Location 1980 Podcast

The guys are back after a a major hiatus, and the first order of business is where they've been all year. The answer? Numerous gallery events, expansion of the studio, and another trip to That Thing in the Desert - just to name a few. A trip to the top is always a spiral route, and this year set us at Location 1980 up for an explosive 2024.Jesse Fortune@fortuneartistwww.jessefortune.comErik Ringman@erik.t.claytonwww.erik.t.clayton.comLocation 1980 Gallery and

In this episode the guys sit down with Lauren Kilb, longtime Location 1980 artist whose specialty is interactive art: pieces that once built, are only truly complete when the audience participates in what the piece has set up. In this way, the piece is not a static thing but a context for a conversation to take place between participants and artist, or participants and each other. Those who engage with the piece are elevated from mere spectators and become creators themselves. They have involvement

Hosts Jesse Fortune and Erik Ringman introduce the world to Location 1980, an art collective with a decade plus history hidden in the center of Orange County, California. "The last four letters of artwork, aren't play," says Fortune, weaving together a rigorous, get-it-done discipline and a flowing, felt creativity. They illuminate a thin slice of the enormous history here, where countless events have been thrown, hundreds of artists from around the globe have ushered through, and one of the