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S03E36: In Full Bloom

In full bloom – a conversation between Angela Jerardi and Giulia Bellinetti in the gardens of Jan van Eyck Academy  What does it mean to make a garden a site for ecological practice, pedagogy and labor within the context of an art institution? What experiences, aesthetics and frictions emerge through gardening?  This episode takes us to the gardens of the artist residency of the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht, where our guest, teacher, researcher, and writer Angela Jerardi is invited to be in conversation with the head of the Nature Research department and coordinator of Future Materials of the Jan van Eyck Academy, and PhD researcher at ASCA, Giulia Bellinetti.  In a courtyard where branches overgrow steel structures, and ivy foliage softens their voices, and dampens their footsteps, Angela and Giulia speak on how they have moved their teaching, research and writing into gardens and land practices. Walking between pumpkins, bamboo, and compost, they reflect on the questions, labor and hardships that have maintained their care work. How is seasonal time or lived time affected by the demands of institutional time? How can we attune ourselves to the pace and divergence of lived time of species? Speaking on strategies that art institutions employ to bring forth topics of ecology, land and climate, they reflect on how concepts and verbs can become increasingly metaphorical and rhetorical in art discourses. Walking in fall leading into winter, they move towards the edges of the garden where transformative questions have taken root, for you to anticipate their full bloom.  This episode is in two parts.  In the first part, departing from the soil, Angela and Giulia unpack how a garden affects and takes shape in each of their practices, and what this means in the context of an art institution.  After the break, their conversation leads them into the glass house of the garden where their conversation spans strategies that artists, communities and art institutions employ, and the relationships that emerge through them.  Part One (00:00 – 37:10) and Part Two (37:55 – 1:31:00).  Take a breath and tune into the warm autumn breeze and whispering leaves on their walk in these gardens.

