Jiggle n Juice

IT’S THE SEASON FINALE!!! We have saved the one and only Laura Gildner for the final episode of ‘chewing gum’ season one!! Laura is not only one of my favourite artists, but one of my favourite people. I have been obsessed with her work and the way she tells stories all the way from when I started my undergrad so many years ago. If you know her, you love her and if you don’t know her… well you are in for such a treat!!! THIS EP'S CHEWY TOPICS: how value is placed on objects through historical contexts, performance, collaboration, psychic mediums, phallic pottery, a love story involving Patrick Swayze’s tooth ABOUT THE ARTIST: Laura Gildner is an intermedia artist who collaborates with strangers, neighbours, would-be celebrities, friends, performers, and various makeshift communities in the creation of her works.  Her productions reflect on social, historical, and pop cultural phenomena through creative re-imaginings and absurdist commentaries while centralizing the magic of shared experience.  Her most recent project, Lovechild, involved making art with Patrick Swayze's ghost via a biotechnology lab, psychic medium, and dental implants. WHERE TO FIND THEIR WORK: socials: @lauragildner [https://www.instagram.com/lauragildner/] website: lauragildner.com [http://lauragildner.com] BONUS GOODIES!! Patrick singing She's Like the Wind live:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sywsj95Vzg8 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sywsj95Vzg8] Halima Jibril [https://www.dazeddigital.com/user/HalimaJibril]: “Phillipa Snow on Why Celebrities Should Be Considered Fine Art Objects” published in Dazed, 2024:  https://www.dazeddigital.com/art-photography/article/62318/1/philippa-snow-trophy-lives-celebrity-culture-mack [https://www.dazeddigital.com/art-photography/article/62318/1/philippa-snow-trophy-lives-celebrity-culture-mack] Jia Tolentino: “Love, Death, and Begging Celebrities to Kill You” published in the New Yorker in 2019 on the masochistic tendencies of fanaticism: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/love-death-and-begging-for-celebrities-to-kill-you [https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/love-death-and-begging-for-celebrities-to-kill-you] “Worth Millions: Behind the Appeal of Celebrity Memorabilia” from Barnaby’s Auction House on the phenomenon of celebrity auctions:  https://www.barnebys.com/blog/worth-millions-behind-the-appeal-of-celebrity-memorabilia [https://www.barnebys.com/blog/worth-millions-behind-the-appeal-of-celebrity-memorabilia] J&J STUFFZ: stay up to date with this series and many other exciting projects on ig: @jigglenjuice check out our website, where you can find FREE support resources, artist database & much more: ⁠jigglenjuicecollective.com⁠ [http://jigglenjuicecollective.com/] chewing on something rlly good & wanna be on our next season? fire us an email! ⁠jigglenjuice@gmail.com [jigglenjuice@gmail.com]

Up next, we have the absolute treat of getting to chat with Bertie!<3 Bertie is a white settler Québécois.e non-binary emerging artist and photographer. THIS EP'S CHEWY TOPICS: life & death, queerness, transition, gender journey, intimacy and exploration of self through photography ABOUT THE ARTIST: Bertie is a non-binary multimedia artist and photographer based on Vancouver Island. Their creative journey is fueled by introspection, emotional depth, and a dedication to vulnerability. Bertie believes in the power of art and photography to evoke deep emotions and profound thoughts in others. In late 2022, Bertie took a leap of faith, leaving their management job in tech to pursue their dream of becoming a full-time artist and photographer. After years of keeping their creative aspirations hidden, Bertie finally embraced their true calling, finding fulfillment in their work every day. WHERE TO FIND THEIR WORK: website: hibertie.com [http://hibertie.com/] ig: https://www.instagram.com/hi.bertie/ [https://www.instagram.com/hi.bertie/] facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hibertie [https://www.facebook.com/hibertie] tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@hi.bertie [https://www.tiktok.com/@hi.bertie] BONUS GOODIES!! Since recording this episode, Bertie finished the piece they were talking about in this episode - check out their IG to see it!! It ended up being heavily influenced by 3 external things (in addition to their own life experiences): * Parable of the Sower/Talents by Octavia Butler * A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers * The instagram account @christian__nightmares [https://www.instagram.com/christian__nightmares/] References they made in the ep: https://www.instagram.com/print_hole/ [https://www.instagram.com/print_hole/] and https://www.instagram.com/jamieoosterhuis/ [https://www.instagram.com/jamieoosterhuis/] J&J STUFFZ: stay up to date with this series and many other exciting projects on ig: @jigglenjuice check out our website, where you can find FREE support resources, artist database & much more: ⁠jigglenjuicecollective.com⁠ [http://jigglenjuicecollective.com/] chewing on something rlly good & wanna be on our next season? fire us an email! ⁠jigglenjuice@gmail.com [jigglenjuice@gmail.com]

