Blank Space: Blah, Blah

Joining us for episode #14 is Racecar Studios, with Anders Fabritius, Jeppe Grüner, and Jonas Bødtker.

We talk about the Hows and Whys of the studio getting started back in 2002, "bread and butter clients", how to manage boring jobs with experimental personal projects, and general motion graphics and animation fun.

Kudos to Vakuum Studios for being our knights in shining armor and listening to us blah.

Music credit to Kristine Due, and her song "Done". (http://bit.ly/2GmhiSv)

Joining us for our lucky-number-thirteen episode are two of our contributors from Blank Space's most recent exhibition which opened on October 6th, 2017.

This exhibition showed the progress and final product of a 3-month long collaboration between 28 artists : 14 visual communicators and 14 musicians. The final goal? To highlight similarities between auditory and visual communication: we are all communicators, just speaking with different tools.

Joining us on this podcast to discuss a bit about their experiences and a whole lot of silliness, is Thrilly, aka Tom Jan Hogg Lenartowicz (thrilly.com) and Ida Svanes (svanes.org).

And as always, HUGE thanks to Vakuum Studios for being the champs they are, and putting up with our nonsense.

Music credited to Ida Savnes.

DARIO FARIELLO was one of many artists invited to participate in Blank Space's newest exhibition opening on Friday, Oct 6th 2017.

This is his contribution.

Fridtjof Wesseltoft (https://soundcloud.com/fridtjof)was one of many artists invited to participate in Blank Space's newest exhibition opening on Friday, Oct 6th 2017.

This is his contribution - an anthropological sound recording of Rio Polochic.

(artwork by Marius Renberg)

Two natural-born talkers join up for one intense session of Blah Blah!

Carl Størmer joins us for more than an hour of conversation, where topics wander from his history of working for major corporations, living through improvisational jazz, and being the son of Norway's first female modern artist.

Lars Aurtande joins the Blah Blah with our eleventh episode.

Here we invite audiences to get a behind-the-scene look at the eccentric mind of the artist behind the solo exhibition of "YOU DIG THE NATURE!", which opens Friday August 11th 2017 from 18:00 - 21:00.

"Illustratørene fyller Blank Space" opened on May 5th 2017, and with it we invited illustrators Ingunn Dybendal, Marius Pålerud, and Trude Tjensvold to come and speak about what it is really like being an illustrator in Oslo today.

Illustratørene is not just a co-working space, but instead a collective of illustrators that have fun, host parties, and support each other's careers. Located at Grensen 9A in downtoan Oslo, they have a experience across illustration, design, animation, books, advertisement, and more.

"Illustratørene fyller Blank Space" is open every day Sunday - Thursday from 11:00 - 17:00 until June 29th 2017. There you will see our guests work, as well as the other 4 illustrators working at Illustratørene: Elisabeth Moseng, Hilde Hodnefjeld, Inger Sandved Anfinsen, and Trond Bredesen.

Big thanks to our sponsors at Vaccuum Studios!

Music performed by Renate Rubini - Evolution (Midnight Coffee Remix) (http://bit.ly/2qraafQ)

Thomas Alkärr, program leader at NRK, joins us to discuss his recent TV series "Thomas og Den Vanskelige Kunsten" (Thomas and the Difficult Art).

The show follows Thomas around the fine art / contemporary art world, as he is an enthusiastic yet complete new beginner into the secret world of art. The show premiered to good reviews in November 2016, and we give him an opportunity to decompress and hear what he learned about being plunged into an otherwise overwhelming journey.

Check out the whole show here:

https://tv.nrk.no/serie/thomas-og-den-vanskelige-kunsten

Joining the Blah Blah this month is Fellesverkstedet, Oslo's favorite space to make stuff. Graham Hayward (project leader), Jens Dyvik (research and development), and Lars Cuzner (art relations) all sit down on a Wednesday afternoon to drink light beer and talk art.

These three jolly dudes cram in more knowledge in 51 minutes than anyone else we've talked to - so sit down and listen about the ideas and morals behind one of Oslo's best creative spaces.

Join Viktor Gjengaard with Urban Samtidskunst, David Stenmarck, and Espen Henningsen as we discuss Blank Space's 4th installment of their annual show "The Dirty Art"!