On this episode we talk with our guests Quinn Gomez-Heitzeberg and Astri Swendsrud about the history of the Spiritual movement in LA, the known and the unknown, and the return of the spiritual in contemporary art.

Astri Swendsrud is an artist who lives and works in Los Angeles and she is one half of The Semi-Tropic Spiritualists.

Quinn Gomez-Heitzeberg is the other half of Semi-Tropic Spiritualists. He is an artist who lives and works in Los Angeles.

The Semi-Tropic Spiritualists have exhibited their installations and performance works at Richard Telles Fine Art, Klowden Mann, and The Vincent Price Museum in Los Angeles; Shangri-La in Joshua Tree, CA; and at Llano del Rio, CA among other locations. Their work is currently up at General Projects and will also be part of the upcoming exhibition Totenpass at Visitor Welcome Center, Los Angeles, in October 2018.

The Semi-Tropic Spiritualists exhibition what can The Semi-Tropic Spiritualists Do For You? Is currently up at General Projects and Outside Gallery thru November 4th, 2018. General Projects is a division of Insert Blanc Press which is also the sponsor of this show, The People. You can see Quinn and Astri’s show at General Projects during Open Hours on Thursday nights from 7-9pm in Lincoln Heights, find out more info at Insert Blanc Press dot net.

Our interstitial music, as always, is Ocfif by Lewis Keller.

And we go out with an excerpt from Audrey Chen’s recent performance at The Unwrinkled Ear Concert Series curated by Andrew Choate and hosted by Black Editions …

Ep 66: Astri Swendsrud & Quinn Gomez-Heitzeberg: The People

From "Morning Candy" by Chris Brian Taylor + Jeremy Kennedy.
Cassette forthcoming via fmsmprc July 2019.

Chris Brian Taylor: Rack-mount gear
Jeremy Kennedy: Sampler, modeling

Recorded: Mt. Washington, CA (2019)

Chris Brian Taylor + Jeremy Kennedy - Day Rave

Rachel Roske and Dustin Metz talk painting, verisimilitude, abstraction, minimalism, Agnes Martin, bibles, the superhuman mundane, lemons, and much more ...

Rachel Roske is a painter living and working in Los Angeles. She recently had a show at Elephant Gallery in Los Angeles. She teaches drawing at Otis College of Art & Design.

Dustin Metz is a painter living and working in Los Angeles. He is a co-founder of the artist run gallery Ms Barbers that was in operation from 2015-2017. He was also recently in a two person show at Parker Gallery in Los Feliz.

Our interstitial music as always is Ocfif by Lewis Keller.
And we go out with a bunch of tracks from LA band Skubbs. Skubbs is David Reich, Brian Ramisch and Dave Page.

Ep 76 Rachel Roske & Dustin Metz: The People

Paul Outlaw and Micaela Tobin talk modified screaming, lost voices, sound design, Kafka, German, voice, voice healing, singing, opera, breathing, freedom of the breath, tone, acting, Filipino vocalists, performance, noise, collaboration, writing discipline, REDCAT, NOW Festival, Sara Lyons, Johnathon Snipes, Crystalline Morphologies, Gaby Strong, White Boy Scream ... and so much more!

Paul Outlaw is a Los Angeles-based experimental theater artist and vocalist whose award-winning solo projects have been presented across the United States and in Europe. His recent show BBC Big Black Cockroach was at REDCAT’s New Original Works festival here in Los Angeles this past month… It was directed by Sara Lyons also a past guest from episode 72 of The People.

Micaela Tobin is a soprano, sound artist, and teacher based in Los Angeles who specializes in experimental voice and contemporary opera, composing under the moniker "White Boy Scream." 

Also Paul is in a show by Asher Hartman and Gawdawfful National Theater Company, The Dope Elf, coming up in September at Yale Union, in Portand, OR, and then at The Lab in San Francisco, CA, in Spring 2020. You might remember we did a fundraiser at General Projects for the show this past June - so of course we love the show and you should definitely check it out if you can.
 
Our interstitial music as always is Ocfif by Lewis Keller.
And we go out with a track off of Micaela Tobin’s newest album Remains under the moniker White Boy Scream released by Crystalline Morphologies ... and the name of the track is Thou.

