Barbara London: Today I’m speaking with Brooklyn-based artist, Matthew Ritchie. Born 1964 in London, Matthew received a BFA from the Camberwell School of Art, before he moved to the United States in 1987. He works in installation, painting and public art, drawing from ideas as varied as creation myths, particle physics, thermodynamics and art history. His artwork has been shown around the world, including in the Whitney Biennial and the Venice Architecture Biennial. It is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Matthew, thank you for joining me.

Matthew Ritchie: Such a pleasure. Thank you for having me.

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Barbara London: My guests today are Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, two sound and installation artists who began collaborating in 1995. Based in rural British Columbia, they often travel internationally to develop and install their artwork, which explores the idea of narration and the plasticity of noise, sound, music, and poetry. Their work has been shown in many exhibitions and in major museums around the world. Janet and George, thank you both for joining me.

Janet Cardiff: Oh, thank you for inviting us.

George Bures Miller: Yeah, it’s great to be here.

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Barbara London: My guest today is 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 how those media apparatuses infiltrate and shape our collective memory. Born 1960 in Vancouver, where he still works, Stan has shown several times in Documenta, at the Venice Biennale, and in the Whitney Biennial. Stan’s work often pulls from his interests in music, movies, television and theater, aiming for what he sees as the small moments that are a local symptom of a global condition.

One function of art, Stan says, is to see things we think we know in a different way. Often, he will take an existing narrative and restage it, revealing what he calls the tension between different forces at play. Stan’s latest show, “The Enemy of All Mankind” is currently on view at the David Zwirner Gallery in New York through October 26. Stan, thank you so much for joining me.

Stan Douglas: Thank you. Nice being here.

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Barbara London: My guests today are the members of CFGNY, an engaging artist collective working at the intersection of art, fashion and identity. Members include Daniel Chew, Ten Izu, Tin Nguyen and Kristen Kilponen, who collectively work across video performance, installation, sculpture and garment making.

The name CFGNY was created as an open-ended acronym that could morph depending upon the context in which the project was being presented. One of the earliest iterations of the name is Concepts Foreign Garments New York, and the group is indeed based mostly out of New York. Their work has been shown at the Japan Society in New York, at the Hammer Museum in LA, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and at Frieze London.

Daniel, Ten and Tin, thank you for joining me.

Daniel Chew: Thank you for having us.

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