Episodes

  • The Quarantine Tapes 250: Maurice Harris

    The Quarantine Tapes 250: Maurice Harris
    Apr 13 2022
    I often say that why I love working with fresh flowers is because they are not forever, and to enjoy their full potential and their full beauty, you have to be present.
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    35 mins
  • The Quarantine Tapes 249: EJ Hill

    The Quarantine Tapes 249: EJ Hill
    Apr 6 2022
    On this very special live episode of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber speaks with artist EJ Hill. This episode is part of a partnership with OXY ARTS. EJ and Paul are in conversation about EJ’s latest exhibition, Wherever we will to root, on view through April 22nd at OXY ARTS. This episode was recorded live on March 3rd, 2022. EJ and Paul have an incredible, deeply reflective conversation about EJ’s art practice. They discuss his reluctance to speak about his work, how his demanding performance work of previous years has affected him, and the challenges of visibility. EJ tells Paul about teaching, learning to play the piano, and how he is trying to take care of himself in this moment in a moving and fascinating episode. Wherever we will to root: https://oxyarts.oxy.edu/exhibitions/wherever-we-will-root
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    59 mins
  • The Quarantine Tapes 243: Jason Moran

    The Quarantine Tapes 243: Jason Moran
    Mar 16 2022
    “The music that [my teachers] would make would always amplify the struggle, but it would also amplify the joy. My teachers did not shy away from these kinds of tough conversations and they laid it into their music. I’ve only been taught by musicians who did that.”
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    43 mins
  • The Quarantine Tapes 239: Jason Pierce

    The Quarantine Tapes 239: Jason Pierce
    Mar 2 2022
    “Suddenly, I couldn’t hear my work. I couldn’t hear all the tiny moves I made or the tiny pushes or reductions in volume. It suddenly became something else.”
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    40 mins
  • The Quarantine Tapes 237: Jonathan Hepfer and Sunita Puri

    The Quarantine Tapes 237: Jonathan Hepfer and Sunita Puri
    Feb 23 2022
    “I’ve realized recently that unexpected tears are maybe the highest response that I can hope to elicit from an audience member, because it means that it doesn’t come in a predictable way, it comes in a way that kind of levels you from a side you perhaps haven’t touched in a while or didn’t even know you had.”
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    44 mins
  • The Quarantine Tapes 233: Simon Critchley, Andrew Zuckerman, Spencer Bailey

    The Quarantine Tapes 233: Simon Critchley, Andrew Zuckerman, Spencer Bailey
    Jan 31 2022
    "There’s a kind of archaic quality to us, for as much as we might think that we’re these brights new things with these new toys and off we go into the future to sort things out, no. We’re riveted to a past that we do not really even begin to understand."
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    1 hr and 18 mins
  • The Quarantine Tapes 231: Ann Magnuson

    The Quarantine Tapes 231: Ann Magnuson
    Jan 26 2022
    “How can you be nostalgic when you know too much about the world? It’s not moral, really, to be nostalgic for a time when so many people were not given certain privileges and certain comforts.”
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    35 mins
  • The Quarantine Tapes 228: Suzanne Ciani

    The Quarantine Tapes 228: Suzanne Ciani
    Jan 12 2022
    “When I went to New York, I did feel that there might be something wrong with me, that I was in love with a machine.”
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    40 mins