We’re back with our sixth episode of Chewing Gum to talk to our honourary third member of J&J, Cassia Powell, about their first (of many) pets! THIS EP'S CHEWY TOPICS: tamagotchis (!!!), their tech, history & genealogy; care practices, character customization as a form of exploring one’s identity, experimenting with morality ABOUT THE ARTIST: Bio: Cassia Powell (they/them) is an emerging contemporary artist and curator based in the unceded lands of Lekwungen-speaking peoples, otherwise known as Victoria, BC. Powell is a BFA Visual Arts honours graduate from the University of Victoria. They are the co-founder of the Dirty Dishes Collective [https://dirtydishescollective.com/]; a curatorial project which aims to support emerging artists and cultural practitioners as a site of critical discourse, creative experimentation, and community engagement. Statement: Between their personal artistic practice and their curatorial focus, Powell’s work explores comfort + care as a radical act of social resistance. They create surreal, affective visual structures and depictions of quotidian rituals using a combination of soft sculpture and large-scale oil painting. Each one of Powell’s works signifies vast lifeworlds of queer relationality, encrypted sociality, and utopian potentiality. WHERE TO FIND THEIR WORK: socials: @cassiapowell [https://www.instagram.com/cassiapowell/] website: cassiapowell.com [http://cassiapowell.com/] BONUS GOODIES!! * Glitch Feminism, Legacy Russell * Radical Softness as a Boundless Form of Resistance, Genderfail 2021 6th Edition Ver. 2 * The Queer Games Avant-Garde, Bonnie Ruberg * Queer Online: Media Technology & Sexuality, David J. Phillips * (article) The life and death of Tamagotchi and the virtual pet, Jenna Jovi https://wellcomecollection.org/articles/WsT4Ex8AAHruGfWb [https://wellcomecollection.org/articles/WsT4Ex8AAHruGfWb] * Tamagotchi commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YueDmq-w9X8 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YueDmq-w9X8] J&J STUFFZ: stay up to date with this series and many other exciting projects on ig: @jigglenjuice check out our website, where you can find FREE support resources, artist database & much more: ⁠jigglenjuicecollective.com⁠ [http://jigglenjuicecollective.com/] chewing on something rlly good & wanna be on our next season? fire us an email! ⁠jigglenjuice@gmail.com [jigglenjuice@gmail.com]

