http://instagram.com/usefulartpodenVisual ArtsCopyright Summer Bankshttps://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/a4e1a97186a5cc073b4dec79e3a15fa0.jpghttp://instagram.com/usefulartpodSat, 10 Aug 2024 18:13:18 +0000Summer BanksSummer Banksdepartmentofusefulart@gmail.comA podcast about works at the intersection of art and activism. Through interviews with the artists and other stakeholders, host Summer Banks and co-host Cory Tamler take a comprehensive look at socially-engaged, participatory and maybe even useful art.falseepisodichttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/science-and-art-special-colours-of-quantum-frontiers--60980659
Featuring interviews with composer Michael Berentsen, choreographer Niels Weijer, scientists Dennis Rätzel and Gregor Pieplow, and researchers at the institutes of the QuantumFrontiers Cluster of Excellence: Dorothee Tell, Fiona Kirk, and Benjamin Knispel. The music used in this episode was created in the performance by Michael Berentsen as composer/conductor and Niels Weijer and Mike O’Connor as performers. Mastering and editing by Hannah Alongi. This episode was made possible with support from QuantumFrontiers.

More photos and a video of the performance can be found here: https://www.quantumfrontiers.de/en/current/events/colours-of-quantum-frontiers]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/60980659Sat, 10 Aug 2024 18:12:00 +0000Summer BanksIn this special episode of The Department of Useful Art, we look at art in the context of science outreach and a performance called Colours of Quantum Frontiers. Follow the artists on their journey through labs, concepts and matter waves on a quest to...
Featuring interviews with composer Michael Berentsen, choreographer Niels Weijer, scientists Dennis Rätzel and Gregor Pieplow, and researchers at the institutes of the QuantumFrontiers Cluster of Excellence: Dorothee Tell, Fiona Kirk, and Benjamin Knispel. The music used in this episode was created in the performance by Michael Berentsen as composer/conductor and Niels Weijer and Mike O’Connor as performers. Mastering and editing by Hannah Alongi. This episode was made possible with support from QuantumFrontiers.

More photos and a video of the performance can be found here: https://www.quantumfrontiers.de/en/current/events/colours-of-quantum-frontiers]]>2383art,artists,collaboration,dance,gravitationalphysics,matterwaves,music,newmusic,quantumfrontiers,science,usefulartfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/future-beer--52615677Future Beer, Berlin Cycle. Because it's not just about the ingredients you use, but what went into growing those ingredients.
In this episode Summer chats with Ayumi about closing nutrient cycles, the power of disgust, and the difference between art and business. And Cory and Summer look at the work's playfullness, how it incorporates non-human participants, and the right time to drink beer in a closet. Also featuring Cristal Peck, a brewer and biologist, and Stefan Riekeles, curator of the Dortmund Cycle.


Future Beer, Berlin Cycle - 2015
by Ayumi Matsuzaka
Barley grown at the TerraBoGa- Projekt
Malting at the Prinzessinnengarten
Documentation:
Blog
Video (Dortmund)

Podcast hosted and produced by Summer Banks
Co-host: Cory Tamler
Music: Ben Southam
Image Credit: Ayumi Matsuzaka, printed in the Dortmunder Neu Gold – Kunst, Bier & Alchemie catalogue - Curator and Publisher: Stefan Riekeles
Sound Effects from FreeSound.org:
beer: by hdm2013
flush: "Toilet Flush, European, Distant, Lid Up.wav" by InspectorJ (www.jshaw.co.uk)]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/52615677Thu, 02 Feb 2023 15:20:40 +0000Summer BanksEver wonder just what goes into making a delicious beer? Ayumi Matsuzaka, a Japanese artist based in Berlin, went beyond the usual home brew process in her 2015 work Future Beer, Berlin Cycle. Because it's not just about the ingredients you use, but...Future Beer, Berlin Cycle. Because it's not just about the ingredients you use, but what went into growing those ingredients.
In this episode Summer chats with Ayumi about closing nutrient cycles, the power of disgust, and the difference between art and business. And Cory and Summer look at the work's playfullness, how it incorporates non-human participants, and the right time to drink beer in a closet. Also featuring Cristal Peck, a brewer and biologist, and Stefan Riekeles, curator of the Dortmund Cycle.


