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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 and works in Los Angeles and her show Apokalypsis runs from March 15 thru May 3rd at BozoMag in the Highland Park neighborhood here in LA. Hayley Barker is a painter originally from Oregon and she’s been in LA for 5 years. Hayley has a show coming up at Shrine in New York and she shows with BozoMag here in Los Angeles. Our interstitial music as always is Ocfif by Lewis Keller. And we go out with a new single from Pasadena metal outfit Hexicon released on January 24, 2020. Hexicon features friends of the show Andrew Cox and his brother Austin Cox. Follow them on instagram at Hexicon band or find them on bandcamp at hexiconmetal.bandcamp.com and the name of the song is ... Dragnarok

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 Angeles. His exhibition, I Drove to San Francisco and Back is currently up at Honor Fraser Gallery in Culver City, California. He is also in a show at Yuz Museum Shanghai called In Production: Art and the Studio System. Michael Webster is an Artist and musician in Los Angeles. He’s also a composer, conductor, performer, and recording artist who has created film scores, albums, art songs, and operas among many other things. Our interstitial music as always is Ocfif by Lewis Keller. And we go out with an excerpt from a project Michael Webster talked about during the show. It's currently a work in progress called ... Untitled Star Trek Episode

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 artist and filmmaker living in Los Angeles. She is inspired by pedestrian histories, pop song lyrics and is invested in the hand-made. Alee has a film screening on February 22nd for the New Works Salon at Echo Park Film Center here in LA Cara Levine is an artist living in Los Angeles. She works in sculpture, video and socially engaged practices. She has work in the group show Message to Space in the inaugural opening of SUPERCOLLIDER a new science inspired exhibition platform at the Beacon Building. … and also, she and Alee have a two person show coming up in April at elephant art space here in the Cypress Park neighborhood of Los Angeles Our interstitial music as always is Ocfif by Lewis Keller. And we go out with the latest from friend of the show Nick Flessa - a single that came out last month under the name Dayton Swim Club (inspired by a cult early internet video of the same name). The project stems from Nick Flessa Band but is more collaborative, featuring Mario Luna on guitar, Jessica Perelman on Drums, Kirsten Bladh (of Leggy) on bass, and Dominique Matelson on backing vocals and keys. … and the name of the song is Rage All Night

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 much more ... Alex Jablonski is a documentary filmmaker whose 2019 film Wildland recently won two Emmy’s for Outstanding Editing and Outstanding Cinematography. You can watch that just about everywhere you see movies. Jason Tippet is a documentary filmmaker working in Los Angeles. You can see his award winning film Only The Young from 2012 on Amazon Prime. His book of photography, Heading to Bill’s for Cigarettes has just been released from Oscilloscope and it’s a limited run of 1000 copies, so you should get one right now. At the end of the show we’re gonna hear the world premeire of a new song from Los Angeles band Rincs Our interstitial music as always is Ocfif by Lewis Keller. And we go out with the world premiere of a new song from Los Angeles band Rincs. You can find them on soundcloud as Rincs and on instagram as Riiincs. They are playing at the Moroccan Lounge here in Los Angeles on Thursday night December 19th, 2019. And the name of the song is … Grapefruit

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 algorithm, capitalism, competition, Nike Missles/Shoes, North Korea, The Doomsday Clock, Nike X and My Dead Hand, Two Minutes to Midnight Don Edler is an artist and filmmaker based in Los Angeles. He founded Elevator Mondays in 2017, a social exhibition space, curatorial project and experimental publishing company. He recently had a show at Hunter Shaw Fine Art in LA, titled Two Minutes to Midnight Nina Sarnelle is an artist and musician living in Los Angeles. She is a founding member of two different collectives, the Institute for New Feeling and dadpranks. She is in a show opening on November 29th at Human Resources in Los Angeles called Ecology of the Edge and will be performing at the opening reception. Also if you’re in Denver Colorado you can check out a show called The Fulfillment Center at Black Cube thru December 7th. Our interstitial music as always is Ocfif by Lewis Keller. And we go out with a track from our guest Nina Sarnelle off her album from May 2018, Tell me about yr research, which can be found on bandcamp at NinaSarnelle.bandcamp.com, and the name of the song is … you can handle

