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This week Duncan sneaks into The School of the Art Institute of
Chicago to interview Mary Jane Jacob, Professor and Executive Director of Exhibitions. Mary Jane Jacob's name is synonymous with the phrase "art as social practice" or the field of art that is now more widely known as "Relational Aesthetics." Jacob was at the center of the nineties debate about what was and could be considered an art object/experience and was putting on festivals, exhibitions, and public art programming that expanded our art consciousness long before Bourriaud "sexy-ed" up the field with his now seminal book.
Aside from being a former Chief Curator at the MCA Chicago and LA MoCA, Jacob was also the person behind "Culture in Action," Chicago's progressive, but widely debated 90's public arts program. She is the author/co-author of several books including, "Learning Mind: Experience into Art," "Buddha Mind in Contemporary Art," "Culture in Action: A Public Art Program of Sculpture Chicago," "Conversations at The Castle: Changing Audiences and Contemporary Art," and "On the Being of Being an Artist." She is the recipient of many grants, awards, fellowships and residencies, amongst the most notable are the Peter Norton Family Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities and National Endowment for the Arts, Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio Study Center Residency, and the Getty Residency Program.
This week Duncan sneaks into The School of the Art Institute of
Chicago to interview Mary Jane Jacob, Professor and Executive Director of Exhibitions. Mary Jane Jacob's name is synonymous with the phrase "art as social practice" or the field of art that is now more widely known as "Relational Aesthetics." Jacob was at the center of the nineties debate about what was and could be considered an art object/experience and was putting on festivals, exhibitions, and public art programming that expanded our art consciousness long before Bourriaud "sexy-ed" up the field with his now seminal book.
Aside from being a former Chief Curator at the MCA Chicago and LA MoCA, Jacob was also the person behind "Culture in Action," Chicago's progressive, but widely debated 90's public arts program. She is the author/co-author of several books including, "Learning Mind: Experience into Art," "Buddha Mind in Contemporary Art," "Culture in Action: A Public Art Program of Sculpture Chicago," "Conversations at The Castle: Changing Audiences and Contemporary Art," and "On the Being of Being an Artist." She is the recipient of many grants, awards, fellowships and residencies, amongst the most notable are the Peter Norton Family Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities and National Endowment for the Arts, Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio Study Center Residency, and the Getty Residency Program.
Four solid years
of shows! Not one effing week missed! Duncan and Richard have yet to have a Beat-It
style knife fight! Yes it is show #208. What, might you ask, do we have in
store for show 208? Well I’ll tell you!
This week we are
pleased to have Jim Duignan from the Stockyard Institute to talk about “The
Cafeteria Sessions” program with The Multicultural Arts High School. The show
opens with the students’ audio pieces. Next Duncan and Richard talk to Jim
about the project, the Stockyard Institute, how we dragged him away from
celebrating his wedding anniversary, and more!
From the
Stockyard Institute’s website:
The Cafeteria
Sessions
A series of lunch
time recordings and radio workshops with adolescents on socially engaged
artistic practice, utopian education and the future of Chicago. The Cafeteria Sessions
will go on throughout the spring at the Multicultural Arts High School with Jim
Duignan (S.I.), Ayana Contrares (vocalo) and Lavie Raven (University of Hip
Hop).
This series
culminated in a live radiocast from the Multicultural Arts High School on May
21, 2009.
Four solid years
of shows! Not one effing week missed! Duncan and Richard have yet to have a Beat-It
style knife fight! Yes it is show #208. What, might you ask, do we have in
store for show 208? Well I’ll tell you!
This week we are
pleased to have Jim Duignan from the Stockyard Institute to talk about “The
Cafeteria Sessions” program with The Multicultural Arts High School. The show
opens with the students’ audio pieces. Next Duncan and Richard talk to Jim
about the project, the Stockyard Institute, how we dragged him away from
celebrating his wedding anniversary, and more!
From the
Stockyard Institute’s website:
The Cafeteria
Sessions
A series of lunch
time recordings and radio workshops with adolescents on socially engaged
artistic practice, utopian education and the future of Chicago. The Cafeteria Sessions
will go on throughout the spring at the Multicultural Arts High School with Jim
Duignan (S.I.), Ayana Contrares (vocalo) and Lavie Raven (University of Hip
Hop).
This series
culminated in a live radiocast from the Multicultural Arts High School on May
21, 2009.
