In this episode Duncan reaches out to Naomi Potter and the Esker Foundation to curate a series of conversations, in the hopes of evolving a portrait of the future of Calgary's contemporary art world. It is an idea about investigating places though conversations with artists. As though, through a series of conversations with sensitive and emblematic makers we could come to a greater understanding of a context, not just artistic practices. It is kind of an experiment. The Esker Foundation is Calgary's and one of Canada's premier contemporary art venues, and an incredibly unique Canadian investigation into alternative arts funding and philanthropic artistic support thanks to arts patron, Jim Hill. We did a show about it. Here is a link... https://badatsports.com/2019/episode-695-naomi-potter-and-the-esker-foundation/

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