Season 2, Episode 6: A conversation with artist Kah Bee Chow

Kah Bee Chow

Listen to a radio conversation between Emma Hedditch and me about the Hospital for Self Medication and the Critically Ill meeting that took place the weekend Aug 17 - 18 2019. The meeting involved Eva Egermann (editor Crip Journal, Vienna), Tine Tvergaard (psychotherapist and artist, Copenhagen), Emma Hedditch (Artist and feminist self carer, New York), Birgit Bundesen (Psychiatrist, Copenhagen), Anders Remmer (Musician, Copenhagen), Josh Middleman (Artist and expert in self medication, Copenhagen), Sophie Carapatian (artist & sectioned revolutionary), Jakob Jakobsen (founder of Hospital for Self Medication), and more.

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Conversation with Emma Hedditch about Hospital for Self Medication and Critically Ill meeting

After over $400 million in renovations and a multiple-month closure to the public, the Museum of Modern Art is back. Artnet News national art critic Ben Davis sits down with host Andrew Goldstein to address the curators' attempts to decenter the Western canon, what the changes might mean for MoMA's hordes of tourists, and whether a museum this hallowed can ever be a sanctuary from the larger cultural conversation.

How MoMA Remade Itself for the Trump Era

Mariana Silva speaks to Sophie Lewis about her book, Full Surrogacy Now, on the occasion of her talk at e-flux, “Wages for Womb-Work, Polymaternalism, Critical Firestonianism.” The introduction from Full Surrogacy Now was also published in issue 99 of e-flux journal. 

Sophie Lewis is a writer and part-time faculty member at the Philadelphia branch of the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. Sophie's interdisciplinary work tends to blend feminist theory and cultural criticism, interrogating work, nature, and reproduction in a queer utopian mode. Her essays have appeared in many journals (both academic and non-academic) including Signs, Feminist Review, Gender Place and Culture, Viewpoint, Boston Review, The London Review of Books, The New York Times, Mute, Salvage Quarterly, Logic, The New Inquiry, and Commune. She is also a member of the ecological writing collective Out of the Woods, and an editor at the journal Blind Field. As an occasional translator (to make ends meet), she has translated books from German including the popular Communism for Kids by Bini Adamczak, A Brief History of Feminism by Antje Schrupp, and Other and Rule by Paula Villa and Sabine Hark (forthcoming with Verso). Her PhD from the University of Manchester was in Geography, and she also holds two degrees from Oxford University—in English Literature and Nature, Society, and Environmental Policy respectively—as well as a Master's in Politics from the New School for Social Research. Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family is her first book.

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Sophie Lewis on Full Surrogacy Now

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Lecture, Nov 1, 2019

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Greg Tate: I Wonder As I Wander: The Nomadic Musicology of Don Cherry

Six decades ago, an editor at&nbsp;Newsweek magazine summoned a young journalist named Calvin Tomkins out of the foreign-news department to interview the legendary conceptual artist Marcel Duchamp, who had allegedly left art-making in favor of playing chess and... simply breathing. Although it would be years before Tomkins discovered Duchamp had in fact already been at work on his magnum opus, "Étant Donnés," for years before their first meeting, this chance encounter altered the trajectory of his career and life. Duchamp was the gateway to what would become a prolific collection of artists——many of them eccentric or otherwise challenging, all of them great (or at least noteworthy)——that Tomkins went on to profile in the pages of the New Yorker beginning in 1962. Dozens of those profiles have now been compiled into a lavish new multi-volume set, titled "The Lives of Artists," published by Phaidon. The collection joins 18 other books that Tomkins has previously published on artists and the art world, including an essential biography of the man who started it all for him: Marcel Duchamp. In the process, Tomkins has arguably become known as the world's authority on not only many of the most consequential postwar and contemporary artists in the canon, but also on the art of profiling itself. To celebrate the release of "The Lives of Artists," Tomkins joined Artnet News editor-in-chief Andrew Goldstein in studio to discuss his one-of-a-kind journey, what David Hammons shares with Duchamp, and even the editioned banana that took over the world, AKA Maurizio Cattelan's "Comedian."

