Independently Produced Interviews

On Art and Artists: Independently Produced Interviews

Independently Produced Interviews includes artist interviews and documentaries produced by external producers and producing organizations, including Artists Television Network, Long Beach Museum of Art, and the University of Colorado. The section also features interviews produced by other artists, including Antonio Muntadas’ seminal Between the Frames, a series of programs focused on the art world through interviews that reveal the interwoven structures delimiting how art communicates, and how it is made, bought, and sold.

Artists Television Network

Vito Acconci: Conversations

1980

Confrontation is the element that defines Acconci’s work, from explorations of the body and self to his performances, videos, and installations to the more recent “transporting and self-erecting architecture.” Throughout his work Acconci has aggressively challenged the status quo: he has violated sexual/cultural roles and has pointed out social/political ambivalence—and in doing so, his notorious activities have stretched the boundaries of what we accept as art.

Artists Television Network

Laurie Anderson: Conversations

1980

Laurie Anderson is perhaps best known as a performance artist who works in both the art and commercial worlds. Anderson talks to Steven Poser through a voice manipulator, commenting on how performing abroad has informed her work and her perspective on American culture, especially regarding issues of language and voice in communication.

This video was produced for the Artists TV Network series Conversations.

University of Colorado

Julie Ault: What Follows ...

1991

Julie Ault is an artist, curator, and founding member of the artist collective Group Material, which has organized exhibitions on themes such as the U.S.’s involvement in Central America, AIDS, education, and mass consumerism. Her exhibitions question traditional gallery and museum systems by asking “how is culture made and for whom?”

Interview by Michael Crane.

Antonio Muntadas

Between the Frames

1992

"Begun in 1983 and completed in 1992, Between the Frames offers a glimpse into contemporary history that is already past, a portrait of personalities and opinions shaping what and how art reaches a public forum.

Antonio Muntadas

Between the Frames, Chapter 1: The Dealers

1991

Between the Frames is a series that offers a glimpse into contemporary history that is already past, a portrait of personalities and opinions shaping what and how art reaches a public forum.

The Dealers: Between the Frames, Chapter 1 and The Galleries: Between the Frames, Chapter 3

Antonio Muntadas

Between the Frames, Chapter 2: The Collectors

1991

Between the Frames is a series that offers a glimpse into contemporary history that is already past, a portrait of personalities and opinions shaping what and how art reaches a public forum.

The Collectors: Between the Frames, Chapter 2

Art collectors offer various explanations of why and what they acquire. With Herman Daled, Robert Rowan, Eric and Sylvie Boissonas, Giuseppe Panza di Biumo, Marcia Weisman, Fernando Vijande, Bob Calle, Acey and Bill Wolgin, Gianni Rampa, Isabel de Pedro, Rafael Tous, and Toshio Ohara.

Antonio Muntadas

Between the Frames, Chapter 3: The Galleries

1991

Between the Frames is a series that offers a glimpse into contemporary history that is already past, a portrait of personalities and opinions shaping what and how art reaches a public forum.

Chapter 3: The Galleries

Included in this video are Mary Boone, Michel Durand-Dessert, Helene Winer, Lucio Amelio, Richard Kuhlenschmidt, Holly Solomon, Joan de Muga, Ronald Feldman, Ileana Sonnabend, Mario Diacono, Rosamund Felsen, Al Nodal, Joy Silverman, Marisa Diez, Leo Castelli, Daniel Templon, and Ivan Karp.

Antonio Muntadas

Between the Frames, Chapter 4: The Museum

1991

Between the Frames is a series that offers a glimpse into contemporary history that is already past, a portrait of personalities and opinions shaping what and how art reaches a public forum.

The Museum: Between the Frames, Chapter 4

Antonio Muntadas

Between the Frames, Chapter 5: The Docents

1991

Between the Frames is a series that offers a glimpse into contemporary history that is already past, a portrait of personalities and opinions shaping what and how art reaches a public forum.

Antonio Muntadas

Between the Frames, Chapter 6: The Critics

1991

Between the Frames is a series that offers a glimpse into contemporary history that is already past, a portrait of personalities and opinions shaping what and how art reaches a public forum.

The Critics: Between the Frames, Chapter 6

Antonio Muntadas

Between the Frames, Chapter 7: The Media

1991

Between the Frames is a series that offers a glimpse into contemporary history that is already past, a portrait of personalities and opinions shaping what and how art reaches a public forum.

The Media: Between the Frames, Chapter 7

Antonio Muntadas

Between the Frames, Chapter 8: Epilogue

1991

Between the Frames is a series that offers a glimpse into contemporary history that is already past, a portrait of personalities and opinions shaping what and how art reaches a public forum.

Epilogue: Between the Frames, Chapter 8

Long Beach Museum of Art

Horace Bristol: Photojournalist

1988

Horace Bristol discusses his long career in photography, which began with shooting for Life and Fortune magazines in the 1930s. His photojournalism took him to the Dutch East Indies and post-war Japan. His documents of Depression-era workers famously inspired John Steinbeck to write the classic The Grapes of Wrath. “I felt I was not an artist but a worker, so as a photojournalist, I had a job to do,” Bristol says.

Produced by the Fellows of Contemporary Art on artists exhibiting in a Pasadena Armory exhibition.

Antonio Muntadas

Benjamin Buchloh: An Interview

1986

Benjamin Buchloh is an influential art critic and historian; he has written extensively on contemporary art for journals and exhibition catalogs, as well as his essay collection Neo-Avantgarde and Culture Industry (2002). This interview with Buchloh is one of several collected by Antonio Muntadas for his series Between the Frames. In this video Buchloh discusses the relationship between people and institutions.

University of Colorado

Victor Burgin: What Follows...

1987

Photographer, theorist, and lecturer Victor Burgin lives and works in London. A Professor of Fine Art at Goldsmiths College and former Professor Emeritus of the History of Consciousness at University of California-Santa Cruz, Burgin’s work explores the semiotics of meaning in visual art. His books include The End of Art Theory: Criticism and Postmodernity (1986), In/Different Spaces: Place and Memory in Visual Culture (1996) and, as editor, Thinking Photography (1986), Between (1986) and Formations of Fantasy (1986).