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The Culdesac
by Niki Williams
Welcome to the Culdesac, a slippery amalgamation of internet links and synaptic connections spoken over meandering synths.
Episodes
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Culdesac #27: Contributing to Visual Histories W/ Brittany Greeson
Brittany Greeson is a documentary photographer currently based in Detroit Michigan whose work examines economic divestment, gender disparity and the daily life of the American working-class primarily through long-form visual narratives and portraiture.
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DMT in Me w/ Jon Dean and Nicolas Glynos
Jon Dean and Nicolas Glynos each, hold a Ph.D. in Molecular and Integrative Physiology from the University of Michigan. They have also each worked with Dr. Jimo Borigin at Borigin Lab. While at Borigin Lab, Jon published findings which showed that the psychedelic substance DMT occurred in rat...
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Culdesac #25: Retelling Retail w\ Eric Hardin
Eric Hardin, is owner and operator of TODAY clothing in Ann Arbor. Eric is a master of the art of retail. TODAY is an institution of aesthetic, specializing in the landscape of menswear, carrying storied brands such as Kapital, Our Legacy, Story MFG, Endless Joy and featuring local treasures like...
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Culdesac #24: A Chapel Perilous w/ Nick Hinton
Nick Hinton is a philosopher-poet who disseminates his musings on synchronicities, the paranormal, occult magick, portals to other worlds, higher dimensional beings, and his personal experience with high strangeness through his twitter threads and in his books. His books are available in digital...
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Culdesac #23: It's Not Magic w/ Matt Kenyon
Matt Kenyon is a new media artist and designer. He is the co-founder of S.W.A.M.P. (Studies of Work Atmospheres and Mass Production). SWAMP focuses on critical themes addressing the effects of global corporate operations, mass media and communication, military-industrial complexes, and general...
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Culdesac #22: Six Years w/ Cecilia Gorgon
Cecilia Gorgon is, among many things, my wife. She is uses instagram to visually opine on fashion, animal rights, and flowers (she is a budding florist and brand manager @universityflowershop). She is also an incredible illustrator, and has a deep knowledge of fashion history and all things…
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Culdesac #21: Omnipresence & Owls w/ KATAI
KATAI is a Detroit-based artist focused on designing, constructing, and evolving digital media experiences, predominantly through video, photography and sound design. His work has been released in myriad ways, from music video collaborations with a long list of artists, to gallery presentations,...
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Culdesac #20: Asana and Arkansas w/ Carisa Bledsoe
Carisa Bledsoe an artist, originally from Texas by way of Memphis, TN, and also some Arkansas thrown in, they are now based in Marseille, France working in the intersection of corporeal expression, time, drawing and writing. Their current research is centered in the connections between meditation...
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Culdesac #19: Labyrinths and Liminal Connections W/ Julia Callis
Julia Firestone Callis, a painter and poet born and raised and based in Detroit, Michigan. She constructs paintings by intertwining personal events and interactions through a nonlinear thought process. Objects float, disintegrate and re-appear, transformed through abstraction and given new…
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Culdesac #18: Deep Croon and Double Consciousness w/ Joseph Keckler
Joseph Keckler is known for his expressive and powerful voice, stirring songs, and absurdist bizarrely heroic operatic monologues which dance between comedy, commentary and communion. He has headlined at little places like Lincoln Center and big places like Joes Pub, Centre Pompidou, Third Man...
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Culdesac #17: Your Head is a Cave w/ Robert Platt
On this episode I am joined by Robert Platt, a painter from London, England, who’s practice expands far beyond the confines of canvas into scenic design, costuming, optics, and architectural installations and film. His lush oil paintings span subjects from hermits and seekers, to neurons and tree...
