Episodes: 31
Frequency: Every two weeks
Rating: 5.0/5.0
Estimated listeners: 100 - 1,000
Listener location: USA
YouTube: 4.3k subscribers
Instagram: 6.2k followers
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Ajay Kurian - Hosts conversations with artists and writers about creative practice and the conditions shaping artistic life.
Kevin Beasley - Artistic Responsibility, Community Care, Artistic Freedom, Sound, Memory, And His Creative Practice.
Stephanie Wambugu - Ambition, Friendship, Creative Survival, Publishing, Literary Criticism, And The Art World.
Alex Da Corte - Transformation, Memory, Embodiment, Artistic Practice, And Reconstructing Works Of Art.
Vijay Masharani - Artistic Practice, Illness And Mortality, Language, Art And Politics, And Sustaining Creative Work.
Ed Solomon - Writing Process, Mentorship, Working With Actors, Criticism, Creative Blocks, And Sustaining A Career.
The/Forum 26 | Kevin Beasley
October 27, 2026
Ajay Kurian sits down with artist Kevin Beasley, the recipient of the Studio Museum in Harlem’s 2026 Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize (congrats, Kevin!). Beasley's sculpture, sound, and drawing hold together histories that rarely share a room. At the Whitney Museum in 2018, Beasley’s A View of a Landscape had a cotton gin motor whirred silently inside a soundproof vitrine: its noise set loose and transformed by collaborators in the listening room next door.Through this conversation, Beasley ...
SPENT Episode Seven | Stephanie Wambugu
October 08, 2026
Ajay Kurian sits down with writer Stephanie Wambugu, whose debut novel Lonely Crowds arrived last year to considerable acclaim, for a conversation that begins with the anxiety of ambition and opens into questions of friendship, artistic survival, and what it costs to keep working in a world where someone else's book lands on the shelf every Tuesday.Wambugu, the youngest child of Kenyan immigrants, talks about the novel's two Black women artists coming up in the 1990s New York art world, and t...
The/Forum 25 | Alex Da Corte
September 22, 2026
Ajay Kurian sits down with artist Alex Da Corte, whose recreations, personas and total immersion into figures from Marcel Duchamp to Eminem have made him one of the most distinct and prolific voices working today. So much so that he has been tasked with co-curating the Whitney Museum’s survey on Roy Lichtenstein with Meg Olni, opening on October 11th, 2026.The conversation begins with the sandwich as a transgressive object — central enough to his practice that the title of one show, As Is Wet...
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