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Bio: Erin is a media artist informed by sound as a phenomenological experience. Using bio-sensors as a sort of interface her work explores emotional sincerity both as a composer and in videogame design. Her work is cerebral and politically engaged, but is nonetheless insistently physical and grounded in the body. Recording Notes: There is a good deal of rain in this recording. Too, Erin has the rich vocal timbre of an ASMR-tist so those textures combine to make this a pleasant interview to listen to, especially in the cavernous converted factory of Montreal’s Eastern Bloc gallery space where we took the recording. When I asked Erin to offer me an experiment upon which to base this episode’s bridging music she shared with me a dream she had of spitting, screaming, singing crystals. So you’ll hear my attempt to sound design that dream. I had assistance from Aug and their crystal collection, as source material for the sound design. You’ll also hear an excerpt from Erin’s 3rd person shooter VR experience that centres on emotional sincerity, rumbas and b-list vocaloids. Toward the end of the interview Erin describes a new work, showing until the end of the month at Eastern Bloc and available at laughingweb.space. To experience or contribute to her piece-- inspired by Cheryl L’hirondelle (luh-ron-dell)-- visit the website linked below. Links: Artist: Artist’s Website:https://eringee.net/ Swarming Emotional Pianos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8crC5vGj44A Project Heart VR: https://www.projectheartvr.com Laughing Web: http://laughingweb.space/ References: Rosalind Krauss: https://www.artspace.com/magazine/art_101/know-your-critics/how-to-understand-rosalind-krauss-53988 Eye Movement Desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy: https://www.womenscollegehospital.ca/programs-and-services/sexual-assault-domestic-violence-care-centre/emdr ASMR: https://softchew.podbean.com/ Mariko Mori: http://www.artnet.com/artists/mariko-mori/love-hotel-VeFBwtQtNWqs87Vz4AW_tg2 Donna Haraway, How Like a Leaf: https://monoskop.org/images/3/3f/Haraway_Donna_How_Like_a_Leaf_An_Interview_with_Thyrza_Nichols_Goodeve.pdf Sara Ahmed, The Cultural Politics of Emotion: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt1g09x4q Pauline Oliveros ‘The Tuning Meditation’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5bj8sO2-WY Yawane Haku: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bE1D0fSV2jI Hatsune Miku: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoTd918zhZc Military Roomba: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0EqrWrHMLk Voices of VR podcast: http://voicesofvr.com/ Eastern Bloc show: https://easternbloc.ca/index.php/en/exhibits-events/exhibits/amplification_en Cheryl L’hirondelle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOFYD9t_afw

I've released a record compiling a number of resolved experiments begun in the process of making the podcast. Excerpted in this brief plug is Technosolutions 2. You can listen to the complete record here: https://paleeyesmusic.bandcamp.com/album/little-music

Bio: Maria is a New York-based abstract turntablist and multidisciplinary artist from Peru by way of Houston, Texas. She has pioneered a singular style of improvisation on the turntable involving perfect and destroyed vinyl and styli. She is an author, a teacher, a DJ, and an outspoken critic of the institutions of fine art of which she finds herself, against all odds, a part-- this latter characteristic is amusingly exemplified in her recent work in painting, which she expands upon in this episode. Recording Notes: This interview was recorded at Cafe le Gamin in Maria’s rapidly gentrifying Greenpoint neighbourhood. We met for lunch while Maria was briefly home in New York between stints in Italy, Germany, Istanbul and the Rauschenberg Captiva Residency. The chance, or accident, so fundamental to Maria’s practice turns up here in the shape of the clatter of cutlery, the city’s drony din, and the cafe’s regular custom. I want to warmly welcome Cale Weir back to the pod, who joined me in producing the music for this episode. We worked from Maria’s autodidactic Masters Thesis, Of Technique: Chance Procedures on Turntable. Despite her kindly encouragement of our efforts, Maria may not totally approve of the results, nor of the liberties we took in attempting to execute her techniques (I cannot get away from my little digital modulators, and Cale was working with his antiquated CD-Js) but that we took her instructions in our new direction would seem to be in keeping with the spirit of her work. Truth be told, I just haven’t got the manual dexterity Maria has to grapple with the fragility of the turntable as instrument. Links: Artist: Artist’s Website: www.mariachavez.org Maria’s IG: @chavezsayz Maria’s Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/MariaDChavez Documenta 14: Between a Gunshot and a Whisper: https://www.documenta14.de/en/public-radio/14725/between-a-gunshot-and-a-whisper References: Oneohtrix Point Never’s Software Label: https://softwarelabel.bandcamp.com/ Judd Foundation Wind Instruments documentation: http://mariachavez.org/1913-2/ Every Time A Ear di Soun, a Documenta 14 Radio: https://www.documenta14.de/en/calendar/11085/every-time-a-ear-di-soun-a-documenta-14-radio-program-presentation Gagosian: https://gagosian.com/ Pauline Oliveros: http://paulineoliveros.us/ Phil Niblock: https://phillniblock.com/ University of Texas solo show (String Room): https://www.austinchronicle.com/arts/2017-04-28/maria-chavez-string-room/ Merce Cunningham Dance Company: https://mercecunningham.org/history/ Dia: Beacon Museum: https://www.diaart.org/ Playing in a gigantic Richard Serra sculpture: https://www.diaart.org/ Jasper Jonhs: https://www.moma.org/artists/2923 Goldsmiths: https://www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id=11082 Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/ Francisco Lopez (get this man an agent!): http://www.franciscolopez.net/

