In this episode of Culture in a Time of Crises, artist Gabriel Kuri talks to Dr. Shwetal A. Patel about his early years growing up in Mexico City, his friendship with other artists, and why he always knew he was an artist. Kuri also shares his experiences of being born and raised in Mexico City,
In this episode of Culture in a Time of Crises, artist Gabriel Kuri talks to Dr. Shwetal A. Patel about his early years growing up in Mexico City, his friendship with other artists, and why he always knew he was an artist. Kuri also shares his experiences of being born and raised in Mexico City,
In this episode of Culture in a Time of Crises, Ernesto Neto, a visual artist based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, talks to Shwetal A. Patel. Neto talks about his early years in Rio before discovering his passion for art, his spiritual journey after visiting the Huni Kuin tribe in the Amazonian state of Acre
In this episode of Culture in a Time of Crises, Cleveland Watkiss MBE, a British vocalist, actor, and composer, talks to Shwetal A. Patel about his life and work. Watkiss discusses his childhood in Hackney, East London, and how he embarked on four-decade musical career via sound systems and an improbable admission to the prestigious
In this episode of Culture in a Time of Crises, Cleveland Watkiss MBE, a British vocalist, actor, and composer, talks to Shwetal A. Patel about his life and work. Watkiss discusses his childhood in Hackney, East London, and how he embarked on four-decade musical career via sound systems and an improbable admission to the prestigious
In this episode of Culture in a Time of Crises, the two-thirds of the Raqs Media Collective Monica Narula and Jeebesh Bagchi talk to Shwetal A. Patel about their socially-distant curation of the upcoming Yokohama Triennale, new modes of working as a collective during the lockdown as well as their roles as artists in a
In this episode of Culture in a Time of Crises, Trajal Harrell, the American dancer and choreographer, talks to Shwetal A. Patel about how the lockdown has influenced his working practices and ideas. Harrell also discusses his childhood in Georgia and how he ended up at Yale, as well as his epic series entitled “Twenty
In this episode of Culture in a Time of Crises, Trajal Harrell, the American dancer and choreographer, talks to Shwetal A. Patel about how the lockdown has influenced his working practices and ideas. Harrell also discusses his childhood in Georgia and how he ended up at Yale, as well as his epic series entitled “Twenty
In this episode of Culture in a Time of Crises, artist Lubna Chowdhary talks to Shwetal A. Patel about her working practices during the lockdown as a ceramic artist, her relationship with various materials, the challenge of diversity in the art world as well as her first solo show in India to be inaugurated in
In this episode of Culture in a Time of Crises, artist Dayanita Singh talks to Shwetal A. Patel about her three-decade journey in photography, her bookmaking practice, and its performative aspects, the Mobile Museums she produces as well as her surprise book release at Museum of Innocence in Istanbul. “I don’t want to be a
