Curation

Passages par le féminin

Recorded on 2019-11-21

Le titre de ce podcast est inspiré de l’oeuvre éponyme d’Ernest Breleur dont le passage à la Maelle Galerie nous conduit à nous entretenir avec Olivia Breleur sur le traitement du vivant dans l’art contemporain. D’Orlan à Fred Forest, de Jean-François Boclé à Fannie Sosa, nous évoquons l’actualité de la galerie et les préjugés portant […]

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Revisiter les savoirs

Recorded on 2019-11-12

Focus dans cette seconde partie de l’entretien sur la scène artistique contemporaine camerounaise et sur le rôle des institutions dans la promotion d’une avant-garde intellectuelle et artistique. Aude-Christel Mbga, diplômée de l’I.F.A, redit l’importance qu’elle accorde au développement de pratiques locales, et à la distance critique qu’elle entretient avec la diaspora.

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Parcours de vie

Recorded on 2019-11-01

Aude-Christel Mbga fait partie d’une nouvelle génération de critiques et historiens de l’art formés au commissariat d’exposition à l’étranger mais exerçant sur le continent. Dans ce podcast, elle évoque son parcours qui l’a conduit du Cameroun aux Pays-Bas et des rencontres qui l’ont marqué. Il y est question de son passage par de nombreuses écoles […]

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Berlin’s Museum Island: A Conversation with Thomas Gaehtgens

Recorded on 2018-08-30

Join Ben Lima for a conversation with Thomas Gaehtgens, director of the Getty Research Institute. The two discuss European art history and traditions of museum curation, as well as Museumsinsel, the northern half of one of Berlin’s districts which is made up of five architecturally grand museums. Spoken of in Specific detail is the Bode […]

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Suzanne Preston Blier: Risk, Power and Identity in African Art

Recorded on 2018-07-17

Our guest on this episode is Suzanne Preston Blier, the Allen Whitehill Clowes Professor of Fine Arts and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. In this episode About the AfricaMap project at Harvard, its origins and objectives (1:15) — How she researched and wrote the book Art and Risk in Ancient Yoruba: […]

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Sound as Made Material: A Conversation with Shannon R. Stratton

Recorded on 2018-04-27

Janeil Engelstad talks with Shannon Stratton about her work as the 
Mildred and William Lasdon Chief Curator at The Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY, as well as Stratton’s own background as an artist and MAD’s recent exhibition Sonic Arcade: Shaping Space with Sound. Intro bumper created by Emily Counts. Outro Bumper: “Knotted […]

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Identity & Material Evocation: A Conversation with Sopheap Pich and Jacqueline Chao pt. 1

Recorded on 2017-10-27

In part one of a two-part conversation, Janeil Engelstad talks with renowned artist Sopheap Pich and the Crow Collection of Asian Art’s, Curator of Asian Art, Dr. Jacqueline Chao about Pich’s work, the relationship between art and cultural identity, curatorial practice and more. Today’s episode features music by Austin-based musician Lungfulls. To hear more of […]

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Strange Attractor: A Ballroom Marfa Exhibition Pt. 2

Recorded on 2016-11-30

A continued conversation between Gryphon Rue on the experience of abstract things and everyday life. Gryphon Rue’s curated installations focus around sensory perception and sound. They speak briefly about Alexander Calder, an American artist who came from the arts and crafts movement and invented the ‘mobile’, a type of kinetic sculpture. Gryphon Rue includes a […]

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Strange Attractor: A Ballroom Marfa Exhibition Pt. 1

Recorded on 2016-10-09

Gryphon Rue, curator for the exhibition Strange Attractor, speaks with Roger Malina about some of the artworks that will be featured in Ballroom Marfa. One work, by Phillipa Horan, uses mycelium (of which mushrooms are the fruiting body) grown to fit a sculptural mold. Gryphon also talks about Haroon Mirza’s monumental Stone Circle sound work […]

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