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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/

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”

This week we present the last of the “lost hard drive episodes” and find the thoughtfully strength of Robert Raphael. Interviewed at NADA art fair in New York City by the brilliant Amanda Browder and the amazing Caroline Burghardt. These three great humans play their way through the craft, sculpture, history, and ceramics, from inside a Claire Ashley sculpture. Editing support provided by the always perfect, Martin Ortiz de Taranco. Off the top Duncan reads a PSA from our friends at the Terrain Biennial who are looking for proposals for this year's exhibition. They are due on July 18th so sharpen your pencil and get them in today.

Robert Raphael – https://robraphael.com/

LAMK Gallery – https://lmakgallery.com/

Terrain Biennial – https://terrainexhibitions.org/

Sabina Ott – https://sabinaott.net/home.html

Caroline Burghardt - https://carolineburghardt.com/

Amanda Browder - https://www.amandabrowder.com/

NADA - https://www.newartdealers.org/

EXPO - Chicago https://www.expochicago.com/

Martin Ortiz de Taranco - https://www.martinortizdetaranco.com/

Tom Sanford - http://tomsanford.com/

Claire Ashley - https://clairehelenashley.com/

This week we return to the lost hard drive and find the brilliance of Robin Kang. Interviewed at NADA art fair in New York City by Amanda Browder and Caroline Burghardt. These three brilliant humans chew their way through the history of craft and what it taught us about technology, and how that may pull us back to a human-ness from our tech, and playfully bounce around the New York art world and it's fairs. All from inside a Claire Ashley sculpture. Editing support provided by the always perfect, Martin Ortiz de Taranco.

Image care of Robin Kang and https://newyorkarttours.com/blog/2019/07/17/robin-kang-in-pool-party-at-c24-gallery/

Robin Kang – https://robinkang.org/home.html

Yours, Mine, and Ours – https://www.instagram.com/yoursmineandoursgallery/?hl=en

Parlor Gallery – https://www.parlor-gallery.com/

Mathilde Hatzenberger Gallery – http://www.mathildehatzenberger.eu/wordpress/

Zurcher Gallery - https://www.galeriezurcher.com/

Caroline Burghardt - https://carolineburghardt.com/

Amanda Browder - https://www.amandabrowder.com/

NADA - https://www.newartdealers.org/

EXPO - Chicago https://www.expochicago.com/

Martin Ortiz de Taranco - https://www.martinortizdetaranco.com/

Tom Sanford - http://tomsanford.com/

Claire Ashley - https://clairehelenashley.com/

Today on Bad at Sports we’re presenting two panel discussions held this April as part of Minor Matters, the programming arm of Barely Fair, a 1/12th scale art fair produced by Julius Caesar at Color Club! First up, MINOR EXPORTS: Exhibition Programs Across Cities with Michelle Grabner (The Suburban, Milwaukee, Umbria), Tarik Kentouche (Scherben, Berlin), Aron Gent (DOCUMENT, Chicago, Lisbon), moderated by Josh Dihle (BARELY FAIR, Julius Caesar). After the break, SCALING UP: Emerging Artists Presented in Large-Scale Spaces with Torey Gaines (Anthony Gallery), Mickey Pomfrey (MICKEY) and Abby Pucker (GERTIE, Art in Common), moderated by Roland Miller (BARELY FAIR, Julius Caesar).

https://www.barelyfair.com/minormatters

https://www.juliuscaesarchicago.net/

http://www.thesuburban.org/

https://poorfarmexperiment.org/

https://www.jamescohan.com/artists/michelle-grabner

https://scherben.in/

https://tarikkentouche.com/

https://documentspace.com/

http://www.joshdihle.com/

https://colorclub.events/

This week on Bad at Sports we’re presenting more panel discussions from Minor Matters, the programming arm of Barely Fair, a 1/12th scale art fair produced by Julius Caesar at Color Club this April! First up, CURATORIAL CONFINES: Scaled Selections Within and Outside Institutions moderated by Scott Campbell (Independent Curators International) with panelists Nolan Jimbo (Marjorie Susman Curatorial Fellow at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago), Adia Sykes (Independent Curator) and Kate Sierzputowski (Airlock, BARELY FAIR, Julius Caesar, EXPO CHICAGO) then, SCALE AS SUPPORT: The Architecture Behind BARELY FAIR Moderated by Roland Knowlden (Future Firm) with the Directors of the fair itself, Josh Dihle, Tony Lewis, Roland Miller, and Kate Sierzputowski. Finally, in a podcast *exclusive* (sorry terrestrial radio only listeners!), STARTING SMALL: A Look at the Beginning of a Collection, moderated by Roland Miller (BARELY FAIR, Julius Caesar) with panelists Courtney Sherrer, Josh Rogers, and Megan Green Rogers.

https://www.barelyfair.com/minormatters

https://www.juliuscaesarchicago.net/

https://curatorsintl.org/about/collaborators/21995-scott-vincent-campbell

https://mcachicago.org/about/who-we-are/people/nolan-jimbo

https://www.adiasykes.com/

http://katesierzputowski.com/

https://future-firm.org/

http://www.joshdihle.com/

https://www.blumandpoe.com/artists/tony_lewis

http://www.rolandwm.com/

https://colorclub.events/

This episode from the now found lost hard drive of Bad at Sports. SF based not all the time photographer and conceptual artist Phillip Maisel! From a NADA NYC of the past we share this great chat about aesthetics, photography, formalism, and the construction of an image with Amanda Browder and Duncan MacKenzie, live from inside a Claire Ashley! Big thanks to Martin for editing support.

In the intro Duncan talks about Bad at Sports's friends at Carol Fox hooking B@S with tickets for "The Empire Strips Back" and how we don't really know how to judge or make sense of it but we all had a delightful time. Also 2 out of the 4 of us lamented that they did not purchase the "Wookie Playboy" magazines. So that would make a kind Xmas present for the podcast.

Philip Maisel – https://www.phillipmaisel.com/

Document and Aron Gent – https://documentspace.com/

Amanda Browder - https://www.amandabrowder.com/

NADA - https://www.newartdealers.org/

Martin Ortiz de Taranco - https://www.martinortizdetaranco.com/

Claire Ashley - https://clairehelenashley.com/

The Empire Strips Back - https://theempirestripsback.com/

Carol Fox and Associates - https://www.carolfoxassociates.com/

Image c/o Phillip Maisel

Encants (5184)

Archival pigment print

25.5 x 17” / 65 x 43 cm

2020

This episode from the now found hard drive of Bad at Sports. Alex Gingrow! From a NADA NYC of the past we share this great chat about aesthetics, time, angst, and text art hosted but Caroline Burghardt and Duncan MacKenzie, live from inside a Claire Ashley! Big thanks to Martin for editing support.

