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    Bad At Sports is a weekly podcast about contemporary art. Founded in 2005, the series focuses on presenting the practices of artists, curators, critics, dealers, various other arts professionals through an online audio format.
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    Bad at Sports Episode 785: Miami Day 2 NADA

    Bad at Sports
    enDecember 05, 2021

    Bad at Sports Episode 782 Iris Bernblum

    Bad at Sports Episode 782 Iris Bernblum

    Iris Bernblum drawings

    On this pod's weekcast Iris Bernblum joins Brian and Ryan for an unadorned conversation about her current studio practice. Bernblum’s work explores an animalic kinship, navigating a longing for the unknowable natural world. The pair conjures a sensual environment by imbuing the space with scent, sound, and lush color. Her cross disciplinary practice includes watercolors, video and sculpture speaking to ideas around human desire to control and tame wild spaces.

    Name Drops:

    Also, we dropped the first NFT Bad at Sports has ever made, the first podcast on Foundation, and the first interview with both Kayvon Tehranian and Lindsay Howard. Maybe the only NFT we will ever make and it is hella meta (like not the facebook nonsense).

    Drops at 11am CST on Friday November 19th, 2021. Good luck friends.

    Foundation.app
    Kayvon
    Lindsay

     
    Bad at Sports
    enNovember 17, 2021

    Bad at Sports Episode 782: Tony Fitzpatrick

    Bad at Sports Episode 782: Tony Fitzpatrick
    Tony's murals in Glen Elen via New City Chicago
    This week Bad at Sports sees the return of two legends. 
     
    Tony Fitzpatrick joins us to talk about his last museum show ever "the Jesus of Western Avenue" at the Cleve Carney Museum. And if that weren't enough Richard Holland takes a break from his retirement to rejoin the show? We are also joined by Justin Witte, the curator and director of the Cleve Carney Museum!
     
     
    Names Dropped...
    Bad at Sports
    enNovember 11, 2021

    Bad at Sports Episode 781: Zach Cahill

    Bad at Sports
    enNovember 03, 2021

    Bad at Sports Episode 780: Terrain or Shine part 2

    Bad at Sports Episode 780: Terrain or Shine part 2
    Bad at Sportsers slinging merch
    This week Bad at Sports Center checks in from a very rainy Terrain Biennial at Overton Elementary. We catch up with Kristin McWharter about sports and cheerleading then carry the conversation to Lauren Leving and Michael Paul Lopez aka. Mike Lopez about an exhibition at Material. Certified fresh.
     
    Bad at Sports
    enOctober 27, 2021

    Bad at Sports Episode: 777 Chicago Art Department

    Bad at Sports Episode: 777 Chicago Art Department

    Today on Bad at Sportscenter, Jesse and Ryan are joined by some of the stars that form the constellation that post-latin-loqui astroscholars are calling This Is What We Know So Far, an exhibition open now at Chicago Art Department: artists Liz McCarthy, Sara Condo, Leo Kaplan and curator Erin Nixon. Along with Chicago faves Mike Lopez and Ben Driggs, they’ve mounted a colorful and joutous show dealing with process, the new now and the messiness of the moment. The conversation is lovely and the show even lovelier. 

    Bad at Sports
    enSeptember 24, 2021

    Bad at Sports Episode 776: Teresa Silva, Holly Cahill, and Tiger Strikes Asteroid

    Bad at Sports Episode 776: Teresa Silva, Holly Cahill, and Tiger Strikes Asteroid

    Website for TSA Chicago

    This week we check in on Tiger Strikes Asteroid with curators Teresa Silva and Holly Cahill. we examine collective art action, the network, Mana contemporary art space, and  the half 46 person group show "It Feels Like The First Time."

     
     
    Bad at Sports
    enSeptember 09, 2021

    Bad at Sports Episode: 775 Seitu Hayden

    Bad at Sports Episode: 775 Seitu Hayden

    This week we continue our summer of comic investigation with

    Weekly form the Chicago Defender by Seitu Hayden from https://atomicjunkshop.com/review-time-with-its-life-as-i-see-it/img_20210723_0003/

    Seitu Hayden. Chicago illustrator extraordinaire and long time indie comic supporter. We talk about his 50 years in the independent publishing spaces, black comics, and some of the bright lights that made the scene happen. Hayden's works were included in the MCA's Chicago Comics:1960 to Now and the book "It’s Life as I See it: Black Cartoonists in Chicago, 1940–1980."

