As a an art writer and curator, Joana P. R. Neves, the host, steps back from her job, and steps into the questions it stimulates, about art and life, creativity and philosophy. And what better tools to explore the point were art intersects with life than books?

In this episode, Joana presents and reads excerpts of this week's chosen book, The Invention of Morel (1940) by Adolfo Bioy Casares, and asks "is there a dark side to creativity?"

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Takeaways

• genre literature and avant-garde
• The artifice of creativity of Adolfo Bioy Casares's 'The Invention of Morel'
• The ethical implications of technology and creativity

Chapters

• 00:00 The Island of Isolation
• 06:36 The Mysterious Miracle
• 37:28 Introduction to Adolfo Bioy Casares and 'The Invention of Morel'
• 47:50 The Island and Its Inhabitants
• 56:00 Morel's Invention and Its Implications
• 01:04:29 The Narrator's Response and Ethical Considerations
• 01:19:02 The Dark Side of Creativity and Technology
• 01:30:14 The Interconnection of Human Condition and Technology

Your host, writer and curator Joana P. R. Neves, challenges you to explore the mystery of a missing paragraph in Virginia Woolf's 'The Mark on the Wall', and its significance for creative pursuits. You're about to dwell on the flow of consciousness as creative flow – the art of mastering and letting go simultaneously.

How do we create? How to we get to that special place where we're in control while accepting the randomness of the reactive materials we work with? And what does that say about life?

Links, as promised:

Explorations of Sex and Self (reference to the Angel in the House): https://joanaprneves.substack.com/p/explorations-of-sex-and-self

About being drawn to "minor works": https://joanaprneves.substack.com/p/when-art-says-the-unspeakable

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We're fine-tuning the show in the background, so we're on a hiatus of sorts–but episodes will drop every two weeks, now on Mondays. We've clarified our purpose: we're now Exhibitionistas - Notes on Art, which feels good and more in tune with our vibe.

Takeaways

• Textual discrepancies in literary works can reveal insights into the author's creative process.
• Favorite texts can deeply influence creativity and self-perception. Better than self-help books? Find out for yourself!
• The Mark on the Wall by Virginia Woolf explores the balance between creative control and letting go, reflecting the complexities of the artistic process.

Chapters

• 00:00 Unraveling the Mystery
• 11:41 Introduction to the Special Series
• 17:28 Virginia Woolf's Life and Influence
• 32:31 The Angel in the House and Creative Freedom
• 01:01:24 Reading 'The Mark on the Wall'

ART TOPIC is is an exploration of a topic through visual arts or vice-versa. Hosted by Joana P. R. Neves, this episode is an experiment in opposing writing to oral communication. It also engages with queer lives at the height of modernism, the notion of genius and its patriarchal tendencies, as well as the intriguing, unique couple of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas.

Discover Joana's text "G is for Genius, Grammar and Girl", published on her Substack Art Thinkosaurus. She reads it here as a performance of sorts, with mistakes, reflexions and all, to test voice versus word. What will she discover?

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What you get from this episode:

• How do we write about art?
• Is talking about art different than writing about it?
• Is Modernism entangled in Gender issues?
• How did gender influence modernism and vice-versa?
• Why were we obsessed with the "genius"?

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ART BOOK CLUB is a segment where a guest suggests a book which was not written with visual arts in mind and yet is a source of inspiration, guidance and / or creativity for their work. Hosted by Joana P. R. Neves, this episode welcomes visual artist Laisul Hoque.

• How can a work of fiction influence the work of an artist?
• Can a visual arts practice be illuminated by storytelling? How can art practices she light on the value and limitations of archives and photographic documentation of the past?
• To what extent do images convey the truth?
• Is visual arts the territory where we reckon with our ties with the past, and our emotional needs?

Laisul chose: Babu Bangladesh!, written by Numair Atif Choudhury.

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What you get from this episode: Curating revelations, unexpected curating methods, lessons in community, art philosophies, ethical art questions.

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0:00 Intro

04:19 Choosing an artistic career

11:13 Autobiography in visual arts

18:26 Book: Babu Bangladesh! By NUmair Atif Choudhury

20:14 How a book intersects with personal life

22:15 The personal, the politics, the art, the book

28:20 What is Babu Bangladesh! about?

35:14 Family photo archive and visual arts

39:26 Break and call for action

41:43 Speculative fiction as device for truth telling

45:58 Why is Babu Bangladesh! In English?

48:32 Taking ownership of the historical archive?

56:18 StorytellingThe Ground Beneath Me: An artistic exploration of care

01:03:34 Displaced spaces of art

01:10:16 Does art provide answers?

01:21:14 Outro 

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You're bound to get an art education with our guest, curator Sarah Carrington! Our art talk with her explores her work as director of the Public Art Trail in East London The Line, as well as the joys of producing visual arts projects and supporting artistic commissions for an urban space full of wildlife and industrial areas, away from the capital's most overcrowded areas.

Art Insider is an art discussion segment with fascinating visual arts thinkers and curators who lift the veil on their corner of the field (hosted by Joana P. R. Neves).

• ​When is an art trail more than a walk from sculpture to sculpture?
• ​And how does a visual arts curator work with artists for a context such as... a city?

Hosted by Joana P. R. Neves.

