Bad at Sports

What is the role of humor in a time of war? Slinko talks about the philosophy of tragedy and comedy in our third episode from the Bemis Center.    https://www.bemiscenter.org/   https://www.studioslinko.com/  

The Bemis Center provides! This episode gets transhuman with filmmaker Marnie Ellen Hertzler through a path of discovery with robot jam bands, sinking islands, and debates on the value of sleep versus food.    https://www.bemiscenter.org/   https://marnieellen.com/  

Straight out of Omaha - In the first of several conversations with residents of the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, we get cosmogonal with multi-disciplinary artist Lee Hunter. Like Hunter's expansive Cosmogenesis project we cover almost all of the things contained within this universe, and it gets fervent y'all.    https://www.bemiscenter.org/ http://www.leehunter.net/  

Pasakorn Intoo-Marn and Sorayut Aiemueayut  This dialogue covers artist-led research projects taking place over the last decade of political transformation in Thailand with Pasakorn Intoo-Marn (Lecturer in Theatre and Performance Practice at the Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts, Thammasat University) and Sorayut Aiemueayut (Lecturer in Visual Culture at the Dept. of Media, Arts & Design at Chiang Mai University). The interview was conducted at the 2023 Arts in Society conference in Krakow Poland.    Links: https://www.facebook.com/pasakorn.intoomarn/ https://www.facebook.com/sorayut.aiemueayut/ https://artsinsociety.com/    

Jody Wood In this interview social practice artist Jody Wood, based in Houston TX, reflects on the stages of her project Social Pharmacy as they took place in New Jersey, Texas and Sweden. The interview was conducted by Daniel Tucker at the 2023 Arts in Society conference in Krakow Poland.    Link: https://www.jodywoodart.com/ https://artsinsociety.com/  

On this week's harrowing tale of Art, Bad at Sports visits the Salt Shed for Shred the Shed, an event celebrating the latest release of Portable Gray, a biannual journal published by The University of Chicago Press. In the first segment, Duncan and Ryan get the scoop from Megan Jeyifo from Chicago Abortion Fund on how to throw a righteous abortion party. In part two, Duncan and Ryan are interviewed by brothers Shane Heyl, founder of Shake Junt - a skateboard/apparel company, and Brent Heyl, Director of Music at 16 on Center, co-organizer of Shred the Shed. Obviously it is all too much to explain, so just listen.     

This week we are joined by great Chicago Artist Devin T. Mays. We talk dressing Wisconsin, Poetry, Humor, how “Everything is Everything”, and how dislocation is a meaningful strategy. We do it all live from the Salt Shed in Chicago for the “Shred at the Shed” with the Chicago Abortion Fund, Portable Gray Magazine, Quimby’s and more… Also this episode feature the first appearance of “Other Ryan.”   Devin T. Mays – https://regardsgallery.com/artists/devin-mays/ Chicago Abortion Fund – https://www.chicagoabortionfund.org/ Portable Gray Magazine – https://graycenter.uchicago.edu/portablegray Quimby’s – https://www.quimbys.com/ Other Ryan – https://www.ryanlucasart.com/ The Salt Shed – https://www.saltshedchicago.com/   Image Devin T. Mays - Gather, Light. Fluorescent light fixtures, Variable dimensions, 2021 c/o Regards Gallery - https://regardsgallery.com/

This week we bring several things never meant to meet, together. EXPO Chicago and the artist featured in Hyde Park Art Center’s booth: Farah Salem and Regina Agu. We explore personal and historic cultural lineages, trauma response, and alternative cultural teachings as they bridge the space between research and practice. Then we jump over to our dear friends at A Very Serious Gallery and Allan Weinberger and we dance through graffiti, “high art”, kissing booths and a plea for love. All in all a single amazing day from the heartland’s greatest art fair. And don't think we didn't notice that Frieze bought it. We are just as curious as you are.   See you next time Internet.   EXPO - Chicago https://www.expochicago.com/ Hyde Park Art Center – https://www.hydeparkart.org/ Jackman Goldwasser Residency Program - https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/434646/jackman-goldwasser-residency-2022/ Mariela Acuna - https://www.instagram.com/mariela.acuna/?hl=en Chicago Artist Collation – https://chicagoartistscoalition.org/ Bolt Residency – https://chicagoartistscoalition.org/residencies/bolt Farah Salem – https://www.farahsalem.com/ Regina Agu – https://reginaagu.com/ A Very Serious Gallery – https://veryseriousgallery.com/ Allan Weinberger - https://www.instagram.com/bergart_vsg/ Frieze - https://www.frieze.com/  

Welcome back to a monster week at Bad at Sports. (We took an unscheduled vacation in August [cringe emoji]. This week we drop three shows the first of which is episode 851 from Kansas City with Kevin Demery. A great conversation about art, life, and the intersection of race and justice.   This conversation is amongst several you will hear in the next few weeks are brought to you through the support of Charlotte Street Foundation in Kansas City, where they are doing a remarkable job of bedrock-ing the Kansas City art world and its artists.   You should also know that you can expect us back on the radio on Wednesday with an episode from Expo Chicago. Excitingly, EXPO just sold to Freize and what that portends for our local International Art Fair, we will do our best to find out.   And, this Friday we will drop a third show with Andrew Mcilvaine who is currently doing an exhibition with our friend and now your’s Kevin Demery.   Our friend Duncan. (He works here.) Is also hoping that we will let you know about an opportunity he and a West Coast artist and theorist, Ted Hiebert (former guest of the show) are hosting at the College Art Association conference in February 2024. They are hosting a panel on post-rational visuality and all that that could mean. How do we re situate human-ness now (post-ai, hyper bureaucratized, justly, and constantly observed and ordered), and what can those parts of being human which don't feel rational or computable mean to us? How do we foreground them? What kinds of art allow us to get enough intellectual space that we can reflect on these conditions? If you've got ideas about a human future through art, they've got the panel for you.   Kevin Demery - http://www.kevindemery.com/ Charlotte St. Foundation - https://charlottestreet.org/ Andrew Mcilvaine - https://www.andrewmcilvaine.com/ CAA Panel “Post-Rational Visuality” With Duncan and Ted Hiebert (it is a bit of a scroll) - https://caa.confex.com/caa/2024/webprogrampreliminary/meeting.html Sarah Higgins and Art Papers - https://www.artpapers.org/people/sarah-higgins-2/  

Live from EXPO Chicago! Kalamazoo Institute of Art Chief Curator, Rahema C Barber and artist, writer, and curator Lola Ayisha Ogbara! We chat all things Michigan and just how Kalamazoo came to be a hot bed of Michigan art and thought. Then we check in with Chicago Local Lola Ayisha Ogbara talks about her work all over EXPO, Billboards, the South Side Community Art Center, St. Louis and Chicago, and the African Diaspora.   EXPO - Chicago https://www.expochicago.com/ Lola Ayisha Ogbara - https://lolaogbara.com/ Kalamazoo Institute of Art - https://kiarts.org/ Rehema C. Barber - https://wmich.edu/asia/rbarber South Side Community Art Center - https://www.sscartcenter.org/   Image Lola Ayisha Ogbara courtesy LVL3 - https://lvl3official.com/lola-ayisha-ogbara/ Bubblegum, Bubblegum, 2021, Ceramic stoneware, acrylic varnish, nylon, 30” x 18” x 20” & Hopscotch (A Safe Space to Land), 2022, Stained birch wood, concrete, black tourmaline. 36” x 36” x 8”