Art If...!

Yassi and Haddy discuss doing the provocation from Episode 12 with Samantha Bearman.  You can listen to the episode here: https://anchor.fm/artifpodcast/episodes/Episode-12-Art-If---I-have-the-microphone--With-stand-up-comic-Samantha-Bearman-eh4nnn

Provocation (#ArtIfPodcast):

Find an area where you are not represented and create the platform to provide a space to be seen and for others to see you and so you can showcase your art and creativity!

Samantha Bearman is an Empowerment Coach + Writing Expert. She has a master’s degree in behavior change from the University of Kentucky. She has been writing professionally in the private and non-profit sector for over a decade and is a contributing journalist for Syndrome Magazine as well as an accomplished stand up comedian.  She is a motivational maven and loves being a supportive coach who provides encouragement, due diligence, and accountability to her clients. She has also used comedy as a way to bring the community together for a cause, producing sold out comedy and variety shows that raised money for organizations including the Alzheimer's Association, Planned Parenthood and the American Heart Association. She now has her own bi-monthly room, Bear Cave Comedy in Santa Barbara.

Find Samantha online at:

www.samanthabearman.com 

www.instagram.com/sambearcomedy 

www.instagram.com/the.samantha.bearman 

Episode Summary: This week’s theme is Art and Romance! Yassi delves into the lost art of love letters and gives us tips on how to write our own mushy gushy letters, and Haddy explores the underbelly of romance through the Museum of Broken Relationships! Then they chat with spoken word poet Ed Mabrey about the power of the word to change the world around us, including how to explore the many loves of our lives.

Ed Mabrey is the only 4 time Individual World Poetry Slam Champion and the only 4 time Southern Fried Regional Poetry Slam Individual Champion. He tours the country professionally as a poet, comedian, and motivational speaker. A two-time InkSlam winner, multiple LEAF Slam Champion, an Emmy winner, Ed has been on Seasons 3, 5 and 6 of Verses and Flow (TV One), ABC, FOX, HBO All Def Digital, Write About Now Poetry and was a speaker at 2015 TEDx Dayton. He’s performed at over 100 colleges and universities around the country, teaching workshops and conducting seminars. On the comedy front, Ed has opened for DL Hughley, Ian Bagg, Rob Schneider, Roy Wood Jr., Charlie Murphy and many more. Ed is a two time finalist in The World Series Of Comedy, held in Las Vegas and he’s been the voice of companies ranging from the Ohio State Medical Center to Lexus.

Find Ed Online

https://artistecard.com/EdMabrey?fbclid=IwAR19oWHiYFg_uEOfQ7LLLvw3fu6lBEx-tTm2sBF-vFVxWRHypRJg1iBPjkQ

https://www.instagram.com/edmabrey/

Provocation (#artifpodcast) Once again we have TWO provocations this week! These artists are putting us to the test!

First: Say Yes! For one month to a year, say yes to everything that you can (that is safe and healthy for you to do) and see the world of opportunities open up before your eyes!

Second: find a group of friends and commit to renting a small space (as soon as the world opens up again!). With a space to call your own, see how your creativity can flourish!

BONUS Provocation: Make us an original provocation sound effect. Each week we will play a different sound effect from our listeners.

Mentioned in the Show:

Song of Solomon

10 Best Love Letters Ever Written

Simone de Beauvoir and Jean Paul Sartre

Strachey Love Letter algorithm 

Break-Up Vacation List

Museum of Broken Relationships

The Piano Lesson by August Wilson

The Shape of Things Neil LaBute

National Civil Rights Museum

Freedom Awards

Pablo Neruda

Provocation (#ArtIfPodcast):

Use your art form or your storytelling ability to try to create something that represents or speaks to marginalized, underrepresented, or unheard communities in your life. How can I create a piece or a project that represents this community or amplifies the voice of this community?  If you don’t consider yourself an artist, next time you pass someone, take a second, and dig a little bit deeper. Ask them a little bit more to get to know their story.

