The People Radio

Guests Akina Cox and Hayley Barker talk to us about spirituality, dreams, religious backgrounds, cults, trauma, PTSD, the Symbolists, vintage self help, flashy shittiness, writing scarves, interior life, being old enough not to give a fuck, and much much more! Akina Cox is an artist and writer who was raised in the unification church. Akina lives and works in Los Angeles and her show Apokalypsis runs from March 15 thru May 3rd at BozoMag in the Highland Park neighborhood here in LA. Hayley Barker is a painter originally from Oregon and she's been in LA for 5 years. Hayley has a show coming up at Shrine in New York and she shows with BozoMag here in Los Angeles. Our interstitial music as always is Ocfif by Lewis Keller. And we go out with a new single from Pasadena metal outfit Hexicon released on January 24, 2020. Hexicon features friends of the show Andrew Cox and his brother Austin Cox. Follow them on instagram at Hexicon band or find them on bandcamp at hexiconmetal.bandcamp.com and the name of the song is ... Dragnarok

Guests Joe Sola and Michael Webster join us for a pro-yammering yammer about their performance collaborative Shakey's, Perfomance Art, adult diapers, Pizza, Spoiler Alerts, Virtual Reality, Star Trek, contemporary cathedrals of software, Samuel Beckett, being manic and cheap and much much more ... Joe Sola is an artist that lives and works in Los Angeles. His exhibition, I Drove to San Francisco and Back is currently up at Honor Fraser Gallery in Culver City, California. He is also in a show at Yuz Museum Shanghai called In Production: Art and the Studio System. Michael Webster is an Artist and musician in Los Angeles. He's also a composer, conductor, performer, and recording artist who has created film scores, albums, art songs, and operas among many other things. Our interstitial music as always is Ocfif by Lewis Keller. And we go out with an excerpt from a project Michael Webster talked about during the show. It's currently a work in progress called ... Untitled Star Trek Episode

Guests Alee Peoples and Cara Levine talk about Secret narratives, Ambient grief, how Fear is a Liar, Adrian Piper, Not arriving, Residencies, the Luxury of isolation, Art as time management, Finding the balance, how to Protect your eyes while you're blinding yourself, Echo Park Film Center, Elephant Art Space and sooo much more! Alee Peoples is an artist and filmmaker living in Los Angeles. She is inspired by pedestrian histories, pop song lyrics and is invested in the hand-made. Alee has a film screening on February 22nd for the New Works Salon at Echo Park Film Center here in LA Cara Levine is an artist living in Los Angeles. She works in sculpture, video and socially engaged practices. She has work in the group show Message to Space in the inaugural opening of SUPERCOLLIDER a new science inspired exhibition platform at the Beacon Building. … and also, she and Alee have a two person show coming up in April at elephant art space here in the Cypress Park neighborhood of Los Angeles Our interstitial music as always is Ocfif by Lewis Keller. And we go out with the latest from friend of the show Nick Flessa - a single that came out last month under the name Dayton Swim Club (inspired by a cult early internet video of the same name). The project stems from Nick Flessa Band but is more collaborative, featuring Mario Luna on guitar, Jessica Perelman on Drums, Kirsten Bladh (of Leggy) on bass, and Dominique Matelson on backing vocals and keys. … and the name of the song is Rage All Night

Our guests Alex Jablonski and Jason Tippet talk about Alex's film, Wildland, Jason's excellent film Only The Young from Oscilloscope Laboratories, and Jason's new book, Heading To Bill's For Cigarettes … as well as Atwater Village, Street Photography, American Decline, Casting in Documentary, The Deep Hang, Getting to the ecstatic truth and much much more ... Alex Jablonski is a documentary filmmaker whose 2019 film Wildland recently won two Emmy's for Outstanding Editing and Outstanding Cinematography. You can watch that just about everywhere you see movies. Jason Tippet is a documentary filmmaker working in Los Angeles. You can see his award winning film Only The Young from 2012 on Amazon Prime. His book of photography, Heading to Bill's for Cigarettes has just been released from Oscilloscope and it's a limited run of 1000 copies, so you should get one right now. At the end of the show we're gonna hear the world premeire of a new song from Los Angeles band Rincs Our interstitial music as always is Ocfif by Lewis Keller. And we go out with the world premiere of a new song from Los Angeles band Rincs. You can find them on soundcloud as Rincs and on instagram as Riiincs. They are playing at the Moroccan Lounge here in Los Angeles on Thursday night December 19th, 2019. And the name of the song is … Grapefruit

Our Guests Don Edler and Nina Sarnelle talk propaganda, desperately refreshing online news, advertising, being caged in the algorithm, capitalism, competition, Nike Missles/Shoes, North Korea, The Doomsday Clock, Nike X and My Dead Hand, Two Minutes to Midnight and so much more ... propaganda, desperately refreshing online news, being caged in the algorithm, capitalism, competition, Nike Missles/Shoes, North Korea, The Doomsday Clock, Nike X and My Dead Hand, Two Minutes to Midnight Don Edler is an artist and filmmaker based in Los Angeles. He founded Elevator Mondays in 2017, a social exhibition space, curatorial project and experimental publishing company. He recently had a show at Hunter Shaw Fine Art in LA, titled Two Minutes to Midnight Nina Sarnelle is an artist and musician living in Los Angeles. She is a founding member of two different collectives, the Institute for New Feeling and dadpranks. She is in a show opening on November 29th at Human Resources in Los Angeles called Ecology of the Edge and will be performing at the opening reception. Also if you're in Denver Colorado you can check out a show called The Fulfillment Center at Black Cube thru December 7th. Our interstitial music as always is Ocfif by Lewis Keller. And we go out with a track from our guest Nina Sarnelle off her album from May 2018, Tell me about yr research, which can be found on bandcamp at NinaSarnelle.bandcamp.com, and the name of the song is … you can handle

Our Guests Lauren McElroy and Emily Lacy talk painting, sign/mural painting, electric paint, Ladies Who Paint, psychic support, quilting, antiquing childhoods, audio culture, crisp lines, improvisation without fear, the psychology of advertising, and so much more ... Lauren McElroy is an artist and commercial sign painter and muralist. She recently participated in the first all female mural festival, Ladies Who Paint, so you can check out her work at 14th and F if you find yourself in San Diego. Check out her professional work at LStar Murals on instagram and online at LStar murals dot com. She also has a solo exhibiton called, Now More You, up right now thru October 27th at Elephant Art Space in Cypress Park. Emily Lacy is a folk artist, electronic sound artist and filmmaker who lives and works in Los Angeles. Our interstitial music as always is Ocfif by Lewis Keller. And we go out with a tune from Emily Lacy, a first ever live in studio music performance on The People, from her new band project Gemstone Forest, and the name of the song is Waiting ...

