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.
- Update frequency
- every 8 days
- Average duration
- 63 minutes
- Episodes
- 917
- Years Active
- 2005 - 2025
Bad at Sports Episode 813: Diane Christiansen
Today, your Bad at Sportscenterers take refuge in Diane Christiansen's room at the Chicago Cultural Center's exhibition An Instrument in the Shape of a Woman. Her enrapturing paintings and animations…
Bad at Sports Episode 812: Nura Ali
Nura Ali’s wide-ranging practise investigates the linguistic scaffolding upholding the assumptions we bring to the act of reading and writing. We speak about her most recent exhibition, blackness, wh…
Bad at Sports Episode 811: Kelly Lloyd
Today on Bad at Sportscenter: Kelly Lloyd! Yes, that one. Kelly and Jesse sit down in the cupola at the Ox-Bow School of Art — mere hectometers from where they met almost a decade ago — to talk about…
Bad at Sports Episode 810: Caitlind r.c. Brown & Wayne Garrett
Caitlind r.c. Brown & Wayne Garrett
Caitlind r.c. Brown & Wayne Garrett explore the interspace between seemingly polarized entities: light + dark, nature + culture, DIY + institutional, individual + …
Bad at Sports Episode 809: Ox-Bow Dreams with John Rossi and Mac Akin
Bad at Sports Episode 808: Naomi Potter and a Portrait of Calgary
In this episode Duncan reaches out to Naomi Potter and the Esker Foundation to curate a series of conversations, in the hopes of evolving a portrait of the future of Calgary’s contemporary art world.
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Bad at Sports Episode 807: Laura Letinsky
Bad at Sports Episode 806: Nick Cave!
This week Nick Cave chats with Brian and Ryan about his career-spanning survey exhibition Forothermore at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. Cave shares his process conceiving of his dazzling…
Bad at Sports Episode 805: Maryam Taghavi
This week Maryam Taghavi casts a spell over Brian and Duncan. Will they recover? We don't know. What we know is this... Taghavi plays and pulls codes at the edge of beauty and language. What about la…
Bad at Sports Episode 804: Azadeh Gholizadeh
The Bad at Sports crew is joined by Azadeh Gholizadeh. Her works explore the body, landscape, and the fragmentation of memory. Her works use weaving and needle work to generate and worry her images a…
Bad at Sports Episode 803: Selva Aparico
Splitting her time between Spain and Chicago, Selva Aparicio is a research based interdisciplinary artist, whose work includes sculpture, installation and performance. On today’s episode of Bad at Sp…
Bad at Sports Episode 802: Inga Danysz and Haynes Riley
Bad at Sports Episode 801: Jeffrey Michael Austin
Everything Must Go, so let’s. Jeffrey Michael Austin — interdisciplinary artist and musician — joins Ryan Peter Miller and Jesse Something Malmed to talk about their reflective new exhibition at the …
Bad at Sports Episode 800: Ashanté Kindle and Josie Love Roebuck
Bad at Sports welcomes Ashanté Kindle and Josie Love Roebuck from LatchKey Gallery and their exhibition "CROWN" at Expo Chicago 2022.
Working from a place of healing, "CROWN" explores and rejoices …
Bad at Sports Episode 799: Chris Larson
Bad at Sports Episode 798: Gio Swaby
Bad at Sports Episode 797: Kera MacKenzie and Andrew Mausert-Mooney
This week on Bad at Sports, Kera MacKenzie and Andrew Mausert-Mooney, the filmmakers behind Make A Distinction, join Jesse and the Block Museum’s Curator of Media Arts, Mike Metzger. Make A Distincti…
Bad at Sports Episode 796: Rachel Adams and the Bemis!
Bad at Sports Episode 795: EXPO returns! And the Barely Fair!
It's the first week in April and that means its time for EXPO Chicago. Brian chats with the fair's director Tony Karman about returning from the pandemic after two and a half years and how best to ge…