Link to Thai's episode: https://anchor.fm/artifpodcast/episodes/Episode-11-Art-if-its-legacy--you-existed--you-mattered--With-photographer-and-storyteller--Thai-Chu-egocc4

Thai Chu is an independent photographer and storyteller shooting from San Francisco, California. His work is an extension of his training in Social Psychology where he spent 8 years researching how thinking and behavior differ across cultures. He continues to reflect on humans as a function of their social environment as a photographer, contrasting modern society with unseen cultures and bringing awareness to the quiet lives of those without representation. He also pairs my passion for storytelling as the Founder of Listen for a Change, a 501(c)(3) storytelling event on topics of social justice.

Find Thai Chu online at:

www.alivebyshooting.com

https://www.facebook.com/alivebyshooting

https://www.facebook.com/thaichu/

https://www.instagram.com/thaimychu/

Starting this week, Art If…! Podcast will switch to a bi-weekly production schedule. We will post full length episodes with gallery and interview every other week. We will post minisode episodes where we discuss the provocations in the interim weeks. In other words, we will be posting alternating episodes: Full length episode one week, minisode the next, then repeat, so there is still something coming out for you to enjoy every week!

Episode Summary: This week’s theme is Art and Education. As the new school year starts off, Haddy and Yassi discuss the relationship between art and learning. Haddy invites you into the world of toy design and Yassi explores the history of children’s museums. Then they chat with Michaella Beatty, about the role of art in the learning process and art as self-care. Michealla issues 2 provocations that help you see yourself and the world around you a little more clearly.

Michaella Beatty is a current school counselor with a MS in Counseling and an EdS (educational specialist) degree. She uses art as a self care practice. Michaella taught painting classes for two years, and used artwork from this studio to transform canvas into wearable art. She makes upcycled canvas earrings, bags, bows, and even passport covers. Recently she has taken up urban sketching and watercolor landscapes. She enjoys the act of creating, as well as teaching people how to create for themselves.

Find Michaella Online:

Instagram: @michaellamade

Facebook: www.facebook.com/michaellamadeit.

Etsy: Michaella Made. etsy.com/shop/MichaellaMade.

Provocation (#artifpodcast):

#1: Create a target (one circle inside of another). Using pictures or words or whatever inspires you, fill the inside circle with things you can control, and the outer ring with things you cannot control. Let your creativity help you cope with whatever stresses are weighing on you right now!

#2 Urban Sketching: Grab your pens, pencil, or water colors, (or whatever medium makes the most sense for you!) and go out into the world (if it’s safe to do so!) and sketch the landscape you see before you, whether that’s the city, the park, your back yard. And if you can’t go out, don’t worry! Find a photograph you love and sketch away. Either way, sketch fast! See what you can come up with in 20 minutes. But also, feel free to stretch that time out. Let this urban sketch bring you joy!

Mentioned on the show:

Cas Holman

Rigamajig

Early Children’s Museums

Progressive Education Movement 

Please Touch Museum

Children’s Museum of Art, NYC

Moxi Museum 

International Museum of Children’s Art, Oslo

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Post Secret

Urban sketching

Wild Orchid

Today we talk about experience doing the provocation from Digital Performer and Artivist, Sahar Sajadieh.  

Listen to the original episode here: https://anchor.fm/artifpodcast/episodes/Episode-10-Art-ifyour-body-is-obsolete--With-digital-performance-and-media-artivist--Sahar-Sajadieh-eghmao

Provocation (#artifpodcast):

Soundscape of Our Daily Rituals:

1.  Think about 3 activities/rituals that you do every day or in a regular basis during the week (e.g. Brushing your teeth, walking, …).