Four solid years
of shows! Not one effing week missed! Duncan and Richard have yet to have a Beat-It
style knife fight! Yes it is show #208. What, might you ask, do we have in
store for show 208? Well I’ll tell you!
This week we are
pleased to have Jim Duignan from the Stockyard Institute to talk about “The
Cafeteria Sessions” program with The Multicultural Arts High School. The show
opens with the students’ audio pieces. Next Duncan and Richard talk to Jim
about the project, the Stockyard Institute, how we dragged him away from
celebrating his wedding anniversary, and more!
From the
Stockyard Institute’s website:
The Cafeteria
Sessions
A series of lunch
time recordings and radio workshops with adolescents on socially engaged
artistic practice, utopian education and the future of Chicago. The Cafeteria Sessions
will go on throughout the spring at the Multicultural Arts High School with Jim
Duignan (S.I.), Ayana Contrares (vocalo) and Lavie Raven (University of Hip
Hop).
This series
culminated in a live radiocast from the Multicultural Arts High School on May
21, 2009.
Four solid years
of shows! Not one effing week missed! Duncan and Richard have yet to have a Beat-It
style knife fight! Yes it is show #208. What, might you ask, do we have in
store for show 208? Well I’ll tell you!
This week we are
pleased to have Jim Duignan from the Stockyard Institute to talk about “The
Cafeteria Sessions” program with The Multicultural Arts High School. The show
opens with the students’ audio pieces. Next Duncan and Richard talk to Jim
about the project, the Stockyard Institute, how we dragged him away from
celebrating his wedding anniversary, and more!
From the
Stockyard Institute’s website:
The Cafeteria
Sessions
A series of lunch
time recordings and radio workshops with adolescents on socially engaged
artistic practice, utopian education and the future of Chicago. The Cafeteria Sessions
will go on throughout the spring at the Multicultural Arts High School with Jim
Duignan (S.I.), Ayana Contrares (vocalo) and Lavie Raven (University of Hip
Hop).
This series
culminated in a live radiocast from the Multicultural Arts High School on May
21, 2009.
Four solid years
of shows! Not one effing week missed! Duncan and Richard have yet to have a Beat-It
style knife fight! Yes it is show #208. What, might you ask, do we have in
store for show 208? Well I’ll tell you!
This week we are
pleased to have Jim Duignan from the Stockyard Institute to talk about “The
Cafeteria Sessions” program with The Multicultural Arts High School. The show
opens with the students’ audio pieces. Next Duncan and Richard talk to Jim
about the project, the Stockyard Institute, how we dragged him away from
celebrating his wedding anniversary, and more!
From the
Stockyard Institute’s website:
The Cafeteria
Sessions
A series of lunch
time recordings and radio workshops with adolescents on socially engaged
artistic practice, utopian education and the future of Chicago. The Cafeteria Sessions
will go on throughout the spring at the Multicultural Arts High School with Jim
Duignan (S.I.), Ayana Contrares (vocalo) and Lavie Raven (University of Hip
Hop).
This series
culminated in a live radiocast from the Multicultural Arts High School on May
21, 2009.
Four solid years
of shows! Not one effing week missed! Duncan and Richard have yet to have a Beat-It
style knife fight! Yes it is show #208. What, might you ask, do we have in
store for show 208? Well I’ll tell you!
This week we are
pleased to have Jim Duignan from the Stockyard Institute to talk about “The
Cafeteria Sessions” program with The Multicultural Arts High School. The show
opens with the students’ audio pieces. Next Duncan and Richard talk to Jim
about the project, the Stockyard Institute, how we dragged him away from
celebrating his wedding anniversary, and more!
From the
Stockyard Institute’s website:
The Cafeteria
Sessions
A series of lunch
time recordings and radio workshops with adolescents on socially engaged
artistic practice, utopian education and the future of Chicago. The Cafeteria Sessions
will go on throughout the spring at the Multicultural Arts High School with Jim
Duignan (S.I.), Ayana Contrares (vocalo) and Lavie Raven (University of Hip
Hop).
This series
culminated in a live radiocast from the Multicultural Arts High School on May
21, 2009.
Four solid years
of shows! Not one effing week missed! Duncan and Richard have yet to have a Beat-It
style knife fight! Yes it is show #208. What, might you ask, do we have in
store for show 208? Well I’ll tell you!