Bio: Kent is a multidisciplinary artist of Cree ancestry working in painting, performance, installation and video. His painting seeks to overturn the settler painterly tradition through application of the same, and by authorizing through art history otherwise suppressed narratives of indigeneity, while his performance work lays bare sexual colonialism with his partly Cher-inspired alter ego Miss Chief Eagle Testickle. Recording Notes: This interview was recorded live, as part of George Brown College’s 26th Annual Labour Fair, which brought artists and activists in to the college community to speak to this year’s theme: Revolution and Resistance. The audience who joined us for the talk put some questions to the artist toward the end of our conversation. Bridging into this section is the track Dance to Miss Chief, produced for a video by the same name featuring Miss Chief Eagle Testickle. The song heralded the artist’s late arrival to the event. This was entirely my fault, as I sent him to an address on the West side of the city. My questions are breathlessly delivered, the mikes glitchy, but Kent, ever graceful, offers us insight into his practice, his studio, and what drives this work that is both timely, and centuries overdue. This episode was engineered with the assistance of full time good boy Cale Weir. Links: Artist: Artist Website: kentmonkman.com Miss Chief Eagle Testickle’s Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/MissChiefEagleTestickle Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/kentmonkman Tweets: https://twitter.com/KentMonkman References: Louvre Ruebens' de Medici Cycle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_de%27_Medici_cycle Jeff Koons atelier: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/jeff-koons-triples-production-capacity-of-his-giant-stone-cutting-facility-antiquity-stone-272656 Damien hirst atelier: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/mar/16/damien-hirst-art-market ROM: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/rom-apology-into-heart-africa-royal-ontario-museum-1.3840645 AGO: http://www.ago.net/canadian-highlights George Catlin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Catlin Paul Kane: https://www.gallery.ca/collection/artist/paul-kane# The Indigenous Dandy as Cautionary Tale: https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/wi-jun-jon-pigeons-egg-head-light-going-and-returning-washington-4317 Photo by Chris Chapman.

Bio: Fan is a poet, lecturer, teacher, aesthete and a Barthesian torchbearer of pleasuring in the text and of discerning the throw of desire beyond the bounds of what can be written or uttered. Recording Notes: Fan’s interview and poems were recorded in my living room studio. Cut into my brief interview with the poet is a recording of an improvisational collaboration between Fan and multimedia poet David (Jhave) Johnston. Apart from expanding the documentary sprawl of this project by including poetry read by the author, it also gives evidence of my ongoing attempt to understand sound. Particularly in its relationship to text and the timbres of the various physical human hollows (skull, chest, etc.) Seems relevant to report here findings from the prescient Fred Moten: “The unthinkable is a tone.” Links: Artist: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/abolishedbauble/?hl=en contact Fan for creative swaps: fanwu2@gmail.com Poetry: Thom Gill's Now & Neverending: http://www.blankchequepress.com/product/thom-gill-s-now-neverending-fan-wu Hoarfrost & Solace: http://www.espresso-chapbooks.com/current.html References: David (Jhave) Johnston: http://glia.ca/ Poems: Desire Litany Fantasy of Another Life A Tomb for Mallarme From Scatter-Decay

