Episode 829: Meg Duguid, Brandon Alvendia, Nick Wylie Post-MDW Local Organizer Rectangle Table Discussion
Wowow! Around an arts and crampy table in an anonymous but lively third space in the Southern Loop of Chicago, some of our top minds and movers convene to chat about past, present and futures of Chicago DIY/DIT artist-organizing. Jesse, Duncan and eventually Ryan — slouches in their own rights — lead by following a disparate flow. A champagne bottle to share with 300 people! Leave a masterpiece, take a masterpiece! Should everything become a library? These notions and more are offered up in a freewheeling conversation that’s not to be missed.
TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (1/26-2/1)
1. Hauntology: Ghostly Matters January 27-April 1, 2023 MARIANE IBRAHIM: 437 N Paulina St, Chicago, IL 60622 Work by: Okiki Akinfe, ruby onyinyechi amanze, M. Florine Démosthène, Miranda Forrester, Taiye Idahor, Shannon T. Lewis, Olukemi Lijadu, Temitayo Ogunbiyi....
Episode 828: Luftwerk
This week Brian and Duncan muse about color with design duo Luftwerk. The Chicago-based collaborative Petra Bachmaier & Sean Gallero entrance us into their series of sculptural light installations using botanical pigments and dynamic lights currently on view at the Chicago Cultural Center.
Episode 827: Wormfarm Institute and MdW
This week Bad at Sports catches up with Wisconsin’s pride, the Wormfarm Institute, with Jay Salinas. We learn more about a long running experiment in arts funding between the fine states of Wisconsin and Minneapolis. We learn about how sustainable agriculture and contemporary art have found an unusual marriage, and take a D-Tour. Then we open the door two adventure and the future of contemporary placemaking, and artist run endeavors with Nicholas Wylie and Brandon Alvendia, who speculate on the future of the MdW fair and the new infrastructure we have been building together to strengthen the future of Midwestern art making.
Episode 826: Confluence Studio and Charlotte Street Foundation
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!
Episode 825: Rita McKeough
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,
Episode 824: 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 center
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.
TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (1/19-1/25)
1. Yae Jee Min and Nereida Patricia: Gifted Wings January 20, 7-10PM Jude Gallery: 629 W Cermak Rd, Unit 240 2. Ceyó January 20, 5-8PM Chicago Artists Coalition: 2130 W Fulton St Work by Luis Rodríguez Rosario and Josué Esaú. Curated by John H. Guevara. ...
TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (1/12-1/19)
1. Reckless Rolodex January 13, 5-8PM Gallery 400: 400 S Peoria St Work by: Susan Anderson, Lilli Carré, Edie Fake, Max Guy, Barbra Kasten, Young Joon Kwak, Devin T. Mays, John Neff, Betsy Odom, Derrick Woods-Morrow, and Cherrie Yu. With performances by Atom-r, sky...
Sub-rural #22, Hubbard Street at Fifty
Twenty years before Mary Jane Jacob’s 1993 community interactive “Culture in Action” where Grennan & Sperandio collaborated with union confectioners to design and distribute the peoples’ chocolate bars, Susanne Lacy hosted prominent women leaders at the Jane...
Ingrid Fassbender, 1944 – 2022
Ingrid Fassbender was born in Reutlingen, Germany in 1944 and came to the U.S. with her parents and brother when she was eleven. She received a BA at the University of Illinois Chicago Navy Pier and later became certified as an Occupational Therapist which she...
TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (12/15-12/21)
1. Renee Robbins: Simple Pleasures and Silver Linings: An Unseen Universe December 16, 7-10PM salonlb:1010 W 35th St, Suite 500 2. Resist! A Visual History of Protest December 17, 5-9PM Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art: 2320 W Chicago Ave 3. Love...
TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (12/8-12/14)
1. Liz Flores: Ni De Aquí, Ni De Allá December 10, 12-6PM Vertical Gallery: 1016 N Western Ave 2. Andrea Jablonski: CHGOaf December 9, 5-9PM Oliva Gallery: 3816 W Armitage Ave 3. Madeleine Finley and Eleonore Zurawski: Ties Between December 9, 5-9PM...
Sub-rural # 21, Michiko Itatani
Michiko Itatani’s virtual post-mortem and subsequent rejuvenation of civilization’s master projects at Tadao Ando's resplendent Wrightwood 659 space has been extended through January, giving Chicagoans an opportunity to see a selection of her elaborate, sometimes...
TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (12/1-12/7)
1. Lost Intimacies December 2, 6-9PM Adds Donna: 3252 W North Ave Work by Mel Cook, Shir Ende, J.Michael Ford, Erin Hayden, Jaclyn Mednicov, Chloe Munkenbeck, and zakkiyyah najeebah dumas-o’neal. Curated by Pia Singh 2. Water Signs December 2, 6-9PM ACRE...
Funding Art Mountains: An Interview with Angela Bartholomew
Keeley Haftner: Thanks for taking the time to speak with me today! Let’s dive right in. As an art historian, your research has focused on the emerging history of institutional critique in the 1980s and 1990s in the “Low Countries” (the Netherlands and Belgium), but...