Our guests Holly Myers and Deborah Aschheim talk about Holly's books Wild Rough Country and A Cylindrical Object On Fire In The Dark, the landscape of memory, gender&violence, outlaws, collective memory, ghosts, the haunting of the present by the past, and much more! Holly Myers is a writer and critic based in New Mexico. Her art writing and criticism has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the LA Weekly and Art Review, among other publications. She also publishes artist books under her new imprint then / and. Deborah Aschheim is a new media artist who lives and works in Los Angeles. This year she is the artist in residence for the LA County Registrar-Recorder County Clerk, working with them on voter education and outreach. Our interstitial music as always is Ocfif by Lewis Keller. And we go out with a song by Chris Brian Taylor and Jeremy Kennedy off their forthcoming Cassette "Morning Candy" from fmsmprc coming out this October. And the name of the song is … Day Rave

Paul Outlaw and Micaela Tobin talk modified screaming, lost voices, sound design, Kafka, German, voice, voice healing, singing, opera, breathing, freedom of the breath, tone, acting, Filipino vocalists, performance, noise, collaboration, writing discipline, REDCAT, NOW Festival, Sara Lyons, Johnathon Snipes, Crystalline Morphologies, Gaby Strong, White Boy Scream ... and so much more! Paul Outlaw is a Los Angeles-based experimental theater artist and vocalist whose award-winning solo projects have been presented across the United States and in Europe. His recent show BBC Big Black Cockroach was at REDCAT's New Original Works festival here in Los Angeles this past month… It was directed by Sara Lyons also a past guest from episode 72 of The People. Micaela Tobin is a soprano, sound artist, and teacher based in Los Angeles who specializes in experimental voice and contemporary opera, composing under the moniker "White Boy Scream." Also Paul is in a show by Asher Hartman and Gawdawfful National Theater Company, The Dope Elf, coming up in September at Yale Union, in Portand, OR, and then at The Lab in San Francisco, CA, in Spring 2020. You might remember we did a fundraiser at General Projects for the show this past June - so of course we love the show and you should definitely check it out if you can. Our interstitial music as always is Ocfif by Lewis Keller. And we go out with a track off of Micaela Tobin's newest album Remains under the moniker White Boy Scream released by Crystalline Morphologies ... and the name of the track is Thou.

Rachel Roske and Dustin Metz talk painting, verisimilitude, abstraction, minimalism, Agnes Martin, bibles, the superhuman mundane, lemons, and much more ... Rachel Roske is a painter living and working in Los Angeles. She recently had a show at Elephant Gallery in Los Angeles. She teaches drawing at Otis College of Art & Design. Dustin Metz is a painter living and working in Los Angeles. He is a co-founder of the artist run gallery Ms Barbers that was in operation from 2015-2017. He was also recently in a two person show at Parker Gallery in Los Feliz. Our interstitial music as always is Ocfif by Lewis Keller. And we go out with a bunch of tracks from LA band Skubbs. Skubbs is David Reich, Brian Ramisch and Dave Page.

Erica Ryan Stallones is an interdisciplinary artist and educator living in LA. Her work is both research-based and intuitive. Recent video and performance projects inhabit the wobbly space between social practice and theatre. This summer she'll be creating and exhibiting new work in Denmark and Spain. Geneva Jacuzzi is well known for her uncompromisingly obtuse synth-driven pop and one-of-a-kind performance art that is comprised of one time only spectacles and installations. Our interstitial music as always is Ocfif by Lewis Keller. And we go out with a track from our guest Geneva Jacuzzi It's off the album Lamaze from Vinyl International And the name of the track is … Do I Sad?

Ryan Taber and Katie Grinnan talk to us about Sailor's Valentines, King George III, period furniture, eversion, bastard mahogany, scale, dimensionality, specular narratives, the desert, dreaming, nature made strange, interiority, and much much more! Ryan Taber is an artist and a furniture maker living and working in Los Angeles. He currently has a show of new sculptural works at the Torrance Art Museum in Torrance, CA. He also runs the wood program at Cal State University Long Beach. Katie Grinnan is an artist who lives and works in Los Angeles. She has had solo shows at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles and at the Whitney in New York, and recently she was included in the show, People, at Deitch Projects Los Angeles. She has a show coming up at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery opening on May 19th for recipients of the 2019 City of Los Angeles (COLA) Individual Artist Fellowship. She teaches in the sculpture program at Cal State University Long Beach and is currently represented by the gallery Commonwealth and Council. Our interstitial music as always is Ocfif by Lewis Keller. We go out with a track from Toronto band Tough Age from their album Shame on Mint Records released in October 2017. You can buy the album on Vinyl and on cassette and even on Compact Disc or CD, quote “for the mini van”. They have a show coming up at The Baby G on June 26 in Toronto, Ontario. And the name of the track is ... Unclean

Our guests Shana Lutker and Vishal Jugdeo talk with us about film, performance, sculpture, installation, objects, theory, decisions, anxiety of making, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, site-specific, space, resources, narrative, storytelling, framework, meta, full-disclosure, unconscious, identity, intuition, meaning, openness, perspective, post post post, language, access, Freud, psychoanalysis, trauma, power, chaos, Allen Ruppersberg, California Conceptual, humor, The Hammer, and the uncanny … Shana Lutker is an artist who lives and works in Los Angeles. She works in a variety of media and is the executive director of the non-profit organization that publishes the contemporary art quarterly X-TRA, LA's longest running critical art journal. Vishal Jugdeo is an interdisciplinary artist who works with video, installation, performance and sculpture. He also is based in Los Angeles and is currently a Faculty member at the UCLA department of Art. Our interstitial music, as always, is Ocfif by Lewis Keller. And we go out with a track off Nick Flessa's album Flyover States from Via Eliterecords released in July 2018. You can find more of his music on bandcamp or over at NickFlessaBand.com or see his other work at NickFlessa.com And the name of the track is Glendale ...

