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Verbal ArtBacklog Lookback pt. 2 / ep. 9-18This is part 2 of my 2023 reflections & recommendations, looking through the catalogue of previous interviews and presenting them to you as technical & thematic summaries with additional retrospective thoughts. In this episode I also go off on a tangent of historic vs. millennial pop-culture vampire lore, and I talk about how I sometimes forget to listen to the people I talk to. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2024-01-301h 11
Verbal ArtBacklog Lookback pt. 1 / ep. 1-8This month I am not releasing new interviews, so instead I am looking back at the year that passed and the 45 episodes which are already available in the archive. I summarise each episode, expanding on themes and techniques, to help you pick & choose episodes based on your specific interests. Even if you have already listened to all my previous episodes, you might still enjoy these reflections & recommendations, as I reminisce on the podcast thus far and add extra bits of retrospective info and thoughts here and there. In this first part I also talk about what kind of podcast...2024-01-211h 28
Verbal ArtHappy New Year!A short New Years greeting from me in Copenhagen, with a small public-service announcement of how the podcast is continuing after this holiday. Thank you for listening, talk to you next year! For questions, comments, or other feedback, write me on verbal.art@protonmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2023-12-3111 min
Verbal Art45: Oskar Partanen / Kinetic SculptureI meet Oskar Partanen in Annantalo in Helsinki, to see his solo exhibition Self Titled and talk about his cute but eerie sculptures that move and make sounds. His creatures live side-by-side in one room, but somehow seem to all exist within each their own universe. We talk about repurposed items, pragmatic choices in materials, and Oskar explains how he has hacked electronic audio devices and built motorised constructions to give his figures life. We get into childhood dreams, discuss how children might be better art critics than adults, and reflect on how to make work that speaks adult...2023-12-301h 48
Verbal ArtMerry X Mess!Today on the podcast, I have little treat! As a Christmas present, I made a live recording of an exclusive, improvised Christmas collage concert! I am layering five Finnish Christmas cassette tapes, all played on old, analogue tape players, to sculpt a new old holiday sound for you to enjoy while you are waiting for Christmas Eve. There is a lot of old gold in the mix, but everything is in Finnish and played simultaneously. A very merry, morphed X Mess Mashup, to all of you from every me 2023-12-2422 min
Verbal Art44: Kamila Śladowska / Painting Plants & Private PartsI return to Asbestos Art Space in Helsinki, to see Kamila Śladowska's solo exhibition Growing Interconnectedness, which has turned the gallery into a surreal painting installation of water, plants, and morphed shapes of naked, human bodies. Kamila tells about foraging herbs and finding inspiration in nature's ecosystems, and guides us through her assemblage of deconstructed paintings and sculptural elements. She explains how her art is an existential and political tool to deal with topics such as ecology, sexuality and gender, and how growing up in a country dominated by oppressive Catholicism has created a need for rebellious commentary within h...2023-12-201h 49
Verbal Art43: Paola Fernanda Guzmán Figueroa / Familia ForeverI meet Paola Fernanda Guzmán Figueroa in Oodi library in Helsinki, to talk about her video work Nanita, para siempre. Paola explains how her Colombian roots grew stronger while living in Finland, and how she keeps a close connection to her family by making them a focal point in her art. We discuss different techniques for working with film- and video, and Paola talks about the process, and feeling, of making one thousand drawings of her grandmother for the animation film projected in the library. We also talk about showing art in public spaces not created for exhibitions, a...2023-12-141h 47
Verbal Art42: James Prevett / Sculpting SociallyIn this crossover episode with OOO Radio (Out of Office), James Prevett guides me through his exhibition Together With in Forum Box gallery in Helsinki. James explains how ongoing collaborations with other artists, the public, and his daughter, helps him reconsider and reinvent himself as sculptor, teacher and curator, as we look at years of different initiatives of socially engaged sculpture displayed side-by-side. We talk about material translation, travelling artworks, methods of public participation, and how every project entails its own set of practical, ideological and aesthetic premises.This episode was broadcast live on OOO Radio...2023-11-291h 29