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 participated in the first all female mural festival, Ladies Who Paint, so you can check out her work at 14th and F if you find yourself in San Diego. Check out her professional work at LStar Murals on instagram and online at LStar murals dot com. She also has a solo exhibiton called, Now More You, up right now thru October 27th at Elephant Art Space in Cypress Park. Emily Lacy is a folk artist, electronic sound artist and filmmaker who lives and works in Los Angeles. Our interstitial music as always is Ocfif by Lewis Keller. And we go out with a tune from Emily Lacy, a first ever live in studio music performance on The People, from her new band project Gemstone Forest, and the name of the song is Waiting ...

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 criticism has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the LA Weekly and Art Review, among other publications. She also publishes artist books under her new imprint then / and. Deborah Aschheim is a new media artist who lives and works in Los Angeles. This year she is the artist in residence for the LA County Registrar-Recorder County Clerk, working with them on voter education and outreach. Our interstitial music as always is Ocfif by Lewis Keller. And we go out with a song by Chris Brian Taylor and Jeremy Kennedy off their forthcoming Cassette "Morning Candy" from fmsmprc coming out this October. And the name of the song is … Day Rave

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, White Boy Scream ... and so much more! Paul Outlaw is a Los Angeles-based experimental theater artist and vocalist whose award-winning solo projects have been presented across the United States and in Europe. His recent show BBC Big Black Cockroach was at REDCAT’s New Original Works festival here in Los Angeles this past month… It was directed by Sara Lyons also a past guest from episode 72 of The People. Micaela Tobin is a soprano, sound artist, and teacher based in Los Angeles who specializes in experimental voice and contemporary opera, composing under the moniker "White Boy Scream." Also Paul is in a show by Asher Hartman and Gawdawfful National Theater Company, The Dope Elf, coming up in September at Yale Union, in Portand, OR, and then at The Lab in San Francisco, CA, in Spring 2020. You might remember we did a fundraiser at General Projects for the show this past June - so of course we love the show and you should definitely check it out if you can. Our interstitial music as always is Ocfif by Lewis Keller. And we go out with a track off of Micaela Tobin’s newest album Remains under the moniker White Boy Scream released by Crystalline Morphologies ... and the name of the track is Thou.

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 painter living and working in Los Angeles. He is a co-founder of the artist run gallery Ms Barbers that was in operation from 2015-2017. He was also recently in a two person show at Parker Gallery in Los Feliz. Our interstitial music as always is Ocfif by Lewis Keller. And we go out with a bunch of tracks from LA band Skubbs. Skubbs is David Reich, Brian Ramisch and Dave Page.

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 uncompromisingly obtuse synth-driven pop and one-of-a-kind performance art that is comprised of one time only spectacles and installations. Our interstitial music as always is Ocfif by Lewis Keller. And we go out with a track from our guest Geneva Jacuzzi It’s off the album Lamaze from Vinyl International And the name of the track is … Do I Sad?

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 show of new sculptural works at the Torrance Art Museum in Torrance, CA. He also runs the wood program at Cal State University Long Beach. Katie Grinnan is an artist who lives and works in Los Angeles. She has had solo shows at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles and at the Whitney in New York, and recently she was included in the show, People, at Deitch Projects Los Angeles. She has a show coming up at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery opening on May 19th for recipients of the 2019 City of Los Angeles (COLA) Individual Artist Fellowship. She teaches in the sculpture program at Cal State University Long Beach and is currently represented by the gallery Commonwealth and Council. Our interstitial music as always is Ocfif by Lewis Keller. We go out with a track from Toronto band Tough Age from their album Shame on Mint Records released in October 2017. You can buy the album on Vinyl and on cassette and even on Compact Disc or CD, quote “for the mini van”. They have a show coming up at The Baby G on June 26 in Toronto, Ontario. And the name of the track is ... Unclean

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, post post post, language, access, Freud, psychoanalysis, trauma, power, chaos, Allen Ruppersberg, California Conceptual, humor, The Hammer, and the uncanny … Shana Lutker is an artist who lives and works in Los Angeles. She works in a variety of media and is the executive director of the non-profit organization that publishes the contemporary art quarterly X-TRA, LA’s longest running critical art journal. Vishal Jugdeo is an interdisciplinary artist who works with video, installation, performance and sculpture. He also is based in Los Angeles and is currently a Faculty member at the UCLA department of Art. Our interstitial music, as always, is Ocfif by Lewis Keller. And we go out with a track off Nick Flessa’s album Flyover States from Via Eliterecords released in July 2018. You can find more of his music on bandcamp or over at NickFlessaBand.com or see his other work at NickFlessa.com And the name of the track is Glendale ...

