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Upcoming shows:


October 7: Nate’s mixtapes
Ocober 21: Ethan Greenbaum & Sun You
November 4: Patrick Carlin Mohundro
November 18: Eileen Quinlan
December 16: Pam Lins

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Happy 
October 7, 2025

We’re in the midst of a government shutdown and the National Guard has invaded Chicago. So I dusted off an old mixtape from the fall of 2008 for this music-only show. A little bit of grimy hopefulness in a grim time. 



  1. How You Satisfy Me, Spectrum
  2. Human Fly,  The Cramps
  3. The Time of My Life, Pulp
  4. Vamos, The Pixies
  5. ニッポンのヒール, Southern All Stars
  6. They Don't Call Them Chihuahuas Anymore, Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet
  7. up with people, Lambchop
  8. 10,000 Watts, The Human League
  9. Nightshift, The Names
  10. drivin' on 9, The Breeders
  11. Kaze Wo Atsumete, Happy End
  12. Linus And Lucy, Vince Guaraldi
  13. End of the Affair, Marine Research
  14. Organs, Comets On Fire
  15. Chaos of the Galaxy/Happy Man, Sparklehorse
  16. 22nd Century, Simone, Nina



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Katarina Burin
September 23, 2025

When she was a child, Katarina Burin escaped communist Czechoslovakia with her family on the pretense of going on vacation. This transformational moment was foundational in a practice that engages the intersections of architecture, sculpture, drawing, research, and memory. Her process involves delving deep into discrete bodies of work, translating ideas into elegant, slightly uncanny, forms. One of her earlier endeavors was a creative research project about the underrepresented Czech architect Petra Andrejova-Molnár—a woman who, despite limited opportunities, managed to create her own body of work in community with other architects and designers in the interwar period. Burin’s most recent works, collectively called “For the Benefit of Tourism,” are a meditation on tourist propaganda made for and consumed by residents of Eastern Bloc countries. Like all of her work, these pieces explore the connections between history, communication, politics, fact, fiction, and form. We discuss all of this as well as anti-monuments, communism, public and private space, and all the different places Burin has lived. Fittingly, her playlist is an upbeat, eclectic, thoroughly international selection of songs that is perfect for working in the studio! Burin’s work truly rewards extended looking and thinking—find it at www.katarinaburin.studio


Complete playlist below; tracks in yellow were cut for time.

  1. I Want You To Know Me, White Light, 2021
  2. La bataille de neige, Domenique Dumont, 2015
  3. John Says, Leslie Winer, 2012
  4. I Opened A Bar, Sophie Hunger, 2018
  5. One warm spark, Colleen, 2017
  6. Summer On A Solitary Beach, Franco Battiato, 1981
  7. Parola, Anna Caragnano &Donato Dozzy, 2015
  8. Tamo Daleko, Branko Mataja   
  9. Bebé Durmiendo Cumbia, Elijah Minnelli, 2019
  10. Bird, Kelly Lee Owens, 2017
  11. 2nd Thought, Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark, 1980
  12. Damn That Valley, U.S. Girls, 2015
  13. What's Fruit? - Candie Hank Version, Schlammpeitziger & Candie Hank, 2014
  14. Poplar, K. Yoshimatsu, 2024
  15. Transitions, Faizal Mostrixx, 2022
  16. Karaköy, Brazilian Girls, 2018
  17. Love's Coming on Strong, Hot Chocolate, 1975
  18. The Sound Of This Place - Ypsigrock Festival 2021; Camilla Sparksss, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Eva Geist; 2021

Working in museum, gallery, public space, and the space of existing and imagined architecture, Katarina Burin often reconsiders narratives both historical and personal. Using archival material and invented forms, true stories, and imperfect memories—Burin blends fact and fiction sometimes in equal measure—to produce installations, images and objects that are at times functional, at times fantastical, occasionally commemorative, and often mysterious, playing with levels of subtlety and immersiveness.

Katarina Burin received her BFA from University of Georgia and MFA from Yale University and is currently associate senior lecturer at Harvard University’s department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies. She was awarded a Guggenheim in 2025.

Tuesday Afternoon
September 9, 2025

Music for a late summer/early fall afternoon…



  1. Zebra, Oneohtrix Point Never, 2013
  2. Diablo, Mt. Mountain, 2016
  3. Darling Effect, Insides, 1993
  4. Face of the Sun, Shana Cleveland, 2019
  5. Sleep Away Your Troubles, The Softies, 2000
  6. Honeycomb, Kadhja Bonet, 2015
  7. Doomsday, MF DOOM, Pebbles The Invisible Girl, 1999
  8. MEU, Matty, 2023
  9. Four Hills, DJ Day, 2005
  10. Surf's Up - Remastered 2009, The Beach Boys, 1971
  11. Catalina, Allah-Las, 2012
  12. Absolute Zero, Hoover, 2002
  13. Mellanrum, Dina Ögon, 2021
  14. Occasional Magic, Yppah, 2015
  15. Peng! 33 - 2018 Remaster, Stereolab, 1992
  16. The Place Upstream, Skinshape, 2014
  17. Cherokee, Cat Power, 2012
  18. Mystic, Evangeline, 2023
  19. Hunter, Björk, 1997
  20. Make a Sentence, Rachael Dadd, 2014
  21. It's All Over Now, Baby Blue, The Country Gentlemen, 1968
  22. Shambala, Beastie Boys, 1994
  23. Assossamagh, Imarhan, 2016
  24. Queens Highway, Menahan Street Band, 2021
  25. T.I.B.W.F., The Budos Band, 2005
  26. What Has Happened, Tonstartssbandht, 2021
  27. Undercurrent, Windy & Carl, 1998


Four Masses
August 26, 2025


For an afternoon of sacred music from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries, I present four complete masses for your edification:

0:00:00 Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina’s Missa Papae Marcelli, c. 1562; Sistine Chapel Choir, Massimo Palombella, recorded 2016

0:31:10 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Missa (solemnis) in C minor, K.139 “Waisenhausmesse,” 1768; Choir of King's College, recorded 1997

1:12:00 The Electric Prunes, Mass in F Minor, 1968

1:39:00 Arvo Pärt’s Berliner Messe, 1990; Elora Festival Singers, Elora Festival Orchestra, Noel Edison, recorded 2004