EPISODE 43 07/04/2022
John Francis McCormack was an Irish tenor who lived from 1884-1945, well known for his operatic performances as well as his renditions of popular song. He became acquainted with James Joyce in 1904, before either became famous, giving him voice lessons and helping him to earn 3rd place in Dublin's Feis Ceoil, which McCormack himself had won the previous year. He went on to study in Italy, receiving voice training from Vincenzo Sabatini and became Covent Garden's youngest principal tenor. Eventually, he became the most celebrated lyric tenor of his time.
My___on Mondays explores the possessive “My” through narratives, art and sound.
Every Monday, we publish a new audio, performance or experimental piece where only one rule applies: the title must begin with the determiner “My”. We invite artists, performers and storytellers worldwide to submit their unique approach and perspectives to this concept. |
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MoM ARCHIVE
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EPISODE 42 06/20/2022
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Three poems by Early 20th century poets, Leonora Speyer, Jessie Redmon Fauset and Dorothy Parker.
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EPISODE 41 06/13/2022
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Frederic Chopin, considered Poland's greatest composer, enthralled audiences with his technically complicated yet poetically beautiful performances. He was prolific, leaving the world with at least 230 composed works before his untimely death at age 39.
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EPISODE 05/30/2022
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1920s recordings from the Appalacian folk tradition by Bascom Lamar Lunsford, The North Carolina Ramblers and Dock Boggs.
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EPISODE 39 05/23/2022
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Elena Gallina grew up in the aftermath of the Kosovo war and has since lived and worked in many conflict settings. Her research has focused on combating gender-based violence in refugee camps and conflict zones. In her photography, she focuses on the complex quiet moments in these often misunderstood and sensationalized environments, specializing in co-creative portraiture. Based in Oxford, England on a Rhodes scholarship, her present work investigates how classism inhibits art access.
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EPISODE 38 05/16/2022
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Old Head rumbles from one machine into the next, tiptoeing the fringes of nature. Forcing through artificial light and black locust bramble, garnering slivers of wire and wood in the body. Nests of alchemical fluorescence, galvanic warrens where from cut-rate laughter and exorbitant wailing can be heard. Old Head is nothing more than Nathaniel Whipple and William Bendler unfurling ribbons of noise that quietly fall to the floor in a heap.
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EPISODE 37 05/09/2022
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Old Head rumbles from one machine into the next, tiptoeing the fringes of nature. Forcing through artificial light and black locust bramble, garnering slivers of wire and wood in the body. Nests of alchemical fluorescence, galvanic warrens where from cut-rate laughter and exorbitant wailing can be heard. Old Head is nothing more than Nathaniel Whipple and William Bendler unfurling ribbons of noise that quietly fall to the floor in a heap.
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EPISODE 36 05/02/2022
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Mathematician, physicist and astronomer, Sir Isaac Newton, best known for formulating the theory of universal gravity, was one of the world's foremost thinkers, but he also showed signs of a deeply troubled mind. In a manuscript written in 1662 at age 19, he offered a peculiar insight into his psyche, within which, he listed the 48 sins he felt he had committed.
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EPISODE 35 04/11/2022
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Uli Westphal is a multi-disciplinary artist whose research-based works observe how humans perceive, depict and transform the natural world, and how misconceptions and ideologies shape our view of nature. He currently lives and works in Berlin. Learn more about Uli and his work at www.uliwestphal.de.
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EPISODE 34 04/04/2022
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Carmen Ballester is a native of Seville, Spain. In this episode, she tells us of the losses she laments in her city, and her hopes for the future.
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EPISODE 33 03/28/2022
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Soma Y'Luz is a photographer, installation artist and founder of the Art & Humanity Project. She lives and works in Seville, Spain and Varanasi, India. Visit her website.
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EPISODE 32 03/21/2022
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Alex Richter is a blacksmith, originally from Biberach an der Rich, Germany, whose work encompasses both functional and sculptural creations. He is based in Seville, Spain where he has lived and worked for over 30 years. His work appears throughout the city in stylistic architectural additions, decorative sign-work, as well as sculptures which can be found at various locations, including the Museo de Baile Flamenco.
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EPISODE 31 03/14/2022
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Neil Craig is a sound artist and lyre craftsman originally from Edinburgh, Scotland. Craig's fascination with sound began at a young age when he was given a cassette recording machine. His musical forays have ranged from electronic compositions under the moniker Muma Sounds, to classical guitar and a stint with the Scottish Indie band, The Holidaymakers. He currently lives in Moray, Scotland where he crafts handmade lyre harps and continues his exploration of electronic and recorded sound.
