Ian Boyden's guest appearances

Ian Boyden

The Work of Art

In The Moment podcast

East Asian Studies

Quotomania

Iris Murdoch

Siri Hustvedt

Ijeoma Oluo

Emily Dickinson

Yanis Varoufakis

Michael Pollan

Seamus Heaney

Soren Kierkegaard

Lori Gottlieb

Lou Reed

Toni Morrison

Martin Buber

Noam Chomsky

Carl Jung

Ursula K. Le Guin

OwlTail

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Quotomania 141: Ian Boyden

Shin Yu Pai

Lyric World

In May of 2008, a 7.9 magnitude earthquake struck Sichuan, China in the middle of the afternoon. Entire towns were destroyed, schools collapsed, and over 80,000 people died — many of them schoolchildren. When grief-stricken families were denied information about exactly who and how many children died, Chinese artist Ai Weiwei initiated a critical and controversial response by compiling their names and expressing a region’s collective grief through art. Enter Ian Boyden, who first encountered the thousands of names while curating Ai’s 2016 exhibition, Ai Weiwei: Fault Line, at the San Juan Islands Museum of Art. Over the course of a year, Boyden read and translated the poetic essence of the children’s names and composed heartbreaking, elegiac verses in response. The resulting work, A Forest of Names, meditates on humanity, memory, and language.  In our 109th episode of In the Moment, Shin Yu Pai and Boyden explore his haunting and healing tribute of the thousands of lives lost. Ian Boyden is a visual artist, translator, writer, and curator whose work holds a deep awareness of East Asian aesthetics. He studied for several years in China and Japan and holds degrees in Art History from Wesleyan University and Yale University. His art and published work are found in many public collections including Reed College, Stanford University, the Portland Art Museum, and the Victoria &amp; Albert Museum. His work is interdisciplinary, and past collaborations have involved scientists, poets, composers, and visual artists. Shin Yu Pai is Program Director for Town Hall. She is the author of eleven books of poetry. Her work has appeared in publications throughout the U.S., Japan, China, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, and Canada. Her essays and nonfiction writing have appeared in Tricycle, YES! Magazine, The Rumpus, City Arts, The Stranger, Medium, and others. Buy the Book: A Forest of Names: 108 Meditations  Presented by Town Hall Seattle. To become a member or make a donation click here. 

In May of 2008, a 7.9 magnitude earthquake struck Sichuan, China in the middle of the afternoon. Entire towns were destroyed, schools collapsed, and over 80,000 people died — many of them schoolchildren. When grief-stricken families were denied information about exactly who and how many children died, Chinese artist Ai Weiwei initiated a critical and controversial response by compiling their names and expressing a region’s collective grief through art. Enter Ian Boyden, who first encountered the thousands of names while curating Ai’s 2016 exhibition, Ai Weiwei: Fault Line, at the San Juan Islands Museum of Art. Over the course of a year, Boyden read and translated the poetic essence of the children’s names and composed heartbreaking, elegiac verses in response. The resulting work, A Forest of Names, meditates on humanity, memory, and language. <a href="https://townhallseattle.org/event/shin-yu-pai-interviews-ian-boyden-for-lyric-world/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> In our 109th episode of In the Moment</a>, Shin Yu Pai and Boyden explore his haunting and healing tribute of the thousands of lives lost. Ian Boyden is a visual artist, translator, writer, and curator whose work holds a deep awareness of East Asian aesthetics. He studied for several years in China and Japan and holds degrees in Art History from Wesleyan University and Yale University. His art and published work are found in many public collections including Reed College, Stanford University, the Portland Art Museum, and the Victoria &amp; Albert Museum. His work is interdisciplinary, and past collaborations have involved scientists, poets, composers, and visual artists. Shin Yu Pai is Program Director for Town Hall. She is the author of eleven books of poetry. Her work has appeared in publications throughout the U.S., Japan, China, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, and Canada. Her essays and nonfiction writing have appeared in Tricycle, YES! Magazine, The Rumpus, City Arts, The Stranger, Medium, and others. Buy the Book: <a href="https://www.hfsbooks.com/books/a-forest-of-names-boyden/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">A Forest of Names: 108 Meditations </a> Presented by <a href="https://townhallseattle.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Town Hall Seattle</a>. To become a member or make a donation <a href="https://townhallseattle.org/support/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">click here</a>.

109. Lyric World: Ian Boyden with Shin Yu Pai

A conversation with Ian Boyden, a visual artist who works in painting, sculpture, land art and other media. He has a background and degrees in art history as well as East Asian studies and has spent years studying, making and exhibiting his art in Asia, much of it in Suzhou, China. He was recently named Executive Director of the San Juan Islands Museum of Art.  We discussed art, Buddhism, living in China, the environment, nirvana and much more. His art made about and from the remnants of the Tripod Fire in the Cascade Mountains was featured here. Listen to the full interview: If your browser does not support streaming, you can download the audio. [download] (Recorded August 8, 2015) The complete series of conversations is available at The Work of Art. You can subscribe to future interview episodes via RSS, iTunes or email.

A conversation with <a href="http://ianboyden.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ian Boyden</a>, a visual artist who works in painting, sculpture, land art and other media. He has a background and degrees in art history as well as East Asian studies and has spent years studying, making and exhibiting his art in Asia, much of it in Suzhou, China. He was recently named Executive Director of the <a href="http://www.sjima.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">San Juan Islands Museum of Art</a>. We discussed art, Buddhism, living in China, the environment, nirvana and much more. His art made about and from the remnants of the Tripod Fire in the Cascade Mountains was featured <a href="http://www.lastwordonnothing.com/2015/08/05/painting-fire-with-fire/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>. Listen to the full interview: If your browser does not support streaming, you can <a href="http://www.twliterary.com/audiofiles/TWOA/TWOA_20150806_IanBoyden.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">download</a> the audio. [<a href="http://www.twliterary.com/audiofiles/TWOA/TWOA_20150806_IanBoyden.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">download</a>] (Recorded August 8, 2015) The complete series of conversations is available at <a href="http://www.twliterary.com/twoa" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Work of Art</a>. You can subscribe to future interview episodes via <a href="http://www.twliterary.com/category/twoa/feed/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">RSS</a>, <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-work-of-art/id1032598185" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">iTunes</a> or <a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=twoa&amp;loc=en_US" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">email</a>.

The Work of Art: Ian Boyden