Alternate Currents Discussion Series

Amplify's Alternate Currents discussions offer insight, context, and expand on perspectives around how justice in the arts is interpreted, documented, and enacted.

Alternate Currents Discussion Series is a arts podcast hosted by Amplify Arts, with 18 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Amplify Arts hosts Alternate Currents Discussion Series, a arts show with 18 episodes published.

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  AC Discussion | Small Energies

  Apr 29, 202542 minS0

  <p>Recently, Amplify worked with MdW Atlas as guest editors on a series of posts running throughout the month of April. Artists and organizers Lydia Cheshewalla, Patrick Costello, and Alajia McKizia, all of whom have connections to Omaha, and the Midwest more broadly, through land, lineage, and kinships, contributed to the series. As a point of departure, we asked them to consider composting as a framework for transformation, renewal, and exchange and referenced Carolyn Goldsmith's Compost, A Cosmic View with Practical Suggestions, a now out of print volume published in 1973 that includes tips for composters, gestural drawings, and prompts that...

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  AC Discussion | Meet Me Where You Are (Or, How Not To Starve An Artist)

  Jan 27, 20251h 13mS0

  <p>Artists and organizers Amanada Huckins, Alex Jochim, Joseph Orzal, Bilgesu Sisman, Marcey Yates, and Rachel Ziegler sat down to discuss how artists are experimenting with alternative models of economic organization and building resilience in the face of precarity and the uncertain future of arts funding.</p> <p><br /></p> <p>Listen here or read an abridged transcript on the Alternate Currents blog (https://www.amplifyarts.org/ac-blog). </p>

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  AC Interview | Rosela del Bosque

  Nov 7, 202237 minS0

  <p>We recently sat down curator, researcher, and cultural practitioner Rosela del Bosque to talk more about her collaborative project, The Family Archive of the Colorado River. She shares more about tracing the deep histories, political incongruities, and intensely personal memories circling the changing ecology of the Colorado River Basin in her creative research. Listen to the full conversation below or visit Amplify's website to read through the transcript for links to additional resources. </p>

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  AC Interview | Lydia Cheshewalla + Sarah Rowe

  Oct 4, 202240 minS0

  <p>We recently sat down with artists Lydia Cheshewalla and Sarah Rowe to talk about GROUNDING, their highly collaborative exhibition at Amplify’s Generator Space in Omaha, which explored reciprocal human and more-than-human kinship systems through acts of somatic co-regulation with place, land, and earth.</p> <p>Listen on here or visit Amplify's website for a full transcript and links to additional resources.</p>

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  AC Interview | John Cohorst + Holly Kranker

  Mar 9, 202230 minS0

  <p>We recently sat down with John Cohorst and Holly Kranker, Amplify's 2019 Public Impact Grant recipients, to talk more about their project CAR>GO (Community Activated Resource on the GO), a shipping container they modified to accommodate anything from group meetings to creative studio and/or project space.</p> <p>Originally conceived as a gathering space to exchange ideas, have conversations, and collaborate on neighborhood based initiatives, John and Holly talk about the pandemic's impact on the project, adapting to the unexpected, and welcoming people into the space in 2022 with an open call for collaborators.</p> <p>Listen on here...

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