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Bad at Sports Episode 458: Spring Broken Jun 09, 2014

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This week: To explain the show this week, I will use an internal BAS e-mail:

From: Richard Holland [mailto:richard@beyondpropertiesrealty.com] Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2014 12:53 AM To: 'Duncan MacKenzie' Subject: This weeks "show"

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Dear Duncan,

In 458 weeks we have generated some good interviews, some bad interviews, some memorable, some forgettable, but this week is something new.

The audio you sent me, which I *think* was supposed to be an interview about the truly interesting End/Spring Break project with some combination of the artists Domingo Castillo, Patti Hernandez and/or Kathryn Marks along with BAS reporters Dana B. Brian A, and Patricia M, joining you for the fun, is, if presented as an interview, not an interview. What I have is the equivilant of sticking a tape recorder behind the bar on "free demerol night" and letting it roll.. It is more sound art than interview and is admittedly in moments damn funny. Have you seen "Party Monster"?

This is all a lead up to saying, "I'm not fucking editing this mess, I'm running it raw", which is a rare moment of prophetic skill, I predicted would be my reaction when we talked about it while recording the intro.

I can't make heads or tails of it all despite serious effort, and there are some funny and interesting moments, though I have cursed your name at great length and had to run out for extra voodoo doll pins, I will admit the audio is in line with the spirit of the project.

I will direct all negligent infliction of emotional distress inquiries to you at home once they flood the mailbox.

You take the good, you take the bad, you take them both and there you have; this hour of audio.

PS: If problems result I suggest we go with "Strategem #27 'Blame Dana B'" I've drawn up the papers and hired the cleaning crew.

Bad at Sports Episode 457: Cristobal Riestra and Michael Jon Jun 02, 2014

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This week: Dana B's (What's the T?) Mexcellent Adventure continues. She talks with Gallerists Cristobal Riestra (Galeria OMR) and Machael Jon (Michael Jon Gallery).

Bad at Sports Episode 456:Jacqueline Kiyomi Gordon May 26, 2014

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This week: BAS west coast checks in from the YBCA for a chat with Jacqueline Kiyomi Gordon.

Bad at Sports Episode 455: Prospect New Orleans with May 19, 2014

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This week: Live from our bed at Volta, the fine folks of Propsect New Orleans! We talk to Franklin Sirmans the Artistic Director of Prospect New Orleans(who moonlights as the Terri and Michael Smooke Department Head and Curator of Contemporary Art at Los Angeles County Museum of Art) and the Executive Director of Prospect New Orleand Brooke Davis Anderson!

Plugs from our intro include:

Karen Azarnia, her installation work "Luminous" will be up at Terrain (http://terrainexhibitions.tumblr.com/)May 4 – 28, 2014Reception: Sunday, May 4, 4 – 7pmTerrain Exhibitions704 Highland Ave. Oak Park, Illinois

http://www.yesyoureinheaven.com/

Opening May 22, 2014 at Rush and Chestnut Streets (50 E. Chestnutt)

Curated by Jeffly Molina

aaannnnd...

Jennifer Reeder's new movie, help out, kickstarter!!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/reeder/blood-below-the-skin

Bad at Sports Episode 454: Pulse-ishness with TM Sisters and Frank Webster May 12, 2014

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This week: Duncan and Brian in Miami! They talk to the TM Sisters and Frank Webster.

Frank Websterhttp://fwebster.com/TM Sistershttp://www.tmsisters.com/

Bad at Sports Episode 453: Art and Politics panel at CAA 2014 May 05, 2014

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This week: CAA 2014 was the place and time, the event the BAS Art and Politics panel!! Daniel Tucker leads the charge with Duncan, Susy Bielak and Mary Patten along for the wild ride! Learn what the point of CAA is, finally!

Bad at Sports Episode 452: Taylor McKimens Apr 28, 2014

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This week: Amanda talks to Taylor McKimens!!

