on the participation of women and minorities in clinical trials. Dr. Murthy resides in Washington, D.C. with his wife Dr. Alice Chen and their two young children. This spring Dr. Murthy’s first book Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World was published by HarperCollins and made the New York Times Best Seller list.
On episode 126 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by journalist Ed Yong. Ed has spent the months of quarantine reporting on the pandemic. In their discussion, Ed unravels how we have to look at all aspects of our society to even begin understanding how this pandemic is affecting us.
Ed brings his expertise on the pandemic to bear in an episode that covers how we got to this point of crisis, where we are now, and what it may take to control the pandemic. Ed tells Paul about many of the topics he’s reported on in the past few months, including nursing homes, contact tracing, and COVID “long haulers,” before touching on the personal challenges of reporting in such a difficult moment.
Ed Yong is a science journalist who reports for The Atlantic, and is based in Washington DC. His work appears on The Atlantic's website and its print magazine; it has also featured in National Geographic, the New Yorker, Wired, Nature, New Scientist, Scientific American, and many more. He has won several awards, including the Victor Cohn Prize for medical science reporting and the Neil and Susan Sheehan Award for investigative journalism in 2020; the Michael E. DeBakey Journalism Award for biomedical reporting in 2016; the Byron H. Waksman Award for Excellence in the Public Communication of Life Sciences in 2016; and the National Academies Keck Science Communication Award in 2010. He regularly does talks and interviews, and his TED talk on mind-controlling parasites has been watched by over 1.5 million people.
I CONTAIN MULTITUDES, his first book, looks at the amazing partnerships between animals and microbes. Published in 2016, it became a New York Times bestseller, and was listed in best-of-2016 lists by the NYT, NPR, the Economist, the Guardian, and several others. Bill Gates called it "science journalism at its finest", and Jeopardy! turned it into a clue. His second book, AN IMMENSE WORLD, will look at the extraordinary sensory worlds of other animals.
Paul Holdengräber is joined by George Gascón on episode 125 of The Quarantine Tapes. George is currently running for Los Angeles District Attorney. Their conversation hits on a wide range of topics, from the value of learning history to the DA’s role in countering environmental injustice.
Much of the episode is spent on issues of policing and criminal justice, as George tells Paul about his early career as a police officer. They talk about how his perspective changed greatly as he saw the harms of our current system of policing, then dig into the threat of the increasing militarization of police and the need to reduce the size of the criminal justice system.
BioGeorge Gascón has spent his life working to make sure our justice system works for everyone, not just the wealthy & well-connected. George is a Cuban immigrant and an army veteran, raised in Southeast Los Angeles, most recently serving as San Francisco’s DA. Prior to his time in SF, he served 20 yrs on LAPD, then was recruited to serve as Chief of Police in Mesa, AZ, where he made national headlines taking on anti-immigrant Sheriff Joe Arpaio. As DA in San Francisco, he reduced violent crime to historic lows, prosecuted public corruption, and fought to reform our criminal justice system to make it more effective.
George is the LA County Democratic Party & CA Democratic Party endorsed candidate for LA County DA, and has also received the endorsements of the LA Times, Governor Gavin Newsom, US Senators Kamala Harris, Bernie Sanders, and Elizabeth Warren, Congressmembers Maxine Waters, Tony Cardenas, Alan Lowenthal & Ayanna Pressley, State Senator Holly Mitchell, BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors, Activist Dolores Huerta, and many more leaders, activists, and organizations.
Paul Holdengräber is joined by philosopher Slavoj Žižek on episode 124 of The Quarantine Tapes. Slavoj is in Slovenia and they discuss his experience of the pandemic there before diving into Slavoj’s analysis of this political and social moment.
Slavoj and Paul talk about the response to the pandemic and what it will take to get out of it, Slavoj offers his thoughts on technology and language and what this crisis is revealing about long-standing restrictions to our privacy and freedom. He ends the episode with a story for his visit to Julian Assange prior to the pandemic and a reminder of what is at stake in that ongoing trial.
Guest BioSlavoj Žižek, born in Ljubljana, Slovenia, in 1949, studied philosophy in Ljubljana and psychoanalysis in Paris. He is now Senior Researcher at the Department of Philosophy, University of Ljubljana, and international director at the School of Law, Birkbeck College, University of London. He held courses at many US universities (Princeton, Columbia, NYU). His main fields of work are the legacy of German Idealism, philosophical reading of psychoanalysis, critique of ideology. The central axis of his work is the attempt to read Hegel through the conceptual apparatus developed by Jacques Lacan. His latest publications: PANDEMIC! (O/R Books 2020), HEGEL IN AS WIRED BRAIN (Bloomsbury 2020), A LEFT THAT DARES TO SPEAK ITS NAME (Polity Press 2020).
Paul Holdengräber is joined by Sheila Kuehl on episode 123 of The Quarantine Tapes. Sheila is a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. She talks with Paul about the role that the Board of Supervisors plays in Los Angeles and how their work has changed in response to the pandemic.
As a politician, Sheila’s work has centered healthcare, criminal justice reform, and more. She talks about her political influences, from Thurgood Marshall to Ruth Bader Ginsburg to John Kennedy, and talks with Paul about the hope she sees in Americans’ growing interest in government.
Supervisor Sheila James Kuehl was first elected to represent Los Angeles County’s Third District on November 4, 2014. She assumed office on December 1, 2014, and was reelected to her second term on November 6, 2018.
As a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors and immediate past Chair, she has led the way and worked on a great many initiatives and motions to improve people’s lives and reform systems in the County.
Supervisor Kuehl served eight years in the California State Senate and six years in the California State Assembly. She was the first woman in California history to be named Speaker Pro Tempore of the Assembly, and the first openly gay or lesbian person to be elected to the California Legislature.
Paul Holdengräber is joined by Nadya Tolokonnikova on episode 122 of The Quarantine Tapes. Nadya is an artist and activist and a member of Pussy Riot. Nadya talks about her early awareness of political and social issues coming from the environmental conditions in her hometown. Nadya emphasizes the importance of community and being informed as a key part of making change.
Nadya tells Paul about what she has been reading lately and Paul asks about the writers and artists who have been her biggest influences. In a conversation that takes a sharp look at the intersection between art and politics, Nadya and Paul discuss her recent work around environmentalism as well as Nadya’s perspective on anarchy, community, and the ongoing activism in the US.
Nadya Tolokonnikova is a Russian conceptual artist, political activist, and the founder of the art collective Pussy Riot, which has been the world’s most prominent art group in recent years and a global symbol of activism. In 2012 Nadya was sentenced to 2 years' imprisonment following an anti-Putin performance by Pussy Riot in Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Saviour. Shortly after her release in December 2013 Nadya announced the opening of an independent Russian news service Mediazona. Nadya has spoken before the US Congress, British Parliament, European Parliament and has lectured as an honorary speaker in Harvard, Cambridge, Glastonbury music festival and at many other universities and events. Nadya is a Lennon Ono Grant for Peace recipient, has appeared as herself on season 3 of House of Cards and has performed the song "Refugees In" as part of Banksy's Dismaland. She’s created the music videos "Chaika", which exposes Russian corruption, "Make America Great Again" was eerily made before the 45th American president was elected, and other law enforcement tracks “I Can’t Breathe” (in honor of Eric Garner), “Police State”, “Bad Apples” and most recently “Elections” in protest of the Russian “elections”.
On episode 121 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by artist Lauren Halsey. This year, Lauren founded the Summaeverythang Community Center in her neighborhood in South Central Los Angeles. Since the start of the pandemic, the center has distributed more than 11,000 boxes of produce to the community.
Lauren and Paul discuss her ethos in her art practice. She talks about her long-standing interest in the relationship between architecture and mythmaking, what ephemera she has been collecting lately, and how Afrofuturism opens up a space of possibility and transcendence in her imagination. Finally, Lauren talks about her vision for the community center beyond the constraints of the pandemic and how important service and a connection to her community is to her life and her practice.
Lauren Halsey (b. 1987, Los Angeles) is rethinking the possibilities for art, architecture, and community engagement. She produces both standalone artworks and site-specific projects, particularly in the South Central neighborhood of Los Angeles. Combining found, fabricated, and handmade objects, Halsey’s work maintains a sense of civic urgency and free-flowing imagination, reflecting the lives of the people and places around her and addressing the crucial issues confronting people of color, queer populations, and the working class. Critiques of gentrification and disenfranchisement are accompanied by real-world proposals as well as a celebration of on-the-ground aesthetics. Inspired by Afrofuturism and funk, as well as the signs and symbols that populate her local environments, Halsey creates a visionary form of culture that is at once radical and collaborative.
Lauren Halsey has presented solo exhibitions at David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles (2020); Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris (2019); and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2018). She participated in Made In L.A. 2018, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2018), where she was awarded the Mohn Award for artistic excellence. Her work is included in the collections of the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Halsey was the recipient of the 2019 Painter and Sculptors Grant from the Joan Mitchell Foundation, New York. In 2020, Lauren Halsey founded Summaeverythang Community Center and is currently in the process of developing a major public monument for construction in South Central Los Angeles, where she and her family have lived and worked for generations.
On episode 120 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by Chiraag Bains. Chiraag is the Director of Legal Strategies at Dēmos, working to support voting rights and create a more just democracy.
Chiraag has spent the pandemic fighting voting rights battles around the country. He talks with Paul about the recent threats to democracy and voting rights, including the gutting of the Voting Rights Act and the fear of voter fraud being used as a pretext for voter suppression. They discuss what we will need to create a democratic system that truly represents everyone, touching on policing, voting rights legislation, and court reform.
Chiraag Bains is the Director of Legal Strategies at Dēmos, where he supervises a national docket of voting rights litigation and structural democracy policy work. He previously served as a visiting senior fellow at Harvard Law School’s Criminal Justice Policy Program and an OSF Leadership in Government Fellow. From 2010 to 2017, Bains served in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. As Senior Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General, he supervised matters from the Special Litigation, Voting, Housing, and Appellate Sections, and helped lead DOJ’s work on criminal justice reform. Previously, Bains was a federal prosecutor of civil rights crimes: police brutality, hate crimes, anti-abortion violence, and human trafficking. Bains earned his J.D. from Harvard Law School, his M.Phil. in Criminology from the University of Cambridge, and his B.A. from Yale College. He clerked for Judge Karen Nelson Moore on the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals and Judge Nancy Gertner in the District of Massachusetts.
On episode 119 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by musician Holly Herndon. Calling in from Berlin, Holly is fascinated by music, the internet, and machine learning. She talks with Paul about how machine learning is changing our understanding of sampling and copyright, emphasizing the need to create a world that prioritizes giving attribution.
As a musician, Holly has been missing live performances in quarantine. She believes that this time has made us realize just how vast the difference is between watching a concert on a screen and going to it in person. In their conversation, Paul and Holly turn repeatedly to their hopes for the future, as they consider how we can imagine alternative fantasies for our relationship to the internet and other technologies of today.
Holly Herndon operates at the edges of electronic and avant-garde pop and emerges with a dynamic and disruptive canon of her own. On her most recent full-length album PROTO, Herndon fronts and conducts an electronic pop choir comprised of both human and A.I. voices over a musical palette that encompasses everything from synths to Sacred Harp stylings. CNN noted that Herndon is “shaping the future of A.I.,” and she has demonstrated this nexus of technological evolution and musical catharsis with elevated performances at The Barbican (London), Volksbühne (Berlin), Sónar (Barcelona), Unsound (Krakow), and Club 2 Club (Milan). The sounds synthesized on PROTO by Herndon, her A.I. “baby” Spawn, and the vocal ensemble combine elements from Herndon’s dynamic and idiosyncratic personal journey: the timeless folk traditions of her childhood experiences in church-going East Tennessee (particularly the prismatic layered practice of Sacred Harp singing), the avant-garde music she explored while at Mills College, and the radical club culture of Berlin, all enhanced by her recent PhD composition studies at Stanford University, researching machine learning and music.
Paul Holdengräber is joined by Los Angeles-based artist Ramsess on episode 118 of The Quarantine Tapes. Ramsess speaks about the early days of his art career in Leimert Park, telling stories about the jazz musicians and other artists that surrounded him. He also discusses how he believes that people are becoming more and more aware of the necessity of knowing history, which has long been a core goal of his artistic practice.
Ramsess contributed a piece to the Onassis Foundation’s ENTER project. His Quilted Masks video shows how Ramsess made and distributed beautiful, brightly colored masks to community members. He explains about how this project embodies his artistic practice by creating something that is simultaneously a work of art and a protective object to help keep people safe.
On episode 117 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by musician Steve Roach. Steve talks with Paul about what has and has not changed in his life since the beginning of the pandemic. He describes the view from his desert studio, where he has been working in solitude, a practice that originated long before this moment of quarantine.
Steve released his most recent album, A Soul Ascends, in July. He talks about the process of recording and releasing that album and his choice to wait to tell the story behind the piece. Paul and Steve’s fascinating conversation touches on how Steve experiences inspiration, discipline, and the concept of time in his practice.
Music by Steve Roach
“Darkest Before Dawn” (Excerpt)
“In Present Space” (Excerpt) from the album, A Soul Ascends
On episode 120 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by writer Fatima Bhutto. Fatima considers herself a rootless person, talking about her family history of politics and exile has shaped her understanding of home. Paul and Fatima talk about imperialism and how Fatima feels the nature of American power is finally becoming as clear to the people in America as it has long been to those outside of it.
Fatima’s latest novel was published last year. The Runaways addresses issues of radicalization, rebirth, and violence. Fatima and Paul discuss the new waves of radicalization we are seeing in the US and how isolation and the internet may be worsening that phenomenon. Then, Fatima shares poems that are inspiring, and what speaks to her, as a writer, in this moment.
Read: Absent Soul by Federico García Lorca
On episode 115 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber talks with journalist Nomi Prins. With a long history writing about Wall Street and the economy, Nomi talks about her decision to return to finish her PhD during quarantine. Then, their conversation turns to what has been happening in the national and global economy as a result of the pandemic.
Nomi contextualizes the current financial situation with a brief history of the Federal Reserve. She explains to Paul what actions the Federal Reserve has taken in the past few months and how those choices ripple out across the globe. Nomi recounts her recent trip to the Hoover Dam, holding it up as an example of a project undertaken in a moment of financial crisis that benefited the country and the planet.
On episode 114 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by writer Andrew Solomon. Paul and Andrew consider the psychological effects of the pandemic, wondering about the impact this moment of isolation and fear of one another will have on all of us.
