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Two artist/curators out of Portland get together, with various guest artists, to talk about art, pop-culture, and the current state of dystopia.
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Wednesday Aug 19, 2020
Wednesday Aug 19, 2020
In this episode, ariella and Mel discuss the 1998 film, The Players Club. Written and directed by Ice Cube, it chronicles the multi-layered journey of Diana Armstrong (stage name “Diamond”) as she traverses the highs and lows of sex work in the Dirty Dirty. Also, the dancing skills of LisaRaye (and Brandy) are called into question and Mel tells one of her strip club stories. Spoiler alert: this has not aged well.
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Tuesday Aug 04, 2020
Tuesday Aug 04, 2020
In the final episode of our Black Abbey series, we chat with artist-scholar-administrator Jaleesa Johnston about how she’s coping with life during quarantine and social uprising and revolution, the Tower tarot card, whether or not this is the final break and how these breaks/cracks are manifesting in arts spaces and institutions. We also dive into change and the necessity of ceding power, her arts origin story, working in arts education and in a museum, what she’s been working on during the Black Abbey residency (hint: movement and drawings), heir conversation with artist and writer manuel arturo abreu, the rise in her social media following due to the White Guilt Boon (™), and the art they’re getting into right now. Mel also sends out a special drink of Celie’s Glass of Water and maxx introduces his new segment, JUST THE FAX with MAXX.
IG: @jaleesa31
The Black Abbey Series episodes are funded by a grant from Regional Arts & Culture Council
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Friday Jul 24, 2020
Friday Jul 24, 2020
in this second episode of YOU AINT GOT TO LIE CRAIG we continue our multiple episode conversation around the anime show NEON GENESIS EVANGELION.
by maximiliano
/ ft Onyx Andra & Rubén Garcia Marrufo
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Onyx Andra IG : @onyx.pink.art
Rubén Garcia Marrufo IG : @ruben_garciamarrufo
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Wednesday Jul 22, 2020
Wednesday Jul 22, 2020
In this episode, we present the third of 4 episodes in our Black Abbey series. We chat with comics artist Nichole Robinson about hermit life as an ambivert and an essential worker during quarantine, why Black folks are so hated, how her art has been impacted by Covid and the ongoing lack of Civil Rights, and the necessity of not attaching value to output during this time. We also discuss her long-term comics project “Who’s Yer Type?”, Courier font as a Black woman, fonts as characters, her arts origin story, organizing and running comics spaces in multiple cities, how to support and access small indie comics art, digital v. hard copy comics, role play, fanfiction and overcoming IP guilt. We then chat what she’s been working on during the Black Abbey arts residency, the importance of good villains in narrative, the pain of rewrites, trying to find the logic and relatability of white supremacy (spoiler: there is none), sensitivity readers, what she would like to see more of in comics, light privilege, and what she’s reading right now.
The Black Abbey Series episodes are funded by a grant from Regional Arts & Culture Council
IG: @dakkycomics
Twitter: @DakkyComics
Books/Comics that Nichole mentions in this episode:
Mañana: Latinx Comics from the 25th Century
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Saturday Jul 18, 2020
Saturday Jul 18, 2020
ariella and Mel discuss the 1974 classic, Claudine, starring Diahann Carroll, James Earl Jones, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs and Tamu Blackwell. They explore the prominent themes of the Welfare/State surveillance of Black women and families, Black masculinity, and the politicized stereotypes of Black people on film. They also try to figure out how high the writers were for the last third of the movie and grapple with how uncomfortable JEJ’s fineness makes them.
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Saturday Jul 11, 2020
Saturday Jul 11, 2020
This is the second episode in our Black Abbey series. Black Abbey is a Black artist and writer residency we are currently co-hosting with Sharita Towne, a Black Art Ecology of Portland (BAEP), and Alberta Abbey. Today, we chat with poet, artist, and writer manuel arturo abreu about how they’re doing during these strange days, fake white allies, the multiple contemporary contexts of the Black Square, the loss of the social public space, their multi-faceted practice and its ties to money and survival, and navigating the expectations of an audience/curator. We also discuss that canceled exhibition at MOCA Cleveland, their Garage Residency, their work in the tech/corporate industry, Tabor Dark, their new Patreon page as alternative mediation, NYT being trash (again), home school, the free pop-up art school that they run with Victoria Anne Reis, art collaborations, what they’re working on in the Black Abbey residency, asemic writing, the impossible labor of Black women, and Celie’s Glass of Water.
