A Real Piece of... Art: Recent Episodes
Sandee Moore
'A Real Piece of...Art!' is a program that promotes and explains local contemporary art. Hosted by Sandee Moore, 'A Real Piece of… Art!' aims to address visual art in an evocative and intriguing manner for listeners, one that will encourage people to visit exhibitions and makes the challenging subject of contemporary art approachable. Episodes broadcast on CJTR 91.3 FM, Regina Community Radio on Thursdays at 11:30 AM.
Sandee & RT discuss gender(ed) performance, unmentionable pleasures and repressed desires in sport in Hazel Meyer’s Muscle Panic, which closed at the Dunlop Art Gallery on Friday + Professor Risa Horowitz exposes some bold truths about her job as a university professor and department head. A Real Piece of... Art is a volunteer-made program for CJTR 91.3 FM Regina Community Radio by Sandee Moore. Risa Horowitz Dunlop Art Gallery
A Real Piece of... Art host, Sandee Moore, presents some good stuff that was cut from her shorter interview with Alex King, David Garneau and Jerôme Melancon about Regina’s John A MacDonald statue broadcast in the fall of 2020. A Real Piece of... Art is created by volunteers for CJTR 91.3 FM Regina Community Radio.
Curious to understand why people are calling for the removal of the John A Macdonald statue from Regina’s Victoria Park? Listen to the empathetic, insightful and profound open letter penned by my guests: Alex King, David Garneau & Jérome Melancon, who also share their nuanced opinions and suggestions for ways forward. A Real Piece of... Art is created for CJTR 91.3 FM, Regina Community Radio.
Lillian and Sandee talk to artist Cindy Baker about her dreams, disappointment, endurance, dedication, catharsis, contact, COVID-19 dreams and the end of the world. We’ll describe dreams and artworks for eachother and then share our drawings with each other. I invite you to share your drawings of the dreams and artworks described on this episode of A Real Piece of... Art with us on our instagram (@realpieceofart2019) and facebook accounts.
Sandee questions R-T about Christi Belcourt’s paintings, on view at the MacKenzie Art Gallery, whose surfaces are pebbled with acrylic dots approximating beadwork to urge us to examine our relationship to nature. On the segment A Real PIece of Work, Margaret Bessai tells us about making conversation for a living.
Sandee and R-T visit Mitchell Weibe's kooky & spooky exhibition "Vamp Sites" at the MacKenzie Art Gallery. Lillian O'Brien Davis, Curatorial Research Assistant at the MacKenzie Art Gallery, tells us about her job and how making "not art" inspired her to make art her career on the segment A Real Piece of Work. (Note: Lillian will be joining the program as co-host, alternating episodes with Sandee.)
In her first live show ever, A Real Piece of... Art host Sandee Moore riff on the annual celebration of the impact of art in our lives created by Fluxus artist Robert Filliou, has her Podcast Essentials workshop participants discuss the best and worst gifts they've ever received, then reflects on her recent experience MC-ing a Regina Folk Festival Winterruption gig with co-host Lillian O'Brien Davis and how conceptual artist Dan Graham traces the roots of rock 'n' roll back to the ecstatic worship of the Shakers. A real grab bag of A Real Piece of... Art!
Hear A Real Piece of... Art host Lillian Obrien Davis‘s fun, flustered and earnest interview with researcher, writer, curator and PhD candidate Lindsay Nixon.🦄📚💡 . Photo Credit: Stacy Lee 📸 Thanks: @cjtr_91.3!
This January I taught a Podcast Essentials workshop at the Regina Public Library. In this one-day workshop, participants laid down a bed track to talk over, recorded a show intro, and interviewed each other about the best and worst presents they have ever received. I've incorporated what they've produced into my latest episode of a Real Piece of... Art in which I talk about Art's Birthday. Until I release the full episode, please enjoy these charming tales of gifts gone transcendently right and disastrously wrong! XO Sandee
In this episode of A Real Piece of Art R-T observes, analyses and interprets Amalie Atkins' visionary artworks that adopt the cockeyed logic of the fairy tale to make sense of an insecure world. Also, Eric Hill, the Dunlop Art Gallery's Coordinator, Collections and Digital Engagement, tells us how boring video games are "hot right now" on the segment A Real Piece of Work.
Sandee and R-T explore the spooky, kooky world of Mitchell Wiebe's "Vamp Sites" at the MacKenzie Art Gallery. Ever heard of a Curatorial Research Assistant? Learn all about it from the MacKenzie Art Gallery's Lillian O'Brien Davis, who tells us how making "not art" set her on the path to a career in the arts and her current job on the segment A Real Piece of Work.
In the most uproariously giddy and thought-provoking episode of A Real Piece of... Art yet, aired to coincide with Regina's Queer City Cinema/Performatorium Festival of Queer Performance Art, performance artists jes sasche and Mikiki share critical notions and lots of laughs about what it means to be a performance artist and to have a "bad body."
