Arranging Tangerines presented by Lydian Stater

In this episode, we talk with New York–based visual artist Dakota Gearhart about her four-part animated video series Life Touching Life, currently featured in the Projected Ecologies program within the exhibition Pulsar at MUCA in Mexico City. We discuss the show’s algae femme host Tiffany—part toxic bloom, part human—who travels through time to interview scientists, poets, and caretakers about reimagining relationships between hum...

In this episode, we talk with Mexican filmmaker and animator Andrea Gudiño about her video Anima Natura, featured as part of Projected Ecologies in the exhibition Pulsar at MUCA Campus in Mexico City. We discuss embodied animism, learning from winter, what it means to animate with humility, and how writing, darkness, and disappearing landscapes shape her process. Andrea shares how her time in Estonia transformed her practice, why s...

In this episode, we talk with video artist Kadir Kayserilioğlu about his recent work The Walls of Heaven, currently featured in the exhibition Pulsar as part of Projected Ecologies at MUCA Campus in Mexico City. We discuss the accidental origins of the piece, ideas of creation and control through terrariums and Sea Monkeys, god complexes in both art and gaming,...

In this week’s episode, we welcome Kris Graves (and his associate Frank Francis) to our gallery and onto the podcast to discuss a multitude of topics including life with a baby, the charm and uniqueness of Queens, the origins of Hip Hop, Graves’ early commissioned work, museums’ and cultural institutions’ feelings about NFTs, Black Lives Matter, the role that race plays in art, history, and society, working day jobs, and how NFTs c...

In this episode, we talk with artists Matthew Porter and Carlo Van de Roer about how they first met, the acquisition of NFT works by institutions and museums, the ever-changing attitudes of art collectors, the challenges and strengths of working with traditional artists in the NFT space, the idea of hybridity, and what Matthew and Carlo have queued up for the future.

Episode recorded on February 21, 2023.

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In this episode, we talk with artist Mitchell F Chan about his early NFT project titled Digital Zones of Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility, ideas of ownership and locating the source of value, techno utopianism, conceputalism within the NFT space and much much more.

Mitchell F Chan has created innovative works about technology since 2006. He creates large-scale public works, gallery installations, and digital artworks. He is be...

In our most recent installment, Mike Varley (one half of the artistic duo Highley Varlet) has (half of) us over to his very official podcast studio (in his apartment) to discuss his and their artistic endeavors including the “2020: Total Clarity” project where they walked a marathon a day, five days a week, for a full calendar year, the people they met, the podcast episodes they produced, the bagels they ate, the weed bags they pic...

In this episode, we talk with Lau Wai about their practice and process with discussions around Chinese naming conventions, the use of (or reference to) mocap suits, the differences between consumer and commercial software, how avatars can represent or misrepresent us, deep fakes, the influence of Hong Kong cinema, hybridity, NFTs, virtual galleries, and what the future holds.

Lau Wai 劉 衛 is a multidisciplinary artist, former photog...

In this very special podcast, Alexandro and Joseph do their best infomercial impression to pitch our new gallery initiative, the Lydian Stater Collector Pass. The Lydian Stater Collector Pass is an annual pass issued in the form of an NFT that guarantees ownership of exclusive physical and digital artworks from every artist exhibited in our 2023 season in addition to bonus perks. Listen to learn more about the pass or click the li...

This week, we have Elisa Gutiérrez Eriksen on the show to talk about her curatorial practice including the current exhibition at Lydian Stater “Neither Here Nor There,” her experience working as a cultural specialist in Mexico, how she carved a path to the visual arts, NFTs as a medium rather than a container, her recent exhibitions in New York “Common Frequencies” and “Subversive Kin,” the merits of artists choosing a curator ins...

In this week’s episode, we sit down with Huidi Xiang to talk about her work in our current exhibition “Neither Here Nor There” at Lydian Stater in addition to how gaming influences her work, the overlaps between digital gaming assets and NFTs, the ethics of underpaying oneself, the problems of underpaying others, repetition as a metaphor for labor, the tragedy of The Villager’s Down Special Move in Super Smash Brothers, the importa...

In this episode we speak with Nando Alvarez-Perez. We reflect on our previous exhibition, post industrial digital dysmorphya, and discuss the politics of being a triplet, when the right time to “retire” a body of work is, image selection and the flattening of history, the indirect impact Walter Benjamin has had on his practice, deskilling, doodles, and recent activities at Lightwork’s residency program, Cornelia Magazine, and the B...

In this week’s episode, we catch up with Christos Makridis, the CTO/COO and co-founder of the Web3 multimedia startup Living Opera, to discuss how writing can be an approach to understanding the world, human capital, how NFTs and music are such a natural fit, the way Living Opera is working to support emerging opera musicians, the Magic Mozart NFT project, AI’s potential role in the arts, and the possibility of Web3 becoming a spac...

On this week’s episode, we are joined by artist Carlos Franco. 

Carlos Franco Maldonado is an artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Maldonado holds a bachelor's degree in Philosophy and Visual Art from the University of Puerto Rico and a master’s in New Genres from the San Francisco Art Institute. His works and projects have been presented at the Lab, SOMArt’s Cultural Center, and The Thing Quarterly in San Francisco; at Lvl3 Ga...

On this week’s episode, we are joined by Ryan Tanaka, co-founder of Teia Surf, musician, and crypto-historian, to discuss the crypto space and it’s overlap with music and art, the promise Web3, Ethereum’s fallibility, diversity within the crypto ecosystem, the potential of Tezos as a blockchain for art, the challenges the Metaverse faces, and the importance of the intersection between the humanities and technology. 

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In a special episode for us this week, we sit down with Brian Alfred, artist and host of the SOUND & VISION podcast, who is a big inspiration on what we do here at Arranging Tangerines. In our discussion, we touch on the curatorial process, the importance of soccer, the gravitas that comes with age and experience, the overlap between music and visual art, Brian’s painting process and trajectory, diving into the world of animati...

In this week’s episode, we welcome back Anika Todd, our inaugural guest on the podcast. As we talk about what Anika has been up to for the last year, we discuss teaching, the ethical concerns of sunlight access, the transferable nature of air rights in NYC, how a nomadic lifestyle helps emphasize incongruities, balloonery, space travel with a lower case ’s’, and the pros and cons of documentation when it comes to conceptual artwork...

In this weeks episode, artist Maria Gabler walks us through her solo exhibition titled 'TRAMA' at PROXYCO Gallery located in Manhattan's Lower East Side. The show runs through July 20th - go see it!

María Gabler (b. 1989) earned her BFA from the Catholic University of Chile and MFA in Visual Arts from the University of Chile. Gabler has exhibited extensively in Chile, including the solo shows “La Ventana” (2022) at Galería Gabriela...

In our second episode with the amazing Laura Splan, we talk about the rewards of providing exhibition opportunities for others, the promise of the NFT as a viable distribution model for long format video art, transfiguration!, the roll of magic in art, how our relationship to science, technology and medicine emerges in our daily lives, the beauty industry’s deliberate misuse of the language of spirituality & science in the serv...