Verbal Art41: Niko Nordström / TimeI finally sit down with Niko Nordström, to talk about his solo performance This Is Why I'm Late, in The Theatre Academy in Helsinki. We talk through his semi-fictionalised self-portrait of monologues about clocks, dreams and the struggles between thought and time, all the while dipping into the history of structured time; the societal needs for, and science behind, these structures. Niko explains how the framework of his performance is inspired by experiences in his immediate life, and how he embodies the act of storytelling from various positions, via different characters and as writer/actor. We talk about t...2023-11-222h 29
Verbal Art40: Tangmo / Oppression & (Self)censorshipI join Tangmo's participatory performance memory field in The Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki, and meet her there later to unpack it. Together we talk through the performance from beginning to end, and Tangmo expands on how she developed the project and incorporated multiple collaborations with other Thai artists. She tells about the horrific background of the piece: The Thammasat Massacre in 1976, a student uprising event in Thailand which was violently shut down and almost completely erased from common history, and explains some of the differences to working as a student and artist in Thailand and Finland. We...2023-11-151h 57
Verbal Art39: Myriam Gras & Cyane Findji / Helsinki BiennialI take a walk on Vallisaari island with Myriam Gras and Cyane Findji, to look at a selection of works from Helsinki Biennial 2023. They have organised a series of guided tours for the exhibition, with focus on more site-specific works. Their project, Navigating Turbulence ~ towards the making of place, also contains a publication and a sound piece. We talk about the island's many functions; military defence, natural habitat for plants and animals, and now international art gallery. We discuss the concept of art biennials and how they affect the places that host them, and we reflect on how a...2023-11-082h 08
Verbal Art38: Sara Rantanen / Performance InstallationI visit the Bachelor's Degree Show in The Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki, to talk to Sara Rantanen about her sculptural installation that she activates with performances. She tells about self-discoveries in her recent transition from painting to performance art, using her body as a research tool, and we discuss how a change in medium can affect the way you approach not only your work but also yourself. Sara explains how it feels to put herself on display in the gallery, and we talk about vulnerability and trust in the relationship between performer and spectator. We discuss practical...2023-10-261h 47
Verbal Art37: Harriina Räinä / Oyster PortraitVerbal Art is back after a short hiatus - I could not keep up with my schedule...I have my first ever return guest on the podcast, Harriina Räinä, this time I visit her solo exhibition Volatile Shells in Hippolyte Studio in Helsinki (check Verbal Art episode 5 for my first interview with Harriina, in Helsinki Art Museum). She explains how she is continuing her research on relationships between humans and animals, currently in an ongoing three-part exhibition series with oysters as subject matter, and we get to learn a lot about oysters! We discuss how people re...2023-10-181h 36
Verbal ArtSorry! Crazy weekSorry, I had to skip this week because my master's thesis deadline took all I had to give! And I had the flu. So episode 37 will come next Wednesday instead. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2023-10-0501 min
Verbal Art36: Ana Gutieszca / Drawing NoiseI visit Ana Gutieszca in her studio in Helsinki, where she gives us a listen through her electronic music gear, and talks about her love of noise and drum machines. We also take a look at her animal drawings, and she explains how she turns her drawings into sound by using the electric conductivity of graphite and her own custom-built devices. We discuss the aspects of time and flow in music making and performance settings and share anecdotes of stage moments and musical realisations, and Ana tells about her personal history with music, from playing instruments as a child...2023-09-272h 00
