ON ART
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Talks and discussions that follow the lead of contemporary art, from the Samstag Museum of Art at the University of South Australia.
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Jun 9, 2022
Virginia Barratt and Em König
Trans-media artist, writer and performer Virginia Barratt is joined by Em König, a multidisciplinary artist, to discuss their collaboration Exosmosis, premiering at Samstag on Thursday 16 June.
Under the moniker [sadworm], Virginia and Em will present a new performance-based work centered around Virginia as a performer and Em’s responsive live soundscape. Joanna Kitto, former Associate Curator at Samstag Museum of Art, joins them.
ON ART is supported by the Gordon Darling Foundation and Solstice Podcasting, edited and produced in Tarntanya/Adelaide on 11 March 2022.
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Mar 17, 2022
Djon Mundine OAM
UniSA visiting research fellow, writer, curator, activist and proud Bandjalung man Djon Mundine OAM sits down with Samstag’s Associate Curator Anna Zagala to discuss his venerable career.
Along the way Djon shares his curatorial process, the importance of maintaining a wide perspective and open approach, how the Aboriginal Memorial came about, and what the dingo has to tells us about settler culture.
ON ART is supported by the Gordon Darling Foundation and Solstice Podcasting, edited and produced in Tarntanya/Adelaide on 11 March 2022.
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Mar 9, 2022
Helen Fuller and Khai Liew
Samstag Director Erica Green sits down with two Tarntanya/Adelaide-based makers, ceramicist Helen Fuller and designer Khai Liew.
Helen Fuller’s exhibition of objects or ‘pots’ as she refers to them, is currently on at Samstag Museum of Art presented in collaboration with Khai Liew who conceived of the imaginative installation.
They discuss Helen’s love of the night sky in the Flinders Ranges, her recent foray into working with clay, how a visit to Helen’s home and studio was a source of inspiration for Khai, and the steps that led them both to the present moment.
ON ART is supported by the Gordon Darling Foundation and Solstice Podcasting, edited and produced in Tarntanya/Adelaide on 8 March 2022.
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Dec 14, 2021
Elyas Alavi/ Tarntanya/Adelaide based artist and Samstag Scholar
Elyas was awarded the Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship in 2019 which enabled him to undertake a Master of Fine Arts at Chelsea College of Arts, London. He discusses the process of applying, selecting an institution, the factors influencing his decision and how he navigated the disruption of a global pandemic.
On Art is supported by the Gordon Darling Foundation and Solstice Podcasting, edited and produced by Tilly Balding in Tartanya/Adelaide on 10 December.
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Nov 25, 2021
Pilar Mata Dupont and Jessica Bunch / Writing The Ague
In the latest episode of ON ART, Samstag Curator Gillian Brown speaks with artist Pilar Mata Dupont and writer Jessica Bunch about working together to write for Pilar’s 2018 moving image work _The Ague_, on exhibition at Samstag from 22 October until 10 December, 2021. Speaking on Zoom from the UK, Netherlands and Australia, they touch on processes of collaboration, adaptation, and the power of storytelling.
Bold, creative and responsive to contemporary visual art, Samstag Museum of Art is one of Australia's leading university art museums. For more, see unisa.edu.au/samstagmuseum
ON ART is supported by the Gordon Darling Foundation and Solstice Podcasting, edited and produced by Tilly Balding in Tarntanya/Adelaide, November 2021.
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Sep 26, 2021
Madison Bycroft / B̶I̶O̶P̶I̶C̶ or Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste André Timothée
In the latest episode of ON ART, Marseille-based, Adelaide-born artist Madison Bycroft on their new moving-image commission B̶I̶O̶P̶I̶C̶ _or Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste André Timothée _(2021) with Samstag curator Gillian Brown. In a wide-ranging conversation, they discuss the making and presentation of a feature-length film, the politics of storytelling and the philosophical notion of opacity.
Bold, creative and responsive to contemporary visual art, Samstag Museum of Art is one of Australia's leading university art museums. For more, see unisa.edu.au/samstagmuseum
ON ART is supported by the Gordon Darling Foundation and Solstice Podcasting, edited and produced by Tilly Balding in Tarntanya/Adelaide, September 2021.