Our guests Nicole Kelly and Sara Lyons talk about the Women's Center for Creative Work, WCCW, The Actual People Stock Photo Project, Collective, Queer, Theater, I'm Very Into You, Kathy Acker, McKenzie Wark, Power, Sex, Adaptation, Feminism, Non-binary, Gender slippage, Love, Participation, Performance, Liminal space, Feminist theory, Activism, Consent, Gender identity, Gender queer, Cisgender, Hetero-normative, Decolonization, Shame, Kink, Non-monogamy, Polyamory, Essentialism, Eroticism, Writing practice, Sexual practice, Intimacy, Audio, Radio ... Nicole Kelly is a Los Angeles based writer. She hosts and produces a great podcast called Bitchface, which you should check out wherever you get your podcasts. She is also the programming director at the Women's Center for Creative Work here in Los Angeles. Sara Lyons is a theater director and maker with an extensive background in feminist theory who works in experimental forms including new media, participatory work and adaptation. Our interstitial music, as always, is Ocfif by Lewis Keller. And we go out with a new single from Teasips released on the compilation A Thousand Tones Volume 2 from Elestial Sounds, a limited edition double cassette release of music made by non-male identifying humans. And the name of the track is Even and or the ...

Our guests Casey Kauffmann and Janna Ireland talk about the show Valley Girl Redefined, a group show they are both in at The Brand Library and Arts Center. They also dive into topics such as Photography, instagram, Valley Girls, Clueless, Collage, The Uncanny, San Fernando Valley, Screens, Movies, Stereotypes, Accent, Feeds, Feminism, and the Infinite Scroll. Casey Kauffmann is a multi-disciplinary artist from the San Fernando Valley currently in the MFA program at USC. You can also see her work at the LA gallery Elevator Mondays in the group show Psychenetics: Beyond the Great Filter that's up thru March 4th, 2019. Janna Ireland was born in Philadelphia, she has lived in New York, Oregon, and Los Angeles twice and now she is here to stay. Her solo show The Valley Below opens on March 9th at Antenna in New Orleans and runs thru April 7th, 2019. Our interstitial music, as always, is Ocfif by Lewis Keller. And we go out with a track made specifically for The People Radio by joshua weinberg (as nerak slip) and the track is ... adoralis infinitum (version K) We also make a special announcement on this months show: We would like to invite you to The People's Six Year Anniversary Gala on Friday March 8th from 7-11pm at TSA LA Gallery in the Bendix building at 1206 Maple Ave on the 5th Floor in downtown in Los Angeles, CA. The Gala will be a celebration of this podcast existing for six whole years. We've done 72 episodes, once a month for six years We're inviting everyone that's ever been on the show, and also friends of the show, and if you're listening to this episode then you are a friend of the show, so you are invited! It's going to be a party with Projection by Ignacio Genzon, and DJs Ian James and Matt Siegle, Greg Curtis, Alan Nakagawa, Christy Roberts Berkowitz and Joel Kyack. It starts at 7pm and they kick us out by 11:30, so show up as early as you can, there will be plenty of drinks and there will be a balloon drop at some point in the evening, and you won't want to miss that. And you can find all the info about the gala at insertblancpress.net by clicking on the people at the top of the page. We hope to see you there. Bring your friends!

Our guests Todd Lerew and Micah Silver talk about: museums, collecting, collections, archives, LAPL, Los Angeles Public Library, Library Foundation of Los Angeles, LFLA, the Central Library, the Goodhue Building, Specific Museums of Greater Los Angeles, Museum a Day, Have a Plan, What is a Museum?, museology, privilege, Open Hours, connoisseur, connoisseurship, audio, sound, music, audience, Cult, Airshow, constant war, Democracy, outcomes, failure, alternate worlds, awareness, democratic outputs, alternatives … and more! Todd Lerew is an artist and he is the Program manager at the Library Foundation of Los Angeles. He is the author of the book Specific Museums of Greater Los Angeles, illustrated by Juliana Wisdom and published by Tiny Splendor Press. He curated the show 21 Collections: Every Object has a Story which you can see at the central library in downtown Los Angeles until March 24th 2019. Micah Silver is an artist and writer living in Los Angeles. His book Figures in Air: Essays Toward a Philosophy of Audio is just going into its second printing with Inventory Press and you can pre-order copies now. Our interstitial music, as always, is Ocfif by Lewis Keller. And we go out with a track off of Ian Wellman's new release from Dragon's Eye Recordings from October 2018. The name of the album is: Susan's Last Breath Became the Chill in the Air and the Fog Over the City's Night Sky, and the name of the song is Darkest Hour

Artists Paul Pescador and Maura Brewer talk about their work as filmmakers and video artists and their relationship to the industry in Hollywood, the difference between filmmaking and video art, as well as their holiday-based collaborative projects, essayistic films, bad films, trash palaces, and a little BTVS. Paul Pescador works primarily in photography, performance and filmmaking along with a little bit of writing here and there. He just finished a film for the Main Museum about the history of Los Angeles and he recently finished a film for Glendale, CA gallery The Pit, the film is titled The PYT (Pretty Young Thing) and it is a remake of the 1981 horror film on which the gallery's name is based. Maura Brewer is a video artist who also works in performance and experimental fashion. She is a co-founder of a collaborative called the Rational Dress Society that produces and un-gendered mono-garment for everyday wear called Jumpsuit. She also makes essayistic videos, and she recently had a video up at Queens in Los Angeles about Paul Manafort's daughter Jessica Manafort and money laundering. Our interstitial music, as always, is Ocfif by Lewis Keller. And we go out with a song from Providence super-group Landed founded in 1997 by Shawn Greenlee, Joel Kyack and Dan St. Jacques. And the name of the track is Osama Oxycontin

