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Mathew Timmons & Ben White

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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 d ...
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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 an…
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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 An…
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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 a…
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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 mu…
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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 a…
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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 …
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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 critici…
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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, W…
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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 pain…
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Erica Ryan Stallones is an interdisciplinary artist and educator living in LA. Her work is both research-based and intuitive. Recent video and performance projects inhabit the wobbly space between social practice and theatre. This summer she’ll be creating and exhibiting new work in Denmark and Spain.Geneva Jacuzzi is well known for her uncompromis…
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Ryan Taber and Katie Grinnan talk to us about Sailor's Valentines, King George III, period furniture, eversion, bastard mahogany, scale, dimensionality, specular narratives, the desert, dreaming, nature made strange, interiority, and much much more!Ryan Taber is an artist and a furniture maker living and working in Los Angeles. He currently has a s…
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Our guests Shana Lutker and Vishal Jugdeo talk with us about film, performance, sculpture, installation, objects, theory, decisions, anxiety of making, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, site-specific, space, resources, narrative, storytelling, framework, meta, full-disclosure, unconscious, identity, intuition, meaning, openness, perspective,…
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Our guests Nicole Kelly and Sara Lyons talk about the Women’s Center for Creative Work, WCCW, The Actual People Stock Photo Project, Collective, Queer, Theater, I’m Very Into You, Kathy Acker, McKenzie Wark, Power, Sex, Adaptation, Feminism, Non-binary, Gender slippage, Love, Participation, Performance, Liminal space, Feminist theory, Activism, Con…
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Our guests Casey Kauffmann and Janna Ireland talk about the show Valley Girl Redefined, a group show they are both in at The Brand Library and Arts Center. They also dive into topics such as Photography, instagram, Valley Girls, Clueless, Collage, The Uncanny, San Fernando Valley, Screens, Movies, Stereotypes, Accent, Feeds, Feminism, and the Infin…
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Our guests Todd Lerew and Micah Silver talk about: museums, collecting, collections, archives, LAPL, Los Angeles Public Library, Library Foundation of Los Angeles, LFLA, the Central Library, the Goodhue Building, Specific Museums of Greater Los Angeles, Museum a Day, Have a Plan, What is a Museum?, museology, privilege, Open Hours, connoisseur, con…
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Artists Paul Pescador and Maura Brewer talk about their work as filmmakers and video artists and their relationship to the industry in Hollywood, the difference between filmmaking and video art, as well as their holiday-based collaborative projects, essayistic films, bad films, trash palaces, and a little BTVS.Paul Pescador works primarily in photo…
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Artist Patricia Fernández talks with Jedediah Caesar about her show Here Is My Name at the Todd Madigan Gallery at CSU Bakersfield curated by Jedediah Caesar which runs thru December 8, 2018. Fernández and Caesar talk about the historical material that Patricia drew from in creating the work in her show, specifically the Basque immigrant community …
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Made in L.A. 2018 artists Neha Choksi & Alison O'Daniel talk multiple channel video work, collaboration, editing, the sun, Bombay, sculpture, tuba thieves, ableism, disability, hard of hearing, listening, resonance, audience, access, transcription, translation and much more.Find a transcript of the episode here: https://bit.ly/2ERbByWNeha Choksi wo…
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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-Heitzebe…
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On this episode our guests are Danny Snelson & Johanna Drucker.Danny Snelson is an editor, writer, and archivist recently relocated to Los Angeles. He is an Assistant Professor at UCLA where he is developing a manuscript on what he calls the little database, a way to think about digital file formats and the transformation of art and writing on the …
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On this episode our guests are Dorothy Hoover & Emily Mast.Dorothy Hoover is an artist and set designer working in the theater and art worlds in Los Angeles.Emily Mast is an artist living in Los Angeles who works across the art, theater and dance worlds.Dorothy Hoover’s exhibition Make Lover Return is currently up at General Projects gallery in Lin…