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, Consent, Gender identity, Gender queer, Cisgender, Hetero-normative, Decolonization, Shame, Kink, Non-monogamy, Polyamory, Essentialism, Eroticism, Writing practice, Sexual practice, Intimacy, Audio, Radio ... Nicole Kelly is a Los Angeles based writer. She hosts and produces a great podcast called Bitchface, which you should check out wherever you get your podcasts. She is also the programming director at the Women’s Center for Creative Work here in Los Angeles. Sara Lyons is a theater director and maker with an extensive background in feminist theory who works in experimental forms including new media, participatory work and adaptation. Our interstitial music, as always, is Ocfif by Lewis Keller. And we go out with a new single from Teasips released on the compilation A Thousand Tones Volume 2 from Elestial Sounds, a limited edition double cassette release of music made by non-male identifying humans. And the name of the track is Even and or the ...

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 Infinite Scroll. Casey Kauffmann is a multi-disciplinary artist from the San Fernando Valley currently in the MFA program at USC. You can also see her work at the LA gallery Elevator Mondays in the group show Psychenetics: Beyond the Great Filter that’s up thru March 4th, 2019. Janna Ireland was born in Philadelphia, she has lived in New York, Oregon, and Los Angeles twice and now she is here to stay. Her solo show The Valley Below opens on March 9th at Antenna in New Orleans and runs thru April 7th, 2019. Our interstitial music, as always, is Ocfif by Lewis Keller. And we go out with a track made specifically for The People Radio by joshua weinberg (as nerak slip) and the track is ... adoralis infinitum (version K) We also make a special announcement on this months show: We would like to invite you to The People’s Six Year Anniversary Gala on Friday March 8th from 7-11pm at TSA LA Gallery in the Bendix building at 1206 Maple Ave on the 5th Floor in downtown in Los Angeles, CA. The Gala will be a celebration of this podcast existing for six whole years. We’ve done 72 episodes, once a month for six years We’re inviting everyone that’s ever been on the show, and also friends of the show, and if you’re listening to this episode then you are a friend of the show, so you are invited! It’s going to be a party with Projection by Ignacio Genzon, and DJs Ian James and Matt Siegle, Greg Curtis, Alan Nakagawa, Christy Roberts Berkowitz and Joel Kyack. It starts at 7pm and they kick us out by 11:30, so show up as early as you can, there will be plenty of drinks and there will be a balloon drop at some point in the evening, and you won’t want to miss that. And you can find all the info about the gala at insertblancpress.net by clicking on the people at the top of the page. We hope to see you there. Bring your friends!

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, connoisseurship, audio, sound, music, audience, Cult, Airshow, constant war, Democracy, outcomes, failure, alternate worlds, awareness, democratic outputs, alternatives … and more! Todd Lerew is an artist and he is the Program manager at the Library Foundation of Los Angeles. He is the author of the book Specific Museums of Greater Los Angeles, illustrated by Juliana Wisdom and published by Tiny Splendor Press. He curated the show 21 Collections: Every Object has a Story which you can see at the central library in downtown Los Angeles until March 24th 2019. Micah Silver is an artist and writer living in Los Angeles. His book Figures in Air: Essays Toward a Philosophy of Audio is just going into its second printing with Inventory Press and you can pre-order copies now. Our interstitial music, as always, is Ocfif by Lewis Keller. And we go out with a track off of Ian Wellman’s new release from Dragon’s Eye Recordings from October 2018. The name of the album is: Susan's Last Breath Became the Chill in the Air and the Fog Over the City's Night Sky, and the name of the song is Darkest Hour

