The Modern Art Notes Podcast

Andrea Zittel, A-Z Prototype for Pocket Property, off the coast of Denmark, 1999. Island is made of concrete, steel, wood, dirt, and vegetation, approximately 23 x 54 feet.

This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features artist Andrea Zittel. 

One of the pieces I discuss at length with Zittel and with Katherine Ball (see below) is Indy Island (2010), a project that was born from the semi-failure of the Zittel floating island pictured here. Why did that early project, launched off the coast of Denmark, not work out as well as Zittel had hoped? The full answer is on the podcast. (Short version: Unexpected visitors who made Zittel’s island a point of pilgrimmage.)

A survey of Zittel’s work, titled “Lay of the Land,” is on view now at the Baltic Center for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, England. The show was organized by Stockholm’s Magasin 3, where it opened late last year. In 2005, the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston and the New Museum for Contemporary Art in New York organized a traveling American survey of her work. There’s also a significant installation of Zittel’s work on MoMA’s second floor as part of the collection-based exhibition “1980-Now.”

For the show’s second segment, Katherine Ball, who lived on Zittel’s Indy Island last summer, joins me to discuss her residency at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. As part of her residency deployed organic mycobooms around the lake to control pollution and installed a greywater system on the Island. 

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Andrea Zittel, A-Z Wagon Station customized by Giovanni Vance at A-Z West.

This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features artist Andrea Zittel. A survey of Zittel’s work, titled “Lay of the Land,” is on view now at the Baltic Center for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, England. The show was organized by Stockholm’s Magasin 3, where it opened late last year. In 2005, the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston and the New Museum for Contemporary Art in New York organized a traveling American survey of her work.

There’s also a significant installation of Zittel’s work on MoMA’s second floor as part of the collection-based exhibition “1980-Now.”

Zittel lives and works at A-Z West outside Joshua Tree, Calif., an enterprise that encompasses “all aspects of day to day living, [in which] home furniture, clothing, food all become the sites of investigation in an ongoing endeavor to better understand human nature and the social construction of needs.” Zittel also operates High Desert Test Sites, a series of experimental art sites in the California desert.

For the show’s second segment, Katherine Ball, who lived on Zittel’s Indy Island (2010), joins me to discuss her residency at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. As part of her residency deployed organic mycobooms around the lake to control pollution and installed a greywater system on the Island. 

To download or subscribe to The Modern Art Notes Podcast via iTunes, click here or on the image above. To download the program directly, click here. To subscribe to The MAN Podcast’s RSS feed, click here. To see more images from this week’s show, click here.

Andrea Zittel, installation of Sprawl I, 2002; Wall Sprawl (Next to Las Vegas Bay) 2008. Collection of the Museum of Modern Art New York. As installed in “Contemporary Galleries 1980 to Now,” at MoMA, on view now. Photograph via MoMA and Jonathan Muzikar. 

This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features artist Andrea Zittel. (Download links are at bottom.) A survey of Zittel’s work, titled “Lay of the Land,” is on view now at the Baltic Center for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, England. The show was organized by Stockholm’s Magasin 3, where it opened late last year. In 2005, the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston and the New Museum for Contemporary Art in New York organized a traveling American survey of her work.

There’s also a significant installation of Zittel’s work on MoMA’s second floor as part of the collection-based exhibition “1980-Now.” Sprawl I and Wall Sprawl, which is based on satellite imagery of human encroachment into the American desert, are among the 12 Zittels on view.

Zittel lives and works at A-Z West outside Joshua Tree, Calif., an enterprise that encompasses “all aspects of day to day living, [in which] home furniture, clothing, food all become the sites of investigation in an ongoing endeavor to better understand human nature and the social construction of needs.” Zittel also operates High Desert Test Sites, a series of experimental art sites in the California desert.

For the show’s second segment, Katherine Ball, who lived on Zittel’s Indy Island (2010), joins me to discuss her residency at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. As part of her residency deployed organic mycobooms around the lake to control pollution and installed a greywater system on the Island. 

To download or subscribe to The Modern Art Notes Podcast via iTunes, click here or on the image above. To download the program directly, click here. To subscribe to The MAN Podcast’s RSS feed, click here. To see more images from this week’s show, click here.

Andrea Zittel’s A-Z West, Joshua Tree, Calif.

This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features artist Andrea Zittel. A survey of Zittel’s work, titled “Lay of the Land,” is on view now at the Baltic Center for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, England. The show was organized by Stockholm’s Magasin 3, where it opened late last year. In 2005, the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston and the New Museum for Contemporary Art in New York organized a traveling American survey of her work.

Zittel lives and works here, at A-Z West outside Joshua Tree, Calif., an enterprise that encompasses “all aspects of day to day living, [in which] home furniture, clothing, food all become the sites of investigation in an ongoing endeavor to better understand human nature and the social construction of needs.” Zittel also operates High Desert Test Sites, a series of experimental art sites in the California desert.

For the show’s second segment, Katherine Ball, who lived on Zittel’s Indy Island (2010), joins me to discuss her residency at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. As part of her residency deployed organic mycobooms around the lake to control pollution and installed a greywater system on the Island. 

To download or subscribe to The Modern Art Notes Podcast via iTunes, click here. To download the program directly, click here or click on the image above. To subscribe to The MAN Podcast’s RSS feed, click here. To see more images from this week’s show, click here.

Today on Modern Art Notes: The relationship between Charles Sheeler’s Classic Landscape (1931, left) at the National Gallery of Art and Modern Art Notes Podcast guest Mitch Epstein’s Amos Coal Power Plant, Winfield, West Virginia (2007, right) — and how I’ve been finding Epstein’s “American Power” photographs everywhere lately. Click here (or on the image) to read the post.