Sun, 27 December 2009
Also: Duncan talks about hugging Rashid Johnson, about whom nice things are said. Lastly, Mike B returns to sing sweet sweet music. Clipped from Wikipedia, and redundant: Lou Barlow is an American alternative rock singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. A founding member of the groups Dinosaur Jr., Sebadoh and The Folk Implosion, Barlow is credited with helping to pioneer the lo-fi style of rock music in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Barlow was born in Dayton, Ohio and was raised in Jackson, Michigan and Westfield, Massachusetts.
Direct download: Bad_at_Sports_Episode_226-Lou_Barlow-1.mp3
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Sun, 20 December 2009
The following text was shamelessly lifted from the Art Institute's web site. November 20, 2009–January 24, 2010 Gallery 182 Overview: Equal parts beautiful and menacing, Monica Bonvicini’s sculptures, installations, videos, and drawings provoke an acute awareness of the physical and psychological effects of institutional, particularly museum, architecture. Favoring industrial materials that reference the modernist canon, such as metal and glass, often combined with the trappings of sexual fetishism—leather, chains, and rubber—Bonvicini confronts the power structures and contradictions inherent in built environments. Text quoted from a variety of sources, including literature, psychoanalytic theory, popular music, and architects’ own words, adds yet another layer to her wry commentary. More than any other artist working today, her projects aim to expose the disparity between the sexy, utopian, and avant-gardist claims of certain—largely male—“starchitects” and the realities of the spaces they create. The first Focus exhibition in the museum’s new Modern Wing, Bonvicini’s project brings together three works that directly engage the Renzo Piano–designed building both formally and conceptually. Created specifically for the Art Institute, Light Me Black, an immense sculpture comprising 144 custom-made fluorescent lighting fixtures suspended from the ceiling, recalls the emphasis on light throughout the Modern Wing. In the now-iconic 1998 installation Plastered, re-created at the Art Institute, the entire gallery floor is constructed out of unfinished drywall panels that progressively crack and fragment as visitors move through the space. The third part of the exhibition consists of three glass panels depicting altered renderings of earlier sculptural projects by Bonvicini and invoking the building’s glass-curtain façade—replicated in a smaller scale in Gallery 182. The three discrete elements work together to acknowledge the aesthetic achievements of the building while hinting at its potential vulnerabilities.
Direct download: Bad_at_Sports_Episode_225-Monica_Bonvicini.mp3
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Sun, 13 December 2009
American painter. He completed a BA at Trinity College, Hartford, CT, in 1971 and later settled in New York. Initially influenced by Post-Minimalism, process art and conceptual art, he was soon attracted to the tactility and allusions to the body in the work of Brice Marden, Robert Mangold and Robert Ryman. Spurred on by the revival of interest in Surrealism in the 1970s, Dunham began to make abstract, biomorphic paintings reminiscent of the work of Arshile Gorky and André Masson, executed with a comic twist enhanced by lurid colours and the suggestion of contemporary psychedelia. In the 1980s he began to paint on wood veneer and rose to prominence in the context of a broader return to painting in the period. Age of Rectangles (1983–5; New York, MOMA) is a highly abstract composition of differing forms, symptomatic of his work at this time: geometric sketches co-exist with eroticized organic shapes while the forms of the wood veneer show through the surface of the paint to suggest surging forces. Towards the end of the 1980s he began to move towards single, dominating motifs; wave-like forms were particularly common. In the Integrated Paintings series he applied paint-covered balls and chips to the surface of the canvas to further develop the sense of organic life. Mound A (1991; priv. col.) is typical of Dunham’s work of the early 1990s in which his forms began to resemble mounds of live matter, covered in orifices. Around 1993 his paintings began to feature schematic, cartoon figures which suggest the influence of Philip Guston.
Direct download: Bad_at_Sports_Episode_224-Carroll_Dunham.mp3
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Sun, 6 December 2009
Jonathan Watkins (born 1957) is an English curator, and is currently Director of the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham. Watkins emigrated to Australia with his family in 1969 and studied Philosophy and History of Art at the University of Sydney, where he later taught. He was curator of the Chisenhale Gallery in London during which period this relatively small local gallery became an internationally known centre of excellence - many of the Artists shown at that time later going on to major acclaim including a number of Turner Prize winners, Watkins later moved to the Serpentine Gallery from 1995 to 1997 and worked in a freelance capacity as curator of the Biennale of Sydney in 1998. Watkins now lives in Birmingham, England. He currently directs the Ikon Gallery, and recently unveiled plans for a new museum of modern art in Birmingham.