Verbal Art35: David Lundström Nabel / Large-Scale SculptureDavid Lundström Nabel shows me his very large sculpture in the group exhibition Yhtäkiä - Suhduhnle in Kuva/Tila gallery in Helsinki. David explains how he transported a massive cable drum through the city and into the gallery, and talks us through his assembly of different materials and found objects. We discuss what makes a work masculine, if size matters in the exhibition space, and how the different works affect each other in a group show. We also talk about casting your own body parts, finally finding a purpose for something you have been holding onto, and how...2023-09-201h 15
Verbal Art34: Chih-Tung Lin / CuratorI visit the group exhibition Shall we sleep on this? in Yö Galleria, curated by Chih-Tung Lin. They talk us through the works of the three artists Amanda Lono, Minjee Hwang Kim and Noora Lehtovouri, and tell us all about their curatorial process and decisions of the show. We discuss exhibitions as enduring entities, the non-linear dynamics of group shows, expectations vs. outcome, and how to curate chaos. We reflect on the role of the curator and question why some people hyphenate their title as artist-curator. We talk about what methods to employ when embodying that position, and Chih-Tung e...2023-09-132h 09
Verbal Art33: Laura Dahlberg / Robotic Alien BabiesI visit Helsinki Art Museum (HAM) again, this time to see Laura Dahlberg's new sci-fi inspired solo exhibition Abiotic Variables feat. Alien Babies. Laura explains how she has used silicone to cast soft robots, and how she learned to use air as a mechanic tool. We also get to know about the crazy, lively material called liquid crystal polymer, and Laura tells the story of how she got to develop her artwork in a science lab together with PhD researchers who study the material for other applications. We discuss the future of robots and empathy, the agency of inanimate...2023-09-061h 42
Verbal Art32: Clément Beraud / Museum TechnicianI meet Clément Beraud in Helsinki Art Museum (HAM) where he works as exhibition technician. He talks us through the installation of selected works from Helsinki Biennial, explains the practical considerations and tells about what can go wrong in the long, delicate process of transport and re-assembly. We get an insight into the greater ecology of a large gallery and all the people involved in the production of an exhibition, and how all the different roles approach common objectives with different agendas and priorities. We talk about the absurdity of a regular object becoming a sacred artefact when p...2023-08-301h 56
Verbal Art31: Xenia Ramm / Me, Myself & Our Thesis (Pt.2)In this second, final part of my self-reflective solo episode, I continue to explain about my current master's thesis project: a site-specific sound art piece on cassette tape, titled The Silence of Sea Tower. I reminisce on all the challenges and wonders I have come across during this year-long engagement, talk about how this whole thing in many ways feels like one big puzzle I am trying to piece together, and I reflect on how it is like an investigation with clues and surprises and red threads. I get very poetic about the writing process and all the similarities...2023-08-231h 56
Verbal Art30: Xenia Ramm / Me, Myself & Our Thesis (Pt.1)For this milestone episode I thought it was a good time to check in with myself, and try another round of interviewing myself - exactly one year since the first attempt. And when I talk to myself we never end, so this is a conceptual episode in several chapters. I did two long interviews with myself in my studio in Helsinki, one in the daytime and one in the middle of the night, and then I edited parts of these recordings together as one long conversation - it ended up so long that I had to divide it into...2023-08-161h 05
Verbal Art29: Laura Lowe / Structural ColourI meet Laura Lowe in her studio at the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki, to look at her very large paintings of gloomy yet shiny, abstract landscapes. We discuss when a painting is dead or alive, the decay and resurrection of landscape painting in the era of climate change, and Laura tells how she went from self-taught artist to alchemist in the paint lab. She describes the technical process of working with structural colour (and what that even is), the difference to painting and sculpting a picture, and she tells about her long experimental process of creating iridescent...2023-08-092h 04
Verbal Art28: Roberto Fusco / The Paper StormI meet Roberto Fusco in HAA Gallery, on the old military island Suomenlinna close to Helsinki, to talk about his and Emma Fält's multimedia installation in the group exhibition Sweet Water, Rough Water. Roberto explains how he has translated numeric data of waves in the ocean into computer animations, and then laser-engraved selected stills onto paper. We talk about the serenity of storms, the poetics of meteorology, and capturing a secret moment in time and making it last forever for everyone to see. We discuss how artists and scientists can work with the same material with each their o...2023-08-021h 59