Ep 77 Paul Outlaw And Micaela Tobin The People

Our guests Holly Myers and Deborah Aschheim talk about Holly’s books Wild Rough Country and A Cylindrical Object On Fire In The Dark, the landscape of memory, gender&violence, outlaws, collective memory, ghosts, the haunting of the present by the past, and much more!

Holly Myers is a writer and critic based in New Mexico. Her art writing and criticism has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the LA Weekly and Art Review, among other publications. She also publishes artist books under her new imprint then / and.

Deborah Aschheim is a new media artist who lives and works in Los Angeles. This year she is the artist in residence for the LA County Registrar-Recorder County Clerk, working with them on voter education and outreach.
 
Our interstitial music as always is Ocfif by Lewis Keller.
And we go out with a song by Chris Brian Taylor and Jeremy Kennedy off their forthcoming Cassette "Morning Candy" from fmsmprc coming out this October. And the name of the song is … Day Rave

Ep 78 Holly Myers And Deborah Aschheim: The People

Our Guests Lauren McElroy and Emily Lacy talk painting, sign/mural painting, electric paint, Ladies Who Paint, psychic support, quilting, antiquing childhoods, audio culture, crisp lines, improvisation without fear, the psychology of advertising, and so much more ...

Lauren McElroy is an artist and commercial sign painter and muralist. She recently participated in the first all female mural festival, Ladies Who Paint, so you can check out her work at 14th and F if you find yourself in San Diego. Check out her professional work at LStar Murals on instagram and online at LStar murals dot com. She also has a solo exhibiton called, Now More You, up right now thru October 27th at Elephant Art Space in Cypress Park. 

Emily Lacy is a folk artist, electronic sound artist and filmmaker who lives and works in Los Angeles.

Our interstitial music as always is Ocfif by Lewis Keller.
And we go out with a tune from Emily Lacy, a first ever live in studio music performance on The People, from her new band project Gemstone Forest, and the name of the song is Waiting ...

Ep 79 Lauren McElroy and Emily Lacy The People

Our Guests Don Edler and Nina Sarnelle talk propaganda, desperately refreshing online news, advertising, being caged in the algorithm, capitalism, competition, Nike Missles/Shoes, North Korea, The Doomsday Clock, Nike X and My Dead Hand, Two Minutes to Midnight and so much more ...

propaganda, desperately refreshing online news, being caged in the algorithm, capitalism, competition, Nike Missles/Shoes, North Korea, The Doomsday Clock, Nike X and My Dead Hand, Two Minutes to Midnight

Don Edler is an artist and filmmaker based in Los Angeles. He founded Elevator Mondays in 2017, a social exhibition space, curatorial project and experimental publishing company. He recently had a show at Hunter Shaw Fine Art in LA, titled Two Minutes to Midnight 

Nina Sarnelle is an artist and musician living in Los Angeles. She is a founding member of two different collectives, the Institute for New Feeling and dadpranks. She is in a show opening on November 29th at Human Resources in Los Angeles called Ecology of the Edge and will be performing at the opening reception. Also if you’re in Denver Colorado you can check out a show called The Fulfillment Center at Black Cube thru December 7th.

Our interstitial music as always is Ocfif by Lewis Keller.
And we go out with a track from our guest Nina Sarnelle off her album from May 2018, Tell me about yr research, which can be found on bandcamp at NinaSarnelle.bandcamp.com, and the name of the song is … you can handle

Ep 80 Don Edler and Nina Sarnelle The People

Our guests Alex Jablonski and Jason Tippet talk about Alex's film, Wildland, Jason's excellent film Only The Young from Oscilloscope Laboratories, and Jason's new book, Heading To Bill's For Cigarettes … as well as Atwater Village, Street Photography, American Decline, Casting in Documentary, The Deep Hang, Getting to the ecstatic truth and much much more ...

Alex Jablonski is a documentary filmmaker whose 2019 film Wildland recently won two Emmy’s for Outstanding Editing and Outstanding Cinematography. You can watch that just about everywhere you see movies.

Jason Tippet is a documentary filmmaker working in Los Angeles. You can see his award winning film Only The Young from 2012 on Amazon Prime. His book of photography, Heading to Bill’s for Cigarettes has just been released from Oscilloscope and it’s a limited run of 1000 copies, so you should get one right now.