Andrew has written a great deal about the stigma surrounding depression and mental health issues. In their conversation, he and Paul discuss grief, risk, and how this pandemic is leaving more people vulnerable to mental health issues than ever.
Actor and director Tim Robbins joins Paul Holdengräber for an insightful discussion on art and politics in episode 113 of The Quarantine Tapes. Tim talks about his experience touring with The New Colossus, a play exploring immigration that found an eager and engaged audience all across the US.
Tim offers his vision for the return of theatre after the pandemic, emphasizing the need for theatre to come back with urgency and danger. He then previews his upcoming project for Paul, Bobbo Supreme, a satirical audio piece made under the constraints of quarantine. Paul and Tim’s conversation takes a hard look at the intersection between art and politics, digging into Tim’s fears of an increasingly disconnected world and how art and community will be essential in countering that trend.
For more information about Tim Robbins’ Aural Cinema Bobbo Supreme, visit: https://www.patreon.com/TimRobbinsPresentshttps://variety.com/2020/digital/news/tim-robbins-podcast-bobbo-supreme-trump-1234788884/For more information about the Actors Gang production of The New Colossus, visit:https://theactorsgang.com/2017/09/the-new-colossus/
On episode 112 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by Barry Edelstein, the artistic director at the Old Globe in San Diego. Barry and Paul explore some of the ways the Old Globe has found to continue making theatre under the restrictions of the pandemic. Barry believes that theatre is a public good. He tells Paul about how one of the challenges of the past few months has been discovering how to continue bringing this art form to as wide an audience as possible.
Barry and Paul dig into what Barry fears might be lost for theatre in the wake of the pandemic as well as what programming the Old Globe hopes to continue beyond the constraints of this moment. Then, they touch on how theatre is responding to the Black Lives Matter movement, the new hybrid forms cropping up to fill the void left by traditional theatre, and the production Barry is most looking forward to putting on when theatre returns.
Sonnet 65: Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea
BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50646/sonnet-65-since-brass-nor-stone-nor-earth-nor-boundless-sea
On episode 111 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber speaks with environmental activist Erin Brockovich. Erin has a new book, Superman’s Not Coming, that examines the ongoing water crisis and what we can do about it. Erin talks with Paul about how her father introduced her to the value of land and water and discusses what we need to do to really push back on the damage being done to our environment.
Erin offers powerful words about everyone’s ability to get involved with science and the environment. She urges us to believe in our own voices and our experiences and to find ways to turn our anger into action as we work to fight climate change.
Paul Holdengräber is joined by poet, author, and undertaker Thomas Lynch on episode 110 of the Quarantine Tapes. Thomas speaks with consideration about how this pandemic is altering our experiences of death and grief, drawing from his half a century of experience in funeral home work.
Paul and Thomas talk about the role of the community in grief and how the need for social distancing in this pandemic is disrupting that work. Thomas offers both a professional and a personal perspective on grief, poetry, and the importance of being better to each other in coping with this time of monumental loss.
Read “He Posits Certain Mysteries” by Thomas Lynch
On episode 109 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by musician Dwight Trible. Dwight tells Paul about how quarantine has allowed him to establish a routine. He talks about getting the chance to return to old practices of taking walks and meditation. Dwight also shares his excitement about the practice of making music and how he feels he is learning and growing as a musician in this time of isolation.
Dwight has been a fixture in the Los Angeles music scene for decades. He and Paul discuss Dwight’s involvement with The World Stage, an LA-based educational and performance art space, and touch on what Dwight sees as a connective thread across generations in the LA jazz scene.
Metro-Art & dublab Present: Deep Routes "The Crenshaw Continuum" w/ Dwight Trible
Paul Holdengräber is joined by physician and author Sunita Puri on episode 108 of The Quarantine Tapes. Sunita tells Paul about her background and the influence her mother’s career as a doctor had on her decision to pursue medicine. Then, they talk about her focus in palliative care, the value of reading for medical professionals, and the texts that Sunita has kept close to her recently.
Sunita and Paul have a moving conversation on how Sunita approaches healing, suffering, and how to think about death in her life and in her work. Sunita talks frankly about the images that stick with her from the past months and how grief has changed under the restriction and isolation of the pandemic. For more information about Sunita Puri’s book That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour, visit this link: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/551602/that-good-night-by-sunita-puri/
Adrienne Rich, "Diving into the Wreck."
https://poets.org/poem/diving-wreck
Paul Holdengräber is joined by Jordan Morgan on episode 107 of The Quarantine Tapes. Jordan works with the UK conflict resolution NGO Forward Thinking. He talks to Paul about his experiences working in conflict resolution in the Middle East as well as his work to empower young people with care experience in the UK.
Paul and Jordan dig into the issues that have been raised by the ongoing COVID crisis for conflict resolution work. Jordan explains how one of the challenges of this crisis is how it has derailed our ability to meet in person, when in-person human contact is an essential element in conflict resolution.
Jordan is the Middle East Programme Manager for the London based conflict resolution NGO Forward Thinking. He manages Forward Thinking’s Israeli and Palestinian programmes which aim to deliver intensive and expansive processes of political dialogue and high-level mediation in the region. In the past, Jordan managed Forward Thinking’s UK Programmes advising grassroots Muslim communities on how to engage with both the Establishment (parliamentarians, policy makers and the national media) and wider British society without fearing the loss of their faith identity. He was formerly a researcher at a think tank specialising in political violence and currently serves as a trustee of the Drive Forward Foundation. He read Geography at Aberystwyth University and holds an MA in Geopolitics, Territory and Security from King’s College London.
On episode 106 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by Ananya Roy, Professor of Urban Planning, Social Welfare, and Geography at UCLA. Ananya was recently awarded one of the 2020 Freedom Scholars grants. She and Paul talk about how her work as an urban studies scholar focuses on the relationship between property, personhood and police.
Ananya tells Paul about her recent experiences calling for UCLA to divest from the police. They then discuss the need to challenge the university as an institution, with Ananya breaking down the role of scholars in scholars and activists’ shared struggles.
Ananya Roy is Professor of Urban Planning, Social Welfare, and Geography and The Meyer and Renee Luskin Chair in Inequality and Democracy at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is inaugural Director of the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA, which advances research and scholarship concerned with displacement and dispossession in Los Angeles and elsewhere in the world. Working in alliance with radical movements, the Institute seeks to build power and abolish structures of inequality, within and beyond the university. Ananya’s work has focused on urban transformations and land grabs as well as on global capital and predatory financialization. With enduring theoretical commitments to postcolonial critique, feminist thought, and critical race studies, she refuses the whiteness of canons of knowledge, forging theory and pedagogy attentive to historical difference. Currently, Ananya leads a National Science Foundation Research Coordination Network on Housing Justice in Unequal Cities. Her own research is concerned with “racial banishment,” the expulsion of working-class communities of color from cities through racialized policing and other forms of dispossession. Along with colleagues at UCLA, Ananya leads a Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar on Sanctuary Spaces: Reworlding Humanism, which is concerned with the place of racial others in liberal democracy. Situating transnational inquiry and solidarity at the present moment of resurgent white nationalism and xenophobia, the Sanctuary Spaces project challenges Western humanism and foregrounds alternative frameworks of freedom and justice.
On episode 105 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by Lisa Lucas. As the incoming senior vice president of Pantheon and Schocken Books, Lisa talks about her experiences in publishing and her excitement about the potential of her new position. Their conversation covers equity in publishing for people of color and other marginalized groups and how Lisa has found herself feeling newly comfortable in her anger in recent months.
Lisa offers up a thoughtful perspective on what needs to change in publishing and what role she hopes to play in that change. She and Paul discuss the importance of publishing more translations in the US and Lisa’s commitment to increasing access to books for all.
Lisa Lucas is the incoming Senior Vice President & Publisher of Pantheon and Schocken Books at Penguin Random House, and the current Executive Director of the National Book Foundation. Prior to joining the Foundation, she served as the Publisher of Guernica, a non-profit online magazine focusing on writing that explores the intersection of art and politics with an international and diverse focus. Prior to that, she served as Director of Education at the Tribeca Film Institute, on the development team at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, and as a consultant for the Sundance Institute, San Francisco Film Society, the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, and ReelWorks Teen Filmmaking. Lucas also serves on the literary council of the Brooklyn Book Festival. Find her on Twitter at @likaluca.
Paul Holdengräber is joined by Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., on episode 104 of The Quarantine Tapes. Eddie’s latest book, Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own, looks to Baldwin’s writing for guidance for our own moment. Paul and Eddie’s conversation opens up Eddie’s experience of writing this book, discussing how he grappled with the form of biography, literary criticism, and social criticism.
Eddie tells Paul about how emotionally intense he found writing this book. They dig into how the themes of honesty, rage, and despair resonate in the book and discuss how this moment in America has the potential to be something new while also feeling incredibly familiar.
Eddie S. Glaude Jr. is the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor and chair of African American Studies at Princeton University. He is the former president of the American Academy of Religion, the largest professional organization of scholars of religion in the world. Glaude is the author of several important books including Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul, which has been described as “one of the most imaginative, daring books of the twenty-first century.” His most recent book, Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own, was released on June 30, 2020. Imani Perry describes the book as “precisely the witness we need for our treacherous times. Glaude is also a columnist for Time magazine and a regular contributor on MSNBC. He hails from Moss Point, Mississippi, a small town on the Gulf Coast, and is a graduate of Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia.
On episode 103 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by artist Lena Herzog. Paul and Lena talk about what Lena has been reading lately, discussing how she has found reassurance in reading Montaigne during this pandemic.
Lena tells Paul about her recent project, Last Whispers: Oratorio for Vanishing Voices, Collapsing Universes and a Falling Tree. The project focuses on the voices of extinct and endangered languages and Lena talks about how much louder those voices sound to her at this moment. Finally, Lena leaves us with a haunting image when she describes a recurring dream she has been having since March.Born in Russia, in the Ural region, Lena Herzog moved to St Petersburg to study at the Philological Faculty to study Language and Literature. She moved to the United States in 1990, where she studied History and Philosophy of Science.
Herzog is a multidisciplinary artist, she is the author of six books of photography and a contributor to Harper’s Magazine. Her work also appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Los Angeles Times, The Paris Review and Cabinet among other publications and has been widely exhibited in Europe and in the United States. Her most recent conceptual work was dedicated to the loss of world’s linguistic diversity and it is called Last Whispers: Oratorio for Vanishing Voices, Collapsing Universes and A Falling Tree. Last Whispers is a multimedia, audio video installation, a public platform and a virtual reality (VR). The project is an ecosystem that explores the global mass extinction of languages. It premiered at the British Museum in London in 2016, and has traveled around the world. Last Whispers Virtual Reality premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, and garnered acclaim and prizes at over twenty major international VR festivals. Last Whispers’ 45 min immersive installation was shown at major concert halls and theaters: The Kennedy Center in Washington DC, while in France, it showed at the drama theater Le Théâtre de la Ville and at the Paris opera house Le Théâtre du Châtelet.
On episode 102 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by architect Moshe Safdie. Moshe shares what he has learned about the limitations of working remotely as an architect over the past few months. They talk about how quarantine is reminding us that access to outdoor space is an essential need for everyone.
Then, Paul asks Moshe about some of his most influential projects, including the Habitat 67 housing complex. They talk about what is coming next for architecture, with Moshe offering his thoughts on the relationship between architecture, nature, and consumption.
Paul Holdengräber is joined by essayist Garnette Cadogan on episode 101 of The Quarantine Tapes. A self-proclaimed wanderer, Garnette talks about how he has experienced these past months, his longest period of staying in one place since childhood.
Garnette takes Paul on a journey into his recent walks, offering brilliant insights into the role of public space in our relationship to ourselves and each other. He opens up his concerns about the withdrawal from public space as a result of quarantine, talking about what we are missing without shared spaces to facilitate the essential experiences of imagination, companionship, and whimsy.
Paul Holdengräber is joined by former US Senator Gary Hart on episode 100 of The Quarantine Tapes. They have a stirring conversation about Gary’s recent op-ed in The New York Times, “How Powerful Is the President?” Gary and Paul discuss the revelation of secret and emergency powers of the president and the threat this may pose to the upcoming election.
Gary goes on to emphasize that while he is not an alarmist, he feels that anything may be possible as the next election approaches. They touch on issues of protests and voter intimidation before Gary reminds us of the importance of getting the American people to pay attention to this election.
Gary Hart represented the State of Colorado in the United States Senate from 1975 to 1987. In 1984 and 1988, he was a candidate for his party’s nomination for President.
Since retiring from the United States Senate, Gary Hart has been extensively involved in international law and business, as a strategic advisor to major U.S. corporations, and as a teacher, author and lecturer.
Senator Hart resides with his family in Kittredge, Colorado.
In Episode 099 of the Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by "Sarah", a nurse working in an emergency department in New York City. Sarah talks Paul through her experience at the peak of the pandemic before turning to how she and her fellow healthcare workers have been dealing with the fallout of that time.
Sarah and Paul discuss the anger that Sarah felt about how they could have been better prepared early in the pandemic. They also talk honestly about how mental health goes under-addressed for health professionals, with Sarah emphasizing the importance of seeking help to deal with the trauma of the pandemic.
On episode 098 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by artists Yuval Sharon and Cannupa Hanska Luger. Yuval and Cannupa recently collaborated on the opera Sweetland. They talk with Paul about the future of opera and of artistic spaces in general, offering their thoughts on colonialism, postmodernism, and how opera will respond to the need for increased diversity.
Their conversation touches on how this time in quarantine has given both Yuval and Cannupa the opportunity to reflect on their relationship with their artistic practice, digging into the role of community in art and what it means to advocate for change both inside and outside of institutions. Follow this link for more information about Yuval Sharon and his new position at the Michigan Opera Theater.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/09/arts/music/yuval-sharon-michigan-opera-theater.html
Paul Holdengräber is joined by filmmaker and photographer Ziad Antar on episode 097 of The Quarantine Tapes. In a conversation recorded one month after the Beirut explosion, Ziad talks about his experience being in Beirut at the time of the explosion. He felt a loss of hope in the aftermath of the explosion, Ziad tells Paul, speaking frankly about the difficulty of coping with that experience. Ziad kindly shared a video that he made after the blast demolished his home: https://youtu.be/az_NQsfXf78 .
Ziad recently contributed a video, “The Little Boat,” to Onassis’s ENTER project. Ziad and Paul discuss this moving work and talk about Ziad’s artistic practice, digging into how Ziad wants to transform images into ideas in his work. Their conversation is moving and thoughtful, deeply grounded in the moment in which Ziad finds himself.
