Marc Fischer love his Sabbath
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This week Anthony Elms and Duncan talk to Marc Fischer about the Public Collectors project and other things.

Then Marc LeBlanc and Brian Andrews talk about how Marc is turning Japanese, he thinks he’s turning Japanese, he really thinks so…

The intro discusses how Philip von Zweck is a thug.

Anthony, please, dear God, talk in to the mic, seriously.

The following blurbs were shamelessly stolen from PVZ’s site:

Marc Fischer is 1/3 of the group Temporary Services, 1/11th of Mess Hall- an experimental cultural center in Roger’s Park (where he co-organizes the Hardcore Histories series), and an artist who curated the prison-themed exhibition “Captive Audience” at Gallery 400 earlier this year. In addition to believing that vinyl remains the superior format for the appreciation of recorded music, Fischer still refuses to own a fucking cell phone.

Anthony Elms overcame his youth as just another punk in Michigan to become the assistant director of Gallery 400, the editor of WhiteWalls, and a writer whose works have appeared in like every freakin’ magazine ever (except Artforum, whatever), plus in some exhibition catalogs for stuff that didn’t happen at VONZWECK, but was still ok. He’s pimped himself out at times; and participated in some panel discussions, but I think the panel discussion is always a bad idea, always. Anthony agrees.

On Public Collectors:
VONZWECK- as an entity, doesn’t care about art. You know it, you always have. But VONZWECK likes administration, and… stuff. Especially other people’s stuff! So does Marc Fischer. He likes stuff so much he’s started a whole new initiative to get to see it, and, being the unselfish soul that he is, to share it.

It’s called Public Collectors and it is founded upon the concern that there are many types of cultural artifacts that public libraries, museums and other institutions and archives either do not collect or do not make freely accessible. Public Collectors asks people that have had the luxury to amass, organize, and inventory these materials, to help reverse this lack by making their collections public. It’s voluntary and it’s free. Not about selling, or buying and not restricted to art. It’s about getting to see something you might not have access to otherwise and exchanges of knowledge.

For this – the kickoff, the ribbon cutting, Marc will be sharing one of his collections: records. That’s right actual records, long players, vinyl, what have you. Many will be on display; many more will be brought to the space for listening on request.

But the idea isn’t just for you to see Marc’s stuff, it’s for you to share your collection(s) and view other peoples’. Other collections are online and many more will be added soon at www.publiccollectors.org.

Gene Siskel Film Center
Helvetica
Marc Fischer
Anthony Elms
Public Collectors Project
Philip von Zweck
Mess Hall
Harold Washington Public Library
Angelo
Bruno Richard
UBU
Jonestown Punch
Steve Lacy
Stephen Perkins/Subspace Archives
Maximum Rock ‘N’ Roll
Tim Yohannon
Magma
Cheetah Chrome Motherfuckers
Bern Porter
Negazione
Declino
The Jesus Lizard
Stoner Rock
Dan Graham
’68 Democratic Convention
Jean Genet
Allen Ginsberg
David Yow
John Miller
Walter Benjamin
University of Chicago
Carol Jackson
Shannon Stratton
Ota Memorial Museum of Art
Le Corbusier
Julia Barnes
Nakaochiai Gallery
Clint Taniguchi
Misako and Rosen Gallery
Will Rogan and Yuki Okumura
Triple Base Gallery
Magical Art Room
Shugo Arts and Gallery Koyanagi
Superflat
Kerry James Marshall

Direct download: Bad_at_Sports_Episode_108-Marc_Fischer.mp3

Christopher Hudgens