Artist Patricia Fernández talks with Jedediah Caesar about her show Here Is My Name at the Todd Madigan Gallery at CSU Bakersfield curated by Jedediah Caesar which runs thru December 8, 2018. Fernández and Caesar talk about the historical material that Patricia drew from in creating the work in her show, specifically the Basque immigrant community in the Great Basin and central California, as well as transhumance pastoralism, and the arborglyphs that this community left carved into groves of aspen trees along their herding routes. Patricia Fernández is a Spanish born artist living and working in Los Angeles. Jedediah Caesar is an artist who lives in Los Angeles and also works in Bakersfield as the Director and curator of the Todd Madigan Gallery at CSU Bakersfield. Our interstitial music, as always, is Ocfif by Lewis Keller. And we go out with the title track from Los Angeles musician Geneva Skeen's new album A Parallel Array of Horses released by Room40 on October 19, 2018.

Made in L.A. 2018 artists Neha Choksi & Alison O'Daniel talk multiple channel video work, collaboration, editing, the sun, Bombay, sculpture, tuba thieves, ableism, disability, hard of hearing, listening, resonance, audience, access, transcription, translation and much more. Find a transcript of the episode here: https://bit.ly/2ERbByW Neha Choksi works in Inglewood, California and in Bombay, India. Choksi works in multiple media, across disciplines and at times collaboratively and in unconventional settings to explore how we seek, experience and acknowledge losses and transformations in material, temporal and psychological terms. Alison O'Daniel is a visual artist and filmmaker working across sound, narrative, sculpture, installation and performance. Also we have released a transcript of this episode specifically for members of our audience who are hard of hearing and also for everyone to have if you're interested … https://bit.ly/2ERbByW Our interstitial music, as always, is Ocfif by Lewis Keller. And we go out with a song from Lacey Spacecake out of Brooklyn, New York off the album The Stars Have Left the Sky released on January 1, 2018. More fuzz! More chorus! More reverb! More eyeliner! and the name of the song is ... How Do You Sleep At Night?

On this episode we talk with our guests Quinn Gomez-Heitzeberg and Astri Swendsrud about the history of the Spiritual movement in LA, the known and the unknown, and the return of the spiritual in contemporary art. Astri Swendsrud is an artist who lives and works in Los Angeles and she is one half of The Semi-Tropic Spiritualists. Quinn Gomez-Heitzeberg is the other half of Semi-Tropic Spiritualists. He is an artist who lives and works in Los Angeles. The Semi-Tropic Spiritualists have exhibited their installations and performance works at Richard Telles Fine Art, Klowden Mann, and The Vincent Price Museum in Los Angeles; Shangri-La in Joshua Tree, CA; and at Llano del Rio, CA among other locations. Their work is currently up at General Projects and will also be part of the upcoming exhibition Totenpass at Visitor Welcome Center, Los Angeles, in October 2018. The Semi-Tropic Spiritualists exhibition what can The Semi-Tropic Spiritualists Do For You? Is currently up at General Projects and Outside Gallery thru November 4th, 2018. General Projects is a division of Insert Blanc Press which is also the sponsor of this show, The People. You can see Quinn and Astri's show at General Projects during Open Hours on Thursday nights from 7-9pm in Lincoln Heights, find out more info at Insert Blanc Press dot net. Our interstitial music, as always, is Ocfif by Lewis Keller. And we go out with an excerpt from Audrey Chen's recent performance at The Unwrinkled Ear Concert Series curated by Andrew Choate and hosted by Black Editions …

On this episode our guests are Danny Snelson & Johanna Drucker. Danny Snelson is an editor, writer, and archivist recently relocated to Los Angeles. He is an Assistant Professor at UCLA where he is developing a manuscript on what he calls the little database, a way to think about digital file formats and the transformation of art and writing on the internet. He's also working on a new project on editorial poetics, thinking about a long history of bibliography and editing as a way to think about contemporary creative writing practices. Johanaa Drucker is an artist and writer who lives in Los Angeles. She is known for her work in digital humanities, artist books, experimental typography and modern art. She has two new books out, Down Drift: an Eco Fiction, from Three Rooms Press, and The General Theory of Social Relativity released by The Elephants a publisher in Vancouver. And at the end of the show we're going to hear a new track from LA band Free Bleed. Our interstitial music, as always, is Ocfif by Lewis Keller. And we go out with the title track from LA band Free Bleed's recently released EP entitled Last Woman Standing. Free Bleed is Kat Dohan and Jen Hutton, and you can find more of their music at freebleedband.bandcamp.com and the name of the track is Last Woman Standing ...

On this episode our guests are Dorothy Hoover & Emily Mast. Dorothy Hoover is an artist and set designer working in the theater and art worlds in Los Angeles. Emily Mast is an artist living in Los Angeles who works across the art, theater and dance worlds. Dorothy Hoover's exhibition Make Lover Return is currently up at General Projects gallery in Lincoln Heights, and if you're listening to this episode as it airs then you're in luck, the show runs until August 12, 2018. Find more information at Insert Blanc Press dot net … Our interstitial music, as always, is Ocfif by Lewis Keller. We go out with a song from Los Angeles band Flat Worms' self titled release. You can find them on bandcamp at flatwormsmusic.bandcamp.com and you can see them at Zebulon this Friday, July 20th, 2018. And for our listeners in the UK, you can see them on August 30th in Salisbury at Larmer Tree Gardens and on September 2nd at O2 Academy Bristol. We're gonna hear the first track off their 2017 release and the name of the song is Motorbike.

