https://soundcloud.com/alan-nakagawa-188259702/introduction-visitings-episode
VISITINGS, Radio Show with Alan Nakagawa
A Echo Park Film Center/ Machine Projects/ DUBLAB Radio, 99.1FM/ Los Angeles CA
Each thirty-minute show will focus on one artist who has dedicated their lives to creating artwork that explores social issues, helping define the complex contemporary fabric of community, working beyond the traditional venues and making work that exists outside the traditional gallery or museum walls.
What inspires an artist? How do they process the issues most important in their lives? How do they define their context and how does that context inform their aesthetic vocabulary? What relevancy and value does their art play in today’s society? Can art be a catalyst for social change?
VISITNGS is inspired by:
-A studio visit is often where a curator, another artist or writer has a one on one exchange session with an artist in her/his studio. They often discuss their process, intent and experiences. One objective is to deeply understand the artists work so they can better represent it to the public.
-In todays technology-driven communication environment; screen relationships, texting, Facetime/Skype, teleconferencing and app chats; actually meeting in person, one-on-one and engaging in an in-depth conversation seems extraordinary and luxurious.
-Utilizing the practice of oral history; active listening allows us to experience the artist voice in a privileged listening experience; let go presumptions; and let the conversation improvise a choreography like strangers who serendipitously meet and find themselves engaged in a honest and meaningful conversation; welcome new topics and avenues unsuspected and/or previously not traveled.
-If minds are galaxies developed through unique-personal life travel, then are we not like aliens visiting new planets every time we attempt communication and isn’t this more the case when artists speak to other artists? If infinity exists within the space between two points, then the depth of our language must be infinite as well and therefore discussing what exists beyond common language is a performative exercise in diverse aesthetics.
Alan Nakagawa; inter-disciplinary artist who has utilizes oral history techniques in his community-based art practice. Primarily known as a sound artist, he is deeply interested in the mechanism of hearing and the history of listening and has completed unique artist residencies with such institutions as the LA Metro, Getty Villa, Echo Park Film Center, Smithsonian Museum of American History and Los Angeles Department of Transportation. He is currently creating a multi-point sound experience utilizing the recorded acoustics of the Sagrada Familia, Watts Towers, Hiroshima Atomic Dome and the Wendover Hangar. He is currently the artist in residence for Great Streets, Office of the Mayor of Los Angeles.
Optical Track is a weekly show presented by members of the Echo Park Film Center Co-op, a group of artists who collectively staff EPFC as volunteers for the cinematic revolution. Each week we will bring you a sonic slideshow as we turn off the projector bulbs and turn up the sound. Tuesdays 8 – 10pm pacific time on KFEP. Find Echo Park Film Center online at echoparkfilmcenter.org.
Saturday, September 9, 2017
VISITINGS Introduction episode
https://soundcloud.com/alan-nakagawa-188259702/introduction-visitings-episode
VISITINGS, Radio Show with Alan Nakagawa
A Echo Park Film Center/ Machine Projects/ DUBLAB Radio, 99.1FM/ Los Angeles CA
Each thirty-minute show will focus on one artist who has dedicated their lives to creating artwork that explores social issues, helping define the complex contemporary fabric of community, working beyond the traditional venues and making work that exists outside the traditional gallery or museum walls.
What inspires an artist? How do they process the issues most important in their lives? How do they define their context and how does that context inform their aesthetic vocabulary? What relevancy and value does their art play in today’s society? Can art be a catalyst for social change?
VISITNGS is inspired by:
-A studio visit is often where a curator, another artist or writer has a one on one exchange session with an artist in her/his studio. They often discuss their process, intent and experiences. One objective is to deeply understand the artists work so they can better represent it to the public.
-In todays technology-driven communication environment; screen relationships, texting, Facetime/Skype, teleconferencing and app chats; actually meeting in person, one-on-one and engaging in an in-depth conversation seems extraordinary and luxurious.
-Utilizing the practice of oral history; active listening allows us to experience the artist voice in a privileged listening experience; let go presumptions; and let the conversation improvise a choreography like strangers who serendipitously meet and find themselves engaged in a honest and meaningful conversation; welcome new topics and avenues unsuspected and/or previously not traveled.
-If minds are galaxies developed through unique-personal life travel, then are we not like aliens visiting new planets every time we attempt communication and isn’t this more the case when artists speak to other artists? If infinity exists within the space between two points, then the depth of our language must be infinite as well and therefore discussing what exists beyond common language is a performative exercise in diverse aesthetics.
Alan Nakagawa; inter-disciplinary artist who has utilizes oral history techniques in his community-based art practice. Primarily known as a sound artist, he is deeply interested in the mechanism of hearing and the history of listening and has completed unique artist residencies with such institutions as the LA Metro, Getty Villa, Echo Park Film Center, Smithsonian Museum of American History and Los Angeles Department of Transportation. He is currently creating a multi-point sound experience utilizing the recorded acoustics of the Sagrada Familia, Watts Towers, Hiroshima Atomic Dome and the Wendover Hangar. He is currently the artist in residence for Great Streets, Office of the Mayor of Los Angeles.
Optical Track is a weekly show presented by members of the Echo Park Film Center Co-op, a group of artists who collectively staff EPFC as volunteers for the cinematic revolution. Each week we will bring you a sonic slideshow as we turn off the projector bulbs and turn up the sound. Tuesdays 8 – 10pm pacific time on KFEP. Find Echo Park Film Center online at echoparkfilmcenter.org.
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