New Yorker Art Scribe Calvin Tomkins on What Makes Great Artists Tick

Listen to the new radio show Social Crisis! Mental Crisis! with reflections on Communism and Mental Health in times of pandemia. This is the first episode of a series of conversations between the artists Sophie Carapetian based in London and Jakob Jakobsen based in Copenhagen  around the issue of mental health during quarantine. 

We have both experienced lock-down within the psychiatric system and we felt that reflecting on the experience of being isolated within the strict regime of the hospital could be useful in times of general quarantine. States of isolation and seperation have been the norm for some time for many people due to capitalist order. We suggest a movement of the idle, the lazy, the drop outs, as a resistance strategy against the return of neoliberal normal. We will be back once a week with occasional guests.

Social Crisis! Mental Crisis! No. 1 | Radio Show on Communism and Mental Health April 1 2020

Listen to the new radio show Social Crisis! Mental Crisis! with reflections on Communism and Mental Health in times of pandemia. This is the second episode of a series of conversations between the artists Sophie Carapetian based in London and Jakob Jakobsen based in Copenhagen around the issue of mental health during quarantine.

We have both experienced lock-down within the psychiatric system and we felt that reflecting on the experience of being isolated within the strict regime of the hospital could be useful in times of general quarantine. States of isolation and seperation have been the norm for some time for many people due to capitalist order. This time we discuss coping during isolation. Not coping with capitalism, but coping in ways that disrupts the status quo of capitalism. We will be back once a week with occasional guests.

Social Crisis! Mental Crisis! No. 2 | Radio Show on Communism and Mental Health April 8 2020

Listen to the third episode of the radio show Social Crisis! Mental Crisis! with reflections on the notion of care, both within the psychiatric ward as well as within a communist perspective. We talk about care as reproductive labour within the strict hierarchy of the hospital in contrast to communist mutual care within self-organised hospitals and clinics.  

Social Crisis! Mental Crisis! is a series of conversations on Communism and Mental Health in times of pandemia between the artists Sophie Carapetian based in London and Jakob Jakobsen based in Copenhagen.  We will be back once a week with occasional guests.

Social Crisis Mental Crisis No. 3 | Radio Show on Communism and Mental Health April 18 2020

Listen to the fourth episode on disability. This time we have invited visual artist Anja and sex worker Nilufer Guler to join us. Anja makes art and does informal communist research in Oakland, California, Nulifer is living in London where Sophie also is based. Jakob is joining the conversation from Copenhagen. We talk about disability and work and our dependencies on capitalist time.

Social Crisis! Mental Crisis! is a series of conversations on Communism and Mental Health in times of pandemia between the artists Sophie Carapetian based in London and Jakob Jakobsen based in Copenhagen. We will be back once a week with occasional guests.

Social Crisis Mental Crisis No. 4 | Radio Show on Communism and Mental Health April 26 2020

Listen to our MayDay Special on work. Fuck work, fuck the unions! Let's unionise the poor, the paperless, the mentally ill, the idle, the migrants, the curriers, the Amazon workers, the sex workers, the unemployed, the disabled - or nothing! 

Social Crisis! Mental Crisis! is a series of conversations on Communism and Mental Health in times of pandemia between the artists Sophie Carapetian based in London and Jakob Jakobsen based in Copenhagen. We will be back once a week with occasional guests.

Social Crisis Mental Crisis No. 5 (MayDay Special!) | Radio Show on Communism and Mental Health

Critical Dialogs is a contemporary art podcast hosted by art writers Christine Antaya and Matthew Rana. It is made possible with support from Malmö Stad and Inter Arts Center. Music by Fredrik Ståhl.