Exhibitionistas
Exhibitionistas is an independent podcast that brings contemporary art's latest exhibitions, artists and ideas directly to your ears.
How do you truly engage with art? Exhibitionistas invites you to explore contemporary art with passion and a sharp critical mind. Discover a variety of episodes from immersive art travelogues, exhibition discussions with spectators, candid Q&As with insiders, to playful explorations of current and classic themes. Whether you're an experienced art lover, an art professional or just recently attuned to the curious world of contemporary visual and material creations, Exhibitionistas entertains, informs and empowers you to be in possession of your own art experience.
Dark Side of Creativity with Bioy Casares' "The Invention of Morel"
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 (1940) by Adolfo Bioy Casares, and asks "is there a dark side to creativity?" Read Joana's essays: Art Thinkosaurus . To know more about our guests and our ideas → SIGN UP TO...
Creative Flow with Virginia Woolf
Your host, writer and curator Joana P. R. Neves, challenges you to explore the mystery of a missing paragraph in Virginia Woolf's 'The Mark on the Wall', and its significance for creative pursuits. You're about to dwell on the flow of consciousness as creative flow – the art of mastering and letting go simultaneously. How do we create? How to we get to that special place where we're in control while accepting the randomness of the reactive materials we work with? And what does that say about life? Links, as promised: Explorations of ...
Art Writing versus Speaking About Art - Art Topic
ART TOPIC is is an exploration of a topic through visual arts or vice-versa. Hosted by Joana P. R. Neves, this episode is an experiment in opposing writing to oral communication. It also engages with queer lives at the height of modernism, the notion of genius and its patriarchal tendencies, as well as the intriguing, unique couple of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. Discover Joana's text "G is for Genius, Grammar and Girl", published on her Substack Art Thinkosaurus . She reads it here as a performance of sorts, with mistakes, re...
Visual Arts and Fiction? Laisul Hoque's book: Babu Bangladesh! N. Atif Choudhury
ART BOOK CLUB is a segment where a guest suggests a book which was not written with visual arts in mind and yet is a source of inspiration, guidance and / or creativity for their work. Hosted by Joana P. R. Neves, this episode welcomes visual artist Laisul Hoque. How can a work of fiction influence the work of an artist? Can a visual arts practice be illuminated by storytelling? How can art practices she light on the value and limitations of archives and photographic documentation of the past? To what extent do images convey the trut...