Direct download: Bad_at_Sports_Episode_223-Jonathan_Watkins.mp3
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Sat, 28 November 2009
Ron Terada lives and works in Vancouver. Recent solo exhibitions include Voight-Kampff (2008), Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver; Stay Away From Lonely Places (2006), Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; and You Have Left the American Sector (2005), ArtGallery of Windsor. His work has been included in a number of group exhibitions including Tractatus Logico-Catalogicus (2008), VOX Centre de l’imageContemporaine, Montreal; Words Fail Me (2007), Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit; The Show Will Be Open When the Show Will Be Closed (2006)Store, London and the Kadist Foundation, Paris; Intertidal (2005), Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Belgium; and General Ideas: Rethinking Conceptual Art 1990-2005 (2005), CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco. Terada was a recipient of the Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award, Canada Council for the Arts (2006); and the VIVA Award, Jack and Doris Shadbolt Foundation (2004); and was nominated for a Sobey Art Award (2007). Terada is represented by Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver.
Direct download: Bad_at_Sports_Episode_222-Ron_Terada.mp3
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Sun, 22 November 2009
Project background The exhibition is co-organized by the Smart Museum of Art and the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, the Netherlands. The Van Abbemuseum's presentation of Heartland took place from October 3, 2008 to February 8, 2009. In Eindhoven, the project consisted of a group exhibition in the Van Abbemuseum together with a musical program in the Muziekcentrum Frits Philips. |
Sun, 15 November 2009
anywhere. A transparent master of the question of Modernity? Cat lover? Designer/author/theorist/artist/architect? The son Donald Judd never wanted? Enigma cloaked in riddle? Relational Aesthetic celebrity? All these things and more... We at Bad at Sports try and get to the bottom of Liam's magic in this hour-long interview. The last element in Liam Gillick's 4 part global retrospective, "Three perspectives and a short scenario" will run through January 10th at Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art. Accompanying that exhibition, Gillick has produced "The one hundred and sixty-third floor: Liam Gillick Curates the Collection," which is also be on view. Liam Gillick emerged in the early 1990s as part of a re-energized British art scene, producing a sophisticated body of work ranging from his signature "platform" sculptures -- architectural structures made of aluminum and colored Plexiglas that facilitate or complicate social interaction -- to wall paintings, text sculptures, and published texts that reflect on the increasing gap between utopian idealism and the actualities of the world. His work joins that of generational peers such as Rirkrit Tiravanija and Philippe Parreno in defining what critic Nicholas Bourriaud described as "relational aesthetics," an approach that emphasizes the shifting social role and function of art at the turn of the millennium. Gillick's work has had a profound impact on a contemporary understanding of how art and architecture influence, and are themselves influenced by, interpersonal communication and interactions in the public sphere. This exhibition is presented in association with the Witte de With in Rotterdam, Kunsthalle Zurich, and the Kunstverein in Munich. It is the most significant and comprehensive exhibition of Gillick's work in an American museum to date, comprising a major site-specific installation in the gallery ceiling as well as a presentation of his design and published works, and a film documenting projects from the entirety of his career. The MCA is the only American venue for the exhibition.
