This week: A BAS bureau twofer!
First Patricia talks to Mika Tajima.
This week, Patricia Maloney chats with artist Mika Tajima at
the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art just before the opening of
the exhibition Stage Presence, where her collaborative film,
performance, and sculptural project, Today is Not a Dress
Rehearsal, is currently on view through October 8, 2012 .
Mika Tajima, was born in Los Angeles, and lives
and works in Brooklyn. She earned a BA from Bryn Mawr College in
1997, an MFA from Columbia University in 2003, and attended The
Fabric Workshop and Museum Apprentice Training Program in 2003. Her
work has been included in the exhibitions The Pedestrians,
South London Gallery, London (2011); Transaction
Abstraite, New Galerie, Paris (2011); The Double,
Bass Museum, Miami (2010); Knightâs Move, Sculpture
Center, Long Island City (2010); Today is Not a Dress
Rehearsal, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2009); The
Extras, X Initiative, New York (2009); Learn to
Communicate Like a Fucking Normal Person, Art Production Fund,
New York (2009); Deal or No Deal, Kevin Bruk Gallery,
Miami (2008); 2008 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of
American Art, New York (2008); Mika Tajima: Broken
Plaid/Holding Your Breath (taking the long way), RISD Museum,
Providence (2008); The Double, The Kitchen, New York
(2008); Sympathy for the Devil, Museum of Contemporary
Art, Chicago (2007); Music Is a Better Noise, PS.1
Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City (2006); Grass Grows
Forever in Every Possible Direction, Walker Art Center,
Minneapolis (2005); Echoplex, Swiss Institute Contemporary
Art, New York (2005); and Uncertain States of America,
Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo, Norway (2005). She is part of the
music-based performance group New Humans.
The following is part of the ongoing collaboration between
Bad at Sports and
Art Practical. You can read
an abridged version of the interview
here.
Next: New India correspondant Tanya Gill goes to the India Art
Fair!
Tanya Gill, a Chicago artist living in New
Delhi, wanders through the India Art Fair of 2012. Over the course
of four days she spoke to Gallery owners and artists, and found a
surprising number of Chicago connects. Recorded here are her
conversations with Kiran Chandra, Renuka Sawhney of The Guild,
artist Vibha Galhotra, artist Ram Rahman from The SAHMAT
Collective, Laura Williams of Art 18/21, artists
Joan Livingston and Katarina Weslien
from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Ritika Baheti of
the Autonomous Public Laboratory Project, and four living works of
art by Preeti Chandrakant.