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Bad at Sports Episode 749: Alice Tippit and Alex Bradley Cohen Jul 26, 2020

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Today on Bad at Sports Center, Jesse and Dana are joined by special guest host, Alex Bradley Cohen, for an interview with painter Alice Tippit. We discuss the witty, poetic nature of Tippit's work, some of which is currently on view in the exhibition Pallid Carrier at Patron Gallery through August 29th.

More information on Pallid Carrier here.

Bad at Sports Episode 748: Stephanie Cristello and Ruslana Lichtzier Jul 22, 2020

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Today on the podcast, Brian and Jesse speak with Stephanie Cristello and Ruslana Lichtzier who are hosting the Chicago-based iteration of the vexillological contemporary art project Four Flags. Over the course of the next few months, dozens of Chicagoland artists are making flags that are being hoisted and hung from the façade of Chicago Manual Style—in the West Town / Ukrainian Village neighborhood—and on instagram at @fourflags.

Four Flags was founded by Julia Mullié and Nick Terra in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and was launched on April 15, 2020. Exhibited artists to date include Evelyn Taocheng Wang, Das Institut (Kerstin Brätsch & Adele Röder), Kasper Bosmans, Jennifer Tee, Willem de Rooij, Rodrigo Hernández, Maria Roosen, Anna-Sophie Berger, Dora Budor, and Lena Henke, among others. Bloemstraat 140B, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Chicago Manual Style and P.S. (Publishing Services) is a project space sited in a garage in Chicago, IL. Directed by Stephanie Cristello, the program is dedicated to exhibitions featuring established and emerging artists, and the production of critical writing. Positioned at the convergence of exhibitions and publications, each show results in the production and commission of essays and texts on contemporary art. Ruslana Lichtzier will be collaborating on curating this specific project.

https://www.chicagomanual.style/four-flags

Bad at Sports Episode 747: Sadie Woods Jul 12, 2020

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This week on Bad at Sports Center, Ryan and Dana are joined by Sadie Woods to talk about the recent re-release of her project, It Was a Rebellion Mixtape. Woods discusses her research process for this project and her personal evolution as a deejay and artist. We didn't have time to play a clip of It Was a Rebellion on the show, but you can download all three versions at this link: https://tinyurl.com/itwasarebellion. We hope you enjoy listening as much as we did. Learn more about Sadie's work on her website: http://www.sadiewoods.com/

Bad at Sports Episode 746: Ellen Placey Wadey Jul 06, 2020

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Tune in to this week's Bad at Sports Center for a conversation with Ellen Placey Wadey, the Arts & Collections Senior Program Officer at the Gaylord & Dorothy Donnelley Foundation. We discuss equity and accessibility in foundation applications and find out how the Foundation is approaching the shifting needs of small arts organizations right now. Learn more about the Gaylord & Dorothy Donnelley Foundation at https://gddf.org/ and read the Vu Le article we mention in the interview here.

Episode 745: Brian Andrews returns as Guest? Jun 29, 2020

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This week all we ask ourselves what is Brian doing well not at the radio station. Turns out he's having a baller film career in the AR/VR/XR arena and his latest work premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. As it expands its international festival run, we try and understand the world of the "Hominidae" - http://hominidanimation.net/

Juxapose magazine called an earlier iteration of the work "CREEP LEVEL OMEGA." Hold on to your hat.

Bad at Sports Episode 744: Deborah Stratman Jun 25, 2020

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This week on Bad at Sports Center: Dana and Jesse speak with Deborah Stratman about the filmmaker's now-postponed Chicago Works exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art. We hear Stratman's take on the issues inherent in screening work in a contemporary art museum and learn about her work on endlessly fascinating Chicago journalist Studs Terkel.

https://mcachicago.org/Exhibitions/2020/Chicago-Works-Deborah-Stratman

http://www.pythagorasfilm.com/

Bad at Sports Episode 743: Chris Reeves and Aaron Walker Jun 22, 2020

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For this weeks episode of Bad at Sports Center we've finally transitioned into are virtual studio and are elated to be joined by the editors of The World's Worst: A Guide to the Portsmouth Sinfonia, Chris Reeves and Aaron Walker. Our guests provide Ryan and Dana with some background into the pioneering experimental orchestra, and we discuss their comprehensive compilation of interviews, new essays, historical documents and images. Tune in to hear all this and so much more (including, of course, Weird Al) on this episode of B@SC.

More information about the The World's Worst: A Guide to the Portsmouth Sinfonia can be found at http://soberscove.com/book/the-worlds-worst/.

Bad at Sports Episode 742: Heather Mekkelson Jun 18, 2020

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This week we Bad at Sport Center returns as we Kick begin experimenting with virtual recording. No one's back in our regular studio so we are reaching out to friends and artists we admire to talk about their exhibitions and events that have existed in the vacuum created by Covid 19.

Heather Mekkelson, long time bright light and unique sculptural voice had an exhibition which is functionally still up at 65 Grand disrupted by the Chicago lockdowns related to the pandemic. We chat through and try to open up her whimsical and profound investigations.

http://heathermekkelson.com/wordpress1/

http://www.65grand.com/

Bad at Sports Episode 741: Indoor Recess The first HPAC Artist Run Chicago Jun 14, 2020

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Our Indoor Recess series concludes with a leap back a decade to the original Artists Run Chicago episode featuring Britton Bertran and Allison Peters Quinn.

Woo Hoo!

https://www.hydeparkart.org/exhibition-archive/artists-run-chicago/

Bad at Sports Episode 740: Indoor Recess Allison Agsten Jun 10, 2020

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On this episode of our Indoor Recess series we check back into a boozie 2017 with an interview we recorded the end of our first all day takeover at WLPN as part of Open Engagement in Chicago with long time friend of the show, Allison Agsten.

It was a moment where anything seemed possible and we were excited by the road ahead. Many things (like the pandemic) have changed for us, for Allison, for Chicago and LA since then but in the context of this interview the most notable change is the closure of Allison's project, the Main Museum. Which closed its doors in 2018 but the thing that drew us back to this moment was, everyone on mic was inspired and excited. Not everything had gone right and mistakes had been made all through the day but we were trying and we could all see new possibilities in a shared future.

Stay safe friends, we will get somewhere better together.

https://news.artnet.com/market/what-happened-at-the-main-1564471 http://openengagement.info/chicago-2017/ http://lumpenradio.com/ http://www.blackartmatters.net/

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