1 hr 25 min

9. Broken English with Juniper Foam Broken English

    • Visual Arts

If you enjoyed the excerpt of his sound piece you will definitely want to hear more about Juniper Foam's teaching experiences and methods; his business model called "Negative Money" and art practice (his and mine)! Just tune in!
Juniper runs his label, Care Of, as a collective with his students, and his own practice is focussed on film and video installations, where music and sound play a big role.
About:
Juniper Foam is an artist and teacher who lives in Berlin. He graduated from some very fine art schools, like CalArts and the University of Michigan, but (slowly) he realized, art school had turned him into a house cat, which was unfortunate, because his dream was to venture out into the wilderness.
He decided to take his chances anyway and move to Germany, which he thought was maybe an easy place to start.
At that time, he didn't know anything about being a successful artist, except the most basic rule, which everybody knows: "Fake It Till You Make It".
So he established himself as a fake businessman by joining the Graduate School for Arts and Sciences at the University of Art in Berlin. As a newly-appointed Communist Businessman, his first invention was a business model called "Negative Money", which he used to sell records from his record label, Care Of Editions.
Soon, Mr. Foam was invited to give talks about business and eventually he became a business manager for galleries and studios that produced artworks for celebrity artists, such as Kanye West and Marina Abramovic, and holograms of dead musicians like Tupac, but not actually Tupac.
All of this was very exciting, but it lacked a sense of purpose. So like a good house cat, Juniper Foam went back to teaching, but this time, he wanted to prepare his students for life on the outside. He wanted to teach them how to speak to street cats, and to birds, and to dogs and lizards. Secretly, he was teaching them about marketing, branding and strategy, but since artists don't like these words, he put the medicine inside the peanut butter, and described it as world-building, social practice and artist's DNA.
Sound piece in the beginning:
Excerpt from 'Wherever I Am, the Sky Is Mine' by Juniper Foam

If you enjoyed the excerpt of his sound piece you will definitely want to hear more about Juniper Foam's teaching experiences and methods; his business model called "Negative Money" and art practice (his and mine)! Just tune in!
Juniper runs his label, Care Of, as a collective with his students, and his own practice is focussed on film and video installations, where music and sound play a big role.
About:
Juniper Foam is an artist and teacher who lives in Berlin. He graduated from some very fine art schools, like CalArts and the University of Michigan, but (slowly) he realized, art school had turned him into a house cat, which was unfortunate, because his dream was to venture out into the wilderness.
He decided to take his chances anyway and move to Germany, which he thought was maybe an easy place to start.
At that time, he didn't know anything about being a successful artist, except the most basic rule, which everybody knows: "Fake It Till You Make It".
So he established himself as a fake businessman by joining the Graduate School for Arts and Sciences at the University of Art in Berlin. As a newly-appointed Communist Businessman, his first invention was a business model called "Negative Money", which he used to sell records from his record label, Care Of Editions.
Soon, Mr. Foam was invited to give talks about business and eventually he became a business manager for galleries and studios that produced artworks for celebrity artists, such as Kanye West and Marina Abramovic, and holograms of dead musicians like Tupac, but not actually Tupac.
All of this was very exciting, but it lacked a sense of purpose. So like a good house cat, Juniper Foam went back to teaching, but this time, he wanted to prepare his students for life on the outside. He wanted to teach them how to speak to street cats, and to birds, and to dogs and lizards. Secretly, he was teaching them about marketing, branding and strategy, but since artists don't like these words, he put the medicine inside the peanut butter, and described it as world-building, social practice and artist's DNA.
Sound piece in the beginning:
Excerpt from 'Wherever I Am, the Sky Is Mine' by Juniper Foam

1 hr 25 min