On this episode our guests are David Pagel & Iain Muirhead. David Pagel is an art critic who lives in Los Angeles. He writes regularly for the Los Angeles Times. He is a professor of art theory and art history at Claremont Graduate University and an adjunct curator at the Parrish art museum in Water Mill, New York. Iain Muirhead is a los angeles based artist via Chicago where he ran NFA space, NFA stands for Not Fucking Around. Our interstitial music, as always, is Ocfif by Lewis Keller, and we go out with a song from LA musician Annie McQueen. We're going to listen to a single of hers from Feb of this year that you kind find on bandcamp at amqmusic.bandcamp.com. The name of the track is Someday (Ain't Ever Gonna Come)

On this episode our guests are Adrian Paules & Aaron Meyers. Adrian Paules has been living in Los Angeles for 15 years. His practice consists of sculpture and drawing and he recently participated in LA Louvre's show Elemental and is currently in Vision Valley organized by The Pit at the Brand library in Glendale. Aaron Meyers is a sculptor and video artist who has been living in Los Angeles for 2 ½ years. He was recently in a show at Tin Flats put together by Thomas Linder and Camille Schefter and participated in the Built In symposium organized by Nicholas Grenier and Hunter Shaw at NAVEL. Among other things we'll be talking about Adrian and Aaron's work in relationship to an Instagram project they did in 2017 called Inventing the Wheel. Our interstitial music, as always, is Ocfif by Lewis Keller, and we go out with a track from SSION's new album O, just released last week from DERO Arcade … and the name of the song is At Least the Sky is Blue (ft. Ariel Pink)

On this episode our guests are Megan Whitmarsh & Jade Gordon. Megan Whitmarsh is a Los Angeles based artist primarily known for her textile projects as well as her multi-media work. She is currently collaborating with Jade Gordon on videos, installation and performance. Jade Gordon is also an LA artist who makes collaborative performance art, objects, and video work. She is a founding member of the performance art collective My Barbarian. Jade and Megan will be the only collaborative duo in the upcoming Made in LA 2018 biennial exhibition at the Hammer museum. Our interstitial music, as always, is Ocfif by Lewis Keller, and we go out with the first song off from Xina Xurner's brand new album Queens of the Night released just last week. Xina Xurner is Marvin Astorga and Young Joon Kwak and you can find more of their music on bandcamp at XinaXurner.bandcamp.com And the name of the track is ... Femme Destruction Featuring White Boy Scream

On this episode our guests are Johnnie Martin & David Gilbert. Johnnie Martin (aka Johnnie JungleGuts) is a writer, performance artist and media guru here in Los Angeles. David Gilbert is an artist who works in photography installation sculpture and performance. Our interstitial music, as always, is Ocfif by Lewis Keller, and we go out with a song from Minneapolis band The Stonedest ... and the name of the song is Big Struggle.

On this episode our guests are Alan Nakagawa & David Bell. Alan Nakagawa would describe himself as a sound artist and he is definitely a multidisciplinary artist, who lives and works in Los Angeles. David Bell is a spaceship operator and a coming back around to the idea of being published again writer after taking a while off. He founded and currently operates the spaceship/gallery Visitor Welcome Center in Koreatown here in Los Angeles. Our interstitial music, as always, is Ocfif by Lewis Keller, and we go out with a song by Joel Kyack aka Holly Body off his newly released album Chill Police EP. You can find the album for free or pay-what-you-like on bandcamp. And the name of the song is Small Things

On this episode our guests are Matt Siegle & Ian James. Matt Siegle lives and works in his 2005 Subaru Outback which travels around Los Angeles. Ian James lives and works in his studio in Chinatown, Los Angeles. Our interstitial music, as always, is Ocfif by Lewis Keller, and we go out with a song from LA band Free Bleed, which is Jen Hutton and Kat Dohan, off their album EP. You can find more of their music on bandcamp and on SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/freebleedband and the name of the song is LA River

On this episode our guests are John Knuth & Rachel Mason. John Knuth is an artist in Los Angeles. He started a gallery in the iconic Los Angeles bookstore, Circus of Books, which was run by Rachel Mason's parents. He also founded Circus Gallery in 2007 which operated through 2010. Rachel Mason is an artist, song writer, filmmaker and performer. She often performs as the character future clown. Our interstitial music, as always, is Ocfif by Lewis Keller, and we go out with a song from LA band Traffic Cult, which is Dan Delboy and Matt Normand. You can find more of there tunes on bandcamp. The name of the track is Windsor Tunnel.

On this episode our guests are Joel Kyack and Lisa Anne Auerbach. Joel Kyack is an interdisciplinary artist and art educator who lives and works in Los Angeles. Lisa Anne Auerbach is also an LA based interdisciplinary artist and educator. She founded The Meow, an art space in the Mt. Washington neighborhood of Los Angeles. Our interstitial music, as always, is Ocfif by Lewis Keller, and we go out with a song from Joel Kyack's new project called AGING. And the name of the track is … Ifthe

On this episode our guests are Michael Carter and Victoria Prinz. Michael Carter is an artist who lives and works in Los Angeles. Victoria Prinz is a student of Theosophy: An area of study concerning the knowledge of the mysteries of life and nature, the nature of divinity, and the origin and purpose of the universe. Our interstitial music, as always, is Ocfif by Lewis Keller, and we go out with a song from Los Angeles band Moaning. They have a new album coming out soon on Sub Pop records so keep an eye out for that and check em out on SubPop.com ... and the name of the track is … The Same

On this episode our guests are David Shook and Pablo Jofré. David Shook is a very handsome poet, translator and publisher from beautiful Los Angeles, California. Pablo Jofré es Chileno y es poeta, periodista, traductor y él vive en Berlin. His new book Abecedary, translated by David Shook, is just out from Insert Blanc Press. Our interstitial music, as always, is Ocfif by Lewis Keller, and we go out with a song from Los Angeles band The Tissues off their new album Veil just released last month. You can find more of their music on bandcamp and the name of the track is … Red Light.

