Hosted by Hope Mohr · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 17 episodes
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the body is the brain is a podcast about art and social justice hosted by artist and attorney Hope Mohr. Through conversations with artists and cultural workers, we explore the practice, production, and politics of contemporary artmaking.
Hope Mohr hosts the body is the brain, a arts show with 17 episodes published.
We talk about: organizing artists, participatory performance, Dionysus in 69, audience co-creation of a work, how artists are both similar to and different from other workers, the conflicted class identity of artists, bu
We talk about…stuttering as a teacher, "bending the clock" as a disability justice and a racial justice practice, sitting with the ethics of living on stolen land, engaging with the fraught archive of slavery, "opening t
We talk about: attention as a material, the politics of audio description, queer abstraction, tuning ensemble in improvisation, avoiding saying "no" when directing, translating site-specific improvisation to a proscenium
We talk about: audience-determined structures, reparations as a culture-building project, Augusto Boal's "rehearsal for revolution," balancing audience choice with a desire to "get into the harder stuff," the "curb cut e
We talk about… the difference between social practice and socially engaged art, how Bass' installation Wayfinding relates to performance, the "singular family narrative" as a fiction, how lawmaking and artmaking differ,
We talk about: supporting socially engaged artists, how design of arts funding pathways influences outcomes, co-leadership in the arts, the overlap between art practice and arts leadership, A Blade of Grass, and much mor
"People don't acknowledge how much capital is in cultural capital. So people will hoard it. That is what creates the gatekeeping. We were there to care. Rather than being the gatekeepers, we became the caregivers." --Rhi
"Space is just a container. How do we work filling that container in different ways from the street to the nightclub to the proscenium? They're forms to be fucked with." --Anna Thompson, slowdanger We talk about: coming
"When we gather together, the forces around us become louder. There's a danger in gathering, but there's a grounding in it as well." --Sholeh Asgary We talk about: the relationship between photography and sound practice,
"It comes back to not letting the Trump Administration frame the problem, but remembering the world and the environment and the circumstances under which we want to work." – Yanira Castro We talk about: the arts funding
We talk about: curatorial practice, radical hospitality in performance, ethical grantmaking in the arts, softening the architecture of engagement, operationalizing "art for change," the current state of arts funding, and
We talk about: scores for performance, weaving politics and abstraction, dance and visual art in conversation, revolutionary time, Ranu's painting process, the importance of sari fabric in her work, hybridity, installati
"The way to strengthen our rights is to continually use them and demand that they be recognized." -- Annie Dorsen We talk about: the Artist Open Letter to the NEA, resistance strategies, algorithmic theater, speechmaking
"At the core of nonstopping is a very political stance of each individual, maintaining, cultivating, nurturing, sustaining the agency of their attention." -Jeanine Durning We talk about: the practice of "nonstopping," em
"My weapon against destructive forces is creative forces." –Aejay Antonis Marquis We talk about preparing to direct as an embodied practice, facilitating ensemble process, the politics of casting local, creating liberato
Episode 1: Pina, queering as a transitive verb, wrecking, drag as political practice, visibility … A conversation with artists Eric Garcia and Chuck Wilt about their collaborative show, Beyond, “an evening-length product
Hi friends. I'm Hope Mohr, artist and advocate. For decades I have woven artmaking and activism. the body is the brain is a podcast about art and social change. Through conversations with artists and cultural workers, we
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Lu Zhang
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