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This week Dorothy Dubrule catches up with Dana Bassett and Duncan, about “Being Work” her new book of essays on the performer’s experience performing art. Essays written by effie bowen, Casey Brown, Dorothy Dubrule, Jessica Emmanuel, Paul Hamilton, Allie Hankins, Kestrel Farin Leah, and Mireya Lucio. Brilliant Illustrations by Eileen Wolf Echikson.

Dorothy Dubrule is a choreographer and performer based in Los Angeles. Her choreography is often made in collaboration with people who do not identify as dancers and has been performed in theaters as well as bars, clubs, galleries, sound stages and sports arenas. She has performed in the work of artists, choreographers and directors such as alexx shilling, Alison D'Amato, Lea Anderson, Melinda Ring, Milka Djordjevich, Narcissister, Tino Sehgal and Zoe Aja Moore. Dorothy received an MFA from UCLA's Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance and has been the director of Pieter Performance Space since 2017. Prior to moving to LA, she danced with DIY performance collective Club Lyfestile and comedy fly-girl crew Body Dreamz in Philadelphia. A board member of Grex, the West Coast Affiliate of the AK Rice Institute for the Study of Social Systems, Dorothy organizes workshops and writes about issues of social identity and power as they arise in art contexts. Following the publication of her essay, "What I'm Doing When I'm Selling Out," on SF MoMA's Open Space, she is currently working with 53rd State Press to edit a collection of writing by performers who have been contracted by visual arts institutions to work in live exhibitions.

https://cargocollective.com/dorothydubrule

https://insert.press/products/being-work

https://apnews.com/article/moma-marina-abramovic-nude-imponderabilia-b3443d3706d2a46bdd02b4f08895e1d5

https://eileenechikson.com/about

Artwork by Eileen Wolf Echikson

You are not what you own. Unless what we mean is art and we are guests in your house... Then you are exactly what you own. Dr. Cala Coat's joins us for a trip into learning and her new book "New Materialisms and Embodied Encounters in Education: Curiosity's Vital Potential." Part art education, part 18th century journey into embodied experience, part treatise on the nature of creative... This conversation is one more step in an exploration...

Chicago. Designer. Artist. And. Jazz fan. Norman Teague, joins us to touch on craft, music, Mies van der Rohr, bringing one’s cousins along. Come along us as we dance through a racialized modern, Martian Puryear, craft and art, and the affect of music. All while we investigate “A LOVE SUPREME” at the Elmhurst Art Museum.

Image... Install at Elmhurst Art Museum

Elmhurst Art Museum https://elmhurstartmuseum.org/

Norman Teague https://www.normanteaguedesignstudios.com/

John Coltrane https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Coltrane

Rose Camara https://www.rosecamara.com/

Chipstone Foundation https://www.chipstone.org/

Terra Foundation https://www.terraamericanart.org/

Art Design Chicago https://artdesignchicago.org/

Martian Puryear https://matthewmarks.com/artists/martin-puryear

Mies van der Rohe https://www.moma.org/artists/7166

This week Duncan continues the collaboration with Charlotte Street in Kansas City And talks displacement and replacement with Andrew Mcilvaine.

https://www.andrewmcilvaine.com/

https://charlottestreet.org/

Oh me oh my skate or die! This week Bad at Sports returns to Shred the Shed to find the crossover of skating and sculpture with Juan Angel Chavez.

https://juanangelchavez.com/

What is the role of humor in a time of war? Slinko talks about the philosophy of tragedy and comedy in our third episode from the Bemis Center. 

https://www.bemiscenter.org/

https://www.studioslinko.com/

The Bemis Center provides! This episode gets transhuman with filmmaker Marnie Ellen Hertzler through a path of discovery with robot jam bands, sinking islands, and debates on the value of sleep versus food. 

https://www.bemiscenter.org/

https://marnieellen.com/

Straight out of Omaha - In the first of several conversations with residents of the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, we get cosmogonal with multi-disciplinary artist Lee Hunter. Like Hunter's expansive Cosmogenesis project we cover almost all of the things contained within this universe, and it gets fervent y'all. 

https://www.bemiscenter.org/

http://www.leehunter.net/

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. 

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/

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/

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/

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”

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/

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/

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/

This week on Bad at Sports we’re presenting more panel discussions from Minor Matters, the programming arm of Barely Fair, a 1/12th scale art fair produced by Julius Caesar at Color Club this April! First up, CURATORIAL CONFINES: Scaled Selections Within and Outside Institutions moderated by Scott Campbell (Independent Curators International) with panelists Nolan Jimbo (Marjorie Susman Curatorial Fellow at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago), Adia Sykes (Independent Curator) and Kate Sierzputowski (Airlock, BARELY FAIR, Julius Caesar, EXPO CHICAGO) then, SCALE AS SUPPORT: The Architecture Behind BARELY FAIR Moderated by Roland Knowlden (Future Firm) with the Directors of the fair itself, Josh Dihle, Tony Lewis, Roland Miller, and Kate Sierzputowski. Finally, in a podcast *exclusive* (sorry terrestrial radio only listeners!), STARTING SMALL: A Look at the Beginning of a Collection, moderated by Roland Miller (BARELY FAIR, Julius Caesar) with panelists Courtney Sherrer, Josh Rogers, and Megan Green Rogers.

https://www.barelyfair.com/minormatters

https://www.juliuscaesarchicago.net/

https://curatorsintl.org/about/collaborators/21995-scott-vincent-campbell

https://mcachicago.org/about/who-we-are/people/nolan-jimbo

https://www.adiasykes.com/

http://katesierzputowski.com/

https://future-firm.org/

http://www.joshdihle.com/

https://www.blumandpoe.com/artists/tony_lewis

http://www.rolandwm.com/

https://colorclub.events/