Verbal Art27: Fjolla Hoxha / Theatre HistoryIn this experimental participatory-audio-performance-turned-into-podcast episode, I talk to Fjolla Hoxha about her investigative theatre performance What is seen and what’s (left) behind the scene? in Studio Pasila in Helsinki. We learn about the history of Finnish theatre - the Helsinki City Theatre movement in particular - and talk about the invisible labour happening behind the stage. We discuss dramaturgy, the differences between theatre and performance art, the role of the director, and the relationships and dynamics between all the creative decision makers in an art production. Fjolla also tells about being Albanian during the war in Kosovo, how sh...2023-07-262h 30
Verbal Art26: Yun-Chen Chang / Tables & DreamsI visit Yun-Chen Chang's performance/exhibition Relax on a Shaky Ground, in the White Studio in the Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki. We talk about inviting other artists into multidisciplinary collaborations, how to dance with tables, what it takes for an item to change from functional object to art piece or inanimate performer, how many sounds you can produce with one table - and how to avoid being labeled as a furniture-artist. We also discuss the concept of an ongoing, evolving sculpture installation and soundscape, what it means to respond to existing architecture, and how to morph a space...2023-07-191h 47
Verbal Art25: Natalie Hamada / War and PrintsNatalie Hamada talks us through her solo exhibition of serigraphy prints, Tell all the truth but tell it slant, in Myymälä2 gallery in Helsinki, and meanwhile she tells us about her life in Syria, the war, and how she moved to Finland to study her master's in the art academy right when the country shut down for the first lockdown. We learn about her collage-style silk screen-printing technique, working with many layers and strong colours on different paper materials, and she explains how she mixes old family photographs with found images, working somewhere between memory and imagination, to cr...2023-07-121h 44
Verbal Art24: Madeleine Andersson / Artist ResidencyThis episode is a triptych experiment wherein I visit Madeleine Andersson three times in Helsinki Cable Factory, during her three month artist residency in HIAP. We have an ongoing conversation about her artistic research on - among other things - speculative theory, radical stupidity, petrosexuality and toilet-science, and her first stay in Finland. She talks us through her ideas, challenges and decisions along the way, and as I follow the progress of her work, we simultaneously form a new friendship off record. We talk about different work methods and -motivations, how this form of self-employment affects your personal life...2023-07-052h 00
Verbal Art23: Jenni Haili / Ambrotype TravelsJenni Haili takes me on a historical photography tour through the eyes of her great-great-aunt Fanny and her great-aunt Signe, two women from each side of her family tree and each side of Finland, who both left their home at a young age in the beginning of the 20th century and moved to America. Jenni has researched their relocations and travelled in their footsteps, visualising their lives in an installation of overlapping places and time: a suggestive reconstruction of lost memories. For her solo exhibition Voyage Out in Forum Box gallery in Helsinki, she has made a vast collection...2023-06-281h 41
Verbal Art22: Marloes van Son & Minerva Juolahti / Sound ArtI visit [of sound] sonic arts exhibition by Äänen Lumo in Oksasenkatu 11 gallery in Helsinki, for an all-round chat with one of the artists, Marloes van Son, and one of the curators, Minerva Juolahti. From each their perspective, they tell me about the enduring process from open call through pre-production to installation, and finally observing the audience's meeting with the works. We talk about curation as an art form, the practicalities of being one piece out of many in the puzzle of a group show, and we get some technical insight into the electronics and programming of Marloes' interactive in...2023-06-211h 51
