Exhibitionistas – Notes on Art
By Art Curator and Writer Joana P. R. Neves
Exhibitionistas is your art wonderment podcast.
By art writer and visual arts curator Joana P. R. Neves. Your host takes you on journeys through London exhibitions, forgotten theories, rediscovered texts, and generous guests—be it art experts with an edge or curious non-art experts with spiky questions. Expect varied segments, including the short recurring feature Art Etiquette. Send your questions, and if you have an etiquette suggestion for Joana to explore, she'd love to hear it.
Check out Joana's writing here.
Is It Time for Digital Hygiene?!
Is digital media preventing us from accessing the most exciting part of culture? Final episode of the hiatus special series: it's a new era! It's a new episode structure with new segments! Find out more about: the unacknowledged difference between wonder and wander – wonderment: what is it? A poem by Wordsworth & Agnes Martin's writings art etiquette that time when I went viral and Snoop Dog (or his team) reposted my performance show and more... Visit Worlding online and sign up to our newsletter or follow us on Instagram: @world...
Creative Freedom W/ Chris Kraus’ Art Writing in “I Love Dick”
🔎 Does obscurity lead to creative freedom? Why do I ask? Because of a single sentence in Chris Kraus' book I Love Dick, simply stating that once we accept obscurity, we can do what we want... 📙 This book is a ride through the literary world of the 1990s from the perspective of "the wife of"; it's an exploration of visual art through the perspective of obscurity, complexity and weirdness, and a classic and transgressive exploration of authorship. We discuss: I Love Dick (duuuuh) artistic freedom creative liberation female creativity...
But Is It Good Art?... With Proust
🔎 How do we spot a masterpiece? Can we really know if the art we’re looking at is any good? Which is to say, how do we recognize talent? And is pleasure a real indicator of artistic greatness? ⚒️ Are there any identifying tools that may fit the unique shape of a new work of art? Spotting great art may be trickier but more exciting than we think. We look into Proust, specifically into one of the most intriguing narrative lines of In Search of Lost Time (Vol I): the presumed greatness of the famous actress, "La Berma”, inspired by the...
Dark Side of Creativity with Bioy Casares' "The Invention of Morel"
Is there a dark side to creativity ? Might it even be necessary? Are artists visionaries ? Or is the future contained in the present, and if so, what will you do about it ? As a an art writer and curator , Joana P. R. Neves , the host, steps back from her job, and steps into the questions it stimulates, about art and life, creativity and philosophy. And what better tools to explore the point were art intersects with life than books? In this episode, Joana presents and reads excerpts of this week's chosen book, The Invention of Morel ...