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A 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...
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A 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.
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The Department of Useful Art
The Department of Useful Art
10 AUG 2024 · In 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 create a new kind of art and science collaboration.
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
2 FEB 2023 · Ever 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 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.
https://www.ayumi-matsuzaka.com/future-beer-cycle-berliner-kreislauf - 2015
by https://www.ayumi-matsuzaka.com/
Barley grown at the https://terraboga.de/
Malting at the https://prinzessinnengarten.net/de/home/
Documentation:
https://contact1523.wixsite.com/futurebeer-0506
https://vimeo.com/151476896 (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 https://freesound.org/people/HDM2013/sounds/179439/
flush: "Toilet Flush, European, Distant, Lid Up.wav" by InspectorJ (http://www.jshaw.co.uk/)
19 JAN 2023 · Slowly 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 country they were killed in don't know how to pronounce them?
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 http://ulkusungun.info/
October 3rd performance hosted by the Maxim Gorki Theatre
Video installation version on display as part of the https://offener-prozess.de/en/exhibition-offener-prozess/ exhibition. https://www.offener-prozess.net/en/takdir-die-anerkennung.
NOTE: this is the 2021 version which does not have the updated pronounciation of Mehmet (Mɛmɛt) Kubaşık.
Please go support the https://www.nsu-tribunal.de/en/ and https://www.nsu-watch.info/en/.
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 ÅžimÅŸek
Abdurrahim Özüdoğru
Süleyman Taşköprü
Habil Kılıç
Mehmet Turgut
Ä°smail YaÅŸar
Theodoros Boulgarides
Mehmet Kubaşık
Halit Yozgat
Michèle Kiesewetter
3 JUL 2022 · Dortmund, 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 way. The Mirror Barricade is a work of social sculpture and the subject of the pilot episode of The Department of Useful Art.
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.
A 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...
show more
A 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.
show less
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| Author | Summer Banks |
| Organization | Useful Art |
| Categories | Visual Arts |
| Website | instagram.com |
| departmentofusefulart@gmail.com |
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