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On this episode our guests are David Pagel & Iain Muirhead.David Pagel is an art critic who lives in Los Angeles. He writes regularly for the Los Angeles Times. He is a professor of art theory and art history at Claremont Graduate University and an adjunct curator at the Parrish art museum in Water Mill, New York.Iain Muirhead is a los angeles base…
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On this episode our guests are Adrian Paules & Aaron Meyers. Adrian Paules has been living in Los Angeles for 15 years. His practice consists of sculpture and drawing and he recently participated in LA Louvre’s show Elemental and is currently in Vision Valley organized by The Pit at the Brand library in Glendale. Aaron Meyers is a sculptor and vide…
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On this episode our guests are Megan Whitmarsh & Jade Gordon. Megan Whitmarsh is a Los Angeles based artist primarily known for her textile projects as well as her multi-media work. She is currently collaborating with Jade Gordon on videos, installation and performance. Jade Gordon is also an LA artist who makes collaborative performance art, objec…
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On this episode our guests are Johnnie Martin & David Gilbert. Johnnie Martin (aka Johnnie JungleGuts) is a writer, performance artist and media guru here in Los Angeles. David Gilbert is an artist who works in photography installation sculpture and performance.Our interstitial music, as always, is Ocfif by Lewis Keller, and we go out with a song f…
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On this episode our guests are Alan Nakagawa & David Bell. Alan Nakagawa would describe himself as a sound artist and he is definitely a multidisciplinary artist, who lives and works in Los Angeles. David Bell is a spaceship operator and a coming back around to the idea of being published again writer after taking a while off. He founded and curren…
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On this episode our guests are Matt Siegle & Ian James. Matt Siegle lives and works in his 2005 Subaru Outback which travels around Los Angeles. Ian James lives and works in his studio in Chinatown, Los Angeles.Our interstitial music, as always, is Ocfif by Lewis Keller, and we go out with a song from LA band Free Bleed, which is Jen Hutton and Kat…
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On this episode our guests are John Knuth & Rachel Mason. John Knuth is an artist in Los Angeles. He started a gallery in the iconic Los Angeles bookstore, Circus of Books, which was run by Rachel Mason’s parents. He also founded Circus Gallery in 2007 which operated through 2010. Rachel Mason is an artist, song writer, filmmaker and performer. She…
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On this episode our guests are Joel Kyack and Lisa Anne Auerbach. Joel Kyack is an interdisciplinary artist and art educator who lives and works in Los Angeles. Lisa Anne Auerbach is also an LA based interdisciplinary artist and educator. She founded The Meow, an art space in the Mt. Washington neighborhood of Los Angeles.Our interstitial music, as…
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On this episode our guests are Michael Carter and Victoria Prinz. Michael Carter is an artist who lives and works in Los Angeles. Victoria Prinz is a student of Theosophy: An area of study concerning the knowledge of the mysteries of life and nature, the nature of divinity, and the origin and purpose of the universe. Our interstitial music, as alwa…
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On this episode our guests are David Shook and Pablo Jofré. David Shook is a very handsome poet, translator and publisher from beautiful Los Angeles, California. Pablo Jofré es Chileno y es poeta, periodista, traductor y él vive en Berlin. His new book Abecedary, translated by David Shook, is just out from Insert Blanc Press.Our interstitial music,…
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On this episode our guests are EJ Hill and Dylan Mira. EJ Hill is an artist from South Central Los Angeles. Dylan Mira is an artist who lives in Los Angeles and grew up between the midwestern United States and East Asia.Our theme music as always is Ocfif by Lewis Keller and we go out with a song from Los Angeles band Fuck You Pay Us aka FUPU. You c…
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On this episode our guests are Michael Smoler and Mitch Temple. Michael Smoler is the director of the Los Angeles gallery Blum & Poe in Culver City. He is a practicing poet and collage artist who also founded the gallery High Energy Constructs in 2005 which was a performance and exhibition venue in Chinatown, LA. Mitch Temple is a visual artist and…
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On this episode our guests are Hailey Loman and Kim Zumpfe. Hailey Loman is an artist in Los Angeles who works in performance and sculpture. She is the director and co-founder of LACA which is an acronym for Los Angeles Contemporary Archive. Kim Zumpfe is an artist, teacher and writer in Los Angeles. Her installation work often deals with architect…
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On this episode our guests are Pilar Tompkins Rivas and Shagha Ariannia. Pilar Tompkins Rivas is a curator and longtime resident of Los Angeles and the director of the Vincent Price Art Museum in East Los Angeles. She is currently working on two exhibitions opening at LACMA for the Pacific Standard Time LA/LA series, Home So Different So Appealing …
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On this episode our guests are Emily Joyce and Cliff Hengst. Emily Joyce is an artist who lives and works in Los Angeles. Her solo show, The Masks was recently at Inman Gallery in Houston Texas. Cliff Hengst is a painter and performance artist who lives and works in San Francisco, Cliff recently performed in Asher Hartman’s play “Mr Akita” which fe…
