Bad at Sports

The five year behemoth is upon us! Episode 260 kicks off with a discussion with Mary Jane Jacob and Michelle Grabner about the artist and studio. Then we turn the camera on ourselves and have a discussion about where we are and where we are headed, if anywhere. Thanks for listening! It has been a great five years!   P.S. Cauleen S. you are a sad, sad, petty whiner. Grow the hell up.  

This week: Tom and Amanda talk to NYC based painters Aaron Johnson and Ryan Schneider. BAS sends mucho congratulations to the MacKenzie family.

This week: We talk to Artist Nathan Carter who has a work in the current MCA Exhibition “Alexander Calder and Contemporary Art: Form, Balance, Joy”about his work, the youth perspective, and the secret trasmissions of numbers stations. Here is a slightly outdated bio I lifted: Nathan Carter’s wall reliefs, sculptures, collages, and hanging objects are inspired by myriad aspects of contemporary soci...

This week: Something for everyone! Lori Waxman and Duncan do reviews. Terri and Joanna review "The Ask" by Sam Lipsyte. Duncan and Richard talk with Michael Perry the Marketing & Programming Project Coordinator for the Chicago Loop Alliance about Art Loop Open among loads of other things. The outro is a rare piece of unedited, pure, unadulterated Duncan. Stick around for it.

This week: Brian and Patricia sit down with Andrew McKinley, proprietor of Adobe Books Backroom Gallery, and Devon Bella, the gallery's current director. They discuss Adobe Books' seminal place in the San Francisco art community, the Mission School, the gallery's recent renovation, and the ominous installation in the window proclaiming "Everything Must Go!"

This week: Philip von Zweck (Bad mofo, artist, and storied, long running host of Something Else on WLUW) and Simon Anderson ( Associate Professor Department of Art History, Theory + Criticismm SAIC) interview a living legend, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge. Breyer P-Orridge was in town for an exhibition S/he is having at Western Exhibitions.   Genesis P-Orridge and performance artist Lady Jaye Breyer be...

This week: Our Open Engagement series draws to a close with an interview with conference organizers Jen Delos Reyes and Harrell Fletcher.  

This week: We talk with artist and visionary Nils Norman. Nils Norman was born in Kent, England in 1966. He studied fine Art Painting BA Hons at St. Martins School of Art in London. After graduating in 1989 he moved to Cologne, Germany. There he lived for three years and collaborated with the artists Stephan Dillemuth and Josef Strau at their experimental storefront project Friesenwall 120, during...

As part of the ongoing collaboration between Bad At Sports and Art Practical , as well as the summer series exploring social practice, this week Brian Andrews and Patricia Maloney sit down with Natasha Wheat as she prepares for her upcoming exhibition and temporary restaurant “Self Contained , ” which opens at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago on July 13.     Currently based in San Francisco...

This week: We talk to artist Mark Dion, about social practice, the Museum of Jurassic Technology, cabinets of curiosity. The word "taxonomy" is bandied about at great length. Mark Dion was born in 1961 in Massachusetts; he lives and works in Pennsylvania. Dion is known for making art out of fieldwork, incorporating elements of biology, archaeology, ethnography, and the history of science, and appl...

This week: Holy bicenquinquagenary Batman! Brian and Duncan (and guest stars including but not limited to Randall Szott) talk to Creative Time chief curator, author, and all around interesting guest Nato Thompson. This show is the second in the series of interviews recorded at the Open Engagement conference at which Mr. Thompson was a guest. This series already charts among some of my favorites in...

This week: The first in our series of interviews from the Open Engagement conference that took place in Portland this past May. We start off with an excellent discussion that Randall Szott, Duncan, Brian and the occasional Incubate person had with artist, writer, lemon tormentor Ted Purves. Topics include; Ted's work, the past present and future of Social Practice and what it means to be an artist...

This week: Brian Andrews and Duncan MacKenzie check in with Judith Leeman and Shannon Stratton while visiting Portland, Oregon and discuss their most recent curatorial endeavor the "Gestures of Resistance" exhibition at Portland's Museum of Contemporary Craft.  We talk about problematizing the standard static exhibition, how a viewer can access a dynamic and evolving show, what an object be "loade...

