AAH, COME ON, LET'S WORK TOGETHER: Maybe it's just that the late Bob "The Bear" Hite's birthday is coming up later this month, but we, for one, have got Canned Heat on the mind, and this tune in particular has lodged itself in the nether regions of our auditory cortices. But not without reason, it turns out: this week's programs feature numerous accounts of collaboration, and of the angels and demons that thereby arise. From the three-person artist collective Superflex's foundation in a mutual interest in alternative social systems to influential Brazilian band Os Mutante's rumored break-up over a disagreement about whether to use Fenders or Gibsons, the ups and downs of such ventures are on full display. But between Carey Lovelace and Sharon Kanach's miraculous exhibition Iannis Xenakis: Composer, Architect, Visionary, Ernst Aebi's work with the villagers of Araouane to cultivate a garden and Michael Premo and Rachel Falcone's ongoing project Housing Is a Human Right, we're left with nothing but hope for the possibilities that collaboration lays open. The wisdom of those blues-funk visionaries seems as vital as ever.
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Beyond the Subtitles #264: Ernst Aebi, Barefoot to Timbuktu
Ernst Aebi, the subject of Barefoot to Timbuktu, became renowned as an artist in 1970s New York before moving to Araouane, a seven-day camel trip from Timbuktu, to work with its villagers in order to plant trees and cultivate a sustainable garden. Click here for more.
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AIR Interviews: Gregory Volk
Will Corwin speaks with the Emily Dickison-quoting, history-of-Williamsburg-elucidating writer Gregory Volk about what unifies Bruce Nauman and Joan Jonas: carnivals. Click here for more.
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Off the Rail: Superflex, Jakeb Fenger & Bjorn-Stjerne Christiansen
In Superflex's current exhibition, the Danish artist collective finally gets to the bottom of that question you've held on to ever since your youngest days: What would happen if you flooded a McDonald's with a garden hose? Click here for more.
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Sound the Alarm: Seth Kim-Cohen
Artist, writer and Director of the Institute for Doctoral Studies
in the Visual Arts Seth Kim-Cohen reflects on the limitations of rock music, and argues that the largest impediment to sound art is sound. Click here for more.
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Living History: Architect Talks: Avi Oster
Avi Oster recently hosted the Architect Talks Focus on 13th Street lecture series, discussing his studio's mixed-use project at 3 West 13th Street on an otherwise very traditionally "Village-esque" block in New York City's Greenwich Village. Click here for more.
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Experimental Composers: Carey Lovelace & Sharon Kanach, Iannis Xenakis: Composer, Architect, Visionary
Carey Lovelace and Sharon Kanach, co-curators of the current exhibition Iannis Xenakis: Composer, Architect, Visionary, hold an hour-long discussion on algorithms,
polytopes, Markov chains, stochastics and parabolic hyperbolas. Have Wikipedia at the ready, and click here for more.
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DJ Culture: Scott Hardkiss
Scott Hardkiss' got your butt on his mind, as he makes clear in his terrific, much-awaited full-length debut album Technicolor Dreamer, but he's also got much more going on up there, from notions of social and artistic revolution to what, exactly, dance music is and can be. He will be performing at Brooklyn's Knitting Factory on February 20; more info is available here. Click here for more.
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AIR Interviews: Michael Premo, Rachel Falcone & Dexter Wimberly, Housing Is a Human Right
Michael Premo and Rachel Falcone, co-founders of the ongoing multimedia exhibit Housing Is a Human Right, and Dexter Wimberly, curator of the exhibition The Gentrification of Brooklyn: The Pink Elephant Speaks at Brooklyn's MoCADA, discuss the meaning of home and various notions behind gentrification. Click here for more.
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LEGACY ARCHIVES
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Live Nude Radio Theatre: Aural Puppies
In this weave of aural sensibilities and tactile sensitivities, sound poet Edwin Torres discovers prison poet Steven Jesse Bernstein, listens as Jean-Pierre Bobillot & Jean-Louis Houchard mix it up with Victor Nubla and plays poet Todd Colby's Hippie Shit next to Deconstructing Beck. Click here for more.
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Kalup Linzy Variety Show: Preach!
Labisha the Diva's got two sermons to lead the lost back home. Click here for more.
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Radio Theatre and Spoken Word: Radio Purgatory: The Renaldo The Ensemble
Tipped off by our friends at 3-Legged Dog, we invited the members of The Renaldo The Ensemble up to our studios for what turned out to be a musical romp with flashes of spontaneous revelation and the ongoing threat of slapstick. Click here for more.
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Indigenous Worlds: Scott Kettner, Nation Beat
Scott Kettner's Nation Beat is inspired by the Afro-Brazilian rhythms of maracatu, Chico Science & the Mangue Beat and New Orleans second-line funk and jazz. Kettner's Forró Brass Band is performing this Thursday at CarnavAl Nordestino in New York with AIR's DJ Jeannie Hopper. Click here for more.
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Sonorama: Os Mutantes
You all know Os Mutantes by now, the eclectic and innovative Brazilian
rock band that, in just the past few years, has become a primary fixture of everyone's homemade mixtapes. Available only in our streamcast.
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Last Updated ( Monday, 08 February 2010 )
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