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Bonus Episode: Le Guin / Indigenous History / Lao Tzu / and more...

What was Ursula K. Le Guin's favourite book, and what did it uncover about the revered author's world-building and family legacy?

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When she was a guest on the podcast, art Curator Catherine Li brought in a revelation about Ursula K. Le Guin's favourite book, tied in with her family's history, which didn’t make it to the final cut. Here it is for you, as a little end of Summer bonus, while we prepare the rentrée with panache.

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This reminded our host, art curator and writer Joana P. R. Neves, about a traumatic episode in Le Guin's family and close peer circle, which reflects indigenous trauma and the hidden history of the USA that was certainly crucial for Le Guin's worldview. 

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With a short reading from the The Wave in the Mind, Le Guin's collection of essays about writing, reading and more, and of the Tao Te Ching / text 48, translated by Le Guin.

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[Unpublished segment of Joana's conversation with art curator Catherine Li around the writer Ursula K' Le Guin's seminal text The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction with a few quick curiosities that shed a different light on the science fiction author.]

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Award winning episode with Gemma Rolls Bentley and E-J Scott:

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Created & Hosted by Dr. Joana P. R. Neves, art curator and writer with over 20 years of experience in the contemporary art field. Artistic director of Drawing Now Paris since 2018, she has worked across the industry, from the art market to education. She co-launched the art residency and project space Worlding in 2020. Exhibitionistas’ first year offered exhibition discussions with guest co-host Emily Harding; organically, it grew into a more experimental show exploring art topics, stories and interviews complemented by Joana’s publication Art Thinkosaurus on Substack. She champions ‘Art Wonderment’s’ embrace of complexity against the lure of ready-made opinions. A polyglot, she grew up in Lisbon, studied and lived in Paris, to finally settle in London with her artist husband, four children and two cats. 

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Copyright: Joana P. R. Neves, 2024.

How and why do art and Summer join forces? Art, and visual arts especially, show imminent change–but so does Summer and its ideal of creative flow. How did–or did not–art speak of the climate emergency, gender policing, the war–in short, of loss? What role does this hot and luscious season play in the hubris of conquest, or the black hole of grief? Art curator and writer Joana P. R. Neves, our host, reminisces about Agnes Martin and John Cheever, and their opposing ideas of Summer and of creation, touching on two paintings by David Hockney and a poignant text by Luigi Pirandello. Joana loved a text sent to her by its author, Vittorio Zappa, on Substack, that guided the last part of the episode, leading to its denouement. 

Is Summer the season of creative flow of life and art making, full of light and sensorial stimuli? Is creativity about desire or meditative art? Or are all these myths, perpetuated by capitalist simplifications? Has art contributed to create them? Or has it always been alerting us to the cruelty of change via Art Wonderment, the art of paradox?

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The painting A Bigger Splash, 1967, by David Hockney, is the epitome of hubristic summer. But it hides another painting, Portrait of an Artist (Pool with two figures), 1972, with a far more poignant story: they both tell the extremes of summer, and investigate the very special artifice telling a story of desire, change, loss and healing? 

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Joana P. R. Neves reads a text by Vittorio Zappa: https://substack.com/@vittoriozappa/p-209760240

Other references include:

The Swimmer, John Cheever, 1964, New Yorker.

The Swimmer, a film by Frank Perry, 1968.

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Created & Hosted by Dr. Joana P. R. Neves, art curator and writer with over 20 years of experience in the contemporary art field. Artistic director of Drawing Now Paris since 2018, she has worked across the industry, from the art market to education. She co-launched the art residency and project space Worlding in 2020. Exhibitionistas’ first year offered exhibition discussions with guest co-host Emily Harding; organically, it grew into a more experimental show exploring art topics, stories and interviews complemented by Joana’s publication Art Thinkosaurus on Substack. She champions ‘Art Wonderment’s’ embrace of complexity against the lure of ready-made opinions. A polyglot, she grew up in Lisbon, studied and lived in Paris, to finally settle in London with her artist husband, four children and two cats. 

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Online: www.exhibitionistaspodcast.com

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Copyright: Joana P. R. Neves, 2024.