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Aug 18, 2021
Alex Martinis Roe / To Become Two
In the latest episode of ON ART, Naarm/Melbourne based artist Alex Martinis Roe on the works that comprise her exhibition, _To Become Two _(2014—2017) with Samstag curator Joanna Kitto. They discuss feminist political practices and relationships within the collectives doing that work, as well as Alex's experience as a Samstag scholar and the ways the scholarship has impacted her practice in the years since.
Bold, creative and responsive to contemporary visual art, Samstag Museum of Art is one of Australia's leading university art museums. For more, see unisa.edu.au/samstagmuseum
ON ART is supported by the Gordon Darling Foundation and Solstice Podcasting, edited and produced by Tilly Balding in Tarntanya/Adelaide, August 2021
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May 20, 2021
James Tylor, Jesse Jones / 2021 Adelaide//International
Hear from artists of the 2021 Adelaide//International. James Tylor speaks with poet Dominic Guerrera about the mistakes, mistranslations and loss of knowledge resulting from European colonist processes in documenting Kaurna culture. Jesse Jones discusses 'Tremble, Tremble'—a dramatic presentation proclaiming a new social order from a female perspective—with exhibition curator Gillian Brown.
Bold, creative and responsive to contemporary visual art, Samstag Museum of Art is one of Australia's leading university art museums. For more, see unisa.edu.au/samstagmuseum
The ON ART Podcast is supported by the Gordon Darling Foundation and Solstice Podcasting, and produced by Tilly Balding in Tarntanya/Adelaide, May 2021.
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Dec 14, 2020
Kirsten Coelho / Honor Freeman, Wendy Walker, Derek Pascoe
In this episode, we’re looking at the practice of South Australian artist Kirsten Coelho. Listen in on a conversation she had with fellow ceramicist Honor Freeman, hear poetry and prose from the 2020 SALA Monograph dedicated to her practice, read by the publication’s author Wendy Walker, and hear music by Derek Pascoe with _Together Apart_, written in response to _Ithaca_.
Bold, creative and responsive to contemporary visual art, Samstag Museum of Art is one of Australia’s leading university art museums. For more, see unisa.edu.au/samstagmuseum
The ON ART Podcast is supported by the Gordon Darling Foundation and Solstice Podcasting, and recorded by Denam Moore in Tarntanya/Adelaide, December 2020.
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Nov 26, 2020
Anne Wallace / Strange Ways
Brisbane-born, Melbourne-based painter Anne Wallace joins Samstag curator Anna Zagala in conversation. The former Samstag scholar (1994) and subject of a major survey exhibition discusses her practice, how she thinks through her ideas, when she knows a painting is finished, and how painting has changed for her across three decades of making.
Bold, creative and responsive to contemporary visual art, Samstag Museum of Art is one of Australia's leading university art museums. For more, see unisa.edu.au/samstagmuseum.
This podcast was recorded over Zoom on 26 November 2020 and produced by Denam Moore.
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Nov 9, 2020
Amos Gebhardt / Small acts of resistance
Artist and filmmaker Amos Gebhardt speaks with Naarm/Melbourne based writer Adolfo Aranjuez. They delve into Amos's expansive new moving image installation currently showing at Samstag, _Small acts of resistance._
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Bold, creative and responsive to contemporary visual art, Samstag Museum of Art is one of Australia’s leading university art museums. For more, see unisa.edu.au/samstagmuseum
The ON ART Podcast is supported by the Gordon Darling Foundation and Solstice Podcasting, and recorded by Denam Moore in Tarntanya/Adelaide, November 2020.
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Sep 3, 2020
Angela Valamanesh / 1996 Samstag Scholar
In 1996, South Australian artist Angela Valamanesh travelled to Glasgow, Scotland on a Samstag scholarship. Angela joins curator Anna Zagala to discuss her year abroad, what it taught her, and how it set the course for future work.
Bold, creative and responsive to contemporary visual art, Samstag Museum of Art is one of Australia's leading university art museums. For more, see unisa.edu.au/samstagmuseum.