S03E35: Affect as Contamination

How do artists engage living bodies as creative material? How do they engage our ideas and assumptions of what we consider a body to be and what a body can do? How do they challenge the principles of what life is and the relations we take for granted?    For this podcast, we invited philosopher, researcher and labour organizer Mijke van der Drift to engage with Agnieszka Anna Wołodźko, lecturer and researcher teaching contemporary philosophy and art-science at AKI Academy of Art and Design ArtEZ. Thinking through the lens of contamination, Agnieszka’s recently published book Affect as Contamination: Embodiment in Bioart and Biotechnology uses bioart projects as provocative case studies to rethink affect and bodily practices. Departing from her book, they reflect upon the desire for transformation and the need for its control in our daily infrastructures, ranging from biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries to food production and healthcare.    What ethical frameworks are needed to organize and guide our actions when confronted with hard questions and uncomfortable situations that come up when engaging living matter as a creative material? How do we recognize what needs to change and for whom? Can ethics and art prompt us to become more joyful and accountable to transformative processes of justice?   We invite you to listen to this conversation and reflect upon the risks involved when artists experiment with bodies and living matter, and to think through which ‘anchors’ can orient us through the transformation that life inevitably begets.   Show notes   -       Marion Laval-Jeantet and Benoît Mangin, May the Horse live in me! https://dublin.sciencegallery.com/blood-1/may-the-horse-live-in-me-#:~:text=The%20performance%20May%20the%20Horse,an%20injection%20of%20horse%27s%20blood [https://dublin.sciencegallery.com/blood-1/may-the-horse-live-in-me-#:~:text=The%20performance%20May%20the%20Horse,an%20injection%20of%20horse%27s%20blood].   -       The Center For Genomic Gastronomy, Smog Tasting: Smog Synthesizer https://genomicgastronomy.com/work/2015-2/smog-synthesizer/ [https://genomicgastronomy.com/work/2015-2/smog-synthesizer/]   -       Adriana Knouf, Xenological Entanglements. 001a: Trying Plastic Variations https://tranxxenolab.net/projects/eromatase/ [https://tranxxenolab.net/projects/eromatase/] -       Be-wildering by Jennifer Willet & Kira O’Reilly, 2017, performance https://waag.org/en/event/performance-be-wildering-jennifer-willet-kira-oreilly/ -           -       Book Deleuze & Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Shizophrenia 1980   -       Bio artist Boo Chapple invited by Prof. Rob Zwijnenberg’s honours class Who owns Life? at Leiden University     -       Baruch Spinoza, Ethics https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/spinoza/#Ethi [https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/spinoza/#Ethi]   -       Špela Petrič, Confronting Vegetal Otherness: Skotopoiesis – semiotic triangle, 2015 https://www.spelapetric.org/scotopoiesis [https://www.spelapetric.org/scotopoiesis] -          Sandilands, Catriona (2017), ‘Vegetate’, in J. J. Cohen and L. Duckert (eds), Veer Ecology: A Companion for Environmental Thinking, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, pp. 16–29. https://www.academia.edu/50082847/Vegetate     -       Marion Laval-Jeantet and Benoît Mangin, May the Horse live in me! https://dublin.sciencegallery.com/blood-1/may-the-horse-live-in-me-#:~:text=The%20performance%20May%20the%20Horse,an%20injection%20of%20horse%27s%20blood [https://dublin.sciencegallery.com/blood-1/may-the-horse-live-in-me-#:~:text=The%20performance%20May%20the%20Horse,an%20injection%20of%20horse%27s%20blood].   -       Donna Haraway, Response-ability in her book Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene. Durham, NC: Duke University Press Books, 2016. See lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrYA7sMQaBQ [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrYA7sMQaBQ]   -       Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, What Is Philosophy? Translated by Graham Burchell and Hugh Tomlinson. London etc: Verso, 1994. See:  https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/deleuze/#WhatPhil [https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/deleuze/#WhatPhil]   -       Jacques Ellul: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/technology/ [https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/technology/]   -       Michel Serres, Birth of Physics, clinamen press 2000   -       The Center For Genomic Gastronomy   https://genomicgastronomy.com/work/2009-2/community-meat-lab/ [https://genomicgastronomy.com/work/2009-2/community-meat-lab/]   -       Adriana Knouf, Xenological Entanglements. 001a: Trying Plastic Variations https://tranxxenolab.net/projects/eromatase/ [https://tranxxenolab.net/projects/eromatase/]       -       Rossi Braidotti : https://rosibraidotti.com/ [https://rosibraidotti.com/] -          Lem, Stanisław (2012), Przekładaniec [Layer Cake]. Warszawa: Agora, e-book. Andrzej Wajda, (1968), Layer Cake, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063468/    -       Gilles Deleuze Difference and Repetition. Translated by Paul Patton. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995. See: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/deleuze/#DiffRepe [https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/deleuze/#DiffRepe]   -       Denise Ferreira da Silva, On difference without separability https://static1.squarespace.com/static/574dd51d62cd942085f12091/t/5c157d5c1ae6cf4677819e69/1544912221105/D+Ferreira+da+Silva+-+On+Difference+Without+Separability.pdf [https://static1.squarespace.com/static/574dd51d62cd942085f12091/t/5c157d5c1ae6cf4677819e69/1544912221105/D+Ferreira+da+Silva+-+On+Difference+Without+Separability.pdf]   -       Michel Foucault https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/foucault/ [https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/foucault/]   -       Immanuel Kant https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kant/ [https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kant/]   -       Paul B. Preciado, Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era. Translated by Bruce Benderson. New York: The Feminist Press at CUNY, 2013   -       Dr Luciana Parisi https://scholars.duke.edu/person/Luciana.Parisi [https://scholars.duke.edu/person/Luciana.Parisi]   -       The Commons https://www.newyorker.com/culture/essay/the-theft-of-the-commons [https://www.newyorker.com/culture/essay/the-theft-of-the-commons]     About   Agnieszka Anna Wołodźko, is a lecturer and researcher teaching contemporary philosophy and art-science relations at AKI Academy of Art and Design ArtEZ since 2017. At AKI, Artez she has founded a biolab space where she runs a BIOMATTERs, an artistic research programme that explores how to work with living matters through hands on engagement, where difficult philosophical, ethical and ecocritical questions are not only discussed but also tangibly faced. Her research focusses on post-humanism, ecocriticism, affect theory and new materialism at the intersection of art, ethics and biotechnology.   Her book Affect as Contamination. Embodiment in Bioart and Biotechnology is thus a result not only of her PhD research, but also her work as an experimentative educator, where next to analytical discussion on embodiment she reveals personal, intimate and often difficult because risky implications of being a body outside the possibility of innocence. Contamination equally in her writing and work as an educator, becomes  a way of thinking as well as a way of being that implies reimagination of not only what it means to be a body in the age of biotechnological manipulation, but also how to care and feel responsible when practicing embodiment.   Mijke van der Drift   Mijke van der Drift is a philosopher and educator working on ethics, trans studies, and anti-colonial philosophy. Mijke is a tutor at the Royal College of Art, London. Mijke’s work has appeared in the Journal of Speculative Philosophy, the Journal of Aesthetics and Culture, in various independent publications as well as chapters in The Emergence of Trans (Routledge 2020), and The New Feminist Literary Studies Reader (Cambridge UP 2020). Van der Drift is founding member of the art collective Red Forest. They have made work for the Milano Triennale (2022), the Helsinki Biennale (2023) as part of their research into Extractivism, Fossil Fascism, and cultures of resistance. With Nat Raha, Mijke is writing Trans Femme Futures.