Alex Gingrow – https://alexgingrow.com/home.html

Caroline Burghardt – https://carolineburghardt.com/

Amanda Browder - https://www.amandabrowder.com/

NADA - https://www.newartdealers.org/

Martin Ortiz de Taranco - https://www.martinortizdetaranco.com/

Claire Ashley - https://clairehelenashley.com/

Image care of Alex Gingrow.

Today on Bad at Sports, live from inside EXPO Chicago, we try to get to the bottom of what the Monira Foundation is up to and what exactly it has to do with MANA Contemporary? So, we catch up with Anne Muntges, Director of Residencies and Grants Development. Then we are joined by the CEO of Apollo, Michael Miller and Chicago artist Sarah Raskey, and we look into the future of digital art delivery and what it would mean to have access to the world's greatest collections from your home. Efficiency

EXPO - Chicago https://www.expochicago.com/

Monira Foundation – https://monirafoundation.org/

MANA Contemporary – https://www.manacontemporary.com/

Anne Muntges – https://www.annemuntges.com/

Apollo – https://apollo.art/

Michael Miller - https://modernluxuryinteriors.com/apollo-digital-art-platform

Sarah Raskey – https://www.sarahraskey.com/

This week we check in with independent Curators International through Scott Vincent Campbell and Becky Nahom, and they break down the exciting curatorial connection event hosted through EXPO Chicago for the last five nine years. The conversation touches on the value of curators having an informal, yet art infused context in which to connect. All participants fail to recognize that the proper noun for a group of curators is a “hubris.” As in, “a hubris of curators approached the young artist.” This chat is a followed by LA based but Chicago drenched brilliant image maker John Knuth and we get down, full on EXPO style but with flies, as we tailgate our own booth and try to change the world one T-shirt at a time. EXPO Chicago in full effect.

EXPO - Chicago https://www.expochicago.com/

Independent Curators International - https://curatorsintl.org/

Scott Vincent Campbell - https://svcstudio.com/

Becky Nahom - https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/arts/becky-nahom-of-halt-gallery-talks-curating-phoenixs-art-scene-and-moving-to-new-york-7286642

John Knuth - http://www.johnknuth.com/#/

Hollis Taggart - https://www.hollistaggart.com/

MOCA - https://www.moca.org/

Image care of John Knuth from https://www.hollistaggart.com/artists/36-john-knuth/

This episode we return to the land of the lost episodes of Bad at Sports. As your friendly neighborhood art world podcasters return to action after a bit of a post EXPO meltdown, we are back in action. And in glorious preparation for NADA NYC we present two fantastic interviews we did in conjunction with NADA in Miami. Art world megaphone jaw dropper, Chloe Wise, breaks down art fashion and how we consume both and the ideas that trail in their wake. Kevin Arrow gets into what is lost as we turn away from Obsolete Media and the joy we can find in rediscovery. Amanda Browder, Tom Sanford, and Duncan MacKenzie split the hosting duties, live from inside a Claire Ashley! Big thanks to Martin for editing support.

Chloe Wise - https://www.chloewise.com/

Obsolete Media - https://miamirail.org/winter-2015/obsolete-media-miami/

Kevin Arrow - http://voyagemia.com/interview/meet-kevin-arrow/

Amanda Browder - https://www.amandabrowder.com/

NADA - https://www.newartdealers.org/

EXPO - Chicago https://www.expochicago.com/

Martin Ortiz de Taranco - https://www.martinortizdetaranco.com/

Tom Sanford - http://tomsanford.com/

Claire Ashley - https://clairehelenashley.com/

Image = Chloe Wise from Cultured Magazine https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2018/11/29/chloe-wise

Jennifer Reeder is back! It's been a decade since our last conversation with the legendary Chicago filmmaker, artist and educator and she has been busy! Her newest feature, Perpetrator, features (the!) Alicia Silverstone and recently premiered at the Berlinale on its way back stateside. Together with Jesse and Brian, Jennifer gets into genre, the short as form and shape, her own personal journey through different mediums and more in a rolicking and fascinating conversation.

This episode also functions as an oblique invitation to our EXPO activities and activations. If you'll be at the fair this weekend, come visit our booth to see some exciting new realities!

https://thejenniferreeder.com/

https://www.wtfilms.fr/portfolio-item/perpetrator/

https://www.criterionchannel.com/short-films-by-jennifer-reeder

https://www.expochicago.com/

This week Amanda and Duncan return to the magic of the passed of Bad at Sports with a brilliant interview with Molly Zuckerman-Hartung! Zuckerman-Hartung kicked off this years set of Dialogoues at EXPO Chicago! And we return to a blissfully naive pre-pandemic artworld while physically celebrating the return to form of EXPO 2023! Editing support by Martin and we did this interview inside a Claire Ashley sculpture in NYC!

Molly Zuckerman-Hartung - https://corbettvsdempsey.com/artists/molly-zuckerman-hartung/

Amanda Browder - https://www.amandabrowder.com/

NADA - https://www.newartdealers.org/

EXPO - Chicago https://www.expochicago.com/

Martin Ortiz de Taranco - https://www.martinortizdetaranco.com/

Claire Ashley - https://clairehelenashley.com/

Amanda Browder and Duncan have a word with Mumbai based curator Sumesh Sharma! We chat about all things internationally challenging and the context for both international and American art. We cover why NADA is such an important international fair! All from inside a Claire Ashley in NYC. Editing support by Martin!

Sumesh Sharma - https://curatorsintl.org/about/collaborators/5399-sumesh-sharma

Clark House Initiative - https://www.space118.com/mapping-residencies/clark-house-initiative/

Thanks Arterritory for the image - https://arterritory.com/en/visual_arts/interviews/22636-sumesh_sharma_in_riga_the_grandson_of_a_trade_merchant_on_diversity_and_exchange/

Amanda Browder - https://www.amandabrowder.com/

NADA - https://www.newartdealers.org/

EXPO - Chicago https://www.expochicago.com/

Martin Ortiz de Taranco - https://www.martinortizdetaranco.com/

Claire Ashley - https://clairehelenashley.com/

Once again Bad at Sports brings back a little audio that we recorded several years ago at NADA Miami which for no good reason never made it to air. We blame our day jobs but these would not have seen the light without the editing support of Martin Ortiz de Taranco!

This week we run into Chambliss Giobbi and circle around model building, portraits, the relationship between an image and its materials. Then we are treated to the driest wit in Chicago by Alex Chitty thanks to Patron Gallery! Thanks to NADA! Thanks to Claire Ashley who provided the work for our booth. And in a rare twist Dana Bassett and Tom Sanford, in the same show!

