//podcastplus.net/feed/shes-a-talker~84ed48b9 Artist Neil Goldberg uses a collection of thousands of index cards onto which he's obsessively jotted observations, reflections, and ideas to prompt conversations with some of his favorite New York artists, writers, performers, and beyond. Thu, 22 Oct 2026 14:44:04 +0000 https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/shes-a-talker/SAT_OSCAR_CORNEJO_09_AL.mp3?dest-id=1749002 Artist Oscar René Cornejo talks about burning his home down as a child and other early artistic endeavors. Neil talks about the erotics of Amazon checkout. ABOUT THE GUEST Oscar René Cornejo earned an MFA from Yale School of Art, a BFA from the Cooper Union, and was a recipient of the J. William Fulbright Scholarship for research in El Salvador. In 2004, he cofounded the Latin American Community Art Project (LA CAPacidad), where for seven years he directed summer artist residencies to promote intercultural awareness through community art education. He is a founding member of Junte, an artist project based in Adjuntas, a town in the mountains of southern Puerto Rico. His work has been included in numerous exhibitions, including To look at the sea is to become what one is, at Radiator Gallery, Queens International 2018: Volumes, at The Queens Museum, White Flag, at Princeton University; and Parliament of Owls, Diverseworks, Houston, TX. Cornejo has completed residencies at the Skowhegan School of... Fri, 18 Sep 2020 08:00:00 +0000 https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/shes-a-talker/SAT_OSCAR_CORNEJO_09_AL.mp3?dest-id=1749002 https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/shes-a-talker/AngelaMix3_96kps.mp3?dest-id=1749002 Artist Angela Dufresne makes the case that painting is like cats, fashion is like dogs. Neil proposes that certain worked-out bodies are never naked. ABOUT THE GUEST Angela Dufresne is a painter originally from Connecticut, raised however in the town in Kansas (Olathe-Suburbs) that Dick and Perry stopped in before they killed the Clutters (In Cold Blood), and now based in Brooklyn. She received the first college degree in her lineage. Her work articulates non-paranoid, porous ways of being in a world fraught by fear, power and possession. Through painting, drawing and performative works, she wields heterotopic narratives that are both non hierarchical and perverse. She’s exhibited The Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in New York, The National Academy of Arts and Letters in New York, the Kemper Museum in Kansas City, Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York, The Cleveland Institute of Art, The Aldrich Museum in Connecticut, the Dorsky Museum at SUNY New Paltz, among others. She i... Fri, 14 Aug 2020 08:00:00 +0000 https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/shes-a-talker/AngelaMix3_96kps.mp3?dest-id=1749002 https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/shes-a-talker/Mike_Dimpfl_Mix5_pod_export_1.mp3?dest-id=1749002 Neil talks about his childhood wish to stop the waves. DJ and academic Mike Dimpfl talks about his research on "toilet feelings." ABOUT THE GUEST Mike Dimpfl is a teacher, academic, costume builder, and DJ. His academic work explores the connection between hygiene, bureaucracy, and institutional racism, particularly in the southern US. Mike’s costumes often focus on the comic and confusing relationship human beings have to their garbage and to the possibility of the divine. When music is his focus, he is especially committed to reckless abandon on the dancefloor. ABOUT THE HOST Neil Goldberg is an artist in NYC who makes work that The New York Times has described as “tender, moving and sad but also deeply funny.” His work is in the permanent collection of MoMA, he’s a Guggenheim Fellow, and teaches at the Yale School of Art. More information at neilgoldberg.com. ABOUT THE TITLE SHE’S A TALKER was the name of Neil’s first video project. “One night in the early 90s I was combing my room... Fri, 24 Jul 2020 09:00:00 +0000 https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/shes-a-talker/Mike_Dimpfl_Mix5_pod_export_1.mp3?dest-id=1749002 https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/shes-a-talker/CakesMix3.mp3?dest-id=1749002 Neil talks about summer as its own lifespan. His guest, rapper Cakes Da Killa, discusses how to tell a friend their music sucks. ABOUT THE GUEST Cakes Da Killa is a rapper and the talent behind five critically-acclaimed mixtapes. Cakes has an international following that's brought him all around the world. From Europe to Australia, Cakes has been redefining what it means to be a respected lyricist in hip hop. He has been featured in various printed publications globally and in television specials such as VH1’s LHH: Out in Hip Hop and VICE’s Gaycation. His debut album, Hedonism, dropped October 21, 2016. Cakes' most recent single, Don Dada can be streamed on Bandcamp. ABOUT THE HOST Neil Goldberg is an artist in NYC who makes work that The New York Times has described as “tender, moving and sad but also deeply funny.” His work is in the permanent collection of MoMA, he’s a Guggenheim Fellow, and teaches at the Yale School of Art. More information at neilgoldberg.com. ABOUT THE TITLE SHE’... Fri, 17 Jul 2020 09:00:00 +0000 https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/shes-a-talker/CakesMix3.mp3?dest-id=1749002 