Objects In Conversation

Presented by Kalon, "Objects in Conversation" is a deep dive into contemporary design and the everyday objects that shape our lives.

Join us as we sit down with practitioners, thinkers and leading voices in the field to discuss the meaning of design in the complex, ever-changing world we live in.

Contributors

Host

Michaele Simmering

Michaele Simmering, host on Objects in Conversation Episode 001, is the co-Founder and Creative Director of Los Angeles-based design studio Kalon. Founded in 2007, Kalon is recognized as a global thought-leader in sustainable and contemporary design and has won numerous awards including the AZ Best in Design Award, Martha Stewart’s American Made Honors, Sight Unseen’s American Design Hot List, and the Good Green Design Award from the European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and The Chicago Athenaeum. In 2024, Simmering was named a Business Design Leader by Wallpaper*. She has a background in critical theory and writing and was the recipient of a Fulbright Award.

Guests

Guest

Helen Molesworth

Helen Molesworth, guest on Objects in Conversation Episode 001, is a writer and curator based in Los Angeles. She is the host of Death of an Artist Season 1 and of David Zwirner’s ongoing Dialogues podcast. Her recently published book, Open Questions: Thirty Years of Writing About Art (Phaidon), culls together 24 of her essays written across three decades.

Her major museum exhibitions include: Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933–1957; This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s; Part Object Part Sculpture, and Work Ethic. She has organized monographic exhibitions of Ruth Asawa, Kerry James Marshall, Moyra Davey, Noah Davis, Louise Lawler, Steve Locke, Anna Maria Maiolino, Catherine Opie, and Luc Tuymans. The recipient of the 2011 Bard Center for Curatorial Studies Award for Curatorial Excellence, in 2021 she received a Guggenheim Fellowship and in 2022 she was awarded The Clark Art Writing Prize.

Guest appearance on:

OIC 001: Helen Molesworth and the Art of Everyday Objects