Writer Rachel Cusk asked: "Can a Woman who is an Artist Ever Just Be an Artist?" (NYT). Our host Joana, your favourite contemporary art writer and curator, turns this  question of gender and skill on its head: can men be (good) artists? Cusk's book "Parade" (2024) is this Art & Literature episode book of choice to tackle the issue. Can art and life be a continuous flow for female artists, as it seems to be for male ones?

Joana embarks on an art and feminism quest: is gender a prison? Or is it the forceful power of the patriarchy's creative flow? She is helped by living and fictional contemporary artists and writers, intersectional feminism, and philosophy of art via Vilem Flusser and his "theory of gestures".

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Art and Feminism claim to walk hand in hand, but what if the structure of the art system itself was an inheritance of archaic patriarchal systems? The famous artist Georg Baselitz, who passed away this year, is a central figure in Cusk's book "Parade". Was he a product or an instigator of the system? And what is the patriarchal system? How and where does it manifest? And finally, where are modern men now, within this system that seems to block creative flow and artistic expression?

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Listen to the Women who Sarcast Episode" Sarcasm and Contemporary Art.

Read Cusk's article in the New York Times (07/11/ 2019).

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Created & Hosted by Dr. Joana P. R. Neves, art curator and writer with over 20 years of experience in the contemporary art field. Artistic director of Drawing Now Paris since 2018, she has worked across the industry, from the art market to education. She co-launched the art residency and project space Worlding in 2020. Exhibitionistas’ first year offered exhibition discussions with guest co-host Emily Harding; organically, it grew into a more experimental show exploring art topics, stories and interviews complemented by Joana’s publication Art Thinkosaurus on Substack. She champions ‘Art Wonderment’s’ embrace of complexity against the lure of ready-made opinions. A polyglot, she grew up in Lisbon, studied and lived in Paris, to finally settle in London with her artist husband, four children and two cats. 

Find us:

On Instagram – @exhibitionistas_podcast

On Substack (NEWSLETTER: sign up!): Art Thinkosaurus > Exhibitionistas Files

Online: www.exhibitionistaspodcast.com

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Copyright: Joana P. R. Neves, 2024.

Art criticism is vanishing from mainstream media, but here's the uncomfortable question: does art and culture still need critics? Our host, Joana P. R. Neves, art curator and writer, examines why critics are leaving big outlets without being replaced—and what this means for art criticism, artistic quality assessment, curatorial etiquette, and the future of art evaluation itself. What is art criticism actually for? And where does Joana's feminist critique of critique lead to? And who decides what's good art now? Or, rather, is “good art” the yardstick by which art experiences should be measured?

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Joana explores 3 questions in this episode: What is Art Criticism? Who reads it and who or what does art criticism serve? And finally, what is her own relation with it as someone who admittedly is not fond of the genre?

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Art Etiquette Segment guest: 

Elizabeth Botten, Reference Specialist at the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art 

Art question: what can we do to accommodate visitors and make their exhibition experience enjoyable while preserving art etiquette?

Soon: Bonus – full length Art Etiquette episodes.

Segment: Brainstorm in a Teacup:

Come for the art, stay for the creative writing segment, where Joana reads short texts from her notebooks exposing her inner thoughts and odd fictional flash writing.

Jingle: "Wunder", experimental poem by Joana P. R. Neves.

0:00: Intro: Where to continue your Exhibitionistas experience.

2:27: Today's question: is art criticism still valid?

4:56: Why are art critics vanishing? And how?

7:05: 3 guiding questions of the episode: what is it, who does it serve and who is reading - or not

8:46: What is art criticism? A scandal and a text.

15:35: Genius, excellence, quality: are these outdated questions?

24:35: Who is reading art criticism?

27:12: Art Etiquette with Elizabeth Botten

38:08: What does art criticism do, and what or who is it upholding?

46:44: Joana's honest reckoning with art criticism

54:14: Brainstorm in a Teacup (Creative Writing segment)

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Created & Hosted by Dr. Joana P. R. Neves, art curator and writer with over 20 years of experience in the contemporary art field. Artistic director of Drawing Now Paris since 2018, she has worked across the industry, from the art market to education. She co-launched the art residency and project space Worlding in 2020. Exhibitionistas’ first year offered exhibition discussions with guest co-host Emily Harding; organically, it grew into a more experimental show exploring art topics, stories and interviews complemented by Joana’s publication Art Thinkosaurus on Substack. She champions ‘Art Wonderment’s’ embrace of complexity against the lure of ready-made opinions. A polyglot, she grew up in Lisbon, studied and lived in Paris, to finally settle in London with her artist husband, four children and two cats. 