Episode 096 of the Quarantine Tapes sees Paul Holdengräber joined by writer and critic Daniel Mendelsohn. A professor at Bard College, Daniel talks about the challenges of teaching remotely in recent months. He and Paul also express their concerns about how the pandemic and the economic crisis could negatively affect the humanities in a moment when that field of study may be more valuable than ever.
Later, Paul and Daniel talk about Daniel’s upcoming book, Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate. They dig into history, The Odyssey, and Daniel’s belief that Greek tragedy can offer incredible insight into this moment of national consequences and reckoning.
On episode 095 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by writer Maaza Mengiste. Maaza was in Switzerland until recently and she talks with Paul about how that shaped her experience of the early months of the pandemic. Their conversation then turns to the relationship between fiction and history, with Maaza offering her insights into how writing and justice are intertwined.
Paul and Maaza go on to talk about the poetry that has been keeping them company lately and about Maaza’s Project 3541, an archive of historical photographs from the Italo-Ethiopian War. Their conversation offers a thoughtful insight into Maaza’s perspective on history, power, and the role of writing in this moment.
On episode 94 of the Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by poet and writer Claudia Rankine. Claudia talks with Paul about her upcoming book, Just Us: An American Conversation, and how it addresses what it means to talk about race in this country. They discuss how she approached writing the book and why she felt it was important to focus on one-on-one conversations to parse systemic issues.
In their discussion, Claudia describes the writing methodology for her upcoming book, reads from one of her poems, and talks with Paul about what she has seen that felt unprecedented in the ongoing protests.
Born in Kingston, Jamaica, poet Claudia Rankine earned a BA at Williams College and an MFA at Columbia University. Rankine has published several collections of poetry, including Citizen: An American Lyric (2014), a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry, the PEN Center USA Poetry Award, and the Forward poetry prize. Her play Detour/South Bronx premiered in 2009 at New York’s Foundry Theater.
Rankine has been awarded fellowships from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Academy of American Poets, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Lannan Foundation, and the Guggenheim Foundation. In 2013, she was elected as a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, and in 2014 she received a Lannan Literary Award. She has taught at the University of Houston, Case Western Reserve University, Barnard College, and Pomona College.
Read: "Weather" by Claudia Rankine
Episode 093 of the Quarantine Tapes sees Paul Holdengräber and sports journalist Howard Bryant take a deep dive into how the sports world is responding to the ongoing protests. Howard tries to parse what is performative and what is powerful in the response from both athletes and the corporate sports culture in the past weeks.
Paul and Howard also dig into the history of protest in sports and talk about how Howard has been thinking lately about figures like Jackie Robinson and Paul Robeson. Finally, Howard offers his opinion on what dissent and protest in sports may look like in the future.
Howard Bryant is the author of nine books, Full Dissidence: Notes From an Uneven Playing Field, The Heritage: Black Athletes, A Divided America and the Politics of Patriotism, The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron, Juicing the Game: Drugs, Power, and the Fight for the Soul of Major League Baseball, Shut Out: A Story of Race and Baseball in Boston, the three-book Legends sports series for middle-grade readers, and Sisters and Champions: The True Story of Venus and Serena Williams, illustrated by Floyd Cooper, and contributed essays to 14 others. He has been senior writer for ESPN since 2007 and has served as the sports correspondent for NPR’s Weekend Edition Saturday since 2006.
In 2017, he served as the guest editor for the Best American Sports Writing anthology. Previously, Mr. Bryant worked at the Washington Post, the Boston Herald, The Record (Hackensack, NJ), the San Jose Mercury News and the Oakland Tribune.
On episode 092 of the Quarantine Tapes, James McBride calls in from his car to chat with Paul Holdengräber about writing and music. James talks about the issues he sees in how history is taught in the US and the hope he finds in the Black Lives Matter movement. Then, they touch on some of his heroes and influences in both writing and music.
James tells stories from his time touring with Jimmy Scott and reflects on what jazz music has taught him about writing in a thoughtful conversation about history, creativity, and the importance of listening.
James McBride is an award-winning author, musician, and screenwriter. His landmark memoir, The Color of Water, published in 1996, has sold millions of copies and spent more than two years on the New York Times bestseller list. McBride has been a staff writer for The Boston Globe, People Magazine, and The Washington Post, and his work has appeared in Essence, Rolling Stone, and The New York Times. His 2007 National Geographic story “Hip Hop Planet” is considered an important examination of African American music and culture. A native New Yorker and a graduate of New York City public schools, McBride studied composition at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Ohio and received his master’s degree at the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University. In 2015, he was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Obama “for humanizing the complexities of discussing race in America.” He holds several honorary doctorates and is currently a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University.
On episode 091 of the Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by Robin Kelley. As a historian, Robin provides a long view of the ongoing crises in the US, talking with Paul about how to slow down in this moment and the importance of keeping the big picture in mind. They talk in-depth about issues of racial capitalism, environmental justice, and a culture of care.
In their discussion, Paul and Robin call out influences like Thelonious Monk and Cedric Robinson and take time to hear about the three words that guide Robin’s approach to his work: love, study, struggle.
Robin D. G. Kelley is the Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at UCLA. His books include, Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original (2009); Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times (2012); Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination (2002); and Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression (1990).
Paul Holdengräber is joined by writer Susan Orlean on episode 090 of the Quarantine Tapes. They chat about her recent article in The New Yorker on a viral outbreak affecting rabbits and its strange parallels with our own pandemic.
Paul and Susan’s conversation touches on Susan’s curiosity as a writer, traveling across the country during a pandemic, and the current closure of libraries.The conversation then turns to Susan’s recent viral tweets, and our desire for levity in this moment.
Susan Orlean is the author of eight books, including The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup; My Kind of Place; Saturday Night; and Lazy Little Loafers. In 1999, she published The Orchid Thief, a narrative about orchid poachers in Florida, which was made into the Academy Award-winning film, Adaptation, starring Nicolas Cage and Meryl Streep.
Orlean has been a staff writer for the New Yorker since 1992, and has also contributed to Vogue, Rolling Stone, Outside, and Esquire. She has written about taxidermy, fashion, umbrellas, origami, dogs, chickens, and a wide range of other subjects. She was a 2003 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and a 2014 Guggenheim Fellow. She is currently adapting The Library Book for television. She lives with her husband and son in Los Angeles.
Paul Holdengräber is joined by Anthony Romero, the Executive Director of the ACLU, on episode 089 of the Quarantine Tapes. Anthony and Paul discuss the work the ACLU has been doing in recent weeks, including their suits challenging federal agents’ treatment of protestors in Portland, Oregon.
In their conversation, Anthony reflects on his years with the ACLU, and offers his perspective on what has changed—and what hasn’t—under the Trump administration. Paul and Anthony end the episode by considering their hopes and fears for the future and discussing the role that the ACLU will play in defending civil liberties under this president and the next.
Anthony D. Romero is the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, the nation's premier defender of civil liberties. Born in New York City to parents who hailed from Puerto Rico, Romero was the first in his family to graduate from high school. He is a graduate of Stanford University Law School and Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public Policy and International Affairs. He is a member of the New York Bar Association and has sat on numerous nonprofit boards.
On episode 088 of the Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by journalist and author Krista Tippett. They talk about what the ongoing crises around the pandemic as well as police brutality and racism have uncovered about our lives.
Krista goes on to offer up a question that has been on her mind, in this moment, the question of who we will be to each other. Paul and Krista dig into how she views the position of spirituality and religion in this moment and the importance of being able to ask moral questions of our society.
Krista Tippett is a Peabody Award-winning broadcaster, a New York Times bestselling author, and a National Humanities Medalist. She was the 2019 Mimi and Peter E. Haas Distinguished Visitor at Stanford University.
In 2003 she launched Speaking of Faith — later On Being — as a weekly national public radio show in 2003. In 2014, President Obama awarded Krista the National Humanities Medal at the White House for “thoughtfully delving into the mysteries of human existence”.
She is currently at work on a new book, Letters to a Young Citizen. Her previous books are Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living (2016); Einstein’s God: Conversations about Science and the Human Spirit (2010); and Speaking of Faith: Why Religion Matters and How To Talk About It (2007).
Paul Holdengräber is joined by Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist and Stamped from the Beginning, on episode 087 of the Quarantine Tapes. They talk about Ibram’s work at the newly-established Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University and how Ibram has found himself with less time than ever in these last few months of quarantine.
In this episode, Ibram talks about the use of the term antiracist, his hopes for his work at the new Center, and how he feels about the spotlight that has been shined on him in recent weeks.
Ibram X. Kendi is a #1 New York Times bestselling author, professor of history, and the Founding Director of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research. He is an Ideas Columnist at The Atlantic, and a correspondent with CBS News. He is the author of five books including Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, which won the National Book Award for Nonfiction; How to Be an Antiracist; STAMPED: Racism, Antiracism, and You, co-authored with Jason Reynolds; and Antiracist Baby, illustrated by Ashley Lukashevsky. Dr. Kendi invites you to visit him online at IbramXKendi.com.
On episode 086 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by writer Peter Kimani. With lockdowns, curfews, traffic jams, and technological deficiencies, Kimani and Holdengräber explore the many disruptive challenges the pandemic has presented in Kenya. As a journalist, Kimani describes his perspectives on the cultural mosaic of Kenya, and how the national press informs the multitudinous Kenyan society.
When discussing his influences, Kimani reads the poem Nostos by Louise Gluck, a work that is one of his favorites, and Kimani reflects on the mercurial images of childhood and memory reflected in that poem. Kimani and Holdengräber then discuss the imminent Kenyan writer and educator, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, and how his nuanced narratives about cultural imperialism has impacted Kimani’s life and writing.
Peter Kimani is a Kenyan journalist, poet and author of, most recently, Dance of the Jakaranda, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. He’s also the editor of Nairobi Noir, which was published early this year by Akashic Books. Kimani has taught fiction and non-fiction at Amherst College and the University of Houston. He is on the faculty of Aga Khan University in Nairobi.
Footnotes Nostos by Louise Glück There was an apple tree in the yard —
this would have been
forty years ago — behind,
only meadows. Drifts
off crocus in the damp grass.
I stood at that window:
late April. Spring
flowers in the neighbor's yard.
How many times, really, did the tree
flower on my birthday,
the exact day, not
before, not after? Substitution
of the immutable
for the shifting, the evolving.
Substitution of the image
for relentless earth. What
do I know of this place,
the role of the tree for decades
taken by a bonsai, voices
rising from tennis courts —
Fields. Smell of the tall grass, new cut.
As one expects of a lyric poet.
We look at the world once, in childhood.
On episode 085 of the Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by writer David Ulin. Their conversation stays close to home for David, talking about his experience of Los Angeles in the last few months. They dig into how the pandemic is changing public space and speculate on what city life might look like as we move through this time.
David and Paul also talk about walking, monuments, and the consolation they can draw from reading literature about previous plagues throughout history.
DAVID L. ULIN is the author or editor of a dozen books, including Sidewalking: Coming to Terms with Los Angeles, shortlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Lannan Foundation, and teaches at the University of Southern California.
Paul Holdengräber is joined by writer Walter Mosley on episode 084 of The Quarantine Tapes. Walter and Paul speak about Walter’s books, his experiences in writers’ rooms, as well as what it has been like working from home in the past few months. They talk in depth about language and history, touching on the subjects of monuments, policing, and what this pandemic may set us up for in the future.
Later in the episode, Walter talks about two of his upcoming books and digs into how he approaches writing about the police in his novels.
Walter Mosley is one of the most versatile and admired writers in America. He is the author of more than 60 critically-acclaimed books including the just released Elements of Fiction, a nonfiction book about the art of writing fiction.
In 2013 he was inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame, and he is the winner of numerous awards, including an O. Henry Award, The Mystery Writers of America’s Grand Master Award, a Grammy®, and PEN America’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
Mosley lives in New York City and Los Angeles.
Isabella Rossellini joins Paul Holdengräber on episode 083 of The Quarantine Tapes to chat chickens, film, and Darwin. Isabella tells Paul about spending these past few months at home at her farm in Long Island since quarantine forced her to take a break from her usual nomadic lifestyle. Then, they chat about Isabella’s participation in the Onassis Foundation’s ENTER project and her enjoyment of the art of make-do.
In this episode, Isabella celebrates nature, creativity, and being free to do what you always wanted to do as a child in a conversation that ranges from discussing the personalities of chickens to determining what Isabella would ask Darwin if she were given the chance.
Isabella Rossellini grew up in Paris and Rome. When she was 19, she moved to New York City, working as a translator and journalist for RAI-Italian Television. She began a modeling career at the relatively advanced age of 28, appearing on numerous covers of magazines such as Vogue, Elle, Harper’s Bazaar and Vanity Fair.
An enduring style icon, Ms. Rossellini began a 14-year run in 1982 as the exclusive spokesperson for Lancome. When she turned 40 years old, an age considered too advanced to represent the beauty industry, her contract was not renewed . Isabella launched her own cosmetics brand Manifesto but in 2016 Lancome hired her again as a spokesperson with the specific intent to promote inclusiveness and fight against "ageism”.
Ms. Rossellini made her cinematic debut as an actress in 1979 in the Taviani brothers’ film Il Prato (The Meadow) and has appeared in numerous other films, including the American features Blue Velvet, White Nights, Rodger Dodger, Cousins, Death Becomes Her, Fearless, Big Night and more recently in Joy . She worked with many different directors - Taviani brothers, Saverio Costanzo, Robert Zemeckis, David O. Russell. David Lynch, Robert Wilson. Taylor Hackford, Marjane Satrapi and Guy Maddin.
She is also a successful television actress and filmmaker, with a keen interest in animals and wildlife conservation. Her award-winning series of shorts, Green Porno, Seduce Me and Mammas offers comical and scientifically insightful studies of animal behaviors. She toured in 50 different cities with a monologue based on her shorts written with Academy Award winner Jean Claude Carriere. Recently she toured her new theatrical show, Link Link Circus that deals with animal behavior and cognition.
Isabella has a master degree on Animal behavior and Conservation from Hunter college in NY and obtained a PhD honoris causa from the Science faculty at UQAM ( University of Quebec at Montreal)
Isabella also runs an organic farm in Brookhaven in association with the Peconic Land Trust. Her book about raising heritage chickens entitled My Chickens and I is published in the USA by ABRAMS BOOKS.
Ms. Rossellini’s other philanthropic interests embrace preservation of her family’s extraordinary cinematic heritage, including the films directed by her father, Roberto Rossellini and those featuring her mother, Ingrid Bergman.
Ms. Rossellini is a mother of two and resides in Bellport, Long Island.
