The Selection Committee Radio Show

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The Selection Committee Radio Show

Host Nate Heiges invites a visual artist or writer to make a mixtape/playlist and then we listen to the music together and have a conversation about sounds, art, language, and life. The Selection Committee Radio Show is a bi-weekly mixtape party broadcast live every other Tuesday from 4-6pm on Newtown Radio in Bushwick, Brooklyn.

1 APR

David Kennedy Cutler: Second Nature, March 25, 2025

Artist David Kennedy Cutler brings us a mixtape in honor of his show Second Nature up now in New York City. He’s “moving in” to Derek Eller gallery with works that mine the everyday, everything rendered as replete replications using his extraordinary process. “Each piece originates from photographs shot at home or in the studio (or gallery, when I perform), which are then fed through digital-imaging software, converted through an inkjet transfer technique into various cut and collaged layers or skins, and held together on either a prefabricated or constructed armature—where finally painting and sculpture techniques enhance and obscure any sense of origination.” Over the past ten+ years David has also been making copies of himself, creating a new döppelganger each time he does a performance. The penultimate iteration of this process saw 5 Davids Kennedy Cutler all signing books at the launch of a monograph about another performance with his doubles, “Off Season.” For that performance Cutler spent 10 weeks living in the *closed* Halsey McKay Gallery in East Hampton, NY. With only his clones and a webcam for company, he built structures, made paintings and sculptures, and created an alternative reality where he was creating a new society at the end of the world. This obsession with repetition and reproduction has also found its way into a practice that involves making publications and editions. He’s collaborated often with other artists like Sara Greenberger Rafferty and Ethan Greenbaum, (the three of them as &&& were previous guests on The Selection Committee,) who share his interest in multiplicity, imaging, mediation, and software. David is a great storyteller, and he has a lot of stories to tell about inspired collectors, other performances, and other artists who inspire him. Join us for a fascinating conversation.

1h 59m
20 MAR

Jen Mazza: Attention Is Rewarded, March 11, 2025

“Ethics and aesthetics are one” —Ludwig Wittgenstein "Attention is rewarded by a knowledge of reality. —Iris Murdoch Jen Mazza is an artist of deep and focused attention. Her meticulously rendered paintings and drawings re-present artifacts of art historical, scientific, and cultural interest. She takes extreme care to reproduce the physical qualities of the objects she reproduces, sometimes using 20-30 colors to match just the right tone and brightness of a sheet of paper. Mazza brings this same focus to the playlist she made for The Selection Committee, composed of songs that require serious listening—from Nina Simone and Joni Mitchell to Julius Eastman and Morton Feldman. We begin our discussion of her recent exhibition “Vicissitudes of Nature” at Ulterior Gallery in New York City, by looking at her painting “Portent.” It’s a rippling, dizzying rectangle of thalassic movement composed almost entirely of undulating lines with a tiny city in the far distance. This roiling composition is a reproduction of one of the twelve panels in Titian’s woodblock print “The Submersion of Pharaoh's Army in the Red Sea”. Her focus on the most abstract of the panels connects to her search for how to represent attention, nature, and the sublime today. We discuss the Caspar David Friedrich show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and how he and the Romantic painters taught us how to look at nature. She also explains how drag artist John Kelly taught her how to show up as an artist. Finally, we discuss Mazza’s interests in philosophy and literature in a conversation ranging from Wittgenstein and Iris Murdoch to Annie Dillard and Jorge Luis Borges. All in all it’s a lively chat about art, music, and life!

1h 57m
4 MAR

How to Handle Rejection, February 25, 2025

Mixtape Show! Combining two vintage mixtapes for a nice midwinter afternoon. First up “How to Handle Rejection” from 2017 and then “Small Animals Respond to Electronically Produced Sounds” from 2009. Enjoy!

2h 10m
25 FEB

Jeff Williams: Fall Flashing, February 11, 2025

With songs from the Theatre of Eternal Music, the Stooges, and more, artist Jeff Williams brings a drone-inspired mixtape to the Selection Committee. This open, meditative, and recursive mode of music making rhymes with Williams’ art practice which deals with themes of time, environment, and the passage of materials through both of those elements. Whether he’s tracing thousands of feet of fluorescent yellow cable through a vast empty industrial building or throwing rolls of aluminum flashing down the foothills of Mount Washington, Williams’ lyrical work inscribes lines in space over time. We travel from La Monte Young’s Dream House in TriBeCa to a subbasement of the American Academy in Rome to a cement culvert in Austin, Texas to the wild-boar ensorcelled farmland of rural France. Join us for a delightful conversation and meet some of Williams’ friends and collaborators along the way.