In this episode of A Real Piece of... Art, Sandee and R-T take a trip through Saskatchewan's visual history as they take in the MacKenzie Art Gallery's permanent collection exhibition "Walking With Saskatchewan." On the segment A Real Piece of Work, Sakewewak Artists' Collective's Adam Martin Executive Director wonders why artists are always depicted as snobs in pop culture. A Real Piece of Art airs every Thursday at 11:30 AM on CJTR 91.3 FM Regina Community Radio.
Sandee & R-T talk about Caitlin Thompson's mystical cowboy clothing in the exhibition "Dandy Lines" at the Art Gallery of Regina. Gary Varro, Executive & Artistic Director of Queer City Cinema, shares some of the weirdest items he's had to procure for performance artists at his festival over the years.
Sandee and R-T connect kitsch, camp, queerness and the suburbs in the latest episode of A Real Piece of... Art examining the second part of the exhibition Off-Centre: Queer Contemporary Art in the Prairies, which is on view at the Dunlop Art Gallery's Sherwood Village location. On this week's segment A Real Piece of Work, Sandee has compiled a slew of fun, insightful comments from guests who talk about their jobs in the art world that had to be cut from earlier episodes due to time. Summer clip show!
In this episode, Sandee challenges R-T to not only analyze the artworks in the exhibition "Off-Centre: Queer Contemporary Art in the Prairies" at the Dunlop Art Gallery, but also human relationships. Then, guest Jeff Meldrum tells us his secret to working as a preparator, making art, going to school and owning Regina's 3rd best dog on the segment "A Real Piece of Work."
In this episode of A Real Piece of... Art (aired on CJTR 91.3 FM Regina Community Radio on July 4 & 11, 2019), Sandee asks R-T a lot of questions about Victor Cicansky's retrospective exhibition "The Gardener's Universe" at the MacKenzie art Gallery until October 23, 2019. How would you answer the question, "Why would the artist make it out of this material?" Plus, Jess Richter of the Art Gallery of Regina explains how letting a child touch an artwork might lead to a career in the arts on the segment "A Real Piece of Work."
In this episode of "A Real Piece of... Art" Sandee and R-T visit Katherine Boyer's exhibition "Labour is the body; time is the bridge" at Neutral Ground Artist-run Centre in Regina. Plus, Amber Phelps-Bondaroff tells us what a Programming Coordinator does in an artist-run centre (hint: she doesn't program computers!)on the segment "A Real Piece of Work". "A Real Piece of... Art" airs Thursdays at 11:30 AM on 91.3 FM CJTR, Regina Community Radio.
In this episode of A Real Piece of... Art (aired on radio June 20 & 27, 2019), R-T and I talk about the video, 3D printed sculpture and interactive digital text exhibition ”She Who Sees the Unknown” by New York-based Iranian Artist Morehshin Allahyari. On view at the MacKenzie Art Gallery until August 25, 2019 "She Who Sees the Unknown" explores personal experiences with gender and power through the powerful female and non-binary figures of jinn (genies) in new media. My guest on the segment A Real Piece of Work is Zoë Schneider, OSAC's visual and media art coordinator talks about some unexpected challenges she's faced in circulating art exhibitions to communities around Saskatchewan and what happens when artwork turns into a bug-filled piñata.
In this episode of A Real Piece of... Art R-T compares Gabriela Garcia-Luna's sculpture "Affinity" to an Art MacKay (And, mispronounces the painter's name! Oh, robots!); Wendy Peart explains how she had to chew a lot of gum for her job as Curator of Education and Outreach at the Dunlop Art Gallery on the segment A Real Piece of Work. Originally aired on CJTR 91.3 FM on June 6, 2019.
In this episode of A Real Piece of... Art (aired on radio May 16 & 23, 2019), R-T and I talk about the exhibition ”I Do Not Have My Words” featuring work by Joi Arcand, Audrey Dreaver and Catherine Blackburn. "I Do Not Have My Words" can be viewed at the Estevan Art Gallery until June 14, 2019, before travelling to 15 communities throughout Saskatchewan. My guest on the segment A Real Piece of Work is Simon Fuh; we talk about his job as Administrative Coordinator at Neutral Ground Artist-Run Centre and ponder a reality TV show about the internal drama of Canadian artist-run centres.
On the second episode of a Real Piece of... Art, R-T and I observed, analyzed and appraised Nicole Kelly Westman's installation "for every sunset we haven't seen" that transformed the Dunlop Art Gallery's Sherwood Village location into a rosy, sunlit, lazy summer afternoon memory. I also spoke with Director/Curator Jennifer Matotek about her job, on the segment A Real Piece of Work, and she shared a hysterical story about a gallery disaster.
'A Real Piece of...Art!' is a program that promotes and explains local contemporary art. Hosted by Sandee Moore, 'A Real Piece of… Art!' aims to address visual art in an evocative and intriguing manner for listeners, one that will encourage people to visit exhibitions and makes the challenging subject of contemporary art approachable. Episodes broadcast on CJTR 91.3 FM, Regina Community Radio on Thursdays at 11:30 AM. The first episode of A Real Piece of Art features a look at Catherine Blackburn's exhibition "New Age Warriors" at Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery and a chat about what curation is (and isn't) with Ali King.