Artists on Writers | Writers on Artists

Philosopher and writer Amia Srinivasan meets with artist Paul Chan for the latest episode of Artists on Writers | Writers on Artists. Together they contemplate fate, the distortion of reality caused by screens, their first experiences with philosophy, and making meaning through their respective disciplines. Chan’s exhibition “Breathers” is currently on view at the Walker Art

Photographer Roe Ethridge and psychoanalyst Jamieson Webster discuss hysteria and mysticism, desire and repulsion, Florida and American unconscious for the January episode of Artists on Writers | Writers on Artists. Their conversation marks the publication of American Polychronic, the artist’s first comprehensive monograph out from Mack Books, as well as his exhibition of the sam

Author Sam Lipsyte first met artist Rob Reynolds decades ago as undergraduates at Brown University, after which they moved to New York, played together in the noise-punk band Dungbeetle and have remained friends ever since. On the occasion of Lipsyte’s newest novel No One Left to Come Looking for You (Simon & Schuster), the two talk about art, literature, and music, and how such

For our November episode of Artists on Writers, Writers on Artists, writer James Hannaham and artist Nina Katchadourian cover many subjects including what it’s like to observe and experience change—whether that’s the changes to a city, or to neighborhood. James talks about infusing fictions with the textures of real life, and Nina addresses what it means to survive the unsurv

For our October episode, musician-artist Björk talks with author-scientist Robin Wall Kimmerer across subjects ranging from how language connects us to the natural world; the consequences—both personal and global —of living apart from nature; and what it means in our transient society to live in right relationship to the land. Bjork’s latest album, Fossora, is out with One L

For the season premier episode of Artists On Writers | Writers on Artists, artist Lorna Simpson joins poet Simone White to talk about being in the practice of a practice, whether or not there is in fact a language to describe both Black experimental art and Black life, how to protect one’s own interiority so that a person can live most fully, and much more. Simpson’s work is cu

Artist Dewey Crumpler and author and scholar Saidiya Hartman first met years ago in the Bay Area, and in the hour they spent together for this episode of Artists on Writers | Writers on Artists, they discuss many subjects including their work, the responsibilities that attend a calling, the exhaustive process of transformation, and the powerful “hum”— the potent frequency—o

This episode reunites two old friends—novelist Elif Batuman, and artist Sibel Horada—who began their conversation years ago when they met in Istanbul. Here, they commiserate about the uncomfortable relevance of Russian novels, how archeology reveals something about the present time, and ways to leave enough room inside a work for readers and viewers to find their own way inside