Live from EXPO Chicago! Kalamazoo Institute of Art Chief Curator, Rahema C Barber and artist, writer, and curator Lola Ayisha Ogbara! We chat all things Michigan and just how Kalamazoo came to be a hot bed of Michigan art and thought. Then we check in with Chicago Local Lola Ayisha Ogbara talks about her work all over EXPO, Billboards, the South Side Community Art Center, St. Louis and Chicago, and the African Diaspora.   EXPO - Chicago https://www.expochicago.com/ Lola Ayisha Ogbara - https://lolaogbara.com/ Kalamazoo Institute of Art - https://kiarts.org/ Rehema C. Barber - https://wmich.edu/asia/rbarber South Side Community Art Center - https://www.sscartcenter.org/   Image Lola Ayisha Ogbara courtesy LVL3 - https://lvl3official.com/lola-ayisha-ogbara/ Bubblegum, Bubblegum, 2021, Ceramic stoneware, acrylic varnish, nylon, 30” x 18” x 20” & Hopscotch (A Safe Space to Land), 2022, Stained birch wood, concrete, black tourmaline. 36” x 36” x 8”

Bad at Sports Episode 850: Rahema C Barber and Lola Ayisha Ogbara

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This week Bad at Sports favorite art world wanderer, Nato Thompson. We chat through all of Nato’s current diversions such as independent curationg, building the 21st Century Museum and AI’s role in that work, the Alternative Art School and the value proposition of contemporary arts education, and Dreaming in Public. https://thealternativeartschool.net/  https://www.dreaminginpublic.com/

Bad at Sports Episode 869: Nato Thompson and the Alternative

Kate Sierzputowski for EXPO and the Barely Fair! Holy smokes the Art circus is in town. Time to get on board! WE HAVE ALL THE PREVIEW YOU NEED!    https://www.expochicago.com/visit  https://www.barelyfair.com/

Bad at Sports Episode 868: EXPO 2024

Compound Yellow's featured artist Gary Cannone dominates every part of the compound with his LA from Chicago brand of conceptual art. Fun name drops include Bernini and Maritizo Catalan. Tune in for the rest.   bio:   Gary Cannone (Guerino Giovanni Cannone) was born in 1964 to Italian immigrants working factory jobs in Chicago. He learned english from American 70s television and was obsessed with Norm Crosby, Carol Burnett, the Three Stooges, Mad Magazine, Wacky Packages, and the Marx Brothers. His grandfather (and namesake) was crushed to death by a pool table the day before Cannone’s eighth birthday in a warehouse accident.  He played in the early 80s leftist punk rock band The Leeches but, as his interest in performing music waned, he saw Vito Aconcci lecture and decided to become an artist. Cannone exhibited conceptual and often dadaistic art while headquartered from Chicago, Rome, and Los Angeles until he was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis in 2013. As the disease took a toll on his body, he took a hiatus but began to work again digitally using social media to distribute art and jokes. Interest in his communal project of parody album covers “Albums by Conceptual Artists” led to invitations to exhibit again. He began exploring the effects of his disease on his body and brain which led him back to the comedic tropes he loved so much as a youngster; adressing his disability through the lens of slapstick rather than advocacy.  Cannone’s recent work can be described as a decidedly reductive art executed with the deft skill of a prop comic. The resulting ensemble explores fragility, instability, urges, communication, humiliation, tension, torture, gravity, parody, dexterity, and death.    https://compoundyellow.com/  https://garycannone.studio/  

Bad at Sports 867: Gary Cannone

Live for WY! The return of art world mega force Sharon Louden and music empresario Vinson Valega! We talk Sustaining your Creative Life and the Institute for it! Always working to better your artistic life! Get your Art World hustle on. Asia Freeman/Bunnell Arts Center (Homer, AK): https://www.bunnellarts.org/ Andreana Donahue/Arts of Life (Chicago): https://artsoflife.org/about/ Ruby Lerner: www.rubylerner.com (AMAZING WEBSITE/RESOURCE) Ray Johnson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Johnson Evan Penny: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Penny Phil Ross: https://www.mycoworks.com/our-heritage and https://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2013/designandviolence/mycotecture-phil-ross/ Wyoming Initiative Partnership (WIP): https://www.uwyo.edu/as/wip.html is connected to the Neltje Center for Excellence in Creativity and the Arts: https://www.uwyo.edu/as/neltje-center/index.html Sheridan College: https://www.sheridan.edu/ Whitney Center for the Arts: https://www.sheridan.edu/academics/arts/ New Yorker/Lincoln Financial Sponsored Video: Watch [PAID POST] Sustaining Creativity for a Lifetime | The New Yorker New Yorker/Lincoln Financial Sponsored Article: https://www.newyorker.com/sponsored/story/sharon-louden-a-lifetime-of-championing-working-artists   https://www.vinsonvalega.com/   Living and Sustaining a Creative Life series of books     Twitter: @LoudenStudioInstagram: @SharonLouden www.sharonlouden.com  www.livesustain.org

Bad at Sports Episode 866: Sharon Louden and Vinson Valega!

 This week Dorothy Dubrule catches up with Dana Bassett and Duncan, about “Being Work” her new book of essays on the performer’s experience performing art. Essays written by effie bowen, Casey Brown, Dorothy Dubrule, Jessica Emmanuel, Paul Hamilton, Allie Hankins, Kestrel Farin Leah, and Mireya Lucio. Brilliant Illustrations by Eileen Wolf Echikson.  Dorothy Dubrule is a choreographer and performer based in Los Angeles. Her choreography is often made in collaboration with people who do not identify as dancers and has been performed in theaters as well as bars, clubs, galleries, sound stages and sports arenas. She has performed in the work of artists, choreographers and directors such as alexx shilling, Alison D'Amato, Lea Anderson, Melinda Ring, Milka Djordjevich, Narcissister, Tino Sehgal and Zoe Aja Moore. Dorothy received an MFA from UCLA's Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance and has been the director of Pieter Performance Space since 2017. Prior to moving to LA, she danced with DIY performance collective Club Lyfestile and comedy fly-girl crew Body Dreamz in Philadelphia. A board member of Grex, the West Coast Affiliate of the AK Rice Institute for the Study of Social Systems, Dorothy organizes workshops and writes about issues of social identity and power as they arise in art contexts. Following the publication of her essay, "What I'm Doing When I'm Selling Out," on SF MoMA's Open Space, she is currently working with 53rd State Press to edit a collection of writing by performers who have been contracted by visual arts institutions to work in live exhibitions. https://cargocollective.com/dorothydubrule https://insert.press/products/being-work  https://apnews.com/article/moma-marina-abramovic-nude-imponderabilia-b3443d3706d2a46bdd02b4f08895e1d5 https://eileenechikson.com/about Artwork by Eileen Wolf Echikson

Bad at Sports Episode 850: Rahema C Barber and Lola Ayisha Ogbara

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