2.  Pay attention to the following 5 Viewpoints* in each (daily/weekly/frequent) ritual:

-tempo

-duration

-repetition

-spatial relationship

-topography

*For more info about Viewpoints technique, see this webpage: https://dramatics.org/understanding-viewpoints/

3.  Experiment with each of the 5 viewpoints**—one by one—and push the limits of each:

-tempo (e.g. very fast, extreme slow-motion, alternative pace, …)

**Feel free to explore other physical and vocal viewpoints in the exercise as well.

EXTRA CHALLENGE #1:

4.  Record the sound of your ritual when doing this exercise. You can use an audio recorder of your choice (e.g. your phone’s voice recorder app, any field recorder, contact mic, …). You can place it anywhere you wish (on the table/object, in your pocket, in your hand, …). Record one or many soundtracks of each ritual. Make a folder and save all the audio files there. You can invite your friends, roommate, partner, and so on to do the exercise with you. You can also share your folders with one another, or with everyone who is doing this exercise using the Google Drive folder made for this exercise, and listen to the soundscape of each other’s daily rituals.

EXTRA CHALLENGE #2:

5.  Use Audacity or GarageBand (or any other sound editing software application) on your computer and compose a musical piece/audio artwork, using any of the soundtracks of your and/or others’ rituals. Your final composition can be of any length and structure that sounds good to you.

Sahar Sajadieh is an Iranian-Canadian digital performance & media artivist (artist/activist) and scholar. Her background is in Experimental Theater, Computer Science, and Performance Studies. Sahar has recently completed her PhD degree in Media Arts and Technology at UCSB. Sahar’s research lies at the intersection of interactive performance/media arts, human computer interaction (HCI), and performance/media theories. She designs and develops technologies that support emergent human rituals and interactions, and simultaneously study the human experience while interacting with various kinds of new media. She is interested in the application of digitally-mediated interactivity, immersive environments, and virtual and robotic embodiments in live performances (or public venues) as a means for storytelling, poetic expression, and socio-political intervention. Her research focuses on what constitutes liveness in live performances, and how it can be replicated with technology. Her works have been presented in many international digital arts symposia and human-computer interaction conferences, and theater and performance Studies and interdisciplinary studies conferences. In addition to her digital artwork and research, Sahar has also acted, directed, and worked as a dramaturg in several theatrical productions in New York City, Vancouver, and Santa Barbara.

http://www.saharsajadieh.com/

http://www.instagram.com/sahar.sajadieh

Episode 13: Art if... It's all in the DM's! With Jazz Pianist Bill Perry

Episode Summary: This week’s theme is Art and Improvisation. Despite the impulse to wing it, Haddy and Yassi looked up some cool improvisational art. Yassi talked about the practice of live painting and Haddy let inspiration guide her from improvised weapons to improvised architecture. Then they chat it up with jazz musician Bill Perry, Jr. who issued a provocation that encourages you to dig deep into a new activity.

Bill Perry, Jr. is an American musician born in Chicago, Illinois. Perry is a jazz pianist and music composer who lives in Oxford, MS. He has 3 albums, 2 of which are currently available on iTunes and other online music eStores: Beyond The Darkness (Bill Perry Trio), and Phantom (Bill Perry). He also has a hip-hop single called "Lovely" also available on iTunes under his rap name Bill Mysteryo.

Find Bill online at:

Bill Perry Website

Bill Perry Bandcamp

Mr. BM Bandcamp

Bill Perry’s YouTube Channel

Provocation (#artifpodcast): Try something new!  Dig into something that you’ve always wanted to do, but maybe has scared you a little bit. And give it a college try.  Not just once, but for two weeks minimum. You’ll be surprised at the new horizons you will reach.

Mentioned on the show:

Tucson Fringe Festival

Barely Free Baja Spectacular!

Live painting videos

Benjaminian aura

Flȃneur

Improvised Syrian Artillery 

Cuban DIY Engineers 

Ernesto Oroza 

Odyssey of the Mind

106 & Park

Digable Planets

Gang Starr

J Dilla 

DJ Premier 

Pete Rock

Herbie Hancock— Rockit

Mississippi Blues Trail

“Autumn Rhythm (Number 30)” by Jackson Pollock

Summary: The gallery question of the week is: how do art and vulnerability relate to each other?  Haddy answers by throwing knives and Yassi makes the art disappear.  Then Samantha Bearman keeps it real and makes us laugh from her car. As per usual, we end with a provocation, this week’s asks you to make a space for your own art and creativity.

