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.
Episodes
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…
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener's work involves the...
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…
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Eric Avery is an interdisciplinary artist and cultural organizer with over eighteen years of professional experience in theatre, interactive ...
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...
We talk about: supporting socially engaged artists, how design of arts funding pathways influences outcomes, co-leadership in the arts, the overlap between art practice and arts leadership, A Blade of Grass, and much more....
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Lu Zhang is an artist and arts administrator. She’s been at A Blade of Grass (ABoG) for two years. Before joining ABoG Lu was the Initiatives Director of United States Artists (USA), a natio...
"People don't acknowledge how much capital is in cultural capital. So people will hoard it. That is what creates the gatekeeping. We were there to care. Rather than being the gatekeepers, we became the caregivers."
--Rhiannon MacFadyen
We talk about artist-led mutual aid, regranting in community, reparations partnerships, calls to action for arts funders, defining who an artist is for eligibility purposes, and mor...
"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 He...
"When we gather together, the forces around us become louder. There's a danger in gathering, but there's a grounding in it as well."
--Sholeh Asgary
We talk about: the relationship between photography and sound practice, the politics of sound, transcribing the waterways of Iran into music, incorporating the politics of a venue into site-specific installation, how sound becomes object, and much more...
ABOUT T...
"It comes back to not letting the Trump Administration frame the problem, but remembering the world and the environment and the circumstances under which we want to work."
– Yanira Castro
We talk about: the arts funding landscape, inviting audiences to create systems of cooperation, "thinking in an emergency," performance as civic orientation, resilience practices, "scoring freedom" and much more…
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We talk about: curatorial practice, radical hospitality in performance, ethical grantmaking in the arts, softening the architecture of engagement, operationalizing "art for change," the current state of arts funding, and much more…
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Since retiring as a dancer and choreographer, Michèle has managed performing arts projects and professional development programs for On the Boards (Seattle), New England Foun...
We talk about: scores for performance, weaving politics and abstraction, dance and visual art in conversation, revolutionary time, Ranu's painting process, the importance of sari fabric in her work, hybridity, installation "versus" performance, the fires in LA and much more…
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Ranu Mukherjee makes hybrid work in painting, film installation and performance to expand imaginative capacities. Commissione...
"The way to strengthen our rights is to continually use them and demand that they be recognized." -- Annie Dorsen
We talk about: the Artist Open Letter to the NEA, resistance strategies, algorithmic theater, speechmaking as an embodied practice, and much more...
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Annie Dorsen is a MacArthur Fellowship awarded director and writer whose works explore the intersection of algorithmic art and live performance. Most recently...
"At the core of nonstopping is a very political stance of each individual, maintaining, cultivating, nurturing, sustaining the agency of their attention." -Jeanine Durning
We talk about: the practice of "nonstopping," embracing not knowing as a generative state, going before we're ready, sustainability as an artist, Steve Paxton, Deborah Hay, Pema Chodron, and much more….
ABOUT THE FEATURED ARTIST
Jeanine D...
"My weapon against destructive forces is creative forces." –Aejay Antonis Marquis
We talk about preparing to direct as an embodied practice, facilitating ensemble process, the politics of casting local, creating liberatory spaces for Black and queer bodies, Lorraine Hansberry, The Magnolia Ballet, and much more…
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
AeJay Antonis Marquis (They/Them) is a performance artist, scholar, educator, a...
Episode 1: Pina, queering as a transitive verb, wrecking, drag as political practice, visibility …
A conversation with artists Eric Garcia and Chuck Wilt about their collaborative show, Beyond, “an evening-length production that reassembles Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring into an intergalactic, Queer extravaganza.”
ARTIST BIOS
Eric Garcia is a San Francisco-based devised dance-theater artist, drag queen, community organizer, and the Co-Di...
Hi friends. I'm Hope Mohr, artist and advocate.
For decades I have woven artmaking and activism.
the body is the brain is a podcast about art and social change. Through conversations with artists and cultural workers, we explore the practice of contemporary artmaking.
The podcast extends my decades-long work as a community-based curator of live performance. My guests include artists I know and love. Our conversations are informe...
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