the body is the brain

We talk about: scores for performance, weaving politics and abstraction, dance and visual art in conversation, revolutionary time, Ranu's painting process, the importance of sari fabric in her work, hybridity, installation "v...

"The way to strengthen our rights is to continually use them and demand that they be recognized." -- Annie Dorsen We talk about: the Artist Open Letter to the NEA, resistance strategies, algorithmic theater, speechmaking as a...

"At the core of nonstopping is a very political stance of each individual, maintaining, cultivating, nurturing, sustaining the agency of their attention." -Jeanine Durning We talk about: the practice of "nonstopping," embraci...

"My weapon against destructive forces is creative forces." –Aejay Antonis Marquis We talk about preparing to direct as an embodied practice, facilitating ensemble process, the politics of casting local, creating liberatory sp...

Episode 1: Pina, queering as a transitive verb, wrecking, drag as political practice, visibility … A conversation with artists Eric Garcia and Chuck Wilt about their collaborative show, Beyond, “an evening-length production t...

Hi friends. I'm Hope Mohr, artist and advocate. For decades I have woven artmaking and activism. the body is the brain is a podcast about art and social change. Through conversations with artists and cultural workers, we expl...