Dr. O with Hrair Sarkissian

Season 2 finale

In the finale of season 2, Dr. O convenes with long-time friend and collaborator, Hrair Sarkissian for an intimate tête-à-tête about life and art. One of the leading conceptual photographers of our time, Sarkissian, unfolds  entertaining details of his life, from growing up in his father’s photo studio in Syria and his ongoing engagement with Armenian cultural heritage. Tears and fears are relieved and released through the sounds of a past that is no longer our own.

Haroon Mirza and Dr. O aka Dr. Omar Kholeif convene to discuss frequencies of sound and experience. This free-wheeling session encompasses fervent debates about electricity, psychedelics, and memory. Careening down lanes of memory, sh$t gets emotional. While listening to Alt Bollywood soundtracks, the pair venture into the details of generative art, synth, techno music, and more. Existential listening.

In this intimate conversation, Dr. O aka Dr. Omar Kholeif sits down with the pioneering artist, Lynn Hershman Leeson. Together, they explore antecedents to contemporary avatars, Artificial intelligence, psychoanalysis, speech, and the power of silence. Across the hour, they revisit the artist’s path-breaking experiments in art, film, and technology—tracing the roots of Hershman Leeson’s expressive imagination back to the artist’s childhood.

Season 2 of the artPost21 Podcast coincides with the release of Internet_Art: From the Birth of the Web to the Rise of NFTs by Omar Kholeif, and published by Phaidon

Season 2 kicks off with a series of encounters with some of contemporary culture’s living legends. The first of these is artist, composer, and writer, Cory Arcangel, whose experiments with art, tech, and music have pioneered how people see, hear and feel the world around us. Together, Dr. O and Arcangel freewheel from Buffalo, NY to Pasadena, CA—reflecting on everything from guitar solos and Andy Warhol, through to the birth of Arcangel Surfware.

Hosted by Dr. Omar Kholeif
Produced by Moe Choucair

Season 2 coincides with the launch of Internet_Art: From the Birth of the Web to the Rise of NFTs.

Episode 5: Godard Tribute by Peter Webber with Omar Kholeif

Longing and Belonging with Otobong Nkanga

Regarded globally as one of the most important contemporary artists of our time, Nigerian-born, Antwerp-based artist, Otobong Nkanga invites listeners into her studio after a long day's work. Here, the artist describes rarely known aspects of her artistic biography, specifically, the love and longing found in the songs she sings, and the ones she listens to. Enter into her aural sphere before the mic drops.

Summer’s almost over, but the “Art Pop” continues. In Part 2 of the aP21 summer special, Professor Sarah Perks reflects on her collaborations, including the exhibition La Movida about Spain's countercultural movement. Here, Professor Perks and Dr. O explore the contours of political correctness, alongside perceptions of race, gender, and class. It all ends with a karaoke breakdown, and the return of a summer anthem that never was!

It’s the summer, baby! Well, at least it feels like it somewhere. In Part 1 of this summer special, Dr. O meets up with Professor Sarah Perks—one of the youngest female-identifying professors and art leaders in the UK, to discuss her beginnings in a call centre, working at Cornerhouse and the life of the Manchester art scene. They close out with intellectual natter about Imitation of Life: Melodrama and Race in the 21st Century from 2016. All set a global suite of pop anthem-mania!

It all begins with an idea.

In the Pilot episode of artPost21’s flagship podcast, Kholeif invites Turner-Prize winning artist and Private Ear, Lawrence Abu Hamdan to think back to the Pre-Borat mankini days, when Spandex was still considered fashionable attire for a rock-star to be.