That's Not Art - Broken Area Podcast
What's art and who decides what it is? In our podcast, we discuss the variety and the approaches taken by a multitude of artists to create their artwork. How often we hear the words "that's not art!" Mark and myself, we try to consider the art world in a personal and authentic way.
- Update frequency
- every 21 days
- Episodes
- 50
- Years Active
- 2015 - 2019
Episode 51 David Lynch "The Art Life"
This week, we discuss David Lynch’s “The Art Life.” Mark thought it was interesting to see how much Lynch’s painting explained a lot about his movies’ dark looks and feels. We loved watching Lynch pa…
Mon 13 May 2019
Episode 50 How do you relate something without making it a spectacle ?
Episode 50! Wooohoo! We looked at the work of Elle Pérez today. This photographer is interested in showing images that question the boundaries of gender, fragility, inside and outside. Their work fle…
Thu 18 Apr 2019
Episode 49 Damnatio Memoriae
Spring will never arrive! Sault Ste. Marie saw the most snow this year, Isabelle can see 5 ft tall snow banks out her window while Mark can see grass out of his in London Ontario. Isabelle would rath…
Mon 25 Mar 2019
Episode 48 A visit with Yves Larocque and Mónica Márquez
Isabelle welcomes two special guests today, Yves Larocque and Mónica Márquez, owners and facilitators of Walk the arts, an artistic company that oversees the administration of BRAVO-ARTS, in Ottawa. …
Sun 10 Mar 2019
Episode 47 Nauman Orozco Sze and ways of teaching
Mark and Isabelle are back after a long pause. Glacial temperatures have kept Isabelle inside, this week we saw -30 C pretty much all week in Northern Ontario. In this episode, we discuss artists t…
Thu 31 Jan 2019
Episode 46 Ryan Amadore's Everyone Knows This Is Nowhere
Last Saturday September 29th, I had an exhibit on board the MS Norgoma but I did not want to miss the opportunity to speak with Ryan Amadore before he left with his amazing work for Kapuskasing where…
Mon 01 Oct 2018
Episode 45 Jason McLean Part Two
Jason, Mark and Isabelle continue their meandering conversation. It take us to many places: Lola festival, talking about Yoko Ono, Bus Shelter pieces, Prince Trivia, Undiscovered Facts, Roberta Bon…
Wed 18 Jul 2018
Episode 44 Jason McLean Part one
What a treat ! Mark sat with Canadian Artist Jason McLean who was visiting from Brooklyn last Sunday. Jason is a multitalented artist who is currently showing at the Michael Gibson Gallery in London …
Wed 18 Jul 2018
Episode 43 Of Wyeth, reading habits and meeting new friends
Why do we torture ourselves reading about Trump ? Mark talks about his reading habits and recounts memories of the last time he played a video game. Perhaps video games have changed to allow more fu…
Fri 09 Feb 2018
Episode 42 Photography, cinematography and other tidbits
Sally Mann's talent is indisputable. Using her own children, to create that amazing series, was perhaps a bit exploitative. Where are your limits as an artist ? As with most of our conversations, we…
Mon 27 Nov 2017
Episode 41 Ben Portis
This week, Mark has some bad news, he lost a dear friend, Ben Portis. Luckily, Mark had a chance to spend some time with his friend back in April. They went to see an orchestra. To his family, colle…
Thu 27 Jul 2017
Episode 40 A conversation with Sam Decter
In this episode, Isabelle has a conversation with a musician friend from Toronto. Sam was the co-owner of the Gore Street Café, in Sault Ste. Marie (2015-2016). In this episode, I reconnect with him …
Thu 13 Apr 2017
Episode 39 Cindy Sherman and Transformation
Why are clowns so creepy? It could be the ambiguity we feel about these characters, are they safe or not? Is it the fact that the brain is wired to find average features attractive and therefore trus…
Tue 21 Mar 2017
Episode 38 Snow, Prince and appropriation
Micheal Snow and Richard Prince, two artists who have a different idea of intellectual property. Snow VS Eaton, read about it here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_v_Eaton_Centre_Ltd Read about…
Thu 09 Mar 2017
Episode 37 Christoph Niemann in the Netflix Series "Abstract: The Art of Design"
Christoph Niemann talks about his work and his process. He designed many of the magazine The New Yorker front covers. There is a new series on Netflix Abstract : The Art of Design which we are watchi…
Sun 19 Feb 2017
Episode 36 Katarina Grosse, Joan Jonas and Omer Fast
We watched an Art21 movie on three artists. Katarina Grosse makes gigantic sculptural paintings involving trees, dirt, and the space of the art gallery itself. Joan Jonas makes performance drawings…
Mon 30 Jan 2017
Episode 35 Diana Al-Hadid and the Venice Biennale
Mark suggested we watched Diana Al-Hadid, a young artist of Syrio-american artist on Art21. Al-Hadid gives a tour of the Venice Biennale https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqZ9B5L_5vY . I worked on self…
Sat 07 Jan 2017
Episode 34 Diana Thater and Stan Douglas
Mark did some computer programming and he liked that, it's a creative program solving that he likes. Stan Douglas of Vancouver brings us inside the old neighbourhood he grew up in. He did a show call…
Thu 08 Dec 2016
Episode 33 Liz Magor and Matthew Barney
Today we watched the Art21 website and we both picked an artist to view and we discussed these artists. Mark went for the work of Matthew Barney who made a film series called "The Cremaster" which he…
Sun 27 Nov 2016
Episode 32 Pixels versus Pigment
Pixels and technology have inundated our lives. Charles Baudelaire said that urban living or the city was "an immense reservoir of electric energy." in his essay "The Painter of Modern Life" (1863).…
Sun 23 Oct 2016
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