Bad at Sports

Bad At Sports is a weekly podcast about contemporary art. Founded in 2005, the series focuses on presenting the practices of artists, curators, critics, dealers, various other arts professionals through an online audio format.

Bad at Sports is a arts podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 990 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.

Unknown Host hosts Bad at Sports, a arts show with 990 episodes published.

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  Episode #966

  Bad at Sports Episode 966: Claire Ashley

  Aug 17, 202658 minS1

  Duncan MacKenzie and Brian Andrews sit down with artist Claire Ashley at the Door County Contemporary Art Fair for a conversation that wanders from broken-down minivans to Scottish standing stones, from inflatable sculpture to protest aesthetics, and from the economics of artistic survival to the philosophy of color. Ashley discusses nearly two decades of building monumental inflatable sculptures that refuse to stay still—works that exist somewhere between architecture, bodies, creatures, performance, and public intervention. They explore why artists should embrace experimentation, why humor can be politically powerful, and how softness, absurdity, and vulnerability can become serious sculptural strategies. Links Claire Ashley — https://clairehelenashley.com/ Door County Contemporary Art Fair — https://www.doorcountycontemporary.com/ Lee Bontecou — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Bontecou Nick Cave — https://nickcaveart.com/Main/Intro.html Paul McCarthy — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_McCarthy José Lerma — https://kavigupta.com/artists/42-jose-lerma/ Weisman Art Museum — https://wam.umn.edu/ Cameron Art Museum — https://cameronartmuseum.org/ Saint Kate – The Arts Hotel — https://www.saintkatearts.com/ Callanish Standing Stones — https://www.historicenvironment.scot/visit-a-place/places/calanais-standing-stones/ Isle of Lewis — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isle_of_Lewis

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  Episode #965

  Bad at Sports Episode 965: Jaymee Harvey Willms

  Aug 13, 202655 minS1

  Duncan MacKenzie and Brian Andrews sit down with artist, curator, arts administrator, and Door County Contemporary co-founder Jaymee Harvey Willms for an unexpectedly personal and funny conversation. What begins as a discussion about goats unfolds into an exploration of grief, religious deconstruction, contemporary art, and the rituals we create to survive profound loss. Once a painter immersed in saturated color, Jaymee found herself unable to tolerate color at all, turning instead toward broken ceramics, white paint, damaged objects, and sculptures that ask what it means for something broken to continue functioning. Links Jaymee Harvey Willms http://www.jaymeeharveywillms.com/ Door County Contemporary https://www.doorcountycontemporary.com/ Familiar (Milwaukee) https://www.familiarmke.com/ Walker Art Center https://walkerart.org/ Mary Gabriel — Ninth Street Women https://www.joanmitchellfoundation.org/joan-mitchell/citations/ninth-street-women Lee Krasner https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Krasner Jackson Pollock https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_Pollock JoAnne Carson https://joannecarson.com Adam Frelin https://adamfrelin.com Hair + Nails https://hairandnailsart.com

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  Episode #964

  Bad at Sports Episode 964: Jenal Dolson

  Aug 10, 202656 minS1

  Duncan MacKenzie, Ryan Peter Miller, and Brian Andrews are joined by painter Jenal Dolson for a conversation recorded live from the Door County Contemporary Art Fair in Wisconsin. Dolson discusses her vividly textured paintings, her installation practice, and the role of touch, memory, and sensory experience in shaping the visual language of her work. The conversation ranges from tactile abstraction and flocked wallpaper to popcorn ceilings, raccoon vision, painting directly onto gallery walls, collaboration, titling artworks, and why artists continue making work in the first place. Links Jenal Dolson https://jenaldolson.com/home.html Andrew Rafacz Gallery https://andrewrafacz.com/ 65GRAND https://65grand.com/ Good Naked Gallery https://www.goodnakedgallery.com/ Door County Contemporary https://doorcountycontemporary.com/ Deb Sokolow https://www.debsokolow.com/ Trish Tillman https://www.trishtillman.com/ Rebecca Morris https://www.byrebeccamorris.com/ Chris Cran http://chriscran.com/

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  Episode #963

  Bad at Sports Episode 963: Tyson Reeder

  Aug 6, 202657 minS1

  Duncan MacKenzie and Ryan Peter Miller finally welcome painter, educator, and perennial instigator Tyson Reeder to Bad at Sports. Recorded during Door County Contemporary Art Fair, the discussion wanders through the history of Milwaukee's DIY art scene, the legendary Dark Fair, artist-run culture, teaching, painting, collaboration, and the productive tension between sincerity and absurdity. Reeder reflects on organizing exhibitions as artistic experiments rather than scholarly declarations, describing curating as "a speculative mindset" where the question is always what if? The conversation also explores painting's unique solitude, collaborative work with his brother Scott Reeder, the role of humor in contemporary art, regional artistic identity, materiality after the pandemic, why artists still need to stand in front of paintings, and how drawing together can become an antidote to digital isolation. Links Tyson Reeder https://canadanewyork.com/artists/tyson-reeder Scott Reeder https://canadanewyork.com/artists/scott-reeder Canada Gallery https://canadanewyork.com/ Door County Contemporary Art Fair https://www.doorcountycontemporary.com/ Process Print Shop https://process-process.com/ Swiss Institute https://www.swissinstitute.net/ White Columns https://whitecolumns.org/ Threewalls https://three-walls.org/ Green Gallery http://www.thegreengallery.biz/ Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture https://www.skowheganart.org/

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  Episode #962

  Bad at Sports Episode 962: Sophia Chai

  Aug 3, 202632 minS1

  This week Duncan MacKenzie and Brian Andrews sit down with artist Sophia Chai at the Door County Contemporary Art Fair to discuss photography that insists on becoming something else. Working between painting, sculpture, installation, and large-format analog photography, Chai creates images that challenge our assumptions about perspective, representation, and the mechanics of seeing itself. The conversation moves from camera obscuras and four-by-five view cameras to Plato's Allegory of the Cave, cave painting, Korean language, immigration, and the colonial language embedded within photographic practice. Chai reflects on transforming her graduate studio into a walk-in camera obscura after September 11th, collaborating with architectural space rather than simply depicting it, and asks whether photography might become a practice of witnessing rather than capturing. Name Drops & Links Sophia Chai – https://www.sophiachai.com Hair + Nails – https://hairandnailsart.com/ University of Illinois Chicago School of Art & Art History – https://artandarthistory.uic.edu/ Kerry James Marshall – https://www.davidzwirner.com/artists/kerry-james-marshall Judith Kirshner – https://stories.mcachicago.org/speaker/judith-kirshner/ Plato – https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/plato/ Camera Obscura – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camera_obscura Plato's Allegory of the Cave – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_cave Jeff Wall – https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/artist/jeff-wall Barbara Kasten – https://barbarakasten.net/ Johannes Vermeer – https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/rijksstudio/artists/johannes-vermeer Peter Jackson – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Jackson The Lord of the Rings – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings_(film_series)

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