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Dynamics Of is a podcast about the "patterns and processes of change, growth or activity.” An arts and culture broadcast that speaks with people deeply embedded. People that are changing the world, even in granular ways. Hosted by Jake Leech for Random Acts Radio.
Sam Goldner writes for Pitchfork, Tone Glow, Bandcamp, and more, based in Los Angeles. We talk Music Journalism Twitter Psychosis™️, Challengers, reviewing a OneRepublic concert in high school, bugging Mr P of Tiny Mix Tapes, Charli XCX’s incorrect shirt, realizing a human wrote your most loved/hated Pitchfork review, Brian Foote getting mad at you, reviews that haunt him, how Jeremy Larson taught us it’s all just rock n roll, Cindy Lee hype, bar italia falling off, mk.gee garnering old head acclaim, and what besides music/film he's finding pleasing these days (spoiler: wedding day eggs).
Sam Goldner:
Pitchfork
Airing Out the Archive just launched a Substack (!!!) with a review of the OPN show in Chicago last week. Please find that here.
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Justin Beachler is an artist living in Chicago, IL. The latest form of his practice takes on the sh*t-posting moniker of Teal Swan, a new-age tape-based sound performance. His latest album, "The Principals of Water" is out now digitally and in 'magic water jar' formats. We discuss hippie roots, signaling the spirit of the '60s and '70s in the post-internet-post-Jerry world, how the head shop can be at one with the white wall gallery, and more.
Find Justin's work below:
Website
New album "The Principals of Water"
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Welcome to the Airing Out the Archive podcast. Kicking off the inaugural episode with Milo Christie and Sam Dybeck of Weatherproof, a project space located in Albany Park, Chicago. They discuss their newly minted curatorial partnership and their first show together, "Excellent Form/White Pill".
"Excellent Form/White Pill" closes this weekend, Saturday, February 17th from 1-4 PM and Sunday, February 18th from 5-8 PM.
Follow all involved:
Weatherproof
Milo Christie
Sam Dybeck
Follow the more here:
AOTA Linktree
Jake Leech, host
This show is formerly known as Dynamics Of. Thanks for being here.
Lee Noble is a musician and artist based in Minneapolis, MN. He recently opened a new art gallery, Nightclub Gallery, with co-owner, Emma Beatrez. They opened the space on March 18th with their first show, “Sawgrass”, featuring the works of Julia Garcia. The show is on view through April 22nd, 2023. His brand new album, Vivid Light Magenta, was released in late February and is available on Bandcamp (link below). We discuss the tape era of 2007-2017, opening a giant gallery post-pandemic, his favorite current Chicago artists, trying to fit every artwork into the same mold, thinking less and doing more, and how we never want to see that Alice Coltrane bumper sticker ever again.
Lee Noble:
Website: https://leenoble.rip/
IG: https://www.instagram.com/_leenoble/
Bandcamp: https://leenoble.bandcamp.com/
Nightclub Gallery:
Website: https://nightclub.gallery/
IG: https://www.instagram.com/nightclub__gallery/
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The colorway for this episode is the cover of Lee Noble's Vivid Light Magenta
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Jake Leech:
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/leechleechleech
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Substack: https://dynamicsof.substack.com/
Sam Dybeck is a Chicago-based artist and the Assistant Director at LVL3, an art gallery in Wicker Park. We discuss the contemporary woes of practicing artists in 2023, what it means to devirtualize in the midwest and elsewhere, driving 12 hours round trip to a Sematary concert, how using the word "Spaces" just means you went to college, why it's not ok to post prices on IG, which neighborhood will become Chicago's "Dimes Square" and how Nymphet Alumni will replace Red Scare as the best girl pod.
Sam is part of a trio show entitled "Twilight World", opening in Kansas City, KS at Curiourser Gallery on 3/11/23.
