It takes "quite an act of violence" to remove a mosaic from a wall. For twenty-five years, Carrie Reichardt has used that fact as political strategy — cementing memorials for death row inmates across four continents, covering her London home floor-to-roof in mosaic, and building a truck-mounted monument to a man executed by the state of Texas that ended up in the Victoria and Albert Museum.
This episode is an audio monograph — a critical argument about an artist's work and its place in history. From Marshall McLuhan to William Morris, from a pen pal letter that changed everything to a death mask made in a cabin in the Texas woods…we trace how Reichardt came to understand that her medium isn't incidental to her message. It is the message.
Someone recently tried to burn one of her mosaics down. The cement cracked. The ceramics popped off the wall. But the ceramics were fine — they'd been in a kiln. The empire builds its monuments in bronze. Carrie Reichardt builds hers in clay, glass, and cement — and dares the world to try and take them down.
Art Against Empire is hosted by Ian Danger Capstick, edited by Shawn Dearn and produced by Secret Agents. Visit ArtAgainstEmpire.net for photos, episode notes, and other resources.
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