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FUSE: A BOMB Podcast

FUSE: A BOMB Podcast

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Here’s how FUSE works: In each episode, BOMB invites an artist to choose a guest from any creative discipline—an art crush, a close collaborator, or even a stranger they’ve admired from afar—and we bring them together. The result? Candid, unfiltered conversations on art, what inspires it, how it’s made, and what we can learn from it. Since 1981, BOMB Magazine has delivered the voices of the most iconic artists of our time, publishing conversations between artists, writers, musicians, performers, and directors. This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best FUSE: A BOMB Podcast episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to FUSE: A BOMB Podcast for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite FUSE: A BOMB Podcast episode by adding your comments to the episode page.

FUSE: A BOMB Podcast - Simone Leigh & Madeleine Hunt Ehrlich
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05/26/20 • 33 min

Simone Leigh is an artist working with sculpture, installation, video, and social practice. In 2018, Leigh was awarded the Guggenheim Museum’s Hugo Boss Prize. Her sixteen-foot-tall sculpture, Brick House, is currently installed on New York City’s High Line. A solo exhibition of new sculptures is on view at David Kordansky gallery through June 11, 2020.

Madeleine Hunt Ehrlich is an artist, filmmaker, and assistant professor in film and television production at Queens College, City University of New York. She is the recipient of numerous honors, including a Rema Hort Mann Award and a UnionDocs fellowship.

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FUSE: A BOMB Podcast - Ja’Tovia Gary & Kaitlyn Greenidge
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06/29/20 • 38 min

Ja’Tovia Gary is a Brooklyn-based artist and filmmaker. Her films include Giverny I and most recently An Ecstatic Experience. Her work is held in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art and other renowned cultural institutions.

For this episode, we asked her who she’d most like to speak with. She chose writer Kaitlyn Greenidge.

Kaitlyn Greenidge is the author of the novel We Love You, Charlie Freeman. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Believer, Virginia Quarterly Review, and American Short Fiction.

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FUSE: A BOMB Podcast - David Byrne & Open Mike Eagle

David Byrne & Open Mike Eagle

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06/15/21 • 42 min

David Byrne is a musician, composer, and producer, and the cofounder of the band Talking Heads. His recent acclaimed rock spectacle, American Utopia, toured the world and was adapted into a Broadway play as well as a concert film directed by Spike Lee. Byrne has received Academy, Grammy, and Golden Globe Awards, and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002.

Open Mike Eagle has over a dozen solo and collaborative projects to his name. He is the founder of Auto Reverse Records and co-founder of The New Negroes, a standup-meets-music variety show that explores perceptions of Blackness. Eagle’s most recent album, Anime, Trauma, and Divorce, was released last year.

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FUSE: A BOMB Podcast - Eiko Otake & David Harrington

Eiko Otake & David Harrington

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06/01/21 • 36 min

David Harrington is the artistic director, founder and violinist of the Kronos Quartet. For over 45 years, San Francisco’s Grammy-winning Kronos Quartet and its nonprofit Kronos Performing Arts Association have reimagined and redefined the string quartet experience through thousands of concerts, over 60 recordings, collaborations with composers and performers from around the globe, more than 1,000 commissioned works, and education programs for emerging musicians.

Eiko Otake is a movement-based, interdisciplinary artist. Born and raised in Japan and a resident of New York since 1976, Eiko Otake worked for more than 40 years as Eiko & Koma but since 2014 has been performing her solo project, A Body in Places. In 2017, she launched a multi-year Duet Project, a series of cross-disciplinary, cross-cultural and cross-generational experiments with a diverse range of artists both living and dead.

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FUSE: A BOMB Podcast - Maggie Nelson & Tala Madani

Maggie Nelson & Tala Madani

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11/23/21 • 50 min

For this episode, we asked writer Maggie Nelson which artist she would most wish to speak with and she chose painter and animation artist Tala Madani. In the course of their conversation, Maggie reflects on the process of writing On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint. The pair discuss how to capture magic in adult life, balancing doubt and trust, and Maggie’s first experience writing about art.

Maggie Nelson is the author of several books of poetry and prose, most recently the New York Times bestseller and National Book Critics Circle Award winner The Argonauts. She teaches at the University of Southern California and lives in Los Angeles. Her latest work of nonfiction, On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint, is forthcoming from Graywolf Press.

Tala Madani is a Los Angeles based artist who makes paintings and animations whose indelible images bring together wide-ranging modes of critique, prompting reflection on gender, political authority, and questions of who and what gets represented in art. Madani has had numerous solo exhibitions at museums worldwide, and in 2022, she will be the subject of a mid-career retrospective at MOCA, Los Angeles.

