Art Fight Podcast

This week we rap with artist and educator Rocky Horton about his self-declared artist residency, Nashville's worst sculpture off I-65, innovation avoidance, and making art at home.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/artfightpodcast/support

What is it like to be playing in front of 60,000 people at Lollapalooza and feel like you would rather be doing your taxes? Artists often have to have many hills to climb, so why not make it Kilimanjaro instead? We hang with Jared Reynolds - bassist for many music institutions including most notably Ben Folds, and talk about endurance running, music, Nashville studios, real estate, transformation, and all kinds of goofy shit. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/artfightpodcast/support

Jim Cammack, for more than 30 years, has been the bassist for the most seminal and important living jazz artist - Ahmad Jamal. Jim sat down with Brian Siskind to have a conversation on 1950's creativity and nostalgia, stop motion animation, horror films, and of course - what it is like to be a part of one of the most prolific and important jazz groups of all time. Explore Jim's extensive discography here: https://www.discogs.com/artist/349691-James-Cammack?filter_anv=0&subtype=Instruments-Performance&type=Credits Buy Jim's music and learn more here: http://www.jimcammack.com/html/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/artfightpodcast/support

Mike Calway-Fagen, Curator and Director of Exhibitions for Stove Works, is an artist, writer, and curator based in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Mike joins us and talks about his practice, the southern identity in art, navigating ghosts and the paranormal in art spaces, and breaks down the upcoming Stove Works benefit BODY SLAM! - an evening of art and revelry... with live wrestling!? Follow Stove Works on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stove_works Learn more about Stove Works and get tickets for BODY SLAM! at: https://www.stoveworks.org/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/artfightpodcast/support

The GOAT of MMA writing Chuck Mindenhall of The Athletic joins us to talk about the importance of world-building in MMA storytelling, the levity of writing about fighting, the future of MMA media, and wrestling with the responsibility required for realizing his herculean dream of writing a book to the standard of Liebling's 'The Sweet Science' for Mixed Martial Arts. Follow Chuck on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ChuckMindenhall Read Chuck's work on The Athletic: https://theathletic.com/author/chuck-mindenhall/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/artfightpodcast/support

Kool Keith aka Dr. Octagon, Dr. Dooom, Black Elvis, and many more names joins Brian Siskind for a conversation on navigating the past, present, and future in music, beats and production, and basketball. Keith walks through working with Bill Laswell, Automator, how the cover art for Sex Style came to be legend, why money makes people lose all perspective, and talks about his new record "KEITH". Follow Kool Keith on Twitter: https://twitter.com/UltraMan7000 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/artfightpodcast/support

This week we hang with artist Amber Lelli and talk about the bronze postmodern future, and the values of creative freedom.  Follow Amber on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/amberlelliart/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/artfightpodcast/support

We have a fun and irreverent hang with artist Brian Wooden this week for all you glorious freaks.  We rap about flow state, the necessity of comedy in culture, process in illustration and street art, and how skateboarding aligns the body and soul. Follow Brian on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brianwooden --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/artfightpodcast/support

This week we get in the ring with NWA professional wrestler and spiritual prophet, Jocephus. He teaches us the ropes about powerbombing cosmic consciousness into faithful fans while also working as a music educator and filmmaker. Follow Jocephus on Twitter at https://twitter.com/jocephusnwa and on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/jocephusnwa/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/artfightpodcast/support

This week we connect with professor Nancy Ann Kidder to talk about her course at American University - Writing and Fighting. We touch on combat sports literature, the power of fight narratives, how fighting is a vehicle for understanding issues from gender equality to geopolitics, and why Nick Newell always finds a way to make us cry. Follow Nancy on Twitter: https://twitter.com/NancyAnnKidder Learn more about the Writing and Fighting course at: https://www.writeandfight.com/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/artfightpodcast/support

After a week off, we are back in the clinch with Nashville painter Jodi Hays.  We talk about Jodi's exhibition at Red Arrow Gallery in Nashville, the joys of giant paintings, and the pros and cons of a growing art scene. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/artfightpodcast/support

How do you attend the Nashville Art Crawl like a pro? How did Tarantino botch Bruce Lee's legacy in his new film? Is contemporary sculpture absurd? Can you have an art gallery in your house? We answer these questions and talk about our latest projects and exhibits on this week's episode. Follow Joe Nolan: www.instagram.com/mightyjoenolan Follow Brian Siskind: www.instagram.com/thosedrones --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/artfightpodcast/support

Video artist, performance artist, painter, and circuit bender Sophia Gordon-Stevens talks about bending video, the magic of VHS, video art as an object, and how she balances her mental health through creating her Miller's Grove Public Access project - that you can be a part of. Learn more about Sophia and her Miller's Grove Public Access exhibition channel at www.sophiagordonart.com/  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/artfightpodcast/support

Jon Sewell is Nashville's most Progressive mayoral candidate. Jon joins us to talk  politics, theater, political theater, smears, jeers, smoke and mirrors in the very last episode of Season 5. Follow Jon on Twitter:  https://twitter.com/thejonse  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/artfightpodcast/support

Breaking in the new studio! T-Rex fossils, street art, graffiti, Nashville art scene, alligators, art shows, and mucking about reality with Chris Zidek. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/artfightpodcast/support

David King hangs with us while it is storming outside loudly and talks with us about Extended Play Press. Extended Play is an independent publisher based in Nashville making books in collaboration with local and regional artists. The books are unique and specific pieces - the result of a research process into individual artist practices and the book form. They are produced using a mix of contemporary and traditional printing techniques.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/artfightpodcast/support

This week we sit down with Nashville artist Erin Murphy. Erin talks about drawing art out of the natural environment, curiosity in creativity, and how to learn Norwegian in two months or at least look sporty trying.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/artfightpodcast/support

Mr. Regular, The Roman, and Tony Airlines drop into Nashville, sit down in an electric blue carpeted hotel meeting room, and ponder: nostalgia and the words of Samuel Hines, how "a car deposits you in the era of your best self", the perils of Charles Bukowski, the power of having heroes like Bruce Henn, and how sitting on your words for a month makes for a better car review. Watch RCR on YouTube Follow RCR on Twitter Follow Tony Airlines on IG --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/artfightpodcast/support

Have you heard about the Tennessee Triennial? Artist, educator and curator Brian Jobe talks Locate Arts, the new Tennessee Triennial, and the big picture for regional art scenes. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/artfightpodcast/support

Join us as we sit down with artist and educator Thomas Sturgill. Swim after this deep dive into:  art/life balance; achievement, awards; and value; and why Sturgill is the number one artist, but not really.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/artfightpodcast/support