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What’s My Thesis?

458 episodes - English - Latest episode: 14 days ago - ★★★★★ - 20 ratings

A silly research show. Every week, guest artists teach host Javier Proenza what they've learned in pursuit of their practice.

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Episodes

#188 Food Fertility, and Border Control - Kim Ye

August 20, 2023 15:15 - 1 hour - 72.2 MB

#187 Gender - Kean O’brien

August 13, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 68 MB

#184 Processing Fear - Emmy Bright

June 25, 2023 21:17 - 1 hour - 73.5 MB

#183 Other Places Art Fair - K Knittel

June 18, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 96 MB

#182 Fleeing Communism - Katya Usvitsky

June 11, 2023 08:14 - 1 hour - 127 MB

#181 Philosophy and Art - Ricardo Harris Fuentes

June 04, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 56.3 MB

#180 Lapsed Mormon - Conceptual Artist Alison Neville

May 28, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 80.2 MB

#179 Outsider Art - Trent Christiansen

May 21, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 87.9 MB

#178 Chthonic Cults of Ancient Greece - Anthony Bodlović

May 14, 2023 17:37 - 1 hour - 115 MB

#177 It’s Not a Cult - Chelsea Flowers

May 10, 2023 17:57 - 1 hour - 99.2 MB

#176 Art or Machinima - Yeltsin Penado

May 01, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 96 MB

# 175 The Twenty Year Flood - Charlotte Bastian

April 24, 2023 08:54 - 1 hour - 68.7 MB

#174 Augmenting Reality - Artist Matthew John Apol

April 17, 2023 09:12 - 1 hour - 142 MB

#173 Learning Disabilities - Painter Alicia Cheatham

April 10, 2023 12:00 - 59 minutes - 55.4 MB

#172 A Vigilante Rises - Painter Avani Patel

April 03, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 58.1 MB

#171 Popular Science - Photographer Kevin Cooley

March 27, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 66.6 MB

#170 Ambitopian Science Fiction - Artist Yann Novak

March 20, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 61.1 MB

#169 Romantic Comedies - Liz Nurenberg

March 13, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 88.7 MB

#168 Things We Can’t Talk About - Laurelie Rae

March 06, 2023 13:00 - 1 hour - 129 MB

#167 Art DNA - Hagop Najarian

February 27, 2023 13:00 - 1 hour - 104 MB

#166 Thinking about Thinking - Artist Renée Forest

February 20, 2023 13:00 - 1 hour - 124 MB

#165 How to Make Sense of the New Art Economy - Josh Hashemzadeh

February 13, 2023 13:00 - 1 hour - 116 MB

164 Architecture and Art - Ben Warwas

February 06, 2023 13:00 - 1 hour - 106 MB

162 True Crime, Religion, and Cults - Camilla Taylor

January 23, 2023 13:02 - 2 hours - 216 MB

160 Leaving Los Angeles - Artist/Ceramics Restorer Debora Broz

January 09, 2023 13:00 - 1 hour - 81.1 MB

159 What We Say About You in Spanish - Emmanuel Galvez

January 02, 2023 13:00 - 1 hour - 120 MB

158 Art Labor - Artist Samuel Scharf

December 26, 2022 13:00 - 1 hour - 111 MB

157. John Berger’s Ways of Seeing - Artist Megan Reed

December 19, 2022 13:00 - 1 hour - 142 MB

156. Dystopian Optimism - Bridget Batch

December 12, 2022 18:53 - 1 hour - 119 MB

155. The Music We Love to Hate - Juan Gomez

December 05, 2022 14:29 - 1 hour - 87.7 MB

154 Art Studio Fire - Surge Wiltron

November 28, 2022 20:06 - 1 hour - 127 MB

153. Que Pasa USA? - Pamela Ramos

November 14, 2022 19:34 - 2 hours - 122 MB

152. Underdog Imperialism - Justin Michelle

October 31, 2022 18:37 - 2 hours - 176 MB

149. Artist as a Full Time Job - Artist/Painter Doug Domonkos

October 10, 2022 19:06 - 1 hour - 99.5 MB

148. Metalwork and Poetry - Artist/Fabricator Jacky Perez

October 03, 2022 18:37 - 1 hour - 88.1 MB

Artist and Fabricator Jacky Perez talks about balancing her art practice and her career as a fabricator for the entertainment and fine art industries, and why poetry and book making are important to her practice. 

147. Theories about Edges - Artist Megan Muller

September 26, 2022 19:31 - 1 hour - 83.6 MB

Recorded at her show Theories about Edges at The Fulcrum Press, Artist Megan Muller talks about making photographic images using a flatbed scanner instead of a camera. 

146. Don’t Huff Sh*t, Kids - Lauren Maryam Moradi

August 29, 2022 22:56 - 1 hour - 73 MB

145. Hopeless Horny Teenagers in Love - Soyoung Shin

August 21, 2022 19:32 - 1 hour - 61.4 MB

Artist Soyoung Shin talks about her recent obsession with Young Adult books, and the nostalgia they bring for a time when emotions were all encompassing and hormones painted your perception reality. Filmed at Tiger Strikes Astroid Los Angeles during the Inbetween group show curated by liz Nurenberg, this conversation about teenage labido goes off the rails fast.

144. Nikki Ochoa

August 15, 2022 20:22 - 1 hour - 55.5 MB

143. How to Make Art Friends - Maiden LA Co-Founder Molly Schulman

August 11, 2022 18:49 - 1 hour - 76.9 MB

Artist and Maiden LA Co-Founder Molly Schulman and Javier Proenza talk about how they went from relative obscurity to active members of the artist run scene in LA without having MFAs. From the Launch of Maiden LA in 2016 to the current ambitions of What's My Thesis? Javier and Molly discuss their good and bad experiences networking in the art world.

How to Make Art Friends - Maiden LA Co-Founder Molly Schulman

August 11, 2022 18:49 - 1 hour - 76.9 MB

Artist and Maiden LA Co-Founder Molly Schulman and Javier Proenza talk about how they went from relative obscurity to active members of the artist run scene in LA without having MFAs. From the Launch of Maiden LA in 2016 to the current ambitions of What's My Thesis? Javier and Molly discuss their good and bad experiences networking in the art world.

142. The Athenian Marketplace - Robert Ramirez

August 01, 2022 12:00 - 1 hour - 59.7 MB

143. Christine Atkinson

July 25, 2022 12:00 - 1 hour - 69.8 MB

141. Christine Atkinson

July 25, 2022 12:00 - 1 hour - 69.8 MB

Books

Book of the Dead
2 Episodes