FUSE is overseen and produced by Libby Flores, Associate Publisher at BOMB. It is edited and engineered by Will Smith with production assistance by Isis Pinheiro. Narration provided by Chantal McStay, Associate Editor at BOMB magazine. Our theme music is “Black Origami” by Jlin.

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FUSE: A BOMB Podcast - Tschabalala Self & Abdu Ali

Tschabalala Self & Abdu Ali

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06/30/21 • 51 min

Abdu Ali is a musician, writer, cultural worker, and artist. Blending punk, jazz, Baltimore club music, and rap. Their works explore ideas of race, gender, sexuality, and liberation. They received a 2018 Ruby Artist Grant and a 2019 Best Artist Award by the LGBTQ Commission of Baltimore City.

Tschabalala Self is a Harlem-born visual artist. Her work concerns the emotional, physical and psychological impact of the Black female body as icon. Her solo exhibitions include: By My Self, at Galerie Eva Presenhuber, and Cotton Mouth, on view at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Self’s work is included in the collections of The Art Institute of Chicago, The Hammer Museum, and The Studio Museum in Harlem, among others.

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FUSE: A BOMB Podcast - Miguel Gutierrez & Gabrielle Civil
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06/08/21 • 64 min

Gabrielle Civil is a Black feminist performance artist, poet, and writer, from Detroit. She has premiered fifty original performance artworks around the world and is the author of two books, Swallow the Fish and Experiments in Joy. Her recent performances include Jupiter and Wild Beauty.

Miguel Gutierrez is a choreographer, musician, singer, and writer. His recent projects include the performance This Bridge Called My Ass, his Madonna cover band SADONNA; and Are You For Sale?, a podcast about the ethical entanglements in dance-making and philanthropy.

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FUSE: A BOMB Podcast - FUSE Season 2 Trailer

FUSE Season 2 Trailer

FUSE: A BOMB Podcast

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05/18/21 • 2 min

FUSE Season 2 Lineup:

Episode #1: Okay Kaya & John Wilson

Episode #2: Olivia Laing & Matt Wolf

Episode #3: Eiko Otake & David Harrington

Episode #4: Miguel Gutierrez & Gabrielle Civil

Episode #5: David Byrne & Open Mike Eagle

Episode #6: Tschabalala Self & Abdu Ali

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FUSE: A BOMB Podcast - Olivia Laing & Matt Wolf

Olivia Laing & Matt Wolf

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05/18/21 • 59 min

Olivia Laing is the author of To the River, The Trip to Echo Spring, The Lonely City, and Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency. She was awarded a Windham-Campbell Prize for non-fiction in 2018. Her latest book, Everybody: A Book About Freedom, is an investigation into the body and its discontents.

Matt Wolf is a filmmaker whose critically acclaimed and award-winning documentaries include Wild Combination, Teenage and Recorder. His newest film, Spaceship Earth premiered at Sundance and is now streaming on Hulu. Wolf has also made many short films about artists and queer history, including The Face of AIDS and HBO’s It’s Me, Hilary. Wolf is a Guggenheim Fellowship recipient and a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences.

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FUSE: A BOMB Podcast - Okay Kaya & John Wilson

Okay Kaya & John Wilson

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05/18/21 • 40 min

Kaya Wilkins is a Norwegian-American Berlin-based musician, composer, and artist who records and performs as Okay Kaya. Okay Kaya has released numerous acclaimed albums including Both (2018), and most recently Watch This Liquid Pour Itself (2020) followed by her companion album Surviving Is the New Living (2020).

John Wilson is an NYC-based documentarian who has been making low budget documentaries for over a decade. His films eventually caught the eye of Nathan Fielder, who ended up convincing HBO to give John his own TV show. How To with John Wilson is the result of this collaboration.

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How many episodes does FUSE: A BOMB Podcast have?

FUSE: A BOMB Podcast currently has 17 episodes available.

What topics does FUSE: A BOMB Podcast cover?

The podcast is about Music, Podcasts, Arts, Music Interviews and Performing Arts.

What is the most popular episode on FUSE: A BOMB Podcast?

The episode title 'Simone Leigh & Madeleine Hunt Ehrlich' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on FUSE: A BOMB Podcast?

The average episode length on FUSE: A BOMB Podcast is 39 minutes.

How often are episodes of FUSE: A BOMB Podcast released?

Episodes of FUSE: A BOMB Podcast are typically released every 7 days.

When was the first episode of FUSE: A BOMB Podcast?

The first episode of FUSE: A BOMB Podcast was released on May 23, 2020.

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