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Artery. A podcast on art, authorship and anthropology · Artery. A podcast on art, authorship and anthropology

Asimina Chremos with Zihan Xu

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The camera becomes “another organ of perception,” like a body part you can set in the corner.
A practice starts close to the body. Robert Simpkins opens Artery as a conversation about art, authorship, anthropology, and relational creativity, then hands the episode to the anthropologist. Her introduction stays grounded in medical and multimodal anthropology, body movement, mobility, health, wellbeing, arts, and improvisation. The artist arrives through years of practice: a multidisciplinary artist and dance improviser with over 30 years of dance-making behind her. The conversation settles on self-videography. During the 2000s in Chicago, before selfie culture was ordinary, she made a daily movement practice out of recording herself. The COVID-19 pandemic brings that method back. Her quarantine dance practice diaries are how the anthropologist first meets the work. Access matters here. Experimental dance can make viewers unsure of where to look because they do not live with it every day. Context helps, though not just as biography. Rather than leaning on named teachers or specialist lineage, she speaks from her own feelings and observations as a dance artist. That is the invitation. Her interest carries the work outward better than a tidy explanation would. Sound joins the practice too. For the Screen Bodies Practicum, she records fingers on a keyboard, mouse contact, breathing, and sounding as preparation for participant assignments. By the end, the artist keeps the job practical: feed the practice, support other people's practice, and protect creative thinking through gentle nonconformity.

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A patient conversation about dance as daily practice, personal voice, and the work of making context.

Artery follows a multidisciplinary artist and dance improviser through self videography, daily movement practice, and quarantine diaries that grew out of work first done in Chicago.

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For a close listen on dance, recording, and artistic responsibility.

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