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Jacob Jackmauh
October 22, 2024



Complete playlist below; tracks in yellow were cut for time.
For this breezy fall show, artist Jacob Jackmauh brings a selection of songs that run the gamut from the corporate innocence of a Kidz Bop cover of an Ice Spice/Nicki Minaj collab to the moody Witch House of S4lem. This playlist was definitely influenced by YouTube—check out the amazing video by Oneohtrix Point Never—and TikTok.

One of Jackmauh’s choices is a Lim Giong piece from the soundtrack of the 2004 Jia Zhangke film The World. The film takes place in Beijing World Park, a huge amusement garden containing models of iconic art and architecture from five of the seven world continents. Jake describes his interest in reproductions, models, novelty sculptures, and roadside attractions, and he tells us about his series of sculptures incorporating large fiberglass molds and how these objects relate to tourism and experience.

We talk about the complicated layering of form and meaning in a post-internet world, and what it means to think about mass culture(s) and navigate the spaces between childhood and adulthood today. Jacob chooses some big bangers from Lil Uzi Vert and Chuckii Booker, and explains how exposure to the internet and social media—“indexes of explorables”—introduces the algorithm to the forces of social networks and chance which create our cultural spheres.

We end the show on a more nostalgic note, with a selection from the original Mean Girls soundtrack and a couple of songs by Prince. It’s a great show!
  1. Barbie World,    Kidz Bop Kids,    2024
  2. Gloomy,    Lim Giong,    2004
  3. heavenly,    Pat's Soundhouse   
  4. Boring Angel,    Oneohtrix Point Never,    2013
  5. Keep U Satisfied,    Kofi,    2012
  6. Seconds (Human League Cover),    Keef Baker,    2014
  7. Art Star,    Yeah Yeah Yeahs,    2002
  8. Killer,    SALEM,    2010
  9. Built This Way,    Samantha Ronson   
  10. That Way,    Lil Uzi Vert, WanMor,    2020
  11. Games,    Chuckii Booker (A G Cook Remix)   
  12. American Teenager Rave Mix,    Ethel Cain x sadie   
  13. Liebe in Stereo,    Baby B3ns, Yung Hurn,    2024
  14. Hustler,    Simian Mobile Disco,    2007
  15. Let Me Go,    Tyler Berrier,    2024
  16. Being Harsh,    A. G. Cook   
  17. Moment to Moment,    Shiny Two Shiny,    2014
  18. Temptation Is Hard to Fight,    George McGregor & The Bronzettes,    1967
  19. Love... Thy Will Be Done,    Prince,    2019
  20. Why Should I Love You?    Kate Bush,    1993


            
The World's First Solid Blue Record: Joe McPhee's 'Cosmic Love'
2018 Press-cast and polished blue glass, engraved brass, architectural blue mirror, museum glass, walnut frame 14 5/8 x 11 5/8 x 1 1/2 inches Cosmic Elixir: Joe McPhee's 'Cosmic Love' Distilled May 27, 2018, Bottle 70
2018 Handblown glass bottle, cork, wax, distilled music elixir edition number embossed permanently into glass exterior 70 from numbered series of 99 14 x 4 x 4 inches Cosmic Elixir: Joe McPhee's 'Cosmic Love' Distilled May 27, 2018, Bottle 70
2018 Handblown glass bottle, cork, wax, distilled music elixir edition number embossed permanently into glass exterior 70 from numbered series of 99 14 x 4 x 4 inches Moon Mirror, 2019 Pressed colored prismatic glass, stainless steel, hardware 103 x 191 1/2 x 71 in 261.6 x 486.4 x 180.3 cm Installation view of Josiah McElheny: From Red Black to Black, from Blue Black to Black, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, IL, September 21–November 4, 2023. Revolving Spectral Harmonies  2023 Acrylic paint, wood, hand blown glass acoustic horns, blue industrial sheet glass, transducers, compression driver, motor and turntable assembly, audio player, metal hardware, electrical cable and plug, sound composition by David Grubbs, 60 x 40 x 37 inches. From Red Black to Blue Black (Two Centers)  2023 Acrylic paint on panel, wood frame, hand blown glass gong, transducers, amplifier, audio player, wiring, electrical cable and plug, sound composition by David Grubbs 37 1/2 x 28 1/2 x 1 3/4 inches, cabling dimensions variable The Album: Cosmic Elixir – Distillations in Sound
2018
blue ink silkscreen tip-on print, handmade archival paperboard folded blank vinyl record cover
12 3/8 x 12 3/8 inches Black Cloud Chamber
2014
Handblown and polished glass, Sumi inked clear pine, rope, felt, hardware
71 x 68 x 45 inches (180.34 x 172.72 x 114.3 cm) Color Time—Model One
2014
Handblown molded and polished glass, marine plywood, red oak, AC gear motor and inverter, Variac control knob, electric lighting, electric wiring, sheet glass, mirror, hardware
32 1/2 x 24 x 29 inches (82.55 x 61 x 73.66 cm)
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Josiah McElheny: Possible Impossibilities
October 8, 2024




Over the last 10 years, artist and joyful polymath Josiah McElheny has brought sound and music into his visual artwork. He’s deeply interested in musicians trying to push against existing structures and expand the boundaries of both sound and imagination. Visionary German writer Paul Scheerbart spoke about how all utopias will fail, but it’s important to talk about them anyway. For Josiah, this kind of contradiction is a way forward; a way to imagine futures without glossing over all the things that are wrong with the world.

