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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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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April 24, 2025

Episode 7: Yanira Castro

"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...

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March 31, 2025

Episode 6: Michèle Steinwald

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...

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March 1, 2025

Episode 5: Ranu Mukherjee

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...

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Feb. 26, 2025

Episode 4: Annie Dorsen

"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...

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