Verbal Art21: Eetu Vekki & Corinne Mustonen / AI CollaborationI talk with Eetu Vekki and Corinne Mustonen about the interdisciplinary exhibition and performance collaboration Ex Machina in The Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki's gallery Kuva/Tila. We sit in the middle of Eetu's sculptural light installation of AI-produced images engraved into paper, and we are immersed in a soundscape by Murrettumeri. In a series of dance performances, Corinne interpreted Eetu's work with her body and activated the installation, based on a translation process where the graphical images were interpreted as a dance score, choreographed by Eetu and performed by Corinne. We talk about collaborative strategies and collective...2023-06-141h 36
Verbal Art20: TADaCollective / Dance PerformanceI meet three dancers in The Theatre Academy Helsinki, for a chat about their joint graduation show in the master's programme of dance. We discuss performance vs. dance, when improvisation turns into choreography, and how to study dance without dancing. They explain how they collectively self-produced this show, we discuss what it means to collaborate with sound- and light designers as co-authors, and we talk about costume choices - or the choice to not wearing any(thing). We examine how their performances evolved during preproduction and between shows, and they tell about the considerations they had to make when...2023-06-071h 36
Verbal Art19: Jere Suontausta / LightI am back in Asbestos gallery in Helsinki for Jere Suontausta's solo exhibition Imponderabilia, consisting of a series of light-sculptures made of old cookie cutters and other recycled metal items. We have a long talk about working with light: acting as a technician or an artist, using light as a material for sculptural and spatial artworks or as a performance method, light as a collaborative tool in concert and theatre productions. None of us are experts in the more scientific end of the conversation, but we do get into some philosophical physics as well because of pure amazement with...2023-05-312h 11
Verbal Art18: Hilda Kahra & Philip Lernhammar / DrawingsCan you talk about drawings for almost two hours? Yes, you can! Philip Lernhammar and Hilda Kahra show me a selection of drawings from their previous duo exhibition Outside was a circle, where they presented a combined collection of almost 80 drawings. We talk about all aspects of this fundamental medium: what to draw, where to draw, how to draw, what to draw on, and what to do with the drawings when they are done. We get into the emotional side of ripping a work out of a notebook, hanging it on the wall, and parting with it when somebody...2023-05-241h 43
Verbal Art17: Eoin O’Dowd / Irish FolkloreFor this episode I visited two venues in Helsinki: Asbestos Art Space, for an exhibition interview, and Musta Kissa bar, for Irish folk music jam. Eoin O'Dowd is a visual artist and musician, and he talks us through his exhibition Behind the Walls Tickling the Bricks while educating us on Irish culture, and explaining how he connects to his homeland from abroad. We get to know about religious influences in his works - Christian and folklore mysticism, we talk music- and pub traditions, and we even learn a bit about sports!Eoin's websiteEoin's...2023-05-171h 40
Verbal Art16: Fru Amager / Party DecorFru Amager hosts me for a late-night visit in her work studio in Amager, as we have a chat about working in festive environments and inventing visual identities for different types of clients, from night clubs to mainstream brands. We talk about what it means to create an atmosphere and understand the party as a social installation, and we get a look behind the scene of (a part of) Copenhagen's nightlife from the perspective of a deco-artist. We also discuss how you can invent your own job and create a career that fits your lifestyle, and how you can...2023-05-102h 18
Verbal Art15: Michel Winckler-Krog / VJ & Stage ProductionIn the underground movie theatre Byens Lys, in freetown Christiania in Copenhagen, I meet Michel Winckler-Krog for a talk about VJing. We discuss the cabaret Maskefald that he has made visuals for, he tells about the many kinds of projects and different approaches his career entails, and we reflect on the fact that a lot of AV-people we know are moving from party-productions to theatre work. We also talk about his media collective Hackstage, the ups and downs of collaborative stage production, and we get some technical insight on software choices and hardware rigging.Hackstage's website2023-05-0357 min
Verbal Art14: Kim Klevin / TattoosKim Klevin and I talk all about tattoos, while Kim tattoos me! We talk about exhibiting on walls vs. on people's skin, and what to do when your taste changes and you regret one of the artworks you carry around. We look through his sketchbook, talk about drawing cartoons and inventing mutated doomsday animals, and Kim tells about his work as an illustrator, making posters and other drawing-commissions.Kim's InstagramTanis' websiteDoof! Media's websiteHow To Be Gay with Josh Thomas Hosted on...2023-04-261h 04