Future Beer, Berlin Cycle - 2015
by Ayumi Matsuzaka
Barley grown at the TerraBoGa- Projekt
Malting at the Prinzessinnengarten
Documentation:
Blog
Video (Dortmund)

Podcast hosted and produced by Summer Banks
Co-host: Cory Tamler
Music: Ben Southam
Image Credit: Ayumi Matsuzaka, printed in the Dortmunder Neu Gold – Kunst, Bier & Alchemie catalogue - Curator and Publisher: Stefan Riekeles
Sound Effects from FreeSound.org:
beer: by hdm2013
flush: "Toilet Flush, European, Distant, Lid Up.wav" by InspectorJ (www.jshaw.co.uk)]]>1722activism,agriculture,art,artivism,beer,berlin,berlinart,brewing,circleeconomy,energymanagement,environment,environmentalactivism,farming,gardening,microorganisms,multispecies,multispeciesart,participatoryart,usefulart,wastemanagementfalse12fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/takdir-die-anerkennung--52476895Takdir. Die Anerkennung is one artist's response to this ongoing problem. A participatory performance that's part language lesson and part collective ritual, it's the subject of our conversation with Stuttgart-based artist Ülkü Süngün.

Takdir. Die Anerkennung - Berlin 2021
by Ülkü Süngün
October 3rd performance hosted by the Maxim Gorki Theatre
Video installation version on display as part of the Offener Prozess exhibition. Online version of the work here.
NOTE: this is the 2021 version which does not have the updated pronounciation of Mehmet (Mɛmɛt) Kubaşık.

Please go support the NSU Tribunal and NSU Watch.


Podcast hosted and produced by Summer Banks
Co-host: Cory Tamler
Music: Ben Southam
Sound from: Maxim Gorki Theatre Berlin
Photo Credit: Summer Banks

Dedicated to the memory of
Enver Şimşek
Abdurrahim Özüdoğru
Süleyman Taşköprü
Habil Kılıç
Mehmet Turgut
İsmail Yaşar
Theodoros Boulgarides
Mehmet Kubaşık
Halit Yozgat
Michèle Kiesewetter]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/52476895Thu, 19 Jan 2023 07:05:01 +0000Summer BanksSlowly but surely the names of the victims are starting to become an integral part of protests against far-right extremism and police brutality. But what about the names of those who were murdered over two decades ago? And what if most people in the...Takdir. Die Anerkennung is one artist's response to this ongoing problem. A participatory performance that's part language lesson and part collective ritual, it's the subject of our conversation with Stuttgart-based artist Ülkü Süngün.

Takdir. Die Anerkennung - Berlin 2021
by Ülkü Süngün
October 3rd performance hosted by the Maxim Gorki Theatre
Video installation version on display as part of the Offener Prozess exhibition. Online version of the work here.
NOTE: this is the 2021 version which does not have the updated pronounciation of Mehmet (Mɛmɛt) Kubaşık.

Please go support the NSU Tribunal and NSU Watch.


Podcast hosted and produced by Summer Banks
Co-host: Cory Tamler
Music: Ben Southam
Sound from: Maxim Gorki Theatre Berlin
Photo Credit: Summer Banks

Dedicated to the memory of
Enver Şimşek
Abdurrahim Özüdoğru
Süleyman Taşköprü
Habil Kılıç
Mehmet Turgut
İsmail Yaşar
Theodoros Boulgarides
Mehmet Kubaşık
Halit Yozgat
Michèle Kiesewetter]]>2005activism,art,artivism,berlin,history,journalism,memorial,memorialization,nsu,participation,participatoryart,postmigrant,socialpractice,usefulartfalse11fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/pilot-the-mirror-barricade--50453887
Mirror Barricade - Dortmund 2016
by TOOLS FOR ACTION in collaboration with Theater Dortmund
Photo Credit: Regenfrei productions

Podcast hosted and produced by Summer Banks
Music: Ben Southam
Voiceover: Shiri Lanton
Sound from: TOOLS FOR ACTION
original from 2021. remastered and rereleased in 2022.]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/50453887Sun, 03 Jul 2022 22:20:06 +0000Summer BanksDortmund, 2016. A neo-Nazi march is scheduled to take place in June, and a group of artists decide to take a different approach to participating in the counterprotests. And join up with the city theater and a variety of other organizations along the...
Mirror Barricade - Dortmund 2016
by TOOLS FOR ACTION in collaboration with Theater Dortmund
Photo Credit: Regenfrei productions

Podcast hosted and produced by Summer Banks
Music: Ben Southam
Voiceover: Shiri Lanton
Sound from: TOOLS FOR ACTION
original from 2021. remastered and rereleased in 2022.]]>1893action,activism,art,artivism,barricade,opensource,participatoryart,protest,sculpture,socialsculpture,toolsforaction,visualartfalsefull