the body is the brain

the body is the brain
Podcast Description
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.
Podcast Insights
Content Themes
The podcast focuses on the intersections of art and social justice, with specific topics including embodied practices in directing, the politics of casting, and the role of performance in community building. Episodes feature discussions around notable works such as The Magnolia Ballet and collaborative performances like Beyond, emphasizing themes like liberation, queerness, and cultural safety.

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.
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…
ABOUT THE ARTIST
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 a focus on the individual (The Bureau of Self-Recognition, 2011 – 2013), followed by a study of pairs (The Book of Everyday Instruction, 2015 – 2017), and recently concluded an investigation at the scale of the immediate family (Obligation To Others Holds Me in My Place, 2018 – 2024). She will continue to scale up gradually until she’s working at the scale of the metropolis. She is currently working on Since feeling is first (2023 – ongoing), a series of works examining intimacy at the scale of the courtroom and the law.
You can learn more about her work at chloebass.com.
@publicinvestigator
RESOURCES
Links to specific projects by Chloë Bass discussed in the podcast:
#sky #nofilter: Hindsight for a Future America
this is a film
soft services
Perspective Alignment
RecessAnalog Residency
Art as Social Action: An Introduction to the Principles and Practices of Teaching Social Practice Art, by Gregory Sholette (Editor), Chloë Bass (Editor), Social Practice Queens (Editor)
Lauren Berlant, Cruel Optimism
Aruna D'Souza,review of the exhibitCantando Bajito: Chorus at the Ford Foundation Gallery, featuring Chloe Bass, Archivo de la Memoria Trans Argentina (Trans Memory Archive Argentina), Tania Candiani, Hoda Afsharand, and Textiles Semillas (Textiles as Seeds), and curated by Roxana Fabius, Beya Othmani, Mindy Seu, and Susana Vargas Cervantes.
Aruna D'Souza, Writer and Art Critic
Judith Butler,The Psychic Life of Power
Ruth Wilson Gilmore,Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation
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