LIVE BROADCAST OF THE FINAL EPISODE OF ADJUSTED BY ADDITION! This Monday, April 26, at 6pm EST, the AIR Stream will broadcast live the sixth and final episode of Adjusted by Addition, created by artist duo Lovett/Codagnone and playwright Tom Cole. If you've missed the previous episodes, catch up on all the electroconvulsive therapy, dubious intentions and revisionist retellings of E.T. here.
THE SHOT HEARD 'ROUND THE WORLD: Many shots have made their stake in being the shot heard 'round the world, from the fatal discharge that struck Archduke Franz Ferdinand to Canada's last-second goal in the 1972 Summit Series to Dick Cheney's ostensibly quail-intended shotgun blast into best friend Harry Whittington's face. But the shot heard 'round the world of heard-'round-the-world shots, which this week turns 235, is that of the opening rally at the battles of Lexington and Concord, the first of the American Revolutionary War and the source of Ralph Waldo Emerson's immortal phrase. It seems fitting that, on this almost-momentous milestone, the AIR Stream boasts an array of variously seditious figures, all of whom have released world-harkened shots of their own. At this pivotal moment in the history of performance art, when museums are taking greater interest in the medium than ever before and reperformance is emerging as a valuable means of artistic expression, RoseLee Goldberg hosted a panel on the essence and future of the revolutionary form. Downtown legend Penny Arcade has made a living of shooting holes through tedious decorum, and the pioneering Charles Mee takes loving aim at his idols. Meanwhile, Joan Jonas remains as innovative and incendiary an artist as ever, Daniel Buren continues to have the world's ear fixed on his latest efforts and Kick-Ass makes a formidable dent in the box-office. Emerson may have intended to write an elegy, but the result was a starter's pistol.
TAKE AIR WITH YOU: For all of our listeners who belong to that modern breed of long-distance on-the-runners, check out our new Podcasts page! Currently in the mix is The Clocktower Oral History Project, featuring interviews with such artists and curators as Vito Acconci, Mary Heilmann, Jeffrey Deitch and a great many others.
AIR, NOW IN ITALIAN! Our first program to ever be recorded entirely in Italian has entered the AIR Archives, so take heed, Italophiles, and click here for a conversation with Novarese indie rock musician Cristian Bugatti, interviewed by AIR's intrepid Italy embed Daniela Salvioni, host of Our Correspondents: Italy.
LISTEN TO THE 24-HOUR AIR STREAM: We've put together hours and hours of programming in our stream for you to jump into at any minute. It features programs new and old--check below for descriptions of each--along with a whole slew of music. Click LISTEN to join us mid-stream, or click a listen link below should you prefer any show in particular. And as always, the AIR Archive program pages give you more information on each show as well as providing some useful links and audio on demand.
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AIR STREAM PROGRAMS FOR THE WEEK
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AIR Interviews: Laurent Grasso aka Grasso
Laurent Grasso is a connoisseur of the supernatural, but he won't admit to being a believer. His most recent project, Nomiya, is a restaurant on the roof of the Palais De Tokyo, where 10 strangers dine together nightly. Click here for more.
AIR Interviews: Penny Arcade
Penny Arcade draws a vivid portrait of the wonderful bohemian world she discovered upon her arrival in New York in the 60's. The secret to creating this perhaps apocryphal Utopia? A 2:1 ratio of art lovers to artists. Click here for more.
Beyond the Subtitles #272: Chloƫ Grace Moretz & Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Kick-Ass
Kick-Ass is an extremely violent and foul-mouthed R-rated comedy about a geeky high schooler whose superhero alter ego gives the film both its title and one of its few printable words. Click here for more.
Rush Interactive: Joan Jonas
Joan Jonas has been at the forefront of the art of performance for more than forty years and is one of the few earliest practitioners and innovators of the form to still be working within and expanding it. She speaks with Michael Rush about much of her most iconic work, revealing what is at the core of her tireless imagination. Click here for more.
Not for Sale: It's History Now: Performance Art and the Museum, Pt. 1
In this urgent and timely PERFORMA-sponsored panel, RoseLee Goldberg hosts art historian Alexander Alberro, curator Chrissie Iles, artist Martha Rosler and conservator Glenn Wharton to address that perennial and unavoidable question: is performance an inherently radical and oppositional medium? And how, exactly, does a museum acquire a performance? Expect no clear and definite answers, to be sure. Click here for more.
Our Correspondent, Italy: Daniel Buren
Rejoice, O ye fearful academics, and come out from your hiding places! There is hope yet for the oft-discussed fossilization of theory in the humanities: Daniel Buren makes clear that there is no distinction between theory and art, even going so far as to proclaim theory to be art itself. Click here for more.
Adjusted by Addition: Realistic Listening
Narrative upheavals are afoot in Episode 5, as intense sexual and developmental incidents are manipulated for unnervingly opaque purposes. Adjusted by Addition is the first project in AIR's Radio Theater and Installation Series. Click here for more on Episode 5, and here to catch up on the entire series.
AIR Interviews: Charles Mee & Anne Bogart
Playwright Charles Mee and and director Anne Bogart discuss the inherent social capacity of theater and how this relates to the increasing trend away from the irony-laden work of much contemporary art and toward personal engagement. Click here for more.
DJ Culture: Hess Is More
Mikkel Hess, of the eclectic band Hess Is More, discusses losing a friend in a dispute over the value of Michael Jackson's music and the performative collaborations in the band's current residency at Nublu, one of which led them to being conducted by a set of light bulbs. Click here for more.
LEGACY SHOWS IN THIS WEEK'S STREAM
Warm Up 2007: Escort
It was hard to count them all, but Escort seemed have at least 15 people onstage for their live performance at P.S.1 on August 25, 2007. Available only in the AIR Stream. Warm Up 2007: LEMUR
On July 21, 2007, The League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots started up Warm Up with a mechanical automated MIDI and MAX driven guitar, xylophone, drums and percussion, and much more. Available only in the AIR Stream. Istanbul Biennial 2007: Mario Rizzi & Huseyin Alptekin
AIR's David Weinstein speaks to Italian artist Mario Rizzi, who attended the biennial with his film Murat ve Ismail, and Turkish artist Huseyin Alptekin, whose presented his work Don't Complain (incidents in an imaginary Georgian restaurant) at the Turkish Pavilion. Click here for more. Recorded Matter #11: Women Who Rock
A number of women have taken up the cause of rock without regard for traditional (i.e. smiling and submissive) female role models, and they are the focus of this confrontational survey by artist Robin Kahn and host David Platzker. Available only in the AIR Stream. Sonorama: Susan Alcorn: Mandala
Playing the pedal-steel guitar, an instrument usually associated with country & western music, Susan Alcorn creates a music that is simultaneously meditative and energizing. Available only in the AIR Stream.






