Bonus Episode: Le Guin / Indigenous History / Lao Tzu / and more...
What was Ursula K. Le Guin's favourite book, and what did it uncover about the revered author's world-building and family legacy?
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When she was a guest on the podcast, art Curator Catherine Li brought in a revelation about Ursula K. Le Guin's favourite book, tied in with her family's history, which didn’t make it to the final cut. Here it is for you, as a little end of Summer bonus, while we prepare the rentrée with panache.
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This reminded our host, art curator and writer Joana P. R. Neves, about a traumatic episode in Le Guin's family and close peer circle, which reflects indigenous trauma and the hidden history of the USA that was certainly crucial for Le Guin's worldview.
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With a short reading from The Wave in the Mind, Le Guin's collection of essays about writing, reading and more, and of the Tao Te Ching / text 48, translated by Le Guin.
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[Unpublished segment of Joana's conversation with art curator Catherine Li around the writer Ursula K' Le Guin's seminal text The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction with a few quick curiosities that shed a different light on the science fiction author.]
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LINKS:
Catherine Li's episode: https://youtu.be/N97yd5t3pFY?si=i5kLWV6dXO5NPRic
Award winning episode with Gemma Rolls Bentley and E-J Scott:
https://youtu.be/RQvmgEXMAlQ?si=gu3fJlVPiPRDgSCN
Jingle: "Wunder", experimental poem by Joana P. R. Neves.
Created & Hosted by Dr. Joana P. R. Neves, art curator and writer with over 20 years of experience in the contemporary art field. Artistic director of Drawing Now Paris since 2018, she has worked across the industry, from the art market to education. She co-launched the art residency and project space Worlding in 2020. Exhibitionistas’ first year offered exhibition discussions with guest co-host Emily Harding; organically, it grew into a more experimental show exploring art topics, stories and interviews complemented by Joana’s publication Art Thinkosaurus on Substack. She champions ‘Art Wonderment’s’ embrace of complexity against the lure of ready-made opinions. A polyglot, she grew up in Lisbon, studied and lived in Paris, to finally settle in London with her artist husband, four children and two cats.
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0:00 Introduction
1:27 We won an award!
4:17 A new Exhibitionistas adventure
8:50 Catherine Li introduces Le Guin's translation of the Tao Te Ching
18:19 Joana reads from The Wave in the Mind and the Tao Te Ching