In this episode, we take you to New Orleans, Louisiana, where vivid encounters with culture and history await you on every corner. But considering the mouth of the Mississippi River a global destination for contemporary art is still a fairly new concept.
Now in its third iteration, the city-wide international art exhibition known as Prospect New Orleans is beginning to feel at home. This Fresh Talk features two project sites where we found a deep connection between art and community. [In order of appearance] Timothy Levitch, Tavares Strachan, Margaret Thomas, and Gary Simmons reveal why Prospect makes perfect sense for the Crescent City.
Gary Simmons P.3 project at Tremé Market Branch
Beans at Tremé Market Branch performance, Oct 2014
Beans’s audience at Tremé Market Branch, Oct 25, 2014
Tavares Strachan assembling You Belong Here
Timothy Speed Levitch leading tour to view You Belong Here
Tavares Strachan, You Belong Here. Esplanade Wharf, 2014
Sound Editor: Kris McConnachie | Photos courtesy Tavares Strachan and Teresa Thomas, Tremé Market Branch
Episode sound: The Roots of Music Brass Band‘s performance of “Go to the Mardi Gras” by Professor Longhair during the live WWOZ broadcast from Jazz Fest on May 1, 2014
Beans performing for Gary Simmons “Recapturing Memories of the Black Ark,” 2014, at Tremé Market Branch on the occasion of the opening of Prospect.3: Notes for Now, New Orleans, October 25, 2014.
Feature photo credit: Joseph Vincent Grey
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