On this episode our guests are EJ Hill and Dylan Mira. EJ Hill is an artist from South Central Los Angeles. Dylan Mira is an artist who lives in Los Angeles and grew up between the midwestern United States and East Asia. Our theme music as always is Ocfif by Lewis Keller and we go out with a song from Los Angeles band Fuck You Pay Us aka FUPU. You can find more of their music on bandcamp at fuckupayus.bandcamp. com and the name of the track is Spiritual Warfare.

On this episode our guests are Michael Smoler and Mitch Temple. Michael Smoler is the director of the Los Angeles gallery Blum & Poe in Culver City. He is a practicing poet and collage artist who also founded the gallery High Energy Constructs in 2005 which was a performance and exhibition venue in Chinatown, LA. Mitch Temple is a visual artist and filmmaker currently based in Los Angeles. He founded the arts non-profit Root Division while getting his MFA at the San Francisco Art Institute. In a new installment of Notes from the People we dip back into the Machine Project Archive to hear from poet Rebecca Wolff reading from her book One Morning published by Wave Press in 2015. You should pick up a copy over at WavePoetry.com This recording is from the Mystery Theater at Machine Project on March 3rd, 2015 - and you can find out more about Machine Project at MachineProject.com Our theme music as always is Ocfif by Lewis Keller. We go out with a song slash audio collage from Los Angeles musician Jeremy Kennedy. You can find more of his work on bandcamp at fmsmprc.bandcamp.com He's also editor and publisher of Rebel Hands Press and you should check out what he gets up to over there at RebelHandsPress.com We serve up an audio digestif from studio table blue, and the name of the track is … Let them eat paste

On this episode our guests are Hailey Loman and Kim Zumpfe. Hailey Loman is an artist in Los Angeles who works in performance and sculpture. She is the director and co-founder of LACA which is an acronym for Los Angeles Contemporary Archive. Kim Zumpfe is an artist, teacher and writer in Los Angeles. Her installation work often deals with architecture and how bodies move through spaces. Our theme music as always is Ocfif by Lewis Keller and we go out with a song from Los Angeles band Plus True Light. You can find their music on BandCamp and SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/plustruelight . And the name of the song is “20:43”

On this episode our guests are Pilar Tompkins Rivas and Shagha Ariannia. Pilar Tompkins Rivas is a curator and longtime resident of Los Angeles and the director of the Vincent Price Art Museum in East Los Angeles. She is currently working on two exhibitions opening at LACMA for the Pacific Standard Time LA/LA series, Home So Different So Appealing and A Universal History of Infamy. Shagha Ariannia is an artist originally from Iran who has lived and worked in Los Angeles since 2001. Her show Who Sings the Nation State? Is currently up at the Vincent Price Art Museum until June 10th 2017. In a new edition of Notes from The People we're dipping back into the Machine Project Archive. You can find out more about Machine Project at machineproject.com. We're going to hear from New York writer Corina Copp. Do yourself a favor and go pick up a copy of her book The Green Ray from Ugly Duckling Presse. This recording is from the Mystery Theater at Machine Project on April 4th, 2015. Our theme music as always is Ocfif by Lewis Keller and we go out with a song from Los Angeles band Very Be Careful off their 2012 album "Remember Me From The Party?" They are a really great band and you can easily download their music online (and you should), but you really should go see them live if you have a chance. And the name of the song is “Cumbia de Valledupar"

On this episode our guests are Emily Joyce and Cliff Hengst. Emily Joyce is an artist who lives and works in Los Angeles. Her solo show, The Masks was recently at Inman Gallery in Houston Texas. Cliff Hengst is a painter and performance artist who lives and works in San Francisco, Cliff recently performed in Asher Hartman's play “Mr Akita” which features an Emily Joyce painting, at Hauser and Wirth in Los Angeles earlier this month. The show is traveling north to BAMPFA at UC Berkeley for the additional dates of April 12th through the 16th. If you're anywhere in the Berkeley CA area, go get tickets rights now. Later in the show we'll listen to an audio excerpt of Cliff performing in Asher Hartman's play, Mr Akita, and we close out the show with a song from our guest Cliff Hengst and his husband Scott Hewicker's band Troll. It's from their first and only album "Que Son Los Trolls Y En Que Nos Ayundan?" And the name of the song is “Dinah Soar”

On this episode our guests are David Shook and Anthony Seidman along with Mijail Lamas and Sergio Eduardo Cruz. And, in fact, this is a unique episode of The People with David and Anthony standing in as guest hosts for our first ever all spanish language episode of La Gente. If you don't know David Shook, he's the editor of a wonderful press here in Los Angeles, Phoneme Media, and Anthony is a poet and translator also here in Los Angeles. They'll tell you more about themselves and our/their guests Mijail and Sergio at the beginning of the show. First, we'll ease in to this all Spanish episode with poetry by Roberto Castillo Udiarte including translation by Anthony Seidman from Roberto's new book Smooth Talking Dog on Phoneme, this recording was made during Open Press at Insert Blanc this past October 2016 and we'll hear an excerpt from the poem The Magician of the Mirrors Final Show. Our theme music as always is Ocfif by Lewis Keller and we go out with a song from LA band Sin Color, find their music on sound cloud or on their bandcamp page at sincolorband.bandcamp.com And the name of the song is Pregunto

On this episode our guests are Amar Ravva and Jessica Ceballos. Amar Ravva is a writer who lives in Los Angeles. He was recently elected to Assembly District Delegate for the Democratic Party in District 51. Jessica Ceballos is a native of the Highland Park neighborhood in Los Angeles where she currently serves as a neighborhood council member and works as an arts and community advocate. In a new edition of Notes from The People we're dipping back into the Machine Project Archive and you can find out more about Machine Project at machineproject.com. We're going to hear from Los Angeles writer and artist Jibade-Khalil Huffman for a reading of the first poem from Huffman's book Sleeper Hold published by Fence Books in 2015 and recorded in the Mystery Theater at Machine Project on March 3rd, 2015. And we close out this episode with a song by Def Sound from the "Kings.Of.Neon" project. Def Sound was recently named One of the 10 LA Artists to Watch in 2017 by the LA Weekly. You can find more vibes on soundcloud at soundcloud.com/deffery Or at defsoundmusic.com and the name of the track is "I NEED YOU 2 KNOW"