Direct download: Bad_at_Sports_Episode_220-Liam_Gillick.mp3
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Mon, 9 November 2009
Deller's work often challenges our assumptions about what "is" and "is not" art and uses the banner term "art" to gain access to, extend, push, and develop local cultures. Deller is also the first Turner Prize-winner to appear in the 230 hours of the Bad at Sports show. Schedule of Participants at the MCA http://www.mcachicago.org/deller/ Jeremy Deller http://www.jeremydeller.org/ Esam Pasha http://www.artvitae.com/artist_portfolio.asp?aist_id=217 MCA Release about the show http://www.mcachicago.org/exhibitions/exh_detail.php?id=219
Direct download: Bad_at_Sports_Episode_219__Jeremy_Deller_and_Esam_Pasha.mp3
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Sun, 1 November 2009
Shannon Stratton and Duncan MacKenzie to Illinois' glorious Kankakee to meet up with the artists of Temporary Services. They query Brett Bloom, Salem Collo-Julin, and Marc Fischer about social practice and the group's decade long history. The new www.badatsports.com is here! Come check out our redesign! Sunday the 8th we all need to once again make a trek down to Hyde Park to pick up the Artists Run Chicago Digest. In it you will find contributions by Lori Waxman, Dan Gunn, and little ole Bad at Sports! What follows is from http://www.studiochicago.org/arc-release/ Artists Run Chicago Digest Release Sunday, November 8, 2:00 - 5:00pm Hyde Park Art Center 5020 S. Cornell Chicago, IL 60615 Join the Hyde Park Art Center, threewalls and The Green Lantern Press, as they celebrate the release of the Artists Run Chicago Digest. The A.R.C. Digest: Published by threewalls and The Green Lantern Press, The Artists Run Chicago Digest documents Chicago artist-run 'spaces' active between 1999 and 2009 offering a look at the various platforms that often act as extensions to studio practice. As the official catalog of Artists Run Chicago, an exhibition that featured 34 artist-run spaces from around the city from May 10-July 5, 2009 at the Hyde Park Art Center, The A.R.C. Digest acts as compliment to and extension of the exhibition, with interviews, essays, and an audio supplement presenting a 10-year time period in Chicago’s artist-run culture while providing history, reflection, critique and dialog about artist-run culture, its importance, difficulties, sustainability and necessity as well as its specificity to a community and generation.
Direct download: Bad_at_Sports_Episode_218-Temporary_Services.mp3
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Sat, 24 October 2009
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Sun, 18 October 2009
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Sun, 11 October 2009
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Sun, 4 October 2009
This week: Duncan leads a panel discussion on the the state of painting and current MCA exhibition Constellations: Paintings from the MCA Collection(which closes October 18th!) the panel consists of Artists Vera Klement and Wesley Kimler, Artletter.com's Paul Klein and exhibition curator Julie Rodrigues Widholm! Stolen liberally
from the MCA website: This exhibition explores various approaches to painting and how it communicates ideas about life and art from the 1940s to the present. Arranged in a series of constellations, or groupings, the exhibition highlights for the first time the MCA Collection's particular strengths in this medium. Augmented by major works from important private collections to fill gaps in the MCA Collection and to provide examples of recent works made during the last few years, the exhibition includes work by approximately 75 of the most important artists of the last sixty years including Chuck Close, Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter, Jasper Johns, Lari Pittman, Rudolf Stingel, Clare Rojas, Laura Owens, Josef Albers, Rene Magritte, Francis Bacon, Brice Marden, Caroll Dunham, Thomas Scheibitz, Jean Dubuffet, Sherrie Levine, Jules Olitski, Kenneth Noland, Sigmar Polke, Rebecca Morris, Roberto Matta, and Yves Tanguy, among others. Featured Chicago artists include Angel Otero, Wesley Kimler, Kerry James Marshall, Judy Ledgerwood, Scott Reeder, Michelle Grabner, Marie Krane Bergman, and Vera Klement. This exhibition explores questions about the current state and future of painting by creating a dialogue with works from the past. These conversations within each section stimulate ideas about painting that are not limited to chronology or specific art historical narratives, but follow lines of thought. Within the exhibition, the constellations aim to make connections through the various interests, positions, styles, and histories that artists address within their approach to painting. For example, Constellations explores approaches to the landscape and figure, so-called "bad" painting, appropriation and collage in painting, the critique of illusion in painting, form and color, and paintings that exist in-between representation and abstraction. All of the works in this exhibition are united by the use of paint, a brush, and a support to emphasize the complex and varied manner in which artists use similar materials. This exhibition does not seek to redefine what can be considered a painting, but rather examines how it endures as a vibrant art form, more than 100 years after it was proclaimed "dead" at the advent of photography. Clearly there is no correct way, which is why painting continues to be a source of stimulating conversation and debate. From the perspective of the artist and viewer, painting is a subjective experience. This exhibition is organized by Julie Rodrigues Widholm, Pamela Alper Associate Curator.
