LISTEN TO EPISODE 035: CODE SWITCHING W/CHEECH MARIN
B&TB recently met Cheech Marin at Thomas Paul Fine Art, where Cheech has been busy selecting from an exceptional cast of Chicano artists that he and the gallery will be presenting next week at the Palm Springs Fine Art Fair. Our conversation drifted from the definition of Chicano, to the artists of New America who fit this definition, to a curiously common linguistic phenomenon called “code switching” which, as we discovered, is a phenomenon that happens on a subconscious level all the time: in bilingual communication, in monolingual socio-cultural flag waving, and especially, as Cheech explains, in the work of the Chicano artists for whom he advocates.
ORIGINAL AIR DATE: 2012-02-10 @ 1pm PST
We visited the studio of artist David B. Jang to discover mounds of commercially available materials—stacks of styrofoam cups, loops of hose fluorescent tubes, inverted snack bags and paper towels juiced-up in resin—crafted into new, organic sets of rules.
Also on the show, artist/writer/curator Tucker Neel discusses directing at 323 Projects, a call-in art gallery in which physical works flat-out don’t exist…until now.
AIR DATE: 2011-04-29 @ 1pm PST
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![Installation photo from Marcos Lutyen’s Speed Dreaming, featured in EPISODE 006: RAMageddon, AIR DATE 2011-05-20 @ 1pm PST
On the eve of the supposed May 21st Rapture, B&TB takes a stroll through the Marcos Lutyens exhibition with curator Bryson Strauss (of LA Art Machine/BritWeek 2011) to explore a more likely end of the world as we know it—the futurist fantasy of technological “singularity” in which machines will someday rule, hyper-evolving at an exponential rate without our help. We also meet up at a bowling alley with the web design group Philosophie for beers and technical details on how RAMageddon will actually go down, and what you can do to prepare for it.
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![Tim Howell’s live edge work, as vaguely referenced in the much-too debaucherous EPISODE 004: MANUFACTURING AMBIENCE.
You can find more of Tim’s exceptional handiwork at www.hahasoso.com.
AIR DATE: 2011-05-07 @ 1pm PST
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![Featured in EPISODE 012: THINK BIG
From Dwell on Design 2011, Artist Sasaki at work on Heartbeat, benefiting victims of the 2011 Japan quake and tsunami.
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Beer & Tall Buildings meets up with designer/maker/artist/craftsman/metalsmith Boris Bally at Altered Space Gallery on Venice’s Abbot Kinney (where his DE SIGN is currently on exhibition) and ends up talking materials, margins and the beer of the day, Leffe.
AIR DATE: 2011-04-22 1pm PST
A: An object that tells of the loss, destruction, disappearance of objects”
Step into Joe Davidson’s current installation Beauty Salon, a pop-up show at a vacated strip mall on the South-West corner of Santa Monica Boulevard at Crescent Heights, and it feels like you’re witness to a found aftermath. Here, the act of leaving is frozen under a thin white film. Experience this, or any of Joe’s work, and one thing is clear: he doesn’t make art objects or art products…He makes dialogues.
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![EPISODE 013: WHITE & SPACE
LISTEN LIVE TODAY @ 1PM ON COAGULA RADIO
Step into Joe Davidson’s current installation Beauty Salon, a pop-up show at a vacated strip mall on the South-East corner of Santa Monica Boulevard at Crescent Heights, and it feels like you’re witness to a found aftermath. Here, the act of leaving is frozen under a thin white film. Experience this, or any of Joe’s work, and one thing is clear: he doesn’t make art objects or art products…He makes dialogues.
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Listen to EPISODE 012: THINK BIG
Last weekend Beer and Tall Buildings ran over to the Dwell on Design event at the L.A. Convention Center to discover cardboard box forts, alien lighting, and an interesting blend of dance club, cardiogram and artist studio. At a time when national austerity and a global movement toward post-consumption are in full swing, this year’s Dwell on Design tagline–-Go Big, Find Design–-seemed a bit out of step. However, in deference to a host publication that B&TB has long admired for its forward-thinking in affordable(ish) design, we were compelled to read the “big” metaphorically, so we stepped onto the convention center floor in search of some big ideas…
AIR DATE: 2011-07-01 @ 1pm PST