TW: mention of suicide in this episode - please take care while listening or skip to the next one!<3 xo J&J what better way to kick off brat girl summer than with this episode…. For our fifth episode of Chewing Gum we have Christian McGinty! Christian is an artist with a focus on new media, appropriated imagery, collage and installation. THIS EP'S CHEWY TOPICS: techno music: its history in queerness, how it became (and still is today) a beacon of joy, expression and freedom in times of crisis, great political unrest and instability. ABOUT THE ARTIST: Christian McGinty (he/they) is a visual artist whose practice encompasses digital media and installation. He constructs dense collages, blending found and newly created media to evoke eerie narratives reflecting his lived experiences. These deeply personal works aim to resonate with viewers by incorporating a diverse array of found media, encouraging them to discover elements of their own experiences within the work. McGinty's thesis work, Meditation on a Potential Death, examined the trauma surrounding his father's attempted suicide, utilizing media from various sources such as YouTube videos, films, advertisements, and popular music. McGinty's recent research focuses on the queer history of techno, viewing its futuristic and endurance-driven beats as metaphors for urban living. Residing in Vancouver, he is intrigued by the city's stark contrast between futurity and urban/socio-economic decay. His current work integrates 3D programs, AI art, DJ mixes, and video game engines. McGinty's career includes exhibitions at the Anna Leonowens Gallery, The Polygon Gallery, and with the MSVU Art Gallery. He has received prestigious honors, such as the BC Arts Council Scholarship, being both short and longlisted for the Philip B. Lind Emerging Artist Prize, and the University of Victoria John Locke Malkin scholarship. He has self-published two books, Bounty and Animism, and he has contributed to the arts community through curatorial projects, mentorship, and teaching roles at institutions such as Nocturne Festival, NSCAD University, and the University of Victoria. WHERE TO FIND THEIR WORK: socials: www.instagram.com/christian.mcginty [http://www.instagram.com/christian.mcginty] website: www.christianmcginty.com [http://www.christianmcginty.com/] BONUS GOODIES!! Essays: * Contents Under Pressure: A (Queer) Techno Manifesto [https://www.e-flux.com/journal/132/508431/contents-under-pressure-a-queer-techno-manifesto/], by madison moore * An alternate history of sexuality in club culture [https://ra.co/features/1927], by Luis Garcia * Heterotopias | games + architecture [https://www.heterotopiaszine.com/] zine * Party Studies Vol 1 [https://communitiesinmovement.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Party-Studies-Vol1.pdf], Edited by Víctor Aguado, Ramón del Buey, Brandon LaBelle DJ Mixes: * Lúcia Lu | Boiler Room Berlin: Live From Earth [https://youtu.be/d0wYQHw2oaY?si=_ODmiK1Vtz9FkJ_N] * Go Hard or Go Hardcore - Mindmistake | HÖR - April 25 / 2024 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEL1SWIX_9k] * Patrick Mason | Boiler Room x Glitch Festival 2023 [https://youtu.be/mSN6xrVfV_Y?si=aNTOY_Dd3WWEQ1qg] * MÉTARAPH | Boiler Room: Cologne [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMJg8Q7kEv8] * Hard Dance 176: STRIPE N CO [https://soundcloud.com/platform/hard-dance-176-stripe-n-co?si=6ab1646d576f4043b03453dba2974b8d&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing] J&J STUFFZ: stay up to date with this series and many other exciting projects on ig: @jigglenjuice check out our website, where you can find FREE support resources, artist database & much more: ⁠jigglenjuicecollective.com⁠ [http://jigglenjuicecollective.com/] chewing on something rlly good & wanna be on our next season? fire us an email! ⁠jigglenjuice@gmail.com [jigglenjuice@gmail.com]

It’s time for the fourth episode of Chewing Gum!! Our next guest is our art podcast bestie Isotta Page! Isotta is an artist working in sculpture and the host of Art Is… a podcast for artists. THIS EP'S CHEWY TOPICS: marble: what it means to work with a material that’s millions of years old, viewing it through an ecological perspective, through care and craft, its existence in a contemporary practice, and honouring traditional carving methods. ABOUT THE ARTIST: Italian-American artist Isotta Page, (b. 1996) splits her time between Rome and Valencia. She completed her Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture and Contemporary Art History at the University of Edinburgh's Edinburgh College of Art in 2020. Passionate about manipulating materials, Isotta draws inspiration from traditional craftsmanship and industrial fabrication. From 2020 to 2022, she worked with recycled materials like styrofoam, resin, and fiberglass, utilizing boat and motorcycle manufacturing techniques for large-scale outdoor and hanging sculptures. In 2023, she shifted from sculpting styrofoam to carving marble, influenced by training with master marble carver in Italy. In her ongoing series, Dark Optimism: Ghost in the Stone, Isotta explores ecological and geological themes, creating organic studies in marble of the human figure emerging from raw stone. She views her work as intuitive three-dimensional drawings, and she creates unconventional compositions of the human anatomy, juxtaposing carved and un-carved elements and high polish finishes with raw marble. Isotta's interest in marble focuses on its materiality and its unique ability to provoke consciousness about geological time. WHERE TO FIND THEIR WORK: socials: https://www.instagram.com/isottapage/ [https://www.instagram.com/isottapage/] website: http://www.isottapage.com/ [http://www.isottapage.com/] BONUS GOODIES!! podcast: https://www.artispodcast.com/ [https://www.artispodcast.com/] newsletter: https://isotta.beehiiv.com/ [https://isotta.beehiiv.com/] Watch Art Is… a podcast for artists Season 6 Trailer [https://youtu.be/aBI9ZXee9AI?si=wWw45J0tfT1Aqaz_] Watch Art Is… a podcast for artists Season 6 Episode 1 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbRaK8jLmKs&ab_channel=ArtIs..apodcastforartists] J&J STUFFZ: stay up to date with this series and many other exciting projects on ig: @jigglenjuice check out our website, where you can find FREE support resources, artist database & much more: ⁠jigglenjuicecollective.com⁠ [http://jigglenjuicecollective.com/] chewing on something rlly good & wanna be on our next season? fire us an email! ⁠jigglenjuice@gmail.com [jigglenjuice@gmail.com]