Verbal Art13: Trine Trash / Music & PoetryLocal legend Trine Trash invites me into her home in Copenhagen, to show me her instruments and talk about dedicating your life to art. She explains how her (a)typical work-week looks, tells tales from a life on stage, and reflect on how the job changed with pandemic restrictions. Trine also tells the story of how she became Trine Trash, and we discuss what it means to create a life and career around yourself as a performative persona. We get to know about her many music projects and her musical background, and she plays a song for us on...2023-04-191h 13
Verbal Art12: Lotta Hurnanen / Film Soup & FarmingLotta Hurnanen takes me on an excursion to two of her special outdoor spots in Helsinki. We talk about experimental photography techniques, and leaving your film or prints outdoors for up to several weeks to let nature work its wonders. We sit in a ditch next to a highway, where Lotta let her film rolls soak in a little stream of water, in order to make psychedelic landscape photography. Afterwards we visit a community allotment garden, and Lotta tells about how she is simultaneously studying to become an artist and a gardener, and how she has realised that she would...2023-04-121h 06
Verbal Art11: Ostaritutkimuksia / Shopping Mall InvestigationsOstaritutkimuksia - Shopping Mall Investigations is an artistic research project by Salla Valle and Miina Pohjolainen, exploring the history and future of shopping centres in Helsinki. We meet in Konala, a northern suburb of Helsinki, where they have turned an old dentist clinic in a 1960s shopping arcade into a temporary art space. We talk about the sociocultural significance of shopping centres in the history of Finnish urbanisation, how these spaces are remnants of a lost suburban dream, and that their upcoming demolition shows how city planning values and capitalist strategies are changing. Miina and Salla show me the...2023-04-051h 06
Verbal Art10: Toivo Heinimäki & Tommi Pasanen / Football-Shelter ExhibitionIn a small wooden shed by a football field, on an island in Helsinki, Tommi Pasanen and Toivo Heinimäki tell me about their pop-up exhibition Laajasalo Summer Exhibition. They took over the public space for a weekend in July 2022, where they painted the shed and installed a collection of paintings and photographs to create an outdoor gallery in the quiet, residential area. We talk about moving art out of the art world and letting it pop up in unexpected places, and how artists can also feel misplaced in gallery spaces with white walls.Tommi's Instagram2023-04-0551 min
Verbal Art09: Pernille Pedersen / Reimagined Everyday ItemsI spend an afternoon in an old, echoey water tower in Copenhagen, talking to my old friend Pernille Pedersen about her exhibition Recreational Activities. She explains how she has repurposed common objects such as jeans and bras, turning them into crawling sculptures in the shadows of the tower, and how she hopes the audience will make their own interpretations about her work. Pernille describes how she explores topics such as sexual dynamics, gender roles and implied aesthetics, and how she questions normalised truths by suggesting alternative narratives, using multiple mediums and a lot of humour. Also: family pizza, horses...2023-03-291h 10
Verbal Art08: Xenia Ramm / Me, Myself & Our PodcastIn this experimental speciality of an episode, I interview myself in my childhood home in Copenhagen. I talk about making this podcast series, how I use conversation as a tool and material in my art practice, and I explain how long COVID brought my focus into my ears, because I was too light-sensitive to look at electronic screens. I also talk a bit about my family and the area I grew up in, and reflect on how I have tried to navigate as an expat in Finland the past few years.Oma Taidetalo's website (still horribly...2023-03-291h 08
Verbal Art07: Tanja Silvestrini & Victoria Løvheim / Performance & Public SpaceTanja Silvestrini and Victoria Løvheim invite me into their home in Helsinki, to talk about different kinds of performance art. Tanja show me their homemade animal costumes and explain their plans to let people temporarily adopt them as a pet, and Victoria tell about being a drag queen as a woman. We treat the subject of co-inhabiting urban, public space, and the behavioural patterns we often collectively exhibit when we move around the city on our own, and Tanja tell how they met the Finnish people in public as a bear in a park. We also get the s...2023-03-221h 20
