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Bad at Sports Episode 826: Confluence Studio and Charlotte Street Foundation Dec 02, 2022

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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/

Bad at Sports Episode 825: Rita McKeough Nov 15, 2022

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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

Bad at Sports Episode 824: The Badlands Art Department - Jason de Haan and Miruna Dragan Nov 09, 2022

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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

Bad at Sports Episode 823: Kate Bowen, ACRE, and the Chicago Arts Census Nov 03, 2022

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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

Bad at Sports Episode 822: MdW Assembly and Public Space One Oct 27, 2022

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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

Bad at Sports Episode 821: Teresa Tam! Yokeless Press! Sep 27, 2022

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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

Bad at Sports Episode 820: Devin Balara and Bobby Gonzales Sep 24, 2022

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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/

Bad at Sports Episode 819: Tamara Lee-Anne Carrdinal Sep 20, 2022

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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/

Bad at Sports Episode 818: Public Works and The New Earth Sep 14, 2022

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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/

Bad at Sports Episode 817: Sans façon Sep 12, 2022

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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

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