Guest: Jake Nussbaum
Host: Christopher Kardambikis
Recorded on December 11, 2025
Jake Nussbaum is a multidisciplinary artist, musician, and scholar. He works and researches in the intersections of creative practice and political organizing.
The creative methods Jake uses emerge from the questions he asks with his collaborators and community. In the past he has made art books, pirate radio stations, costumes, card systems, zines, sound installations, drawings, archival exhibitions, and essay films. He is always experimenting in new modalities and asking more questions.
Jake is also a musician and percussionist deeply invested in improvisation and collaboration. He has studied in classical, jazz, experimental, Arabic, West African, and Afro-Caribbean traditions. He is currently a member of the bands The Early and Seven Count.
Jake holds a PhD in anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania, and a graduate certificate from the Center for Experimental Ethnography. From 2024-25 he was Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Library Company of Philadelphia. He is currently a lecturer in Liberal Arts at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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