Direct download: Bad_at_Sports_Episode_214-Constellations_panel.mp3
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Sun, 27 September 2009
heroes, Rob Davis and Michael Langlois. Fresh from shows in New York and Berlin, they have returned home to a run of great exhibitions starting with the Cultural Center in January and rolling up to the current 12 x 12 at the MCA. They join us to chat about painting, perspectives on art history, collaboration and show making in the contemporary context, while always draping one hand back to tradition. The outro has a guest commentator with a message for Joseph Mohan. After that there is a special surprise for those who hang about for end of the credits. Or maybe not. I thought it was funny.
Direct download: Bad_at_Sports_Episode_213-Davis_and_Langlois.mp3
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Sun, 20 September 2009
Do not miss the longest, most unfocused and rant laden outro/credits in the history of the show, where Richard and Duncan are interrupted by Buses, the El, a panhandler, and Richard's spontaneous rant about a cop on a Segway smoking a cigarette. This spawns a discussion about the ascendancy of "douchebag" in the contemporary lexicon. Wow. That is a lot of quality show! Lifted shamelessly for somewhere else: Jay Wolke is professor and chair of the department of art and design at Columbia College Chicago, and the author of All Around the House: Photographs of American-Jewish Communal Life. Dominic A. Pacyga is a professor at Columbia College Chicago, and the author and editor of numerous books on Chicago's history, including Polish Immigrants and Industrial Chicago and Chicago, both published by the University of Chicago Press. |
Sat, 12 September 2009
Direct download: Bad_at_Sports_Episode_211-Helidon_Gjergji.mp3
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Sun, 6 September 2009
Stolen liberally from the MCA website, with a bit of BAS embellishment: Grynsztejn was born in Lima, Peru, and raised in Caracas, Venezuela, and London, England. She studied at the Sorbonne in Paris and received her BA in art history and French from Newcomb College of Tulane University, and her MA in art history from Columbia University. She is a former Helena Rubenstein Fellow at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and a 2007 graduate of the Getty Foundation’s Museum Leadership Institute. Grynsztejn has written, lectured, and taught extensively on contemporary art. She served as a panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts and the Galeria de Arte Nacional in Caracas, among other agencies. She acted as a juror for the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, the American Academy in Rome, the Munich Kunstpreis
in Germany, and the Tiffany Foundation Biennial Awards. She has also served on
the advisory committees for the Brooklyn Academy of Music and the American
Center in Paris. She is fluent in English, Spanish, and French. Her husband,
Tom Shapiro, is a marketing consultant and a damn nice guy. Yes, Bad at Sports
added the “damn nice guy” part, the MCA would never be so inappropriately casual
in a blurb! How dare us. The nerve! It's true though, he really is nice.
Direct download: Bad_at_Sports_Episode_210-Madeleine_Grynsztejn.mp3
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Sun, 30 August 2009
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.
Direct download: Bad_at_Sports_Episode_209-Mary_Jane_Jacob.mp3
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Sun, 23 August 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.
Direct download: Bad_at_Sports_Episode_208-Cafeteria_Sessions.mp3
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Sat, 15 August 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.
Direct download: Bad_at_Sports_Episode_207-Larry_Rinder.mp3
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Sat, 8 August 2009
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.
Direct download: Bad_at_Sports_Episode_206-Telling_Stories.mp3
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Sat, 1 August 2009
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.
Direct download: Bad_at_Sports_Episode_205-Scrogum-Gates.mp3
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Sat, 25 July 2009
This week: Continental European Bureau Czar Mark Staff Brandl roams the Basel Art Fair
2009 with guest co-host Peter Noser, gallerist, curator and artist. They
comment primarily on the "main fair," but also cursorily on Scope,
Volta, the Solos Show, die Liste (and look forward to a Bridge addition next
year). Additional walk-on voices include Maya LaLive d'Epinay, Martin Kraft,
Alex Meszmer, many others, and a few seconds of Olga Stefan. Mark managed
to wipe-out some excellent comments, or record them so poorly that they were
unusable. Ce la technologie. A quick but comprehensive look at the
"real" Basel, the most important international art fair, the Queen
yet also Great Whore of Babylon. I made some multiples especially for the fair
including pins and my T-shirt. They all bore the Latin phrase "Abite in
Malam crucem, artis nundinae!", signed Marcus Scipio Incendiolus. Or,
roughly in English, "Screw Art Fairs!" In German, as appropriate for
Basel, that's "Zum Teufel mit Kunstmessen!"
