2.13 | Season Finale: Valerie Cassel Oliver

For the Season 3 finale—and the series finale—of "Barbara London Calling," Barbara speaks with artist María Magdalena Campos-Pons. Born in 1959 in Matanzas, Cuba, Magda recently received the ARTnews Lifetime Achievement Award for her contributions to art. Last year, she was honored with a MacArthur Fellowship, and she is currently the Cornelius Vanderbilt Endowed Chair Professor of Fine Arts at Vanderbilt University.

In Episode 10, Barbara talks with interdisciplinary artist Nyugen Smith. Born in Jersey City in 1976, Nyugen maintains a dynamic, multifaceted practice that includes sculpture, writing, sound, music and performance.

In Episode 9, Barbara talks with Raheleh Filsoofi, an Iranian artist and teacher who works with ceramics and sound as she explores a shared sense of community heritage. Born in 1975 in Tehran, Raheleh now lives in Nashville, where, at Vanderbilt University, she is an assistant professor of art and an assistant professor at the Blair School of Music.

In Episode 8, Barbara speaks with Marco Fusinato, the Australian musician and artist whose work explores noise and duration. Born in 1964 in Melbourne, Marco released his first solo record in the 1990s. He has said he uses the guitar as a signal generator and amplifiers as an instrument to create improvised noise-guitar performances that can run for hours, days — even months. His work has been shown across the world, including in the 2022 Venice Biennale. 

In Episode 7, Barbara speaks with artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer. Born in Mexico City, Rafael emigrated to Canada, where he is now based. His interactive digital work examines social and political issues using technologies such as surveillance cameras, artificial intelligence, projection mapping and robotics. His work has been shown around the world, including at the 2007 Venice Biennale, where he was the first artist to represent Mexico. 

In Episode 6, Barbara speaks with New York-based artist Josh Kline. Using video, sculpture, photography and design, Josh creates immersive installations to question how emerging technologies are changing human life in the 21st century. His work has been shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Museum of Modern Art; and at many other museums and galleries around the world.

In Episode 5, Barbara speaks with Kameelah Janan Rasheed, an artist, author and educator who was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2021. A self-described learner, Kameelah currently teaches in the sculpture department at Yale University.

In the fourth episode of Season 3, Barbara speaks with Brooklyn-based artist Matthew Ritchie. Working in installation, painting and public art, Matthew draws from ideas as varied as creation myths, particle physics, thermodynamics and art history. His work has been shown around the world, including in the Whitney Biennial and the Venice Biennale of Architecture.

In the third episode of Season 3, Barbara London speaks with Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, two sound and installation artists who began collaborating in 1995. Their work explores the idea of narration and the plasticity of noise, sound, music and poetry. Based in rural British Columbia, Janet and George often travel internationally to develop and install their work, which has been shown in major museums around the world.

The second episode of Season 3 features Barbara London in conversation with Stan Douglas, the acclaimed Canadian artist who reimagines the mediums of photography, film and video while looking at technology's role in image making and collective memory. Stan's work often pulls from his interests in music, movies, television and theater, aiming at what he sees as the small moments that are a local symptom of a global condition.