the body is the brain

This episode of Undoxx: Artists Untangle Censorship with guest host Yanira Castro investigates the censorship of the exhibit Diasporic Collage: Puerto Rico & the Survival of a People at the Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. The episode tells the story of how one work in the exhibit by Kuwaiti-Puerto Rican artist Alia Farid, Piquete en el capitolio, became a flashpoint and how the curators and art workers’ powerful demands and strategies kept the exhibit open. Yanira talks with Yomai

Miniseries Description UNDOXX: Artists Untangle Censorship is a miniseries by artists for artists about censorship in the United States and around the globe. It is co-created by artists and activists Yanira Castro, zavé martohardjono, Hope Mohr, maura nguyễn donohue, and Maya Simone Z. What does censorship in the arts look like? And what are artists doing right now to fight it? We created this miniseries to shed light on the state of artistic expression now. As books are banned, paintings are

We talk about: organizing artists, participatory performance, Dionysus in 69, audience co-creation of a work, how artists are both similar to and different from other workers, the conflicted class identity of artists, building artist power as a labor force, guaranteed basic income, Daniel reads a manifesto, and much more… ABOUT THE ARTIST Daniel Park is a theatre and performance artist, organizer for economic justice in the cultural sector, and the cooperative business manager and a worker-owne

We talk about…stuttering as a teacher, "bending the clock" as a disability justice and a racial justice practice, sitting with the ethics of living on stolen land, engaging with the fraught archive of slavery, "opening time" on the page, wrestling with questions of voice in the archive, the healing work of putting the archive of slavery in conversation with an archive of plants, collaborating with ensemble, singing hymns, Saidiya Hartman, m. nourbeSe philip, and much more. ABOUT THE ARTIST Jer

We talk about: attention as a material, the politics of audio description, queer abstraction, tuning ensemble in improvisation, avoiding saying "no" when directing, translating site-specific improvisation to a proscenium context, the difference between impulse and desire, refusal as a practice, making experimental dance with AI, and much more… ABOUT THE ARTISTS Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener's work involves the building of collaborative worlds through improvisational techniques, digital techn

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" (why reparations are for everyone), and much more… ABOUT THE ARTIST Eric Avery is an interdisciplinary artist and cultural organizer with over eighteen years of professional experience in theatre, interactive performance, and community-based projects. Since 2018, they hav