Direct download: Bad_at_Sports_Episode_204-Art_Basel_2009.mp3
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Sat, 18 July 2009
This week, Brian
and Patricia talk with artist Desirée Holman about TV sitcoms, life-like baby
dolls, and Dungeons & Dragons in her Oakland Home. Desirée Holman was
recently awarded the 2008 SECA award by the San Francisco Modern Museum of Art,
and is a currently a resident artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts.
Direct download: Bad_at_Sports_Episode_203-Desiree_Holman.mp3
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Sat, 11 July 2009
Manon Slome (PhD) is an independent curator working in New York City. From 2002 to June 2008 she was the Chief Curator of the Chelsea Art Museum in New York since its inception in 2002. During that time, she has curated and overseen a program of some forty exhibitions, symposia and museum publications as well as monographs and scholarly essays. Ms. Slome became highly involved with the Israeli art scene during her research for the exhibition, Such Stuff as Dreams are Made on”, (2005) and has followed and researched the Israeli scene for the last 3 years. Prior to the CAM, Ms. Slome worked as a curator at the Guggenheim Museum for 7 years and was a holder of a Helena Rubestein curatorial fellowship at the Whitney Independent Study program. She is currently working on a book, The Aesthetics of Terror.
Direct download: Bad_at_Sports_Episode_202-Manon_Slome.mp3
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Sat, 4 July 2009
As a special bonus Geoffrey Todd Smith preps panels with a roller (that is the odd sound you hear in the background) and chimes in occasionally off mic! Shamelessly lifted blurb: Deb Sokolow has been steadily inking her way into the hearts and minds of Chicago's art world. Since graduating from the School of the Art Institute in 2004, she has shown at 40000, Gallery 400 and Polvo, and had a solo show in the MCA's 12 x 12 series. Her whimsical drawings analyze pop-culture phenomena, such as the movie Rocky, office culture and Americans' fear of terrorism, and mix the aesthetics of children's books, diary writing, New Yorker-style cartoons and personal sketching.
Direct download: Bad_at_Sports_Episode_201-Deb_Sokolow.mp3
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Sat, 27 June 2009
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Sun, 21 June 2009
Gallery 400, a not-for-profit arts exhibition space at the University of Illinois at Chicago, was founded in 1983 to exhibit and support art, design and architecture. Over its 26 year history Gallery 400 has grown into a nationally recognized gallery that presents consistently acclaimed exhibitions, lectures, and artist commissions. The exhibitions and programs present a broad range of recent developments and aesthetic concerns and have included more than 1,000 artists to date.
Direct download: Bad_at_Sports_Episode_199-Gallery_400.mp3
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Sat, 13 June 2009
This week Mark Staff Brandl interviews ex-pat artist Leonard Bullock. Here is some text crassly cut and pasted from somewhere else: Leonard Bullock originally from North Carolina and New York City, has lived in Europe for the last 15 years, frequently exhibiting in Switzerland and Germany. ... Bullock is a painters' painter, his direct facture influencing many better-known contemporaries such as the young Swiss artist Lori Hersberger. While Bullock often paints on surprising surfaces such as fiberglass or silk, the most arresting aspect of his work has been his mark-making, which is somewhat reminiscent of de Kooning in that it aspires to an indexical demonstration of sensation. Bullock does not copy his inspirational sources but rather updates them. He aligns a wide variety of strokes into tilted vectors, forming abstract totem poles that appear to swerve through space. His sense of touch reveals a painter more concerned with Titian and with questions of disparateness than with expressionism. In the "outro" to this weeks show, Duncan defends the good name of Joseph Mohan, against Richard's inappropriate commentary.
Direct download: Bad_at_Sports_Episode_198-Leonard_Bullock.mp3
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Sat, 6 June 2009
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Sat, 30 May 2009
This week: Duncan talks to Britton Bertran and Allison
Peters Quinn about Artists Run Chicago which is currently up at the Hyde Park
Art Center.
