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Wednesday, April 12, 2023 by DJ Uncertain #art

Ficus Interfaith: The Royal Game of Ur

Games are sculpted experiences of practicality. What’s interesting about games is that if they are sculpted practicality, then the beauty emerges in the practical action. So when you play a game, it’s not the game that’s beautiful, it’s YOU that’s beautiful!

Listen to Ficus Interfaith reading about The Royal Game of Ur, the oldest gameboard we know of (but don't entirely know the rules of). You hear them playing few rounds on the terrazo gameboard they made too. And then go see their show up now at Deli Gallery

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Wednesday, April 12, 2023 by DJ Uncertain #performance

Nicky Harris Dive Lounge

We're rethinking standards of all kinds with Nicky Harris' new regular show 'Dive Lounge'. Listen to the first episode with Bianca Wilson aka Island Girl playing and talking about diasporic folk tunes like When I Was in My Prime and an Appalachian standard about hens laying eggs for railroad men (sometimes one sometimes ten). And then On May 18th, 'Dive Lounge' is LIVE at Ormside Projects with Isabel Muñoz-Newsome, Cassandra, and special guests covering the classic lounge standard inspired by Lady Gaga's 'Poker Face' cover . For the Anglo-illiterate, the project is, of course, a play on BBC's ‘Live Lounge’ format but gayer and an altogether more fun in homage to South East London's queer cabarets. Get your tickets and deets here.

Wednesday, April 5, 2023 by DJ Uncertain #music

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Tuesday, April 4, 2023 by DJ Uncertain

Jimmy DeSana: Submission

The most recent episode of The Harry Tafoya Show is with Drew Sawyer, curator of Jimmy DeSana: Submission, currently on view at the Brooklyn Museum, and writer/curator Jerret Earnest. They talk about coming to DeSana's work through kink, Ray Johnson, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, and what we can learn from these artists lives today as New York reconfigures our relationships around commerce, scarcity, and competition.

Drew also wrote a book of the same title with this in it's desciption: 

DeSana’s first major project was 101 Nudes, made in Atlanta during the city’s gay liberation movement. After moving to New York in 1973, DeSana became immersed in queer networks, collaborating with General Idea and Ray Johnson on zines and mail art, and documenting the genderqueer street performances of Stephen Varble.

By the mid-1970s, DeSana was a fixture in New York’s No Wave music and film scenes, serving as portraitist for much of the period’s central figures and producing album covers for Talking Heads, James Chance and others. His book Submission, made with William S. Burroughs, humorously staged scenes out of a S&M manual that explored the body as object and the performance of desire. DeSana was also an early adopter of color photography, creating his best-known series, Suburban, in the late 1970s and early 1980s. This body of work explores relationships between gender, sexuality and consumer capitalism in often humorous, surreal ways. After DeSana became sick as a result of contracting HIV, he turned to abstraction, using experimental photographic techniques to continue to push against photographic norms."

 

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Tuesday, April 4, 2023 by DJ Uncertain

Empathy and Texture

Former MPR contributors ➚Sam Korman and ➚Ted Barrow (joined by coolest skater of all time, ➚Jerry Hsu, Lurker Lou, and Akwasi Owusu) discuss why "skateboarding is not a art" but what the two worlds might learn from one another. Among art works discussed:  Dan Graham's ➚Skateboard Pavilion, 1989 which reinserts dirty kids into a sterile city center of Stuttgart, Mierle Landerman Ukles' ➚sanitation work reconsidering what city maintenance and care work can look like, Ashley Bickerton on expression beyond the branded environment (these are two industries in the business of constructing and selling identities after all), ➚AK Burns' & AL Steiner's ➚Community Action Center, 2010, on literal orgies with the homies, love, and friendships esp as seen in There's ➚"Ruining Skateboarding". Robert Smithson's ultimate spotchecker mission ➚A Tour of The Monuments of Passaic, 1979-84, and the concept of non-sites in Jersey, or scrappy places organized around form more than time. Nancy Holt's ➚Dark Star Park, 1979-84, reinvigorating forgotten civic spaces and the bureaucracies that govern them with something spiritual, Arakawa and Gins' ➚The Site of Reversible Destiny, 1995, is just wacky formalism like early 2000s mega ramps, and Dena Yago's ➚Content Industrial Complex on branding, precarious work, and new models for keeping money within a community.

The best critical writing on skateboarding happening right now is on Sam's blog, ➚Waxing the Curb. And then find 24+ hours of his radio show, In Conclusion: A Review of Reviews, ➚in the MPR archive.

 

Tuesday, April 4, 2023 by DJ Uncertain #readings

Having Friends for Dinner

Till Krause
Friendship and Cannibalism; short, concise instructions on how to eat a friend. Text, translated from German into English by Kate Vanovitch, read by Gabriel Dunsmith. From the launch of  Pfeil Magazine #16 – Friend

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dessert:
“The Debutante,” by Leonora Carrington
"Cannibalism In The Cars" by Mark Twain