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.
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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.
”Space is just a container. How do we work filling that container in different ways from the street to the nightclub to the proscenium? They're forms to be fucked with.”
–Anna Thompson, slowdanger
We talk about: coming up in Pittsburg's queer club culture, staying connected to a DIY approach while making performance for the proscenium stage, what it means to queer dance, Sara Ahmed, abstraction, re-imagining Hector Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique, working together through the Creative Administration Research program through the National Center for Choreography, and much more…
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
taylor knight & anna thompson are co-founding artistic directors of slowdanger, a multidisciplinary performance organism based out of Pittsburgh, PA since 2013. slowdanger uses systematic approaches to movement, technology, sound, queer world building and ontological examination to produce performance work, utilizing process based practice to delve into circular life patterning including effort, transformation, and death. From directing music videos to scoring plays, they transform their shape to adapt to a variety of different containers. slowdanger has performed across the United States, Canada and Europe in venues ranging from proscenium theater and gallery to nightclub and dive bar. Their work has been shared at the Carnegie Museum of Art (Pittsburgh), Dance Place (DC), The Warhol Museum (Pittsburgh), Kelly Strayhorn Theater (Pittsburgh) and more. They have held residencies at Carnegie Mellon University’s STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, Texas A&M School for Performance, Visualization, and Fine Art, University of Maryland’s Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, and more.
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SHOW RESOURCES
Creative Administration Research, National Center for Choreography
VIA Festival, Pittsburg music and new media festival
Kahlon, Curated by Baltimore-based rapper Abdu Ali
Sara Ahmed, Orientations: Toward a Queer Phenomenology
Sara Ahmed, Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others
Luciana Achugar, Pleasure Body, Plant Body
Katherine Profeta, Dramaturgy in Motion: At Work on Dance and Movement Performance
Miguel Gutierrez, Does Abstraction Belong to White People?, BOMB Magazine
Hector Berlioz, Symphonie Fantastique
PBS Keeping Score – Symphonie Fantastique
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