My___on Mondays

Episode 215: My Chaotic World

Kelly Cox and Eric Mullis are a long-standing collaborative artist team who met on a ceramics field trip in high school in Madison, Wisconsin. Over decades of working together, they have produced work across five states and exhibited nationally and internationally. Their work investigates the dissonance between physical, digital, and psychic space, drawing on the mythologies of architecture, product display, and media spectacle. At the end of their residency at MING, Kelly and Eric met with Matt Bunk during a busy day at Artfort to talk trickery, collaboration, and appropriate responses to a chaotic world.

Episode 214: My Guided Meditation for Robots

Andy Wynn is a video artist and archivist originally from Boise, Idaho, now living in Sacramento, California. He has a lasting fondness for VHS scanlines. An obsessive scraper of hidden Internet corners, Andy constructs portraits of subcultures from fandoms to hate groups through video and image collages. His work is one part playful, one part political, and one part purely bizarre. This week, he shares a new audio piece: "A Guided Meditation for Robots."

Episode 213: My Sonnets

Elena Maddy is a writer and stage manager originally from Roseville, California, now based in Boise, Idaho. When she writes, she writes about home. This week, she shares three sonnets and three sonnet crowns.

Episode 212: My Pop Culture

Daniel Mosakewicz grew up on a steady diet of comics, Star Wars, and books about things that could not possibly happen. He earned his degrees in English Literature and History from Appalachian State. Originally from North Carolina, he now resides in Boise, Idaho, where he eats too much Mexican food and listens to too much Bruce Springsteen. This week, we have a live recording from his reading at MING this past week: two fiction pieces, a poem, and an essay.

Episode 211: My Thoughts on Space Travel

Falconers Hand is the solo project of Boise-based musician John Evans. Falconers Hand creates sound sketches: short, semi-ambient nudges toward story. This set of four sketches is A Couple Thoughts on Space Travel. John is currently at work on the first collected album of Falconers Hand sketches.

Episode 210: My Answering Machine

Ben Owens is a Portland local. He's a mechanic by day and a sound designer by night. This week, he shares a new piece of noise art: "Answering Machine." You can listen to more of Ben's work on episode 200: My Elevator Music.

Episode 209: My Three Walks in Three Cities

Around the Block is a series collecting city sounds block by block. This week, three walks in three cities: owls in the Boise hills, traffic in Sacramento, and the train station in Copenhagen. To submit a sound for this series, email matt@mingstudios.org.

Episode 208: My Future

Irina Novarese is a visual artist who works with mixed media installations, editions and video. Her works start from affinities – encounters with themes deeply related to urban spaces. She navigates them, collects data and remaps her own networks of associations, working site-specifically in the multiple contexts related to cities. This week, she shares the only recording of text from her piece DO WORDS THINK THE FUTURE?

 

Originally conceived as a site-specific light installation, DO WORDS THINK THE FUTURE? has now taken on a new form, finally giving the promised visibility to the exchange with: Lena N., Lara B., Delilah L., Unknownxdrawing, Alexej S., Dimitrii S., Denis W., Alina V., Polina S., Angela N., and Gabriela T. Irina extends her deepest thanks to Katrin Wilczek, teacher of the 10th grade WPU art course at the Mildred-Harnack-Schule in Lichtenberg, Berlin and to the artistic direction of HIER&JETZT: Connections.

Episode 207: My HOMOS

A multi-disciplinary painter and mixed-media artist, McCormick creates an evolving cosmology centered on his imagined extraterrestrial society known as HOMOS, beings shaped by gay history, symbolic reclamation, and the undercurrents of pop culture. As he finished up his residency at MING, Maggi sat down with Matt Bunk for a conversation on influences, process, and what's next for the HOMOS.

Episode 206: My Winter Parade

Sounds of the third annual winter parade organized by Tim Andreae. A small band of marchers advances on the Boise foothills with whistles, drums, sticks, and one trombone.