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EPISODE 30 03/07/2022
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Neil Craig is a sound artist and lyre craftsman from Edinburgh, Scotland. Craig's fascination with sound began at a young age when he was given a cassette recording machine. His musical forays have ranged from electronic compositions under the moniker Muma Sounds, to classical guitar and a stint with the Scottish Indie band, The Holidaymakers. He currently lives in Moray, Scotland where he crafts handmade lyre harps and continues his exploration of electronic and recorded sound.
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EPISODE 29 02/28/2022
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In 1946, ethnomusicologist Gilbert Rouget and audio engineer André Didier accompanied ethnologist Noël Ballif on an expedition through Middle-Congo and Gabon to study the traditional music and culture of the region. Episode 29 explores 6 of their recordings.
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EPISODE 28 02/21/2022
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In 1907, James Joyce published a collection of love poems titled, “Chamber Music”. Though he later claimed, in the cynical tone more commonly associated with the writer, that the title was a reference to the sound of urine hitting a chamber pot, the poems are a reflection of a younger, more earnest Joyce writing to an imagined love.
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EPISODE 27 02/14/2022
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Finnish opera singer Eino Rautavaara lived from 1879-1939. After studying in France, Germany and Italy, Rautavaara returned to Finland to serve as the Helsinki Kallio church cantor until 1922, then after, as a teacher at the Church Music Institute. His son, Einojuhani Rautavaara, was born in 1928 and went on to become one of Finland's most notable composers. The songs featured in this episode were recorded between 1905 and 1909.
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EPISODE 26 02/07/2022
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Jens Kuross has been a professional musician since the age of 15 when he landed his first jazz gig playing drums for a piano trio alongside former Buddy Rich side man Jeff Rew. After studying with jazz greats Billy Higgins and Ralph Peterson, he earned his bachelors degree in jazz performance from the Berklee College of Music in 2005. Relocating to Los Angeles, Jens played with jazz greats such as Larry Koonse, and Bob Mintzer, as well as members of pop rock groups Weezer and Maroon 5. He graduated from Azusa Pacific University with his Masters in Jazz Performance in 2013. Jens has subsequently toured the world, playing storied festivals such as Glastonbury and the Montreux Jazz Festival, as well as venues like Walt Disney Concert hall and the Konzerthaus Berlin. As a composer Jens’s music has been featured in several TV shows and films, such as “13 Reasons Why” and “Lucifer” as well as the 2016 documentary “The Bomb”, an immersive audio visual experience about the history and threat of nuclear weapons which Jens has performed live with the band The Acid at several film festivals including the Tribeca, the Berlin Film Festival, and at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremonies in Oslo, Norway. jenskuross.com
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EPISODE 25 01/31/2022
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This episode features six traditional Syrian songs performed by Youssef Tage, most likely recorded in the 1930s and early 40s. Though nothing is known about the artist, the songs he sings are an incredible example of the complex musical development in Syria, cradle of one of the oldest known civilizations on earth.
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EPISODE 24 01/24/2022
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In 1824, Thomas Medwin published his book, “Journal of the conversations of Lord Byron noted during a residence with his lordship at Pisa, in the years 1821 and 1822". It was a response to the burning of Byron's memoirs by his publisher, which Medwin considered a betrayal of both Byron and the public. Today's episode is an excerpt from the beginning of this book, describing Medwin's first introduction to Byron ––– a vivid and delightful window into his personality, a moment of his life and the era.
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EPISODE 23 01/17/2022
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This episode features three recordings made in 1917 by Irish-American piper, Tom Ennis. Ennis was born in 1888 in the US and was taught to play the Uilleann pipes by his father, John Ennis, who emigrated from Kildare, Ireland. Young Ennis grew up steeped in the Irish-American Gaelic community and became a well-known piper. In early adolescence he became the youngest member ever admitted into the Irish Music Club of Chicago, playing amongst the most elite musicians of the day. He went on to perform in Vaudeville and was very active in the New York and Chicago music scenes.
