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• We Are Art People in conversation with Loren Munk

  Loren Munk is an (amateur) art historian, an alchemist and maker of vibrant paintings about the history of the New York Art community. His nom de guerre is James Kalm — an art fanatic that rides a bike around the boroughs and visits galleries and art shows in New York City.Loren has obtained a unique perspective and understanding of the New York phylogeny of art and its communal happenings. This was a default process of acquiring knowledge, through delivering art supplies for Utretch, to the artists' studio. Making notes of his findings of who and where everyone was, Loren started making connections, and analyzing systems of thinking and behaviors. Take a look at his paintings and the story will be clear. Something Loren reflects on, is the idea of the symbiotic relationships that exists within art communities. Saying hello to your artist neighbor at the bodega you buy your milk, sharing a drink at the local bar, it may not be a significant exchange but these passings are present. Munk believes it is these engagements and interactions that are just as essential to an artists life, as to what is happening in the studio. We discuss the aesthetic propensities of James Kalm, who makes wobbly videos, which are posted on two prominent youtube channels; The James Kalm Report and James Kalm Rough Cut - quoted as the ‘freshest and most urgent art coverage on the internet”. With 18 years of footage, these two channels have amassed over1600 programs, and many millions of views. Loren has presented his artworks across Europe and New York, his most recent exhibition at was a dynamic display of paintings with Ruttkowski;68 and Rail Curatorial Projects, presented as the 10th installment of Singing in Unison; Loren Munk & James Kalm [Curated by Phong H. Bui & Cal McKeever]. James Kalm previously wrote art criticism for The Brooklyn Rail, from 2000 to 2012.Links:@lorenmunkstudiowww.lorenmunk.comwww.youtube.com/@jameskalmroughcut/videoswww.youtube.com/@jameskalmSinging in Unison, Part 10 Loren Munk & James KalmShow notes:Irving Sandler Railing Opinion: A Call to Art CriticsThe Brooklyn RailJane GoodallSoho Art MateiralsRed HookSun-thickened linseed oilFollow @weareartpeopleSign up to our newsletter www.weareartpeople.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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• We Are Art People in conversation with David Watson

  David Watson is an experimental musician, composer and organizer. He most often performs with the guitar or the highland bagpipes. His work encompasses improvisation, composition, and he is the organizer of Striped Light, an avant-garde performance series in New York City, co-curated with guitarist Ian Douglas-Moore.We discuss the formidable journey from New Zealand to New York City, arriving by bus in 1987. The complicated nuances of practicing a profoundly audible instrument, in a densely populated city and the impact of building artist-led initiatives as a way to explore performance and collaboration. David has made a life of bringing people together, continuing a dialogue around experimental music and methods for performance. He is part of trio Glacial - a collaboration of 25 years, with Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth) and Tony Buck (The Necks). And, he has collaborated with choreographers, musicians and performers, including Chris Abrahams, Robert Ashley, Frisner Augustin, Marcia Bassett, Anthony Coleman, David First, Shelley Hirsch, Samara Lubelski, Ikue Mori, Yoshi Wada, Phil Niblock et. al. David was a core member of The Primitive Art Group, a music group formed in Wellington, New Zealand [1981-1986]. For 2025, The Foundation for Contemporary Arts has awarded David the Alvin Lucier Award for Music.Links:@davidwatsunhttps://davidwatsonmusic.netBandcamp https://davidwatsonmusic.bandcamp.comStriped Light https://www.instagram.com/striped_lightThe Primitive Art GroupGlacialShow notes:The Knitting FactoryFoundation for Contemporary ArtsAlvin LucierHighland BagpipeDesperately Seeking SusanStranger Than ParadiseGamalan The Metropolitan Museum of Art Zuqqara Egyptian bagpipeFollow @weareartpeopleSign up to our newsletter www.weareartpeople.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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• We Are Art People in conversation with Todd Bienvenu

  Todd Bienvenu is a painter, living in Brooklyn, New York. His paintings are a reflection of his biographical universe — they are thick, direct and humorous. Resourcing images from his daily life and occurrences, his paintings feature tattooed rockers, beach bums, urban crashes and mosh pits. It is life in motion.We discuss the journey of making comic books during his adolescence, to navigating a life as a painter in New York, contending with the materiality of paint and paper in the studio or making a tiny pizza delivery man, reminiscent of his early days riding around Brooklyn. Todd is represented by Almine Rech and Galerie Sébastien Bertrand, in Geneva. He has exhibited work internationally, in Hong Kong, London, New York, Brussels and Switzerland. In 2018, he was recognized and received an award from the American Academy of Art & Letters, for excellence in painting, conferred by Peter Saul.Links:@toddbienvenuhttps://www.alminerech.com/artists/358-todd-bienvenuhttps://sebastienbertrand.com/artist/todd-bienvenuhttps://www.artsy.net/artist/todd-bienvenuShow notes:Little Rock, Arkansas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Rock,_ArkansasRomare Bearden https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romare_BeardenAaron Michael Skolnick https://www.marchgallery.org/exhibitions/the-entertainer/Hannah Rowan https://www.hannah-rowan.com/Bill jensen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Jensen*Poetry* Wave of Blood [2025] p.66 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariana_ReinesPioneer Works, Brooklyn https://pioneerworks.org/You might have to feel it to believe meTo believe how wretched I was but alsoHow determined. Poetry isn't a professionA person simply goes into. You haveTo be fucked up to do this and especiallyTo stay. It does not attract the bestOr the brightest. We are some of the mostSanctimonious low-attention-span narcissistsAround. But it gave me my lifeWhich I had a longing to see nakedAnd it held me up to livingIn a very naked wayAnd showed me breathingAnd gave me spaceTo find my way ...Follow @weareartpeopleSign up to our newsletter www.weareartpeople.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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• We Are Art People in conversation with Mark Fell