This week we are
pleased to have Jim Duignan from the Stockyard Institute to talk about “The
Cafeteria Sessions” program with The Multicultural Arts High School. The show
opens with the students’ audio pieces. Next Duncan and Richard talk to Jim
about the project, the Stockyard Institute, how we dragged him away from
celebrating his wedding anniversary, and more!
From the
Stockyard Institute’s website:
The Cafeteria
Sessions
A series of lunch
time recordings and radio workshops with adolescents on socially engaged
artistic practice, utopian education and the future of Chicago. The Cafeteria Sessions
will go on throughout the spring at the Multicultural Arts High School with Jim
Duignan (S.I.), Ayana Contrares (vocalo) and Lavie Raven (University of Hip
Hop).
This series
culminated in a live radiocast from the Multicultural Arts High School on May
21, 2009.
This week
Patricia and Brian sit down again with Lawrence Rinder. In the last interview,
they discussed his role as the director of the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific
Film Archive, and it new building campaign. In this conversation they focus on
his curatorial career, and his most recent exhibition Galaxy: A Hundred or So
Stars Visible to the Naked Eye. Previously he was the Dean at California
College of the Arts, curated for the Whitney Museum of American Art, and
founded the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art at CCA.
This week, Patricia and Brian present the work from the Telling
Stories class at CAA. The class was run by Taraneh Hemami, who invited the west coast Bad at Sports team to guest lecture and guide the students on an project interviewing community artists. The works
edited for this podcast were of surprising content and quality, so we
decided to share them with the Bad at Sports community. The students involved wih the project are Kim Ciabattari, Janet Lai, Jamie Lee, Fumi Nakamura, Johann Pascual, Jaron Stokes, Michelle Yee , Shen Yequin, Alexandra Styc, Alex Langeberg, Jamie Lee, Kristina Grindle, Amy Kelly, Taylor Ward, and Madeline Ward.
This week: Richard talks to Terry Scrogum, Executive Director of the Illinois Arts Council about the state of the budget, their programs and more!
Next, Kathryn Born talks to Theaster Gates. Theaster Gates is a Chicago artist and University of
Chicago faculty member who works with everything from executing ideas
in urban planning, to Japanese sculpture, to performance art. He
recently did "Temple Exercises" in the 12 X 12 space at the MCA, and
among his upcoming projects is the possibility of buying an entire
block on the south side. This project may someday include, among other
things, a Soul Food-Japanese fusion restaurant which serves honey
dipped, crunchy fried mac-and-cheese unagi rolls and Saki Kool-aid.
This week
Patricia and Brian sit down again with Lawrence Rinder. In the last interview,
they discussed his role as the director of the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific
Film Archive, and it new building campaign. In this conversation they focus on
his curatorial career, and his most recent exhibition Galaxy: A Hundred or So
Stars Visible to the Naked Eye. Previously he was the Dean at California
College of the Arts, curated for the Whitney Museum of American Art, and
founded the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art at CCA.
This week, Patricia and Brian present the work from the Telling
Stories class at CAA. The class was run by Taraneh Hemami, who invited the west coast Bad at Sports team to guest lecture and guide the students on an project interviewing community artists. The works
edited for this podcast were of surprising content and quality, so we
decided to share them with the Bad at Sports community. The students involved wih the project are Kim Ciabattari, Janet Lai, Jamie Lee, Fumi Nakamura, Johann Pascual, Jaron Stokes, Michelle Yee , Shen Yequin, Alexandra Styc, Alex Langeberg, Jamie Lee, Kristina Grindle, Amy Kelly, Taylor Ward, and Madeline Ward.
This week: Richard talks to Terry Scrogum, Executive Director of the Illinois Arts Council about the state of the budget, their programs and more!
Next, Kathryn Born talks to Theaster Gates. Theaster Gates is a Chicago artist and University of
Chicago faculty member who works with everything from executing ideas
in urban planning, to Japanese sculpture, to performance art. He
recently did "Temple Exercises" in the 12 X 12 space at the MCA, and
among his upcoming projects is the possibility of buying an entire
block on the south side. This project may someday include, among other
things, a Soul Food-Japanese fusion restaurant which serves honey
dipped, crunchy fried mac-and-cheese unagi rolls and Saki Kool-aid.
This week Duncan sneaks into The School of the Art Institute of 
This week, Patricia and Brian present the work from the Telling
This week: Richard talks to Terry Scrogum, Executive Director of the Illinois Arts Council about the state of the budget, their programs and more! 
