Paper Cuts

Guest: Jake NussbaumHost:  Christopher KardambikisRecorded on December 11, 2025Jake 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