This week: Duncan and guest host Randall Szott talk to the fine folks from InCubate. After that interesting interview we flush the whole effing thing down the toilet by reviewing Harry Potter the Exhibition, where porno and Matthew Barney are discussed.
About InCUBATE (from their website):
In ways that have only become possible in the past few years, artist
collectives and experimental institutions have begun to actively re-imagine
alternate art worlds and alternative forms of curatorial practice in
an attempt to disengage from the more traditional strategies governing today’s
art market.


InCUBATE is a research institute dedicated to challenging current
infrastructures, specifically how they affect artistic production. As art
historians and arts administrators, our goal is to explore the possibility of
developing financial models that could be relevant to contemporary art
institutions, as well as collective or individual artist projects working
outside an institution. Particularly, we are exploring financial models which
are less constrained by external controls and market concerns and which are
more effective, more realistic, and more relevant to both art and the everyday.
Our goal is to continue to conceptualize new possible situations, document
these innovations, and make this information available to everyone.


InCUBATE does not have non-profit status, instead we see our role as
exploring new possibilities outside of the traditional models of 501c3 tax
exempt status. We are interested in creating a network of opportunities and
creative discussions, as well as sharing resources for creative urban and
community planning and self-sustaining situations for art production. These
activities include investigating current practices in public/private
sponsorships for arts organizations, debating the pros and cons of
incorporating as a non-profit, alternative means for financing
‘under-the-radar’ arts projects, and hosting exhibitions and symposiums to
spark public discussion.


Centered in a storefront space adjacent to Chicago’s historic Congress
Theater, we consider our location to be an integral pa