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Bad at Sports Episode 816: Selina Trepp Sep 07, 2022

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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

Bad at Sports Episode 815: asmaa al-issa Sep 05, 2022

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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.

Bad at Sports Episode 814: Leslie Baum Aug 31, 2022

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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

Bad at Sports Episode 813: Diane Christiansen Aug 24, 2022

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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.

Bad at Sports Episode 812: Nura Ali Aug 22, 2022

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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/

Bad at Sports Episode 811: Kelly Lloyd Aug 19, 2022

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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)

Bad at Sports Episode 810: Caitlind r.c. Brown & Wayne Garrett Aug 15, 2022

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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.

Bad at Sports Episode 809: Ox-Bow Dreams with John Rossi and Mac Akin Aug 11, 2022

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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

Bad at Sports Episode 808: Naomi Potter and a Portrait of Calgary Aug 08, 2022

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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 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/

Bad at Sports Episode 807: Laura Letinsky Jul 20, 2022

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Is it ever possible to escape the language that contains us? Or find joy while subverting myths? Laura Letinsky breaks down her practice in photography and ceramics with Ryan and Brian on this week's Bad at Sports.

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