Taylor McKimens was born in 1976 in Winterhaven, California and lives and works in New York. He studied at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA. McKimens has exhibited extensively and notably at Deitch Projects, NY, Macro Museum, Rome, The Hole, NY. Most recent exhibitions include: Studio d'Arte Raffaeli, When Things Get Back to Normal, Galerie Zürcher, Paris (solo 2011), New York Minute at The Garage Center, Moscow, curated by Kathy Grayson (2011), Spaghetti and Beachballs, curated by Donald Baechler, Studio d'Arte Raffaelli, Trento, Italy (2011) and Facemaker at Royal T, Los Angeles (2011). Taylor McKimens initiates us in the suburban desert of the contemporary American wild west, portrayed as an extended backyard calling to be explored. Drainage ditches, weather-worn palm trees, dusty trucks make up the playing field where young characters embark on brave endeavors in an almost Edward Hopper-esque solitude. McKimens is completely unperturbed by the messier side of things and in fact revels in the drips and oozes that are the traces of life. In one of the show's major works, Knee Deep, the bright, acidic-colored canvas shows a young, baseball-capped girl stymied in a ditch. McKimens creates a certain sense of no-time as if she has always been there and will always be there, contemplating her next move. Alternating between loose areas of color with atmospheric gesture and dense areas of confident line quality where even the slightest details, a fly on a shoe, a piece of trash in a puddle, are given equal stature on the canvas.

Bad at Sports Episode 451: Vince Dermody Apr 21, 2014

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This week: Giant of consciousness, living legend of mischief, artist, and all around great guy Vince Dermody, co-founder of Law Office.

April 23rd, 7:00pm, Apple Store on Michigan Avenue in Chicago. Come check us out!!

Bad at Sports Episode 450: Critical Practices Inc. Apr 14, 2014

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This week: Live from Volta 2014 Duncan, Amanda, and Richard talk to:

Saul Ostrow Founder and President David Goodman Secretary and Director of Projects and Programs Susan Bowman Treasurer and Director of Design and Communication

of Critical Practices!

MISSION

CPI, founded in 2010 and incorporated in 2012, was established to support the emergence and development of new practices within the field of cultural production. We believe that the producers of critical culture are a community whose needs for peer discourse and engagement are underserved by current institutional conventions. Operating outside of normative institutional and marketplace models, CPI uses the common objectives, goals, and concerns of a diverse community of producers as its point of departure for programming. Our intent is to create a dynamic network and platform for the diverse points of view necessary to shape and sustain critical, theoretical, and artistic practices.

HISTORY

CPI has an auspice genealogy. Former artist (now Critic and Curator) Saul Ostrow has occupied the loft space at 162 West 21 Street since 1974. When he first moved to Chelsea, he shared this space with Rick Witter who worked for the gallery OK Harris, and the photographer Larry Topper. In the 1970s during the winter months Sunday Salons were held at which participants would show films give slide presentations or talk on topics of interest, as well as drink tea and coffee, and mingle. Annually two Parties where held: one in the Fall, celebrating the beginning of the art season the other in late June marking its end. By the end of the 70s Topper, and Witter had moved out and the “Loft.” For a year or so, the artists Diane Mayo, Rex Lau, and John Wallace occupied it. In 1979, Saul Ostrow moved back into the Loft and through the 80s had a succession of roommates that included Jack Tilton, Donald Lipski, Muna Tseng, Eric Bass, Tseng Kwong Chi, and David Clarkson. Between 2003 – 05 it served as the studio of the painter Shirley Kaneda. In 2006, Ostrow moved back into the Loft. In 2011, a exhibition of works from the 1968-70 by the painter Don Dudley, was mounted for his 80th birthday party. With this event the 21ST.PROJECTS program was founded as a by-appointment-only project space.

Bad at Sports Episode 449: Susan Blackman Apr 07, 2014

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This week: Richard talks to Susan Blackman president of Art Advisory Ltd. about what it takes to be an art advisor, what they do and how they could sell your work!

http://www.artadvisoryltd.com/index.html

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