This podcast was recorded by Denam Moore at Solstice Podcasting, Tarntanya/Adelaide in September 2020.
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Jul 30, 2020
Kirsten Coelho / Ithaca
Join South Australian artist Kirsten Coelho and Samstag curator Joanna Kitto as they discuss working with porcelain, the significance of the ‘ruin’, and Homer’s _Odyssey_—the Ancient Greek text that inspired her most recent body of work,_ Ithaca_.
Bold, creative and responsive to contemporary visual art, Samstag Museum of Art is one of Australia's leading university art museums. For more, see unisa.edu.au/samstagmuseum.
This podcast was recorded by Denam Moore at Solstice Podcasting, Tarntanya/Adelaide in July 2020.
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Jul 1, 2020
Lee Weng Choy / On art and arts writing
Kaula Lumpur-based art critic Lee Weng Choy joins Samstag curator Joanna Kitto for a conversation around art and life. They discuss missing the experience of viewing art in person, what we’re consuming, and how the present moment is making us commit to empathy.
This podcast was recorded in part on Zoom and in part by Denam Moore at Solstice Podcasting, Tarntanya/Adelaide in June 2020.
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Jun 15, 2020
Georgia Saxelby / 2019 Samstag Scholar
Pittsburgh-based Samstag scholar Georgia Saxelby joins Samstag curator Anna Zagala to discuss her experience of applying to study at Carnegie Mellon in the USA, strategies for selecting a school, what it takes to get in and why she can’t wait to get back.
Bold, creative and responsive to contemporary visual art, Samstag Museum of Art is one of Australia's leading university art museums. For more, see unisa.edu.au/samstagmuseum.
This podcast was recorded by Denam Moore at Solstice Podcasting, Tarntanya/Adelaide in June 2020.
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May 29, 2020
Zoë Croggon / The Magazine Series
Naarm/Melbourne-based artist Zoë Croggon speaks with Samstag curator Gillian Brown about her body of collage works in Samstag’s ‘Effect in three movements’. They discuss Zoë’s interest in movement and architecture, and the heightened relevance in thinking about how we occupy domestic space at a time when we’ve all been forced to do so.
Bold, creative and responsive to contemporary visual art, Samstag Museum of Art is one of Australia's leading university art museums. For more, see unisa.edu.au/samstagmuseum.
Recorded remotely by Denam Moore of Solstice Podcasting in May 2020.
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May 4, 2020
Brad Darkson / Hold Me
In 'Hold Me', audiences listen in on a frustrated phone conversation between Adelaide-based artist Brad Darkson and a Centrelink worker trying to unravel the ramifications of a robo-debt, interspersed by the relentless sound of the hold music. While we're all working from home due to COVID-19, Samstag curator Gillian Brown discusses this eerily prescient work with Darkson, over the phone.
Bold, creative and responsive to contemporary visual art, Samstag Museum of Art is one of Australia's leading university art museums. For more, see unisa.edu.au/samstagmuseum.
Recorded remotely in Tarntanya/Adelaide by Denam Moore of the Message Pod in April 2020.
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Apr 5, 2020
John Wardle / Somewhere Other
Did you know that architect John Wardle designed the Samstag Museum of Art, working closely with Director Erica Green? Today on the ON ART Podcast, they discuss this process, as well as _Somewhere Other _— the intriguing timber structure developed by John Wardle Architects in collaboration with artist Natasha Johns-Messenger that was Australia's contribution to the 2018 International Architecture Biennale in Venice.
Bold, creative and responsive to contemporary visual art, Samstag Museum of Art is one of Australia's leading university art museums. For more, see unisa.edu.au/samstagmuseum.
This podcast was recorded by Denam Moore at the Samstag Museum of Art, Tarntanya/Adelaide, February/March 2020.
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Mar 30, 2020
David Claerbout / Olympia
Belgian artist David Claerbout sits down with UniSA's Rachel Hurst to discuss his monumental moving-image work '_Olympia (the real-time disintegration into ruins of the Berlin Olympic stadium over the course of a thousand years)'_.