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On this episode our guests are David Shook and Anthony Seidman along with Mijail Lamas and Sergio Eduardo Cruz. And, in fact, this is a unique episode of The People with David and Anthony standing in as guest hosts for our first ever all spanish language episode of La Gente.If you don’t know David Shook, he’s the editor of a wonderful press here in…
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On this episode our guests are Amar Ravva and Jessica Ceballos. Amar Ravva is a writer who lives in Los Angeles. He was recently elected to Assembly District Delegate for the Democratic Party in District 51. Jessica Ceballos is a native of the Highland Park neighborhood in Los Angeles where she currently serves as a neighborhood council member and …
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On this episode our guests are Jade Chang and Krystal Chang. Jade Chang lives in Los Angeles and is the author of The Wangs vs. The World recently released from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Krystal Chang lives in Los Angeles and is a landscape architect who also creates floral works and installations.In a new edition of Notes from The People we hear …
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On this episode our guests are Gladys-Katherina Hernando and Adam D. Miller. Gladys-Katherina Hernando splits her time between Miami and Los Angeles as an independent curator. She also is the co-founder of and a curator at JOAN, which is a gallery here in LA. Adam D. Miller lives and works in Los Angeles and is the co-founder of the artist run gall…
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On this episode our guests are Mark Allen and Zut Lorz. Mark Allen is the founder and director of machine project which is a storefront space in Echo Park, Los Angeles. And It’s so much more than that and you should go right now to MachineProject.com and watch the short animation on the home page there about “What is Machine Project.” It will give …
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Ep 43 Samira Yamin & Gina Osterloh: The PeopleOn this episode our guests are Gina Osterloh and Samira Yamin. Gina Osterloh is a Los Angeles artist who works with elements of performance and drawing in photography. She has recently shown at Ms. Barbers, Francois Ghebaly, Armory Center for the Arts in Los Angeles among many other and she is in an upc…
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Ep 42 Daniel R. Small & Greg Curtis: The PeopleOn this episode our guests are Greg Curtis and Daniel R. Small. Greg Curtis is an artist who lives and works in Los Angeles. This past June 2016 he curated an exhibition, In Chambers at the gallery Ms. Barbers and in May his solo show Event October Horizon was at Monte Vista Projects. Daniel R. Small m…
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Ep 41 Asher Hartman & Chelsea Rector: The PeopleOn this episode our guests are Asher Hartman and Chelsea Rector. Asher Hartman is a Los Angeles based interdisciplinary artist who primarily works in the context of theater. Chelsea Rector is a Los Angeles based interdisciplinary poet.Our conversation centers around Asher Hartman and the Gawdafful Nat…
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Ep 40 Margaret Wappler & David P. Earle: The PeopleOn this episode our guests are Margaret Wappler & David P. Earle. Margaret Wappler lives in Los Angeles and has written about the arts and pop culture for the Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone, Elle, The Believer, The Village Voice and several other publications. Her work has appeared in Black Clock…
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Ep 39 Malisa Humphrey & Diana-Sofia Estrada: The PeopleOn this episode our guests are Malisa Humphrey & Diana-Sofia Estrada. Malisa Humphrey is an artist who lives and works in Los Angeles and Diana-Sofia Estrada is also an artist who lives and works in Los Angeles who is also an avid cyclist and animal lover.This episode in our Notes from The Peop…
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Ep 38 Catherine Wagley & Dan Suess: The PeopleOn this episode our guests are Catherine Wagley & Dan Suess. Catherine Wagley writes about art in Los Angeles. She has written for the LA Weekly, CARLA and Art News among other venues. Dan Suess is an Inorganic chemist. He is currently a post-doctoral scholar at UC Davis and he’s looking to start his ow…
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Ep 37 Phil Chang & Peter Holzhauer: The PeopleOn this episode our guests are Phil Chang & Peter Holzhauer. Phil Chang is an artist and photographer who was born in Indiana and has lived and worked in Los Angeles for over two decades. Peter Holzhauer is a photographer who lives and works in Los Angeles. Originally from Maine, he did his MFA at UCLA …
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Ep 36 Gabie Strong & Michael Morley: The People On this episode our guests are Gabie Strong & Michael Morley. Gabie Strong is a Los Angeles based artist, noise musician and designer. Michael Morley is an experimental musician and visual artist from New Zealand. During the show we listen to an excerpt from a recent track by The Fuck Chairs or TFC - …
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Ep 35 Nikki Darling & Sam Cohen: The People On this episode our guests are Nikki Darling and Sam Cohen. Nikki Darling is a writer and critic in Los Angeles, and she describes her work as investigating notions of power, identity, lust and drive. Joining our conversation is Los Angeles writer Sam Cohen whose chapbook Gossip is available from Birds of…
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