Humor and the Abject is a podcast about contemporary art hosted by Sean J Patrick Carney.
Latest episodes
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3 min
Introducing Time Zero
Time Zero is a new podcast about the nuclearized world from Humor and the Abject creator and host Sean J Patrick Carney. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Apple: https://po…
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56 min
112: Christopher Michlig and Oliver Payne
It’s slime time. In 2022, artists Christopher Michlig and Oliver Payne released, respectively, the book File Under: Slime and the film A Brief History of Slime. At the time, each w…
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1 h 05
111: Adam Khalil
Filmmaker and artist Adam Khalil joins the podcast to talk collaboration, nonlinear time, irony’s extant potential, and the aesthetics of Indigenous cinema. Among Khalil’s many fil…
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47 min
110: Elvia Wilk
New York writer Elvia Wilk joins to discuss her recent collection of essays on ecologies, “Death By Landscape” (Soft Skull Press, 2022). Using an accessible approach she calls “fan…
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12 min
BACK\SLASHER\02
A science fiction set in the back of beyond, along a stretch of Interstate 80 in Northern Utah’s desolate Great Salt Lake Desert, where for decades the United States military has c…
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13 min
BACK\SLASHER\01
A science fiction set in the back of beyond, along a stretch of Interstate 80 in Northern Utah’s desolate Great Salt Lake Desert, where for decades the United States military has c…
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1 h 06
109: Ian A. Vanek (Japanther)
Humor and the Abject has a special treat for all you screedlers out there: an interview with Japanther co-founder Ian Vanek. He’s about to release “Puppy Dog Ice Cream,” a new book…
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59 min
108: The DSA Podcast (Darcie, Sean, and Azikiwe) #13
Ohhhhhhhhhhh, babyyyyyyyy. It’s the lucky thirteenth episode of the DSA Podcast, starring your pals Darcie, Sean, and Azikiwe. To celebrate, the power trio ripped into some of the…
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53 min
107: Charlie Markbreiter
New York writer Charlie Markbreiter (@BerlantBro) has written about contemporary art, humor, and edgelordism for The New Inquiry, Artforum, Baffler, Momus, and Garage, among others…
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52 min
106: Janet40
Janet40 is the Mexico City-based curatorial and production platform of Patricia Siller and Luis Nava. They’ve been in Austin for the last month as part of the Unlisted Projects res…
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59 min
105: Beth Campbell
It’s my big birthday week, babies. To celebrate, I caught up with an old friend, artist Beth Campbell from New York. She was visiting Austin this past week to unveil a new public a…
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1 h 19
104: The DSA Podcast (Darcie, Sean, and Azikiwe) #12
Azikiwe is finally back from his travels all around North America, so it’s time for another installment of everybody’s favorite podcast within the podcast, the DSA Podcast (Darcie,…
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1 h 03
103: Mike Pepi
New York writer Mike Pepi makes his debut on the Humor and the Abject podcast to talk about the important topics currently ripping up your mind: the smooth jazz rock of Steely Dan;…
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1 h 02
102: Bridget Moser
March is apparently Toronto month, because we’ve got artist Bridget Moser joining this week. Bridget is currently an artist-in-residence in Cleveland at SPACES, where she’s got a s…
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1 h 01
101: Life of a Craphead
Toronto artists Amy Lam and Jon McCurley have been collaborating for 13 years as Life of a Craphead. On this week’s episode, we talked about their current exhibition, “Entertaining…
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1 h 11
100: Darcie Wilder Returns
It’s episode 100 of the Humor and the Abject podcast! To celebrate this unholy milestone, we brought back our very first guest ever: Darcie Wilder. THIS IS NOT JUST A DSA PODCAST W…
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53 min
99: Emma Kohlmann
Western Mass artist Emma Kohlmann was visiting Austin for a printmaking residency at the University of Texas last week, and was kind enough to drop by to record an episode. We talk…
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1 h 05
98: Jacob Ciocci
As part of fabled collective Paper Rad, artist Jacob Ciocci co-produced animations, video collages, and HTML works that have had a profound influence on almost every artist working…
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1 h 17
97: Jordan Wayne Long + Matt Glass
Performance artist Jordan Wayne Long moved to Los Angeles in 2013 with his collaborator Matt Glass. Over the last six years, they’ve written, directed, and produced multiple film p…
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1 h 01
96: Lorelei Ramirez
Comedian Lorelei Ramirez returns to the podcast to talk about why founding—and sustaining—their monthly show NOT DEAD YET was important; the behind-the-scenes process of producing…