Bold, creative and responsive to contemporary visual art, Samstag Museum of Art is one of Australia's leading university art museums. For more, see unisa.edu.au/samstagmuseum.
Recorded by Denam Moore at the Samstag Museum of Art, Tarntanya/Adelaide in February 2020.
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Mar 10, 2020
Helen Grogan / SET AND DRIFT
In our first episode for 2020, Naarm/Melbourne-based artist Helen Grogan speaks with Samstag curator Gillian Brown about her work in the exhibition '_Effect in three movements'_.
Bold, creative and responsive to contemporary visual art, Samstag Museum of Art is one of Australia's leading university art museums. For more, see unisa.edu.au/samstagmuseum.
Recorded by Denam Moore at the Samstag Museum of Art, Tarntanya/Adelaide in February 2020.
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Dec 10, 2019
James Nguyen / Samstag Scholar
Naarm/Melbourne-based artist James Nguyen joins Samstag curator Anna Zagala in the studio to discuss his experience as a Samstag scholar at UnionDocs, New York on a one year fellowship in 2015, and how the lab environment subsequently shaped his practice and methodology.
Bold, creative and responsive to contemporary visual art, Samstag Museum of Art is one of Australia's leading university art museums. For more, see unisa.edu.au/samstagmuseum.
Recorded by Denam Moore at the Message Pod, Tarntanya/Adelaide in November 2019.
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Dec 5, 2019
Fiona Tan / Ascent
In this episode, Samstag curator Gillian Brown speaks with artist Fiona Tan about her filmic work '_Ascent'_, tracing imagery of Mount Fuji, Japan over the course of 150 years. Gillian was in Tarntanya/Adelaide in front of a live audience, Fiona was at home in Amsterdam.
Bold, creative and responsive to contemporary visual art, Samstag Museum of Art is one of Australia's leading university art museums. For more, see unisa.edu.au/samstagmuseum.
Produced by Denam Moore at the Message Pod, Tarntanya/Adelaide in December 2019.
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Sep 13, 2019
Louise Haselton / like cures like
South Australian artist Louise Haselton makes sculptural works using materials gleaned from the world around her, fascinated by the push/pull between function and aesthetic. In this episode, Ken Bolton and Monte Masi respond to Haselton’s practice through poetry and performance. Later, Samstag curator Gillian Brown chats with Louise amongst her exhibition, _like cures like_.
Bold, creative and responsive to contemporary visual art, Samstag Museum of Art is one of Australia's leading university art museums. For more, see unisa.edu.au/samstagmuseum.
Produced by Denam Moore at the Message Pod, Kaurna Adelaide in August 2019.
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May 26, 2019
Unbound Collective / Sovereign Acts V: Calling
Poetry, stories and letters from the Unbound Collective – artists, activists and academics Ali Gumillya Baker (Mirning), Faye Rosas Blanch (Mbararam/Yidinyji), Natalie Harkin (Narungga) and Simone Ulalka Tur (Yankunytjatjara). They are joined by Kaurna Elder and scholar, Uncle Lewis Yarluburka O’Brien with an introduction by Samstag curator Joanna Kitto.
Bold, creative and responsive to contemporary visual art, Samstag Museum of Art is one of Australia's leading university art museums. For more, see unisa.edu.au/samstagmuseum.
Recorded by Denam Moore at the Message Pod, Tarntanya/Adelaide in May 2019.
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Apr 7, 2019
Lisa Reihana / in Pursuit of Venus
Aotearoa/New Zealand artist Lisa Reihana sits down with Samstag curator Gillian Brown to discuss her moving image work '_in Pursuit of Venus [infected]',_ a re-imagining of the French scenic wallpaper '_Les Sauvages de la Mer Pacifique'_ depicting_ _Captain Cook's arrival on the Pacific Islands.
Bold, creative and responsive to contemporary visual art, Samstag Museum of Art is one of Australia's leading university art museums. For more, see unisa.edu.au/samstagmuseum.
Recorded by Denam Moore at the Message Pod, Tarntanya/Adelaide in February 2019.
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