On episode 082 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by writer Roxane Gay. Roxane and Paul catch up on how she has been spending her time in quarantine baking, gardening, and reading. In this episode, they talk in-depth about Roxane’s recent article in The New York Times, “How We Save Ourselves,” on the subject of racism and police brutality. She elaborates on the critical role of imagination in our response to the current moment.
Roxane offers a thoughtful perspective on the need to sustain the energy of ongoing movements against racism and police brutality. “I don’t really deal in hope,” she says near the end of the episode. This episode’s conversation takes a frank look at both the skepticism and the possibility of this moment.
Roxane Gay’s writing appears in Best American Mystery Stories 2014, Best American Short Stories 2012, Best Sex Writing 2012, Harper’s Bazaar, A Public Space, McSweeney’s, Tin House, Oxford American, American Short Fiction, Virginia Quarterly Review, and many others. She is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times. She is the author of the books Ayiti, An Untamed State, the New York Times bestselling Bad Feminist, the nationally bestselling Difficult Women and New York Times bestselling Hunger: A Memoir of My Body. She is also the author of World of Wakanda for Marvel and the editor of Best American Short Stories 2018. She is currently at work on film and television projects, a book of writing advice, an essay collection about television and culture, and a YA novel entitled The Year I Learned Everything.
On episode 081 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by Rabih Alameddine. Alameddine and Holdengräber explore how poetry has impacted their lives, and share their mutual adoration for the work of Fernando Pessoa. When Holdengräber asks what is his favorite poem, Alameddine reads Happiness Writes White, by Edward Hirsch. Openly contemplating mental health, Alameddine and Holdengräber discuss observations on the human desires to be seen, as well as to be separate.
Rabih Alameddine is the author of I, the Divine (W.W. Norton), The Hakawati (A.A. Knopf), Koolaids, The Perv, An Unnecessary Woman, and The Angel of History (all Grove Atlantic). An Unnecessary Woman was a finalist for the National Book Award 2014 and the winner of the prestigious Prix Femina étranger, and The Angel of History won the Lambda Literary Award. Alameddine is the winner of the 2019 Dos Passos Prize. His next novel, The Wrong End of the Telescope, will be published by Grove in spring/summer 2021.
Read the poem “Happiness Writes White” by Edward Hirsch
Photography credit: Benito Ordonez
Paul Holdengräber is joined by photographer Susan Meiselas in Episode #080 of the Quarantine Tapes. Meiselas reflects on the changing role of image making in this new history, and the importance of being present, within our collective human experiences.
Susan Meiselas is a documentary photographer who lives and works in New York. She is the author of Carnival Strippers (1976), Nicaragua (1981), Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History (1997), Pandora’s Box (2001), Encounters with the Dani (2003) Prince Street Girls (2016) and A Room Of Their Own (2017). She has co-edited two published collections: El Salvador, Work of 30 Photographers (1983) and Chile from Within (1990), re-released as an e-book in 2013, and also co-directed two films: Living at Risk (1985) and Pictures from a Revolution (1991) with Richard P. Rogers and Alfred Guzzetti. Meiselas is well known for her documentation of human rights issues in Latin America. Her photographs are included in North American and international collections. In 1992 she was made a MacArthur Fellow, received a Guggenheim Fellowship (2015), and most recently the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize (2019) and the first Women in Motion Award from Kering and the Rencontres d’Arles. Mediations, a survey exhibition of her work from the 1970s to present was recently exhibited at the Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Jeu de Paume, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Instituto Moreira Salles in São Paulo. She has been the President of the Magnum Foundation since 2007, which supports, trains, and mentors the next generation of in-depth documentary photographers and innovative practice.
Paul is joined by Suketu Mehta for a conversation on how the pandemic is affecting global migration. Suketu shares his call for international solidarity, as well as the idea that migration can be a form of reparations, particularly in countries such as Britain and the United States.
Suketu Mehta is the New York-based author of Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found, which won the Kiriyama Prize and the Hutch Crossword Award, and was a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize, the Lettre Ulysses Prize, the BBC4 Samuel Johnson Prize, and the Guardian First Book Award. He has won the Whiting Writers’ Award, the O. Henry Prize, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for his fiction. Mehta’s work has been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, Granta, Harper’s Magazine, Time, and Newsweek, and has been featured on NPR’s ‘Fresh Air’ and ‘All Things Considered.’
Mehta is an Associate Professor of Journalism at New York University. His book about global migration, This Land is Our Land, will be published by Farrar Straus & Giroux in June 2019. He is also working on a nonfiction book about immigrants in contemporary New York, for which he was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship. Mehta has written original screenplays for films, including ‘New York, I Love You’. Mehta was born in Calcutta and raised in Bombay and New York. He is a graduate of New York University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
Paul Holdengräber is joined by Derek DelGaudio for a robust conversation about imperceptibility, sleight of hand, and the uncertainties of truth.
Derek DelGaudio is a writer, performer, and widely recognized as one of the greatest living sleight-of-hand artists.
Esteemed professor Romila Thapar shares her perspective on how the pandemic is being addressed in India, how this moment has revealed an unworkable system, and the importance of dissent.
Romila Thapar is Emeritus Professor of History at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, where she was Professor of Ancient Indian History from 1970 to 1991. She was General President of the Indian History Congress in 1983. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and holds an Honorary D.Litt. each from Calcutta, Oxford and Chicago Universities, among others. She is an Honorary Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, and of St. Antony’s College, Oxford, and of the School of Oriental and African Studies, London University. In 2008 Professor Thapar was awarded the prestigious Kluge Prize of the US Library of Congress, which honours lifetime achievement in studies such as history that are not covered by the Nobel Prize.
Admiral James Stavridis reflects on the transformative experience of his nearly 10-year voyage at sea, what it means to lead with character, and the way in which this moment requires both a philosophical and practical response.
Admiral James Stavridis was 16th Supreme Allied Commander of NATO, and after retiring from his naval career became the 12th Dean of The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy of Tufts University. He is the author of 10 books, including most recently Sailing True North: Ten Admirals and the Voyage of Character, and holds a PhD in international relations from Tufts. He is a monthly columnist for TIME and Chief International Analyst for NBC News. The Admiral is the recipient of over 50 medals, 28 of them from foreign countries.
Etgar Keret and Paul Holdengräber discuss Jewish identity and the cathartic role of humor in both personal and public life.
Born in Ramat Gan in 1967, Etgar Keret is a leading voice in Israeli literature and cinema. Keret's books were published in more than 46 languages. His writing has been published in The New York Times, Le Monde, The New Yorker, The Guardian, The Paris Review and Zoetrope.
Keret resides in Tel Aviv and lectures at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev as a Full professor. Over 100 short movies have been based on his stories, as well as feature films.
He has received the Book Publishers Association's Platinum Prize several times, the St Petersburg Public Library's Foreign Favorite Award (2010) and the Newman Prize (2012). In 2010, Keret was honored in France with the decoration of Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
In 2007, Keret and Shira Geffen won the Cannes Film Festival's "Camera d'Or" Award for their movie Jellyfish, and Best Director Award of the French Artists and Writers' Guild. The two also co-wrote and directed "The Middleman" (2019), a French mini-series for ARTE. The series won the best screenplay award at La Rochelle fiction TV festival in France. Keret was the winner of the 2016 Charles Bronfman Prize. His latest collection, "Fly Already" won the most prestigious literary award in Israel- the Sapir prize (2018) as well as the National Jewish Book Award of the Jewish Book Council.
Footnotes Etgar Keret Short Story
Flash Fiction: Director's Cut
David Harrington reflects on how he and his bandmates in the Kronos Quartet are keeping the flame of music alive during quarantine, as well as the ways in which music acts as a portal to a deeper truth.
David Harrington is the artistic director, founder, and violinist of the Kronos Quartet. For over 45 years, the San Francisco-based Grammy-winning group and its nonprofit, the Kronos Performing Arts Association, have reimagined and redefined the string quartet experience through thousands of concerts, over 60 recordings, collaborations with composers and performers from around the globe, more than 1,000 commissioned works, and education programs for emerging musician
Listen to “Groung” by Zabelle Panosian
Naomi Shihab Nye talks with Paul Holdengräber about how poetry is an important tool for both thought and action. Naomi reflects on her upbringing in Ferguson, MO., where she experienced segregation, and in Southern Texas, where she experienced the local Mexican culture. Naomi and Paul also talk about a range of music from new Palestinian recording artists and old favorites.
Naomi Shihab Nye is the Young People's Poet Laureate (Poetry Foundation), the Poetry Editor for the New York Times Magazine, on faculty at Texas State University, and author or editor of more than 30 books. She was selected by the National Book Critics Circle to receive the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, 2020.
Naomi Shihab Nye | Brocade The Arabs used to say, When a stranger appears at your door, feed him for three days before asking who he is, where he’s come from, where he’s headed. That way, he’ll have strength enough to answer. Or, by then you’ll be such good friends you don’t care.
Let’s go back to that. Rice? Pine nuts? Here, take the red brocade pillow. My child will serve water to your horse.
No, I was not busy when you came! I was not preparing to be busy. That’s the armor everyone put on to pretend they had a purpose in the world.
I refuse to be claimed. Your plate is waiting. We will snip fresh mint into your tea.
Physician and professor Abraham Verghese joins Paul Holdengräber for a rich discussion around storytelling as a means of survival and how this current moment in America requires more than just a change in legislation, but a transformation of the human heart.
Abraham Verghese MD, MACP, DSc (Hon), FRCP (Edin)
Professor of Medicine, Stanford University Linda R. Meier and Joan F. Lane Provostial Professor Vice Chair for the Theory and Practice of Medicine.
Abraham Verghese is a critically acclaimed author and a prominent voice in medicine. His books have sold millions of copies and are broadly translated. His gifts as a storyteller give him powerful appeal for healthcare professionals and non-medical audiences alike.
He sees a future for healthcare that marries technological innovation with hands-on physical diagnosis, and has a deep faith in patients’ stories and the power of touch in providing what patients most want – healing, if not curing.
Dr. Verghese’s novel, Cutting for Stone, topped the New York Times bestseller list for over two years and My Own Country, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and made into a movie. The Tennis Partner was a New York Times Notable Book. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Granta, and The Wall Street Journal.
He has served on the Board of Directors of the American Board of Internal Medicine. He is a Master of the American College of Physicians, elected to the Association of American Physicians, as well as, notably in 2011, to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. He is a 2014 recipient of the Heinz Award for Arts and Humanities, and in 2016 he was honored with a National Humanities Medal in a ceremony at the White House with President Barack Obama.
According to Former U.S. Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, the United States is experiencing a deep division parallel to that of 1850, when the country was just ten years away from a civil war. So what can Americans do differently in this moment of division? Colonel Wilkerson advises us all to use our voice and engage in what he describes as “patriotic dissent”.
Lawrence Wilkerson is the Distinguished Visiting Professor of Government and Public Policy at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. His last position in the US Government was chief of staff to Colin Powell at the U.S. Department of State. Wilkerson served 31 years in the US Army. His final military assignments were Special Assistant to then-chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff General Colin Powell and, later, Deputy Director and Director of the U.S. Marine Corps War College at Quantico, Virginia.
Paul Holdengräber and Sherry Turkle discuss the difference between loneliness and solitude, the link between democracy, privacy, and intimacy, and the illusion of friction-free human relationships.
Professor Turkle of MIT is a New York Times bestselling author whose work focuses on evolving relationships in digital culture. Her most recent books are Reclaiming Conversation (2015) and Alone Together (2011). Both investigate how we are tempted to hide behind our screens to feel less vulnerable. Now, during the experience of COVID-19, we find ourselves at a point of inflection, confronted with how much we lose when we give up the full embrace of the human.
She is just completing a new book, The Empathy Diaries: A Memoir, to be published Spring 2021.
For Mona Eltahawy, one of the biggest lessons she learned from her activism in the 2011 Egyptian Revolution is that the patriarchal system is at the root of all oppression. In episode 069 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul and Mona examine how patriarchal oppression permeates all of society--from the state capitol to the streets and in our homes--and the importance of using our voice to speak out against injustice.
Mona Eltahawy is a feminist author, commentator and disruptor of patriarchy. Her first book Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution (2015) targeted patriarchy in the Middle East and North Africa and her second The Seven Necessary Sins For Women and Girls (2019) took her disruption worldwide.
Her commentary has appeared in media around the world and she makes video essays as FEMINIST GIANT.
Traversing many facets of the human experience, Paul Holdengräber and Sjón discuss the role that trust plays in flattening the curve of a pandemic, and how dreams and literature define the future in episode 068 of The Quarantine Tapes.
Sjón is an Icelandic poet and author whose novels have been published in over thirty-five languages. He is the author of The Blue Fox, winner of the Nordic Council’s Literary Prize; From the Mouth of the Whale, shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize; Moonstone—The Boy Who Never Was, winner of the Icelandic Literary Prize; and CoDex 1962. His novels are published in English by MCD Books in the US and Sceptre in the UK.
Footnotes Poem Read by Sjón *ars poetica
það vill henda í ljóðum
að þegar þokunnni léttir
taki hún með sér fjallið
*ars poetica
it may happen in poems
that when the fog lifts
it takes the mountain with it**
What does the future of education look like? Jackie Goldberg, whose commitment to public education in California has spanned over four decades, discusses the importance of accountability when implementing policy, her thoughts on the current social justice movement, and how the momentum of this moment might affect change.
“She arrived on the council with the abilities to gather widespread support and to compromise, while reaching toward those whom she feels are left out of the process. This is not a common skill set today, even among political liberals.”
–Los Angeles Times
From a student leader in the Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley to teaching for 16 years in Compton, through her leadership on the LAUSD School Board, LA City Council, and CA State Assembly, Jackie Goldberg has been a champion of quality public education and issues affecting working families. She is a progressive voice that has led the way on landmark policies, working with others to shape our City and improve the quality of life for Angelenos including:
- Creation of a districtwide K-12 dual language education program;
- Authorship of the first citywide landmark “Living Wage” ordinance;
- Development of multiple housing initiatives that protect LA City renters, such as the Systematic Code Enforcement program and the Urgent Repair program;
- Authorship of two Statewide Education Bond Issues for ($4 Billion in 2001-2002, $1 Billion in 2006) that provided LAUSD funding to build new schools that relieved the overcrowding at district schools;
- Author of both the first citywide and statewide historic domestic partner legislation; and
- Co-founder of LACER Afterschool Program that serves as many as 4,000 students annually at middle schools and high schools in central Los Angeles.
