Category: Podcasts, Audio & Radio
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Art Guide Australia Podcast: Caitlin Franzmann on listening and slowness
When artist Caitlin Franzmann discusses the larger ideals behind her art practice, she mentions the ambition of “invoking what is bigger than ourselves.” The artist looks at the fluid links between spirituality, ritual practices, and contemporary art. In this interview she discusses these ideas, and explains how the two sensibilities of slowness and intimacy infuse…
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Art Guide Australia Podcast: The Humours of Kenny Pittock
The punch lines found in Kenny Pittock’s work are almost endless. An illustration of a double power point becomes the ‘power couple’, while a drawing of a giant foot carries the tagline ‘good things are a foot’. Pittock’s work seems relatable and commands us to look at the minutiae of every life. In the latest episode…
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Art Guide Australia Podcast: Arlo Mountford and being out of time
An empty black speech bubble, borrowed from Roy Lichtenstein, hangs above the heads of gallery goers. An androgynous figure visits an exhibition in outer space. A few well-known artists meet disastrous endings. These are just some of the scenes we encounter across Arlo Mountford’s work, which centres on questions of time, history, the Western art…
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Art Guide Australia Podcast: Fayen d’Evie on encountering curiosity
The work of artist Fayen d’Evie prompts us to consider how we encounter, describe, understand and create art. With her practice spanning writing, publishing, sound, performance and touch-based works, d’Evie explores questions of materiality, embodiment, knowledge and translation. We discuss these things, and more, in our Art Guide podcast. Listen above, or listen via Art Guide Australia…
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Art Guide Australia Podcast: Interview with Simone Slee
For Simone Slee the perfect sculpture is the sculpture that ‘fails’. These failures come in many guises; sometimes her works are left to the fallibility of humans, cucumbers and rocks. At other times Slee’s sculptures fail by toppling over, as weight and gravity eventually exert their influence. At the heart of these failures is an…
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Art Guide Australia Podcast: Interview with Ricky Maynard
Ricky Maynard isn’t solely interested in creating great pieces of art. Instead Maynard aims for what he calls “great pieces of evidence.” Since the 1980s the photographer’s practice has focused on the history, trauma and struggle of Indigenous people, capturing significant historical sites, landscapes and community figures. Maynard’s photographic series, Saddened Were the Hearts of Many Men, extends…
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Art Guide Australia Podcast: Interview with Lindy Lee
Even though Chinese-Australian artist Lindy Lee has changed and refined her art practice over time there are certain themes that continually pervade her work. These include her Chinese heritage, questions of identity and being, spiritual practices, gesturing towards the cosmos, and the emotions of pain, grief and hope. Lee’s upcoming solo exhibition, The Seamless Tomb, exhibited at Sullivan…
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un Extended | A Response To Mayday (Audio)
Responding to Mayday is an audio piece which sonically expands on Tiarney’s discussion of the event Polyphonic Social, held at Abbotsford Convent earlier this, which appears in the print edition of un Magazine 10.2.
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ABC Radio National | Soundproof: Making Wheels Spin Faster
From jingles to synths to popular music, Making Wheels Spin Faster investigates how the the sounds and language of car advertisements reflect changes in capitalism over the last sixty years. Starting from the 1950s and progressing to the car ads of today, this piece chronicles the sonic move from ensemble-based compositions and old-time jingles through…
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Radio Docomentary: This Is Not A Test – Riot Grrrls in the New World
Riot Grrrl is not simply a period of feminist punk in the early 90s, but is a movement whose ongoing thoughts, ideas and challenges have enriched human liberation. Riot Grrrl is a recurring motif for empowering females, placing Grrrls at the centre of music and for showing everyone the saviour of rock and roll: women.…
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