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.
Play Latest Episode"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...
"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 ...
"It comes back to not letting the Trump Administration frame the problem, but remembering the world and the environment and the circumstances under which we want to work." – Yanira Castro We talk about: the arts funding lands...
We talk about: curatorial practice, radical hospitality in performance, ethical grantmaking in the arts, softening the architecture of engagement, operationalizing "art for change," the current state of arts funding, and much...
We talk about: scores for performance, weaving politics and abstraction, dance and visual art in conversation, revolutionary time, Ranu's painting process, the importance of sari fabric in her work, hybridity, installation "v...
"The way to strengthen our rights is to continually use them and demand that they be recognized." -- Annie Dorsen We talk about: the Artist Open Letter to the NEA, resistance strategies, algorithmic theater, speechmaking as a...