Among the artists he chose for his playlist is legendary jazz composer Sun Ra, who had a notion that everything in life was a kind of equation—balanced with the precision of the Fates—and that “the impossible attracts me, because everything possible has been done and the world didn’t change.” This kind of push-pull can lead one to surprising places, and it’s something McElheny is looking for in music and art.

We talk at length about some of McElheny’s exhibitions which explore his thinking about music, including Dusty Groove (2014), Cosmic Love (2018), From Red Black to Black, From Blue Black to Black (2023) all at Corbett vs. Dempsey in Chicago, and Observations at Night (2019) at James Cohan in New York. The latter exhibition played host to a series of performances put on by the organization Blank Forms, on whose board McElheny sits.

McElheny’s galactic exhibition “Island Universe” is up now at LACMA in Los Angeles.

There are also upcoming screenings of “The Secret World,” a feature film made as a collaboration between McElheny and Jeff Preiss, on 10/25, 26, & 27 at Anthology Film Archives in NYC.

Josiah’s catalog for “Dusty Groove” with playable flexi-disc can be found here.

1    I Don't Believe in Love,    Sun Ra
2    Stranger in Paradise,    Sun Ra
3    Love in Outer Space,    Sun Ra
4    Somebody Else's World - a.k.a. Somebody Else's Idea,    Sun Ra
5    John Cage Interview with John Corbett & Terri Kapsalis  
6    A New Note in Music Harry Partchs Kooky 1950s Instruments,    Harry Partch
7    Note on the Mess w/David Grubbs,    John Corbett & Heavy Friends
8    1 of 1 (Pt. 1),    John Corbett & Heavy Friends
9    Babi,    Milford Graves
10    Melts into surface,    Zeena Parkins, Mette Rasmussen, Ryan Sawyer
11    Cosmic Love,    Joe McPhee
12    Paris 2022,    Jessika Kenney and Eyvind Kang
13    You May Dream,    Phantom Orchard Ikue Mori Zeen Parkins
14    From Red Black to Black, from Blue Black to Black,    David Grubbs
15    Shakey Jake,    Joe McPhee

Josiah McElheny’s sculptures, paintings, installations, performances, and films engage with the history of ideas across wide-ranging fields of study—from literature to architecture, music theory, and astronomy—transforming this research into physical form. His works often combine glass or mirror with other materials, to emphasize the importance of the act of looking “as a subject in and of itself.” A skilled glassblower, McElheny frequently incorporates hand-blown and shaped glass within evocative assemblages, whose mode of presentation creates a sense of unsettled ideals, and a challenge to fixed definitions. For McElheny, glass—with its qualities of reflectivity, transparency, and enigmatic mutability—highlights the interactive potential between the object and viewer. The material serves as a productive agent, inciting chance encounters between forms and ideas that point toward alternative histories and futures.

Josiah McElheny (b. 1966, Boston, MA) has exhibited widely, including solo shows at the Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, CA (2019); Moody Center for the Arts, Rice University, Houston, TX (2018); MAK Österreichisches Museum für angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria (2016); Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH (2013), Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA (2012), Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England (2011), Museo de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain (2009), Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden (2007), The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (2007), Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain (2002), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA (2001), The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA (1999) and the Seattle Art Museum, WA (1995). His work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA; Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden; and Tate Modern, London, UK among others. McElheny lives and works in New York, New York.
Michael Smith
August 13, 2024



Complete playlist below; tracks in yellow were cut for time.
The legendary performance, video, and installation artist Michael Smith joins Nate Heiges with a mixtape ranging from Mr. Rogers to sales tips for closers to some of the filthiest songs you’ve ever heard in your life. We discuss his career in comedy and performance and his process of taking inspiration from life, media, and thrift store sales bins.

Smith’s work revolves around a character named “Mike,” a modern-day Candide who spends time drinking coffee, watching TV, and exploring various careers, including comedy impresario and entrepreneur. Smith organized variety shows at storied NYC venues like the Pyramid Club and Danceteria, and eventually made a pilot for Cinemax of Mike’s Talent Show. This episode of the Selection Committee itself is organized a bit like a variety show, with music, comedy clips, and Mike’s inimitable sense of humor. How many people do you know who’ve hitched a ride on a city bus molassesed and feathered from head to toe on the South Side of Chicago? Or who’ve attended Burning Man as a big baby?

