Episodes

  • Ep. 28: Dance and Sway (feat. KAMAUU)

    Ep. 28: Dance and Sway (feat. KAMAUU)
    Jul 29 2021

    Celebrate Brooklyn is back, baby! After moving to an exclusively online format last year, Celebrate Brooklyn! is back and the Bandshell in Prospect Park with a full line up of artists ready to blow the roof off of the thing. One of these artists is KAMAUU. KAMAUU's music is packed with electrifying and rambunctious melodies, while at the same time filling his lyrics with versatility and substance. Find out why he and MacKenzie go to talking about Muhammad Ali and Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon.

    You can RSVP for KAMAUU's performance on July 31st, plus check out the rest of the Celebrate Brooklyn line up at:
    bricartsmedia.org

    See you there!
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    24 mins
  • Ep. 27: Good Grief (feat. Damon Davis)

    Ep. 27: Good Grief (feat. Damon Davis)
    Jun 9 2021

    Meet Damon Davis, a post-disciplinary artist from St. Louis. A prolific creator, Davis has a solo show open at Detroit MOCA right now titled Filling in the Cracks. Textured and profound, Cracks is an exploration of grief where Davis has cast concrete busts of himself, broken them open and filled the vacant space with beauty.

    Mackenzie and Davis talk about grief, masculinity and the role we play in the structures that bind us. Also quartz watches.

    Check out his work here:
    heartacheandpaint.com
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    25 mins
  • Revisit Ep. 10: Improvising While Black (feat. mayfield brooks)

    Revisit Ep. 10: Improvising While Black (feat. mayfield brooks)
    May 26 2021

    Hi there! Glitter & Doom is off this week, so while we fish MacKenzie out from the bottom of the Grand Canyon, please enjoy one of our favorite episodes from Season 1.

    Movement based performance artist, mayfield brooks spoke to us on Jan. 2020 about their love of Marsha P Johnson, their 2020 project Viewing Hours, and "improvising while Black." Today in 2021, mayfield premiered a new piece commissioned by the Abrons Art Center called Whale Fall. As an extension of that piece, an immersive installation will be up from June 12 to June 19th here in Brooklyn at the Center for Performance Research in Williamsburg.

    You can find more details about how to see it at cprnyc.org
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    46 mins
  • Ep. 26: How To Make An American Quilt (feat. Michael C. Thorpe)

    Ep. 26: How To Make An American Quilt (feat. Michael C. Thorpe)
    May 12 2021
    It’s not often you hear the expression, “quilting world flash bang” but that’s exactly how we would describe Michael C Thorpe. An outlier in the quilting world, Thorpe has made a splash in the medium by weaving in his identity as a black man, his dreams about his family and his own manner of painting with fabric and thread. He and MacKenzie talk about the Gees Bend quilters, and how quilting makes beauty out of discarded items. Stick around for an insight into the AIDS quilt with organizer, Ted Kerr. And finally, a very special guest.
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    22 mins
  • Ep. 25: Talking Threads (feat. Emily Spivack)

    Ep. 25: Talking Threads (feat. Emily Spivack)
    Apr 28 2021
    Emily Spivack, producer of Worn Stories (a Netflix series based on her book of the same name) has spent years collecting the stories people attach to their clothes. Whether it's the onesie you came home in, to the crushed velvet Mary Janes you wore to your 8th grade graduation – the clothes you put on your back soak up something about you and the moment you wore them. Emily and MacKenzie dive into their favorite stories from the series, their own pre-teen fashion journeys and, somehow, we end up at a prison in Northern Ireland.
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    32 mins
  • This is Glitter & Doom

    This is Glitter & Doom
    Apr 19 2021
    Welcome to Glitter & Doom, a show that believes that the hardest times yield the greatest art. Join your host, MacKenzie Fegan, every other Wednesday to explore a new featured artist.
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    1 min
  • Ep. 24: My Oh My, Chocopie (feat. Mina Cheon)

    Ep. 24: My Oh My, Chocopie (feat. Mina Cheon)
    Apr 14 2021
    Meet new media artist, Mina Cheon and her North Korean alter ego, Kim Il Soon. While Mina Cheon is busy being a professor at Baltimore's MICA, and laying out 100,000 Chocopies to promote a unified Korea, Kim Il Soon is teaching art history to North Koreans via smuggled USB sticks and SD cards. Wait, you don't know about Chocopie? Christina Chaey from Bon Appetite is also here to tell you all about them. 즐겨!
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    24 mins
  • Ep. 23: Transition Words (feat. Torrey Peters)

    Ep. 23: Transition Words (feat. Torrey Peters)
    Apr 1 2021
    Torrey Peters is the author of Detransition, Baby, a whipsmart novel about three women – trans and cis – trying to have a baby. One of the first novels written by a transwoman published by a Big Five publisher, Detransition, Baby imparts a textured, multi-demensional, and at times incredibly funny exploration of gender, parenthood and sex. Torrey Peters has decided to answer the questions that are tied to the stigma of detransitioning, and she does with nuance, compassion, sensitivity and grace. But what does this all have to do with the cultural implications of owning a dishwasher?
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    35 mins