Dead Hare Radio Hour

After a VERY long hiatus, we're back with another episode!  This one, episode # 44, features a conversation with Harvey Tulcensky recorded when Chris visited Harvey's studio in Manhattan last Spring.  Harvey's artwork for the past 10 years plus has consisted of a growing body of small moleskin sketchbooks, numbering well into the hundreds,  that he fills up with ballpoint pen drawings as if it were a metabolic process.  Within this corpus of sketchbooks are countless opportunities for creating discrete statements by corralling a selection of books into a composition .  Harvey hangs stacked arrangements of sketchbooks, streching their accordion pages out horizontally to create large, expressive wall reliefs. A selection of books filled with ink applied with rubber stamps.   In our talk, Harvey tells of growing up in Detroit, making his way to NYC, via Vermont, living large as a ranch hand in Idaho, and how he arrived at the work he does today.    

  On this episode, we have a special audio project.  To observe the tenth anniversary of Dia:Beacon, we have an old timey radio drama...kind of.....ok, not really.  What it is is a documentation, through interpretive readings, of reviews of Dia:Beacon which have been posted on Yelp.com over the past eight years.  Yelp, in its current form has been around since early 2005 and the first posted review of Dia:Beacon dates to April of that year, and to date, 80 reviews have since been posted.  This project documents these reviews as a collective barometer of this museum 10 years after opening its doors. As with the authorities in the film Rashomon who try to discern the truth behind a murder through the incongruous testimonies of the participants, our aim is to triangulate the essence of the museum through the divergent first hand accounts of visitors who thought enough of their experience to voice their critiques and share their suggestions online for the benefit of the rest of us. 

Last December Chris sat down with Ariane Koek to learn about Collide@CERN, the artist residency program she created which pairs artists and scientists in creative collisions at CERN, the home of the Large Hadron Collider just outside Geneva, Switzerland. Click here to hear this episode.   Some links related to our conversation with Ariane: CERN ArtsAtCERN twitter acct Collide@CERN   - on Hyperallergic Ariane's blog Beauty Quark Ars Electronica  - Applications for the digital arts residency are being accepted until Sept 26, 2013. Julius Von Bismarck Gilles Jobin Bill Fontana The Universe of Sounds talks by Bill Fontana and Subodh Patil on July 4, 2013 Bill Fontana on Bad at Sports LHC Sound - the two sound works, Higgs Jet Simple and Calorimeter EndCaps from the LHC sound library. Chris Drury  Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees by Lawrence Weschler Chris' Geneve Journal Kickstarter campaign which took him

Joseph Bertolozzi is a composer/musician based in Beacon, NY - and he's currently in Paris taking samples of sounds from the Eiffel Tower.  On the eve of his departure for Paris, Joseph spoke with Chris about Tower Music and his previous project, Bridge Music which had him similarly swinging mallets at the Mid-Hudson Bridge in Poughkeepsie NY.   In this episode we hear a sampling of tracks from Bertolozzi's 2009 release on the Delos label, which is available wherever fine music is sold, including on Joe's website, and Amazon. This recording trip to the Eiffel Tower will continue through this week and it's documented extensively on the Tower Music Facebook page.   After his conversation with Joseph, Chris mentions the project for an upcoming episode of DHR for which we are asking folks to submit recordings of themselves doing dramatic readings of Yelp reviews of Dia:Beacon.  Details on how you too can participate can be found here. Finally, visit EFF.org to see and support their effort to

We're inviting you to participate in creating our next episode coming up in May.  Visit our deadhareradiohour.com for details on how you can get your voice on the program.  May 13, 2013 is the deadline.