This week: The third in the lecture series that was in conjunction with the Bad at Sports organized exhibition "Don't Piss on Me and Tell Me it's Raining". Tom and Amanda talk to Bridget Elmer and Emily Larned of Impractical Labor in Service of the Speculative Arts. Founded by two letterpress printers, Impractical Labor in Service of the Speculative Arts (ILSSA). ILSSA is a membership organization...

This week, Duncan, Amanda and Tom talk to artist Steven Rand, who is the founder and Executive Director of apexart in New York. If you are in or around NYC this is the last week of "Don't Piss On Me and Tell Me It's Raining" the Bad at Sports organized show, go check it out while you still can!

This week: Painters/Painting (aka "The Painters of Painting") recorded at apexart in late April as a part of the BAS organized exhibition which runs through May 22.   Painter and Bad @ Sports NYC correspondent, Tom Sanford will moderate a panel of 5 other painters who will talk about painting. Kamrooz Aram, Holly Coulis, David Humphrey, Dike Blair and Deborah Kass not only represent three or four...

This week: Duncan talks to artist/educator/agitator Nathaniel Stern. Nathaniel Stern (USA / South Africa, born 1977) is an experimental installation and video artist, net.artist, printmaker and writer. He has produced and collaborated on projects ranging from interactive and immersive environments, networked art and multimedia physical theater performances, to digital printing and collage, stone l...

This week Brian sits down with Eleanor Hanson and Oliver Wise, the Oakland-based founders of The Present Group, who describe the project as "like a mutual fund that produces art instead of profits."; A quarterly art subscription project, The Present Group enables a community of subscribers to create a new avenue of support for contemporary artists. They produce thought-provoking work in a variety...

This week: Richard and Duncan speak with Chicago based artist and 2010 Whitney Biennial participant Julia Fish about her work, Japanese architecture and more! Before that starts, there is a short pithy segment on C2E2, which was awesome (the show not our bit). Yes I made a stupid Front 242 musical joke which only I will find funny.

This week Jeffrey Deitch!!! Recorded before a live studio audience at the BAS apexart show with special help from Carlo McCormick. Carlo McCormick is a leading New York art writer and a champion of "the downtown scene". For almost decades Jeffrey Deitch has been perhaps the most important taste maker and facilitator of emerging contemporary art in New York City and the world. On the eve of Deitch'...

This week: HOLY CRAP OUR SHOW AT apexart OPENS!!! April 7th 6-8 p.m. http://www.apexart.org/exhibitions/badatsports.htm. Also this week: Duncan talks to Peter Otto! Peter Otto’s work reports on the constituent factors of a human condition continually shifting between beguiling and highly disturbing. He reveals the state to which humanity – ever tested by social, cultural and political forces – ben...

This week: Patricia sits down with artist Mads Lynnerup during his recent sojourn in San Francisco.   They talk about spotting Cyndi Lauper at the New Museum, precocious nerdy kids at the Guggenheim, navigating the ever-growing professionalization of the art world, everyday routines, and the merits of being a prankster. Mad Lynnerup was born in Copenhagen, Denmark and lives and works in Copenhagen...

This week: Duncan talks to Amy Franceschini. Amy Franceschini is an artist and educator whose work has at its core cross-disciplinary research with a focus on how humans impact the world we inhabit. Her work encourages new formats of exchange and production, many times in collaboration with other practitioners. These works often provide a playful entry point and tools for an audience to gain insig...

This week: Philip von Zweck talks to Andreas Fischer! Andreas Fischer is a Chicago-based painter and Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing at Illinois State University (Normal,IL). Over the past ten years, his work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in New York and Chicago, including a 12 × 12 solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. He received a BFA from th...

This week: Duncan talks to 2010 Whitney Biennial participant and decontructivist photography raconteur, Curtis Mann.   Send us your video questions for the art world!!!