On this episode our guests are Jade Chang and Krystal Chang. Jade Chang lives in Los Angeles and is the author of The Wangs vs. The World recently released from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Krystal Chang lives in Los Angeles and is a landscape architect who also creates floral works and installations. In a new edition of Notes from The People we hear from Los Angeles activist and labor organizer Alexis Soto on the presidential election here in the United States and this new political climate we find ourselves in. And we close out this episode with the song Teriyaki Milkshake from Los Angeles band Rats off their self-titled album.

On this episode our guests are Gladys-Katherina Hernando and Adam D. Miller. Gladys-Katherina Hernando splits her time between Miami and Los Angeles as an independent curator. She also is the co-founder of and a curator at JOAN, which is a gallery here in LA. Adam D. Miller lives and works in Los Angeles and is the co-founder of the artist run gallery The Pit. In a new edition of Notes from the People we have an excerpt of an audio piece by LeRoy Stevens from his wide ranging project Menu Options. The excerpt is from a 4 ½ hour piece called Presidential Debate, 2016 specifically from the third presidential debate. The full recording was made live during each of the 2016 Presidential debates using a rotating wireless microphone positioned between active radios. And we close out this episode with the song I Have No Mouth by Pope Smashers.

On this episode our guests are Mark Allen and Zut Lorz. Mark Allen is the founder and director of machine project which is a storefront space in Echo Park, Los Angeles. And It's so much more than that and you should go right now to MachineProject.com and watch the short animation on the home page there about “What is Machine Project.” It will give you a real sense of the space, but we can say that Machine Project is a project space that brings together fine art and performance with maker culture and community engagement and everything else in the universe. Zut Lorz is an archivist at machine project and has a history in performance work. She is currently working on developing the machine project archive into a comprehensive online history of the space. Later in the show we begin tapping into the vast machine project archive in a new segment of notes from the people to bring you a recording of Anthony McCann reading the first few poems from his recent book, Thing Music on Wave Books. And we close out this episode with a track called Wash, by ING one of the many musical acts that have been regulars at machine over the years. ING is Max Markowitz and John Wood and the piece you'll hear is from an immersive underwater sound installation they did in 2013 as part of Machine Project's Field Guide to LA Architecture. You can find out more about ING at INGisMaxandJohn.com and the name of the song is Wash

Ep 43 Samira Yamin & Gina Osterloh: The People On this episode our guests are Gina Osterloh and Samira Yamin. Gina Osterloh is a Los Angeles artist who works with elements of performance and drawing in photography. She has recently shown at Ms. Barbers, Francois Ghebaly, Armory Center for the Arts in Los Angeles among many other and she is in an upcoming group exhibition at Arizona State University Museum entitled Energy Charge: Ana Mendieta and her influences. Samira Yamin is an artist and a native Angelena who has recently shown at the Craft and Folk Art Museum and at the Santa Monica Museum of Art. Her work explores issues of representation through photography. In a new edition of Notes from the People we have Harold Abramowitz reading from his new book Blind Spot at Skylight Books in Los Angeles on September 2nd, 2016. You can and should find and purchase a copy of Blind Spot from Civil Coping Mechanisms press at CopingMechanisms.net And we close out the episode with a song by Los Angeles artist Geneva Skeen from her forthcoming album Dark Speech, available September 23rd, 2016 from Dragon's Eye Recordings. You can find it online at DragonsEyeRecordings.com ... and the name of the track is Ambivalence

Ep 42 Daniel R. Small & Greg Curtis: The People On this episode our guests are Greg Curtis and Daniel R. Small. Greg Curtis is an artist who lives and works in Los Angeles. This past June 2016 he curated an exhibition, In Chambers at the gallery Ms. Barbers and in May his solo show Event October Horizon was at Monte Vista Projects. Daniel R. Small moved to Los Angeles in 2010 to work on a project that is currently a part of the Made in L.A. Biennial exhibition at the UCLA Hammer Museum. In a new edition of Notes from the People we have two poems by Lara Glenum from a reading she did at the PRB, the Poetic Research Bureau, on March 27, 2015 as part of the &Now offsite readings. There were many other great readers and you can find full recordings on our SoundCloud page just search for The People Radio on Sound Cloud. And we close out the episode with a song by Los Angeles band Forget Me Nauts from their new album "Whoash" released on cassette by Wiener Records on July 31st. Find out more about the band and their music on their site at forgetmenauts.bandcamp.com And the name of the track is Sand Buckets Challenge.

Ep 41 Asher Hartman & Chelsea Rector: The People On this episode our guests are Asher Hartman and Chelsea Rector. Asher Hartman is a Los Angeles based interdisciplinary artist who primarily works in the context of theater. Chelsea Rector is a Los Angeles based interdisciplinary poet. Our conversation centers around Asher Hartman and the Gawdafful National Theater's production of The Silver, the Black, the Wicked Dance, recently at LACMA's Bing theater this past May 13th and 14th, 2016. This dark comedic play about predation in American life was written and directed by Asher and Chelsea Rector was one of the performers in the production. You can hear a couple audio excerpts from the production of The Silver, The Black, The Wicked Dance at LACMA which we'll play during the middle of the show. And we close out the episode with music from LA band Zig Zags, with the title track from their recent EP, Slime.