Jackie’s frank and honest demeanor, her knowledgeable command of the issues and her emphasis on consensus-building, pragmatism and foresight in creating legislation won her praise and respect from both her constituency and her colleagues in the School District, at Los Angeles City Hall and in Sacramento.
Jackie lives with her spouse, writer/educator Sharon Stricker in Echo Park, where they have lived for almost 40 years. They are parents of an LAUSD graduate and grandparents of District elementary school students.
American society was irrevocably altered on May 25th, 2020 with the death of George Floyd. In episode 067, Paul Holdengräber is joined by author Rachel Kushner for a discussion around what it means to live in this fractured time and the potential opportunities for lasting change.
Rachel Kushner’s most recent novel, The Mars Room, was a finalist for the Booker Prize and the NBCC Award. A collection of her essays, “The Hard Crowd,” will be published by Scribner in March of 2021.
In episode 065 of The Quarantine Tapes, Toshi Reagon shares stories about her experience in quarantine and highlights of performing her creative work, the compelling opera “Octavia Butler’s The Parable of the Sower”. Toshi talks about important community connections, while encouraging us all to “embrace your ability to adapt to an ever-changing world.”
Toshi Reagon is a singer, composer, musician, curator, producer and bandleader (BIGLovely) with a profound ear for sonic Americana—from folk to funk, from blues to rock—recording with Lizz Wright, Carl Hancock Rux, Allison Miller, Sweet Honey In The Rock, and Meshell Ndegeocello, among others. She currently tours with her opera, Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower. Recent projects include The Blues Project w/ Michelle Dorrance and Dorrance Dance, Meshell Ndegeocello's Can I Get A Witness—The Gospel of James Baldwin. She founded WordRockSword: A Festival Exploration of Women's Lives... All Lives Welcome.
In recent weeks, the United States and various countries in Europe have sought to remove colonial-era statues from public view. On episode 064 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber and artist William Kentridge discuss what it means for a country to confront its violent colonial history, and the many imperfect solutions involved in that process.
William Kentridge (born Johannesburg, South Africa, 1955) is internationally acclaimed for his drawings, films, theatre and opera productions.
His method combines drawing, writing, film, performance, music, theatre, and collaborative practices to create works of art that are grounded in politics, science, literature and history, whilst yet maintaining a space for contradiction and uncertainty.
His aesthetics are drawn from the medium of film’s own history, from stop-motion animation to early special effects. Kentridge’s drawing, specifically the dynamism of an erased and redrawn mark, is an integral part of his expanded animation and filmmaking practice, where the meanings of his films are developed during the process of their making.
Kentridge’s work has been seen in museums and galleries around the world since the 1990s, including Documenta in Kassel, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Albertina Museum in Vienna, Musée du Louvre in Paris, Whitechapel Gallery in London, Louisiana Museum in Copenhagen, the Reina Sofia museum in Madrid and the Kunstmuseum in Basel.
Opera productions include Mozart’s The Magic Flute, Shostakovich’s The Nose, and Alban Berg’s operas Lulu and Wozzeck, and have been seen at opera houses including the Metropolitan Opera in New York, La Scala in Milan, English National Opera in London, Opera de Lyon, Amsterdam opera, and the Salzburg Festival.
The Head & the Load, with music by composer Philip Miller and Thuthuka Sibisi and choreography by Gregory Maqoma, interweaves music, dance, projection, shadow-play and sculpture. It premiered at the Tate Turbine Hall in July 2018 and went on to the Park Avenue Amory, in New York, and the Holland Festival, in Amsterdam.
In 2016, Kentridge founded the Centre for the Less Good Idea: a space for responsive thinking through experimental, collaborative and cross-disciplinary arts practices. The Centre has quickly gathered momentum and in 2020 launches a mentorship programme.
Kentridge is the recipient of honorary doctorates from several universities including Yale and the University of London. In 2010, he received the Kyoto Prize. In 2012 he presented the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard University. In 2015 he was appointed an Honorary Academician of the Royal Academy in London. In 2017, he received the Princesa de Asturias Award for the arts, and in 2018, the Antonio Feltrinelli International Prize. In 2019 he received the Praemium Imperiale award in painting in Tokyo.
Paul Holdengräber and Anand Giridharadas discuss the peril of putting profit ahead of people and what it means to speak out against corruption in episode 063 of The Quarantine Tapes.
Anand Giridharadas is a writer.
He is the author of, most recently, "Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World," published by Knopf in 2018. His other books are “The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas,” about a Muslim immigrant’s campaign to spare from Death Row the white supremacist who tried to kill him (optioned for movie adaption by Annapurna Pictures); and “India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of a Nation’s Remaking,” about returning to the India his parents left.
He is an editor-at-large for TIME, an on-air political analyst for MSNBC, and a visiting scholar at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University. He is a former columnist and correspondent for The New York Times, having written, most recently, the biweekly “Letter from America.” His datelines have included Italy, India, China, Dubai, Norway, Japan, Haiti, Brazil, Colombia, Nigeria, Uruguay, and the United States. He has also written for The Times's arts, business, and travel pages, and its Book Review, Sunday Review, and magazine--and for The Atlantic, The New Yorker, and elsewhere.
Born in Cleveland, Ohio, he was raised there, in Paris, France, and in Maryland, and educated at the University of Michigan, Oxford, and Harvard. He worked briefly as a consultant for McKinsey & Company in Mumbai, before becoming a journalist in 2005, reporting from that city for the International Herald Tribune and The Times for four and a half years. He was appointed a columnist in 2008. He first interned for The New York Times at age 17, writing two articles on money and politics.
He has appeared regularly on TV and the radio in the United States and globally, and has given talks on the main stage of TED and at Harvard, Stanford, Columbia, Yale, Princeton, the University of Michigan, the Aspen Ideas Festival, the New York Public Library, the Sydney Opera House, the United Nations, South by Southwest, the Asia Society, PopTech, the Royal Society of Arts, and Google. He has been the recipient of honors from the Society of Publishers in Asia, the Poynter Fellowship in Journalism at Yale, the Henry Crown Fellowship of the Aspen Institute, the 800-CEO-READ Business Book of the Year award, the Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award for Humanism in Culture from Harvard University, and the New York Public Library’s Helen Bernstein Award.
Anand lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife, Priya Parker, and two children.
What is the role of poetry in the midst of difficulty?
On episode 062, Paul Holdengräber is joined by poet, scholar, and president of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Elizabeth Alexander. They discuss the importance of art, and in particular, how poetry can serve as a place to bring our deepest questions, even in the midst of trial.
Elizabeth Alexander – poet, educator, memoirist, scholar, and cultural advocate – is president of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the nation’s largest funder in arts and culture, and humanities in higher education. Dr. Alexander has held distinguished professorships at Smith College, Columbia University, and Yale University, where she taught for 15 years and chaired the African American Studies Department. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, serves on the Pulitzer Prize Board, and co-designed the Art for Justice Fund. Notably, Alexander composed and delivered “Praise Song for the Day” for the inauguration of President Barack Obama in 2009, and is author or co-author of fourteen books. Her book of poems, American Sublime, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 2006, and her memoir, The Light of the World, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography in 2015.
The Trayvon Generation by Elizabeth Alexander (The New Yorker, 2020)
What does it mean to live between languages?
On episode 061, Paul Holdengräber is joined by Mojave poet Natalie Diaz for a rich conversation surrounding how language intersects with identity, the potential limitations of linguistic expression, and the notion of truth as something that’s come to a standstill.
Natalie Diaz is Mojave and an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Tribe. Her first poetry collection, When My Brother Was an Aztec, was published by Copper Canyon Press. She is a MacArthur Fellow, a Lannan Literary Fellow, a United States Artists Ford Fellow, and a Native Arts Council Foundation Artist Fellow. Diaz is Director of the Center for Imagination in the Borderlands and is the Maxine and Jonathan Marshall Chair in Modern and Contemporary Poetry at Arizona State University. She lives in Phoenix, Arizona.
Natalie Diaz | “If I Should Come Upon Your House Lonely in the West Texas Desert”
How does a country confront its own violent history?
On episode 060, Paul Holdengräber is joined by author Carolin Emcke. They discuss Germany’s approach in confronting its dark history and how that compares and contrasts with the United States. Carolin and Paul also explore the ways in which hatred is a learned behavior and how we can combat hatred by changing the way in which we speak about it.
Carolin Emcke is a journalist, political theorist, and writer. She has studied philosophy, history, and political science in London, Frankfurt, and the United States. She has a doctorate in philosophy and has been a visiting lecturer in political theory at Yale.
As a staff writer for the foreign news desk of Der Spiegel, she has written about war crimes and human rights violations in Afghanistan, Nicaragua, Kashmir, Iraq, Lebanon, Pakistan, and Colombia.
Emcke’s book Echoes of Violence: Letters from a War Reporter,was named Political Book of the Year in Germany in 2005. In 2006 she was awarded the Ernst-Blöch-Foerderpreis, a German award given to scholars and philosophers of extraordinary promise
How do we move through the complexity of history in the present day?
On episode 059, Paul Holdengräber is joined by New York-based journalist and author David Rieff for a discussion about the complicated narratives surrounding many historical figures from Gandhi to Churchill, the notion of collective memory, and how this informs the ways in which a society remembers its past.
In episode 058, Paul Holdengräber is joined by Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic Christopher Knight. They examine current funding models for museums and the inherent inequities which have been made particularly visible during this pandemic. Paul and Christopher also discuss the solace that can be found in art and the ways in which COVID-19 has forced us all to become more conscious when interacting with others out in the world.
Christopher Knight, art critic for the Los Angeles Times, received the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in Criticism. Knight also received the Lifetime Achievement Award in Art Journalism from the Rabkin Foundation in 2020, and the 1997 Frank Jewett Mather Award for Distinction in Art Criticism from the College Art Association, the first journalist to win the award in more than 25 years.
In episode 057, Paul Holdengräber is joined by art critic Jerry Saltz.
What could it look like to construct a new narrative within the art world? One that was more inclusive and reflective of humanity?
Jerry and Paul discuss the inherent racism and sexism within the current art historical canon and how, across centuries, 51% of the art world hasn’t been accounted for. They also touch on the functionality of art in addressing humanity’s existential questions and the ways in which the pandemic has further revealed broken systems in our society.
Jerry Saltz is the senior art critic at New York Magazine and its entertainment site Vulture.com, a leading voice in the art world at large, and an innovative user of social media. He joined the magazine’s staff in 2007, and his writing ranges from cover stories to reviews to quick online commentaries. He won a National Magazine Award for Columns & Commentary in 2015, and was a finalist for the same award in 2011.
“Sometimes I see something so moving I know I'm not supposed to linger. See it and leave. If you stay too long, you wear out the wordless shock. Love it and trust it and leave.”
― Don DeLillo, Underworld
In episode 056, Paul Holdengräber is joined by president of Wesleyan University, Michael Roth. They discuss the role of universities in actively fostering intellectual diversity on campus, as well as freedom of speech and the right to protest.
Michael S. Roth '78 became the 16th president of Wesleyan University in 2007. He has overseen the launch of academic programs at Wesleyan such as the Allbritton Center for the Study of Public Life and the Shapiro Center for Writing, as well as four new interdisciplinary colleges emphasizing advanced research and cohort building in the areas of the environment, film, East Asian studies, and integrative sciences. Under his leadership, Wesleyan had its most ambitious fundraising campaign in its history, raising more than $482 million, primarily for financial aid. Roth has undertaken a number of initiatives that have energized the curriculum and helped to make a Wesleyan education more affordable and accessible to students from under-represented groups—creating a supportive and diverse campus community that inspires students to achieve their personal best. Author and curator, Roth describes his scholarly interests as centered on “how people make sense of the past.” His 2014 book, Beyond the University: Why Liberal Education Matters (Yale University Press), was recognized with the Association of American Colleges & Universities’ Frederic W. Ness award for a book that best illuminates the goals and practices of a contemporary liberal education. Roth’s newest book, Safe Enough Spaces: A Pragmatist’s Approach to Inclusion, Free Speech, and Political Correctness (Yale University Press, 2019), addresses some of the most contentious issues in American higher education, including affirmative action, safe spaces, and questions of free speech. Roth continues to teach undergraduate courses and has offered MOOCs through Courser.
On episode 055 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber speaks with critically acclaimed author Margaret Atwood. They discuss the importance of supporting independent bookstores through this pandemic. Margaret and Paul also explore whether or not we’re living in dystopian times and the connection between fear and control.
Margaret Atwood, whose work has been published in more than forty-five countries, is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry, critical essays, and graphic novels. Her latest the novel, The Testaments, is a co-winner of the 2019 Booker Prize. It is the long-awaited sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, now an award-winning TV series. Her other works of fiction include Cat’s Eye, finalist for the 1989 Booker Prize; Alias Grace, which won the Giller Prize in Canada and the Premio Mondello in Italy; The Blind Assassin, winner of the 2000 Booker Prize; The MaddAddam Trilogy; and Hag-Seed. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the Franz Kafka International Literary Prize, the PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Los Angeles Times Innovator’s Award. She currently lives in Toronto.
Episode Footnotes / References* Rubber Chicken Choir * Pelee Island Bird Observatory * Katie Patterson * Future Library of Norway
On episode 054 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Greg Grandin. They discuss the notion of American exceptionalism, its foundations in the oppression of black and indigenous communities over centuries, and how it manifests today in relation to the pandemic.
Greg Grandin is Professor of History at Yale University. He is the author of a number of prize-winning books, including most recently The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America, and The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World, which won the Bancroft and Beveridge prizes in American History and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize in the UK. He is also the author of Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History, as well as for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. His first book, The Blood of Guatemala, won the Latin American Studies Association’s Bryce Wood Award for the best book published on Latin America, in any discipline. He has published widely in, among other places, The New York Times, Harper’s, The London Review of Books, The Nation, The Boston Review, The Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, The Hispanic American Historical Review, and The American Historical Review. A graduate of Brooklyn College at the City University of New York, Professor Grandin received his doctorate at Yale University, where he studied under Emilia Viotti da Costa. He is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Bertolt Brecht | "Everything Changes"
Everything changes. You can make
A fresh start with your final breath.
But what has happened has happened. And the water
You once poured into the wine cannot be
Drained off again.
What has happened has happened. The water
You once poured into the wine cannot be
Drained off again, but
Everything changes. You can make
A fresh start with your final breath.
On episode 053 Of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by multidisciplinary singer and composer Meredith Monk. Meredith offers a glimpse into practice and how it has been informed by this moment. She and Paul also discuss the value in making time for the things that give us life and the hope for a more cooperative and generous world.
