Bad At Sports

Today on Bad at Sports, special Guest Host Mel Cook joins Jesse for a lively conversation with Neal Vandenbergh. Neal has an alluring and excellent exhibition that calls itself Landscape with a Man Killed by a Snake at Mickey Gallery up through April 10th. We move through Neal’s practice, talk form, talk politics, talk process and laugh a bit.    https://www.mickey.online/ https://www.mickey.online/landscape-with-a-man-killed-by-a-snake https://melcookart.com/home.html https://www.instagram.com/wizard_neal/

Mark Bazer joins us to talk about the 12 years he has been doing The Interview Show live from the Hideout and on their broadcast partner WTTW. We talk about the interview and how best to knock it out of the park.   Selected Names Dropped: Jeff Tweedy and Wilco Scott Thompson Shannon Stratton YouTube John Green Fire Marshal  Hamza Walker Walker Art Center Jehra Patrick Cargo Space Chris Sperandio ACRE Residency The Poor Farm Michelle Grabner

This week Brian and Ryan Roundtable with Asha Iman Veal,  Tulika Ladsariya, and Mike Nourse of the Center program at Hyde Park Art Center. Antics ensue in discussions of life as a mid-career artists in Chicago and the exhibition Dream. 

On this week’s Bad at SportsCenter we chatter about with Lan Tuazon. A Chicago-based sculptor, Tuazon discusses the culmination of her 10 year trilogy, Shift in the Order of Things, recently concluding at the Hyde Park Art Center. From Michael Reynolds' Earthship to Alfred Heineken's brick bottles, we unpeel a metaphorical onion to reveal the genius at the center of this epic series of "documentation sculpture". Also, Jesse dubs the nickname "Chi Chi" for this human settlement we call Chicago. Call in and  let us know your thoughts.

This week’s Bad at SportsCenter guest is Chicago expat Aaron Delehanty, a painter/sculptor and “dioramacist” based in Rochester, NY. Taking from his experience at Chicago’s Field Museum and the Rochester Museum & Science Center, Delehanty’s Loud Cow Studio fabricates dioramas, replicas, models and murals. In addition to his most recent drawings and sculptures, we discuss the narrative of the natural world, name dropping Freidrich Heinrich Alexander Von Humboldt and Carl Akeley, and discuss some of Delehanty’s upcoming projects with Maria’s Packaged Goods and the state of Vermont.

  This week Bad at Sports gets back to trying to figure out NFTs and our Meta future with the help of Richard Holland, esq., Michael Kellogg, and Jennifer Kellogg.   Welcome to the future humans.   Names Dropped: Viridian House Neal Stephenson Ready Player One Cars.com Cornell Bob Dylan Warped Tour Jam Productions Foundation Nifty Gateway Makersplace Open Sea Decentraland Meta Mark Zuck Second Life

This week Bad at Sports/Center is joined by Claire Ashley, Judith Brotman, Cameron Clayborn, and Meg Duguid to discuss Soft Allergy at the Glass Curtain Gallery and Tender Irritant at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.   Names dropped: Columbia College Chicago SAIC Yale University

David Antonio Cruz unpacks his work and process for Tom Sanford and Duncan MacKenzie at Art Basel Miami with Monique Meloche. Then Dana B returns with all the T.   Names Dropped: The Corner The Center for Subtropical Affairs Andrew Skate Shop Rene Morales Hair and Nails Gallery Dracula Dorys and Eli Manal Kara My Name is Maryan PAMM      

Return to Miami continues with our second day at the NADA fair. We rock the mic with Claudine Ise, Pedro Pedro, and Cash 4. Names dropped: Goldfinch Mari Eastman Em Kettner 907 Crew UFO SMELLS Stickymonger Sickid Trice Lorenzo Lozini The Deuce Ryan Schneider Rebecca Morgan Ridley Howard Holly Coulis Sam Keller Scott Ogden (SHRINE Gallery) Rob Ober David Antonio Cruz Monique Meloche and THE BEMIS CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART!

Today we drop down in Miami and chat NFTs with John Lee, Tom Sanford, and technologist Amol. We also reveal that we are rolling with the mysterious graffiti artist Snoeman.

On this week’s Jess(i)e-fest, Jessie Mott joins Jesse and non-Jess(i)e Ryan in the studio to talk about her upcoming exhibition at the Epiphany Center for the Arts, Like Queer Animals:We Hold Your Gaze, a collaboration with queer scholar Chanal Nadeau. We yak about the origins of Mott’s aberrant animals, in all of their forms, including paintings, publications and animations. Take a listen on the wild side.

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  

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!   https://www.theccma.org/ https://www.theccma.org/tony-fitzpatrick https://tonyfitzpatrick.co/   Names Dropped... Judy Ledgerwood Michelle Grabner Tony Tasset  Jim Dine

This week Jesse Malmed and Duncan MacKenzie catch up with Zach Cahill and try to understand what compels us about unicorns, death, flowers, and pentagrams as we celebrate and query the thinking behind "Unicorn Death Road Trip Buddy Movie."   https://zacharycahill.com/home.html https://www.quimbys.com/ https://www.grahamcrackers.com/ https://www.firstaidcomics.com/   Names dropped... https://invisible-exports.com/artists/philip-von-zweck/ https://graycenter.uchicago.edu/people/anthony-elms https://arthistory.uchicago.edu/faculty/profiles/roelstraete https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/rosmarie-waldrop https://www.amazon.com/Witches-Witch-Hunting-Women-Silvia-Federici/dp/1629635685 https://www.amazon.com/Heroine-1001-Faces-Maria-Tatar/dp/1631498819 https://www.amazon.com/Find-Your-Inner-Unicorn-Celebrating/dp/1645175219

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.   https://terrainexhibitions.org/ https://kristinmcwharter.com/ https://materialexhibitions.com/home.html https://michaelplopez.com/home.html https://www.mocacleveland.org/ https://www.artofcollectivecare.com/about https://www.instagram.com/arthandlermag/?hl=en

Live from the block party for the 2021 Terrain Biennial with guests Richard, Medina, Sadie Woods, DJ Gino, Ahmed Ozsever... And Ryan Peter Miller? What better way to honor our friend Sabina Ott!   http://www.richardmedina.com/paintings.html http://www.sadiewoods.com/ https://www.facebook.com/djgino.it/ https://www.acprintprojects.net/about  

Should we be more depressed about accelerating climate change or optimistic for human potential in a time of crisis? This week Jesse and Brian talk through the surprising artworks featured in Earthly Observatory with curators Giovanni Aloi and Andrew S. Yang.

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. 

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."   https://www.artsy.net/show/mana-contemporary-tiger-strikes-asteroid-it-feels-like-the-first-time?sort=partner_show_position https://www.tigerstrikesasteroid.com/  

This week we continue our summer of comic investigation with 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."   http://www.saytoons.com/ #saytoons https://www.lambiek.net/artists/h/hayden_seitu.htm