The Napping Wizard Sessions

David Colosi in conversation with artist Charley Friedman on Friedman's sculpture and photography, his relationship with humor, and his influences -- ranging from Lenny Bruce to Brian Eno. The glue that binds Charley Friedman’s work is humor. The crux of his work is to explore the absurd, tragic, and contradictory nature of living. Themes in his work reflect his preoccupations with how individuals, nations, and cultures form and transmit ideas and values. Friedman has exhibited and performed at numerous galleries and institutions including MoMA/PS1, Omi International Art Center, Queens Museum, Gallery Diet, The Fabric Workshop, Volta NYC, Joslyn Museum, Jack Tilton Gallery, and Neues Kunstforum. He lives between Lincoln, Nebraska and Brooklyn with his wife, the artist, Nancy Friedemann. Together, they are co-directors of the exhibition space Fiendish Plots, located in Lincoln.

Release date: 2016 July 19

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Host David Colosi sits down with Amy Scholder to discuss her three decade history in the field of publishing, her iconic series High Risk, as well as her most recent project, Icon, an anthology of essays on public figures written by some of the industry's most provocative writers, edited by Scholder and released by The Feminist Press. Amy Scholder has been editing and publishing progressive and literary books for over twenty-five years. She has published the work of Sapphire, Karen Finley, June Jordan, Kate Bornstein, Kathy Acker, David Wojnarowicz, Dorothy Allison, Mary Gaitskill, Joni Mitchell, Justin Vivian Bond, and Paul B. Preciado, and many other award-winning authors. She serves on the Board of Trustees for Lambda Literary, and divides her time between New York and Los Angeles.

Release date: 2016 May 31

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David Colosi in conversation with Peter Shelton, discussing Shelton's sculpture practice. Shelton is an artist who has been populating the world with sculpture since the 1970s, with environmental scaled works, biomorphic forms, and anatomic parallaxes take the sculptural premise of occupying space to its perfect end. Manipulating scale, size, and space; architecture, anatomy, and engineering; inflation, verisimilitude, and poetry, his work engages the minds of our human bodies in a dialog between inside and outside, subject and object, and close encounters with the thingness of Art. A childhood passion for anatomy led him to a BA at Pomona College in California studying at first pre-med, then anthropology and theater, which became the foundations for his sculptural interests when he transitioned to earning trade certifications at Hobart School of Welding in Troy Ohio and an MFA at UCLA. Shelton has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, multiple NEA grants and a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant; he has shown nationally and internationally, primarily with L.A. Louver and Gallery Sperone (currently Sperone Westwater); his work is part of the collections of most Modern and Contemporary art museums in the United States and Europe among which include the Panza and Eli Broad Collection, the J. Paul Getty Museum, the LA County Museum, MoMA in New York and San Francisco, MoCA in Los Angeles, the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Walker Art Center; and he currently has four public commissions in the cites of Seattle, Indianapolis and Los Angeles, the last of which has been his home and base of operations since the mid-1970s.

Release date: 2016 March 11

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David Colosi brings his extraordinary collection of David Bowie tracks to the Clocktower studios and, with the moral and technical encouragement of Jake Nussbaum, spins nearly three hours of rare and surprisingly odd, even for Bowie, recordings. In this program you will hear: Volare (Absolute Beginners) And I Say To Myself (I Dig Everything) Please Mr. Gravedigger (David Bowie) Liza Jane (Gigantes De Pop) Man In The Middle (Rare Singles Vol. 2) Ragazzo Solo, Ragazza Sola (Alternative Biography) Heros – French (Changes Three Bowie) Laughing Gnome (Gigantes De Pop) Waiting For The Man (Unsurpassed Studio) Little Toy Soldier (Unsurpassed Studio) Don’t Let Me Down And Down (Indonesian Vocal Version) (Black Tie White Noise bonus) Little Wonder (Earthling) Segue: Ramona A. Stone, I Am With Name (Outside) Drive In Saturday (live) (Aladdin Sane, bonus) Here Comes The Night (Pin Ups) V2 Schneider (Heroes) Moonage Daydream (alternate take) (Man Who Sold The World bonus) John I’m Only Dancing Again (Changes Two Bowie and Young Americans bonus) Who Can I Be Now (Young Americans bonus) It’s Gonna Be Me (Young Americans bonus) God Only Knows (Tonight) A Lad In Vein/Zion (45rpm Japanese import single) Subterraneans (Low) If There Is Something (Tin Machine II) Pablo Picasso (Reality) All Saints (Low bonus) Move On (Lodger) (backwards) All The Young Dudes (Changes Three Bowie) I know It’s Going To Happen Some Day (Black Tie White Noise bonus DVD) Rock ‘N’ Roll Suicide (Ziggy Stardust) Red Money (Lodger) Sister Midnight (Reality Live) Under Pressure (a cappella, 1981) (Youtube) Rock ‘N’ Roll With Me (Diamond Dogs) Strangers When We Meet (Buddha of Suburbia and Outside) Here Today Gone Tomorrow (David Live reissue) Lazarus (Black Star) Janine (BBC Radio Session D.L.T. Show) (Space Oddity bonus)