Smith’s piece Mike Builds a Shelter is currently on view at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In the spring of 2025, he will be putting out a boxed set of DVDS with many video works and documentation of performances, along with a 120-page catalog.

https://michaelsmithartist.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Smith_(performance_artist)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBWpWKwSbTk

  1. Hi Mike, Paul Tripp
  2. Jackie Vernon, Jackie Vernon
  3. In My Room, The Beach Boys
  4. You Can't Hurry Love, The Supremes
  5. Cashing Objections Sales 1960, J Douglas Edwards
  6. 'Round Midnight, Thelonious Monk, Gerry Mulligan, Wilbur Ware, Shadow Wilson
  7. The Sound Heard Round the World, Muzak Orchestra
  8. Papa's Got A Brand New Bag, James Brown
  9. You Send Me, Aretha Franklin
  10. I Like To Take My Time, Mister Rogers
  11. Doug Clark And The Hot Nuts Side 1 Intro, Doug Clark And The Hot Nuts
  12. Roly Poly, Doug Clark And The Hot Nuts
  13. Shitting On The Dock Of The Bay, Blowfly
  14. Petey Wheatstraw Shit Scene, Wildman Steve
  15. Knockers Up!, Rusty Warren
  16. He's the Greatest Dancer (Live Version), CHIC
  17. Ain't Too Proud To Beg, The Temptations
  18. Fun, Fun, Fun, The Beach Boys
  19. Won't You Be My Neighbor? Mister Rogers
  20. (What A) Wonderful World, Sam Cooke
  21. Airlines, Shelley Berman
  22. Up, Up and Away, The 5th Dimension
  23. Air Traffic Controller, Bob Newhart
  24. Bob The Builder Full theme song
  25. P.S. Unless One Has (Blues Connotation), Ornette Coleman
  26. ABC, The Jackson 5
  27. Growing Up Is Fun, Paul Tripp
  28. Wimoweh - Live, The Kingston Trio
  29. We Gotta Get Out Of This Place, The Partridge Family
  30. National Lampoon Kung Fu Christmas
  31. Party And Bullshit In The USA, Notorious BIG and Miley Cyrus
  32. Skybird - Instrumental, Neil Diamond
  33. Forever In Blue Jeans, Neil Diamond
  34. Somewhere Over the Rainbow,  Judy Garland, 1939

Michael Smith is a performance, video, and installation artist who has exhibited widely at fine art and popular venues, including museums, galleries, theaters, festivals, nightclubs, television, online, and in the street. His work has been shown internationally at the 2017 Sculpture Project, Münster; Glasgow International; BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead; The Tate Modern, South London Gallery, Hales Gallery, London; Dan Gunn Gallery, Berlin; Ellen De Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam; Le Magasin, Grenoble; Mumok, Vienna; Jeu de Paume and Pompidou Center, Paris; Blanton Museum, Austin; ICA, Philadelphia among others.

In New York City his work has been shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, New Museum, and Greene Naftali, New York.

His works are in the collections of MoMA and Paley Center for Media, New York; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Migros Museum, Zurich; Centre Pompidou, Paris; and Centro de Arte Contemporânea Inhotim, Brazil.

Smith has received numerous awards, including fellowships from the Guggenheim
Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Center for Advanced Visual Studies at M.I.T., New York Foundation for the Arts, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, and Alpert Award in the Arts.

Pictured: Government Approved Home Fallout Shelter Snack Bar, 1983/2023, currently on view at MoMA, New York.

Our Day Will Come
Music-only mixtape
July 16, 2024

A dreamy selection of songs for a steamy afternoon.



1    Wilson rag,    Elizabeth Cotten,    1989
2    Our Day Will Come,   Ruby And The Romantics,    1963
3    Mouhamadou Bamba,    Orchestra Baobab,    1993
4    You Always Hurt The One You Love,    The Mills Brothers,    1958
5    Shambala,    Beastie Boys,    1996
6    Gelis    Natureboy Flako,    2015
7    Dourlé,    Skinshape, Modou Touré,    2020
8    Beam Me Up - Jacques Renault Remix,    Midnight Magic, Jacques Renault,    2014
9    Power (Remember Who You Are),    SPINALL, Äyanna, DJ Snake, Summer Walker,    2022
10    new body rhumba (from the film White Noise),    LCD Soundsystem,    2022
11    Combustion,    PREGOBLIN,    2019
12    Groove Is in the Heart / California Girls ,   Crocodiles,    2010
13    N.E.W.,    Actress, London Contemporary Orchestra,    2018
14    Nostalgic Montage,    Salami Rose Joe Louis,    2019
15    Fredag,    Dungen,    2010
16    War Sucks (2011 Sonic Boom Stereo Remaster),    Bartholme, Cunningham, Marko Perković Thompson, The Red Crayola,    2012
17    A Taste of Honey,    Lenny Welch,    1965
18    Five O'Clock World,    The Vogues,    1965
19    My Rough and Rowdy Ways,    Jimmie Rodgers,    1960
20    It's All Over Now, Baby Blue (feat. Van Morrison),    Them,     1966
21    Valleri - First Recorded Version; 2006 Remaster,    The Monkees,    1967
22    Here & Now,    BADBADNOTGOOD,    2016
23    Waltz for Koop,    Koop,    2001