Pass/Fail/Incomplete

Election 2024: How we Got Here, What You Can Do

Well, folks, it’s that time again. What time? Election time! And if you’re like us, you’re feeling pretty tense about it, trying to suppress that sinking feeling and wondering what you can do. Join Oliver and Peter as we regroup with a timely political episode to discuss the presidential election and some pragmatic solutions and strategies in the weeks before November 5th. We talk to Megan Matson and Catherine Schram, two grassroots organizers working to get out the vote for the Harris/Walz campaign and find common ground in our divisive political shitstorm—ahem, landscape. We discuss how we got here and the broader conditions, obstacles, and concrete strategies for effecting change. Time is running out. Tune in, turn on, and hear what you can do! Megan Matsen: https://meganmatson.substack.com/ [https://meganmatson.substack.com/] Catherine Schram: https://myfivethings.com/america/ [https://myfivethings.com/america/] Volunteer links: https://go.kamalaharris.com [https://go.kamalaharris.com] https://www.mobilize.us/ [https://www.mobilize.us/] https://FieldTeam6.org [https://FieldTeam6.org] Produced by Oliver Wasow, Peter Rostovsky, Matty Rosenberg, and Jennifer Hammoud Send us a comment at comments@radiofreerhinecliff.org Call 845-307-7446

Freeing Art with Jennifer Dalton and William Powhida

Well, what a difference a decade makes! Does it make one wiser? More insightful? More curious about the world? Perhaps. And, for all these reasons as well as those that defy reason itself, we decided to relaunch our podcast, Pass/Fail/Incomplete. Join our intrepid omni-curious hosts, Oliver Wasow and Peter Rostovsky as they talk with "experts" from the arts and other passion-driven professions in hopes of finding answers to some nagging questions and our seemingly endless dystopia. In this re-inaugural episode, we talk with artists Jennifer Dalton and William Powhida about their planned Zero Art Fair—a fair that promises to give artworks away for free, though with a twist. We discuss value, scarcity, the art economy and market, and what it means to store, hoard, cherish, and share one's art. Plus, Oliver and Peter catch up a little. Tune in. You are sure to profit…intellectually. And it's all free! Produced by Oliver Wasow, Peter Rostovsky, Matty Rosenberg, and Jennifer Hammoud Send us a comment at comments@radiofreerhinecliff.org Call 845-307-7446

PFI Season 1, Episode 12, Nina Katchadourian and Sina Najafi (2015)

Well folks you asked for it. PFI is back just after the holidays and in time for Valentine’s Day. Double the fun, double the guests and 2/3rds the sound quality –because we’re on the road, and well, we’re still figuring things out. Join us for this very special holiday/Valentine’s Day ‘couples segment’ with none other than artist Nina Katchadourian and her partner, publisher of Cabinet magazine, Sina Najafi. Want to hear them bicker–like couples–discuss silence, breakfast shakes, populism, attempted murder and gentrification–like couples? Then tune in! Special features include the early beginnings of Cabinet, Nina’s hippie past, bad jobs and the critical issue of whether New York is still fit for artists. Plus Peter has a headache, Sina quotes Hegel, and Oliver elaborates his 'fluffy not stuffy’ aesthetic. Couples rejoice, singles rejoice, everyone rejoice, for the chicken has risen. (Listen in to get that inside joke.) Couples! Season 1 Produced by Oliver Wasow and Peter Rostovsky Send us a comment at comments@radiofreerhinecliff.org Call 845-307-7446

PFI Season 1, Episode 11, Mia Fineman (2014)

If, while resting on a summer afternoon, you follow with your eyes a mountain range on the horizon or a branch which casts its shadow over you, you might wonder: Hey how does photography get curated in major museums? Or maybe, what is the proper way to peal a banana? Well, wonder no more, but go down the rabbit hole with this photography in the age of social media discussion featuring none other than Mia Fineman, the Metropolitan Museum’s Associate Curator of Photography. Mia talks to Oliver and Peter about her childhood in Queens, artistic beginnings, brief stints in child-grooming and eventual career as a photography curator at one of the nation’s premiere institutions. What’s the importance of the photographic document in a time of photographic overload? How does the museum handle the tricky tango between populism and the canon? How does the notion of the fake follow photography from its very beginnings? And also, how do you commune with a donkey? Join us for this engaging conversation, featuring smart people in a room, talking photography, eating bananas, opening up and crying. Ok, that last part is not true, but you should listen anyway. Next time you take a picture, you might think of this episode, and next time you go to the Met to see a photography exhibit, you might think of this conversation. Remember, as part of this special PFI return, the 300th listener gets to listen to a podcast! Go ahead, press play. Season 1 Produced by Oliver Wasow and Peter Rostovsky Send us a comment at comments@radiofreerhinecliff.org Call 845-307-7446

PFI Season 1, Episode 10, David Levine (2014)

Interested in Performance Art, the secret life of characters and art that doesn’t reveal itself as art? Well you’re in luck. Join us for this special ‘secret’ podcast as we sit down with none other than artist, writer, David Levine who talks to us about his life as a lonely teenager growing up in New York, his family’s close ties to Rothko, authenticity in the digital age and all things Performance. Do we perform in this episode? Maybe just a little. But we also discuss twist ties and their relation to globalized labor, privilege bubbles, the-ater and robots. Plus we foreshadow our search for PFI’s ideal sponsor: drones. If you’re in the drone industry, call us. But the rest of you, just listen and shhhh… This episode is secret. (Recorded on 3/23/15) For more on David’s work, see: http://www.david-levine.net/ [http://www.david-levine.net/] Season 1 Produced by Oliver Wasow and Peter Rostovsky Send us a comment at comments@radiofreerhinecliff.org Call 845-307-7446