the body is the brain

the body is the brain is a podcast about art and social change hosted by Hope Mohr. Through conversations with artists and cultural workers, we explore the practice of contemporary artmaking.

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July 21, 2025

Episode 13: Eric Avery

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...

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July 1, 2025

Episode 12: Chloë Bass

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...

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June 26, 2025

Episode 11: Lu Zhang

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.......

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June 14, 2025

Episode 10: Chris Evans & Rhiannon Evans MacFadyen

"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...

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May 27, 2025

Episode 9: slowdanger

"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...

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May 17, 2025

Episode 8: Sholeh Asgary

"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 ...

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