Samantha Bearman is an Empowerment Coach + Writing Expert. She has a master’s degree in behavior change from the University of Kentucky. She has been writing professionally in the private and non-profit sector for over a decade and is a contributing journalist for Syndrome Magazine as well as an accomplished stand up comedian.  She is a motivational maven and loves being a supportive coach who provides encouragement, due diligence, and accountability to her clients. She has also used comedy as a way to bring the community together for a cause, producing sold out comedy and variety shows that raised money for organizations including the Alzheimer's Association, Planned Parenthood and the American Heart Association. She now has her own bi-monthly room, Bear Cave Comedy in Santa Barbara.

Find Samantha online at:

www.samanthabearman.com 

www.instagram.com/sambearcomedy 

www.instagram.com/the.samantha.bearman 

Provocation (#ArtIfPodcast):

Find an area where you are not represented and create the platform to provide a space to be seen and for others to see you and so you can showcase your art and creativity!

Mentioned in this episode:

Brené Brown

Wild Bill Hickok

Buffalo Bill

Pantalone’s Dagger

Commedia Dell'arte

The Gibsons

Yana Radionova and Jayde Hansen

Forged in Fire

Old Tucson Studios

Coney Island Circus Sideshow

Luella Gallagher

Medea

Banksy’s Shredded Painting

Scientific Center of Kuwait

Felix Gonzalez-Torres

Arizona MLK Day

Noah Copfer 

Chris D’Elia

Inspired by a collaborator’s play entitled, “Play For A Friend” Jasmine’s provocation challenged us to make art for the future generations. We were to ask a child in our life what kind of art they wanted to see and then make it. We were to offer it up for their feedback and take the feedback seriously and then remake the art.

In this minisode, Haddy and Yassi share their experiences embracing the playful and absurd suggestions that children make and taking them very seriously. Both art projects led to a wonderful and generous intergenerational exchange.

Jasmine Henri Jordan is a writer, performer, and teaching artist living in Chicago. She is an ensemble member at The Neo-Futurists, a company member at Playmakers Laboratory, and a founding member of Hot Kitchen Collective. She is a Florida State University School of Theatre alum. Her work is overwhelmingly about queerness, Blackness, pop culture, youth, and making messes

https://linktr.ee/live.laugh.blood

https://www.instagram.com/live.laugh.blood

Summary: In this week’s gallery, we gather our ideas and thoughts on “Art and Community,” from large-scale grassroots murals to how the aesthetics of a golf course can shape our collective experience. Then we commune with photographer and storyteller, Thai Chu. As always, we end with a provocation that asks you to dig deeper into the communities around you.

Thai Chu is an independent photographer and storyteller shooting from San Francisco, California. His work is an extension of his training in Social Psychology where he spent 8 years researching how thinking and behavior differ across cultures. He continues to reflect on humans as a function of their social environment as a photographer, contrasting modern society with unseen cultures and bringing awareness to the quiet lives of those without representation. He also pairs my passion for storytelling as the Founder of Listen for a Change, a 501(c)(3) storytelling event on topics of social justice.

Provocation (#ArtIfPodcast):

Use your art form or your storytelling ability to try to create something that represents or speaks to marginalized, underrepresented, or unheard communities in your life. How can I create a piece or a project that represents this community or amplifies the voice of this community?  If you don’t consider yourself an artist, next time you pass someone, take a second, and dig a little bit deeper. Ask them a little bit more to get to know their story.

Find Thai Chu online at:

www.alivebyshooting.com

https://www.facebook.com/alivebyshooting

https://www.facebook.com/thaichu/

https://www.instagram.com/thaimychu/

From the Episode:

Diego Rivera murals

The Thinker mural in Tucson, AZ

Wall of Respect

Broken Windows

Haight Ashbury

Clarion Alley Mural Project

Balmy Alley Mural District

Bentwood Golf Course

Inca Trail

Omepete (Nicaragua) 

Afghan Girl National Geographic Photo

Method Acting

Elijah McClain