Chambliss Giobbi - https://www.chamblissgiobbi.com/

Alex Chitty - http://www.alexchitty.com/

Patron Gallery - https://patrongallery.com/

Amanda Browder - https://www.amandabrowder.com/

NADA - https://www.newartdealers.org/

EXPO - Chicago https://www.expochicago.com/

Martin Ortiz de Taranco - https://www.martinortizdetaranco.com/

Tom Sanford - http://tomsanford.com/

Claire Ashley - https://clairehelenashley.com/

Image:

Alex Chitty
They will bloom without you
Elmhurst Art Museum -McCormick House

BmoreArt’s Editor-in-Chief Cara Ober joins Amanda Browder and Duncan MacKenzie in NYC at NADA NYC of yore. We express the pre-pandemic naive enthusiasm that will one day rule the world. We mine the depths of art publishing, art criticism, middle school sports, why Baltimore is a bad ass town, and why loving magazines will never be wrong!

Cara Ober - https://www.caraober.com/

BmoreArt - https://bmoreart.com/

Baltimore - https://baltimore.org/

Amanda Browder - https://www.amandabrowder.com/

NADA - https://www.newartdealers.org/

EXPO - Chicago https://www.expochicago.com/

National Museum of Women in the Arts - https://nmwa.org/blog/museum-shop/modern-makers-cara-ober/

And extra thanks to Martin Ortiz de Taranco - https://www.martinortizdetaranco.com/

This episode we check in from New York City with two of New York's bright lights, Carrie Gundersdorf (Teaching this summer at fan favorite summer residency, Ox-Bow) and Chloë Bass! We checked in several years ago from a boozy and brilliant NADA NYC! We talk painting and drawing, the price of eggs insurance type, compare New York and Chicago, light beyond the light and the low fi, while getting intimate and bureaucratic with our practices. And we all become Artworldees!

NADA https://www.newartdealers.org/

EXPO Chicago https://www.expochicago.com/

Carrie Gundersdorf https://carriegundersdorf.com/

Chloë Bass https://www.chloebass.com/

Ox-Bow School of Art https://www.ox-bow.org/

Sharon Louden https://www.sharonlouden.com/

Tom Sanford http://tomsanford.com/

Price of Eggs https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/03/egg-prices-increased-70percent-over-the-last-yearheres-why-.html

Image: Carrie Gundersdorf

Betuline Cone

2022

colored pencil and watercolor on paper

23 x 22"

Episode 834, in which we creep back into the annals of our history and pull forth a conversation which had not seen the light before, Harold Mendez. Hero to many. We talk Whitney Biennial, Cuba, Tiffany's, and just exactly how the art world works. Thank You NADA!

https://www.newartdealers.org/

https://haroldmendez.com/

https://www.amandabrowder.com/

https://whitney.org/artists/17713

https://haroldmendez.com/filter/2017%3B-Tiffany-%26-Co .

https://icamiami.org/exhibition/harold-mendez/

Thanks to https://tamarind.unm.edu

For the image.

A few years ago, we put together so much content in the context of NADA art Fair Miami and New York that we have been sitting on a handful of great stuff (like for years)… And you are going to get to hear it all as we get prepared for Chicago’s EXPO this spring!

Kicking it all off this week Dana and Duncan chat with Miami legend, Agustina Woodgate.

We talk…

Miami Water and Power

RADIOEE

The Whitney Biennial

Hopscotch

And so much more… Live from inside a Claire Ashley sculpture!

https://agustinawoodgate.com/

https://radioee.net/

https://www.newartdealers.org/

https://clairehelenashley.com/

PS. Dana makes a joke at the end that you have to hear, little does she know… no one really gets out. Once you are Bad at Sports, you just are.

Language lovers rejoice — the blab at sporkers transmit live to tape from the exhibition Glossolalia, hosted at ACRE (hosted by Drama Club) with our guests David Sprecher and Jeff Prokash. Their collaborative show, which performs a complicated material translation of an excerpt of a Franny Choi poem, is up through the weekend and includes a series of readings this Saturday (2/25/23) amidst and among their sculpture-phonemes. We talk about talking and think about thinking in what Zagat’s is calling “ə ˈrɪli ɡreɪt ˌɛksəˈbɪʃən ... wɜrθ ˈsikɪŋ ænd ˈsiɪŋ ɪf ju hir wɑt ɪts ˈseɪɪŋ θru ˈbiɪŋ sin …” and we’ll agree.

https://davidsprecher.org/home.html

https://www.jeffprokash.com/

https://www.acreresidency.org/exhibition/glossolalia

This week Duncan sits down with Paul Gray in front of a live audience at Columbia College Chicago to talk about the history of Gray Gallery, the legacy of Richard Gray, how “the sausage gets made” in the art world, 60 years of supporting artists and what the next 60 years will look like, and Marcel Proust? Just another day of spectacular work for Gray Gallery, Coulumbia, and Bad at Sports.

This week we come at you live from Printed Matter in New York City with Christopher Sperandio of the Kartoon Kings . We talk about his recent flurry of publications, how the pandemic has impacted publishing and the art world, the potency of Instagram, and the failure of NFTs. Max Schumann Jumps in from the audience to talk about the mission of Printed Matter and query the separation between artist book and art publication, while challenging the techniques and labor used to generate Artist books. Brilliant painter Michael Cline grabs Duncan a couple of glasses of wine because if you are talking politics and art, there has to be at least one or two drinks.

Wowow! Around an arts and crampy table in an anonymous but lively third space in the Southern Loop of Chicago, some of our top minds and movers convene to chat about past, present and futures of Chicago DIY/DIT artist-organizing. Jesse, Duncan and eventually Ryan — slouches in their own rights — lead by following a disparate flow. A champagne bottle to share with 300 people! Leave a masterpiece, take a masterpiece! Should everything become a library? These notions and more are offered up in a freewheeling conversation that’s not to be missed.

This week Bad at Sports catches up with Wisconsin’s pride, the Wormfarm Institute, with Jay Salinas. We learn more about a long running experiment in arts funding between the fine states of Wisconsin and Minneapolis. We learn about how sustainable agriculture and contemporary art have found an unusual marriage, and take a D-Tour. Then we open the door two adventure and the future of contemporary placemaking, and artist run endeavors with Nicholas Wylie and Brandon Alvendia, who speculate on the future of the MdW fair and the new infrastructure we have been building together to strengthen the future of Midwestern art making.

Image of a work by Brenda Baker , photograph by Eric Bailles from the Wormfarm Institute, link below.

https://www.wormfarminstitute.org/

https://www.mdwfair.com/

https://chicagolx.org/community/members/nicholas-wylie-public-media-institute

https://www.alvendia.net/

Live from our tailgate at the MdW fair we bring you part two of a series we are doing with the organizing members of the MdW and a wrap up conversation that looks at the current state of arts organizing. But this week we have Confluence Studio, Duaba Unenra and Sam Gould, then are joined by Amy Kligman of the Charlotte Street Foundation. We learn about contemporary policing practice in MN and how residents mobilize through art and stories. Then we shift over to Kansas City MO and touch the other side of artist run culture through a 25 year old entrenched arts org. Good times had by all!

https://confluence-studio.org/

https://www.mdwfair.com/atlas

https://charlottestreet.org/

Here we are here we are finishing out our roundup with the end of our “spot check” in Calgary Alberta, Canada, and we close out with the Western Canadian performance art legend Rita McKeough.

