Hi everyone! The Interloper team is taking a pause to focus on some individual art projects. We will be back this summer to let you know what’s next. Until then, you can keep up with some of what’s happening and stay connected on the old Instagram: @themilkshake.club @connor_walden @interloper_unlicensed   Check out our archive from what we did in 2021: www.interloperinterloper.com   Song credit: Lo-Fi en la Fila de la Tortilleria by Palmasur

Are you in a situationship with your hometown? What does it mean to belong to Seattle in the 2020s? Interloper hosts a conversation and artist talk with Elisheba Johnson to discuss her solo show “Non-Committal”. Johnson is one of the exhibiting artists in the conversation series “This Land Is Your Land.” To see documentation of Johnson’s solo exhibition “Non-Committal”, go to www.interloperinterloper.com/past-conversations.

How is hair a form of resistance? What place does feminine rage have in contemporary society and White institutions? Interloper hosts a conversation with Deja Milany to discuss her solo show “Pathways”. Milany is one of the exhibiting artists in the conversation series “This Land Is Your Land.” To see documentation of Milany’s solo exhibition, go to www.interloperinterloper.com/past-conversations.

What does hair have to do with community and how many heartbeats do we have until we die? Join the Interloper hosts as they introduce their third conversation series, This Land Is Your Land.

What happens when all of the rent a tenant pays makes them a collective owner in their arts studio building in Georgetown? Should we give land back to Indigenous Tribes? Can ideas be property? Interloper discusses the unique legal anomaly that created Equinox Studios and the values that complicate the way we approach ownership with founder Sam Farraizano and manager Melissa Knowles.   A note on Bleeping: At Interloper we normally don’t censor or bleep anything out, to discourage the thought that there are things we are not supposed to say, but you will hear one in this episode. In this particular episode, there was one phrase Sam wanted bleeped out, and so to respect the wishes of our guests, we inserted a singular bleep.   Links:  https://equinoxstudios.org https://www.duwamishtribe.org https://www.realrentduwamish.org/   Go to www.interloperinterloper.com/podcast to find out more about Melissa and Sam's work.

On this episode we talk with two Seattle property owner investors, Irena and Doug Baker. While this is an important conversation specific to the controversies of Seattle housing, it wades into some universal questions for everyone that lives in the USA.  Together, we talk about generational wealth, what it means to invest in property, neighborhood revitalization vs gentrification, relationship of renter to landlord and more.   Go to www.interloperinterloper.com/podcast to find out more about Irena and Doug Baker and the rest of our conversation series, This Land Is My Land.

Interloper joins former resident artist of the seattle residency project, Va’eomatoka Valu—an artist, community organizer, and father who moved to the Pacific Northwest from the Kingdom of Tonga when he was a teenager. We talk about how the changing smells of landscape affect the creation of art and memory, why the label AAPI can create unintended consequences while forging beautiful relationships, and what the differences are between Tonga and the Pacific Northwest and their relationship to land, water and ownership.   Go to www.interloperinterloper.com/podcast to find out more about Toka and his work.

What do people have to be in order to receive compassion, and why does the Left ostracize so much when it is counter to its own values of inclusion? Sarah Schulman, a novelist, playwright, screenwriter, nonfiction writer and AIDS historian, joins Interloper to discuss an array of topics such as radical democracy, simultaneity, gentrification, compassion, supremacy ideology, and more.   Go to www.interloperinterloper.com/podcast to find links to Sarah Schulman's works mentioned in this episode.

Should we do land acknowledgements and what does it look like when a group of people go beyond just acknowledging occupation of indigenous land? Interloper is joined by Lulani Arquette and Flint Jamison to discuss the transfer of property ownership from Yale Union art gallery to Native Arts and Cultures Foundation as a response to gentrification which rapidly increased due to tax incentives to develop Opportunity Zones in 2017.   Go to www.interloperinterloper.com/podcast to find out more about our guests and their organizations.

Why are borders useless and how has Google Maps changed our perception of the world? Interloper hosts a conversation with Marina Camargo, one of the exhibiting artists in the conversation series “This Land Is My Land.”   Go to https://www.interloperinterloper.com/thislandismyland to see work from Marina Camargo's "Shifting: displaced". Also, find out more about each episode at www.interloperinterloper.com/podcast.