Jennifer Rubell

Back to the mean streets of Miami: host Jill Spalding speaks with food writer, artist and personnage Jennifer Rubell, who discusses what it means to create her conceptual, participatory food projects, offering the listener an aesthetic, art historical and sensory tour through her monumental, multi-level 2009 performative installation Creation. She speaks to the import of art historical destruction and allusion in the work of contemporary artists--threads of art history, she stresses, run throughout her oeuvre--and appraises the influence on her thought of such artists as Jackson Pollock, Richard Long and Donald Judd, as well as such movements as Happenings, Arte Povera and Minimalism. Rudell also discusses some of her upcoming projects and her guide to conceptualized dinner hosting, Real Life Entertainment: Easy Recipes and Unconventional Wisdom (25 minutes).