{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Bad at Sports Episode 936: Damon Locks","description":"Locks\u2019 exhibition operates as a split composition: the back gallery leans into layered, exploratory collage rooted in his teaching experience with Prison + Neighborhood Arts\/Education Project at Stateville Correctional Center, while the front gallery delivers sharper, declarative works built around text and figuration. The conversation frames this as a kind of A-side \/ B-side logic, with one space functioning like improvisational jazz and the other like a stripped-down, urgent punk track. Locks pushes back on easy analogies, but embraces the underlying idea: that both bodies of work are driven by different modes of attention and response. A major thread is process. Locks describes an almost anti-archival system of working, where stacks of Xeroxes, prints, and sampled sounds are mentally cataloged rather than digitally organized. This produces a practice grounded in rediscovery and accident, closer to crate-digging than database searching. Equally central is pedagogy. His decade-plus engagement with incarcerated students becomes a generative force, not a side project. The \u201chomework\u201d he assigns becomes his own studio method, expanding into the work shown here and into related musical output like List of Demands. Throughout, Locks positions his work within a lineage that moves fluidly between comic books, punk ephemera, Black radical print culture, and contemporary art. The result is a practice that refuses clean categorization, operating instead as an ongoing negotiation between sound, image, politics, and community.  Names Dropped&amp;nbsp; Duncan MacKenzie \u2014 https:\/\/kurasmackenzie.com\/ Ryan (Peter Miller) \u2014 http:\/\/ryanpetermiller.com\/ Damon Locks \u2014 https:\/\/damonlocks.black\/ Goldfinch Gallery \u2014 https:\/\/goldfinch-gallery.com\/ Lumpen Radio \u2014 https:\/\/lumpenradio.com\/ Prison + Neighborhood Arts\/Education Project \u2014 https:\/\/pnaep.org\/ Stateville Correctional Center \u2014 https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stateville_Correctional_Center  Artists \/ Art References Charles White \u2014 https:\/\/www.artic.edu\/artists\/23067\/charles-white Raymond Pettibon \u2014 https:\/\/gagosian.com\/artists\/raymond-pettibon\/ Emory Douglas \u2014 https:\/\/www.moma.org\/artists\/13246 Kerry James Marshall \u2014 https:\/\/kerryjamesmarshall.com\/  Music \/ Punk References Bad Brains \u2014 https:\/\/www.badbrains.com\/ Minor Threat \u2014 https:\/\/dischord.com\/band\/minor-threat Government Issue \u2014 https:\/\/dischord.com\/band\/government-issue The Clash \u2014 https:\/\/www.theclash.com\/ Siouxsie and the Banshees \u2014 https:\/\/www.siouxsieandthebanshees.co.uk\/ The Damned \u2014 https:\/\/www.officialdamned.com\/ Big Black \u2014 https:\/\/touchandgorecords.com\/bands\/big-black\/ Naked Raygun \u2014 https:\/\/www.nakedraygun.org\/ Black Flag \u2014 https:\/\/sstsuperstore.com\/collections\/black-flag  Comics \/ Illustration Influences John Byrne \u2014 https:\/\/www.lambiek.net\/artists\/b\/byrne_john.htm Neal Adams \u2014 https:\/\/nealadams.com\/ George P\u00e9rez \u2014 https:\/\/www.marvel.com\/comics\/creators\/126\/george_perez Marshall Rogers \u2014 https:\/\/www.lambiek.net\/artists\/r\/rogers_marshall.htm ","author_name":"Bad at Sports","author_url":"http:\/\/badatsports.com","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/40775855\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/content\/200562795"}