A Real Piece of... Art

In the most uproariously giddy and thought-provoking episode of A Real Piece of... Art yet, aired to coincide with Regina's Queer City Cinema/Performatorium Festival of Queer Performance Art, performance artists jes sasche and Mikiki share critical notions and lots of laughs about what it means to be a performance artist and to have a "bad body."

In this episode of A Real Piece of... Art, Sandee and R-T take a trip through Saskatchewan's visual history as they take in the MacKenzie Art Gallery's permanent collection exhibition "Walking With Saskatchewan." On the segment A Real Piece of Work, Sakewewak Artists' Collective's Adam Martin Executive Director wonders why artists are always depicted as snobs in pop culture. A Real Piece of Art airs every Thursday at 11:30 AM on CJTR 91.3 FM Regina Community Radio.

Sandee & R-T talk about Caitlin Thompson's mystical cowboy clothing in the exhibition "Dandy Lines" at the Art Gallery of Regina. Gary Varro, Executive & Artistic Director of Queer City Cinema, shares some of the weirdest items he's had to procure for performance artists at his festival over the years.

Sandee and R-T connect kitsch, camp, queerness and the suburbs in the latest episode of A Real Piece of... Art examining the second part of the exhibition Off-Centre: Queer Contemporary Art in the Prairies, which is on view at the Dunlop Art Gallery's Sherwood Village location. On this week's segment A Real Piece of Work, Sandee has compiled a slew of fun, insightful comments from guests who talk about their jobs in the art world that had to be cut from earlier episodes due to time. Summer clip show!

In this episode, Sandee challenges R-T to not only analyze the artworks in the exhibition "Off-Centre: Queer Contemporary Art in the Prairies" at the Dunlop Art Gallery, but also human relationships. Then, guest Jeff Meldrum tells us his secret to working as a preparator, making art, going to school and owning Regina's 3rd best dog on the segment "A Real Piece of Work."

In this episode of A Real Piece of... Art (aired on CJTR 91.3 FM Regina Community Radio on July 4 & 11, 2019), Sandee asks R-T a lot of questions about Victor Cicansky's retrospective exhibition "The Gardener's Universe" at the MacKenzie art Gallery until October 23, 2019. How would you answer the question, "Why would the artist make it out of this material?" Plus, Jess Richter of the Art Gallery of Regina explains how letting a child touch an artwork might lead to a career in the arts on the segment "A Real Piece of Work."

In this episode of "A Real Piece of... Art" Sandee and R-T visit Katherine Boyer's exhibition "Labour is the body; time is the bridge" at Neutral Ground Artist-run Centre in Regina. Plus, Amber Phelps-Bondaroff tells us what a Programming Coordinator does in an artist-run centre (hint: she doesn't program computers!)on the segment "A Real Piece of Work". "A Real Piece of... Art" airs Thursdays at 11:30 AM on 91.3 FM CJTR, Regina Community Radio.

In this episode of A Real Piece of... Art (aired on radio June 20 & 27, 2019), R-T and I talk about the video, 3D printed sculpture and interactive digital text exhibition ”She Who Sees the Unknown” by New York-based Iranian Artist Morehshin Allahyari. On view at the MacKenzie Art Gallery until August 25, 2019 "She Who Sees the Unknown" explores personal experiences with gender and power through the powerful female and non-binary figures of jinn (genies) in new media. My guest on the segment A Real Piece of Work is Zoë Schneider, OSAC's visual and media art coordinator talks about some unexpected challenges she's faced in circulating art exhibitions to communities around Saskatchewan and what happens when artwork turns into a bug-filled piñata.

In this episode of A Real Piece of... Art R-T compares Gabriela Garcia-Luna's sculpture "Affinity" to an Art MacKay (And, mispronounces the painter's name! Oh, robots!); Wendy Peart explains how she had to chew a lot of gum for her job as Curator of Education and Outreach at the Dunlop Art Gallery on the segment A Real Piece of Work. Originally aired on CJTR 91.3 FM on June 6, 2019.

Sandee and R-T explore the spooky, kooky world of Mitchell Wiebe's "Vamp Sites" at the MacKenzie Art Gallery. Ever heard of a Curatorial Research Assistant? Learn all about it from the MacKenzie Art Gallery's Lillian O'Brien Davis, who tells us how making "not art" set her on the path to a career in the arts and her current job on the segment A Real Piece of Work.