PODCAST: Heidi Zuckerman in Conversation with Adam Pendleton

Heidi Zuckerman: Conversations About Art

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One of our favorite art podcasts here at Daily Plinth HQ is Heidi Zuckerman’s Conversations About Art. Launched by Zuckerman in the interregnum between her incredible work as director of the Aspen Art Museum and her new role at the Orange County Museum of Art, it seemed fully free for her to pursue any topic that suited her deep curiosity.  Interviewees ranged across an incredibly diverse spectrum, from athletes such as Lance Armstrong to politicians such as John Hickenlooper and within the art industry from artists to entrepreneurs to non-profit workers. In this episode, she talks with artist Adam Pendleton.

From Heidi Zuckerman’s podcast Conversations About Art:

Pulling from a wide range of mediums including collage, painting, writing, printmaking, video, and publishing, Adam Pendleton utilizes language as his primary tool, recontextualizing appropriated imagery to shed light on underrepresented historical narratives. He is particularly interested in social resistance and avant-garde artistic movements and has synthesized a variety of practices under the rubric of “Black Dada,” a term borrowed from the poet Amiri Baraka. This year Pendleton will present Who Is Queen, a major new project in the atrium of The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Pendleton and Zuckerman discuss preventing unnecessary distraction, the fact and shape of time, the urgency of art, being a curious being, chaos as a means of meaning making, historical mashups, the regression of social interaction, the responsibility of living, what do you do with your life, art in America, and what he feels good about!