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This week bad at sports presents a event on When Projects Depart presented at Hauser and Wirth by our partners BFAMFAPhD. Event 5: When Projects Depart   What practices might we develop to honor the departure of a project?  For example, where do materials go when they are no longer of use, value, or interest?   Millet Israeli and Lindsay Tunkl   Millet Israeli is a psychotherapist who focuses on t...

Happy Spring/ Purim/ Equinox! On this weeks vernal episode, Dana, Brian and co-guest, Jesse Malmed, are joined in the studio by Jacob Ciocci of Paper Rad and DePaul's School of Cinematic Arts, where he teaches animation. We discuss Ciocci's latest work for his upcoming screening, un-confusingly titled "April fools! Pain is just a Program made by your Mind: the video Program. New Videos made by you...

This week Ryan (and a conspicuously late Dana) are joined in the studio by painter Kevin Stuart. We discuss the endurance of painting as a genre and Stuart explains the inspiration for his work, which includes everything from anonymous drawings of people on public transit to Tolstoy's great work of Russian literature, "Anna K."  We also learn of the artist's secret pigmentary breakthrough, and som...

Today's episode of Bad@SportsCenter is a lovey one-on-one conversation with Brooklyn-based painter Jenn Dierdorf. A recovering conceptual sculptor, Dierdorf transitioned to painting a decade ago to reassert fun and frivolity into her studio life. We discuss all the things a vase of flowers can accomplish with the right amount of unction, and the power of solidarity among Dierdorf's well-anointed L...

This week bad at sports presents a panel on making and being presented at Hauser and Wirth by our partners BFAMFAPhD.   Event 3: Building Cooperatives   What if the organization of labor was integral to your project?   Members of Meerkat Filmmakers Collective and Friends of Light   Meerkat Media Collective is an artistic community that shares resources and skills to incubate individual and shared...

Interdisciplinary artist Brendan Fernandes speaks with Brian and Dana on this week's episode of Bad at Sports Center. Fernandes sheds light on the secretive process behind his selection to participate in this year's Whitney Biennial, and we learn more about artist's move recent move from NY to Chicago, where he serves as faculty in ART, THEORY, PRACTICE at Northwestern University. Brian learns som...

This week we present the Miami-based project Dimensions Variable with Frances Trombley and Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova and connect with two members of the brain trust for SWAB Fair, Carolina Diez-Cascon and Alvaro Gurrea. All thanks to NADA art fairs. Booth by Claire Ashley. Dimensions Varible SWAB Fair Claire Ashley

In this long awaited episode from Open Engagement 2016, we are mesmerized by Aaron Gach of the Center for Tactical Magic. Aaron illuminates us on power and the adoption of magical techniques by the NSA. Has NSA influence somehow made this episode post two years late? We can't say.  The Center for Tactical Magic engages in extensive research, development, and deployment of the pragmatic system know...

This week bad at sports presents a panel on making and being presented at Hauser and Wirth by our partners BFAMFAPhD. Event 2: Artist-Run Spaces How do artists create contexts for encounters with their projects that are aligned with their goals? Friday 2/1 from 6-8pm Linda Goode-Bryant, Heather Dewey-Hagborg, and Salome Asega Linda Goode-Bryant is the Founder and President of Active Citizen Projec...

The B@SC trifecta (Brian, Ryan & Dana) is back in full effect for today's episode with Kansas City based artist, Garry Noland. Fresh off the plane and in town for the opening of "Base Materials" at the Cleve Carney Gallery at the College of DuPage, Noland and our hosts discuss his solo exhibition, and the implication of "abutting" the divergent approaches apparent in his art making. Noland wisely...

This week batted sports presents a panel on making and being presented at Hauser and Wirth by our partners BFAMFAPhD. Step 1: Modes of Critique What modes of critique might foster racial equity in studio art classes at the college level? Friday 1/18 from 6-8pm Billie Lee and Anthony Romero of the Retooling Critique Working Group Respondent: Eloise Sherrid, filmmaker, The Room of Silence Modes of C...

In this throwback episode to Open Engagement 2016, Dana and Patricia take a walk with Cary Lin and Sarah Hotchkiss project Stairwells. Part curatorial platform, part experimental art practice, Stairwell's facilitates interactive experiences to challenge familiar understandings of place and create new opportunities to engage with the everyday. An ever-evolving project, Stairwell's fosters temporary...

On today's episode Brian & Dana take a deep dive into the world of Poncili Creacion, object makers and reality hackers from Puerto Rico. Artists, Pablo and Efrain, explain their new performance, The Beginning of Nothing, presented by The Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival's Neighborhood Tours and additional improvisational performances across the city. We discuss the limitations of thea...

