Video Biography of John Baldessari by Tom Waits, 15 May 2012 (duration 5:55)

(Thank you @Barry_Sykes) 

John Baldesarri discussing the project,Your Name In Lights, as part of the Sydney Festival 2011 with Caroline Baum, 2011 (duration 37:53)

Artist video: John Baldessari sings Sol Le Witt, 1972 (duration 3:39) 

Baldesarri in conversation in 2009 with Daniel Birnbaum, curator of the 53 Venice Biennale (duration 9:57)

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"With him an entire epoch ends," added Werner Herzog in a statement to the Film Society this morning.  A close friend of Vogel's for more than 40 years, the filmmaker added, "The Last Lion has left us."

Film as a Subversive Art by Paul Cronin, 2004 (duration 56:08)

Further footage courtesy of Paul Cronin, (duration approx 10:00 each) 

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Endgame

The exhibition comes to Sprueth Magers, London 1 June - 29 June

Andrew Graham-Dixon interviews Jenny Holzer about her art, 2010 (duration 7:25) 

Creative Time interviews Holzer, 2009 (duration 1:30)

Jenny Holzer's illuminated exterior at the Guggenheim, 2008 (duration 1:46) 

Holzer's Tate installation, May 2011 (duration 0.28)

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The Dailies 

Tate Shorts, Meet the Artist, 2010 (duration 3.44) 

Thomas Demand in conversation with Judy Annear, senior curator of photographs at the New Gallery NSW, Oct, 2011 (duration 1.16)

Adam Caruso and Thomas Demand interviewed by Hans Ulrich Obrist at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2010. (duration 4:22) 

Thomas Demand speaks to Alex Farquharson about his exhibition at Nottingham Contemporary, Feb 2012 (duration 3.29)

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John Chamberlain, Choices

‎'I really don’t make an attempt at doing something to things that they don’t want done to them. The things should tell you by one means or another.'

Exhibition trailer, 2012

Arne Glimcher visits Chamberlain at his studio to discuss his work, 2008 (duration 4:03)

John Chamberlain installing new work at the Gagosian, New York, 2011 (duration 2:58) 

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The Whitney Biennial opens today 

You can view the full program here with the full listings of lectures, talks and readings here.  

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Ed Ruscha in conversation with DavE Hicky, 2010, (duration 33.18, conversation starts at 4:20mins) 

Ruscha on working with gun powder, 2010 (duration 2:29)

Ruscha on etchings, 2008 (duration 2:28) 

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Thomas Ruff, Nudes, at Davies Street and Mars, at Britannia Street

Ruff talks about his jpeg series at Aperture Foundation, 2010

Part 1

https://vimeo.com/9742840

Part 2

https://vimeo.com/9732488

Part 3

https://vimeo.com/9737701

Part 4

https://vimeo.com/9740777

Thomas Ruff at the What's Next conference at Foam, Amsterdam, 2011

Is Photograpy Over? Conference at SFMOMA, 2010

Day 1, Part 1

Day 1, Part 2

Day 2, Part 1

Day 2, Part 2

Day 2, Part 3

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‎'The reek of human blood, it's laugher to my heart.'

Aiskhulos; c. 525/524 BC – c. 456/455 BC

The Southbank Show, 1985

The full interview can be found here

Damien Hirst on Francis Bacon, 2008

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Remote Control at the ICA

My friend Oriana Fox takes us on a tour around the exhibition on Thursday 12th April. More info here

Full schedule of talks and events here

Intro the the exhibition from the curator, Matt Williams

Lucky PDF and TOWIE's Chloe Williams 

With Ira Schneider

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"Very few people find their real instincts. Every now and then there's an artist who does and who makes something new and actually thickens the texture of life. But it's very rare. You have to be able to be really free to find yourself in that way, without any moral or religious constraints. After all, life is nothing but a series of sensations, so one might as well try and make oneself extraordinary. extraordinary and brilliant, even if that means becoming a brilliant fool like me and having the kind of disastrous life that I have had. That is it."

Francis Bacon (1909-1992), Anatomy of an Enigma, Michael Peppiatt, Westview Press, 1996

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Artist Talk, Daniel Eatock

PRESS RELEASE

London-based artist and designer Daniel Eatock is "interested in connections between image and language, titles, punch lines, miscommunication, subversions, open systems, contributions from others, seriality, collections, discovery and inventing."

Eatock's work features in The Artists’ Postcard Show, and in this talk he will introduce his work which includes commissions for Channel 4 as well as projects such as his ongoing attempts to draw the perfect freehand circle and choreographing a set of dances to accompany car alarms.

Eatock balances on a chair and gives a talk at the Walker Art Centre, 2009

Car Alarm Dance, 2007

Car Alarm Dance 3, 2007 

Car Alarm Dance 4, 2007

Read what Eatock has to ay on the Car Alarm Dance series over at his site here

Eatock is currently showing One + One (through – 31/3/12 at the Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston Upon Thames. 

