Speech Acts
Speech Acts
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Speech Acts is the podcast of Pratt Fine Arts' Project Third (P3). Each month, a faculty member sits down with artists, curators, and cultural producers whose work engages deeply with social, political, and community-based issues. These conversations explore practices that defy traditional categories, experiment across disciplines, and respond to the urgent conditions of our time.Speech Acts features original music by Alejandra Tokatlian.About Project Third (P3)Pratt Fine Arts Forum for Research & Community EngagementProject Third (P3) is a Pratt Fine Arts forum for students, visiting artists, academics, and activists whose work is research-based, socially engaged, and politically involved. P3 seeks to promote substantial interdisciplinary collaborations between Pratt’s Fine Arts and other departments, as well as meaningful collaborations with communities outside Pratt Institute. Located at Dekalb Gallery on campus, P3’s multiple programs include artist residencies, exhibitions, workshops, seminars, performances, lectures, and student-led engagements. P3’s mission is to offer Pratt Institute students and their larger communities’ access to visiting artists, academics, activists, and others whose practices are motivated by a desire to instigate social and cultural change.
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The podcast focuses on socially engaged art, political discourse, and community issues, with episodes exploring topics such as interdisciplinary performance, socially engaged artistic practices, and the intersection of art and activism. For example, recent discussions have covered the role of curating in social change and the emotional impact of performance art.
Speech Acts is the podcast of Pratt Fine Arts’ Project Third (P3). Each semester, a faculty member sits down with artists, curators, and cultural producers whose work engages deeply with social, political, and community-based issues. These conversations explore practices that defy traditional categories, experiment across disciplines, and respond to the urgent conditions of our time.
Speech Acts features original music by Alejandra Tokatlian.
About Project Third (P3)
Pratt Fine Arts Forum for Research & Community Engagement
Project Third (P3) is a Pratt Fine Arts forum for students, visiting artists, academics, and activists whose work is research-based, socially engaged, and politically involved. P3 seeks to promote substantial interdisciplinary collaborations between Pratt’s Fine Arts and other departments, as well as meaningful collaborations with communities outside Pratt Institute. Located at Dekalb Gallery on campus, P3’s multiple programs include artist residencies, exhibitions, workshops, seminars, performances, lectures, and student-led engagements. P3’s mission is to offer Pratt Institute students and their larger communities’ access to visiting artists, academics, activists, and others whose practices are motivated by a desire to instigate social and cultural change.
Associate Professor Carlos Motta speaks with Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo—also known in the art world as Puppies Puppies— an artist who moves fluidly across performance, sculpture, installation, and community activism.
Jade’s work questions notions of what is and isn’t art, blurs the line between the personal and the public, and explores how identity is shaped by the commodities and media we consume. Drawing on the emotional resonance of found objects and shared experiences, she has built a body of work that grapples with love, mortality, power, visibility, and what it means to exist—all while channeling the art world’s resources back into her trans and gender non-conforming community. What began as a deliberately anonymous practice has transformed into an autobiographical and politically urgent voice.
Among her career highlights is her inclusion in the 2017 Whitney Biennial, the 9th Berlin Biennale, and the 60th Venice Biennale.
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