Direct download: Bad_at_Sports_Episode_196-Artists_Run_Chicago.mp3
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Sun, 24 May 2009
This week: Duncan and guest host Randall Szott talk to the fine folks from InCubate. After that interesting interview we flush the whole effing thing down the toilet by reviewing Harry Potter the Exhibition, where porno and Matthew Barney are discussed. About InCUBATE (from their website): In ways that have only become possible in the past few years, artist collectives and experimental institutions have begun to actively re-imagine alternate art worlds and alternative forms of curatorial practice in an attempt to disengage from the more traditional strategies governing today’s art market. InCUBATE is a research institute dedicated to challenging current infrastructures, specifically how they affect artistic production. As art historians and arts administrators, our goal is to explore the possibility of developing financial models that could be relevant to contemporary art institutions, as well as collective or individual artist projects working outside an institution. Particularly, we are exploring financial models which are less constrained by external controls and market concerns and which are more effective, more realistic, and more relevant to both art and the everyday. Our goal is to continue to conceptualize new possible situations, document these innovations, and make this information available to everyone. InCUBATE does not have non-profit status, instead we see our role as exploring new possibilities outside of the traditional models of 501c3 tax exempt status. We are interested in creating a network of opportunities and creative discussions, as well as sharing resources for creative urban and community planning and self-sustaining situations for art production. These activities include investigating current practices in public/private sponsorships for arts organizations, debating the pros and cons of incorporating as a non-profit, alternative means for financing ‘under-the-radar’ arts projects, and hosting exhibitions and symposiums to spark public discussion. Centered in a storefront space adjacent to Chicago’s historic Congress Theater, we consider our location to be an integral part of our activities and mission. We are interviewing local artists, curators, organizers, and collectives whose thinking extends beyond traditional modes of production and distribution. These discussions will be made public in order to start an open source of information-sharing about processes and strategies. While exploring our own process of becoming a research institute, we will also become a resource for others, which will manifest in various on-going projects. One of these projects aims to assist the production of future projects. Through using the open source software MediaWiki, InCUBATE plans to create a wiki that will function to collect information for projects, collect historical and contemporary data about discursive art making, as well as information directed by the wiki users. |
Sun, 17 May 2009
BE SURE TO CHECK OUT: A night you won't
forget...if you live to remember!!! Friday, May 29th,
You Oughta be in Fangs, written & directed by Death by Design Decadent 1920s party-goers in search of hot-jazz and
free-flowing booze, head to a secret speakeasy run by the conjoined Whisper
Sisters. Assisted by a team of waxen virgins and undead goons, the Sisters
entice their guests with vampish performers, seductive strains and intoxicating
elixirs. But watch your step – lest you should shimmy straight into the arms of
their Vampire suitors, who slip incognito through the euphoric crowd, adding to
their brood.
Costumes encouraged! 7:30-8:30: VIP Preview with appetizers, live entertainment, and open bar. 8:30-11:30: General Admission with dessert, and open bar.
Direct download: Bad_at_Sports_Episode_194-Paul_Morris.mp3
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Sat, 9 May 2009
Lisa answers the question: was it a complete pain in the ass to install Richard Serra's ten thousand pound work Weights and Measures?
Direct download: Bad_at_Sports_Episode_193-The_Modern_Wing_pt_1.mp3
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Sun, 3 May 2009
This week: Duncan talks with Rochelle Feinstein. Rochelle Feinstein,
Painter and printmaker
Ms. Feinstein received a B.F.A. from Pratt Institute in 1975 and an M.F.A. from the University of Minnesota in 1978. She lives and works in New York City. Her work is exhibited widely in solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums in the United States and Europe, and is included in numerous public and private collections. Among recent awards and grants she has received are a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Fellowship, a Joan Mitchell Foundation grant, and a Foundation for Contemporary Performing Arts grant. She was appointed to the Yale faculty in 1994 and is currently professor of painting/printmaking.
Direct download: Bad_at_Sports_Episode_192-Rochelle_Feinstein.mp3
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Sun, 26 April 2009
BAS Boston's Matthew Nash talks to comic artist Liz Prince about her work, and her excellent book "Will you still love me if I wet the bed?" Go, right now, buy it.
