Nick Ravich

Role: producer

interviews

08:58

Jacolby Satterwhite Dances with His Self

Jacolby Satterwhite crafts surreal 3D animated videos while transporting characters from his virtual worlds into the streets of New York City. "We're in the age of the remix," says the artist, who observes that "now it's about how you use the information around you to generate your individuality." At a modest computer setup in his Chinatown studio, Satterwhite digitally traces by hand his mother's schematic drawings of inventions, reimagining them into baroque, neon-colored landscapes in a constant state of flux. In spaces throughout the city—the Brooklyn Bridge, Chinatown, Little Italy, Union Square subway station, and a Recess event at Le Poisson Rouge in Greenwich Village—Satterwhite also engages the public in the persona of his freewheeling avatar, wearing a custom-made costume outfitted with iPads and iPhones that loop the artist's videos. Simultaneously flamboyant provocations and a natural extension of his process, Satterwhite treats these spontaneous encounters in the city as a sketchbook that will inform future animations. Jacolby Satterwhite (b. 1986, Columbia, South Carolina, USA) lives and works in New York, New York.

interviews

07:41

Meriem Bennani's Exploded Visions

Can art be funny and serious at the same time? Using social media-inspired effects, artist Meriem Bennani subverts audience expectations of both pop culture and her own Muslim community with unexpected playfulness and pathos. "I feel like I have a hard time connecting to anything that doesn’t have humor," says the artist, "because for me humor is like survival." Often exploring the private lives of Muslim women, Bennani strategically navigates the line between championing and exploiting the women who appear in her films, many of whom are family members, like in her documentary-style project "Ghariba/Stranger". " Meriem Bennani (b. 1988, Rabat, Morocco) lives and works in New York.

art

02:49

Nick Cave: Thick Skin

Missouri-born artist, Nick Cave discusses the experiences that force him to confront his identity as a black man—including being racially profiled by police—and how they fuel his impulse to create. Cave explains that in these moments he gets quiet and avoids lashing out in rage. “And if I do, lashing out for me is creating this,” he says in reference to his intricately constructed Soundsuits. “The Soundsuits hide gender, race, class and they force you to look at the work without judgment.”