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On Substack (NEWSLETTER: sign up!): Art Thinkosaurus > Exhibitionistas Files

Online: www.exhibitionistaspodcast.com

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Copyright: Joana P. R. Neves, 2024.

AI is forcing us to define what being human is. So, did our host, an art curator and writer, dare to create a Manifesto? Awkward? Or are we not used to women proclaiming things? How can art–seemingly at the brink of commodification–bear new forms of being human? Or is does it spotlight you, art wanderer? The self-help book "Tiny Experiments " by Anne-Laure Le Cunff sparked this art question: why did it excite such a meditative exploration of the role of art, and its urgent proclamation? Tune in to find out.

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What else to do when we live in a society of images, but don't know what they are? In Joana's words: "Art Wonderment is me, howling, in recognition, in celebration, in fear, in respect, in defiance." Read the rest of her text here because a podcast episode is not the same beast as a text. The complete experience combines the two.

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With the wonderful Catalan artist Susanna INGLADA; the timeless wisdom of LAO TZU's Tao Te Ching translated by Ursula K. LE GUIN–, the most innovative Portuguese poet, Fernando PESSOA and his mind blowing creation of more than 100 heteronyms (poets he invented with a persona, a life, and their own authored poetry), amongst which the most extreme of them all, Alberto Caeiro.

Art Etiquette Segment guest: 

Spencer Moore, Creator and host of The Hairy Chin Podcast

Art question: why is contemporary art not considered art?

Soon: Bonus – full length Art Etiquette episodes.

Come for the art, stay for the creative writing–segment, Brainstorm in a Teacup, where Joana reads short texts from her notebooks exposing her inner thoughts and strange fictional flash writing.

Jingle: "Wunder", experimental poem by Joana P. R. Neves.

00:00:00 - Intro: A Different Start + Featured Artist Susanna Inglada
00:02:06 - The Self-Help trap
00:13:36 - Art Wonderment Manifesto
00:19:26 - Art Etiquette with S. Moore: why is contemporary art not considered art?
00:28:25 - Art Wonderment Manifesto – Holding the paradox wit artist Susanna Inglada
00:33:07 - The mysterious life of Portugal’s most intriguing poet, Fernando Pessoa
00:42:06 - Brainstorm in a Teacup
00:43:55 - A message, a rant, a call for voice notes, a see you soon

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Created & Hosted by Dr. Joana P. R. Neves, art curator and writer with over 20 years of experience in the contemporary art field. Artistic director of Drawing Now Paris since 2018, she has worked across the industry, from the art market to education. She co-launched the art residency and project space Worlding in 2020. Exhibitionistas’ first year offered exhibition discussions with guest co-host Emily Harding; organically, it grew into a more experimental show exploring art topics, stories and interviews complemented by Joana’s publication Art Thinkosaurus on Substack. She champions ‘Art Wonderment’s’ embrace of complexity against the lure of ready-made opinions. A polyglot, she grew up in Lisbon, studied and lived in Paris, to finally settle in London with her artist husband, four children and two cats. 

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Copyright: Joana P. R. Neves, 2024.

As an art curator and writer, our host is often faced with printed or digital art portfolios – does this art digital hygiene go against art etiquette? Is art appreciation valid, or even possible through a copy of an art work? Through art images in a book? This issue hides a bigger one: how do you experience art if you live in a country far from the big museums and collections? Our host gets candid and starts with a personal anecdote–she's not always lived in London...

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This ‘art anxiety’ is reinforced by the concept, coined by the German thinker Walter Benjamin, of “the aura”, the "here and now of the work of art" understood as a defense of the unique art experiences ‘in the flesh’. The episode relies on his seminal book, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction", and asks the following art questions: how does one experience art in spaces where there isn't any? How important is art as an object? If the art object ceases to be important, then what does art become?

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What if we’d failed to see what Benjamin alerts us to in his seminal art book "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"? What if mass reproduction of images brought an art liberation? What is preserving the here and now of the aesthetic experience was a form of gatekeeping? And how can we read the concept of aura today?

