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SMoCA Audio Guides Archive

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Hear artists, curators and other cool, smart people discuss the art in SMoCA's exhibitions and learn about the Museum.

You can:
 
  • Visit SMoCA and use your cell phone to call (480) 281-9922 to access the audio information while you view the art.
  • Call (480) 281-9922 anytime, from anywhere, to hear selections
    from the current audio menu.
  • Download individual MP3 files to your desktop or your portable
    audio player by right clicking and selecting "save target as."

Audio Guides Archive Menu:
Seriously Funny
Car Culture
southwestNET: Melinda Bergman
Lyle Ashton Harris: Blow Up
Behind the scenes at SMoCA
Architecture and Public Art at SMoCA


Seriously Funny
on view February 14, 2009 - May 24, 2009
 
  • Alejandro Diaz Naked Artist Inside
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  • Alejandro Diaz Make Your Own Damn Tortillas
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  • Kjellgren Alkire's "artist crush" on Alejandro Diaz's Make Your Own Damn Tortillas
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  • Kjellgren Alkire
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  • Martin Kersels Headache
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  • Martin Kersels on Nina Katchadourian's The Genealogy of the Supermarket
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  • Nina Katchadourian The Genealogy of the Supermarket
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  • Nina Katchadourian Monument to the Unelected
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  • Nina Katchadourian on Dan Perjovschi's The Arizona Drawing
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  • Lara Taubman, independent art critic and curator, on Dan Perjovschi's work
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  • Dan Perjovschi
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  • Dan Perjovschi on Maurizio Cattelan's Frank and Jamie
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  • Arlene Shechet
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  • Arlene Shechet talking about her sculpture technique
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  • Arlene Shechet on Amy Sillman's paintings
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Car Culture
on view January 18 - April 27, 2008
  Hear from the artists:
 
  • Margarita Cabrera
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  • Amy Stein
    • how she finds people stranded on the side of the
      road to photograph
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    • the special story of a young girl named Peri
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  • Liz Cohen
    • what major mechanical modifications she made
      to her low-rider
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    • why she wanted to turn a Trabant into an El Camino
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  Hear from the collaborators:
 
  • Don Barsellotti, owner, Elwood Body Works
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  • Salvatore Seno, sales manager, AAA Yellow Cab Arizona
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Click here to download the compiled podcast for Car Culture.

southwestNET: Melinda Bergman
on view January 30 - April 27, 2008
  Listen as the artist describes:
 
  • her story
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  • her title, Every way in is a way out
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  • walking in Phoenix
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  • her unexpected use of materials
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Click here to download the compiled podcast for southwestNET: Melinda Bergman.

Lyle Ashton Harris: Blow Up
on view February 8 - May 27, 2008
  Hear from the artist about:
 
  • Michael Stewart, who inspired the artwork,
    St. Michael Stewart

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  • where the flour sacks from Untitled (Blow Up Painting)
    came from and why
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  • how the horrific crimes of Jeffery Dahmer inspired
    "The Watering Hole"
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  Hear from the author Sarah Lewis about:
 
  • what art has to do with love and war
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Click here to download the compiled podcast for Lyle Ashton Harris: Blow Up.

Behind the scenes at SMoCA:
  Listen as SMoCA staff describes:
 
  • SMoCA's history
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  • SMoCA's mission
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  • SMoCA's board of directors
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  • contemporary art
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  • why you should be a member of SMoCA
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  • how the community shapes SMoCA
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  • what you can do to help the Museum protect art
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  • how exhibitions happen
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  • how a docent can help me navigate contemporary art
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Click here to download the compiled podcast for Behind the scenes at SMoCA.

Architecture and Public Art at SMoCA:
  Hear about Scrim Wall by James Carpenter Design Associates and James Turrell's mesmerizing skyspace:
 
  • how Scrim Wall casts rainbows
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  • what you will see in Knight Rise
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  • why light is poetic for Turrell
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SMoCA's cell phone tours are generously made possible by N. Bud and Beverly Grossman, Nancy and Art Schwalm and Karen and John Voris.

For additional information, please contact smoca@sccarts.org.