https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/shes-a-talker/SharonMarcusMIX3.mp3?dest-id=1749002 Fri, 17 Jul 2020 08:00:00 +0000 https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/shes-a-talker/SharonMarcusMIX3.mp3?dest-id=1749002 https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/shes-a-talker/ANNIE_02_MP3_JK_01_NoCallInNumber.mp3?dest-id=1749002 SEASON 2: EPISODE 5 Writer and performer Annie Lanzillotto talks about how, actually, old people are the future. ABOUT THE GUEST Born and raised in the Westchester Square neighborhood of the Bronx of Barese heritage, Annie Lanzillotto is renowned memoirist, poet, and performance artist. She’s the author of  L IS FOR LION: AN ITALIAN BRONX BUTCH FREEDOM MEMOIR  (SUNY Press), the books of poetry  SCHISTSONG  (Bordighera Press) and Hard Candy/Pitch Roll Yaw (Guernica Editions). She has received fellowships and performance commissions from New York Foundation For The Arts, Dancing In The Streets, Dixon Place, Franklin Furnace, The Rockefeller Foundation for shows including  CONFESSIONS OF A BRONX TOMBOY: My Throwing Arm, This Useless Expertise ,  How to Wake Up a Marine in a Foxhole , and  a’Schapett . More info at  annielanzillotto.com .  ABOUT THE HOST Neil Goldberg is an artist in NYC who makes work that  The New York Times  has described as “tender, movin... Fri, 27 Mar 2020 14:10:09 +0000 https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/shes-a-talker/ANNIE_02_MP3_JK_01_NoCallInNumber.mp3?dest-id=1749002 https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/shes-a-talker/SAT_JEFF_HILLER_04_AL_Notes_NG_03_shortened.mp3?dest-id=1749002 SEASON 2: EPISODE 9 In this episode, Neil talks to the one person he’s not isolating from: his husband, actor and comedian Jeff Hiller, from TV’s 30 Rock, Broadway’s Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, solo shows at Joe’s Pub at the Public Theatre, and many, many others. The podcast has always been about the everyday, and right now our everyday is coronavirus.  ABOUT THE GUEST Jeff Hiller is an actor and comedian has appeared in guest roles on television in “30Rock”, “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend“, “Broad City”, “Difficult People”, “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”, “The McCarthy’s”, “Community”, and a lot of shows that no one remembers. Jeff was a regular on Ali Wentworth’s series Nightcap,  and played Maggie’s new work friend on the third season of “Playing House“. At the movies, Jeff played a snooty waiter to Hugh Dancy and Rose Byrne in “Adam”, a pissed off waiter in the Netflix comedy, Set It Up and got fancy as the head waiter opposite Chloe Grace Moret... Fri, 20 Mar 2020 17:30:18 +0000 https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/shes-a-talker/SAT_JEFF_HILLER_04_AL_Notes_NG_03_shortened.mp3?dest-id=1749002 https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/shes-a-talker/SAT_JON_WAN_03_DG_FOR_MIXING_draft4_mixdown.mp3?dest-id=1749002 SEASON 2: EPISODE 6 Performer Jon Wan argues that kids are campy. ABOUT THE GUEST  Slipping in and out of drag skin Kiko Soirée , animagus Jon Wan serves an alluring feast of emotion - sensual, sincere, stupid. Kiko (@kikosoiree) is a queer comedian, host and drag queen, performing at venues like Club Cumming, Joe's Pub, The Bell House, Ars Nova, Caroline's, Union Hall, MoCA, Caveat, and UCB. They've been named by Time Out Magazine as one of the rising LGBT POC comedians to watch. Monthly, Kiko hosts 'A+, The Pan-Asian Drag and Burlesque Revue', in the Lower East Side, and seasonally, produces the original musical advice show, 'Dear Kiko'. Their Spanish is better than their Cantonese which hasn't made their mother proud but tracks for the American Born Chinese narrative. ABOUT THE HOST Neil Goldberg is an artist in NYC who makes work that  The New York Times  has described as “tender, moving and sad but also deeply funny.” His work is in the permanent collection of MoMA, he... Fri, 28 Feb 2020 09:00:00 +0000 https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/shes-a-talker/SAT_JON_WAN_03_DG_FOR_MIXING_draft4_mixdown.mp3?dest-id=1749002 https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/shes-a-talker/SAT_JAQUES_SERVIN_09_AL_NG_01.mp3?dest-id=1749002 SEASON 2: EPISODE 3 Activist and filmmaker Jacques Servin talks about shoplifting in airports. ABOUT THE GUEST Jacques Servin is co-founder of the Yes Men, an activist filmmaking collective that's plagued dozens of entities including Exxon, Shell, the NRA, and the US Department of Energy. In the process he's co-written, co-directed, and co-starred in three award-winning documentaries, with a fourth expected this fall. Servin has recently co-launched the Yes School, which teaches writers, theater people, and artists how to strategically bring creativity to ongoing activist campaigns; this spring, "students" are working with groups in Tanzania, Belfast, Istanbul, Toronto, and Budapest that oppose housing financialization and other forms of land theft. Servin has also published dozens of articles in all sorts of magazines, as well as two collections of short stories. ABOUT THE HOST Neil Goldberg is an artist in NYC who makes work that  The New York Times  has described as “tender, movi... 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