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 photography, performance and filmmaking along with a little bit of writing here and there. He just finished a film for the Main Museum about the history of Los Angeles and he recently finished a film for Glendale, CA gallery The Pit, the film is titled The PYT (Pretty Young Thing) and it is a remake of the 1981 horror film on which the gallery’s name is based. Maura Brewer is a video artist who also works in performance and experimental fashion. She is a co-founder of a collaborative called the Rational Dress Society that produces and un-gendered mono-garment for everyday wear called Jumpsuit. She also makes essayistic videos, and she recently had a video up at Queens in Los Angeles about Paul Manafort’s daughter Jessica Manafort and money laundering. Our interstitial music, as always, is Ocfif by Lewis Keller. And we go out with a song from Providence super-group Landed founded in 1997 by Shawn Greenlee, Joel Kyack and Dan St. Jacques. And the name of the track is Osama Oxycontin

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 in the Great Basin and central California, as well as transhumance pastoralism, and the arborglyphs that this community left carved into groves of aspen trees along their herding routes. Patricia Fernández is a Spanish born artist living and working in Los Angeles. Jedediah Caesar is an artist who lives in Los Angeles and also works in Bakersfield as the Director and curator of the Todd Madigan Gallery at CSU Bakersfield. Our interstitial music, as always, is Ocfif by Lewis Keller. And we go out with the title track from Los Angeles musician Geneva Skeen’s new album A Parallel Array of Horses released by Room40 on October 19, 2018.

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/2ERbByW Neha Choksi works in Inglewood, California and in Bombay, India. Choksi works in multiple media, across disciplines and at times collaboratively and in unconventional settings to explore how we seek, experience and acknowledge losses and transformations in material, temporal and psychological terms. Alison O’Daniel is a visual artist and filmmaker working across sound, narrative, sculpture, installation and performance. Also we have released a transcript of this episode specifically for members of our audience who are hard of hearing and also for everyone to have if you’re interested … https://bit.ly/2ERbByW Our interstitial music, as always, is Ocfif by Lewis Keller. And we go out with a song from Lacey Spacecake out of Brooklyn, New York off the album The Stars Have Left the Sky released on January 1, 2018. More fuzz! More chorus! More reverb! More eyeliner! and the name of the song is ... How Do You Sleep At Night?

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-Heitzeberg is the other half of Semi-Tropic Spiritualists. He is an artist who lives and works in Los Angeles. The Semi-Tropic Spiritualists have exhibited their installations and performance works at Richard Telles Fine Art, Klowden Mann, and The Vincent Price Museum in Los Angeles; Shangri-La in Joshua Tree, CA; and at Llano del Rio, CA among other locations. Their work is currently up at General Projects and will also be part of the upcoming exhibition Totenpass at Visitor Welcome Center, Los Angeles, in October 2018. The Semi-Tropic Spiritualists exhibition what can The Semi-Tropic Spiritualists Do For You? Is currently up at General Projects and Outside Gallery thru November 4th, 2018. General Projects is a division of Insert Blanc Press which is also the sponsor of this show, The People. You can see Quinn and Astri’s show at General Projects during Open Hours on Thursday nights from 7-9pm in Lincoln Heights, find out more info at Insert Blanc Press dot net. Our interstitial music, as always, is Ocfif by Lewis Keller. And we go out with an excerpt from Audrey Chen’s recent performance at The Unwrinkled Ear Concert Series curated by Andrew Choate and hosted by Black Editions …

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 internet. He’s also working on a new project on editorial poetics, thinking about a long history of bibliography and editing as a way to think about contemporary creative writing practices. Johanaa Drucker is an artist and writer who lives in Los Angeles. She is known for her work in digital humanities, artist books, experimental typography and modern art. She has two new books out, Down Drift: an Eco Fiction, from Three Rooms Press, and The General Theory of Social Relativity released by The Elephants a publisher in Vancouver. And at the end of the show we’re going to hear a new track from LA band Free Bleed. Our interstitial music, as always, is Ocfif by Lewis Keller. And we go out with the title track from LA band Free Bleed’s recently released EP entitled Last Woman Standing. Free Bleed is Kat Dohan and Jen Hutton, and you can find more of their music at freebleedband.bandcamp.com and the name of the track is Last Woman Standing ...