Each episode in the first series of States podcast, \u201cCoast to Coast,\u201d is a conversation with a different creator at the end of their Villa Albertine residency. Designing video games with the queer community in Atlanta, capturing the changing colors and cultures of the Mississippi River, sketching the mythic prom queen from New York to San Francisco\u2026 each project is an unexpected, nomadic exploration.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Other formats, by or with Villa Albertine residents, will soon enrich this podcast offering, such as a radio documentary series produced by Aude-Emilie Juda\u00efque who reports from the Mexican border on art there.\u00a0<\/p>\n
States is also an online<\/a> and print magazine<\/a>, presenting fiction, criticism, visual art, and comics alongside interviews and long-form journalism. In all its forms States covers issues as diverse as the American landscape, offering new global perspectives on the future of art and culture.\u202f\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n What happens when artists from the French-speaking world are immersed in American culture? In this first season of Coast to Coast, journalist Rachel Donadio sits down with Villa Albertine residents who have returned from their exploratory stays in the United States.\u202f\u202f\u00a0 The series digs into racial representation in art, post-internet dance, the color of the Mississippi, the poetic use of new technologies, colonial imaginations of spatial exploration, the sound of orchestras, the myth of the prom queen, and the video game as a means for social action \u2013 all from a multicultural, multidisciplinary framework.\u00a0<\/p>\n Welcome to the first episode of States! Host Rachel Donadio, a Paris-based writer and culture journalist, is joined by Anne Lafont, art historian and Director of Studies at the \u00c9cole des Hautes \u00c9tudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. Anne\u2019s research has greatly influenced the way that art history takes up the question of race and its representations.\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n During her Villa Albertine residency, Anne embedded in New Orleans to study the material culture of the local Black experience, with a particular focus on the connection between Black history and the French-speaking Americas at the beginning of the 19th century. This research also led Anne to a study of Marie Laveau, a Creole princess and Vodou practitioner who became an iconic figure in the city, but who appears in very few images from the period.\u202f\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n Anne discusses her findings\u2014and the differences between French and American conceptions of race\u2014in this episode. Tune in!\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n\u202fCoast to Coast\u202f\u00a0<\/h2>\n
\n\u202f<\/p>\nEp.01 Anne Lafont in search of Creole princess Marie Laveau in Louisiana\u00a0<\/h3>\n