Art Etiquette Segment guest: 

Kathy Baron, Creator and host of  Women Who Sarcast; and her amazing publication Women who Podcast Magazine. 

Art question: why is contemporary art not considered art?

Soon: Bonus – full length Art Etiquette episodes.

Come for the art, stay for the creative writing–segment, Brainstorm in a Teacup, where Joana reads short texts from her notebooks exposing her inner thoughts and strange fictional flash writing.

Jingle: "Wunder", experimental poem by Joana P. R. Neves.

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Know more about Collective Aid and SOS MEDITERRANEE.

And here is the link to Kathy's awesome film Navel Gazing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogy1nTiCms0&t=205s

Chapters:

00:00 Can we be moved by a reproduction of an artwork?

07:04 Walter Benjamin's "Aura" is often misunderstood

15:52 My 2nd hand art experience: 2 paintings by Caspar D. Friedrich

20:12 Benjamin, a fellow podcaster? And the real change brought by tech

29:07 Art Etiquette segment!

40:13 Walter Benjamin's Influence on Art and Technology

40:13 Copy v automated reproduction

53:26 Brainstorm in a teacup segment!

54:37 Answer to the question: can we be moved by a copy of art?

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Created & Hosted by Dr. Joana P. R. Neves, art curator and writer with over 20 years of experience in the contemporary art field. Artistic director of Drawing Now Paris since 2018, she has worked across the industry, from the art market to education. She co-launched the art residency and project space Worlding in 2020. Exhibitionistas’ first year offered exhibition discussions with guest co-host Emily Harding; organically, it grew into a more experimental show exploring art topics, stories and interviews complemented by Joana’s publication Art Thinkosaurus on Substack. She champions ‘Art Wonderment’s’ embrace of complexity against the lure of ready-made opinions. A polyglot, she grew up in Lisbon, studied and lived in Paris, to finally settle in London with her artist husband, four children and two cats. 

Find us:

On Instagram – @exhibitionistas_podcast

On Substack (NEWSLETTER: sign up!): Art Thinkosaurus > Exhibitionistas Files

Online: www.exhibitionistaspodcast.com

Do you want to be a guest on Art Etiquette? Reach out: [email protected]

Copyright: Joana P. R. Neves, 2024.

Art curator, writer and host Joana P. R. Neves, asks the ultimate art question of art questions: could art appreciation be a powerful combination of the analog and the digital? Even stranger: how does it hinge on the meaning of word "wonder" and "wander"? In a nutshell, are we in need of art digital hygiene? Is Art Wonderment the response to the decline of 20th century art criticism? As ever, Joana gets candid and exposes her own journey into the art digital spaces and social digital platforms? 

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Art and culture go hand in hand in this episode. But what does Wordsworth's poetry have to do with art philosophy? And why is it connecte with Agnes Martin's meditative exploration of life and art? Learn about real art etiquette, plus the night Joana's curated performance went viral and Snoop Dogg reposted it. A new era. A new episode structure. New segments. Your art theory explained through unexpected perspective shifts.

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Segment: Brainstorm in a Teacup:

Come for the art, stay for the creative writing segment, where Joana reads short texts from her notebooks exposing her inner thoughts and odd fictional flash writing.

Music by Sarturn. 

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Sources:

My definition of wonderment is actually taken from the noun ‘wonder’: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/wonder 

Hollis Frampton’s text:
Digression on the Photographic Agony, Artforum, November 1972: https://www.artforum.com/features/digressions-on-the-photographic-agony-209932/

Agnes Martin’s photo credits: Agnes Martin in the mesas near Cuba, New Mexico, 1974. Photo Gianfranco Gorgoni.

Pliny the Elder’s mention of the origin myth of art is in Natural History Book XXXV

My strange viral experience article
Going Viral: if your exhibition is reposted by Snoop Dog, does it matter? https://substack.com/home/post/p-157358364

The article where I mention Katy Hessel’s strange Art Self Help Book,
Art as Function, Automatic Education, and Self-Care: the Politics of Culture Replaced by the Commodification of Creativity: https://substack.com/@joanaprneves/p-190450394

Find Walter Benjamin’s first “read Walter Benjamin with me” here” https://joanaprneves.substack.com/s/your-crazy-aunt-book-shelf

00:00 Introduction to Exhibitionistas and New Format

01:30 Wonderment

06:03 Reading Out Loud

08:25 Agnes Martin on Joy

12:58 Ekphrasis

19:51 Digital Hygiene

41:32 Build Exhibitionistas With Me!

