Interview with Joseph Smolinski, New Haven-based artist and one of twenty participants in the upcoming Badlands exhibition at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art.Joseph talks about his tree turbine, thinking about art on a grand scale, provoking discussion about contemporary issues through the creation of art, his potato battery, spying on people at gallery openings, and more …

Interview excerpted from The Art Agenda. Originally broadcast on 88.1fm, WESU, Middletown on May 1, 2008.

Badlands opens Saturday, May 24, 2008.