A Roxy Paine tree welcomes visitors to Crystal Bridges.   Carolina Miranda is back on the Dead Hare Radio Hour (she was the program's very first guest.)  In a conversation recorded in May 2012, Carolina Chris to discuss the Crystal Bridges Museum which opened in November of 2011 in Bentonville, AR.   Devorah Sperber's take on the Last Supper. Carolina's Crystal Bridges photo diary on her blog, c-monster.net includes images of several of the works discussed. Carolina's most recent radio piece for NPR on the artist Llyn Foulkes. A recent update on the Walmart bribery scandal in Mexico. NPR's series on art destinations.   Martin Johnson Heade's exquisite paintings of rain forest orchids, butterflies and humming birds.   Vik Muniz responds to Heade's orchid paintings. This Washington Examiner story states that the 600,000 Crystal Bridges visitors in the museum's first year is double the expected number.   A Wall Street Journal story on

After a long hiatus, a new podcast episode. Matthew and I visited the studio of Jomar Statkun to speak with him, Jared Friedman and Christopher Stackhouse about This Red Door. The artists have re-mustered to bring This Red Door into its 2nd iteration at Kunsthalle Galapagos in DUMBO in Brooklyn through January 27th. PS 122 Kenji Fujita Incident Report, Hudson, NY. Video of Kara Walker's TRD talk. This episode closes with Willie Survive's remix and rap over Jomar's Chinese Painting sound piece. More links relevant to our conversation are forthcoming.

In case you needed to know what a Deer Pile looks like. This episode is the next to last to be broadcast over the airwaves eminating from WVKR, Vassar College Radio in Poughkeepsie.  The podcast version of the show will continue, possibly in a modified format and in the frequency of releases. Matthew has been busy participating in Simon Draper's (Simon appeared in Show #26) Habitat for artists which has been in DC part of Biodivercity, curated by Amy Lipton of EcoArtSpace as a part of the 5x5 project happening throughout Washington DC.   JD Dreyer of Phantom 8 Tattoo did not tattoo unicorns or butterflies on Chris's body....he did, however tattoo these things:   A scene from Gerhard Richter Painting.  Gerhard Richter Painting is showing at Upstate Films in Rhinebeck, NY through April 19. Season 6 of Art 21 has begun, viewable on PBS. Chris mentions the recent 60 Minutes segment presented by that art curmudgeon, Morley Safer's, o

A detail of the copious amounts of material hanging on the wall in Joel Schapira's studio.   The First segment of this week's show continues the last show's theme of taking a break from art. First, Chris, along with artists Mark DeLura, Peter Acheson (who joined us on the road trip DHRH Episode #30), and Deirdre Swords pay a visit to the studio of Joel Schapira in Connecticut. Joel tells us about his three month break from painting - which unexpectedly stretched out for two + years. Below are images from our studio visit with Joel showing some of the works you hear us discuss in this segment.  The captions for the studio visit shots were written by Joel. This first image is of a painting of a painting - in the same family as the one that finally brought Joel's painting hiatus to an end. On the left, one of the Wolf Teeth Evermore Agains. it's 36" high x 19" wide. On the right, au la la. it's a housey construction on old pickets...abo

So how are we with our New Years resolutions? Still holding strong in March? Or is writing the check each month to pay for your membership as close as you get to the gym? We at the Dead Hare Radio Hour were curious what kind of rules artists where proposing for themselves with 2012. One of the interesting results of snooping around the web was that we saw several artists considering the idea of taking a year away from art. What does that mean? Why would you do it? What rules do you follow? How does that effect the people we are? We have to thank Eve Mosher for placing these questions in your minds. So we turned to Eve, Jason Eppink, and Deborah Fisher, all successful artists and creatives, to discuss what a year without art might look like. Topics that came up in discussion Art as a form of identity and the definitions we use to define us. Balance Reflection Mythologizing and Narrativizing our work. Innovation and art’s role in culture shifts Process 350.org High Waterline Seeding the City A Blade of G

A bird, man and that man's clarinet This week's episode delves into a couple of events happening over the next weekend.  First, Chris checks in with Musician, Composer, Author, Philosopher, David Rothenberg to hear about the upcoming Survival of the Beautiful All Day Wonder Cabinet happening at the Cantor Film Center on Feb 25, 2012.  In addition to David Rothenberg, the Wonder Cabinet participants are: Jaron Lanier Gail Patricelli Richard Prum Ofer Tchernichovski (Chris recorded a great conversation between David and Ofer who have collaborated together in exploring birdsong...all we can say is that you had to be there.  You REALLY HAD TO BE THERE to hear this great conversation since Chris inadvertently deleted the audio recorded of the conversation which was intended for an episode of. Dead Hare Radio) Christine Roeske Anna Lindemann Philip Ball Tyler Volk Suzanne Anker David Soldier Vitaly Komar David Dunn David Abram Scott Snibbe Baba Brinkman Laurie Anderson Elisabeth Wei