Meredith Monk is a composer, singer, director/choreographer and creator of new opera, music-theater works, films and installations. A pioneer in extended vocal technique and interdisciplinary performance, she recently received three of the highest honors bestowed on a living artist in the United States: induction into the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2019), the 2017 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize and a 2015 National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama.
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John Cage to Philip Guston: The Empty Studio
"When you start working, everybody is in your studio—the past, your friends, enemies, the art world, and above all, your own ideas—all are there. But as you continue painting, they start leaving, one by one, and you are left completely alone. Then, if you're lucky, even you leave."
Watch Meredith's composition “Fields/Clouds” as sung by the Harvard College Music 184 class (taught by Meredith Monk and Katie Geissinger).
“For people who come from racially subjugated or colonized communities, there’s no way you can separate art from politics because your entire existence is politicized. It’s because of these issues of racism and colonization.”
On episode 052 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by author Viet Thanh Nguyen. They discuss the history of colonization in the United States and how it still informs the institutional and structural fabric of American society today. Viet and Paul also touch upon the responsibility that we all have to engage in educational, anti-racist work within our own families and friend groups.
Viet Thanh Nguyen’s novel The Sympathizer is a New York Times best seller and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His other books are The Refugees, Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War and Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America. He is a University Professor, the Aerol Arnold Chair of English, and a Professor of English, American Studies and Ethnicity, and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. He has been the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur Foundations. His most recent publication is Chicken of the Sea, a children’s book written in collaboration with his six-year-old son, Ellison.
On episode 051 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by ER doctor Jason Hill. Dr. Hill shares the harrowing experiences of being a medical practitioner in the midst of COVID-19 and what the near future might look like as the country slowly begins to re-open. Through this conversation, Paul and Dr. Hill also address the inequalities within the healthcare system, the undue burden thrusted upon communities of color, and what needs to change in order to better serve these communities.
Jason Hill is an Emergency Medicine doctor with a PhD in Neuroscience and a penchant for art, 3D printing, and global health. He has always had a strong desire to heal the world and color it at the same time. He grew up in rural Maryland, trained in St Louis Missouri, and currently lives and works in New York City.
On episode 050 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by poet Aja Monet. They discuss how poetry teaches us to listen and understand ourselves better, and what it means when a country doesn’t offer support or infrastructure for the arts. Aja also shares her perspective on how each one of us can show up to use our unique skill sets for justice, particularly in relation to standing up for black lives lost at the hands of police violence.
Aja Monet is a poet, lover of books, time travel, sacred medicine, and the blues. She is a true foodie and enjoys an invitation that includes delicious meals.
On episode 049 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by architect Bernard Khoury. They discuss the difference between cynicism and irony, how these aspects may or may not show up in modern architecture. Bernard also shares his perspective on how to create meaningful work within architecture, and how the pandemic has brought many of his projects to a halt for the moment.
Bernard Khoury was born in Beirut in 1968. He studied architecture at the Rhode Island school of Design (BFA 1990 / B.Arch 1991) and received a Masters in Architectural Studies from Harvard University (M.Arch 1993). In 2001, he was awarded, by the municipality of Rome, the honorable mention of the Borromini Prize given to architects under forty years of age. In 2004, he was awarded the Architecture + Award. He is the co-founder of the Arab Center for Architecture. He was a visiting professor at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, L’Ecole Spéciale d’Architecture in Paris and the American University of Beirut. He has lectured and exhibited his work in over one-hundred-twenty prestigious academic institutions in Europe and the U.S. including a solo show of his work given by the International Forum for Contemporary Architecture at the Aedes gallery in Berlin (2003) and numerous group shows including YOUprison at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin (2008) and Spazio at the opening show of the MAXXI museum in Rome (2010). He was the architect and co-curator of the Kingdom of Bahrain’s national pavilion at the Venice Biennale’s 14th International Architecture Exhibition in 2014. Khoury started an independent practice in 1993. His work has been extensively published by the professional press. Over the past twenty years, his office has developed an international reputation and a significant diverse portfolio of projects both locally and in over fifteen countries abroad.
“I think about it a lot with dance and I think about it alot with the relationship between a body contributing something into space with others and how that relates to a life of the mind; in what ways do our words dance with each other…”
On episode 048 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by acclaimed author Maggie Nelson. Maggie discusses the challenges of online teaching during the pandemic, and what it’s been like to work on her new book. Paul and Maggie also explore the similarities between dancing and writing, and the relation of both to performance and improvisation.
Maggie Nelson is the author of nine books of poetry and prose, many of which have become cult classics defying categorization, and include titles such as The Argonauts(2015), The Art of Cruelty (2011), Bluets (2009), and The Red Parts (2007). In 2021 she will publish a work of cultural criticism tentatively titled The Myth of Freedom, followed by a collection of art essays in 2022. In 2016 she was awarded a MacArthur “genius” Fellowship. She teaches at USC and lives in Los Angeles.
“It’s the experience of being in a room full of strangers and you are all surprised and amazed momentarily at something that you connected with that nobody thought you were going to connect with…you’ve definitely hooked into humanity, and if we lose that—that’s really dangerous”
On episode 047 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by award-winning actor and comedian, Patton Oswalt. They discuss the challenge of creating comedy in this moment and how the survival of artists relies upon the resolve to adapt. Paul and Patton also ponder the potential long-term effects of social-distancing and the sense of connection and humanity that is lost as a result.
Patton Peter Oswalt is an award winning stand-up comedian, actor, voice actor, and writer. He currently narrates the sitcom The Goldbergs (2013–present) as adult Adam F. Goldberg and has appeared in six stand-up specials.
“These memories of feeling at one with music, feeling overwhelmed, the memory of intensity can be so powerful…”
On episode 046 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by
New Yorker
music critic Alex Ross. They discuss the powerful relationship between music and the listener, and what is lost in the now ubiquitous digital livestream experience. Paul and Alex also explore the impact that the pandemic is having on musicians of all kinds and what it means to support this facet of culture going forward.
https://www.therestisnoise.com/
"The communal enjoyment of music and the joy and ecstasy it can bring”...
On episode 045 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by Nik Hlady, co-founder of Los Angeles Nightlife Alliance (LANA), a grassroots volunteer-based organization. They discuss LANA's role in advocating for the independent nightlife community in Los Angeles, and its mission before, during, and after the pandemic.
"We can only understand the world that was, after the moment of transformation.”
On episode 044 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by professor and author Imani Perry. They discuss the notion of collective grief, what it means for artists and thinkers to speak out against injustice in this moment, and how humility can function as both a virtue and a form of submission.
Imani Perry is the Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University and the author of 6 books, including the award winning Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry.
On episode 043 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber sits down with artist and writer Molly Crabapple for a discussion on Jewish Identity and how art can be used as a means to draw closer to the people and places we love. Molly also shares her thoughts on the current state of New York City, where she lives, and what might become of it after the pandemic.
Molly Crabapple is an artist and writer in New York. She is the author of two books, Drawing Blood and Brothers of the Gun, (with Marwan Hisham), which was long-listed for a National Book Award in 2018. Her reportage has been published in the New York Times, New York Review of Books, The Paris Review, Vanity Fair, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker and elsewhere. Her art is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art. She is currently a 2020 New America Fellow and a 2020 Bard Fellow at the Brooklyn Public Library.
On episode 042 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber speaks with Darren Walker, president of the Ford Foundation. They discuss collective interdependence, economic inequality, corporate responsibility, and how hope is crucial to our democracy.
Darren Walker is president of the Ford Foundation, a $13 billion international social justice philanthropy with offices in the U.S. and ten regions around the globe. For two decades, he has been a leader in the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors. Educated exclusively in public schools, Darren was a member of the first class of Head Start in 1965 and received his bachelor’s and law degrees from The University of Texas at Austin.
In this episode Baz and Paul discuss the implications of using language from the criminal justice system (i.e. “lockdown”) to describe conditions during the pandemic, the public health crisis occurring within the American prison system, and what it would look like to move toward a restorative justice model.
Dr. Baz Dreisinger is a writer, producer, agitator and activist. She is the author of Incarceration Nations: A Journey to Justice in Prisons Around the World; Executive Director of the Incarceration Nations Network; Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice; and Founder of the Prison-to-College Pipeline.
Paul Holdengräber is joined by designer, author, and artist Edwin Schlossberg on episode 040 of The Quarantine Tapes. They discuss the act of listening and collaborative problem solving.
Edwin Arthur Schlossberg (born July 19, 1945) is an American designer, author, and artist. He specializes in designing interactive, participatory experiences, beginning in 1977 with the first hands-on learning environment in the U.S. for the Brooklyn Children's Museum. Schlossberg continues to work in the field and publishes frequently on the subject. He is the husband of Caroline Kennedy.
He has published 11 books, including "Einstein and Beckett and Interactive Excellence: Defining and Developing New Standards for the Twenty-first Century". His artwork has been presented in many one-man shows and museum exhibits. In 2011, he was appointed to the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts by President Barack Obama.
Episode Footnotes:
Paul Davies
The Demon in the Machine
John Cage
Interviewed by Jonathan Cott (1963)
Buckminster Fuller
Buckminster Fuller Werner Erhard 7 hour conversation
The World Game
White paper
Erving Goffman
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
Today on episode 039 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by Father Greg Boyle. They discuss the importance of kinship and an equity-based economy.
Gregory Boyle is the founder of Homeboy Industries in Los Angeles, California, the largest gang intervention, rehabilitation, and re-entry program in the world.
A Jesuit priest, from 1986 to 1992 Father Boyle served as pastor of Dolores Mission Church, then the poorest Catholic parish in Los Angeles that also had the highest concentration of gang activity in the city.
Father Boyle witnessed the devastating impact of gang violence on his community during the so-called “decade of death” that began in the late 1980s and peaked at 1,000 gang-related killings in 1992. In the face of law enforcement tactics, and criminal justice policies of suppression, and mass incarceration as the means to end gang violence, Father Boyle, and his parish and community members adopted what was a radical approach at the time: Treat gang members as human beings. In 1988 they started what would eventually become Homeboy Industries, which employs and trains former gang members in a range of social enterprises, as well as provides critical services to thousands of men and women who walk through its doors every year seeking a better life.
Father Boyle is the author of the 2010 New York Times-bestseller Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion. His new book, Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship, was published in 2017.
He has received the California Peace Prize and been inducted into the California Hall of Fame. In 2014, President Obama named Father Boyle a Champion of Change. He received the University of Notre Dame’s 2017 Laetare Medal, the oldest honor given to American Catholics.
Today on episode 038, Paul Holdengräber is joined by the Executive and Artistic Director of UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance, Kristy Edmunds. Paul and Kristy discuss the solace found in the arts, and how we now have an opportunity, because of this pandemic, to think about how the arts can be supported, in the hopes that they might still exist for future generations to enjoy.
Kristy Edmunds is an artist, curator, frequent keynote speaker and currently the Executive and Artistic Director of UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance (CAP UCLA), a leading presenter of contemporary performance on the West Coast.
FootnotesUCLA Center for the Art of Performance
Ladysmith Black Mambazo at UCLA Center for the Art of Performance
Wim Wenders: “The most political decision you make is where you direct people's eyes. In other words, what you show people, day in and day out, is political...And the most politically indoctrinating thing you can do to a human being is to show him, every day, that there can be no change.”
Paul Holdengräber is joined by author and educator Kwame Dawes on episode 037 of The Quarantine Tapes. They discuss the purpose of poetry and what it means to bear witness to life.
Kwame Dawes is the author of numerous books of poetry, fiction, criticism, and essays. He is Glenna Luschei Editor of Prairie Schooner and teaches at the University of Nebraska and the Pacific MFA Program. Dawes is Director of the African Poetry Book Fund and Artistic Director of the Calabash International Literary Festival.
Episode Footnotes
Nikky Finney
Sea Grapes, by Derek Walcott
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOlbD_Gawis
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57111/sea-grapes
Paul Holdengräber is joined by author and environmentalist Bill McKibben on episode 036 of The Quarantine Tapes. They discuss the precarity of this moment in human history, where there might be room for hope when thinking about the future, and the importance of listening and giving voice to our youth.
Bill also shares a few lessons that we can learn during this time, including:
- Trusting that physical reality is, in fact, real. We live in a world of screens and reality is easy to manipulate. Physics and chemistry are real and the C02 molecule is nothing to be negotiated or compromised with. The virus, or the microbe, proves the same thing about biology.
- Speed and timing are of the utmost importance. We’ve now seen the consequences of delayed action both with the current pandemic and with climate change.
- Social solidarity matters.
Bill McKibben is an author and environmentalist who in 2014 was awarded the Right Livelihood Prize, sometimes called the ‘alternative Nobel.’ His 1989 book The End of Nature is regarded as the first book for a general audience about climate change, and has appeared in 24 languages; he’s gone on to write a dozen more books. He is a founder of 350.org, the first planet-wide, grassroots climate change movement, which has organized twenty thousand rallies around the world in every country save North Korea, spearheaded the resistance to the Keystone Pipeline, and launched the fast-growing fossil fuel divestment movement.
The Schumann Distinguished Scholar in Environmental Studies at Middlebury College and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he was the 2013 winner of the Gandhi Prize and the Thomas Merton Prize, and holds honorary degrees from 18 colleges and universities. Foreign Policy named him to their inaugural list of the world’s 100 most important global thinkers, and the Boston Globe said he was “probably America’s most important environmentalist.”
A former staff writer for the New Yorker, he writes frequently for a wide variety of publications around the world, including the New York Review of Books, National Geographic, and Rolling Stone. He lives in the mountains above Lake Champlain with his wife, the writer Sue Halpern, where he spends as much time as possible outdoors . In 2014, biologists honored him by naming a new species of woodland gnat— Megophthalmidia mckibbeni–in his honor.
For more information, please visit: www.billmckibben.com
Paul Holdengräber is joined by Davina Two Bears on episode 035 of The Quarantine Tapes. They discuss the history of Native American boarding schools, decolonizing the fields of archaeology and anthropology, and how music can be used as a form of resistance.
Davina Two Bears is Diné (Navajo) from Northern Arizona. She has a PhD in Anthropology from Indiana University – Bloomington and is currently a Anne Ray fellow at the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Two Bears grew up on the Navajo Reservation, and is a life-long listener of Native American and Indigenous music from her tribe and other Native American Nations. While a grad student, she began to volunteer as a DJ playing Native American traditional and contemporary music. She became instantly hooked and realized the breadth and depth of Native American and Indigenous musical talent from the Canadian Arctic to the tip of South America. She has taught a college course entitled, “Indians Who Rock the World: Native American Contemporary Music,” and hopes to continue learning, teaching, and DJing Native American and Indigenous music. You can listen to her online radio show “Indigenous Voice”, every fourth Sunday of the month on dublab.com.