Bio: Carol Conde + Karl Beveridge are Toronto-based artists whose practice has impacted the arts ecology here and elsewhere, in ways that could not easily be overstated. Their work consistently takes up themes of labour, social justice, representation, and the power and possibility of art to make meaningful change. They have worked closely with workers, unions, activists, and a range of social justice oriented arts collectives and community organizations. Their work appropriates figures of Western Canonical art and weaves together staged photographic images of actual artists, activists, actors, and workers to expose issues including: gender inequality in the home, the workplace and in the artist’s studio, the global water crisis, the 2008 crash, and Canada’s shameful relationship to resource extraction and indigenous rights. Apart from this, they’ve helped to organize artist unions, to establish the Worker’s Heritage and Arts Centre in Hamilton and they were founding members of Mayworks, the festival where this podcast began its life. Recording Notes: This interview was recorded at the dinner table in the artists’ home, not so far from Factory Theatre in downtown Toronto. You can at points hear their pets and the jangle of Carol’s several silver bracelets. The much despised Toronto air show. Along the walls hung cases of buttons and ribbons bearing union and activist slogans and insignias, and in Karl’s modest living room studio they showed me some of the coming projects they are at work on. Elements of this episode's sound design were contributed by Cale Weir. Check out his work here: https://taxhaven.bandcamp.com/ Links: Artist: Official Website: http://condebeveridge.ca/ References: Donald Judd: http://www.theartstory.org/artist-judd-donald.htm Carl Andre: http://www.artnet.com/artists/carl-andre/ Art & Language: https://www.flashartonline.com/article/art-language/ NSCAD in the 70s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSCAD_conceptual_art Amiri Baraka: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/amiri-baraka Paula Cooper Gallery: https://www.paulacoopergallery.com/ Lucy Lippard: https://exhibits.stanford.edu/women-art-revolution/feature/lucy-lippard Judy Chicago: http://www.judychicago.com/ The Fox Magazine: https://www.guggenheim.org/blogs/findings/this-short-lived-70s-magazine-shaped-conceptual-art United Steelworkers: https://www.usw.ca/ Radio Shack Strike: http://www.virtualreferencelibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDMDC-TSPA_0017040F&R=DC-TSPA_0017040F&searchPageType=vrl D’Arcy Martin: http://aurora.icaap.org/index.php/aurora/article/view/24/35 Ian Burn: http://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/09/obituaries/ian-burn-53-artist-writer-and-founder-of-an-artists-union.html CARFAC: http://www.carfac.ca/ A Space: http://www.aspacegallery.org/ General Idea: https://canadianart.ca/reviews/general-idea-ago/ Workers Arts and Heritage Centre: http://wahc-museum.ca/ Florencia Berinstein: http://www.aspacegallery.org/index.php?m=programdetails&id=59 Plug In: https://plugin.org/ Fuse Magazine: https://canadianart.ca/news/fuse-magazine-folds-after-38-years/ Jack Pollacks Gallery: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Pollock Carmen Lamanna Gallery: https://canadianart.ca/features/carmen-lamanna/ Young Lords: https://libcom.org/library/palante-brief-history-young-lords David Fennario: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/david-fennario-the-good-fight-takes-an-artistic-look-at-playwright-s-life-1.2836551 CAW Freelancer Local: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Freelance_Union Ai WeiWei: http://www.moonmoonmoonmoon.com/ Francis Alÿs: http://francisalys.com/ Theaster Gates: https://art21.org/artist/theaster-gates/

