20 shows! Wow! I think back to my initial conversations with Duncan in a bar downtown and I doubt we ever expected to get an audience as large as we now have (which has doubled in the last month), the number of great, brilliant people working with us around the world, and the wonderful feedback we have been getting, thanks to you all! We continue to look at Bad at Sports as an open resource, so let us know what you think. If you want to contribute (particularly if you are somewhere other than Chicago), let us know! We are here as a public resource. Thanks!
Also, curious minds are still waiting to hear a good explanation of why, without permission from the artist, UIC took the Death by Design piece down off of the Temporary Allegiance flag pole at Gallery 400. Someone please enlighten us.
Check out the cool pictures of us Duncan posted: https://badatsports.com/pages/about.htm
Lane Relyea purportedly thinks we are cool.
THIS WEEK:
We interview Mark Booth–artist, teacher, and curator of the forthcoming “an incomplete map of everything” festival at Links Hall.
Per the Links Hall press release: “An Incomplete Map of Everything” is a fragmentary atlas of an imaginary world. The festival is comprised of co-existing “landforms” of an experimental nature; the Goldsmith archipelago, the Bök atoll, the plateaus of Goulish, the Bervin Sea, the isthmus of Mallozzi, and the fjord of Ross. There are other topographical features as well, both familiar and unfamiliar; emerging glaciers, new volcanoes, and uncharted estuaries. If there is one thing these artists have in common apart from their shared commitment to experimentation and investigative exploration it is their interest in probing the minimal elements that form the materiality of human experience.”
Mark also talks about being mistaken for a spaceman.
Richard and Amanda apologize to Duncan for creating confusion over the name Middle Management.
Duncan and Amanda fight TO THE DEATH over whether or not it is acceptable to curate yourself into a show.
And, finally, Richard insists you bow down to the genius of Patti Smith’s first record!
Names dropped:
Tiny Hairs, Terri Kapsalis, Libby the cat, Christian Bök, Judd Morrissey, Relaxation Record, Jesse Seldess, Luc Tuymans, Leonie Weber, Ben Brown, Meg Nafziger, Jeff Kowalkowski, Michael Workman, NOVA, Lou Mallozzi,
Björn Ross
Ross, Fessenden, Institute of Failure, Trent Smith, Petrova, Jen Bervin, Lilli Carré, Erin Tikovitch, Tony Rosati, The 6 Ghosts of Fear, Ginger Krebs, Erin Moore, Kenneth Goldsmith, Ken Fandell, Matthew Goulish, Justin Cooper, Christopher Lavery, Daniel Borzutzky, CJ Mitchell, Goat Island, James Rondeau, Jimi Hendrix, Patti Smith, Open End Gallery, and last, but not least, Furries.
NEXT WEEK:
Barbara Koenen, fabulous overlord of the Chicago Artist Resource site, talks about how artists can make the most of what Chicago has to offer, and so much more.Direct download: Bad_at_Sports_Episode_20_Mark_Booth.mp3
- Episode 886: Scott Speh on 20 Years of Western Exhibitions & Chicago Art Scene Reflections - November 29, 2024
- Episode 885: Betsy Odom - November 26, 2024
- Episode 884: Pete and Jake Fagundo - November 12, 2024
I’m just a name from the past (and came across this site….)
Just wanted to send a hello to Mark.
If I said “pumpkins” and “Upper Moreland HS” – I think he’ll know..maybe.
Can you pass along my greeting!? Thanks!
I’m just a name from the past..
but came across this site and thought I’d send out a hello to Mark.
If I said “pumpkins,” “peaches,” or “Upper Moreland” – I think he’d know who ..maybe.
Can you pass along my greeting!? Thanks!
will do!