Borders and Boundaries
Call Your Girlfriend
Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow
4.7 • 4.2K Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2019
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
We talk with Shirin Neshat about her solo exhibition at the Broad museum in Los Angeles. She's an Iranian-American artist who works in photography and film, using the personal to illuminate social change and political injustice in the Middle East and the United States.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Call Your Girlfriend, a podcast for long-distance festies everywhere. |
| 0:04.6 | I'm Amina Tussaud and I'm Anne Friedman. |
| 0:08.2 | Well, I am very excited about our agenda today. |
| 0:11.6 | I met and spoke with the artist Sheree Nishat. |
| 0:16.6 | I love her work. I think the first work of hers I saw was... |
| 0:20.4 | I was definitely very young and it was the women of Alaa Photographic series. |
| 0:25.0 | And I think that it wasn't probably until right after 9-11 when her... |
| 0:28.8 | a lot of her work came back into resurgence that that photo series really came back to me again. |
| 0:35.8 | I'm very curious to see this exhibit in Alaa now because I know that it's a retrospective and I hope that that is part of that. |
| 0:59.8 | Hi! Hello! I like how you sounded surprised that I'm here. |
| 1:03.8 | Like, what are you doing at high-door? Are you here? Are you here? |
| 1:07.8 | Like when you call each other at the same time and it just magically connects, has that ever happened to you? |
| 1:12.8 | Right, right. I love that. Old school feeling. |
| 1:16.8 | Well, I am very excited about our agenda today. |
| 1:19.8 | Tell me. |
| 1:21.8 | I met and spoke with the artist Sheree Nishat. |
| 1:26.8 | I have been a real fan of her work. Like, you know, not as long as she's been working. |
| 1:30.8 | It's not like I, you know, got to know her in high school. I was a little bit older. |
| 1:34.8 | But I have a very visceral memory of the first time I saw a particular piece of her video art, which is... |
| 1:43.8 | Like, I will kind of like do the brief description. I was a friend showed me on YouTube. |
| 1:47.8 | So I did not have like a gallery experience, but it's called Turbulent. |
| 1:51.8 | Because in fact, her first video work after she'd been making mostly portraits, like photographic work for several years at that point. |
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