Farrah Karapetian's guest appearances

Farrah Karapetian

Keep the Channel Open

George Eastman Museum

THE HAVISHAM HOUR

HereIn Audio

Chantel Paul

Andi Schreiber

Keith Smith

Helen Zaltzman

Nicole Chung

Robert Frank

José Olivarez

Buster Keaton

Celeste Ng

Alexander Chee

Sarah Gailey

Lilliam Rivera

Lydia Kiesling

Hanif Abdurraqib

Nancy Williams

OwlTail

Farrah Karapetian is an artist based in California. Known for her large-scale photograms, Farrah’s wide-ranging practice incorporates sculpture, performance, and different forms of mark-making to stretch the photographic medium as she is driven by her intense and rigorous curiosity. In our conversation, Farrah and I talked about the appeal of the photographic medium, the tension between constructing an image and the happy accident, and the ethics of artistic beauty. Then in the second segment, we discussed the Nardal sisters and how we develop a language around issues like exoticization. (Conversation recorded March 24, 2021.) Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RadioPublic | Stitcher | Spotify | TuneIn | RSS Support: Support our Patreon | Review on Apple Podcasts | Review on Podchaser Share: Tweet this episode | Share to Facebook Connect: Newsletter | Email | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube Show Notes:  Farrah Karapetian Farrah Karapetian - Muscle Memory Farrah Karapetian - Stagecraft Farrah Karapetian - Slips &amp; Pushes HereIn Journal - “Chantel Paul on Farrah Karapetian” AnomolousCo - Beckett &amp; The Virtual tickets Diane Rosenstein Gallery - Expo Chicago Online 2021 Farrah Karapetian in Conversation with Tracy Sharpley-Whiting Venice Family Clinic Art Walk + Auction 2021 Orange County Museum of Art - 2013 California-Pacific Triennial Erving Goffman - The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life Claire A. Warden Paula Riff Thomas Demand Vik Muniz Farrah Karapetian - “The Kitchen” Farrah Karapetian - “Its Negative” Vanessa Beecroft Tino Sehgal James Van Der Zee Rineke Dijkstra Bertholt Brecht Augusto Boal Farrah Karapetian - Relief Farrah Karapetian - Flags &amp; Teleprompters Ingrid Sischy - “Good Intentions” David Levi Strauss - Between the Eyes: Essays on Photography and Politics André Breton - Nadja Anahid Nersessian - Keats’s Odes: A Lover’s Discourse Jeanne Nardal Paulette Nardal Alain Locke W. E. B. Du Bois Steven Y. Wong - Circles and Circuits: Chinese Caribbean Art Mark Sealy - Decolonising the Camera: Photography in Racial Time Robert Rauschenberg - Borealis 1988-92 Marie-Magdaleine Carbet - “Obeah” and Other Martinican Stories Langston Hughes - I Wonder as I Wander: An Autobiographical Journey Lola Álvarez Bravo Setting Sun: Writings by Japanese Photographers   Transcript Episode Credits  Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa Music: Podington Bear Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo 