Rita McKeough is an installation and performance artist whose practice is based in Calgary. Her work incorporates audio, electronics and mechanical performing objects. Since the late 70s, McKeough has been committed to creating thoughtful and fully immersive spaces that push and unbalance our underlying assumptions which we use to navigate our everyday lives. She uses interactive technologies to represent natural interdependencies and to create weave together her musical and artistic practices. McKeough work’ are formerly rooted in a long established feminist perspective, and she brings that lense to content that deals with the environmental impacts of land development and industrial extraction. Her’s is the voice of agency and articulates the forces of resistance mobilized by the natural world.

Thanks again to the Esker Foundation, all the friends we made in Calgary, and especially Naomi Potter!

https://www.ritamckeough.com/

https://eskerfoundation.com/

https://www.truck.ca/shop/rita-mckeough-works

The Badlands Art Department - Jason de Haan and Miruna Dragan

In this episode Duncan visited "Drumheller" in the "Badlands" of "Alberta." We learn a little about life, love, and the magic that can happen way outside the centers. CONTEMPORARY ART FOR ALL! And natural beauty and leisure for artists!

Jason de Haan is a multidisciplinary Canadian artist working in installation, sculpture, video, drawing, collage, photography, and bookworks. This includes the exploration of uncertain and unexpected spaces, temporal flux, natural phenomena and systems, transmissions, and open timelines, with a focus upon the points at which the invisible and residual reveal their contingencies.

Miruna Dragan is a post-conceptual artist whose work reflects themes of locality and dispersion through questions of imminence and transcendence. Operating within and between various modes of studio research including drawing, lens-based media, site-specific intervention and others, her work interprets surreal geographies through the reanimation of archetypes, myths and symbols.

https://www.jasondehaan.com

https://www.mirunadragan.com

Names Dropped:

Corbin Union collaborator: Warren McLachlan. - www.warrenmclachlan.net

Artist from Queretaro: Raphael Rodriguez - www.raphealrodriguezart.com - @rafarodriguez_art

Artists in Residence at B.A.D.:

Los Angeles: Brody Albert - @brodyalbert - www.brodyalbert.com

Alberta: Stacey Watson - @staywats - www.stacey-watson.com

Alberta: Megan Feniak - @fenny__.__ www.meganfeniak.com

Alberta: Lindsay Sutton - @henriettaquiltshop

Northern Alberta Artist: Peter von Tiesenhausen - www.tiesenhausen.net

Book: Cyclonopedia by Reza Negarestani

@badlands.art.department

Image David Robbins, 2014, care of... Contemporary Art Library

Kate gives us the low down on what ACRE has been up to and why we aught to be filling out our Chicago Arts Census. In a magic episode in which Brian is introduced to the cult of ACRE and we glimpse the utopia of artistic support, community, and friendship.

Book: Understanding the Arts and Creative Sector in the United States Edited by, Joni Maya Cherbo, Margaret Jane Wyszomirski, Ruth Ann Stewart

The River is a reference to a conversation between adrienne maree brown and sonya renee taylor

The brilliant Census team: Adia Sykes , Stephanie Koch , and Alden Burke

https://www.acreresidency.org/

https://www.acreresidency.org/chicago-arts-census

This week we check in with two members of the MdW art fair and assembly brain trust, Nicholas Wylie and Brandon Alvendia and learn a little bit about drifts. This marks a true return to form as we tailgate an art fair and record while feeding hot dogs, Marz beer, and vegetarian chili to all those true lovers of art. Then we spend a few minutes chatting with the brilliant John Engelbercht and Kalmia Strong from Iowa City's Public Space One and try and get the lowdown on what is going on in Iowa, and figure out why the art world need to know about it.

http://www.publicspaceone.com/

https://www.mdwfair.com/

https://www.mdwfair.com/drifts

Teresa Tam’s practice utilizes spaces and experiences that are familiar and then alters them into something a bit foreign through re-interpretation and re-creation. She likes to conceive her projects as sketches: iterations of ideas and systems rendered but never reaching finality. Her work is also developed to include and emphasize visitor interactions as integral components. She focuses on themes that touch upon alienation within nebulous belonging, the position of an individual within a community, excessive labour, and an obsession with objects that contextualize relationships and realities of diaspora individuals. She specializes in digital platforms, functional installations, all things shaped in paper, and body-based exchanges and objects. She graduated from AUArts in 2014 and is the other half of Yolkless Press.

We talk alternative and artist economy, the traditions of preforming industry, the inscription of labor, and publish artist books. Duncan learns that Teresa’s studio is in the same building as his studio from 25 years ago. That makes him feel a touch old, also they have put a lot of work into the building.

https://eskerfoundation.com/exhibition/teresa-tam-seasons-end/

https://calgaryherald.com/uncategorized/qa-with-artist-teresa-tam

https://www.instagram.com/neondaandaan/

https://www.instagram.com/yolklesspress/?hl=en

https://www.stencil.wiki/atlas/yolkless-press

Today on Bad at Sportscenter: Devin Balara and Bobby Gonzales! Another little transportive interview from summer sessions at the Ox-Bow School of Art in Saugatuck, be ears now and listen in to what a porch-hang with two generous geniuses and (whatever we’d call a) Jesse. Enjoy a careening, ebullient conversation in never mids west.

http://cargocollective.com/devinbalara

https://bobby-gonzales.com/

Tamara Lee-Anne Cardinal is a mixed-media artist, community activist, and perpetual learner. Born in Lloydminster, Saskatchewan, she has been a visitor to Otôskwanihk/Mohkinstsis (Calgary) for the past nine years. Cardinal traces her ancestral roots back to both Nêhiyaw and Deutsch decent. Graduating from AUArts in 2015, Cardinal has since been a recipient of the National BMO 1st Art! Competition Award as well as the Alberta Foundation for the Arts Young Artist Award in 2017. Cardinal has been an active member in the urban Indigenous community within Treaty 7 Territory, activating roles through Awo Taan Healing Lodge Society, Native Counselling Services of Alberta, the Midewiwin Teaching Lodge Society of Alberta, and currently through Miskanawah’s Diamond Willow Youth Lodge. Cardinal’s work continues to be a reflection of the teachings she receives along her journey; it is an invitation for others to become a part of the process, to partake in its making.