Verbal Art06: SASHAPASHA / Memories & HeritageArtist duo SASHAPASHA (Sasha and Pavel Rotts) talk us through their exhibition Fragile Narratives in Galleria Huuto in Helsinki, where they have mixed childhood artefacts, early artworks, inherited memories, and new works, referencing their combined history and a collective past. They take us on a journey through their childhood in the Soviet Union and their grandparents' relocation to Finland, and we discuss the current situation - at the time, Russias recent invasion of Ukraine, and Finland's upcoming decision regarding NATO membership - in relation to their personal generational war-trauma, and we talk about the history of other Russian border-regions...2023-03-221h 32
Verbal Art05: Harriina Räinä / Japanese WoodcutHarriina Räinä explains all about her solo exhibition The Other as Matter in Helsinki Art Museum (HAM): a large-scale, minimalist printmaking installation utilising old Japanese woodcut techniques and tools. We talk about traveling across the world to study traditional methods, and the invisible collaboration that automatically happens when you work with tools or materials containing animal products.Harriina's websiteHarriina's InstagramHAM's website Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2023-03-1559 min
Verbal Art04: Verneri Salonen / Scooter SculptureVerneri Salonen talks us through his solo exhibition Timeless Racing in Project Room gallery in Helsinki, and gives us a peak into the world of motorcycle-enthusiasts. We talk about growing up in the Finnish countryside and driving a moped from the age of 5, maturing and realising that you ideals have outgrown your passion, and using art as a farewell tribute when closing a chapter of your life.Verneri's websiteProject Room's Facebook page Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2023-03-1558 min
Verbal Art03: Natalie Seifert Eliassen / Participatory Breast SculptureI talk to Natalie Seifert Eliassen in the Kuva/Tila gallery of the Fine Arts Academy of Helsinki, where she has built her Breastfall: a waterfall constructed by sculptures of breasts, made from casts of volunteered audience bodies during the exhibition period. We discuss body image issues, nudity in art and society, and how it might be possible to reclaim your body and sexuality and set your breasts free, so to say. Natalie also explains about her process working with other bodies, and how she treats this sensitive area of people exposing themselves and becoming her material.2023-03-0859 min
Verbal Art02: Arvid van der Rijt & Juliana Irene Smith / Multimedia CatharsisI visit Juliana Irene Smith and Arvid van der Rijt in the underground war-shelter-turned-art-venue Free Art Space in Helsinki. They have made their first collaborative installation More Please, reminiscing about their youth and dealing with childhood trauma using each their mediums of choice in one big immersive collage. Arvid explains how he works with sound and video in his live-reactive setup, and Juliana describes how she uses recycled textiles, paint and personal photographs in her rainbow catharsis. We also talk about how it feels to work with your partner, when family becomes collaboration.Juliana's website2023-03-0843 min
Verbal Art01: Cosmo Großbach / Analogue PhotographyIn this very first episode of my podcast career, recorded in March 2022, I talk to Cosmo Großbach about analogue photography in Värinä Color Darkroom in Helsinki, and Cosmo explains how it is different to work with colour compared to black and white. We talk about moving around and studying and working in different countries, and shooting large format photography in the nature. Cosmo also brought his favourite camera for a little show and tell, and we take a look at his photo series from a small Norwegian island.Cosmo's websiteCosmo's Instagram2023-03-0842 min
Christian Hinz \o/Natsværmeri 1.0 at Club 64 in Copenhagen 2017My 2 ½ hour set from Natsværmeri in Copenhagen 13.05.17 with love to Dj's Bongo & Pusk for booking me. \o/
With tracks from :
Emma Andres, Martin Morning, Alex Tepper, Matan Caspi, Mihai Popoviciu, Phonic Scoupe, Dousk, Gabe & Dashdot, WHYT NOYZ, Eric Sneo, La Fleur, Josh Gregg, Irregular Synth, DJ Simi, Hollen, Miuel Bastida, Roger Martinez, Juan Deminicis, Ron Schatte & Flo.Von, Gunnar Stiller, Hot Since 82, Joe T. Vannelli, Gorje Hewek & Izhevski, Markus Homm, J Diesel, Pleasurekraft, Format B, DJ Anna, Mancha & Lea Dobricic, Skotty A., Magitman, UMEK & Mike Vale, Dosem, Stan Kolev, Juan Mejia, Big Al
Foto artist : Xenia Ramm2017-05-152h 30