Paul Holdengräber is joined by literary scholar Victor Brombert on episode 034 of The Quarantine Tapes. They discuss literature as a sign of survival, the importance of humor, and more.
Victor Henri Brombert is an American scholar of nineteenth and twentieth century literature, the Henry Putnam University Professor at Princeton University. Brombert’s work is primarily focused on 19th and 20th century French literature, and also on the history of ideas; the theory of literary criticism; and comparative studies of Italian, Russian, and German narrative writers. In addition to his books, he has contributed to edited volumes and written journal articles on French writers from Pascal to Malraux, Sartre, and Camus, and on many non-French writers: Dostoevsky, Gogol, Tolstoy; Büchner, Max Frisch, Kafka, Thomas Mann; Giorgio Bassani, Primo Levi, Italo Svevo; J. M. Coetzee, Virginia Woolf.
Brombert is also the author of a memoir, Trains of Thought: Memories of a Stateless Youth (New York: W.W. Norton, 2002; paperback, Anchor Books, 2004). He is currently working on a sequel, to be entitled The Sabbatical Years.
Paul Holdengräber is joined by Sandra Jackson-Dumont, the director of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, on episode 033 of The Quarantine Tapes. They discuss the history of visual storytelling, the role of museums in our shifting world, and more.
Sandra Jackson-Dumont has been appointed Museum Director and Chief Executive Officer at The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art. Tasked with leading the institution through its opening and beyond, Jackson-Dumont joined the Lucas Museum in January 2020. She comes to the museum from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, where she served as the Frederick P. and Sandra P. Rose Chairman of Education and Public Programs from 2014 to 2019.
Paul Holdengräber is joined by musician and soundscape ecologist Bernie Krause. Tune in as they discuss Krause’s career and how he arrived at soundscape ecology, the healing potential of natural soundscapes, and the importance in asking ourselves how we are acting toward the people and planet we love.
Since 1968, Bernie Krause has traveled the world recording and archiving the sounds of creatures and environments large and small. Working at the research sites of Jane Goodall (Gombe, Tanzania), Biruté Galdikas (Camp Leakey, Borneo), and Dian Fossey (Karisoke, Rwanda), he identified the concepts of the Acoustic Niche Hypothesis (ANH), and biophony the collective and organized acoustic output as each species establishes unique frequency and/or temporal bandwidth within a given habitat. Krause, who holds a PhD in Creative Arts with an internship in Bioacoustics, was a key figure in implementing natural soundscapes as a resource for the U. S. National Park Service. His recent book, The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World’s Wild Places, was published by Little Brown/Hachette, March, 2012, and has been translated into eight languages.
You may notice the sounds of our natural world included in this special interview. This dawn chorus was captured by Bernie Krause and was recorded April 15th, 2020 at Sugarloaf Ridge State Park in Sonoma Valley, about 50 miles N. of San Francisco.
Credit: Sonoma Valley Sunrise, recording by Bernie Krause, © 2020 Wild Sanctuary. All Rights Reserved. https://wildstore.wildsanctuary.com
Keanakay Scott spent her childhood living in and out of foster care. At age 18, she became homeless for more than a decade, despite having employment.
Scott discusses with Holdengräber the correlation between foster care and homelessness. She details her experiences with the foster care system, and describes how important it is to teach basic life lessons, like how to find an apartment, budgeting, and paying rent. Scott discusses her experience with issues surrounding fostered youth and PTSD. She was diagnosed with the illness at 27.
After describing the trauma children experience in the foster care system, Scott and Holdengräber discuss concrete ways to implement change.
Angel Bat Dawid describes her background as a classically trained musician in contrast to her experience with jazz in her home city of Chicago. These improvised jam sessions opened Bat Dawid’s eyes to a new way of playing. This combination of musical skill inspired Bat Dawid to compose her work “Requiem for Jazz,” a 12 part Requiem Mass celebrating life, death and Jazz.
Bat Dawid discusses the importance of self care, and slowing down to experience life without anxiety. Bat Dawid describes her thoughts about music as a healing force, and includes stories about African American communities, and how cultures have used music to express suffering and joys, and to promote collective healing.
Amanda Vincelli is co-founder and Program Director of Navel, a LA based nonprofit designed to foster collectivity and kinship through accessible public cultural programming, collaborative learning initiatives, and residency programs.
In this episode, Vincelli and Holdengräber talk about the fundamentals of Navel as a non-profit organization, and how important physical space is to the mission and vision of Navel; through assemblies, events, workshops and artists residencies.
Since the start of the pandemic, Vincelli and the team at Navel have been re-assessing how to connect within these online spaces, with concerns about surveillance and corporate ownership. Vincelli wonders how we can maintain an autonomous relationship to our cultural landscapes in these online environments.
Hunkered down in Nashville Tennessee, Steve speaks with Paul about their shared admiration of Studs Turkel, and Steve’s love for fellow songwriter and performing artist Bob Dylan.
Steve was in NYC as it began to shut down for quarantine, and witnessed the very sudden closure of Broadway, including the Public Theater, where he was working the play Coal Country. “culture has been one of the first things to go in NYC”.
They also talk of his new album “Ghosts Of West Virginia” due for release on May 22nd.
Steve is a protege of legendary songwriters Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark. He quickly became a master storyteller in his own right, with his songs being recorded by Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Joan Baez, Emmylou Harris, The Pretenders, and countless others. 1986 saw the release of his debut record, Guitar Town, which shot to number one on the country charts and is now regarded as a classic of the Americana genre.
Julie Mehretu's work focuses on large scale layers of abstracted landscapes, as well as drawings and prints that depict the cumulative effects of urban socio-political changes. Today she speaks with Paul about her attraction to abstractions, ….“it's a place of possibility where language can be invented, where a different form of imagination can appear and a different form of freedom.”
Urgency, anxiety and stillness - these are the words that Julie Mehretu has used to describe how she is seeing and feeling this pandemic. Listen to this episode to hear Julie and Paul unpack these words, and to hear about her obsession with Herman Melville’s classic Moby Dick - her go-to read for anxious quarantine nights.
Julie has shown her work extensively internationally, in both public and private collections, and is represented by Marian Goodman Gallery, NY.
The prolific, avant-garde electronic duo ADULT. speaks with Paul on today’s episode of The Quarantine Tapes.
Isolation is not so much a strange phenomena for ADULT. The band has long been incorporating temporary states of isolation into their artistic process. They discuss why they choose this isolation as a way to create music, and how it contrasts their very public, rewarding, and mentally exhausting touring schedule.
Their most recent album “Perception is/as/of Deception (Perception is/as/of Deception)” continues to defy genre and style, and is perceived as their most punk- infused and introspective work to date.
Conceived and recorded in a temporary blackhole that they created by painting their windowless basement black, ADULT.'s sole intention was to deprive their senses, question their perceptions, and witness the resulting ramifications
Elif recounts how she has been adapting to her new life by balancing her inward and outward looking self. She and Paul speak about the importance of authors and intellectuals narrating micro histories in literature. Shafak was born in Strasbourg, France, and raised in Turkey. Elif takes her responsibility as an author to write about the pandemic and share stories that might help us all have a better cognitive understanding of the present moment.
“Books should have a constant presence in our lives” - Elif shares her views on the importance of reading across disciplines, across territories, fiction, non - fiction, in order to help us make more informed and thoughtful decisions about the world.
Elif has written 17 books, 11 of which are novels, including the Booker-nominated 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World. Shafak is an inspiring public speaker and an advocate for women's rights, LGBT rights and freedom of speech.
www.elifshafak.com
William Gibson wakes up each morning, not knowing what to expect, like many of us we open twitter to see what's happening in the world. William is also trying to imagine twitter without the pandemic, what the news would have been? He likens this Pandemic as the opportunity to experience the big global climate change catastrophe - before it really kicks in.
Sister Helen Prejean is no stranger to the prison system and has worked tirelessly to fight the death penalty in the US, most notably with her book "Dead Man Walking". That book ignited a national debate on capital punishment and spawned an Academy Award winning movie, a play, and an opera.
Sister Helen continues to fight many battles for social justice. Her attention is now focused on fighting the Federal Bureau of Prisons, urging them to improve living conditions for inmates during this Pandemic.
Dr Feldman serves on the ethics committee of his hospital and has spent a lot of time over the last few weeks critically thinking of how to manage resource scarcity during this pandemic. In the last few weeks, Feldman and his team have had to raise questions? How to allocate resources when there aren’t enough? Should healthcare workers have priority for a ventilator? All questions among many more that hospitals across the US have to address and that raise ethical questions.
They discuss Moral Injury - words often heard as a vocabulary of war - something that doctors are feeling during this pandemic. We also hear from Dr Feldman on what he hopes will change in the health care system as we move out of this pandemic.
Lynell George has been a resident in Los Angeles all her life, in this episode Lynell questions how a city like LA can come back post COVID-19 and what will happen to us in the process. Her Essay for The High Country News on March 27th “ Safe At Home In LA” reported on what that looked like. Speaking with Paul today, she remarked “ it really was like a light switch, the city could be turned off”.
Min Jin Lee discusses her views on the current pandemic from her home in NYC - a city that has been at the epicenter of the Coronavirus outbreak and has seen incredible suffering. In her lifetime Min has witnessed first hand world disasters from 9/11 (living 8 blocks from The World Trade Center), Tokyo’s earthquake as well as her father being a refugee in the Vietnam War - but nothing in her eyes compares to this pandemic.
Listen to the episode to hear Min Jin Lee and Paul unpack conditional questions and meaning on how the world could be….. “All of us are observing and participating in this new culture”.
There is a housing crisis in Los Angeles, one that existed way before COVID-19 and there exist people like Tracy who are fighting to reframe the protagonist of this crisis - not the banks but the people paying for the right to have a home.
“We Don’t Have A Housing Crisis. We have a Tenants Rights Crisis” coins Tracy in her essay in Commune Magazine July Issue 2019.
https://communemag.com/101-notes-on-the-la-tenants-union/
The LA Tenants Union was co-founded by Tracy 5 years ago and was formed by a group of tenants that work to expand tenants rights. They work on a completely voluntary basis and are funded by membership dues. They are a horizontal organization that organizes tenants associations, which are organized through 12 chapters throughout LA and as well as taking on the form of a union at city level. They see themselves as a movement not as a organization - building an infrastructure for tenants so they know they are not alone and together they have the power to speak up.
If you would like to find out more or offer your help to LA Tenants Union, please get in contact with LA Tenants Union via their website or social media.
https://latenantsunion.org/en/
Edwidge Danticat, author of “Breath, Eyes, Memory” and “Everything Inside” converses with Paul about the fragility of life and proximity of death in episode 018 of The Quarantine Tapes.
Lynette Wallworth is an artist who is no stranger to long periods of “self-imposed isolation” - the power of contemplation and stillness is pivotal when she creates new works, but this time round like all of us across the globe, this has shifted to “enforced isolation”. Paul and Lynette discuss our needs during this time and how our desires have changed on both a micro and macro level. Comparing the current Pandemic to London’s Bombings of which she experience first hand - Lynette notes back to that real animal instinct - manifested by the desire to connect with those who are constant touchstones in one’s life.
“There are a few things we should keenly desire, if we really know what we wanted” - La Rochefoucauld.
Lynette recently spoke at The World Economic Forum in January 2020 collecting the Crystal Award for her work in visual art , she also used this time to speak to World leaders about Climate Change at a time when Australia was burning. With the current pandemic one realizes the things that really matter and what to care about in our lives, whether its seeing nature revivify, having clean air and water and a sense of freedom.
Paul and Sarah discuss what community means to WCCW and what community will look like once we return to a sense of “normal”. They also discuss how artists are creating during this time, and through this how artists are showing how the structures of our society, which for most people have been incredibly oppressive, now are serving us even less.
California born Sarah Williams has been producing projects, exhibitions, programs, events and publications with ForYourArt, WCCW, CLOSING, and the Art Book Review. She serves on the boards of Common Field and ProjectQ as well as the Elysian Valley Neighborhood Council.
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April 10th 2020
“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.“ - Blaise Pascal.
The Quarantine Tapes is a week-day program from Onassis LA and dublab. Hosted by Paul Holdengräber, the series chronicles shifting paradigms in the age of social distancing. Each day, Paul Holdengräber calls a guest for a brief discussion about how they are experiencing the global pandemic.
On today's episode, recorded April 8th 2020, Paul talks with singer, songwriter, author and daughter of Johnny Cash, Rosanne Cash.
“Time doesn't fly - it bounds and leaps - I keep thinking about that… Our sense of time is distorted. It particularly seems distorted right now. You know I know 7 people who have died in the last 10 days from the virus - 5 of them from the virus and 2 from old age. It seems like it's an avalanche of loss and it makes me feel that time is going too fast. You used to get time to process a loss and a death and it’s not happening right now.” - Rosanne Cash
Paul Holdengräber is an interviewer and curator of public curiosity. He is the Founder and Director of Onassis LA (OLA), a center for dialogue. Previously he was the Founder and Director of LIVE from the NYPL, a cultural series at the New York Public Library, where he hosted over 600 events, holding conversations with everyone from Patti Smith to Zadie Smith, Ricky Jay to Jay-Z, Errol Morris to Jan Morris, Wes Anderson to Helen Mirren, Christopher Hitchens to Mike Tyson. He is the host of "A Phone Call From Paul," a podcast for The Literary Hub.
You can find Paul on Twitter: @Holdengraber
Onassis LA is a center for dialogue in Los Angeles, and a part of the Onassis Foundation.
DUBLAB is a non-profit radio station based in Los Angeles. Since 1999, DUBLAB has been broadcasting wide spectrum music from around the world daily. Their programming has expanded to include the production of original art exhibitions, films, record releases, education programs related to health, youth, development, education creative processes and events with leading institutions in LA and beyond. DUBLAB is a platform for discovery and cultivation of next - wave music, arts and culture.
For over 20 years, DUBLAB’s fundamental goal has been to support the broad range of Los Angeles’ talent and diversity in inclusive and inspiring ways. DUBLAB also includes affiliate stations in Germany, Japan, Spain, and Brazil, with more than 300,000 international listeners who connect to our streams and podcasts every day.