Our conversation takes place in the wake of the revelations about the abuse suffered by indigenous humans at the hands of religiously motivated colonialists in Canadian communities schools and we discuss how art can be a site of healing and how we must all be attentive and responsible for that healing.

http://tamaraleeannecardinal.com/

The Earth is changing. Quickly. Should we be afraid? Or can we embrace the changes and challenges and boldly look ahead? Can we build a new, better life on this planet? Ryan and Brian sit down with curator Nick Butcher and artists Allen Moore and Kat Jarvinen of The New Earth to find out.

https://publicworksgallery.com/blogs/exhibitions/the-new-earth
https://publicworksgallery.com/
https://katjarvinen.com/
https://chicagoartistscoalition.org/artists/allen-moore
https://www.sonnenzimmer.com/

Artists duo Sans façon (Charles Blanc and Tristan Surtees) began working together in 2001 in Glasgow, Scotland. Their diverse practice responds to the relationship between people and place. Collaborating with architects, composers, geographers, or perfumers, they work internationally on projects ranging from ephemeral performances, temporary installations in public space, large scale permanent artworks, to developing and implementing city wide strategies. Their approach renews awareness and tempts interaction, inviting one to look and think differently about our relationship to our surroundings and one another.

In this conversation we trace the core of Sans façon’s work and use their almost decade long residency with the City of Calgary to open up the dimensions of what is truly a unique and singularly impactful practice.

www.sansfacon.org

Selina Trepp—visual musician, collage animist, radical recycler—talks time, process, performance, material and more on the occasion of An Instrument in the Shape of a Woman at the Chicago Cultural Center. Our dynamic and inspired conversation zooms through the multiplicities of ways Selina 's playful practice breaks open the forms and formats she's drawn to (and drawing on). Once again we're joined by curator Annie Morse and the ambient sounds of meaning being made and publics being formed.

https://selinatrepp.info/home.html

https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/dca/supp_info/instrument.html

asmaa al-issa (b. Baghdad, Iraq) immigrated to Mohkínstsis/Calgary, Alberta, Canada with her family in 2001. Her interdisciplinary practice engages her lived experiences with the land, materials, and people around her. She is continually building knowledge of recipes, traditions, philosophies, theories, and histories of the Middle East while developing her practice as an artist and educator. asmaa holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual Arts from the University of Calgary (2013) and a Master of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies from Simon Fraser University (2017).

Our wide ranging conversation seeks the roots of her practice and voice, post-colonialist futures, the nature of interdisciplinarity, and what we think when we speak of home.

Socially engaged watercolor sampler and plein air painter extraordinaire Leslie Baum and curator Annie Morse join us for part two of our series interviewing the three artists featured in An Instrument in the Shape of a Woman at the Chicago Cultural Center. Baum's sumptuous, joyous paintings are attended in this exhibition by a "pedagogical shelf", a vitrine that runs perpendicular (both physically and conceptually) to her work, revealing the nestled, intimate process by which they are made.

https://www.lesliebaum.net/

https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/dca/supp_info/instrument.html

Today, your Bad at Sportscenterers take refuge in Diane Christiansen's room at the Chicago Cultural Center's exhibition An Instrument in the Shape of a Woman . Her enrapturing paintings and animations play tricks in the cosmic sands as we feel and laugh our way through the existential biggies, buoyed by bodies, icons and acorns. Curator Annie Morse helps lead our sense of the exhibition and takes us through the long, pandemic-wrought fraughtness that permeates the space. Part one of a three part series!

https://rulegallery.com/artist/diane-christiansen/

https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/dca/supp_info/instrument.html

image:

Diane Christiansen, Last Days of Capitalism , 2020, Gouache, acrylic, ink and plaster on paper, 55 x 50 in.

Nura Ali’s wide-ranging practise investigates the linguistic scaffolding upholding the assumptions we bring to the act of reading and writing. We speak about her most recent exhibition, blackness, whole-ness, the power of language, and the power of cultural unions.

Nura Ali is a visual artist, writer and curator, living and working in Calgary, Alberta. She received a BFA in Visual Art from Emily Carr University of Art and Design, a BA in English Literature, Art History and Italian from the University of Leicester and a BA in History from Goldsmiths College, University of London. Her work has been shown nationally and received numerous awards and grants; most recently from the Calgary Arts Development, the Rozsa Foundation and the Canada Council for the Arts. She is a founding members of the Vancouver Artists Labour Union; a unionised workers cooperative whose mission it is to transform labour practises in the arts sector and create fair, equitable and sustainable working conditions for artists and cultural workers.

https://www.instagram.com/nuranura1986/

http://www.stride.ab.ca/

Today on Bad at Sportscenter: Kelly Lloyd! Yes, that one. Kelly and Jesse sit down in the cupola at the Ox-Bow School of Art — mere hectometers from where they met almost a decade ago — to talk about practice (and practice talking), about the naming of the thing, about art education and parties. Kelly’s practice spans genre and form and most actively in this moment revolves around her research and its public instantiation, the (excellent) podcast This Thing We Call Art, for which she interviews artists about their livelihoods and labor. You can probably find it wherever you found this (including on WLPN).

http://www.k-lloyd.com

https://www.thisthingwecallart.com/

(photo credit: Cat Garcia)

Caitlind r.c. Brown & Wayne Garrett

Caitlind r.c. Brown & Wayne Garrett explore the interspace between seemingly polarized entities: light + dark, nature + culture, DIY + institutional, individual + collective. Based in Calgary/Mohkinstsis, the duo centres their practice in relational space, conceptualizing installations and interventions primarily for the public realm. Their projects beckon viewers with novel materials and participatory contexts, inviting strangers to share in collaborative viewership. Beautiful, subversive, playful, and radically inclusive, their works transform the everyday through a critical shift in perspective.

We talk through hibernation, place as space, the magic of light, a physical glitch art (the show image is an image of the work "Carbon Copy", 2022)and the magic that could be in post-social practice "New Genra Public Art." Oh, and Duncan tries to defend the Stampede.

https://incandescentcloud.com/

This is part of a series of conversations curated by Naomi Potter and the Esker Foundation in service of evolving a portrait of the future of Calgary’s contemporary art world.

It is an idea about investigating places though conversations with artists. As though, through a series of conversations with sensitive and emblematic makers we could come to a greater understanding of a context, not just artistic practices.

This week, a little nod to the Lore is Ness sector of our collective imaginary as John Rossi and Mac Akin join Jesse in a conversation about their practices, their lives at the Ox-Bow School of Art and Artist Residency in Saugatuck, MI and their intersects. Through a meandering exploration of the psychic and physical, we learn more about the folk horror legend of the Prickerman, the strange shibboleths of souphead and some of what it takes to make and maintain a community of openness and improvisation.

@shesnotachristian

@miwolf156

In this episode Duncan reaches out to Naomi Potter and the Esker Foundation to curate a series of conversations, in the hopes of evolving a portrait of the future of Calgary’s contemporary art world.

It is an idea about investigating places though conversations with artists. As though, through a series of conversations with sensitive and emblematic makers we could come to a greater understanding of a context, not just artistic practices.

It is kind of an experiment.

The Esker Foundation is Calgary’s and one of Canada’s premier contemporary art venues, and an incredibly unique Canadian investigation into alternative arts funding and philanthropic artistic support thanks to arts patron, Jim Hill. We did a show about it.

