Hear director Luna Mahoux discuss The Other Queen of Memphis, her documentary celebrating the unsung icon of Memphis rap, La Chat. Traversing resistence and rememberance as we follow La Chat through the city, the film traces a story of legacy, loss, and the tension between cultural influence and material wealth.

Listen to the full segment ➚here

Bonus Links:

>>> Listen to La Chats' legendary album Murder She Spoke ➚here.

>>> Listen to La Chats' NTS show ➚here.

>>> Listen Memphis legends tear up the club via the MPR archive ➚here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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In response to Monique Wittig’s The Lesbian Body—the 1973 genre- and gender-breaking work of theory-fiction that challenged the heterosexual order of literature—this event gathers artists and writers to engage with its legacy fifty years after its English debut. In The Lesbian Body, Wittig celebrates sites of pleasure and lesbian eros through joy, violence, and tenderness, radically transfiguring gender by lesbianizing grammar, myth, and vocabulary.

Writers Alice Centamore and Matvei Yankelevich, responding to Wittig’s dissatisfaction with the original 1975 English translation, revised the text following her marginal notes. Their new edition, published by Winter Editions, foregrounds Wittig’s typographic innovations and renders her revisionist approach to language more fully.

For this event, Alice and Matvei invite a range of artists to perform from and respond to their favorite passages from the book. Sharon Hayes, Carolyn Lazard, and A. L. Steiner, alongside playwright Jerry Lieblich and art historian Ksenia M. Soboleva, collectively reflect on The Lesbian Body’s utopian project from today’s vantage point.

As Jack Halberstam promises, “you will never think straight again.”

Listen to the full segment ➚here

Bonus Links:

>>> Check out the new edition ➚here.

>>> Read the original 1975 translation ➚here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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This conversation with legendary artist Pippa Garner traces her fascination with kinks and bodies across a kaleidoscopic practice—from custom cars and DIY T-shirts to hormone hacking. Happy Valentine's Day.

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Bonus Links:

>>> Buy the Garner monograph $ELL YOUR $ELF ➚here.

>>> Find more body-talk under MPR's Erotica tab ➚here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Louise Ashcroft presents a work-in-progress script reading exploring the intersection of her grandmother’s hobbies and climate protest tactics — from jigsaws and tinned soup to orange sherbet and walking slowly to annoy buses. 

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Bonus Links:

>>> Watch the performance ➚here

>>> Check out more of Louise's work ➚here

>>> Eat Louise's brain ➚here

>>> Sign up to Just Stop Oil's new initiative ➚here

 

 

 

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Henry Broome and Abbe Schriber discuss the ways public art participates in hostile architecture that excludes homeless people from public space.

Listen to the full segment ➚here

Bonus Links:

>>> Read Broome's full report in Art Monthly ➚here.

>>> Read Abbe Shriber's interview with 'Culture Class' author Martha Rosler ➚here.

>>> 'Pissed Off!' by David Hammons in the 1981 issue of The Flue ➚here.

>>> Listen to 'House Sitting with Mander: Architecture Against Homelessness' from the MPR archive ➚here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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From right wing teen to neoliberalism’s nemesis, artist Darren Cullen (AKA Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives) talks about the tightrope of satirizing the serious and absurd.

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>>> Keep up to date on Cullen's latest public interventions via his blog ➚here.

>>> Find the full Stand Up Fall Down series ➚here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Linder Sterling has spent decades reshaping feminist discourse through her provocative art. In this program, she guides listeners through Danger Came Smiling, her largest retrospective to date at the Hayward Gallery in London. From her roots in the 1970s Manchester punk scene to her photomontages, performances, music and fashion, Linder’s work continues to critique gender, identity, and representation from pornography to glamour.

Listen to the full segment ➚here

Bonus Links:

>>> Watch the video tour of Danger Came Smiling ➚here.

>>> Listen to Linder's band Ludus' album The Visit/The Seduction ➚here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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