46:33 Brainstorm in a Teacup Segment

47:37 Outro

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Created & Hosted by Dr. Joana P. R. Neves, art curator and writer with over 20 years of experience in the contemporary art field. Artistic director of Drawing Now Paris since 2018, she has worked across the industry, from the art market to education. She co-launched the art residency and project space Worlding in 2020. Exhibitionistas’ first year offered exhibition discussions with guest co-host Emily Harding; organically, it grew into a more experimental show exploring art topics, stories and interviews complemented by Joana’s publication Art Thinkosaurus on Substack. She champions ‘Art Wonderment’s’ embrace of complexity against the lure of ready-made opinions. A polyglot, she grew up in Lisbon, studied and lived in Paris, to finally settle in London with her artist husband, four children and two cats. 

Find us:

On Instagram – @exhibitionistas_podcast

On Substack (NEWSLETTER: sign up!): Art Thinkosaurus > Exhibitionistas Files

Online: www.exhibitionistaspodcast.com

Do you want to be a guest on Art Etiquette? Reach out: [email protected]

Copyright: Joana P. R. Neves, 2024.

Miniseries–Does obscurity lead to creative freedom? Why do I ask? Because of one sentence in American writer Chris Kraus' "I Love Dick" saying that once we accept obscurity, we can do what we want. Could this be the most daring feminist art statement? But then, why does it intersect with a cliché of sexual desire, the cowboy? Enter artists Sophie Calle, Hannah Wilke, intellectual Sylvère Lotringer, experimental art, the New York art scene of the 90s and more...

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Welcome to our Art & Literature series where we asked: where are the books that talk about art appreciation, art enjoyment, art judgement, being art enthusiast? Where is the fiction, the literary essays that discuss topics such as art wonderment, art criticism, creative freedom, creative flow, meditative explorations of art, and even art and technology? Well, we found a few art nuggets for you!

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Art Etiquette Segment guest: 

Elizabeth Botten, Reference Specialist at the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art 

Art question: what can we do to accommodate visitors and make their exhibition experience enjoyable while preserving art etiquette?

Soon: Bonus – full length Art Etiquette episodes.

Segment: Brainstorm in a Teacup:

Come for the art, stay for the creative writing segment, where Joana reads short texts from her notebooks exposing her inner thoughts and odd fictional flash writing.

Chapters:

00:00 Intro: On creative freedom and obscurity

02:51 A feminist sensation: "I Love Dick" by Chris Kraus 

09:47 Dick, Sylvère... and Chris

15:12 The Structure of the Book

23:29 The Triangle of Obscurity

26:05 Exposure of Self or Obscurity of the Muse?

30:53 Transgression as Sexlessness

41:04 Economic Obscurity

47:21 Sex, Desire, and Visibility

54:26 Art, Identity, and Obscurity

55:44 The Life and Legacy of Hannah Wilke

01:09:39 Art Monsters

01:17:56 Outro

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Created & Hosted by Dr. Joana P. R. Neves, art curator and writer with over 20 years of experience in the contemporary art field. Artistic director of Drawing Now Paris since 2018, she has worked across the industry, from the art market to education. She co-launched the art residency and project space Worlding in 2020. Exhibitionistas’ first year offered exhibition discussions with guest co-host Emily Harding; organically, it grew into a more experimental show exploring art topics, stories and interviews complemented by Joana’s publication Art Thinkosaurus on Substack. She champions ‘Art Wonderment’s’ embrace of complexity against the lure of ready-made opinions. A polyglot, she grew up in Lisbon, studied and lived in Paris, to finally settle in London with her artist husband, four children and two cats. 

Find us:

On Instagram – @exhibitionistas_podcast

On Substack (NEWSLETTER: sign up!): Art Thinkosaurus > Exhibitionistas Files

Online: www.exhibitionistaspodcast.com

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Copyright: Joana P. R. Neves, 2024.