Here is a link...

https://badatsports.com/2019/episode-695-naomi-potter-and-the-esker-foundation/

This week Maryam Taghavi casts a spell over Brian and Duncan. Will they recover? We don't know. What we know is this... Taghavi plays and pulls codes at the edge of beauty and language. What about languages beyond languages? In her work she uses and recreates a language of the occult practices derived from Islamic mysticism. Her sigils promise to evoke real and active metaphysical powers. These forms become channels, lovely and beyond form itself – concept to volition, presence to absence. The works are a wish invoked. The conversation a wish fulfilled. Will Brian and Duncan ever be the same?

https://www.maryamtaghavi.com/

https://artadia.org/

The Bad at Sports crew is joined by Azadeh Gholizadeh. Her works explore the body, landscape, and the fragmentation of memory. Her works use weaving and needle work to generate and worry her images and objects. The works call to mind a powerful connection to place and dismantle that connection through a glitchy digital memory and build towards a reassembled experience. Azadeh Gholizadeh is a Chicago-based artist and educator, and a 2022 Artadia awardee.

https://www.azadehgholizadeh.com/

https://artadia.org/

Splitting her time between Spain and Chicago, Selva Aparicio is a research based interdisciplinary artist, whose work includes sculpture, installation and performance. On today’s episode of Bad at Sports Center, Jesse and Ryan speak with Selva following the announcement of her 2022 Artadia Award. We discuss the origins of her medical research, the ethical means by which she sources her materials, and the context of community and place in her practice.

https://www.selvaaparicio.com/

https://artadia.org/awards/

On today’s harrowing episode of Bad at Sports Center the we are back in the WLPN studio (and we brought our old mixing board bumbles with us)! Polish-born artist, Inga Danysz , and gallerist, Hayes Riley, join Jesse and Ryan to discuss Danysz’s solo exhibition In Ancient Rome at Good Weather . We discuss the materiality and ontology of Danysz’s sculptural sarcophagi, and our orientation to the physical and metaphysical space they delineate. We also accept the fact that puns have been and will continue to be a part of our process.

Everything Must Go, so let’s. Jeffrey Michael Austin — interdisciplinary artist and musician — joins Ryan Peter Miller and Jesse Something Malmed to talk about their reflective new exhibition at the Chicago Art Department. Hope in the dark, illusion, allusion, elusiveness, late capitalism, climate crisis, the collective, the needing-tending, the tenderness of a phrase like *help wanted* and enduring questions of scale and capacity guide our winding conversation. What else?

https://www.jeffreymichaelaustin.com/

https://chicagoartdepartment.org/

Bad at Sports welcomes Ashanté Kindle and Josie Love Roebuck from LatchKey Gallery and their exhibition "CROWN" at Expo Chicago 2022.

Working from a place of healing, "CROWN" explores and rejoices in the legacy of Black hair. The exhibition, named after the CROWN Act - a law that prohibits race-based hair discrimination which is the denial of employment and educational opportunities because of hair texture or protective hairstyles including braids, locs, twists or bantu knots - luxuriates in the scope, range, beauty, and legacy that is black hair.

https://www.latchkey-gallery.com/

https://www.latchkey-gallery.com/woks-by-ashant-kindle

https://www.latchkey-gallery.com/artist-josie-love-roebuck

This week the Midwest's greatest contemporary art podcast crew have what can only be described as an "encounter" with one of the Midwest's greatest living artists, Chis Larson! Hailing from St. Paul Minnesota, Larson's newest body of work started its life in Tennessee and slowly spun and wove its way to Engage Projects, Chicago. Taking up a former manufacturing space Larson asks that we consider our relationship to labor from the intimate to the global supply chain in a triumph of an exhibition. The Residue of Labor , April 8 - May 21, 2022

http://chrislarsonstudio.com/

https://www.engage-projects.com/

Gio Swaby is a Bahamian Toronto based visual artist whose work explores and celebrates Blackness and womanhood. Her elegant thread based portraits centres on Black joy as a radical act of resistance. Through love as liberation she explores pathways of healing and empowerment through conversation and observational drawing, allowing the strong and soft to coexist beautifully.
https://www.gioswaby.com/

https://www.claireoliver.com/artists/giovanna-swaby/

This week on Bad at Sports, Kera MacKenzie and Andrew Mausert-Mooney, the filmmakers behind Make A Distinction , join Jesse and the Block Museum’s Curator of Media Arts, Mike Metzger. Make A Distinction is an innovative, hybrid non-fiction feature that blends together strains of essayistic, observational and agitprop filmmaking into a blistering montage. Political in a capital P way, it’s urgent for most everyone, especially those of us in the so-called Chicago universe.

keramackenzie.com

https://www.andrewmausert-mooney.com/

Block Cinema

It's the first week in April and that means its time for EXPO Chicago . Brian chats with the fair's director Tony Karman about returning from the pandemic after two and a half years and how best to get into the art amid all the hubbub.

And for our second trick we bring in Kate Sierzputowski to chat EXPO programing, community engagement, and the Barely Fair!

Almost as jam packed as art weekend 2022!

This week Bad at Sports Center checks in with Chicago photo super hero Jessica Labatte and a coterie of Northern Illinois University students (Alex Dulski, Edwin Perez-Hernandez, and Emma Vitallo) as they work towards the construction of the world's largest paper snowflake .

Names Dropped:

Barbara Kasten

Ross Sawyers

Jessica Stockholder

Dan Peterman

Gaylen Gerber

Iowa

Guiness Book of World Records

Western Exhibitions

Today on Bad at Sports, special Guest Host Mel Cook joins Jesse for a lively conversation with Neal Vandenbergh. Neal has an alluring and excellent exhibition that calls itself Landscape with a Man Killed by a Snake at Mickey Gallery up through April 10th. We move through Neal’s practice, talk form, talk politics, talk process and laugh a bit.

https://www.mickey.online/

https://www.mickey.online/landscape-with-a-man-killed-by-a-snake

https://melcookart.com/home.html

https://www.instagram.com/wizard_neal/

Mark Bazer joins us to talk about the 12 years he has been doing The Interview Show live from the Hideout and on their broadcast partner WTTW. We talk about the interview and how best to knock it out of the park.

Selected Names Dropped:

Jeff Tweedy and Wilco

Scott Thompson

Shannon Stratton

YouTube

John Green

Fire Marshal

Hamza Walker

Walker Art Center

Jehra Patrick

Cargo Space

Chris Sperandio

ACRE Residency

The Poor Farm

Michelle Grabner

On this week’s Bad at SportsCenter we chatter about with Lan Tuazon . A Chicago-based sculptor, Tuazon discusses the culmination of her 10 year trilogy, Shift in the Order of Things , recently concluding at the Hyde Park Art Center . From Michael Reynolds' Earthship to Alfred Heineken's brick bottles , we unpeel a metaphorical onion to reveal the genius at the center of this epic series of "documentation sculpture". Also, Jesse dubs the nickname "Chi Chi" for this human settlement we call Chicago. Call in and let us know your thoughts.

