the body is the brain

the body is the brain is a podcast about art and social justice hosted by artist and attorney Hope Mohr. Through conversations with artists and cultural workers, we explore the practice, production, and politics of contemporary artmaking.

the body is the brain is a arts podcast hosted by Hope Mohr, with 19 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.

Hope Mohr hosts the body is the brain, a arts show with 19 episodes published.

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  Episode 16: Daniel Park

  May 29, 20261h 2mS0

  <p>We talk about: organizing artists, participatory performance, Dionysus in 69, audience co-creation of a work, how artists are both similar to and different from other workers, the conflicted class identity of artists, building artist power as a labor force, guaranteed basic income, Daniel reads a manifesto, and much more…</p><p><br></p><p>ABOUT THE ARTIST</p><p>Daniel Park is a theatre and performance artist, organizer for economic justice in the cultural sector, and the cooperative business manager and a worker-owner of Obvious Agency. Obvious Agency makes playable theatre, spreads democratic and cooperative practice, and organizes arts workers an...

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  Episode 15: Jerome Ellis

  Feb 12, 20261h 28mS0

  <p>We talk about…stuttering as a teacher, "bending the clock" as a disability justice and a racial justice practice, sitting with the ethics of living on stolen land, engaging with the fraught archive of slavery, "opening time" on the page, wrestling with questions of voice in the archive, the healing work of putting the archive of slavery in conversation with an archive of plants, collaborating with ensemble, singing hymns, Saidiya Hartman, m. nourbeSe philip, and much more. </p><p><br></p><p>ABOUT THE ARTIST</p><p><br></p><p>Jerome Ellis describes themself as a “blk disabled animal, stutt...

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  Episode 14: Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener

  Dec 5, 202555 minS0

  <p>We talk about: attention as a material, the politics of audio description, queer abstraction, tuning ensemble in improvisation, avoiding saying "no" when directing, translating site-specific improvisation to a proscenium context, the difference between impulse and desire, refusal as a practice, making experimental dance with AI, and much more…</p><p><br></p><p>ABOUT THE ARTISTS</p><p><br></p><p>Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener's work involves the building of collaborative worlds through improvisational techniques, digital technologies, and material construction. They met as dancers in the Merce Cunningham Dance company and since 2010 they have created over 25 multidisciplinary dance works in...

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  Episode 13: Eric Avery

  Jul 21, 202552 minS0

  <p>We talk about: audience-determined structures, reparations as a culture-building project, Augusto Boal's "rehearsal for revolution," balancing audience choice with a desire to "get into the harder stuff," the "curb cut effect" (why reparations are for everyone), and much more… </p><p><br /></p><p>ABOUT THE ARTIST</p><p>Eric Avery is an interdisciplinary artist and cultural organizer with over eighteen years of professional experience in theatre, interactive performance, and community-based projects. Since 2018, they have focused on applying a reparationist framework to their creative practice, organizing projects, and life. This dedication to relationship-centered process has put Avery in partnership wit...

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  Episode 12: Chloë Bass

  Jul 1, 20251h 1mS0

  <p>We talk about… the difference between social practice and socially engaged art, how Bass' installation Wayfinding relates to performance, the "singular family narrative" as a fiction, how lawmaking and artmaking differ, using language as a material, being a "writer for the encounter," and much more…</p><p><br></p><p>ABOUT THE ARTIST</p><p>Chloë Bass is a multiform conceptual artist working in performance, situation, conversation, publication, and installation. Her work uses daily life as a site of deep research to address scales of intimacy: where patterns hold and break as group sizes expand. She began her work with...

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