The Black Abbey Series episodes are funded by a grant from Regional Arts & Culture Council
manuel arturo abreu’s books are available HERE:
Join manuel arturo abreu’s Patreon for exclusive writings, readings, pedagogy, and conversations: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=18759632
IG: @mabreu91
Artist olivia mckayla ross
IG: @cyberdoula
Black Feminist Summer School:
Twitter: @blackfeministk
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/The-Black-Feminist-Kitchen-101147651619768/
IG: @blackfeministkitchen
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Monday Jul 06, 2020
Monday Jul 06, 2020
Today, we present 1 of 4 very special episodes in our Black Abbey series. Black Abbey is a Black artist and writer residency we are currently co-hosting with Sharita Towne, a Black Art Ecology of Portland (BAEP), and Alberta Abbey. First up is multimedia artist Mikai Arion who returns to chat about how she’s coping with everything that has happened since we last spoke, her reaction and thoughts about this latest iteration of the Civil Right Movement, grieving, her unforgettable Graduation 2020 speech, the liberation of acknowledgement, post-graduation and post-Portland plans with herbalism, what she’s working on during the Black Abbey residency, ghosts and hauntings, the White Guilt Boon ™, the making of her book Mustard Greens, a printmaking-in-quarantine method she learned from artist Alejandra Arias Sevilla, Oakland, “interesting” responses to demands for solutions to anti-Black violence, and ever-changing quarantine rules and protocol.
The Black Abbey Series episodes are funded by a grant from Regional Arts & Culture Council.
Mikai Arion’s book, “Mustard Greens”, is available at:
https://mikaiarion.com/shop/mustardgreens
IG: @mikai_arion
Ansâr Muhammad:
IG: @_amnush
The Nap Ministry:
IG: @thenapminitsry
Coco Chasing Adventures:
IG: @coco_chasing_adventures
Alejandra Aria Sevilla:
IG: @ajajiux
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Thursday Jul 02, 2020
Thursday Jul 02, 2020
in this first episode of the spinoff podcast, YOU AINT GOT TO LIE CRAIG, we begin a multiple episode conversation around the anime show NEON GENESIS EVANGELION.
by maximiliano
/ ft Onyx Andra & Rubén Garcia Marrufo
Follow us on IG: @NatTurnerProject
maximiliano IG : @thusla_moon
Onyx Andra IG : @onyx.pink.art
Rubén Garcia Marrufo IG : @ruben_garciamarrufo
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Twitter: @whoallgonbethe1
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Monday Jun 29, 2020
Monday Jun 29, 2020
Mel and maxx check in about how they’re faring in the midst of apocalypse, rewatching The Walking Dead, the pop-cultural-historical collage of Arthur Jafa’s “Love is the Message, the Message is Death”, the many iterations of Kanye through the years, fireworks of unknown origin in NY and various Black and Brown neighborhoods nationwide, NASCAR news, the latest round of the NTP x BAEP Relief Programme, the ballads of Noname and J.Cole, Beethoven being Black, and our unanswered questions about abolition.
We also throw in an excerpt of our latest episode of “So Extra”, a podcast that is exclusively available on our Patreon (so we get extra messy over there).
Portland, OR Area Relief and Resources for Black and POC folks (DONATE):
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Monday Jun 22, 2020
Monday Jun 22, 2020
In this episode of the “who all in it?”, ariella and Mel discuss the 2019 Netflix science-fiction film, “See You Yesterday”, which is about two teenagers in East Flatbush, Brooklyn who attempt to use time travel to save friends and family from being murdered via state-sanctioned violence. We discuss who should get the privilege of reading Octavia Butler, the recklessness of youth, the Strong Black Woman trope, the troublesome hierarchy of Black death, the legacy and burden of the families left in the wake, and of course, that controversial ending.
Content Warning: we discuss Black death, violence, police violence against Black people, misogyny, mysogynoir...both in this movie and in real time. If you have to sit this one out, we understand.