Miniseries–There is a little discussed sub-plot in Proust's books: the narrator growing into art wonderment.  Joana unfolds this storyline about art and life: How can you spot artistic talent? To what extent the narrator's art anxiety and art appreciation abilities, first as a child, then a teen, and later a young adult are affected by his environment, the reluctance of his father and the enthusiasm of a fallen high society friend of the family? Or is aesthetic delight inseparable from the art anxiety of failing to recognise it?

Did you know that "In Search of Lost Time" tackles visual arts, art history, in such delicate and accessible ways? As an art curator and writer, finding meditative writers that associate books and art is an obsession for Joana. This is just the beginning...

But... Is it still worth asking how to spot a masterpiece? Perhaps the question may be: how do we recognise talent, rather than artistic quality? Is pleasure a real indicator of artistic quality? 

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Welcome to our Art & Literature series where we asked: where are the books that talk about art appreciation, art enjoyment, art judgement, being art enthusiast? Where is the fiction, the literary essays that discuss topics such as art wonderment, art criticism, creative freedom, creative flow, meditative explorations of art, and even art and technology? Well, we found a few art nuggets for you!

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Spotting great art may be trickier but more exciting than we think. We look into Proust, specifically into one of the most intriguing narrative lines of In Search of Lost Time (Vol I): the presumed greatness of the famous actress, "La Berma”, inspired by the very real and very famous turn of the century Sarah Bernhardt, whose performance tests the main character’s artistic judgment. Follow his tribulations with aesthetic anxiety, anticipation, experience, enjoyment and appreciation.

Jingle: "Wunder", experimental poem by Joana P. R. Neves.

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Created & Hosted by Dr. Joana P. R. Neves, art curator and writer with over 20 years of experience in the contemporary art field. Artistic director of Drawing Now Paris since 2018, she has worked across the industry, from the art market to education. She co-launched the art residency and project space Worlding in 2020. Exhibitionistas’ first year offered exhibition discussions with guest co-host Emily Harding; organically, it grew into a more experimental show exploring art topics, stories and interviews complemented by Joana’s publication Art Thinkosaurus on Substack. She champions ‘Art Wonderment’s’ embrace of complexity against the lure of ready-made opinions. A polyglot, she grew up in Lisbon, studied and lived in Paris, to finally settle in London with her artist husband, four children and two cats. 

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Miniseries–Is there a dark side to creativity? Can the intersection of art and literature reveal it? Host Joana P. R. Neves, an art curator and writer, steps back from her job, and into the art questions it stimulates by digging into her favourite books: can art and technology have a balanced relationship? What effect do their outcomes have on us, the spectators? Will art and literature bring us a sobering reckoning? "The Invention of Morel" (1940) by Argentinian writer Adolfo Bioy Casares brings together art and literature through cinema and its potential developments. Are we going through an "Invention of Morel" era?

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Is the figure of the visionary artist accurate? Bioy Casares laid out a novel about cinema and pre-empted computers and Ai, while asking the question: can we really merge life and art? If one was given the change, would one live in an endless cinematic loop?

Welcome to our Art & Literature series where we asked: where are the books that talk about art appreciation, art enjoyment, art judgement, being art enthusiast? Where is the fiction, the literary essays that discuss topics such as art wonderment, art criticism, creative freedom, creative flow, meditative explorations of art, and even art and technology? Well, we found a few art nuggets for you!

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Jingle: "Wunder", experimental poem by Joana P. R. Neves.

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

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Created & Hosted by Dr. Joana P. R. Neves, art curator and writer with over 20 years of experience in the contemporary art field. Artistic director of Drawing Now Paris since 2018, she has worked across the industry, from the art market to education. She co-launched the art residency and project space Worlding in 2020. Exhibitionistas’ first year offered exhibition discussions with guest co-host Emily Harding; organically, it grew into a more experimental show exploring art topics, stories and interviews complemented by Joana’s publication Art Thinkosaurus on Substack. She champions ‘Art Wonderment’s’ embrace of complexity against the lure of ready-made opinions. A polyglot, she grew up in Lisbon, studied and lived in Paris, to finally settle in London with her artist husband, four children and two cats. 

Find us:

On Instagram – @exhibitionistas_podcast

On Substack (NEWSLETTER: sign up!): Art Thinkosaurus > Exhibitionistas Files

Online: www.exhibitionistaspodcast.com

Do you want to be a guest on Art Etiquette? Reach out: [email protected]

Copyright: Joana P. R. Neves, 2024.