     
    #saytoons
     
    Bad at Sports
    enSeptember 01, 2021

    Bad at Sports Episode 774: Chris Ware and Tim Samuelson

    Bad at Sports Episode 774: Chris Ware and Tim Samuelson
    Image of the the Comics show from the Chicago Cultural Center
     
    …meanwhile, in the least mysterious city on the planet (apparently Chicago), Duncan and Ryan panel with the overmodest Artist/Cartoonist Chris Ware and Chicago’s cultural historian emeritus Tim Samuelson about the storied origins of the Chicago comic scene. In this harrowing episode our protagonists discuss a triumvirate of collaborative projects: the Chicago Cultural Center’s, “Chicago: Where Comics Came to Life 1880-1960”, the forthcoming exhibit at Wrightwood 659 “Romanticism to Ruin: Two Lost Works of Sulliv

    an and Wright”, and an eponymous interminable exhibition of Samuelson’s personal historical ephemera curated by Ware at the Chicago Cultural Center.
    Bad at Sports
    enAugust 22, 2021

    Bad at Sports Episode 772: Diana Guerrero-Maciá

    Bad at Sports Episode 772: Diana Guerrero-Maciá

    Diana Guerrero-Maciá image from Carrie Secrist Gallery

    This week Bad @ Sports Center is winnowed down to skeleton crew, with Ryan Peter Miller chewing the fat with the ever vital Diana Guerrero-Maciá. Fresh from receiving a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts, Guerrero-Maciá discusses her studio practice which includes slow-craft processes in painting, textiles, drawing, print, and sculptural objects. With new work recently completed for two exhibitions, High Touch, at John Michael Kohler Art Center and Light Falls Fast at Traywick Contemporary, this is a hearty conversation.

    Bad at Sports Episode 771: Foundation with Kayvon Tehranian and Lindsay Howard

    Bad at Sports Episode 771: Foundation with Kayvon Tehranian and Lindsay Howard

    This week Bad at Sports attempts to get to the bottom of whether foundation.app is a marketplace, a platform, or a cultural hall. Dana Bassett and Duncan MacKenzie are joined by Kayvon Tehranian, CEO and Lindsay Howard, Head of Community who are lighting our way towards how artists can get paid for their content while creating a new way to sell and consume art works, and just maybe, building a new internet in the meantime.

     
    Duncan is trying to convince Lindsay to start a book club. If you're interested slide something into his DMs.
    Bad at Sports
    enJuly 21, 2021

    Bad at Sports 770: Tom Burtonwood and Holly Holmes Terrain 2021, Sabina Ott, and NFT making and collecting

    Bad at Sports 770: Tom Burtonwood and Holly Holmes Terrain 2021, Sabina Ott, and NFT making and collecting

    Terrain Biennial 2021

    In what feels like a throwback episode Ryan and Duncan record IRL with Holly Holmes and Tom Burtonwood. We explore the legacy of Sabina Ott, the future for the Terrain Biennial and its 2021 iteration, then we talk through what is going on in their studios and focus around their exploration of the NFT artwork space.

    https://terrainexhibitions.org/

    https://tomburtonwood.com/home.html

    https://hollyholmes.xyz/home.html

     

    Bad at Sports
    enJune 22, 2021

    Bad at Sports Episode 769: Buddy, Co-Pro Catskills, and what is happening at the Public Media Institute

    Bad at Sports Episode 769: Buddy, Co-Pro Catskills, and what is happening at the Public Media Institute

    This week on the B@S, Stella Brown and Nick Wylie join Jesse and Brian to talk about Buddy — the new artist-run shop/gallery/venue at the Chicago Cultural Center that features works and products by more than 220 artists — and Co-Prosperity Catskill — the new exhibition space in the Hudson Valley. These two new projects from the Public Media Institute, whose many many include WLPN, Lumpen Magazine, Lumpen TV and the Co-Prosperity space in Bridgeport, extend the ever-shifting and growing publicnesses that amplify, support and nurture so many artists and thinkers in our city. We talk about the realms of the possible, the concept of the public and end up making an ad (-vertisement and -vocacy) for Chicago in many acts.

     

    Bad at Sports
    enJune 15, 2021

    Bad at Sports Episode 768: Christina Quarles

    Bad at Sports Episode 768: Christina Quarles

    Christina Quarles Painting on view at MCA

    On today’s episode Dana and Ryan join painter Christina Quarles [in person!] to discuss her eponymous exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. We talk painting (of course), and discuss pandemic cancellations and inspirations. We hope you enjoy the sound of face-to-face conversation and Christina’s giggles as much as we enjoyed recording them. 

    MCA

    Christina Quarles

    Bad at Sports
    enJune 02, 2021