Make/Shift: The Podcast
A Four-Part Conversation with ePublication Co-Curators James Claiborne and Brittany Webb
Hosted By: Imani Roach
Now Streaming on All Major Platforms, including Spotify, Apple Podcast and Pocket Cast
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Episode 4: Coping Through Humor
Humor as a creative strategy for issuing critique and speaking to specific community is discussed by co-jurors Brittany Webb and James Claiborne, along with host Imani Roach, in our final episode (😭) of the Make/Shift: It Wasn’t Supposed To Be Like This podcast series.
Episode 3: Material vs. Structural
The potential for process or materials-based artworks to create new worlds, interrogate history, and redefine structures of value and power is explored in episode three of the Make/Shift: It Wasn’t Supposed To Be Like This podcast. Hosted by Vox member Imani Roach and featuring exhibition co-jurors Brittany Webb and James Claiborne, stick around to the very end to hear a possible alien abduction! 👽
Episode 2: Earnestness & Approachability
Host Imani Roach, guides a conversation between the co-jurors of Make/Shift: It Wasn’t Supposed to Be Like This, Brittany Webb and James Claiborne, about the power of approachability and vulnerability. The three discuss how Art that represents the deceptively mundane is often a political and personal Trojan Horse.
Episode 1: Taking It Seriously
Tasked with reviewing over 300 artists’ work in the midst of a pandemic – co-jurors Brittany Webb and James Claiborne talk with Vox member Imani Roach about finding themselves within the art, making quiet pieces stand out and how they had no choice but to take the work seriously. Enjoy part one of a four part conversation about the coming together of Vox Populi’s 2020 Juried Exhibition, Make/Shift: It Wasn’t Supposed To Be Like This.
About Make/Shift: The Podcast
In lieu of a traditional gallery-talk (or gallery show), the Make/Shift podcast series offers artists and audiences the opportunity to hear additional thoughts and reflections on the project, and the process of putting it together, by guest curators James Claiborne and Brittany Webb. Featuring four episodes in total, listen along while you explore the publication!
Special thanks to Vox member Lea Devon Sorrentino for engineering and producing this podcast series!