2h 3m
19 FEB

Winter Dance Party! January 28, 2025

A music-only show to fight off the winter doldrums. Some old and new school beats for your booty.

1h 59m
14 JAN

Caitlin Keogh: Procession, January 14, 2025

Painter Caitlin Keogh’s most recent show at Bortolami Gallery in New York, “Procession,” centers on a suite of seven contiguous paintings. These intricate and allusory canvases are made up of translations of art historical, design, and commercial sources ranging from Cranach and Beardsley to the Wiener Werkstätte and Harper's. At once fascinating and bemusing, these compositions are structured like a dance. It’s no surprise, then, that we begin our conversation talking about Keogh’s childhood study of ballet. We talk about the discipline and how it’s essentially an art form of interpretation rather than expression—of objecthood and subjecthood. We discuss Dolly Parton, Elizabeth Murray, country music, and Keogh’s use of the female nude. How her background in commercial illustration has influenced her work, and her fascination with artists like Magritte and Juan Gris, who did commercial work to support themselves. Her practice of collecting images herself and from friends, and how that translates into studio practice. For this work she really wanted to make a show that was about process—a dreamlike intuitive cobbling together of images, of “performers”, to create a parade marching across a life-size two dimensional space. It’s a great conversation with great music!

2h 1m
17/12/2024

Firestone Christmas! December 17, 2024

For this Christmas special, host Nate Heiges goes deep into the past of commercial Christmases. From 1962-68 the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company produced special Christmas records. Listen to this nostalgic-in-the-sixties slice of Americana featuring Julie Andrews, André Previn, the Vienna Boys Choir, Luciano Pavarotti, and many more.

1h 56m
03/12/2024

Nicholas Sullivan: Chrysler, December 3, 2024

Sculptor Nicholas Sullivan joins me to share a surprisingly sensitive punk/hardcore set in honor of his great exhibition Chrysler at Clearing Gallery in New York City, on view through January 11, 2025. Sullivan studied at both UMass Amherst and MassArt in Boston, and after graduating with an MFA, he taught at MassArt for 6 years. In his introductory sculpture class, “Form Study”, he encouraged his students to really get to know a material by slowly and continually changing and working it until the object finds itself, or manifests its own specificity. He was delighted and amazed by the strange and beautiful objects his beginner students would come up with, and this process of sequentially manipulating material into form is how he works now. Sullivan describes how a series of material experimentations led him to the form of the wood stove, a recurring motif in his artwork. He also discusses how important it is to have art mentors—people whose work forges an inspirational path of exploration of form, meaning, and process. His current exhibition features several stove-based sculptures, and Sullivan takes us through a sequence of different formal and conceptual moves in the show. Some of the works incorporate collage, others utilize a high-gloss auto body finish; some pieces are black boxes to the viewer, some have peep holes, and others have perforated skins allowing us to peer inside. Nicholas unpacks how these different forms and ways of making relate to history and meaning in a really beautiful way. He also helps Nate understand the history and differences between Punk and Hardcore, and we talk about the different scenes, movements, and ideologies that find their homes in this genre of music. We go from classic English punk to Swedish d-beat, queercore, Japanese hardcore, and powerviolence. We discuss what it means to rock out in the studio vs. the transcendence of being in a collective experience at a live punk show. We also identify particular tracks that garner perhaps Sullivan’s highest compliment: “It makes you want to put your head through a wall!”

1h 53m

Host Nate Heiges invites a visual artist or writer to make a mixtape/playlist and then we listen to the music together and have a conversation about sounds, art, language, and life. The Selection Committee Radio Show is a bi-weekly mixtape party broadcast live every other Tuesday from 4-6pm on Newtown Radio in Bushwick, Brooklyn.

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Nate Heiges
Years Active

2021 - 2025
Episodes

58
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Explicit
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