Barely Emerging

It's the first episode of Season 2!

Over the break, we had a chance to reflect.

That reflection showed a couple of withered husks who no longer qualify for emerging artist grants.

We have been forced to admit that, after 4 years, the window of acceptability for sucking at our university's shapely tit is now closed.

That we are now just a couple of dudes in their 30s who keep hanging around their old high school to relive the glory days.

That the drum of time continues to beat out its relentless tune, as we shuffle closer and closer to the grave.

But anyway how have you been?

This episode's Two Minute Google is a discussion on fan art, wherein Syd is exposed as a Twilight fanatic.

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Its the last episode of the season!

This episode is a bit different. There is no research, no educational overtones, just 28 minutes of us ranting about things in the art world that have made us eyeroll so hard we needed an ice pack.

It's more like "art rants and fuming" haha that's an episode 7 call back we have fun here

Thank you so much for joining us for our first season, we had such fun making it. We will see you all in the new year!

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We would like to formally apologise to hyperrealism. For many years we were like "JuSt TaKe A pHoTo MaTe!", but then we googled it for two minutes and realised that there is more to it than just being technically impressive.

Content warning for this episode, Sydelle uses the phrase "bussin".

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Guy who does the honey ladies

Patricia Piccinini

Robert Gober

Duane Hanson

Ron Mueck

Bill Braun (crepe paper guy)

Andrew Grassie

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On this episode we defend Abstract Expressionism, voted the #1 art movement most likely to baffle your snobby-ass grandparents.

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Abstract Expressionism

The Irascibles

Mark Rothko

Jackson Pollock

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This episode of Barely Emerging we give the word "Sublime" a quick Google and talk about what we found.

Mainly, a lot of seascapes and long-dead artists with too many names.

But also, we uncovered a rich catalogue of artists from throughout history who have sought to give face to their feelings of awe and inadequacy when confronted with the stupendousness of the natural world. Who have attempted to capture on canvas the feeling of overwhelm and wonderment that comes from pondering ones place in the vast and unknowable universe, and realising that they are but one diminutive cog in a machine that can, and will, survive long after they have ceased to be a part of it. Or, who have sought to understand and share the breathless love and quiet terror of existing under the weight of heaven.

You know, fun little things like that.

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Turner's Steamboat

Turner's Shipwreck

Friedrich's Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog

Martin's Last Judgement Triptych

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On this highly informative episode of Barely Emerging, we learn that 'Kitsch' is derived from the German word for trash, and if you say it enough times on a podcast episode it loses all meaning.

We also discuss contemporary artists who work within the kitsch aesthetic, and debate whether or not these artists can truly be considered kitsch or not.

Artists mentioned include Paul Yore, Jeff Koons, Mab Graves, Troy-Anthony Baylis and Margaret Keane.

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Paul Yore's Spectacular, Spectacular

Jeff Koon's Winter Bears

Mab Graves' DinoKitties

Margaret Keane's Big Eyes

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This episode, Riley O'Keeffe joins us for a paranoid rant about the conspiracies that have plagued the art world.

Dan Brown's "Da Vinci Code" may be eyeroll-inducing, but what about rumours that Marina Abramovic is a cult leader? Or that the CIA assassinated Mary Pinchot Meyer?

From Abstract Expressionism being Anti-Soviet propaganda, to the bizarre death of Mark Lombardi, we bunk and debunk some of the art world's most easily Google-able conspiracies.

A trigger warning for this episode, some of the discussions include mentions of suicide, domestic violence, sexual assault, drugs and murder.

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Da Vinci Conspiracies

Marina Abramovic's Cult

Walter Sickert Is Jack The Ripper

Mary Pinchot Meyer

Carl Andre and Ana Mendieta

Abstract Expressionism and the Cold War

Mark Lombardi

LombardiNetworks.net

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This episode we discuss artworks that have caused controversy both in and out of the art world.

We talk about Ai Weiwei's 1995 triptych Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn, that pissed off people who saw it as nothing more than a brazen act of destruction.

And Santiago Sierra's Union Flag, proposed as an inclusion in 2021's Dark Mofo festival in Hobart. It caused so much outrage that not only was it scrapped, but Dark Mofo itself felt the need

to sanitise its 2022 exhibition line up in order to avoid any more negative publicity.

Links:

Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn

Maximo Caminero Smashes Weiwei vase

Santiago Sierra Union Flag

Sierra on the decision to cancel

Dark Mofo One Year On

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On this episode of Barely Emerging, we discuss the scrappiest art world spats we could find on the first page of Google:

Anish Kapoor vs. Stuart Semple and Lucien Freud vs. Francis Bacon.

Links:

Vantablack: Kapoor vs. Semple

Freud and Bacon

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Buckle up baddies, this week it's Syd's favourite subject: the Abject!

Abjection is the feeling of horror or repulsion one gets when they encounter that which is usually repressed. Feelings of disgust and rejection can occur when one encounters behaviours that go against the understanding of proper social constructs, such as public masturbation or defecation. It can also happen when there is a breakdown in one's understanding of the self and the other. Particularly when one's own sense of cleanliness and propriety is threatened or interrupted by bodily transgressions - such as piss, shit, vomit, and death.

Trigger warnings for this episode: there are some mildly graphic descriptions of dead bodies and a lot of talk about "secretions".

Editor's note: whenever Syd references 'morality', she actually means 'mortality'. We love her but god damn...

Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection by Julia Kristeva

The Disgusting, The Formless and The Abject in Art

Abjection Without Splendour: Gunter Brus and Transgression's Diminishing Returns

Andres Serrano's Morgue series

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