Aug 21, 2025 · 1 hr 23 min · 11 segments
<p>In a world of influencers and content creators, Peter Conheim represents an age of culture jamming and social disruption. Influenced by bands like Can and art collectives like The Residents, Peter…
Marc MaronHostPeter ConheimGuest
Who is Peter Konheim? Well, that's a fine question (laughs) because Peter Konheim is a film and audio archivist.
He was a fan of the show, and then he sent me a bunch of the Negativland stuff, and things that are adjacent to Negativland, which was sort of an art...
A lot of people don't know about them, and I didn't either, but I knew of, of other artists during that time.
I mean, I guess the first Negativland album comes out in 1980, and they do a, a bulk of work-You know, '81, '83, '87, '89, '93, and onward, they still go now.
But I don't know how you would categorize it, except that there was a lot of art going on in the early '80s that was provocative, culture jamming was a thing.
And, you know, Jello Biafra was ranting and raving, Alternative Tentacles Records was going on.
There was just this proliferation of performance art and performance art adjacent stuff that was very curious to me.
And I remember it having an impact on me, walking around New York, certainly, in the later '80s, you know, World War 3 Illustrated, Adbusters Magazine, all the performance artists that sort of came through the Lower East Side.
Who is Peter Konheim? Well, that's a fine question (laughs) because Peter Konheim is a film and audio archivist.
He was a fan of the show, and then he sent me a bunch of the Negativland stuff, and things that are adjacent to Negativland, which was sort of an art...
A lot of people don't know about them, and I didn't either, but I knew of, of other artists during that time.
I mean, I guess the first Negativland album comes out in 1980, and they do a, a bulk of work-You know, '81, '83, '87, '89, '93, and onward, they still go now.
But I don't know how you would categorize it, except that there was a lot of art going on in the early '80s that was provocative, culture jamming was a thing.
And, you know, Jello Biafra was ranting and raving, Alternative Tentacles Records was going on.
There was just this proliferation of performance art and performance art adjacent stuff that was very curious to me.
And I remember it having an impact on me, walking around New York, certainly, in the later '80s, you know, World War 3 Illustrated, Adbusters Magazine, all the performance artists that sort of came through the Lower East Side.
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