Guest: Sarah Carrington, Director of The Line

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For some, colour is subjective, for others it's vital. In visual arts, is it a universal idea or a local material? As far as art themes go, this one leads to a world of possibilities. Curator Joana P. R. Neves welcomes María Castro Jímenez, whose Substack page "Pigments, Colours & Other Stories" reveals new pathways into art history, art making and creativity. Perfect for artists, ideal for polymaths, superb for creative souls and idyllic for those who enjoy a mix of prehistory, archeology, chemistry, anthropology and magic. Ultimately, this is the best art podcast to creatively explore creativity...

Art Topic is an art discussion segment focusing on the most intriguing art themes, or providing exciting new approaches to classic art themes in visual arts, with art experts, thinkers or curators (hosted by Joana P. R. Neves).

Hosted by Joana P. R. Neves

Guest: María Castro Jímenez

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Exhibitionistas is hosted by Joana P. R. Neves, a seasoned curator and writer with over 20 years of experience in the contemporary visual art field. She loves demystifying contemporary art by blending art history, theory, and personal reflections to reveal how art can uncover views on today's hottest topics as much as on everlasting existential questions.

Instagram: @joanaprneves / @exhibitionistas_podcast

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00:00 WELCOME TO OUR COLOUR EPISODE!

00:43 Is colour merely subjective?

02:33 Colour & Line in art academies

05:18 Colours are cultural. Is RED an exception?

01:02:54 BLUE, a favourite.

01:05:29 Book recommendation about colour in art

01:12:23 OUR GOODBYES.... until next time

What if a visual artist’s favourite tool revealed their underlying art themes and intrinsic creative processes?

Hosted by Joana P. R. Neves.

Guests: Ana María Caballero and Alexandra Jabre.

This segment is as much:

• ​an art education as
• ​an introduction to art critique,

by empowering you

• ​with art tips
• ​art techniques we seldom talk about.

My Art Tools is a segment associating two art talks where an established visual artist opens their tool box: what is their fetish instrument? An artist life can get as technical as it can be spiritual. In fact, they may be related...

But most of all, a visual artist's hand guides you through the passion of following one’s vision, the pleasures of trusting an instinct, and the resilience it takes to work creatively. After all, creative processes are everywhere, for the visual artist as for any problem-solving situation, with an added philosophical twist.

Our two guests also discuss what it takes to embark on a creative life, what it takes to create poetry, sculpture, and more. What sacrifices do you make, what path do you take, and what kind of healing does art bring?

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For collaborations, text commissions and inquiries: [email protected]

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A part of our work and leisure is spent online and so is our art. Posted on social media and even made with the help of AI, LLMs, and more, creative initiatives and art objects may now also live in online art spaces. Is an art podcast to be confused with it? What are the joys and dangers of real art spaces becoming virtual ones? Or is the danger elsewhere, and the art education potentially everywhere?

Art Topic is an art discussion segment about intriguing art themes, or exciting new approaches to classic art topics in visual arts, with art experts, thinkers or curators. This time, host and art writer Joana P. R. Neves shares some insights about art spaces in light of our presence in online spaces, through her relatively new role as a female podcaster.

Does being present online affect our presence IRL in galleries, museums and art spaces in general? Two exhibitions stimulated this critique of digital engagement and creativity: Peter Doig's House of Music and Danielle Brathwaite Shirley's The Delusion at the Serpentine gallery. Before we visit the two exhibitions, and proposing an art review of sorts, Joana analyses how her work as an art podcaster provides insights into the realities of new technologies, creativity, the social feedback loop and having a sentient body.

Art spaces can and should help us understand the impact of the internet and AI on our humanity.

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0:00 Introduction

8:50 Art Spaces and Online Spaces Intersect

14:35 How Work Online and at Work Creating Content Impacts our Notion of Presence

17:23 The Other Side of the Mirror: The Ethics of Creating Art Content Online

20:14 Does Less = Nothing? The Impact of Measuring

31:47 Two case studies: Peter Doig and Danielle Brathwaite Shirley at the Serpentine Gallery

Have you ever been under the irresistible spell of an art work?

Art Story is a shorter episode exploring an art work, an artist, an exhibition or even a concept through a proudly subjective narrative. 

Narrated by: the host, Joana P. R. Neves

Joana explores an aesthetic shock involving a tongue twister and a photography by Roni Horn in a busy art fair. Maybe you’ll jump into the flow, maybe you’ll be touched by Joana's devotion to the art, the feeling, and the inscrutable nature of certain contemporary art attractions.

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Key themes: 

Roni Horn's work; conceptual art art; photography; art installation; art and language; identity and fluidity; androgyny, aesthetic shock

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What can you paint at the end of your life? How does painting feature in a Aboriginal culture? Does contemporary art culture intersect with Aboriginal art – should we even look for this kind of connection? How did exhibitions of the great painter and artist of the Northern Territory explose her work and contextualise it? How do exhibitions in contemporary museums welcome aboriginal art?

Exhibition Chinwag is the original segment of the podcast where Joana invites professionals from other fields to visit and discuss the work of artists through their solo exhibitions. 

Guest: Emily Harding the OG Exhibitionistas co-host!

Surprise Guest: John McDonald, Art Critic.

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The artist: Emily Kam Kgnwarray at Tate Modern until 11 January, curated by Kelli Cole.

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Key themes: 

Painting; children in art; painting the body; the representation of the body, Jenny Saville

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