"Person Place Thing" Randy Cohen x Martha Wilson
Join us for a live recording of the radio show Person Place Thing with Randy Cohen, featuring Martha Wilson, in celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of Franklin Furnace, which she founded, and her upcoming book, Back to the Present: 50 Years of Free Expression with Franklin Furnace (books will be available for purchase and Martha will be happy to inscribe yours).
Joined by Franklin Furnace’s Ken Dewey Director, Harley Spiller, Wilson will share stories about a person, a place, and a thing that have shaped her life and work.
Live musical performances by Shayna Dunkelman will punctuate the conversation, followed by an audience Q&A. Presented at PPOW, this special program engages audiences with Martha’s newest book, storytelling, music, and reflection.
Doors will open around 1:30 PM.
Registration is required for this live taping event.
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Person Place Thing is an interview show based on the idea that people are especially engaging when they speak, not directly about themselves, but something they care about. Guests talk about one person, one place, and one thing with particular meaning to them.
Martha Wilson is a pioneering feminist artist whose five-decade career spans photography and performance exploring female subjectivity through role-playing and impersonations of other people's personae. In 1976, she founded Franklin Furnace, a New York artist-run space dedicated to exploring, promoting, and preserving artists' books, installation and performance art, video, and online art. Her work is in museum collections including MoMA, the Met, Whitney, Centre Pompidou, and the Albertina. https://www.marthawilson.com/
Randy Cohen’s first professional work was writing humor pieces, essays, and stories for newspapers and magazines (The New Yorker, Harpers, the Atlantic, Young Love Comics). His first television work was writing for "Late Night With David Letterman" for which he won three Emmy awards. His fourth Emmy was for his work on Michael Moore’s "TV Nation." He received a fifth Emmy as a result of a clerical error, and he kept it. For twelve years he wrote "The Ethicist," a weekly column for the New York Times Magazine. He is currently the creator and host of Person Place Thing, a public radio program.
Shayna Dunkelman is a Tokyo-born, New York-based percussionist, producer, and electronic musician known for dissolving the boundaries between acoustic tradition and electronic innovation. Specializing in the integration of acoustic drums with Ableton Live and analogue drum machines, her career defies categorization. She is a member of the acclaimed Puerto Rican electro-acoustic band Balún and co-founder of the percussion duo NOMON with her sister Nava Dunkelman, where she explores rhythm as a choreography of lyrical gestures.