At the end of the show we’re gonna hear the world premeire of a new song from Los Angeles band Rincs

Our interstitial music as always is Ocfif by Lewis Keller. 
And we go out with the world premiere of a new song  from Los Angeles band Rincs. You can find them on soundcloud as Rincs and on instagram as Riiincs. They are playing at the Moroccan Lounge here in Los Angeles on Thursday night December 19th, 2019. And the name of the song is … Grapefruit

Ep 81 Alex Jablonski and Jason Tippet The People

Guests Alee Peoples and Cara Levine talk about Secret narratives, Ambient grief, how Fear is a Liar, Adrian Piper, Not arriving, Residencies, the Luxury of isolation, Art as time management, Finding the balance, how to Protect your eyes while you’re blinding yourself, Echo Park Film Center, Elephant Art Space and sooo much more!

Alee Peoples is an artist and filmmaker living in Los Angeles. She is inspired by pedestrian histories, pop song lyrics and is invested in the hand-made. Alee has a film screening on February 22nd for the New Works Salon at Echo Park Film Center here in LA

Cara Levine is an artist living in Los Angeles. She works in sculpture, video and socially engaged practices. She has work in the group show Message to Space in the inaugural opening  of SUPERCOLLIDER a new science inspired exhibition platform at the Beacon Building. 
… and also, she and Alee have a two person show coming up in April at elephant art space here in the Cypress Park neighborhood of Los Angeles 

Our interstitial music as always is Ocfif by Lewis Keller.
And we go out with the latest from friend of the show Nick Flessa - a single that came out last month under the name Dayton Swim Club (inspired by a cult early internet video of the same name). The project stems from Nick Flessa Band but is more collaborative, featuring Mario Luna on guitar, Jessica Perelman on Drums, Kirsten Bladh (of Leggy) on bass, and Dominique Matelson on backing vocals and keys. … and the name of the song is Rage All Night

Ep 82 Alee Peoples and Cara Levine The People

Guests Joe Sola and Michael Webster join us for a pro-yammering yammer about their performance collaborative Shakey's, Perfomance Art, adult diapers, Pizza, Spoiler Alerts, Virtual Reality, Star Trek, contemporary cathedrals of software, Samuel Beckett, being manic and cheap and much much more ...

Joe Sola is an artist that lives and works in Los Angeles. His exhibition, I Drove to San Francisco and Back is currently up at Honor Fraser Gallery in Culver City, California. He is also in a show at Yuz Museum Shanghai called In Production: Art and the Studio System.

Michael Webster is an Artist and musician in Los Angeles. He’s also a composer, conductor, performer, and recording artist who has created film scores, albums, art songs, and operas among many other things.

Our interstitial music as always is Ocfif by Lewis Keller.
And we go out with an excerpt from a project Michael Webster talked about during the show. It's currently a work in progress called ... Untitled Star Trek Episode

Ep 83 Joe Sola And Michael Webster The People

Guests Akina Cox and Hayley Barker talk to us about spirituality, dreams, religious backgrounds, cults, trauma, PTSD, the Symbolists, vintage self help, flashy shittiness, writing scarves, interior life, being old enough not to give a fuck, and much much more!

Akina Cox is an artist and writer who was raised in the unification church. Akina lives and works in Los Angeles and her show Apokalypsis runs from March 15 thru May 3rd at BozoMag in the Highland Park neighborhood here in LA.  

Hayley Barker is a painter originally from Oregon and she’s been in LA for 5 years. Hayley has a show coming up at Shrine in New York and she shows with BozoMag here in Los Angeles.

Our interstitial music as always is Ocfif by Lewis Keller.
And we go out with a new single from Pasadena metal outfit Hexicon released on January 24, 2020. Hexicon features friends of the show Andrew Cox and his brother Austin Cox. Follow them on instagram at Hexicon band or find them on bandcamp at hexiconmetal.bandcamp.com and the name of the song is ... Dragnarok

Ep 84 Akina Cox And Hayley Barker The People

The People with Mathew Timmons and Ben White is an arts and literature podcast produced by Insert Press in Los Angeles, California. The People features the voices and ideas of The People that make up the cultural landscape of Los Angeles, the west coast, and beyond on KCHUNG 1630AM every 3rd Sunday at 3pm … it's Like a Broken Record Magically Repaired.

Insert Blanc Press produces innovative art & literature in Los Angeles, CA. Founded in October 2005, Insert Blanc Press endeavors to create dynamic conversations among the artistic disciplines and to support emerging artists and writers in the interest of contemporary arts and letters.

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