Sam Dybeck:
Website: https://samdybeck.cargo.site/
IG: https://www.instagram.com/samdybeck/
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The colorway for this episode is the cover of Christian Death's Only Theatre of Pain
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Please follow Jake Leech & Dynamics Of here:
Jake Leech:
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/leechleechleech
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Dynamics Of:
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/dynamicsof___
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5TGTJHUlVHzubIZBaQMCX0?si=205a3251430248eb
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/dynamicsof
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/dynamicsof
Substack: https://dynamicsof.substack.com/
Sean Kennedy is a video essayist based in Brooklyn, NY. We discuss his most recent video entitled "Is Art Still Relevant?" on his Youtube page, Art Is Everything. Through this, we discuss the moral & spiritual imperative of entertainment, not being electricians, why we all still have to live in NYC in 2022, humor not being needed in contemporary art, and why the McDonald's ice cream machines are always broken.
Sean Kennedy:
Is Art Still Relevant? (Youtube)
Art Is Everything (Youtube)
Website
The colorway for this episode is the cover of Wassily Kandinsky's book Concerning the Spiritual in Art.
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Dynamics Of is a podcast about the "patterns and processes of change, growth or activity.” Hosted by Jake Leech.
Please follow Jake Leech & Dynamics Of here:
Jake Leech:
IG: https://www.instagram.com/leechleechleech/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/leechleechleech
Dynamics Of:
IG: https://www.instagram.com/rarpresents/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/rarpresents
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5TGTJHUlVHzubIZBaQMCX0?si=205a3251430248eb
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/randomactsradio
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/dynamicsof
Substack: https://dynamicsof.substack.com/
Jak Ritger is an artist, writer, and activist based in Boston, Massachusetts. Jak is a part of S.U.S., aka Shifting Uncertain Situations, and along with co-member Clack Auden, produced Astroturfs of Offense, a map of how paid crowd members move through the eco-system of politics and more. A wall text version of this diagram is being shown at The Influencing Machine, an exhibition curated by Aaron Moulton at The Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw, Poland. The show opened last Friday, June 24th, 2022, and runs until November 2022. We discuss his journey to get to the URL spaces (aka a billion different Discord servers) he often resides in, theatre kid energy, slow growth, saying "wet brain" out loud in public, devirtualizing, and what the term activist means in 2022.
- For a full breakdown of S.U.S. and astroturfing in general, please listen to Jack and Clack's episode with New Models from late 2020 here.
- To learn more about the exhibition, the museum, and its history please listen to Josh Citarella's recent conversation with Aaron Moulton here.
Edits to note:
- At one point, I call the exhibition "The Influence Machine", it is in fact titled "The Influencing Machine".
- I mean to say later on that "art museums need to have history wings, and history museums need to have art wings". I say history twice, oops.
- I refer to Sol Lewitt as Sol "Dewitt", my bad.
Jak's links:
- Punctr.art
The colorway for this episode is S.U.S.'s "Astroturfs of Offense"
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Dynamics Of is a podcast about the "patterns and processes of change, growth or activity.” Hosted by Jake Leech.
Please follow Jake Leech & Dynamics Of here:
Jake Leech:
- IG: https://www.instagram.com/leechleechleech/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/leechleechleech
Dynamics Of:
- IG: https://www.instagram.com/rarpresents/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/rarpresents
- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5TGTJHUlVHzubIZBaQMCX0?si=205a3251430248eb
- Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/randomactsradio
- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/dynamicsof
- Substack: https://dynamicsof.substack.com/
Brandon Bandy & Rachel Jackson are artists, publishers, and a couple working in Southern California. Together, they run Special Effects Books, though have individual works in the most recent article drop of Do Not Research and pieces in the Do Not Research Group Show happening now at Lower Cavity in Holyoke, MA. We discuss how it is working within contemporary MFA systems, becoming Christorians, salvaging a Charli D’Amelio iced coffee with the in-car air conditioning, making art that’s funny, bootlegs, and the contemporary landscape of post-internet art.
(Please find links to their work in the highlighted terms above ^^^)
The colorway for this episode is Rachel Jackson's "*Chris Chan’s Gift to Mia Hamm (No More Virgin With Rage)"*
Dynamics Of is a podcast about the "patterns and processes of change, growth or activity.” Hosted by Jake Leech.