Direct download: Bad_at_Sports_Episode_191-Elkins-Prince.mp3
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Sat, 18 April 2009
First, Duncan and
Richard present a horribly off-track intro which consists largely of talk of
herpes and sleeping around. Eventually they get around to discussing what is
really important, this week’s show! Steve Litsios, an
artist from La Chaux-de-Fonds in the French-speaking part of Switzerland, is
interviewed this week by Mark Staff Brandl. Litsios is known for his vast paper
installations, wall objects, smaller sculpture, and web-work, all of which are
elegant, restrained, and yet puckish in their surprising flirtation with
elements of garishness. His work has recently begun to incorporate political
content into his formerly abstract approach. The artist also plays in several
roots blues and skiffle bands. Then, in the
closing, Duncan calls out Joseph Mohan. Other wackiness ensues.
Direct download: Bad_at_Sports_Episode_190-Steve_Litsios.mp3
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Sat, 11 April 2009
Next: Mike Benedetto (jackass, BAS film critic) reviews The Watchmen. IMPORTANT: be sure to stick around after the credits for a very special and heart rending public service announcement from Mike, that, much to his surprise, I actually did run in the show.
Direct download: Bad_at_Sports_Episode_189-NYC_Econ_Roundtable.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:29pm EDT |
Sat, 4 April 2009
First: This
week Duncan checks in from Roots and Culture and interviews Oli Watt and
Jamisen Ogg about the show they put together with Lauren Anderson. Lauren
could not make the taping session and Eric May (The Director of Roots and
Culture) steps in to make sure the world know Next: From NYC! The Amanda Browder Show features three conversations from the Volta Art Fair - NY 2009. Amanda talks with Noah Singer of Imperfect Articles (Chicago), Tracy Candido and Tara Strickstein of Sweet Tooth of the Tiger (NYC) and Joshua Callaghan (LA). All three discuss the hardships of being stuck in a booth all weekend on what happened to be one of the sunniest days all winter. |
Sat, 28 March 2009
Holla! NYC correspondents Amanda
Browder and Tom Sanford hang out with artist Michael Anderson in his Harlem
studio. Born in the Bronx in 1968, Mr. Anderson began his artistic career
fusing painting and collage but has concentrated on collage since the early
1990s. Since that time his materials have consisted solely of posters and
billboards found on the streets of international cities and physically torn
down by the artist. (text from Michael's Blog). To prep you when you go see
Michael's show at Marlborough Gallery in Chelsea which opened on March 26th,
2009, Tom and Amanda talk to Michael about his work and end the conversation
with a boxing match, as a way to get out their inner feelings. Michael watches
in fear....or is it hilarity!
Direct download: Bad_at_Sports_Episode_187-Michael_Anderson2.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:47pm EDT |
Sun, 22 March 2009
In preparation for the biggest printmaking event of the year, the Southern Graphics Council meeting for 2009 hosted by Chicago's Columbia College, Duncan interrogates Mark Pascale (Curator of Prints and Drawings, Art Institute of Chicago), Debora Wood (Senior Curator, Northwestern University's Mary and Leigh Block Museum) and Christine Tarkowski (Associate Professor, Fiber and Material Studies, School of the Art Institute of Chicago) about the current state of Printmaking as an autonomous art form and its position in the academy. We had better see all of you in Wicker Park this Friday for a kick ass set of openings at the Green Lantern, Roots and Culture, Llyod Dobbler, and Heaven! See you then. http://www2.colum.edu/sgc/
Direct download: Bad_at_Sports_Episode_186-the_Print_Show.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 7:39pm EDT |
Sun, 15 March 2009
This
week: Duncan and Richard are extremely excited to talk to legendary cartoonist Chris Ware!
Direct download: Bad_at_Sports_Episode_185-Chris_Ware.mp3
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Sun, 8 March 2009
Direct download: Bad_at_Sports_Episode_184-Joseph_del_Pesco.mp3
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Sun, 1 March 2009
This
week: Dude, what is up with the Chicago Poster scene?
Direct download: Bad_at_Sports_Episode_183-WaltersRyan.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 7:50pm EDT |
Sun, 22 February 2009
"Chicago-based painter Jim Lutes is often considered heir to the Imagist tradition. This, however, is only part of the story. Having come to artistic maturity in the late 1970s, Lutes exemplifies a larger and more complex historical narrative that entails the emergence of figuration and regionalism under the declining influence of Abstract Expressionism. This would be born out over several bodies of work in which Lutes would vacillate beween a populist mode of figuration and a painterly abstraction, the combination of which produced a style along the lines of Picasso in the 1930s or Guston in the 1970s." |
Sat, 14 February 2009
This Week: Amanda and Tom talk to art legend Peter
Saul. Next, Amanda and Tom talk to Jacob Dyrenforth about his show that is
currently up at the Renwick Gallery. RIP Lux Interior! "The Cramps
don't pummel and you won't pogo. They ooze; you'll throb."