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EPISODE 22 01/10/2022
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My___on Mondays Episode 22 is by Barnett Cohen. Cohen (b. Cape Town, South Africa) is a queer poet, painter, performance maker, and political activist who lives and works in Los Angeles and New York City. He has exhibited, staged performances, and held readings at REDCAT, JOAN, LAXART, Pieter Space, 356 Mission, Human Resources, The Box (Los Angeles), The International Center For Photography, Beverly's, JDJ (New York), Vox Populi (Philadelphia), Open Space/SFMOMA City Limits (San Francisco & Oakland), and The Onassis Foundation (Athens, Greece). He has been in-residence at SVA, Skowhegan, MacDowell, and is currently an artist-in-residence at the NARS Foundation, New York. In 2020, he was nominated for the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist Grant. Cohen is also the founder of the Mutual Aid Immigration Network (MAIN). Established in 2017, MAIN is a trilingual free assistance hotline for people detained in immigration detention centers across the US. MAIN connects people in detention with bond funds and legal services that can accelerate their freedom from incarceration. Learn more about Cohen at www.barnettcohen.com
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EPISODE 21 01/03/2022
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Christy Claymore (she/her) is a writer, researcher, freelance editor, and former adjunct English professor. She is an emerging poet whose work has been included in the previous three anthologies published by The Cabin, as well as in The Panorama Project, a pandemic arts segment underwritten by The Idaho Press Tribune and Surel's Place. She lives in Boise, Idaho where she loves supporting the arts, running in the foothills and raising her two wild boys.
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EPISODE 20 12/06/2021
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Jodeen Revere is an Idaho actor and writer, and a regular contributor to MING Studios programming. Her first reading at MING in 2019 became the springboard for her one woman show, The Persistent Guest. This darkly humorous story of her trifecta of cancer experiences, less than desirable relationships and life philosophy, premieres at Boise Contemporary Theater in January of 2022. In addition to her work on stage, in film and readings of her personal essays, she has been part of two Migration Theory site specific productions: S5 and Small Matters. You can listen to her earlier contribution to My On Mondays in Episode 8: My Getaway.
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EPISODE 19 11/29/2021
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Idaho author and screenwriter, Samantha Silva's debut novel, Mr. Dickens and His Carol, was published by Flatiron Books in 2017, followed by Love and Fury: A Novel of Mary Wollstonecraft in May of 2021. Her essays appear on LitHub, and her short story, “Leo in Venice,” was the September 2019 issue of One Story. She is currently working with Seattle Repertory Theater to adapt Mr. Dickens and His Carol for the stage, and was a 2020 Idaho Commission on the Arts Literary Fellow. Learn more about Samantha and her work here.
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EPISODE 18 11/22/2021
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Idaho author and screenwriter, Samantha Silva's debut novel, Mr. Dickens and His Carol, was published by Flatiron Books in 2017, followed by Love and Fury: A Novel of Mary Wollstonecraft in May of 2021. Her essays appear on LitHub, and her short story, “Leo in Venice,” was the September 2019 issue of One Story. She is currently working with Seattle Repertory Theater to adapt Mr. Dickens and His Carol for the stage, and was a 2020 Idaho Commission on the Arts Literary Fellow. Learn more about Samantha and her work here.
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EPISODE 17 11/08/2021
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Zach Herbert is a Boise based musician and performance artist who has been creating under the moniker of "St. Terrible" for the past 10 years. With work that tends to be existentially charged and skewing towards the rougher edges of the human experience, Herbert has created a wide array of works ranging from immersive dance pieces to short music films. For this piece, the aim was to create something small and soft, a brief meditative moment of relief from the intense anxiety and feelings of detachment Herbert had been experiencing around the time of its creation. View his most recent project here.
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EPISODE 16 10/25/2021
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Huma Aatifi was born in Kabul, Afghanistan and came to the US in 2002. She is a painter and heads the musical project, Unda Fluxit. Her piece is titled “My Salamuna”, which comes from “Salam”, a Muslim greeting. In it, Aatifi takes the listener on a meandering tour through various aspects of her life, welcoming us to her inner world. Read an interview with Huma here. Her album is available here.
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EPISODE 15 10/04/2021
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J.R. Rivero Kinsey is a writer of both music and prose, based in the mountains of Idaho. Today's selection, titled, “My Book Songs” comes from the second album of her solo music project called Palankeen. It features three songs. The first, titled “Slender” is a re-telling of Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure in seven verses. The second, “Baruch in the Northern Lights”, is based on two characters from the series, His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman. She ends with a song called “The Good Counselor”, which focuses on the story of Persephone in the Underworld and features an excerpt from The Odyssey. For more information about J.R. and her work, visit jrrkinsey.com.
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EPISODE 14 9/20/2021
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Jesse Blake Rundle is a songwriter and poet, originally from Kansas and currently living in Boise, Idaho. He released his debut, Radishes and Flowers in April 2020. To learn more about Jesse and his work, visit jesseblakerundle.com.