This week’s Bad at SportsCenter guest is Chicago expat Aaron Delehanty, a painter/sculptor and “dioramacist” based in Rochester, NY. Taking from his experience at Chicago’s Field Museum and the Rochester Museum & Science Center , Delehanty’s Loud Cow Studio fabricates dioramas, replicas, models and murals. In addition to his most recent drawings and sculptures, we discuss the narrative of the natural world, name dropping Freidrich Heinrich Alexander Von Humboldt and Carl Akeley , and discuss some of Delehanty’s upcoming projects with Maria’s Packaged Goods and the state of Vermont .

This week Bad at Sports gets back to trying to figure out NFTs and our Meta future with the help of Richard Holland, esq., Michael Kellogg, and Jennifer Kellogg.

Welcome to the future humans.

Names Dropped:

Viridian House

Neal Stephenson

Ready Player One

Cars.com

Cornell

Bob Dylan

Warped Tour

Jam Productions

Foundation

Nifty Gateway

Makersplace

Open Sea

Decentraland

Meta

Mark Zuck

Second Life

David Antonio Cruz unpacks his work and process for Tom Sanford and Duncan MacKenzie at Art Basel Miami

with Monique Meloche . Then Dana B returns with all the T.

Names Dropped:

The Corner

The Center for Subtropical Affairs

Andrew Skate Shop

Rene Morales

Hair and Nails Gallery

Dracula Dorys and Eli

Manal Kara

My Name is Maryan

PAMM

Return to Miami continues with our second day at the NADA fair.

We rock the mic with Claudine Ise , Pedro Pedro , and Cash 4 .

Names dropped:

Goldfinch
Mari Eastman
Em Kettner
907 Crew
UFO
SMELLS
Stickymonger
Sickid
Trice
Lorenzo Lozini
The Deuce
Ryan Schneider
Rebecca Morgan
Ridley Howard
Holly Coulis
Sam Keller
Scott Ogden (SHRINE Gallery)
Rob Ober
David Antonio Cruz
Monique Meloche
and

THE BEMIS CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART!

On this week’s Jess(i)e-fest, Jessie Mott joins Jesse and non-Jess(i)e Ryan in the studio to talk about her upcoming exhibition at the Epiphany Center for the Arts , Like Queer Animals:We Hold Your Gaze , a collaboration with queer scholar Chanal Nadeau. We yak about the origins of Mott’s aberrant animals, in all of their forms, including paintings, publications and animations. Take a listen on the wild side.

On this pod's weekcast Iris Bernblum joins Brian and Ryan for an unadorned conversation about her current studio practice. Bernblum’s work explores an animalic kinship, navigating a longing for the unknowable natural world. The pair conjures a sensual environment by imbuing the space with scent, sound, and lush color. Her cross disciplinary practice includes watercolors, video and sculpture speaking to ideas around human desire to control and tame wild spaces.

Name Drops:

Also, we dropped the first NFT Bad at Sports has ever made, the first podcast on Foundation, and the first interview with both Kayvon Tehranian and Lindsay Howard. Maybe the only NFT we will ever make and it is hella meta (like not the facebook nonsense).

Drops at 11am CST on Friday November 19th, 2021. Good luck friends.

Foundation.app
Kayvon
Lindsay

This week Bad at Sports sees the return of two legends.

Tony Fitzpatrick joins us to talk about his last museum show ever "the Jesus of Western Avenue" at the Cleve Carney Museum. And if that weren't enough Richard Holland takes a break from his retirement to rejoin the show? We are also joined by Justin Witte, the curator and director of the Cleve Carney Museum!

https://www.theccma.org/

https://www.theccma.org/tony-fitzpatrick

https://tonyfitzpatrick.co/

Names Dropped...

Judy Ledgerwood

Michelle Grabner

Tony Tasset

Jim Dine

This week Jesse Malmed and Duncan MacKenzie catch up with Zach Cahill and try to understand what compels us about unicorns, death, flowers, and pentagrams as we celebrate and query the thinking behind "Unicorn Death Road Trip Buddy Movie."

https://zacharycahill.com/home.html

https://www.quimbys.com/

https://www.grahamcrackers.com/

https://www.firstaidcomics.com/

Names dropped...

https://invisible-exports.com/artists/philip-von-zweck/

https://graycenter.uchicago.edu/people/anthony-elms

https://arthistory.uchicago.edu/faculty/profiles/roelstraete

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/rosmarie-waldrop

https://www.amazon.com/Witches-Witch-Hunting-Women-Silvia-Federici/dp/1629635685

https://www.amazon.com/Heroine-1001-Faces-Maria-Tatar/dp/1631498819

https://www.amazon.com/Find-Your-Inner-Unicorn-Celebrating/dp/1645175219

This week Bad at Sports Center checks in from a very rainy Terrain Biennial at Overton Elementary. We catch up with Kristin McWharter about sports and cheerleading then carry the conversation to Lauren Leving and Michael Paul Lopez aka. Mike Lopez about an exhibition at Material. Certified fresh.

https://terrainexhibitions.org/

https://kristinmcwharter.com/

https://materialexhibitions.com/home.html

https://michaelplopez.com/home.html

https://www.mocacleveland.org/

https://www.artofcollectivecare.com/about

https://www.instagram.com/arthandlermag/?hl=en

Today on Bad at Sportscenter, Jesse and Ryan are joined by some of the stars that form the constellation that post-latin-loqui astroscholars are calling This Is What We Know So Far , an exhibition open now at Chicago Art Department: artists Liz McCarthy, Sara Condo, Leo Kaplan and curator Erin Nixon. Along with Chicago faves Mike Lopez and Ben Driggs, they’ve mounted a colorful and joutous show dealing with process, the new now and the messiness of the moment. The conversation is lovely and the show even lovelier.

This week we check in on Tiger Strikes Asteroid with curators Teresa Silva and Holly Cahill. we examine collective art action, the network, Mana contemporary art space, and the half 46 person group show "It Feels Like The First Time."

https://www.artsy.net/show/mana-contemporary-tiger-strikes-asteroid-it-feels-like-the-first-time?sort=partner_show_position

https://www.tigerstrikesasteroid.com/

This week we continue our summer of comic investigation with

Seitu Hayden. Chicago illustrator extraordinaire and long time indie comic supporter. We talk about his 50 years in the independent publishing spaces, black comics, and some of the bright lights that made the scene happen. Hayden's works were included in the MCA's Chicago Comics:1960 to Now and the book " It’s Life as I See it: Black Cartoonists in Chicago, 1940–1980."

http://www.saytoons.com/

#saytoons

https://www.lambiek.net/artists/h/hayden_seitu.htm

…meanwhile, in the least mysterious city on the planet (apparently Chicago), Duncan and Ryan panel with the overmodest Artist/Cartoonist Chris Ware and Chicago’s cultural historian emeritus Tim Samuelson about the storied origins of the Chicago comic scene. In this harrowing episode our protagonists discuss a triumvirate of collaborative projects: the Chicago Cultural Center’s, “Chicago: Where Comics Came to Life 1880-1960”, the forthcoming exhibit at Wrightwood 659 “Romanticism to Ruin: Two Lost Works of Sulliv

an and Wright”, and an eponymous interminable exhibition of Samuelson’s personal historical ephemera curated by Ware at the Chicago Cultural Center.

