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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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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 Curatorial Assistant 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, Kaurna Adelaide in September 2020.
Jul 30, 2020
Kirsten Coelho / Ithaca
Join artist Kirsten Coelho and Joanna Kitto, Samstag Associate Curator, 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, Kaurna Adelaide in July 2020.
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. In the next episode, Weng will answer listener’s questions about art and arts writing. Send your question for Weng to Joanna at joanna.kitto@unisa.edu.au.
This podcast was recorded in part on Zoom and in part by Denam Moore at Solstice Podcasting, Kaurna Adelaide in June 2020.
Jun 15, 2020
Georgia Saxelby / 2019 Samstag Scholar
Pittsburgh-based Samstag Scholar Georgia Saxelby joins Curatorial Assistant 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, Kaurna Adelaide in June 2020.
May 29, 2020
Zoë Croggon / The Magazine Series
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.
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 by Denam Moore of the Message Pod in April 2020.
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, Kaurna Adelaide, February/March 2020.
Mar 30, 2020
David Claerbout / Olympia
Belgian artist David Claerbout sits down with 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, Kaurna Adelaide in February 2020.
Mar 10, 2020
Helen Grogan / SET AND DRIFT
In our first episode for 2020, Melbourne-based artist Helen Grogan speaks with Samstag curator Gillian Brown about her work in _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, Kaurna Adelaide in February 2020.
Dec 10, 2019
James Nguyen / Samstag Scholar
Melbourne-based artist James Nguyen joins 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, Kaurna Adelaide in November 2019.
Dec 5, 2019
Fiona Tan / Ascent
In this episode, Samstag curator Gillian Brown speaks with artist Fiona Tan about her filmic work _Ascent_, a work that traces imagery of Mount Fuji, Japan over the course of 150 years. Gillian was 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, Kaurna Adelaide in December 2019.
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.
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, Kaurna Adelaide in May 2019.
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, Kaurna Adelaide in February 2019.