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EPISODE 13 9/13/2021
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Teal Gardner (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist living and working in Boise, ID, where she has resided since 2016. Read more about her work at: bodiesofthemesh.cargo.site. This recording explores the slippages among ecosystems, the human self, and the ruins produced by extraction. It features a sound experiment that replicates Alivn Lucier's 1969 "I Am Sitting in a Room." Special thanks goes to Hartford University's Nomad MFA Cohort C6 (Seasick) for the company and collaboration in the artist's exploration of Crystal Peat. And a thank you to the professors Christy Gast and Camila Marambio and their project Ensayos, where you can learn so much more about Peatlands: ensayostierradelfuego.net. For more information on Peatland conservation, see www.globalpeatlands.org.
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EPISODE 12 9/6/2021
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CL Young is the author of a chapbook called What Is Revealed When I Reveal It to You (dancing girl press, 2018), and co-author with Emily Skillings of Rose of No Man's Land, a chaplet from Belladonna* Collaborative. Her poems have appeared in Lana Turner, Poetry Northwest, The Volta, and elsewhere, and essays can be found at Entropy and The Scofield. She holds an MFA from Colorado State University and currently lives in Boise, Idaho, where she facilitates an ongoing project called Sema, a podcast on loss, grief, healing, and death. Learn more about her work at clyoung.info.
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EPISODE 11 8/30/2021
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Boise playwright, writer and theatre maker, Heidi Kraay, examines the connection between brain and body, seeking empathy with fractured characters. Her work, which has been published and performed both locally and internationally, pulls myth, metaphor and monsters together to attempt connections across difference. Learn more about her work at heidikraay.com
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EPISODE 10 8/23/2021
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Daniel Drennan ElAwar is an artist, writer and activist. Born in Lebanon and adopted at two months, he grew up in Iran, Australia, and finally the United States, with four years lived in France. In 2004 he returned to Lebanon, where he lived and worked for 12 years. In 2016 he returned to the United States, and currently works as a professor of illustration in Canada. Learn more about his work at danielibnzayd.wordpress.com (*Correction: MEMRI TV was mentioned in error. The correct organization is Future TV.)
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EPISODE 9 8/16/2021
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Dzevad Vrabac is a poet, born and raised in Bosnia and Herzegovina, former Yugoslavia. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from Boise State University and an MFA from Saint Mary's College of California. Dzevad has lived and worked in Boise, Idaho since 1998. *Poetry, music and sounds by Dzevad Vrabac,
sound editing by Goran Fazil. |
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EPISODE 8 8/9/2021
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Jodeen Revere is an actor, writer and Thai massage therapist from Boise, Idaho. She has worked with Boise Contemporary Theater, Migration Theory, Alley Rep, Homegrown and Opal theaters. Follow Jodeen on Instagram: @jodeenrevere
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EPISODE 7 8/2/2021
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(Please Note: This episode contains strong language and disturbing content.)
My on Mondays' seventh episode is by Erik Wesselo, an artist and filmmaker from Amsterdam. My Conversation with Clarence, features a conversation with a homeless man who lived on Wesselo's front porch in New York City. This man was, for a brief period, the only constant factor in his life. Learn more about Wesselo's work at www.erikwesselo.com.
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EPISODE 6 7/26/21
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Elisabeth Sharp McKetta is a writer and poet originally from Austin, Texas, now living in Boise, Idaho. She received her BA from Harvard, MA from Georgetown and PhD from University of Texas at Austin. McKetta wrote her dissertation on the intersections between memoir, and myth, a concept that informs her teaching, writing and way of looking at the world. Learn more about her work at elisbathsharpmcketta.com.
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EPISODE 5 7/19/21
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Carolyn Bevington published her first book of graphic poetry titled, The Wide Eyed Wonders Graphic Poetry Project, with ten contributing artists.
To learn more about Carolyn and her work, visit wideeyedwonders.com. |
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EPISODE 4 7/12/21
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''My Hikes'' collages Daniel Bagley's Monday excursions with improvised guitar sessions, placing improvisation on the same plain as hiking to wherever a trail takes you. Learn more about his work at distantfamily.bandcamp.com.
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EPISODE 3 7/5/21
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Daniel Stewart's piece 'My 54 Word Poems' is based on his latest manuscript Hotel 54: 54-word Poems.
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EPISODE 2 6/28/21
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Shawn Solus' current work explores issues related to infrastructure and ecology, envisioning a future coexistence with non humans.
Learn more about his work at ssolusstudio.com. |
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EPISODE 1 6/21/21
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My on Mondays' debut episode is by Irina Novarese, a research-based artist living in Berlin. Learn more about her work at irinanovarese.de.
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My___on Mondays is supported by Boise City Department of Arts & History