Bio: Alexandra Mackenzie is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice includes visual and installation art, composition and live musical performance. She lives and works in Montreal. Her project Petra Glynt combines politically charged lyrics and live drumming, with digital modulation and intervention. A through-line in her visual and recorded art might be her itinerant exploratory attention to detail and texture: searching out those worlds within worlds. Her new record ‘This Trip’ has just been released on Vibe Over Method, and it makes an excellent soundtrack to today’s political climate. Recording Notes: This interview was recorded at Alex’s former Bloor street apartment and home studio in downtown Toronto. In keeping with Alex’s habit, we left the windows open: along with the traffic you can at points hear one of Alex’s former roommates practicing guitar. Still uncertain what the track is that interrupted our interview from the trunk of someone’s car in the street below. If you know, please comment. The track used in the introduction is a Pale Eyes remix of Petra Glynt’s WAR CRY. You can download it here, if you’re interested: https://soundcloud.com/pale-eyes/war-cry-pale-eyes-whitmanic-1 Links: Artist: Artist's Website: http://www.petraglynt.zone/ Bandcamp: https://petraglynt.bandcamp.com/ The Devil’s Trap Teaser (scored by Alex): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zPh8OHi4-g References: Mitchell Stafiej: https://vimeo.com/mitchellstafiej ‘Her’ score (Owen Pallett): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGRgA0JxN5RODeQ1fCuu5sIEArUNgfxSM Line 9 Pipeline Blockade: http://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/line-9-blockade-halts-work-on-enbridge-pipeline-1.2728262 ‘You’ll know it is time to turn the page when you hear the chime’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aULIkd85TjE Healing Power: https://healingpowertoronto.bandcamp.com/album/petra-glynt-of-this-land Photo by Pascha Marrow.

Bio: Adrienne Crossman is an artist, curator and educator, currently pursuing her MFA at the University of Windsor. In her art practice Adrienne explores queerness, cultural memory, childhood objects, internet marginalia and digital aesthetic in physical spaces. Her curatorial and educational practices are oriented toward community building and accessibility in the digital arts. Recording Notes: This interview was recorded at the kitchen table in my home. In her earlier work Adrienne used glitch and datamoshing techniques as part of her video making. I have experimented with a glitch / data-mosh aesthetic in producing this episodes sound design. Adrienne wanted to share a note about this recording: in referencing Daniele Dennis, she suggested the artist had used sand or sugar in her performance. In fact, the performance made use of rice, which, Adrienne indicate, is significant to the performance. Links: Artist: Artist's Website: http://www.adriennecrossman.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fakechildhood/ 100% Real: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOteOKVOklc References: Xpace: http://www.xpace.info/ Canadian Lesbian and gay Archives: http://clga.ca/ Rebecca Finn: http://www.rebeccafin.com/ Jennifer Chan (the recursive): http://jennifer-chan.com/ HM paying students in sweatshop clothing: https://mcfcrandall.blog/2015/08/13/art-and-fashion-on-dundas/ Felix Kalmenson: https://www.felixkalmenson.com/ Younger Than Beyonce: https://www.felixkalmenson.com/ 8eleven: http://8eleven.org/ Y Plus Contemporary: http://ypluscontemporary.com/ Mercer Union: http://www.mercerunion.org/ Daniele Dennis: http://www.danieledennis.com/ Jon Rafman: http://jonrafman.com/ Brad Troemel: http://main.bradtroemel.com/

Bio: Jordan Tannahill is a multi/inter-disciplinary artist working in text, image, performance, video, film, theatre and increasingly dance. He was cofounder of Toronto's integral Videofag-- a storefront performance, gallery and alternative art space-- and his book, Theatre of the Unimpressed: In Search of Vital Drama, explores boredom and liveness in contemporary theatre and performance in Canada. He is the recipient of a Governor General Award and several Doras. Jordan's VR performance Draw Me Close recently showed at the Venice Biennale, and a book on Videofag edited by William Ellis and Jordan was just released by BookThug; his new play Declarations will premiere on Canadian stage January 2018, to be followed later in the year by the release of his debut novel Liminal. Recording Notes: This interview was recorded at 187 Augusta, in Kensington Market-- the former location of Videofag-- shortly before the shuttering of this erstwhile Toronto institution, and Jordan's leaving Toronto's tight-fit community for new challenges. William Ellis can be heard in the recording assiduously applying himself to the everyday performance of his very singular being. Jordan suggested PC listeners might prefer his interview at half speed. Links: Artist: Artist's Website: http://www.jordantannahill.com/ Marienbad: https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/stage/2016/05/27/toronto-dance-theatres-marienbad-enigmatic-but-compelling-review.html Concord Floral: http://mqlit.ca/plays/concord-floral/ Botticelli and the Fire: http://mqlit.ca/plays/botticelli-in-the-fire-sunday-in-sodom/ rhiannaboi95: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx6qthZCHe0 Videofag book: http://bookthug.ca/shop/books/the-videofag-book-edited-by-william-ellis-jordan-tannahill/ Draw Me Close: https://tribecafilm.com/stories/tribeca-immersive-virtual-arcade-storyscapes-virtual-reality Declarations: http://mqlit.ca/plays/declarations/ References: William Ellis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Ellis_(actor) Christopher House:https://www.tdt.org/christopher-house/ Erin Brubacher: http://www.erinbrubacher.ca/this-is-my-room-look- Jacob Zimmer: https://www.smallwoodenshoe.org/jacob-zimmer/ Cara Spooner: http://caraspooner.com/ Cynthia Ashperger: https://ryersonperformance.ca/about/people/cynthia-ashperger Joseph Cornell: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/jul/25/joseph-cornell-wanderlust-royal-academy-exhibition-london Getrude Stein: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJEIAGULmPQ Photo by: Alejandro Santiago

