Episode 805: Maryam Taghavi
This week Maryam Taghavi casts a spell over Brian and Duncan. Will they recover? We don’t know. What we know is this… Taghavi plays and pulls codes at the edge of beauty and language. What about languages beyond languages?
In her work she uses and recreates a language of the occult practices derived from Islamic mysticism. Her sigils promise to evoke real and active metaphysical powers. These forms become channels, lovely and beyond form itself – concept to volition, presence to absence. The works are a wish invoked. The conversation a wish fulfilled. Will Brian and Duncan ever be the same?
TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (6/30-7/6)
1. OUTS July 1-August 19, 2022 Filter Photo: 1821 W Hubbard St Participating Artists: Alec Soth, Alex Prager, Alex Webb, Amy Elkins, Amy Stein, Andrea Modica, Andres Gonzalez, Barbara Diener, Birthe Piontek, Bob Thall, Brian Ulrich, Bryan Schutmaat, Carlos Javier...
Episode 804: Azadeh Gholizadeh
The Bad at Sports crew is joined by Azadeh Gholizadeh. Her works explore the body, landscape, and the fragmentation of memory. Her works use weaving and needle work to generate and worry her images and objects. The works call to mind a powerful connection to place and dismantle that connection through a glitchy digital memory and build towards a reassembled experience. Azadeh Gholizadeh is a Chicago-based artist and educator, and a 2022 Artadia awardee.
Episode 803: Selva Aparico
Splitting her time between Spain and Chicago, Selva Aparicio is a research based interdisciplinary artist, whose work includes sculpture, installation and performance. On today’s episode of Bad at Sports Center, Jesse and Ryan speak with Selva following the announcement of her 2022 Artadia Award. We discuss the origins of her medical research, the ethical means by which she sources her materials, and the context of community and place in her practice.
Episode 802: Inga Danysz and Haynes Riley
On today’s harrowing episode of Bad at Sports Center we are back in the WLPN studio (and we brought our old mixing board bumbles with us)! Polish-born artist, Inga Danysz, and gallerist, Hayes Riley, join Jesse and Ryan to discuss Danysz’s solo exhibition In Ancient Rome at Good Weather. We discuss the materiality and ontology of Danysz’s sculptural sarcophagi, and our orientation to the physical and metaphysical space they delineate. We also accept the fact that puns have been and will continue to be a part of our process.
Episode 801: Jeffrey Michael Austin
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Everything Must Go, so let’s. Jeffrey Michael Austin — interdisciplinary artist and musician — joins Ryan Peter Miller and Jesse Something Malmed to talk about their reflective new exhibition at the Chicago Art Department. Hope in the dark, illusion, allusion, elusiveness, late capitalism, climate crisis, the collective, the needing-tending, the tenderness of a phrase like *help wanted* and enduring questions of scale and capacity guide our winding conversation. What else?
Episode 800: Ashanté Kindle and Josie Love Roebuck
Bad at Sports welcomes Ashanté Kindle and Josie Love Roebuck from LatchKey Gallery and their exhibition “CROWN” at Expo Chicago 2022.
Working from a place of healing, “CROWN” explores and rejoices in the legacy of Black hair. The exhibition, named after the CROWN Act – a law that prohibits race-based hair discrimination which is the denial of employment and educational opportunities because of hair texture or protective hairstyles including braids, locs, twists or bantu knots – luxuriates in the scope, range, beauty, and legacy that is black hair.
Bad at Art Forum #8: Not Retweeting Documenta Fifteen
I am not retweeting documenta fifteen. Instead, taking my cue from the approach of Palestinian collective The Question of Funding (QoF)’s response to the vandalism of the Eltiqua Group's exhibition space in WH22, I hope to leave the evidence in the room without doing...
TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (6/23-6/29)
1. Bonnie Lucas: Girl with Purse June 26, 3-6PM RUSCHWOMAN: 2100 S Marshall Blvd. Unit 105 2. Abigail Chang: Reflections of a Room June 24, 6-8PM Volume Gallery: 1709 W Chicago Ave 3. Laura Letinsky: The indignation of counting spiders June 24, 5-8PM DOCUMENT: 1709 W...
TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (6/9-6/15)
1. Jalen Hamilton: To Whom This Ground Belongs June 11, 6-9PM Blanc Gallery: 4445 S Martin Luther King Dr 2. John Henley and Nicholas Sullivan: Make Hay in the Sun June 11, 5-8PM HG: 2000 W Carroll Ave 3. Woomin Kim: Doo Jip Salim June 12, 12-4PM Goldfinch: 319 N...
Sub-rural #15, Marcia Goldenstein
Craft is wide open and bringing to bear new outcomes for vernacular traditions and their relationship to current art and popular culture. Some practices have leapfrogged into the middle of contemporaneity. Embroidery, for one, has livened up painting and mixed media...
TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (6/2-6/8)
1. SHENEQUA: Meh Familay – The Beginning June 4, 6-9PM Ignition project space: 3839 W Grand Ave 2. Cecilia Beaven: Seedling June 4, 4-7PM FLXST Contemporary: 2251 S Michigan Ave 3. (Ghosttown) Spirit Simulator June 3, 5-7PM Chicago Gamespace: 2418 W...
TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (5/26-6/1)
1. Nadav Assor & Tirtza Even : Chronicle of a Fall May 27, 5-8PM Gallery 400: 400 S Peoria St 2. Granite Palombo Amit: THE MOVEMENT FOR THE LIBERATION OF THE NARRATIVE – Exodus and the Divine Humor May 27, 5-8PM ARC Gallery: 1463 W Chicago Ave 3....
TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (5/19-5/25)
1. Terrain Vague: The Promised Land May 20, 7-11PM Heaven Gallery: 1550 N Milwaukee Ave Work by: Teresita Carson, Cydney M. Lewis 2. Zarouhie Abdalian: Interregna May 20, 4-6PM Haynes Court: 1160 W 31st St 3. Yaismel Alba Garib: smooth and painful May...
Bad at Art Forum #7: The Material Immaterial
The twentieth-century saw an influx of artworks and movements de-centring objecthood in pursuit of the immaterial, from the Modernist reduction of the traditional art object, to Conceptualist and Fluxist instructions for artworks, often created in the mind. It also...
TOP V. WEEKEND PICKS (5/12-5/18)
1. Jacqueline Surdell: Score! May 14, 2-5PM Devening Projects: 3039 W Carroll Ave 2. Hope Wang: before there was a hill there was a hole May 14, 6-9PM boundary: 2334 W 111th Pl 3. Gary LaPointe Jr: D O W N S H I F T May 14, 6-9PM Roman Susan: 1224 W...