Please follow Jake Leech & Dynamics Of here:
Jake Leech:
IG: https://www.instagram.com/leechleechleech/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/leechleechleech
Dynamics Of:
IG: https://www.instagram.com/rarpresents/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/rarpresents
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5TGTJHUlVHzubIZBaQMCX0?si=205a3251430248eb
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/randomactsradio
Dynamics Of presents: Random Acts Reports // Report #1, a monthly collection of recorded audio pieces by artists and writers alike. Each report can have a theme, but not always, a variety being the intention. Three pieces will be shared per report on the .rar platform. Please join the conversation or submit a piece through DM or email.
In today's report, we have work from Caitlin Zera, Marina May, and Dynamics Of host, Jake Leech.
Filmmaker and writer Caitlin Zera on James Turrell's Orca Blue Red, which was on display at projects+exhibitions in St. Louis, MO throughout 2021.
Art writer and co-host of the art podcast Cool WIP, Marina May's piece "Smilodons Staring Down an Asteroid" speaks to the current state of St. Louis art spaces and more.
Lastly, Jake Leech reviews two simultaneous exhibitions from artist Devin T. Mays in Chicago at Apparatus Projects and Regards Gallery, both of which closed at the end of 2021.
Images of the exhibitions can be found here:
Caitlin Zera:
https://www.projects-exhibitions.com/
Marina May:
https://www.instagram.com/northernlightsoversmilodon/
https://www.dragoncrabandturtle.com/copy-of-ashley-colangelo-1
https://www.instagram.com/dragoncrabturtle/
Jake Leech:
https://www.apparatusprojects.com/exhibitions/luna-ghisetti-and-devin-mays
https://regardsgallery.com/exhibitions/devin-t-mays-3/
Social media:
Caitlin Zera:
https://twitter.com/catlinzera
https://www.instagram.com/ground_zera/
Marina May:
https://www.instagram.com/marinamae_west/
https://www.instagram.com/coolwip_official/
https://www.instagram.com/silverspace_stl/
Jake Leech:
https://www.instagram.com/leechleechleech/
https://twitter.com/leechleechleech
Tyler Mathews is the Executive vice president of Pappos Management USA, a food and beverage company. He previously ran a 30K+ community of aspiring and early-stage founders at Venture Cafe in St. Louis. He is also on the Board of Fabricatorz Foundation who supports creative technologists.
In this episode, we discuss his piece “Twitter Christian Accelerationism”, which delves into the contemporary intersection of art, technology, black-pilled podcast personalities, doomer politics, crypto-financing, Faith, Grace, and Jesus Christ.
Link to piece: https://tylermathe.ws/2022/01/10/twitter-christian-accelerationism/
Tyler's Twitter: https://twitter.com/tymathews
Dynamics Of is a podcast about the "patterns and processes of change, growth or activity.” An arts and culture broadcast that speaks with people deeply embedded. People that are changing the world, even in granular ways. Hosted by Jake Leech.
Please follow Jake Leech & Dynamics Of here:
Jake Leech:
IG: https://www.instagram.com/leechleechleech/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/leechleechleech
Dynamics Of:
IG: https://www.instagram.com/rarpresents/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/rarpresents
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5TGTJHUlVHzubIZBaQMCX0?si=205a3251430248eb
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/randomactsradio
The colorway for this episode is the Christian Flag.
M. Sage aka Matthew Sage is "an American musician and intermedia artist working in the overlaps of classical/historical artistic publishing models and disruptive/democratized digital intermedia experience(s)." He also runs Cached Media, an intermedia platform of albums, objects, live streams & more.
We discuss a variety of subjects within the term "Ambient": what it means today, how it's used and abused, as well as the exciting and strange places it's going (like AI-generated ambient works made by evil corporations, allegedly.) Much less a "the current state of" kind of episode, but more a "what does it mean?". Please note: THIS EPISODE CONTAINS NO GEAR TALK.
