Latest Contemporary practice Podcast Episodes

New Rituals featuring The TETRA & Sacramento Knoxx

Living X Podcast - August 28, 2020 20:59 - 45 minutes
This episode was recorded remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic. About "Freedom School" Freedom School is a large-scale community performance ritual in Detroit. Combining ancestral spirit work with modern Black and Brown spiritual technologies, The TETRA leads participants to sing, co...

Embodying Ancestral Legacies featuring Jennifer Harge & Taylor Aldridge

Living X Podcast - August 28, 2020 20:58 - 41 minutes
This episode was recorded prior to the Covid-19 pandemic. About "Fly | Drown" FLY | DROWN is a month-long installation at the Detroit Artists Market that includes a series of performances, workshops, salon talks, and meals showcasing the ways Black domestic spaces provide sites for Bl...

Empowering Youth, Preserving Culture featuring Emilio Rodriguez & QWNTYM

Living X Podcast - August 28, 2020 20:58 - 37 minutes
This episode was recorded remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic. About "Our Voices Festival of New Plays" Culture, community, and education connect through Black and Brown Theatre’s Our Voices Festival of New Plays in which students write short plays which they direct and cast utilizi...

Politics & Puppets featuring Carrie Morris

Living X Podcast - August 28, 2020 20:58 - 30 minutes
This episode was recorded remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic. About "The Firefighters" Set to audio interviews collected over the past six years, The Firefighters is a contemporary puppet performance illustrating the effects that redlining and disinvestment in Detroit neighborhoods...

Bearing Witness featuring Bob Sestok & Dr. Shaun Nethercott

Living X Podcast - August 28, 2020 20:58 - 32 minutes
This episode was recorded remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic. About "Cass Corridor Art & Beyond" Cass Corridor Art & Beyond tells the stories of a half-century of Cass Corridor artists, their importance, and the nuances and intricacies of their artmaking. Narrated by Bob Sestok, th...

The Power of Storytelling featuring Marsha Music, T. Miller, & Julia Yezbick

Living X Podcast - August 28, 2020 20:58 - 53 minutes
This episode was recorded remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic and before the August 4, 2020 tragedy in Beirut, Lebanon. About "The Detroitist" The Detroitist is a new anthology of Marsha Music's essays and lyric poems, focused on Detroit's history, mid-century transition, and contem...

Legends featuring Marion Hayden, Pam Wise, and Robert Jones

Living X Podcast - August 28, 2020 20:58 - 40 minutes
This episode was recorded remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic. About "Detroit: 20 Minutes Apart" Detroit: Twenty Minutes Apart is a stage presentation that explores the neighborhood, family, and musical experiences of two musicians that grew up in very different neighborhoods, 20 mi...

Living X - Sign of the Times featuring rootoftwo & The Kresge Foundation

Living X Podcast - August 28, 2020 20:57 - 44 minutes
This episode was recorded remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic. About AXD AXD is a city-wide, multi-disciplinary series featuring twenty-two newly commissioned exhibitions, performances and events developed by alumni Kresge Artist Fellows and Gilda Awardees immersed throughout Detroi...

LIVING X

Living X Podcast - August 28, 2020 20:56 - 1 minute
We welcome you to listen to the Living X podcast. In this trailer we provide an overview of what you can expect as you listen in to the stories of Detroit-based artists sharing what it means to live and work in times of great transformation.  Want to know more. Visit artxdetroit.com h...