Ep 40 Margaret Wappler & David P. Earle: The People On this episode our guests are Margaret Wappler & David P. Earle. Margaret Wappler lives in Los Angeles and has written about the arts and pop culture for the Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone, Elle, The Believer, The Village Voice and several other publications. Her work has appeared in Black Clock, Public Fiction and The Anthology Joyland Retro. Her first novel, Neon Green, is coming out from Unnamed Press in July 2016. David P. Earle is an artist and writer living in Los Angeles. He also is a co-director of Elephant Art Space here in Glassell Park, Los Angeles. http://www.davidpearle.com This episode in our Notes segment we feature a short radio piece by David Earle called The Searchers (Based on a True Story) which was produced for the 2008 Third Coast International Audio Festival. To close out the show, we have music from Chris Cohen, the title track from his new album As If Apart, released May 6, 2016 on the Captured Tracks label.

Ep 39 Malisa Humphrey & Diana-Sofia Estrada: The People On this episode our guests are Malisa Humphrey & Diana-Sofia Estrada. Malisa Humphrey is an artist who lives and works in Los Angeles and Diana-Sofia Estrada is also an artist who lives and works in Los Angeles who is also an avid cyclist and animal lover. This episode in our Notes from The People we're featuring a contribution from long time friend of the show Andrew Choate, an audio collage titled "Dope As Self Control" compiled from sounds he recorded on a recent trip to New Zealand. To close out the show, we have music by Peter Brotzman brought to us by Los Angeles' own Andrew Choate / The Unwrinkled Ear. He has produced a concert on May 16th, 2016, which is coming up if you're listening to this near the original air date, that will be at the Echoplex featuring legendary German saxophonist Peter Brotzmann. Brotzmann is bringing a band to Los Angeles for the first time since the 1970s, and that band is none other than the stellar London rhythm section of Steve Noble on drums, John Edwards on doublebass and, Chicago's finest, Jason Adasiewicz on vibraphone. We'll hear an excerpt from their album "Mental Shake", recorded at a recent live date at Cafe Oto in London.

Ep 38 Catherine Wagley & Dan Suess: The People On this episode our guests are Catherine Wagley & Dan Suess. Catherine Wagley writes about art in Los Angeles. She has written for the LA Weekly, CARLA and Art News among other venues. Dan Suess is an Inorganic chemist. He is currently a post-doctoral scholar at UC Davis and he's looking to start his own lab soon. This episode in our Notes from The People we're featuring a piece by the writer Divya Victor. Her book UNSUB is available from Insert Blanc Press and you can find out more about her work at divyavictor.com. The piece she'll be reading here, Paper Boats is from her forthcoming book Kith which will be available in 2017 from Fence Books. And we close out the show with a piece by Los Angeles artist and musician Corey Fogel. You can find more of Corey's work at knitdrums.tumblr.com. This piece was recorded live at the Center for the Arts Eagle Rock on May 3rd, 2014 as part of the Terra Firma art show.

Ep 37 Phil Chang & Peter Holzhauer: The People On this episode our guests are Phil Chang & Peter Holzhauer. Phil Chang is an artist and photographer who was born in Indiana and has lived and worked in Los Angeles for over two decades. Peter Holzhauer is a photographer who lives and works in Los Angeles. Originally from Maine, he did his MFA at UCLA and is an adjunct instructor at USC. In a new installment of Notes from the People this episode, we're featuring a piece by Jacob Wick an artist, improviser, and writer who lives in Mexico City. You can find out more about Jacob and his work at jacobwick.info. We're going to hear an excerpt from his piece Visualization Exercise. This group exercise is intended to assist participants in locating the role past impressions play in horizoning everyday experience. And we close out the show with an excerpt from a live performance by Jacob Wick who you heard from in our Notes from the People segment. This recording was made in collaboration with San Francisco-based Iranian artist Arash Fayez in 2015 at Héctor, in Mexico City and the name of this piece is Mil Disculpas

Ep 36 Gabie Strong & Michael Morley: The People On this episode our guests are Gabie Strong & Michael Morley. Gabie Strong is a Los Angeles based artist, noise musician and designer. Michael Morley is an experimental musician and visual artist from New Zealand. During the show we listen to an excerpt from a recent track by The Fuck Chairs or TFC - which is Michael Morley & Morgan Oliver from Dunedin, New Zealand - and the name of the track is Major Blues 001 And we close out the show with an excerpt from a live performance of a piece titled "Peak Experiences," by Gabie Strong recorded at Shangrila, Joshua Tree, California. September 9 2015. The recording was released on the cassette "Mineralism", in January 2016. as a Limited edition of 100 and was Mastered by Mark Wheaton at Catasonic Studios.

Ep 35 Nikki Darling & Sam Cohen: The People On this episode our guests are Nikki Darling and Sam Cohen. Nikki Darling is a writer and critic in Los Angeles, and she describes her work as investigating notions of power, identity, lust and drive. Joining our conversation is Los Angeles writer Sam Cohen whose chapbook Gossip is available from Birds of Lace Press. Later in the show we also hear Anne Boyer read a poem from a recent performance here in Los Angeles. And we close out the show with a recent Godley and Creme flip from friend of the show DJ Sí Sí Sí Gracias, alter ego of SUN ARAW. You can hear more of his music at www.sunaraw.com - and the name of the track is SAM CREME.

Ep 34 Amanda Ross-Ho & Erik Frydenborg: The People We close out the show with a song from Erik Frydenborg's band Net Shaker from their 2013 LP I'm So Cold on Kill Shaman Records. You can find them on Bandcamp at netshaker.bandcamp.com and the name of the track is "Car Is Over." Amanda Ross-Ho is an artist based in Los Angeles. She received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and received her MFA from the University of Southern California. Her piece, THE CHARACTER AND SHAPE OF ILLUMINATED THINGS (FACIAL RECOGNITION) was part of the show Image Objects organized by Public Art Fund in New York City. Erik Frydenborg is also an artist based in Los Angeles. He received his BFA from the Maryland Institute, College of Art, and an MFA from the University of Southern California. Frydenborg's most recent show An Erik Frydenborg Omnibus is currently up at The Pit II in Glendale, CA.