This week we have a preview of 2012 from a sampling of Hudson Valley exhibition institutions.  In this episode we speak with: Livia Straus, Director of the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art in Peekskill, NY. Mary-Kay Lombino, the Emily Hargroves Fisher '57 and Richard B Fisher Curator at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY. Ariel Shanberg, director of the Woodstock Center for Photography in Woodstock, NY. Carl Van Brunt, gallery director at the Woodstock Artists Association and Museum (WAAM) in Woodstock, NY. Sara Pasti, the Neil C Trager director of the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz in New Paltz, NY.    Michael Asbill of the Kingston Museum of Contemporary Art in Kingston, NY.

This week's show is the very special Dead Hare Radio Hour Christmas Thing/ Holiday Show.  Inspired by Chris' annual Christmas Thing sculptures, this episode is a little bit of a patchwork....  Christmas Thing 2011, by Chris Albert We start sitting around the bonfire at the Slaats family solstice party.  Chris and Matt are Joined by DHRH contributor Sara Anderson Lock and Chad Fust.  Chris' original idea was to treat the listeners to an hour long medley of bad art related press releases set to all our favorite xmas tunes. He begins to sing some lyrics from a release for some exhibit called "Spacewomb" to the tune of "Up on the Rooftop"... and then thinks better of it.  (Not to worry, though.  He's determined to make this work for next year.  Thanks to Paddy Johnson of ArtFagCity.com and Ken Hamel of Denverarts.org for contributing some brilliant press release candidates.  Here's a rundown of relevant links and notes for this episode: The Owl Project's 2012 Cultur

Coming into the holiday season, we at the Dead Hare Radio Hour were asking ourselves what we valued most about this time of year. Family visits? Stockings hung by a fire? Presents under the tree? Mistletoe? This was something we had to think about for a little while as there are so many good and bad things revolving around us at the moment. But, if we had to pick one, the consensus would be food. With waist bands growing and New Years resolutions not too far off, we thought what better than think about the role of food in the arts and as a part of culture. We caught up with the editor of Edible Hudson Valley, Eric Steinman. Who gives us a smattering of treats about food in the Hudson Valley and broader culture. Then we spoke with Tracy Candido. Provocateur of food centered art projects such as Sweet Tooth of the Tiger and the Community Cooking Club. Notes from our talk with Eric Steinman Poughkeepsie Farm ProjectWild Hive FarmPaisley FarmHearty Roots FarmCabbage Hill Farmmarin Thin

Outside Peter Acheson's studio (2009) This week's episode is a Thanksgiving - inspired Road Trip Theme as Chris hit the open road last week. Chris replays Michelle Hyun's reflection on Tony Smith's Highway moment from Dead Hare Radio Episode 28. Chris reads an excerpt from an nterview with Tony Smith, conducted by Samual Wagstaff in 1966 in which Smith speaks about a revelation had on the NJ Turnpike.   Links to the interview notes as they appear in Minimal Art, edited by Gregory Battcock can be found in pdf form on a Harvard website.  Reference made in Sculpture Since 1945 by Andrew Causey on google books. Next we eavesdrop on a conversation between Chris and the painter Peter Acheson (on MAYKR.com) while driving in a cargo van through Massachusetts and Connecticut in a driving rain storm. Sundry items and folks mentioned by Peter: Cindy Sherman Christopher Wool Josh Smith Richard Prince The Phillips Collection Albert Pinkham Ryder at The Phillip

