The Russi Hive
The Russi Hive is a podcast about creativity—unfolding in conversations with expected and unexpected people; not only artists, but anyone with a practice, a system, or an obsession that shapes how they think and live.
Presented by Ricco/Maresca and hosted by Alejandra Russi, The Russi Hive is filmed and recorded in the gallery’s New York City space. This show is a place for those drawn to the unseen mechanics of making, the inner weather reports, invented languages, and the way an idea arrives at the "wrong" time and still changes everything.
The Russi Hive
Latest Episodes
Phong Bui: Culture-Maker — The Brooklyn Rail, Social Energy, and Slowness of Culture
Phong Bui has spent decades turning culture into a social act—bringing artists, writers, thinkers, and people from very different worlds into the same conversation. In this episode of The Russi Hive, Alejandra talks with Bui about the ...
Kate Berry Brown: Holding Form — Motherhood, Repetition, and the Shape of a Life
Kate Berry Brown joins The Russi Hive to discuss her new body of work: painstaking drawings made from thousands of marks that build forms at once flat, swollen, folded, stretched, and strangely alive.Her path through fashion, floral desi...
ChatGPT: Questionable Guest — A Voice Without a Body, a Body Without a Voice
Season 2 of The Russi Hive opens with its first Hive Construct: part interview, part performance, part conceptual experiment. Alejandra collaborates with Canadian artist Max Streicher, placing one of his inflatable figures across from her as a ...
Creative Dispatch 3: The Restless Form — Range, Disruption, and the Hive Construct
In the final installment of a late-summer Creative Dispatch trilogy closing Season 1 of The Russi Hive, Alejandra considers what a filmed podcast might be “allowed” to become and why the format still feels widely underdeveloped.Dispatch ...
Creative Dispatch 2: The Thursday Machine — Nothing Happens. Then the Work Begins (Bonus)
In the second of three late-summer Creative Dispatches closing Season 1 of The Russi Hive, Alejandra moves from the thrill of launching a project to the stranger, less glamorous reality of keeping it alive.Dispatch 2 begins with anticlim...