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Bad at Sports Episode 856: Pasakorn Intoo-Marn and Sorayut Aiemueayut Oct 20, 2023

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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/

Bad at Sports Episode 855: Jody Wood Oct 17, 2023

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

Bad at Sports Episode: 854 Chicago Abortion Fund and the Heyl Brothers Oct 02, 2023

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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.

Bad at Sports Episode 853: Devin T. Mays Sep 07, 2023

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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/

Bad at Sports Episode 852: Farah Salem, Regina Agu, and A Very Serious Gallery Aug 30, 2023

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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/

Bad at Sports Episode 851: Kevin Demery Aug 28, 2023

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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/

Bad at Sports Episode 850: Rahema C Barber and Lola Ayisha Ogbara Jul 19, 2023

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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"

Bad at Sports Episode 849: Robert Raphael Jul 12, 2023

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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/

Bad at Sports Episode 848: Robin Kang Jul 07, 2023

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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/

Bad at Sports Episode 847: Barely Fair - Minor Matters Part 2 Jun 28, 2023

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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/