Tomorrow is the Problem: A Podcast by Knight Foundation Art + Research Center at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami

Tomorrow is the Problem: A Podcast by Knight Foundation Art + Research Center at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami

Welcome to “Tomorrow is the Problem,” a new podcast from the Knight Foundation Art + Research Center at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami. Each season, join Dr. Donna Honarpisheh as she explores the hidden meanings behind everyday phenomena in an effort to better understand the most urgent cultural issues of our time.

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October 2, 2024 34 mins

Our season concludes with a discussion about David Medalla, an internationalist who – much like his work – resists easy categorization. Best known for his kinetic sculpture series Cloud Canyons, David Medalla’s whimsical art invites people to see beyond borders and limitations. 

Jane England, the director and founder of the gallery England Co, and Contemporary Art Professor at McGill University Chanon Kenji Praepipatmongkol join Dr...

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stanley brouwn is one of the most enigmatic and elusive artists of this century. brouwn created performative conceptual experiments in identity, perception, scale, and relation, among other topics. Almost as important as his conceptual practice is his refusal to share biographical information and requests for his work to never be photographed, replicated, or even analyzed. In other words, what we don’t know about brouwn is almost a...

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Tomorrow is The Problem, kicks off its fifth season with a deep-dive into the groundbreaking work of conceptual artist, Charles Gaines. Over the course of his ongoing career, Gaines repeatedly revolutionized understanding of art: how it can be made, what makes it meaningful, and why art criticism consistently fails Black artists. 

Host Dr. Donna Honarpisheh sits down with art historian and curator Ellen Tani, contemporary artist Ed...

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Tomorrow Is The Problem, is back!

This season, Dr. Donna Honarpisheh will explore the works of three conceptual artists: Charles Gaines, stanley brouwn, and David Medalla.  Tomorrow is the Problem is brought to you by the Knight Foundation Art + Research Center and is produced in partnership with FRQNCY Media.

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This last episode of the season is dedicated to a singular artist whose layered portrayal and use of humor to relate to issues of belonging, home, racism, and brutality are part of a lifelong dedication to telling stories.
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September 26, 2023 34 mins
Haiti’s relationship to time goes back and forth along a spiraling line that repeated patterns while identifying them. Artists have long played a role in calling out failings and offering paths to rectifying trajectories. In the face of mounting crises, who will listen to the voices of the past and the call for home-grown resilience?
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The fractures left by inside and outside forces following Haiti’s double revolution against racial slavery and colonialism are still felt today. Analyzing history through a contemporary interpretive lens empowers a nuanced narrative that informs the present moment. It also reminds the present of the potential of revolution.
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September 12, 2023 34 mins
Haiti has had a definite role in shaping the Miami cultural and physical landscape. As we explore the growing root system that gives rise to the singular cultural hub that is Miami, we dive into both its diasporic past and the climate changes its future is signaling.
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With the African Diaspora came Yoruba, Kongo, the Orishas in their richly pluralistic forms as well as a great many other cultural and spiritual influences. From ancestral means of worship to the blurry lines between art and ritual, two cuban artists share their experience of Santeria and ritualistic practices in their art, community, legacies and timelines.
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From a young age, Betye Saar collected objects as a form of ritual, to hone their energy and activate their spirit. To protect and potentialize them. Today’s episode explores ritual as a methodology for healing and power. From the ritualization of Betye Saar’s installation sites to the reclamation of the black body by Krista Franklin we follow, and deconstruct the Brookes Ship.
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Etel Adnan’s art practice exists outside of traditional notions of time and spaces. She paints and writes a broader objective view of the cosmos all while wrestling with the everyday. Today’s episode explodes out of time and follows repetition and meditation rituals as anchors for the therapeutic process. From letting go of the written word, to painting, to reclaiming a voice amid the chaos of war, we look at Etel Adnan.
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Art functions as a perception prism, aiming to divert and change how we experience our world. As psychedelics take root in white America, an appropriation shift occurs. From meditating with paintings, to representations of altered states, we probe the nature of the relationship of the artist with themselves and with the viewer and finally between art and our senses.
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September 13, 2022 31 mins
The somatic experience of sound is inspected from its potential for violence and torture to the transcendence of healing, by way of its actual physical form. A discussion on the ambiguity of the human relationship with sound through science, technology, and spirituality.
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September 13, 2022 30 mins
A mixtape of Miami unicity, History, future, culture, losses, and rebuildings.
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September 13, 2022 35 mins
Improvisation is the shaping force of jazz, but as it shapes jazz it also structures community, and enables resistance. Today’s episode explores where jazz finds its roots and how far it sends its shoots.
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September 13, 2022 36 mins
For our season finale we offer hot, crunchy, gooey sounds! We discuss the ethics of sound and how the old lexicons of sound have trained our cognitive biases to hear in racialized, gendered, and classist terms.
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July 18, 2022 33 mins
With thousands of years of experience in land stewardship, indigenous communities—more specifically, their everyday relationship with the ocean as a site of knowing—provide a radical alternative to the dominant cultural response to the ongoing climate crisis. For the final episode of our first season, University of Hawai'i professor Candace Fujikane and Native American scholar Dina Gilio-Whitaker explore how some groups are turning...
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July 18, 2022 27 mins
Using examples of racial displacement and violence in both the Mediterranean Sea and Florida Straits as points of departure, scholars SA Smythe and Edwige Danticat reveal the ways in which states construct the rhetorical “crisis” of mass migration, a practice rooted in white supremacy and colonial ideologies.
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July 18, 2022 34 mins
Since the sea isn't bound to land-based ideas of space and time, it can hold vital counternarratives, as evidenced by Drexciya’s nautical Afrofuturism and their enduring appeal. Today we explore the inspired work of Detroit-based techno group Drexciya, whose innovative electronic sounds are matched only by their imaginative underwater world-building. Special guests include visual artist Abdul Qaddim Haqq, arts activist DeForrest Br...
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July 18, 2022 30 mins
For our very first episode of “Tomorrow is the Problem,” we explore the sea as a site that carries a collective memory of violence, an underwater collector of identities and meanings obscured by time and cultural erasure. Together with archaeologists Ayana Flewellen and Justin Dunnavant alongside Master Diver and Marine Biology Ph.D. student Kelsey Sapp, we probe the relationship between the sea, its history, and the ongoing ecolog...
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