Bio: Cat Bluemke and Jonathan Carroll work together as executive members of the new media business art collective Tough Guy Mountain. In her individual practice, Cat works in installation, visual art, performance and textile, often contrasting the art economy with the greater economy. She is currently pursuing her MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Jon produces visuals, software, video games and makes music under the moniker People Tanning. He currently works as an educator and freelancer. It was on Jon's advice that I decided to turn the art / work project into a podcast. Look for Tough Guy Mountain's virtual reality video game being released in November 2017 through Trinity Square Video's upcoming V/Art project. Recording Notes: This interview was recorded at the former Tough Guy Mountain headquarters in the rectory space of St. George the Martyr's Anglican Church, nestled between the church itself-- the venue home of Toronto's Music Gallery-- and the former site of OCADU's student gallery-- now bulldozed for condo development. Visual and performance artist Jennifer Chan was present while the interview was taken making use of the laundry facilities. Links: Artist: Tough Guy Mountain: http://www.toughguymountain.com/ Cat Bluemke: http://catbluemke.com/ People Tanning: https://peopletanning.bandcamp.com/ Therapy Font (Jon's art videogames): https://therapy-font.itch.io/ References: One of the fighting boys: https://www.instagram.com/samchampion_/ HackerYou: http://hackeryou.com/ Damien HIrst: https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtHistory/comments/3if2mb/why_does_everyone_hate_damien_hirst/ Vapor Wave: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/cultures/vaporwave Macintosh Plus: https://beerontherug.bandcamp.com/album/floral-shoppe James Ferraro: https://jjamesferraro.bandcamp.com/ Cinecycle: https://www.facebook.com/cine.cycle/ Jon McCurley: https://soundcloud.com/precariatcontent/pc-03-amy-jon Adrienne Crossman: https://soundcloud.com/precariatcontent/pc-07-adrienne Photo: Cat Bluemke The song used in the opening of the podcast is entitled Eschatologies of Tech (Executive Theme) it was produced for Tough Guy Mountain: a play, which showed at Factory Theatre for Summerworks 2015.

Bio: Jacob Wren writes books, makes experimental collaborative performances and is a self-proclaimed mediocre musician based in Montréal, Quebec. His performance work has focused for some 20 years upon trying to be oneself in a performance context. His often politically charged work explores capitalism and the artist’s resistance to, complicity with and reproduction of the same. His most recent attempt to undermine his own career through the frustration of audience expectations is the record Rich & Poor: The Single. A collaboration with Andrew Whiteman (Broken Social Scene, Apostle of hustle) offering an interpretation of Wren’s book about a pianist seeking to realize his fantasy of murdering a billionaire. Recording Notes: This interview was recorded in the offices of PME Art housed in the same building as the Black Theatre Workshop and Montréal Arts Interculturel on a bitter cold February day. Links: Artist: Rich & Poor: The Single: http://bookthug.ca/shop/audio/rich-poor-the-single-7-vinyl-record/ PME Art: http://www.pme-art.ca/en/ Blogspot: http://radicalcut.blogspot.ca/book Tumblr: http://jacobwren.tumblr.com/ References: Chris Kraus: http://semiotexte.com/?page_id=139 Maurizio Cattelan: https://www.perrotin.com/artists/Maurizio_Cattelan/2#images Paul Chan: http://www.greenenaftaligallery.com/artists/paul-chan/featured-works Bartleby & Co. by Enrique Vila-Matas: http://www.ndbooks.com/book/bartleby-and-company Hopeful Monsters by Nicholas Mosley: https://www.lrb.co.uk/v12/n13/jonathan-coe/skullscape Renee Gladman: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/renee-gladman