Direct download: Bad_at_Sports_Episode_181-Peter_Saul.mp3
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Sun, 8 February 2009
Direct download: Bad_at_Sports_Episode_180-Brooks-Mess_Hall.mp3
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Sun, 1 February 2009
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Sun, 25 January 2009
It is an excellent and interesting interview, however and unfortunately the last 10 minutes or so of this interview has same sort of technical glitch that created noise on the audio and makes the dialog difficult to hear, Bad at Sports regrets the problems. Wu Hung (as lifted from the U of C website) Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor of Art History, East Asian Languages & Civilizations, and the College; Director, Center for the Art of East Asia; Consulting Curator, Smart Museum of Art. Wu Hung specializes in early Chinese art, from the earliest years to the Cultural Revolution. His special research interests include relationships between visual forms (architecture, bronze vessels, pictorial carvings and murals, etc.) and ritual, social memory and political discourses. Also the consulting curator for the Smart Museum of Art, Hung is the author of Transience: Chinese Experimental Art at the End of the Twentieth Century (University Of Chicago Press, 1999), Monumentality in Early Chinese Art (Stanford University Press, 1995), Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting (Yale University Press, 1997), and the forthcoming Remaking Beijing: Tiananmen Square and the Creation of a Political Space. Hung grew up in Beijing and studied at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. From 1973 to 1978 he served on the research staff at the Palace Museum, located inside Beijing's Forbidden City. He came to Chicago in 1994. Dan Wang Printer, artist, writer, activist who divides time between his old home in Chicago and his new home in Madison. |
Sun, 18 January 2009
This week, Kathryn sits down with Olga Stefan, editor of CAC's Prompt Journal, and Jason Foumberg, Arts Editor of New City. Together, they discuss/debate/debunk the recent talk about the Chicago art scene being dead and accusations about a lack of discussion in this city. Kathryn whips out the math, proposing that if the Chicagoland population comprises 1/700 earthlings on the planet, aren't we adequately represented in the global art world market? Jason also discusses the Chicago Art Critics Association group project coming up at Ispace. Richard continues the official campaign of contrition for Duncan's crimes against Lauren Vallone. Lastly, our low-impact pledge drive continues, please help out if you can!!!
Direct download: Bad_at_Sports_Episode_177-Art_Journalism.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 6:43pm EDT |
Sat, 10 January 2009
Southern Exposure is a 34 year old, non-profit, artist-run organization dedicated to presenting diverse, innovative, contemporary art, arts education, and related programs and events in an accessible environment. Southern Exposure reaches out to diverse audiences and serves as a forum and resource center to provide extraordinary support to the Bay Area's arts and educational communities. Activities range from exhibitions of local, regional, and international visual artists' work, education programs, and lectures, panel discussions, and performances. Southern Exposure is dedicated to giving artists—whether they are exhibiting, curating, teaching, or learning—an opportunity to realize ideas for projects that may not otherwise find support. ALSO: Mike Benedetto reviews Twilight! Mike's masterpiece of criticism. He imitates a werewolf. Not to be missed! Help us out! Please donate to Bad at Sports, please click the paypal link on our website and give what you can! Thanks!
Direct download: Bad_at_Sports_Episode_176-Southern_Exposure.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:59pm EDT |
Sun, 4 January 2009
Amanda talks to Nick Lucking and Tim Ivison about www.spcmkr.com and their various projects. SPCMKR facilitates and documents space exchanges, providing a site through which to organize a gift-economy between users. The web-based component of the project provides an interface for locating and contributing resources, arranging for temporarily inhabiting surplus spaces, and documenting both the exchange and the activities that occur while in residence. SPCMKR is a way in which to proliferate small everyday surpluses, allowing for flexible, friendly opportunities, rather than engaging with government or institutional power structures. SPCMKR should be understood not as a residency to which you apply but rather as a network in which you can contribute and benefit from the exchange of resources.
Direct download: Bad_at_Sports_Episode_175-Lucking-Ivison.mp3
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