You can read an interview with him about the show at Dazed Digital. 

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FRIEZE PRESS RELEASE

Frieze Talks is a daily program of presentations, panel discussions and conversations that will take place at Frieze New York. Featuring leading artists, writers and cultural commentators, the talks program is presented by Frieze Art Inc. and programmed by Cecilia Alemani. Participants include: Okwui Enwezor (Director, Haus der Kunst, Munich), Glenn D. Lowry (Director, The Museum of Modern Art, New York), Saskia Sassen (Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology Columbia University, New York) and Sheena Wagstaff(Chairman, Modern and Contemporary Art Department, Metropolitan Museum, New York).

In its inaugural year, Frieze Talks takes as inspiration the unique location of the fair: the geographical, social and cultural neighborhoods of Randall’s Island. This year’s program is organized thematically, focusing on the notion of the atlas, it will investigate different ways of mapping, describing and exploring. From geo-political maps to fictional sites; geographical explorations to mental states, Frieze Talks will consider the means by which art and artists have tried to represent and organize the world.

Frieze Talks will open with ‘Mapping the World of Art: André Malraux and hisMusée Imaginaire‘, a’ keynote lecture by acclaimed French philosopher and art historian Georges Didi-Huberman, who has spent more than twenty years of studying the history and theory of images.

Critic and curator Robert Storr will analyze the work of Gerhard Richter and his influential ‘Atlas’, the ongoing archive of photographs, sketches and materials the acclaimed artist has been collecting since 1962. Also presented will be a conversation between artist Zoe Leonard and art historian Rhea Anastas; as well as lectures by artists Allan Sekula and Taryn Simon.

Frieze Talks will also present four panel discussions on current debates in contemporary art and theory. Topics include: ‘Expanding Museums’ in which three directors of major New York museums discuss the role of contemporary art institutions in the way we experience our cities; ‘New Geographies’, considering issues of new ethics and relativism; ‘On Land Occupation’, focusing on new ways to re-imagine borders and geographies; and ‘Collection Cartographies’ on private art collections that are geographically focused.

Cecilia Alemani commented: ‘Frieze Talks is an exciting platform where artists, critics, curators and writers will exchange ideas and create a fruitful dialogue. I look forward to welcoming a diverse group of speakers who will bring their own unique visions and perspectives on this year’s topic – the atlas.

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Hans Peter Feldmann

Feldman in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist at the V&A, 24 April (duration 1:15)

And related print media below 

Interview with Kopenhagen.de in 2010

Interview with Frieze, 2005

Related title, Interview with Hans Ulrich Obrist 

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Situation Make Love

Lucas in bed at the St John's Hotel with Adrian Searle, discussing her residency, Oct 2011.

Video compilation of some of her work, no spoken word, but some good work shown

Interview with the Guardian in May, 2011

In conversation with Carl Freedman for Frieze, 1994

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London Pictures

The duo talk about their body of work Dirty Words Pictures, 2012

Gilbert & George on commiting sin, 

Artist Video, Bend It 'dancing sculpture' 

on Sex and Art interview, 2008

INCOMING TALK: Gilbert and George interviewed by Michael Bracewell at the Gugenheim 03/04/12 

Artist Video, Flora and Sophie, (date unknown) inspired by Andy Warhol's Queen

LOVE LIVE THE QUEENS!

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IT Genius Shaun Parker interviewed by Al Gore for the SXSW Festival 

'Parker is an entrepreneur with a record of launching genre-defining companies that reinvent ways to spread information online.'

Parker at the WEB:2.0 Summit 

Visit the SXSW channel here

If you're interested in information culture, the general interlect, social labor and what it's doing to our brains you might like this essay: 

‘…social labour is the endless recombination of myriad fragments producing, elaborating, distributing, and decoding signs and informational units of all kind. Every semiotic segment produced by the information worker must meet and match innumerable other semiotic segments in order to form the combinatory frame of info-commodity, semiocapital.’

Franco 'Bifo' Berardi, Cognitarian Subjectivation

http://worker01.e-flux.com/pdf/article_183.pdf

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Jill Sander Fall/Winter 2012/13, Milan

Conversation between Raf Simons and David Sims, Interview Magazine, 2011

Text interview with Simons, 2011

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Prada Fall/Winter 2012/13 Womenswear 

Interview with Miuccia, 2009

Video Interview with Ingrid Sischy, editor or interview magazine, 2006

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Cindy Sherman

'My Favorite Cindy Sherman', MoMA, 5th March

Cindy talks to Interview Magazine, 2011.

The artist talks about the performance aspect of her work, 2011.

An interview with the Guardian, 2012

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