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Culdesac #16: Lighting is Critical w/ Matt Rosner
Matt Rosner is an organizational strategist and lamp designer, currently based in New York, crown heights to be exact. His studio practice, Superlamp, is one that focuses deeply on the objects that illuminate our studio practices, lamps. Through Superlamp, Matt focuses on materials and designs…
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Culdesac #15: Graphic Tees and Growing Through Things w/ Ben Leigh
Ben Leigh is an artist and designer, working in New York City, he originates from Montclair, New Jersey. Ben designs tour merchandise for a music label (which is NOT owned by lizard people?) and has worked on projects for some of the biggest acts around including Ariana Grande, Slipknot, Blink182…
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Culdesac #14: Forging Fractals and One Session Wets w/ Richard Tinkler
Richard Tinkler born 1975 in Westminster, Maryland has been working on a book of drawings for nearly twenty years. Like a growing crystal forming fractals, his process based practice generates thousands of intricate drawings based in color and geometry. He has shown these works in NYC, Italy,...
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Culdesac #13: Figure Painting and Fruity Vegetables w/ John Maggie
Born in 1978, John Maggie has held studio spaces in Hamtramck and Ann Arbor. He employs a variety of painting styles to build his figurative paintings, often mixing clean, representational approaches with 3-dimensional applications of pre-dried paint piled on the canvas. Maggie also makes books,...
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Culdesac #12: Sifting Through and Spiders Too
Philadelphia based artist Molly Metz uses paint and collage to capture streams of consciousness and personal narratives. Interested in humor, and inspired by dreams, she constructs these spaces layering loops and wavy gestures to simulate psychological environments. She received her MFA at Tyler...
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Culdesac #11: Phosphenes and Pigments
Micheal Ambron sees things. His work is primarily concerned with perception and the development of sustainable systems for investigating altered states of consciousness. Drawing inspiration from direct hallucinatory experience as well as ways in which memory is stored within the body, he creates...
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Culdesac #10: Subjective Experience and Symbolic Representation
Otto Muzik is a Professor of Pediatrics and Radiology at Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. Originates from Vienna, Austria and obtained a PhD in Physics from the Technical University of Vienna in collaboration with the KFA Julich (NW, Germany). Prior to his appointment at Wayne State...
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Culdesac #9: Mirth and Mysticism with Christopher Davison
A conversation with Christopher James Davison an artist living in Manhattan, NY. Christopher Davison is a New York-based painter with an MFA from the Tyler School of Art. His first solo exhibition in New York was in 2009 at Nicelle Beauchene Gallery and his most recent two-person exhibitions were...
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Culdesac #8: Paintings and Poetry, Featuring Riley Hanson
Riley is a painter. Although his practice extends far beyond canvas to sculpture, writing, and performance. Riley’s work has most recently been the subject of two-person-show with James Gregory Atkinson, organized by Daisy Sanchez, called Rawr Means I Love You in Dinosaur at Lubov, New York, NY.…
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Culdesac #7: Sand Puzzle and Simulations with special guests Isaac Levine and Ruby Doobiedoo
Ruby and Isaac are musicians, artists, and organizers based in Ypsilanti, Michigan. They are responsible for many solo projects, bands, and recordings and are an integral part to the local music situation. This conversations spans their latest project, Sand Puzzle, Simulations, Flesh Light…
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Culdesac #6: Younger Dryas and Göbekli Tepe
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Culdesac #5: Beaver King and King Beaver
This Culdesac focuses on James Strang, the Morman King of Beaver Island.
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Culdesac #4: Nietzsche and Noon
Welcome to the Culdesac a slippery amalgamation of internet links and synaptic connections spoken over meandering synths.
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Culdesac #3: Bur Oaks and Baby Squirrels, with special guest Zach Kolodziej
Zach Kolodziej is a Detroit based artist specializing in radical interventions, puppet theater and installations. We talk about his performance Open House at Squirrel University School of Human Studies which took place at the Stamps Gallery in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 2017 For more Squirrel...
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Culdesac #2: Voids and Viruses
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Culdesac #1: Poison and Peyote
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Welcome to the Culdesac, a slippery amalgamation of internet links and synaptic connections spoken over meandering synths.
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Niki Williams
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