S03E34: Research in Art Education II - Doing Research

How do we work with research within our educational programs? Which methods do we need and use? And what does this mean for BA and MA students? In the podcast series Research in Art Education, Fabiola Camuti interviews students, researchers, teachers, and managers working in university of the arts to discuss the importance, challenges, and possibilities of conducting research within arts academies. The KUO (national art education sector) Strategic Plan 2021-2025 identifies ‘research’ as one of the three key areas art universities should focus on in the coming years. Research is essential not only to the arts and professional art education, but also to our relationship with the world and society. Research already takes on an important role within universities of the arts, however, practices and ideas on the role, methods, ways of conducting research and its embedment within each and every institution, still leave space for further development, investigation, and actions to be taken. For this reason, starting 2022, a national ‘Research in Education working group’ works together to strengthen the knowledge ecosystem and the research culture within our academies. This podcast series is connected to the events organized by the working group around the question: how can we make research sustainable in our academies? The podcast is sponsored by the Vereniging Hogescholen and hosted by Radio ArtEZ for Studium Generale.   The second episode of the series, titled, The Circle of Doing Research: a tool for art students, addresses the possibilities and mechanisms of this model, created by teachers-researchers of the Research Station of the Willem de Kooning Academy (WdKA), with and for the educational departments. Joining the conversation are the developers of the circle, Miriam Rasch, philosopher, writer, and coordinator of the Research Station at the WdKA, Jojanneke Gijsen, researcher, art historian, and art educational developer, and Harma Staal, graphic designer and educational developer.     The Circle of Doing Research       Links: https://www.linkedin.com/in/harmastaal [https://www.linkedin.com/in/harmastaal] https://www.wdka.nl/stories/zoom-in-fifteen-film-portraits-of-graduates-2020-2021 [https://www.wdka.nl/stories/zoom-in-fifteen-film-portraits-of-graduates-2020-2021] https://www.wdka.nl/research/the-circle-of-doing-research#:~:text=With%20these%20questions%20the%20Willem,and%20to%20reflect%20on%20research [https://www.wdka.nl/research/the-circle-of-doing-research#:~:text=With%20these%20questions%20the%20Willem,and%20to%20reflect%20on%20research]. https://www.miriamrasch.nl/ [https://www.miriamrasch.nl/]