Bio: Life of a Craphead is Amy Lam and Jon Pham McCurley, and they are both from Toronto. In a strange and apt representation of their necessary and tenuous connections to Canadian cultural institutions and granting systems, they have presented art from multiple disciplines that they did not document, and they have documented work that they did not present. They run the integral performance art series Doored and their first feature length film Bugs is out now on DVD and VHS through Random Man. Recording notes: This interview was recorded at the kitchen table in Double Double Land, a DIY venue in Kensington Market. Links: Artist: Life of a Craphead: http://www.lifeofacraphead.com/ Doored: http://doored.tv/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSf9pqXRbVV2eD7krNa65SA Bugs: http://randomman.net/Bugs.html References: George Kuchar: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0473647/ Vietcong Activism: https://nowtoronto.com/music/features/an-open-letter-to-viet-cong/ Music: Racism, Power + Privilege 101 with April Allermo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G5j7pMoILU Duane Linklater: http://www.duanelinklater.com/ LAL: http://www.lalforest.com/ Interstellar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSWdZVtXT7E

Bio: Victoria Cheong is a multi-disciplinary artist from Toronto who performs under the concept-title New Chance; apart from making performance-based electronic music she produces video and installation work, and co-runs Healing Power Records with Wolfgang Nessel (DJ HVYWTR). Recording notes: This interview was recorded at the now shuttered venue and cafe the Holy Oak, which formerly resided on Bloor street by Lansdowne in Toronto, ON. This landmark venue was forced to close by prohibitively escalating rent. The background DJ set with espresso machine improvisations was incidentally provided by Chrissy Reichert (Tenderness) Links: Artist: SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/new-chance Tumblr: http://ear-rationelle.tumblr.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vicsanointedfavourites/ Healing Power: https://healingpowertoronto.bandcamp.com/ References: Tenderness :http://tendernessmusic.com/ Zoja Smutny: http://dancemakers.org/zoja-smutny/ Dancemakers: http://dancemakers.org/ Wolfgang Nessel: https://soundcloud.com/hvywtr

Bio: Star Amersau is a multi-disciplinary artist from Oakland, California; she practices witchcraft, music, theatre, dance, and being one of the baddest bitches alive. Recording Notes: This interview was recorded in my home studio while Star and I were at work on her debut EP Eclipsing. Links: Artist: http://www.makestarfamous.com/ https://www.instagram.com/staramerasu/ References: Debaser: https://www.facebook.com/debaserlives/ Long Winter: http://www.torontolongwinter.com/ White House Studio Project: http://www.theotherwhitehouse.ca/ Brother to Brother: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyVmaX4uQNU New Dramatists: http://newdramatists.org/ D. Smith: http://www.vh1.com/news/257375/who-is-d-smith-first-transgender-woman-love-hip-hop-grammy-winner/ Photo: Jack Mannix

Based upon interviews with working artists in all stages of their careers, Precariat Content uses documentary and experiments in sound art to discuss the economic, cultural, and political conditions that produce and plague the career artist and her work. This episode includes two collage essays that respectively contextualize and preview the work to come. The following voices speak: Essay 1: Precarious Workers Brigade. Jeremy Bailey. Eleanor Heartney. David Graeber. Brian Eno. Suhail Malik. Adam Curtis. John Berger. Tim Heidecker. Adam Phillips. Slavoj Žižek. Nick Srnicek. David Harvey. Mark Blyth. Nancy Pelos. Ruth Catlow. Donna Harraway. bell hooks. Essay 2: Victoria Cheong. Star Amerasu. Jordan Tannahill. Jacob Wren. Adrienne Crossman. Jon Pham McCurley. Amy Lam. Alex Mackenzie. Jonathan Carroll. Cat Bluemke LINKS Mayworks: http://www.mayworks.ca/ Alan Lomax: http://research.culturalequity.org/home-audio.jsp R. Murray Schafer: https://www.sfu.ca/~truax/wsp.html Photo: Cat Bluemke