Show Links:
"Ambient Musician and Intermedia Artist doesn't say "ambient" for 1 hour Matt Sage | Art Brunch e.25" (The Travel Agency) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDCkBoqQbhM&t=1006s
Sleepy Clouds: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2VGcECsvRjugsMNJ2bVSsM?si=a2_vQcYbRke5AOAPrnkOdA&dl_branch=1
Artist Suggestions:
claire rousay: https://open.spotify.com/artist/24KMaDNklCLuxhzamE6tmq?si=PVB-YocrTWqCEw32ULzJdQ&dl_branch=1
More Eaze: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0noDJa3OSog9g1jqw5VygY?si=JuNwQHbLTqebhI1JO-0x4w&dl_branch=1
Dialect: https://open.spotify.com/artist/22oD5ZYEJPZf9e68jQbQz5?si=PZRjquHrQleHeOO3cUV8-Q&dl_branch=1
Lieven Martens: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2WAfuIA8abrpze7v9V42hC?si=j0Ck79oDQN6WVle0esQLOg&dl_branch=1
M. Sage: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/7Hu7HZdK9fwYiMyqtCICVR?si=ig7vnlZ7TZqhFvTj9NE6Fw&dl_branch=1
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/matthewjsage/?hl=en
Website: https://www.matthewjsage.com/
Cached Media:
https://www.instagram.com/cached.media/?hl=en
https://cachedmedia.bandcamp.com/
https://www.twitch.tv/cachedstream
The colorway for this episode's cover image: Brian Eno's "Ambient 1/Music for Airports" album cover.
Delia Rainey is a writer, musician, and Nonfiction MFA candidate at Columbia College Chicago. In this episode, we discuss a wide range of topics from Twitter as a creative instrument (for way too long, my fault), the state of Nonfiction writing, and why Gen Z should be listening to Yo La Tengo instead of American Football.
Substack: https://deliarainey.substack.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/hellodeliaaaaa
Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/deebitspics/
https://www.instagram.com/deliawriteseveryday/
Tumblr: https://deliawritesapoemaday2014.tumblr.com/
Music:
Dee Bird - Chance Machine: https://deebird.bandcamp.com/album/chance-machine
Delia Rainey - The Blue and Red Gummy Worm: https://grownupmusic.bandcamp.com/album/the-blue-and-red-gummy-worm-gum010
The colorway for this episode: Tumblr
Dynamics Of is a podcast about the "patterns and processes of change, growth or activity.” An arts and culture broadcast that speaks with people deeply embedded. People that are changing the world, even in granular ways. Hosted by Jake Leech.
Devin O'Shea is a St. Louis based writer. His writing is in Current Affairs, Boulevard, CHEAP POP, The New Territory, Midwestern Gothic, and elsewhere. He went on NPR and the TrueAnon podcast to talk about his first novel—he is currently seeking representation and a publisher for Veiled Prophet. He joins Dynamics Of to discuss his upcoming piece for Current Affairs, profiling Rex Sinquefield, libertarian billionaire and chess obsessive whose trying to privatize St. Louis as we know it. We discuss how despite many failed attempts, the imminent threat of his wealth and vision continues to affect St. Louis and what the average person can do to fight it.
WWW: devinoshea.wordpress.com/
Twitter: twitter.com/devintoshea
Instagram: www.instagram.com/_toshea/
Devin's work for Current Affairs (topic piece forthcoming): next.currentaffairs.org/author/devin-thomas-oshea
The colorway for this episode: St. Louis Cardinals
Josh Levi is a musician (playing as Radiator Greys), DIY booker, Archivist, Writer, Lite-Doomsday Prepper, & most recently, a Dad. As a major proponent of the cultural security and growth of DIY ethos in St. Louis/beyond, he shares his 20 years of experience in DIY performing, booking, and archiving. We chat about the current state of DIY, what '$5 at the door' means in an age of staggering wage gaps and post-internet communication. Also, what to throw in your "go bag" if you had to leave your house in 3 minutes (back up those hard drives now).