S03E33 (NL): Collective Making

In 2022 onderzochten Tanja Koning en Annemarie van den Berg de vraag hoe ruimte in het onderwijs van Art&Design Arnhem gemaakt kan worden voor collectief maken. In deze podcast vertellen ze over wat ze geleerd hebben en waar zij kansen zien voor ArtEZ om collectiviteit aan te jagen. Daarnaast vertellen de leden van het studentencollectief WIJ² hoe zij in hun examenjaar bij DBKV als collectief zijn opgetrokken. Een muurschildering van 16 bij 6 meter, een wekelijkse ontdekkingstocht langs de Rijn, het formeren van een tijdelijk collectief, het herontdekken van een gebouw en het radicaal gelijkwaardig samenzijn als startpunt van kunstonderwijs: onder de noemer Collective Making vonden, ondersteund door de ArtEZ Kwaliteitsafspraken, tussen januari 2022 en januari 2023 vijf onderwijsprogramma’s plaats bij  ArtEZ Art&Design in Arnhem. Samen met studenten, docenten en kunstenaarscollectieven werd er binnen deze onderwijsprogramma’s ruimte gemaakt om collectief maken in de praktijk te brengen, te onderzoeken en te ontdekken. Als vervolg op dit onderzoek werd samen met online kunstmagazine Mister Motley en interviewer Luuk Heezen de podcast ‘Kunst is Collectief’ opgenomen waarin 10 collectieven vertellen hoe hun samenwerking er van binnen en van buiten uitziet. Waarom werken ze samen? Noemen ze zichzelf wel een collectief? Hoe verhouden de afzonderlijke leden zich tot het geheel? Hoe neem je gezamenlijk beslissingen? Kun je eigenaarschap delen? Tanja Koning is alumnus van DBKV Arnhem. Ze werkt als freelance curator en onderzoeker in kunst, wetenschap en wetenschap en technologie. Annemarie van den Berg is alumnus van de KABK (GD) en Piet Zwart Instituut. Ze is onderdeel van Collectief Pink Pony Express en afstudeer/procesbegeleider aan St. Joost School of Art & Design. WIJ² bestaat uit Bert, Mika, Irene & Nino, alle vier studeerden zij afgelopen zomer (2023) individueel en als collectief af bij DBKV Arnhem. Als collectief onderzochten zij wat het betekent om -binnen de muren van ArtEZ- een collectief te formeren en samen werk te maken.

S03E32 (NL): Art at War | Episode 4: Mina Etemad

Art at War is een serie over… oorlog en kunst. Elke aflevering onderzoekt schrijver en ArtEZ alumna Lisa Weesaat kunst kan doen in tijden van conflict, samen met een speciale gast. In deze aflevering is die gast Mina Etemad.  Mina Etemad is journalist en podcastmaker en houdt zich bezig met thema’s als migratie en dierenrechten, en verdiept zich graag in allerlei vormen van kunst en cultuur. Momenteel is ze presentator van de podcast DOCS, schrijft ze voor diverse media en maakt radiodocumentaires en podcasts. In het verleden werkte ze als redacteur bij de VPRO-programma’s Nooit Meer Slapen en Mondo. In 2021 deed ze mee aan de Oorzaken Podcast Academy, organiseerde ze samen met anderen het Podcastfestival en verscheen haar radiodocumentaire Volwassenen lachen niet bij de podcast DOCS. Daarin onderzoekt Mina de vraag of ze de dag waarop ze naar Nederland kwam moet vieren of herdenken. Audiodocumentaaire Volwassenen lachen niet. https://www.2doc.nl/docs/2021/38-Volwassenen-lachen-niet.html Violg Mina op instagram voor updates over de situatie in Iran en al haar andere werk: https://www.instagram.com/mina.etemad87/ Mina’s website: https://minaetemad.nl