Farrah Karapetian is an artist based in California. Known for her large-scale photograms, Farrah’s wide-ranging practice incorporates sculpture, performance, and different forms of mark-making to stretch the photographic medium as she is driven by her intense and rigorous curiosity. In our conversation, Farrah and I talked about the appeal of the photographic medium, the tension between constructing an image and the happy accident, and the ethics of artistic beauty. Then in the second segment, we discussed the Nardal sisters and how we develop a language around issues like exoticization. (Conversation recorded March 24, 2021.) 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Warden</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.paulariff.com/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Paula Riff</a></li> <li><a href="https://matthewmarks.com/artists/thomas-demand" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Thomas Demand</a></li> <li><a href="https://vikmuniz.net/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Vik Muniz</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.farrahkarapetian.com/the-built-environment?lightbox=dataItem-jr7bpb7q" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Farrah Karapetian - “The Kitchen”</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.farrahkarapetian.com/the-built-environment?lightbox=dataItem-jr7bpb7p" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Farrah Karapetian - “Its Negative”</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.moma.org/artists/8261" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Vanessa Beecroft</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.mariangoodman.com/artists/62-tino-sehgal/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Tino Sehgal</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.howardgreenberg.com/artists/james-van-der-zee" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">James Van Der Zee</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.mariangoodman.com/artists/40-rineke-dijkstra/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Rineke Dijkstra</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertolt_Brecht" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Bertholt Brecht</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusto_Boal" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Augusto Boal</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.farrahkarapetian.com/relief-photograms" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Farrah Karapetian - Relief</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.farrahkarapetian.com/flags" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Farrah Karapetian - Flags &amp; Teleprompters</a></li> <li><a href="https://paulturounetblog.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/good-intentions-by-ingrid-sischy.pdf" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Ingrid Sischy - “Good Intentions”</a></li> <li><a href="https://aperture.org/books/between-the-eyes/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">David Levi Strauss - Between the Eyes: Essays on Photography and Politics</a></li> <li><a href="https://groveatlantic.com/book/nadja/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">André Breton - Nadja</a></li> <li><a href="https://bookshop.org/books/keats-s-odes-a-lover-s-discourse/9780226762678" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Anahid Nersessian - Keats’s Odes: A Lover’s Discourse</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Nardal" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Jeanne Nardal</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulette_Nardal" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Paulette Nardal</a></li> <li><a href="https://nmaahc.si.edu/LGBTQ/alain-locke" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Alain Locke</a></li> <li><a href="http://duboiscenter.library.umass.edu/about-du-bois/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">W. E. B. Du Bois</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.astrobuddha.com/circles-and-circuits-chinese-caribbean-artists" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Steven Y. Wong - Circles and Circuits: Chinese Caribbean Art</a></li> <li><a href="https://bookshop.org/books/decolonising-the-camera-photography-in-racial-time/9781912064755?aid=1934" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Mark Sealy - Decolonising the Camera: Photography in Racial Time</a></li> <li><a href="https://bookshop.org/books/robert-rauschenberg-9781633450219/9782910055868" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Robert Rauschenberg - Borealis 1988-92</a></li> <li><a href="https://msupress.org/9781628952896/obeah-and-other-martinican-stories/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Marie-Magdaleine Carbet - “Obeah” and Other Martinican Stories</a></li> <li><a href="https://bookshop.org/books/i-wonder-as-i-wander-an-autobiographical-journey/9780809015504" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Langston Hughes - I Wonder as I Wander: An Autobiographical Journey</a></li> <li><a href="https://ccp.arizona.edu/artists/lola-%C3%A1lvarez-bravo" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Lola Álvarez Bravo</a></li> <li><a href="https://goliga.com/store/setting-sun" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Setting Sun: Writings by Japanese Photographers</a></li> </ul> <a href="https://www.keepthechannelopen.com/transcripts/2021/4/7/transcript-episode-124-farrah-karapetian" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Transcript</a> Episode Credits <ul> <li>Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa</li> <li>Music: <a href="https://www.soundofpicture.com/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Podington Bear</a></li> <li>Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo</li> </ul>

Episode 124: Farrah Karapetian

Karapetian’s prolific practice poses questions about identity, agency, and relationships both personal and socio-cultural. Text by Chantel Paul. Music by Nick Lesley. Originally published at hereinjournal.org/essays/chantel-paul-on-farrah-karapetian.

Karapetian’s prolific practice poses questions about identity, agency, and relationships both personal and socio-cultural. Text by Chantel Paul. Music by Nick Lesley. Originally published at <a href="https://www.hereinjournal.org/essays/chantel-paul-on-farrah-karapetian" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">hereinjournal.org/essays/chantel-paul-on-farrah-karapetian</a>.

Chantel Paul on Farrah Karapetian

For the exhibition, A Matter of Memory: Photography as Object in the Digital Age, we asked artists to answer a question: Is your personal connection to digital images the same as it is to photographic prints? These were shared through our audio tour as part of the exhibition.Lisa Hostetler, the curator of the exhibition and curator in charge of the Department of Photography introduces the audio.

For the exhibition, A Matter of Memory: Photography as Object in the Digital Age, we asked artists to answer a question: Is your personal connection to digital images the same as it is to photographic prints? These were shared through our audio tour as part of the exhibition. Lisa Hostetler, the curator of the exhibition and curator in charge of the Department of Photography introduces the audio.

8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 510 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --Too much self-contemplation will make you not forget anything in your life. Never mind fretting about the mirrors. You have to be truly perverse to understand goodness, and looking endlessly into your own centrifugal self will get you there, quickly. However, I doubt you'll ever be eloquent enough to understand the opposite point. We get stuck on perverse.-- Page read by FARRAH KARAPETIAN here: http://goo.gl/hFrUF2. www.HavishamHour.com ©2014 Julio Panisello. The Havisham Hour will end in 3 days.

8:40 AM: The Havisham Hour. Day/Page/Sketch 510 of 513 from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. --Too much self-contemplation will make you not forget anything in your life. Never mind fretting about the mirrors. You have to be truly perverse to understand goodness, and looking endlessly into your own centrifugal self will get you there, quickly. However, I doubt you'll ever be eloquent enough to understand the opposite point. We get stuck on perverse.-- Page read by FARRAH KARAPETIAN here: <a href="http://goo.gl/hFrUF2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://goo.gl/hFrUF2</a>. <a href="http://www.HavishamHour.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.HavishamHour.com</a> ©2014 Julio Panisello. The Havisham Hour will end in 3 days.