  Mark Fell is a multidisciplinary artist and writer, living in Rotherham, UK. His body of work includes electronic compositions and performance, sound installation, critical writing, educational systems and curatorial projects.We discuss software-based composition, the 'bendy' nature of traditional Indian music and the experience of poly-rhythmic compositions and synthetic sound. His practice is expansive and in response to the human condition, looking for possibilities that can reveal new insights and procedures for participating with digital systems.Mark's computational electronic compositions draw on both a compelling minimal aesthetic and complex algorithmic and mathematical structures. He has worked closely with Rian Treanor and most recently developed a collaborative open-source web based program — Intersymmetric. He is one part of snd with Mat Steel, naming their project after the extension often used for computer sound.Other collaborators include Yasunao Tone, Laurie Spiegel, Okkyung Lee, Will Guthrie, Ernest Edmonds and Carl Michael Von Hausswolff. Mark has released work on labels including Line, Editions Mego and Raster Noton. In public space, Mark has presented work at international institutions including The Institute of Contemporary Art (London), The Serpentine(London), Victoria and Albert Museum(London), Whitechapel Gallery (London), VAC Foundation Palazzo delle Zattere (Venice), Hong Kong National Film Archive, The Baltic (Gateshead), Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, La Casa Encendida (Madrid), Laboral (XIxon), The Australian Centre For Moving Image (Melbourne), MOMA(NYC), Issue Project Room (NYC) and in 2017 he was the curator of “The Geometry of Now” at V-A-C foundation, Moscow.Structure and Synthesis: The Anatomy of Practice was published in 2022, charting Mark’s unorthodox theories on time, structure, technology. Mark has lectured on topics related to sound, performance, digital culture, and technology at institutions around the world.** trigger warning ** 00:04:00 - 00:15:00 social-political conflicts that exist in Rotherham, UK are discussed.Links:https://www.markfell.com/Structure and Synthesis: The Anatomy of Practice [2021] https://www.urbanomic.com/book/structure-and-synthesis/Intersymmetric: https://intersymmetric.xyz/Show notes:Rotherham, UK https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RotherhamThrobbing Gristle, The Second Annual Report [1977]Yamaha TX81Z https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamaha_TX81ZMax: https://cycling74.com/Mohammad Mortazavi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZbeAWK8yvwFollow @weareartpeopleSign up to our newsletter www.weareartpeople.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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• We Are Art People in conversation with Eileen Myles

  Eileen Myles (they/them) is a poet, novelist, activist, art journalist and a 1992 presidential candidate. They have been living in New York City since the mid-70s and now spilts their time between Marfa,TX.We discuss the tension of poetry, the movements of the planets and their relationship to poetry, reading to a live audience and the power of 3x cakes and 3x rounds of "Happy Birthday", sung at their 75th celebration in Marfa, TX.They have an excellent website which offers a very short / kind of short / really long bio options to read, including a homage to Animals. Eileen has been publishing books since 1978, recognized for their vernacular personal-narrative writing and titles include Chelsea Girls, Not Me, Pathetic Literature and The importance of being Iceland. They have made a formative contribution to the The Poetry Project, have contributed poems and others works to Art Forum, New York Review, Vice, Dazed and Confused, The New York Times, Playboy et al. Catalog essasy have been written about artists including Nicole Eisenman, Carolee Schneeman, Tabboo! Nan Goldin, and Jack Pierson. Using their platform to speak towards our social climate, Eileen’s participation in the world remains accountable. In 2022, they were inducted into the American Academy of Arts & Letters.Links:https://www.eileenmyles.com/Social: @eileen.mylesShow notes:'Eileen Myles chronicles a people's history of East River Park' Document Journal https://www.documentjournal.com/2022/07/eileen-myles-chronicles-a-peoples-history-of-east-river-park/The Trip, Written and Directed by Eileen Myles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omcdaUy6JfEThe Poetry Project https://www.poetryproject.org/Onomatopoeia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OnomatopoeiaFollow @weareartpeopleSign up to our newsletter www.weareartpeople.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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