In a time when the idea of alternatives is ever present, we at Dead Hare thought it might be interesting to try to define how an alternative art practice might be defined. How are artists moving away from the art market and tourism focused cultural production. So we reached out to one of the foremost curators delving into these ideas. That being Nato Thompson. Since January 2007, Nato has organized major projects for Creative Time such as The Creative Time Summit (2009 and 2010), Paul Ramirez Jonas’s: Key to the City(2010), Jeremy Deller’s It is What it is with New Museum curators Laura Hoptman and Amy Mackie (2009), Democracy in America: The National Campaign (2008), Paul Chan’s acclaimed Waiting for Godot in New Orleans (2007) and Mike Nelson’s A Psychic Vacuum with curator Peter Eleey. Previously, he worked as Curator at MASS MoCA where he completed numerous large-scale exhibitions including The Interventioni

This is our first new show after our hiatus in October.  This episode also marks the first new show produced on our new every-other-week broadcasting/podcasting schedule.   Chris interviews Michelle Hyun about her curatorial research project Dear Pratella, What do you hear?  Dear Pratella was on view as an exhibition project,    Sundry items mentioned during today's episode:  CCS Bard Spaces Speak, Are you Listening? by Barry Blesser and Linda-Ruth Salter (Listing on Amazon) Carsten Seiffert Francesco Balilla Pratella Art of Noises Manifesto Luigi Russolo Ultra Red WBXC Bard College Radio WGXC Community Radio Free 103.9 FM Marina Rosenfeld   Kenneth Goldsmith - ubuweb   Robert Sember of Ultra Red Gregory Whitehead Rozalinda Borcila Diapason Gallery Hong Kai Wang (we hear an 8 min excerpt of I Am Not A Very Good Extemporaneous Speaker; In Fact, I Am No Speaker At All, 2011 performance* / audio installation, 50:42) Museum of

A work by Joe Corrozzo. All aboard this week's show.  Chris and Matthew discuss attending two different events from this past weekend; Matthew, the Creative Time Summit in NYC and Chris, the Beacon Open Studios in Beacon, NY. Elia Gurna and Peter Iannarelli join Chris on a tour of artist studios at Spire Studios (unfortunately, Peter's contribution to the recording evaporated with much of the days captured audio). Rick Price's work on view at Mill St. Loft in Beacon, NY A view of the rained out 1st attempt to present Electric Projected back in August. While at Mill St Loft's Riverside Gallery, Elia and Chris run into Rick Price, a participant in Electric Windows, who describes the details of the Electric Projected event scheduled for Oct 1, 2011 6p-12a in Beacon.  Chris speaks with Karlos Carcamo about his impressions of the BOS offerings: Laura Kaufman Tess Elliot Erica Hauser Beacon Studios (the old Beacon High School) Ushio Shinohara (who's name Karlos

This week is an exciting mix of art talk derived from an event at the Beacon Art Salon that took place earlier in the summer of 2011. Organized by Stacy Ward Kelly, the Beacon Art Salon was an ongoing series of conversation between artists in the Hudson Valley about their work. The word "was" is important here as the salon is now fading into the ether of history as Stacy has sadly left us for far off places. We wish her good luck. In what was the last session, Simon Draper and Elia Gurna both talk about their artistic practice. Both are engage in a more direct, participatory way of working that includes the community in the production of their art. Throughout their talk they dig deeply into what it takes to develop such a practice and how they've come to realize the importance of working in these ways.  

For this week's episode, we had hoped to bring you part two of a walking review of the Windows on Main St exhibit in Beacon, NY and which closed this weekend.  Unfortunately, the weather was not cooperative, so Chris sat down at Bank Sq Coffee House to speak with Beacon Artists Steve Rossi and Susan Walsh. Items discussed in our conversation: Windows on Main St.  Before and After, Nicole Ganas' contribution to the Windows on Main St exhibit.   Nicole Ganas Theresa and Liam Goodman (see below). Yeah, man. Sean Breault The James Kalm Report Vernissage TV Cool Hunting Spencer Finch's work The River That Flows Both Ways at the Highline in NYC. The de Kooning Retrospective @ MoMA Philip Glass performing @ MoMA as part of the Carlito Carvalhosa project on view in the museum's atrium through Nov 14, 2011 Installation view of Bedtime Stories. courtesy, Kazumi Tanaka Chris reads Kazumi Tanaka's artist statement accompanying her exhibit Bedtime Stories at Hudson