Show #1 – C-Monster/Bad at Sports
22 Mar
This is it! Show #1 is upon us. We hope you enjoy.
There is some audio quality unneveness in this episode, but we’re getting our radio legs and we’re learning more everyday.
In this episode, our hosts, Matthew and Christopher introduce themselves and we interview Carolina Miranda of C-monster.net and Duncan McKenzie, co-founder/co-host (along with Richard Holland and Amanda Browder) Bad At Sports podcast.
Below is a list of links that pertain to the peoples and places mentioned in the interviews.
Dead Hare Theme by v<o>brainsee
Folks and places mentioned in Carolina’s interview:
Her Gallerina blog at wnyc.org. She is also @cmonstah on twitter.
Tyler Green’s Modern Art Notes
Paddy Johnson’s Art Fag City
Carolina’s article in the April 2011 issue of ARTnews
Perfect City – the two part documentary about the Abstract Expressionist’s New York Carolina co produced for WNYC.
Between the interviews: Dream Lanes show id by v<o>brainsee.
Things mentioned in Duncan’s Interview:
hey Guys,
I support what you are doing…I love the Hudson Valley and see it as a great nexus of creative energy…
so, take my following criticisms as an effort to help out…by sharing my honest feedback…
you both said you don’t like interviews that are merely promo pieces..yet, both interviews were exactly this, talking about hits and followers and connections…i kept waiting for a discussion about art, about what these guests have learned about art, and what it means to be an artist in the 21st century…
such a discussion is dangerous…it is precisely because of this that the current artworld has developed this ubiquitous ambiguity of exchange…art culture has avoided ‘belief’ and ‘debate’ in order to maintain a ‘professional’ environment for the purposes of creating income…fair enough…
but, if you dare to have this conversation openly and begin digging into meaning and beliefs, putting your own on the line…then your show will attract many more listeners, and contributors too, people will form a community around it…
if you choose to attempt to ‘aggregate’ yourselves with the others, then it will become aggravating…it is one thing to ruffle people’s feathers by silliness, which is what i see so often in the artworld, silliness and buffoonery…but it is another thing altogether to ruffle feathers with challenging the foundations of identity, and stepping into the intimate space of intellectual confrontation…
i will keep listening, and keep sharing my feedback… you guys sound like nice guys, intelligent and dedicated to enriching the community…so i hope you will not see this as ‘hatin’…
peace,
kv
Thanks for your comment, Ken. Indeed, keep listening. There’s much ground to be covered.
I would suggest that the interviews in this episode are informational and not simply promotional, as they present a glimpse onto the landscape of art content in the media and start to give a context to what we’re jumping into – discussing and covering art on the radio. Carolina Miranda and Duncan McKenzie, whose “projects” I rely on as part of my diet of art thought and information, represent two examples of how media is being used to present an ongoing discourse about art – one that lives largely under the surface, and must be sought out if one is hungry for this kind of stuff.