Record date: 2016 January 15, Live broadcast

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David Colosi brings his extraordinary collection of David Bowie tracks to the Clocktower studios and, with the moral and technical encouragement of Jake Nussbaum, spins nearly three hours of rare and surprisingly odd, even for Bowie, recordings. In this program you will hear: Volare (Absolute Beginners) And I Say To Myself (I Dig Everything) Please Mr. Gravedigger (David Bowie) Liza Jane (Gigantes De Pop) Man In The Middle (Rare Singles Vol. 2) Ragazzo Solo, Ragazza Sola (Alternative Biography) Heros – French (Changes Three Bowie) Laughing Gnome (Gigantes De Pop) Waiting For The Man (Unsurpassed Studio) Little Toy Soldier (Unsurpassed Studio) Don’t Let Me Down And Down (Indonesian Vocal Version) (Black Tie White Noise bonus) Little Wonder (Earthling) Segue: Ramona A. Stone, I Am With Name (Outside) Drive In Saturday (live) (Aladdin Sane, bonus) Here Comes The Night (Pin Ups) V2 Schneider (Heroes) Moonage Daydream (alternate take) (Man Who Sold The World bonus) John I’m Only Dancing Again (Changes Two Bowie and Young Americans bonus) Who Can I Be Now (Young Americans bonus) It’s Gonna Be Me (Young Americans bonus) God Only Knows (Tonight) A Lad In Vein/Zion (45rpm Japanese import single) Subterraneans (Low) If There Is Something (Tin Machine II) Pablo Picasso (Reality) All Saints (Low bonus) Move On (Lodger) (backwards) All The Young Dudes (Changes Three Bowie) I know It’s Going To Happen Some Day (Black Tie White Noise bonus DVD) Rock ‘N’ Roll Suicide (Ziggy Stardust) Red Money (Lodger) Sister Midnight (Reality Live) Under Pressure (a cappella, 1981) (Youtube) Rock ‘N’ Roll With Me (Diamond Dogs) Strangers When We Meet (Buddha of Suburbia and Outside) Here Today Gone Tomorrow (David Live reissue) Lazarus (Black Star) Janine (BBC Radio Session D.L.T. Show) (Space Oddity bonus)

Record date: 2016 January 15, Live broadcast

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An electronic musician working in a variety of styles and founder and Creative Director of Network Awesome, an online TV Network, Jason Forrest also runs two record labels, Nightshifters (for club music) and Cock Rock Disco (for experimental sounds). It is obvious why host David Colosi calls Forrest a polymath. In this interview, Forrest talks in great detail about Network Awesome, describing it as longform media platform. It has a bright spectrum of content, carrying anything from documentaries to contemporary artists to Japanese cartoons to Vegan cooking shows. Forrest’s music is heavily sample based, intercut with hard drum and bass beats, classic rock and EDM influence, yet filtered through the perspective of an art student experimenting with art appropriation form. The artist remarks how this way of taking bits and pieces of culture and building works around them is fundamental in both his music and the structure of Network Awesome. Forrest’s sample-based music has been a pioneering force in the experimental music community since 1999. He has released records in the US, UK, EU, and Japan, has played on four continents, garnering him a large international audience along the way. In 2010, Forrest was asked to make the only official remix commissioned for Arcade Fire’s song No Cars Go for Merge Records 20 year anniversary remix compilation. The video War Photographer by Joel Thrussell was named video of the year by Res magazine 2006 and was included in the top 5 best music videos by Pitchfork media that year. It has been downloaded more than one million times (crazy, right?) The Steppin Off video directed by Jon Watts was also named video of the year by Res magazine, 2005.

Release date: 2015 November 16

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David Colosi in conversation with surrealist artist, Jen Ray, about her Deep Cuts solo exhibition at Albertz Benda Gallery in Chelsea, marking the homecoming of the previously Berlin-based Ray to her native United States. Ray's large-scale works are known for their surreal landscapes, where Amazonian women rule, militants move across dystopian fields, and uneasy spaces are occupied by rebels and provocateurs. Her art has been shown in museums and galleries in cities including New York, Berlin, and Paris. Deep Cuts is on view at Albertz Benda Gallery in Chelsea, October 8- November 7, 2015.

Release date: 2015 October 08

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