WHO WE ARE…
Sam Rosner is an artist, a co-founder of Talk Show, and a marketing coordinator extraordinaire for an international architecture firm. She moves between these three identities and is obsessed with the possible intersections between them. When not writing emails and making spreadsheets, she is swimming, or working on building a space where artists, activists, and filmmakers can find support for their experiments or is busy in her own studio - producing work that focuses on interstates and highway landscapes. See what she’s working on at her website, samrosner.net.
Kristofor Giordano is an interdisciplinary artist and worker who engages with personal, cultural, and material extraction sites. His work encompasses drawing, video, photography, sculpture, and sound. In 2015, Giordano endeavored to reconstruct his live/work space to accommodate his studio work, and an ongoing project series that was yet to be conceived. Last year he co-founded Talk Show Screenings, and inhabits the space which houses its operations. For more information on his work, visit the artist’s website: www.fugitivelove.com.
Talk Show Screenings is the brainchild of Sam Rosner and Kristofor Giordano. The creative partners met while doing freelance work, and maintained a correspondence that developed into a collaborative partnership.
Evolving from their own creative struggles and a mutual recognition of the practical necessity for space and critical feedback for works in-progress, both artists initially sought to create a supportive space to energize film projects in the nebulous post-production phase. The scope soon widened into a project space - an area that is ill-defined by design to remain open to shifting, creeping, leaky modes of working.
Based on the premise that artists need a variety of arenas to test new ideas, as well as the expertise to aid in the execution of ideas, Talk Show Screenings is dedicated to supporting experimental art, projects in a research stage, performance activism, and to bringing together people working in the many corners of the art world to engage in crucial, and challenging conversations.
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