Tomorrow is the Problem: A Podcast by Knight Foundation Art + Research Center at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami

Oct 02 2024 20 ep. 30 mins 26
Tomorrow is the Problem: A Podcast by Knight Foundation Art + Research Center at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami artwork

Welcome to “Tomorrow is the Problem,” a new podcast from the Knight Foundation Art + Research Center at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami. Each season, join Dr. Donna Honarpisheh as she explores the hidden meanings behind everyday phenomena in an effort to better understand the most urgent cultural issues of our time.

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19: David Medalla: the Kinetic, the International, and the Cosmos

Oct 02 2024 34 mins  
Our season concludes with a discussion about David Medalla, an internationalist who – much like his work – resists easy categorization. Best known for his kinetic sculpture series Cloud Canyons, David Medalla’s whimsical art invites people to see beyond borders and limitations. Jane England, the director and founder of the gallery England Co, and Contemporary Art Professor a

18: “This Way brouwn”: Tracing stanley brouwn’s Conceptual Practice

Sep 18 2024 37 mins  
stanley brouwn is one of the most enigmatic and elusive artists of this century. brouwn created performative conceptual experiments in identity, perception, scale, and relation, among other topics. Almost as important as his conceptual practice is his refusal to share biographical information and requests for his work to never be photographed, replicated, or even analyzed. In other

17: Charles Gaines: Between the System and the Sublime

Sep 04 2024 33 mins  
Tomorrow is The Problem, kicks off its fifth season with a deep-dive into the groundbreaking work of conceptual artist, Charles Gaines. Over the course of his ongoing career, Gaines repeatedly revolutionized understanding of art: how it can be made, what makes it meaningful, and why art criticism consistently fails Black artists. Host Dr. Donna Honarpisheh sits down with art histo

Introducing Season 5 of Tomorrow is the Problem

Aug 28 2024 2 mins  
Tomorrow Is The Problem, is back! This season, Dr. Donna Honarpisheh will explore the works of three conceptual artists: Charles Gaines, stanley brouwn, and David Medalla. Tomorrow is the Problem is brought to you by the Knight Foundation Art + Research Center and is produced in partnership with FRQNCY Media.

16: Hervé Télémaque: Rituals of the Artist

Oct 02 2023 27 mins  
This last episode of the season is dedicated to a singular artist whose layered portrayal and use of humor to relate to issues of belonging, home, racism, and brutality are part of a lifelong dedication to telling stories.

15: Haiti in the Contemporary Imagination

Sep 25 2023 34 mins  
Haiti’s relationship to time goes back and forth along a spiraling line that repeated patterns while identifying them. Artists have long played a role in calling out failings and offering paths to rectifying trajectories. In the face of mounting crises, who will listen to the voices of the past and the call for home-grown resilience?

14: Symbols of the Rebellion: The Black Jacobins and the Haitian Revolution

Sep 18 2023 29 mins  
The fractures left by inside and outside forces following Haiti’s double revolution against racial slavery and colonialism are still felt today. Analyzing history through a contemporary interpretive lens empowers a nuanced narrative that informs the present moment. It also reminds the present of the potential of revolution.

13: Little Haiti: Art Narrates the Change

Sep 11 2023 34 mins  
Haiti has had a definite role in shaping the Miami cultural and physical landscape. As we explore the growing root system that gives rise to the singular cultural hub that is Miami, we dive into both its diasporic past and the climate changes its future is signaling.

12: Art as Trance: Lucy Bull and Psychedelic Countercultures

May 14 2023 28 mins  
Art functions as a perception prism, aiming to divert and change how we experience our world. As psychedelics take root in white America, an appropriation shift occurs. From meditating with paintings, to representations of altered states, we probe the nature of the relationship of the artist with themselves and with the viewer and finally between art and our senses.

10: Rituals of Transformation: Betye Saar and Black Feminist Art

May 14 2023 33 mins  
From a young age, Betye Saar collected objects as a form of ritual, to hone their energy and activate their spirit. To protect and potentialize them. Today’s episode explores ritual as a methodology for healing and power. From the ritualization of Betye Saar’s installation sites to the reclamation of the black body by Krista Franklin we follow, and deconstruct the Brookes Ship