Chris Smalls is a previous Amazon Supervisor aka process assistant who held a walk out in Staten Island over two weeks ago that resulted in his termination. This was in protest to Amazon's nonchalant approach to dealing with COVID-19 at its distribution centers across the country. Smalls had been seeing an increase in the number of people getting sick at the beginning of March and began reaching out to the CDC as a supervisor he wanted to make sure his team, his “extended family” were protected. The interview with Smalls discloses the inner-workings of Amazon and its obsession with expediency.
Chris’ life changed on March 30th when he took on the role as “whistle blower” because of Amazon’s so called “lack of protection” for its employees. He is now empowering people across the world to step up to companies like Amazon, united in one thing; "Taking the power back from capitalism".
“ People will remember and embrace the longing for community and apply this to how we go about our daily lives”
Paul Holdengräber is an interviewer and curator of public curiosity. He is the Founder and Director of Onassis LA (OLA), a center for dialogue. Previously he was the Founder and Director of LIVE from the NYPL, a cultural series at the New York Public Library, where he hosted over 600 events, holding conversations with everyone from Patti Smith to Zadie Smith, Ricky Jay to Jay-Z, Errol Morris to Jan Morris, Wes Anderson to Helen Mirren, Christopher Hitchens to Mike Tyson. He is the host of "A Phone Call From Paul," a podcast for The Literary Hub.
You can find Paul on Twitter @Holdengraber
Onassis LA is a center for dialogue in Los Angeles, and a part of the Onassis Foundation.
DUBLAB is a non-profit radio station based in Los Angeles. Since 1999, DUBLAB has been broadcasting wide spectrum music from around the world daily. Their programming has expanded to include the production of original art exhibitions, films, record releases, education programs related to health, youth, development, education creative processes and events with leading institutions in LA and beyond. DUBLAB is a platform for discovery and cultivation of next - wave music, arts and culture.
For over 20 years, DUBLAB’s fundamental goal has been to support the broad range of Los Angeles’ talent and diversity in inclusive and inspiring ways. DUBLAB also includes affiliate stations in Germany, Japan, Spain, and Brazil, with more than 300,000 international listeners who connect to our streams and podcasts every day.
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor writes and speaks on Black politics, social movements, and racial inequality in the United States.
Taylor is a widely sought public speaker and writer. In 2016, she was named one of the hundred most influential African Americans in the United States by The Root. She has been appointed as a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians by the Organization of American Historians, and as the Charles H. McIlwain University Preceptor at Princeton University from 2018-2021. Author of From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation, which won the Lannan Cultural Freedom Award for an Especially Notable Book in 2016. She is also editor of How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective, which won the Lambda Literary Award for LGBQT nonfiction in 2018.
Paul Holdengräber is an interviewer and curator of public curiosity. He is the Founder and Director of Onassis LA (OLA), a center for dialogue. Previously he was the Founder and Director of LIVE from the NYPL, a cultural series at the New York Public Library, where he hosted over 600 events, holding conversations with everyone from Patti Smith to Zadie Smith, Ricky Jay to Jay-Z, Errol Morris to Jan Morris, Wes Anderson to Helen Mirren, Christopher Hitchens to Mike Tyson. He is the host of "A Phone Call From Paul," a podcast for The Literary Hub.
DUBLAB is a non-profit radio station based in Los Angeles. Since 1999, DUBLAB has been broadcasting wide spectrum music from around the world daily. Their programming has expanded to include the production of original art exhibitions, films, record releases, education programs related to health, youth, development, education creative processes and events with leading institutions in LA and beyond. DUBLAB is a platform for discovery and cultivation of next - wave music, arts and culture.
Critical care physician Daniela Lamas takes a call with Paul discussing the new dynamics of care giving during the COVID-19 era and real accounts from the frontline. How does one prepare for the unprecedented? We explore the unforeseen challenges, and the isolating effects of quarantine between patient and caregiver. As well as the notable effect of family and loved ones now not being able to physically be there for their loved ones during this time. Daniela also gives thought on what she hopes will change within the medical profession to better prepare for a pandemic of this size.
“This [pandemic] forces the entire world to in essence step back and to not only deal with the crisis at hand, but also to see how we can develop in the future and who do we want to be in a future that will have these types of challenges.”
Nicolas Berggruen is the Chairman of the Berggruen Institute, which addresses fundamental political and cultural questions in our rapidly changing world. Committed to leaving a legacy of art and architecture, he serves on museum boards and councils from Los Angeles to Berlin and is presently planning the Institute’s new headquarters in the Santa Monica mountains with Swiss architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron. Berggruen is co-author with Nathan Gardels of Renovating Democracy: Governing in the Age of Globalization and Digital Capitalism and Intelligent Governance for the 21st Century, a Financial Times Book of the Year.
Paul Holdengräber is an interviewer and curator of public curiosity. He is the Founder and Director of Onassis LA (OLA), a center for dialogue. Previously he was the Founder and Director of LIVE from the NYPL, a cultural series at the New York Public Library, where he hosted over 600 events, holding conversations with everyone from Patti Smith to Zadie Smith, Ricky Jay to Jay-Z, Errol Morris to Jan Morris, Wes Anderson to Helen Mirren, Christopher Hitchens to Mike Tyson. He is the host of "A Phone Call From Paul," a podcast for The Literary Hub.
You can find Paul on Twitter: @Holdengraber
DUBLAB is a non-profit radio station based in Los Angeles. Since 1999, DUBLAB has been broadcasting wide spectrum music from around the world daily. Their programming has expanded to include the production of original art exhibitions, films, record releases, education programs related to health, youth, development, education creative processes and events with leading institutions in LA and beyond. DUBLAB is a platform for discovery and cultivation of next - wave music, arts and culture.
For over 20 years, DUBLAB’s fundamental goal has been to support the broad range of Los Angeles’ talent and diversity in inclusive and inspiring ways. DUBLAB also includes affiliate stations in Germany, Japan, Barcelona, and Brazil, with more than 300,000 international listeners who connect to our streams and podcasts every day.
In this episode Paul and Melody discuss the idea of learning to live with oneself in a moment of crisis like the one we are living in. There is also advice from Melody - and how we can ground ourselves in the present, in the everyday activities we partake in.
Recorded on April, 1st 2020
Topics Covered;
- The difference between loneliness and solitude. Perfecting the ability of being alone.
- How communities with informal micro economies go beyond political borders.
- Learning how to live oneself in a moment of crisis. How various forms of challenges can create isolation for oneself as it did for Melody.
“People who build community are the ones that survive the best in these crisis situations” - Melody Wainscott
Today on the #QuarantineTapes, Paul Holdengräber sits down with English philosopher and Hans Jonas Professor at the New School for Social Research, Simon Critchley, for a rich discussion on the importance of philosophy in this moment, the relationship between fear and anxiety, the decline of imperial power structures, art as catharsis, and much more.
Topics Covered;
- Philosophy - and it's important right now. Philosophy is a description of who we are, what it means to be human, the essence of being human is existence.
- The closeness of Fear & Anxiety. Our fear stems from contagion & fear of infection - fear is what threatens us. Anxiety is the uncanniness of being in the world as such.
- He discusses learning how to die, “he who has learnt hot to die, has unlearnt how to be a slave”
- Imperial power structures - is this pandemic bringing an end to Imperial Power structures. Is the USA relevant as a power nation when it can’t even provide basic universal health care.
- Hypochondria - is on his mind and the relationship between mind and body.
- Existential phenomenology - or “An Existential Phenomenologist” as Simon describes himself
- Philosophy as a way of preparing for death
- Optimism and Pessimism vs. Realism
“See the skull beneath the skin, as Eliot said of Webster. That’s what good art allows us to do.”
“ Life is actually neither short nor unnecessarily long, it is what is its and we learn to live it, or rather life lives us”
Presented by DUBLAB & Onassis LA
Hosted by Paul Holdengräber
Recorded on March, 29th 2020
Naveen Kishore is the founder and managing director of Seagull Books - a publishing house located in Calcutta, India, which began primarily as a response to the growing need for an Indian publishing house focused on theatre and other arts. Seagull Books has translated just about more foreign literature than any other major publishing house in the world. He was the recipient of the Goethe Medal and the Chevalier Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Kishore lives and works in Calcutta.
Paul Holdengräber is an interviewer and curator of public curiosity. He is the Founder and Director of Onassis LA (OLA), a center for dialogue. Previously he was the Founder and Director of LIVE from the NYPL, a cultural series at the New York Public Library, where he hosted over 600 events, holding conversations with everyone from Patti Smith to Zadie Smith, Ricky Jay to Jay-Z, Errol Morris to Jan Morris, Wes Anderson to Helen Mirren, Christopher Hitchens to Mike Tyson. He is the host of "A Phone Call From Paul," a podcast for The Literary Hub.
You can find Paul on Twitter: @Holdengraber
Onassis LA is a center for dialogue in Los Angeles, and a part of the Onassis Foundation.
DUBLAB is a non-profit radio station based in Los Angeles. Since 1999, DUBLAB has been broadcasting wide spectrum music from around the world daily. Their programming has expanded to include the production of original art exhibitions, films, record releases, education programs related to health, youth, development, education creative processes and events with leading institutions in LA and beyond. DUBLAB is a platform for discovery and cultivation of next - wave music, arts and culture.
For over 20 years, DUBLAB’s fundamental goal has been to support the broad range of Los Angeles’ talent and diversity in inclusive and inspiring ways. DUBLAB also includes affiliate stations in Germany, Japan, Spain, and Brazil, with more than 300,000 international listeners who connect to our streams and podcasts every day.
For over 40 years, Judy Vaughan, csj has worked at the national, state, and city levels to promote social change, improve economic justice and enhance human rights. She has dedicated her personal and professional life towards addressing the systemic injustices that keep women and children homeless and living in poverty. She has worked tirelessly on welfare, childcare, immigration, affordable housing, and issues related to prejudice and discrimination. Her efforts to restore the inherent dignity and provide hope to homeless women is evident in her work as previous Director of House of Ruth, an East L.A. emergency shelter, and as the Founding Director of Alexandria House, a transitional residence and neighborhood center for women and children in need. She has co-facilitated over 100 “Multicultural Look at Racism” anti-racism workshops and was an adjunct faculty member for the “Socio-Economic and Cultural Diversity” class at Mount St. Mary’s College.
https://www.alexandriahouse.org/help
Paul Holdengräber is an interviewer and curator of public curiosity. He is the Founder and Director of Onassis LA (OLA), a center for dialogue. Previously he was the Founder and Director of LIVE from the NYP L, a cultural series at the New York Public Library, where he hosted over 600 events, holding conversations with everyone from Patti Smith to Zadie Smith, Ricky Jay to Jay-Z, Errol Morris to Jan Morris, Wes Anderson to Helen Mirren, Christopher Hitchens to Mike Tyson. He is the host of "A Phone Call From Paul," a podcast for The Literary Hub. https://twitter.com/holdengraber
The Quarantine Tapes: Is a podcast brought to you from Onassis LA and dublab. Hosted by Paul Holdengräber, the series chronicles shifting paradigms in the age of social distancing. Each day, Paul Holdengräber calls a guest for a 20-minute discussion about how they are experiencing the global pandemic.
Artist, poet, musician and performer, Saul Williams is from New York and lives in LA, with his family. He speaks with Paul just a week after his return from shooting his first film, a sci-fi musical, in Rwanda.
www.Saulwilliams.com
Paul Holdengräber is an interviewer and curator of public curiosity. He is the Founder and Director of Onassis LA (OLA), a center for dialogue. Previously he was the Founder and Director of LIVE from the NYPL, a cultural series at the New York Public Library, where he hosted over 600 events, holding conversations with everyone from Patti Smith to Zadie Smith, Ricky Jay to Jay-Z, Errol Morris to Jan Morris, Wes Anderson to Helen Mirren, Christopher Hitchens to Mike Tyson. He is the host of "A Phone Call From Paul," a podcast for The Literary Hub.
https://twitter.com/holdengraber
Today Paul makes a call to Japan to speak with Pico Iyer. Pico Iyer is the author of 15 books, translated into 23 languages. Two of his most recent books, The Art of Stillness, and Autumn Light (a meditation on impermanence), may seem eerily relevant right now.
Maira Kalman is the author/illustrator of 30 books for adults and children. She is a contributor to the New York Times and the New Yorker. She is working on a book for the public library - a compendium of knowledge.
The Quarantine Tapes: a daily program from Onassis LA and dublab. Hosted by Paul Holdengräber, the series chronicles shifting paradigms in the age of social distancing.
About Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog, born in Munich in 1942, grew up as a child in a remote valley in the Bavarian mountains. Until age 11, he did not even know of the existence of cinema. He started to develop film projects from age 15 on, and since no one was willing to finance them, he worked the night shift as a welder in a steel factory during the last years of high school. He also started to travel on foot. He made his first phone call at age 17 and his first film at 19. He dropped out of college where he studied history and literature. Since then he has written, produced, and directed some 70 films, has published books of prose, staged about a dozen operas, acted in films, and founded his own Rogue Film School.
www.wernerherzog.com
About the host...
Paul Holdengräber is an interviewer and curator of public curiosity. He is the Founder and Director of Onassis LA (OLA), a center for dialogue. Previously he was the Founder and Director of LIVE from the NYPL, a cultural series at the New York Public Library, where he hosted over 600 events, holding conversations with everyone from Patti Smith to Zadie Smith, Ricky Jay to Jay-Z, Errol Morris to Jan Morris, Wes Anderson to Helen Mirren, Christopher Hitchens to Mike Tyson. He is the host of "A Phone Call From Paul," a podcast for The Literary Hub.
You can follow Paul on Twitter @holdengraber
About the Onassis Foundation
Onassis LA is a center for dialogue in Los Angeles, and a part of the Onassis Foundation.
The Quarantine Tapes is a daily program from Onassis LA and dublab. Hosted by Paul Holdengräber, the series chronicles shifting paradigms in the age of social distancing. Each day, Paul Holdengräber calls a guest for a 20-minute discussion about how they are experiencing the global pandemic.
About the host...
Paul Holdengräber is an interviewer and curator of public curiosity. He is the Founder and Director of Onassis LA (OLA), a center for dialogue. Previously he was the Founder and Director of LIVE from the NYPL, a cultural series at the New York Public Library, where he hosted over 600 events, holding conversations with everyone from Patti Smith to Zadie Smith, Ricky Jay to Jay-Z, Errol Morris to Jan Morris, Wes Anderson to Helen Mirren, Christopher Hitchens to Mike Tyson. He is the host of "A Phone Call From Paul," a podcast for The Literary Hub.
You can follow Paul on Twitter @holdengraber
About the Onassis Foundation
Onassis LA is a center for dialogue in Los Angeles, and a part of the Onassis Foundation.