This week Bad @ Sports Center is winnowed down to skeleton crew, with Ryan Peter Miller chewing the fat with the ever vital Diana Guerrero-Maciá . Fresh from receiving a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts , Guerrero-Maciá discusses her studio practice which includes slow-craft processes in painting, textiles, drawing, print, and sculptural objects. With new work recently completed for two exhibitions, High Touch, at John Michael Kohler Art Center and Light Falls Fast at Traywick Contemporary , this is a hearty conversation.

This week Bad at Sports attempts to get to the bottom of whether foundation.app is a marketplace, a platform, or a cultural hall. Dana Bassett and Duncan MacKenzie are joined by Kayvon Tehranian, CEO and Lindsay Howard, Head of Community who are lighting our way towards how artists can get paid for their content while creating a new way to sell and consume art works, and just maybe, building a new internet in the meantime.

Duncan is trying to convince Lindsay to start a book club. If you're interested slide something into his DMs.

In what feels like a throwback episode Ryan and Duncan record IRL with Holly Holmes and Tom Burtonwood. We explore the legacy of Sabina Ott, the future for the Terrain Biennial and its 2021 iteration, then we talk through what is going on in their studios and focus around their exploration of the NFT artwork space.

https://terrainexhibitions.org/

https://tomburtonwood.com/home.html

https://hollyholmes.xyz/home.html

This week on the B@S, Stella Brown and Nick Wylie join Jesse and Brian to talk about Buddy — the new artist-run shop/gallery/venue at the Chicago Cultural Center that features works and products by more than 220 artists — and Co-Prosperity Catskill — the new exhibition space in the Hudson Valley. These two new projects from the Public Media Institute , whose many many include WLPN, Lumpen Magazine, Lumpen TV and the Co-Prosperity space in Bridgeport, extend the ever-shifting and growing publicnesses that amplify, support and nurture so many artists and thinkers in our city. We talk about the realms of the possible, the concept of the public and end up making an ad (-vertisement and -vocacy) for Chicago in many acts.

On today’s episode Dana and Ryan join painter Christina Quarles [in person!] to discuss her eponymous exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. We talk painting (of course), and discuss pandemic cancellations and inspirations. We hope you enjoy the sound of face-to-face conversation and Christina’s giggles as much as we enjoyed recording them.

MCA

Christina Quarles

This week we can catch up with the preeminent American Art Critic, Ben Davis from Art Net and talk about NFTs and whether this really is the future the hype demands, or whether this is a long con grift.

Ben Davis - http://www.benadavis.com/

Art Net - https://news.artnet.com/

Nifty Gateway - https://niftygateway.com/

Foundation.App - https://foundation.app/

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This week we returned with Carrie Secrist and the Carrie Secrist Gallery (CSG.) A long time pillar of Chicago's south loop CSG began a significant shift and radically changed how they were doing exhibitions as the pandemic was just kicking off. We check in with the gallery's founder to learn about this adventure and how it has impacted gallery artists and informing the way the gallery will work. We also take a minute to celebrate an incredible milestone for a Chicago artist, as a hint her initials are DGM and weirdly so are our managing founders, although they are not the same human and only one of them has been recognized by the Guggenheim. WE COULD NOT BE MORE EXCITED FOR HER! WELL DONE DGM!

https://www.secristgallery.com/

On this harrowing episode of Bad at SportsCenter, we talk with photographer Stephanie Burke. Her ongoing series of photographs is a visual exploration of lost opportunities at Parks College. Founded in 1927 by Oliver “Lafe” Parks, Parks College was a nexus of aviation development throughout the 20th century. When the Parks College program was moved to SLU in 1997, the Cahokia Il campus was left empty, and has subsequently gone to ruin.

https://stephaniedawnburke.com/home.html

Image c/o the Renaissance Society of Haig Aivazian's "All of the Lights"

In a wide ranging discussion with Haig Aivazian we start with the exhibition at Chicago's Renaissance Society and we reach toward the history of fire, policing, data visualization, sports and art, and why artists should not be afraid of making propaganda!

https://renaissancesociety.org/exhibitions/539/haig-aivazian-all-of-the-lights/

https://haigaivazian.com/

On today’s episode of Bad at Sports Center, Dana and Duncan have the distinct pleasure of speaking with Naomi Beckwith, the current Museum of Contemporary Art Manilow Senior Curator and incoming Deputy Director and Jennifer and David Stockman Chief Curator of New York’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. We discuss Beckwith’s curatorial style, vision for her new position and and her recent work on the exhibition “Grief and Grievance : Art and Mourning in America,” originally conceived by the late Okwui Enwezor at the New Museum. All this and just a little bit of “T” to round out our latest. We hope you enjoy it, friend.

https://www.newmuseum.org/

https://mcachicago.org/

https://www.guggenheim.org/

https://hyperallergic.com/605116/architects-ask-moma-to-remove-philip-johnsons-name-citing-racist-legacy/

This week Dana and Jesse are joined "in the studio" by Chicago's native sun and brilliant author, Mairead Case. Case joins us on the show to discuss her latest novel, Tiny , and a slew of other topics ranging from grief to the dance floor and how those two are not as far apart as you might think.

You can find more information about Mairead and Tiny at the following websites: www.featherproof.com/catalog/tiny-mairead-case

& www.maireadcase.com

This week Bad at Sports Center welcomes Nicole Marroquin participant in the DePaul Art Museum exhibition LatinXAmerican and Faculty at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Marroquin's practice ranges from social justice to community organizing to educating public school teachers to archiving microhistories and the work of the photographer Diana Solís. Ryan and Duncan trace her practice through a ruckus and bouncy chat that eventually finds its root in Marroquin's history as a printer and ceramicist.

https://www.nicolemarroquin.com/

https://resources.depaul.edu/art-museum/exhibitions/latinx-american/Pages/default.aspx

This week Dana & Brian zoom down to Puerto Rico to continue the series of interviews with artists from LatinXAmerican at the DePaul Art Museum. Ramón Miranda Beltrán shares his insights into adapting a practice to exhibition during COVID-19 and waves of colonialism in the Caribbean.

https://resources.depaul.edu/art-museum/exhibitions/latinx-american/Pages/default.aspx

https://mirandabeltran.com/

We are back. The audio team needed a little time to recover from a blisteringly hard 2020 but here we kicking it off strong! Hello 2021!

This episode kicks off a miniseries of artist interviews from LatinXAmerican at the DePaul Art Museum. Duncan and Brian chat with Caroline Kent about abstract painting, twin language, and refining an artistic practice during the pandemic.