Brian Belott and a casual drop in by Matthew Thurber? Hell yes. This episode almost has too much artist!  join us for this ruckus romp through Belott's painting practice, commitment to children's art, and improv performances. This interview recorded live at NADA Miami a little longer ago than Duncan would like to admit. Brian Belott Matthew Thurber NADA Art Fair Tom Sanford Amanda Browder Brian An...

Duncan catches up with two of the members of BFAMFAPhD for a chat about the upcoming event series, which for those of you in NYC starts friday with  MAKING & BEING.   Conversations about Art & Pedagogy co-presented by BFAMFAPhD & Pioneer Works, hosted by Hauser & Wirth,  with media partners Bad at Sports and Eyebeam.   image credit... BFAMFAPhD, Making and Being Card Game , print version, 2016-201...

  Tune in this years first Bad at Sports Center with artist Gregory Bae & Kyle Bellucci Johanson of Table Projects in Avondale. We discuss how Bae's experience of the movie Groundhog Day in Korea resulted in his new exhibition at Table, Black Hole or Love. We hear the foodie backstory behind Table Projects and rip the art right out of Bae's soul as he describes the semi-science behind his work. We...

Tune in for this MONSTER DROP of an episode from our recent stint at the Chicago Art Book Fair. Roving reporter, Dana B., does a loop around the booths, covering as many as possible and speaking with Libri Finti Clandestini, Chicago Artist Writers, Homie House Press, Paint & Polish, Temporary Services, Archives & Futures, Aay Preston-Myint of CABF, Genderfail, The Bettys, The Filipino American Art...

Chicago comic artist and animator Scott Roberts gets down with the universal question of what if Martin Kippenberger's art logic could be applied to comics. Aggie Toppins, professional graphic designer and amiteur mixologist contemplates the relationship between alcohol and philosophy while asking questions about the concept of client driven design. 

On this ultimate 2018 episode of Bad at Sports, the team finds themselves in the presence of Chicago legend, Suellen Rocca. Founding member of the Hairy Who, Rocca drops by the studio to illuminate Dana, Duncan, and Ryan on Chicago Art Institute's 50th anniversary survey, Hairy Who? 1966-1969 . Rocca also discusses her role as Curator and Director of Exhibitions at Elmhurst College, where she has...

Brook Hsu joins the Bad at Sports Crew this week to discuss her contemporaneous group exhibit at the University of Chicago's Renaissance Society, Let me Consider it from Here . Brian and Jesse lead the listeners on an aural tour of Hsu's paintings and the breadth of her multifaceted, autobiographical practice. It's real and fun and real fun.

In this episode Tom Sanford is pulled out of retirement to throw down with Canadian Art all star, Marcel Dzama. We trace his history, the challenges of Winnipeg, Raymond Pettibone, David Zwirner, the Royal Art Lodge, and how drawings should go on tablecloths in Hong Kong. Duncan swoons a little. It embarrassed everyone.  https://www.davidzwirner.com/artists/marcel-dzama https://www.davidzwirner.co...

Join Bad at Sports at the Chicago Art Book Fair! Starting our series is an interview with Fully Booked's Anthony Tino. We discuss Fully Booked's unique and fascinating approach to sourcing and distributing art books from the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia, and their work on the Dubai art book fair. Listen in & check out Fully Booked's current Kickstarter campaign for the 2019 edition of...

Susan Giles and  Jeff   Carter  meet Jesse and Brian for a warm conversation on a cold day. Giles and  Carter  constitute two-thirds (the third third being BAS friend Faheem Majeed) of a wonderful new show at the Chicago Cultural Center until January 6th. We talk IKEA, gesticulation and gesture, modernism, cultural erasure, scale, materials, architecture, tedium and more, more, more on this episod...

In this episode of Bad at Sports, Dana meets up with Nathaniel Mary Quinn at the Museum of Contemporary Photography to discuss the work on view in "Echoes: Reframing Collage", the companion exhibition to "The Many Hats of Ralph Arnold: Art, Identity & Politics", currently on view through Dec 21, 2018. Come for Quinn discussing his work ethic and personally philosophy on creativity, but stay for th...

This week, Ryan and Dana are pleased to welcome Milwaukee-ite Nathaniel Stern back to the show. We discuss his latest art historical publication,  Ecological Aesthetics: artful tactics for humans, nature, and politics.  Stern gives our hosts some insight into what he considers Ecological Aesthetics with examples and artists ranging from South African artist Doung Anwar Jahangeer, to the Overpass L...