IT’S THE SEASON FINALE!!!

We have saved the one and only Laura Gildner for the final episode of ‘chewing gum’ season one!! Laura is not only one of my favourite artists, but one of my favourite people. I have been obsessed with her work and the way she tells stories all the way from when I started my undergrad so many years ago. If you know her, you love her and if you don’t know her… well you are in for such a treat!!!

THIS EP'S CHEWY TOPICS:

how value is placed on objects through historical contexts, performance, collaboration, psychic mediums, phallic pottery, a love story involving Patrick Swayze’s tooth

ABOUT THE ARTIST:

Laura Gildner is an intermedia artist who collaborates with strangers, neighbours, would-be celebrities, friends, performers, and various makeshift communities in the creation of her works.  Her productions reflect on social, historical, and pop cultural phenomena through creative re-imaginings and absurdist commentaries while centralizing the magic of shared experience.  Her most recent project, Lovechild, involved making art with Patrick Swayze's ghost via a biotechnology lab, psychic medium, and dental implants.

WHERE TO FIND THEIR WORK:

socials: @lauragildner

website: lauragildner.com

BONUS GOODIES!!

Patrick singing She's Like the Wind live:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sywsj95Vzg8

Halima Jibril: “Phillipa Snow on Why Celebrities Should Be Considered Fine Art Objects” published in Dazed, 2024:  https://www.dazeddigital.com/art-photography/article/62318/1/philippa-snow-trophy-lives-celebrity-culture-mack

Jia Tolentino: “Love, Death, and Begging Celebrities to Kill You” published in the New Yorker in 2019 on the masochistic tendencies of fanaticism:

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/love-death-and-begging-for-celebrities-to-kill-you

“Worth Millions: Behind the Appeal of Celebrity Memorabilia” from Barnaby’s Auction House on the phenomenon of celebrity auctions:  https://www.barnebys.com/blog/worth-millions-behind-the-appeal-of-celebrity-memorabilia

J&J STUFFZ:

stay up to date with this series and many other exciting projects on ig: @jigglenjuice

check out our website, where you can find FREE support resources, artist database & much more: ⁠jigglenjuicecollective.com⁠

chewing on something rlly good & wanna be on our next season? fire us an email! ⁠[email protected]

Up next, we have the absolute treat of getting to chat with Bertie!<3 Bertie is a white settler Québécois.e non-binary emerging artist and photographer.

THIS EP'S CHEWY TOPICS:

life & death, queerness, transition, gender journey, intimacy and exploration of self through photography

ABOUT THE ARTIST:

Bertie is a non-binary multimedia artist and photographer based on Vancouver Island. Their creative journey is fueled by introspection, emotional depth, and a dedication to vulnerability. Bertie believes in the power of art and photography to evoke deep emotions and profound thoughts in others.

In late 2022, Bertie took a leap of faith, leaving their management job in tech to pursue their dream of becoming a full-time artist and photographer. After years of keeping their creative aspirations hidden, Bertie finally embraced their true calling, finding fulfillment in their work every day.

WHERE TO FIND THEIR WORK:

website: hibertie.com

ig: https://www.instagram.com/hi.bertie/

facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hibertie

tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@hi.bertie

BONUS GOODIES!!

Since recording this episode, Bertie finished the piece they were talking about in this episode - check out their IG to see it!! It ended up being heavily influenced by 3 external things (in addition to their own life experiences):

References they made in the ep: https://www.instagram.com/print_hole/ and https://www.instagram.com/jamieoosterhuis/

J&J STUFFZ:

stay up to date with this series and many other exciting projects on ig: @jigglenjuice

check out our website, where you can find FREE support resources, artist database & much more: ⁠jigglenjuicecollective.com⁠

chewing on something rlly good & wanna be on our next season? fire us an email! ⁠[email protected]

We’re back with our sixth episode of Chewing Gum to talk to our honourary third member of J&J, Cassia Powell, about their first (of many) pets!

THIS EP'S CHEWY TOPICS:

tamagotchis (!!!), their tech, history & genealogy; care practices, character customization as a form of exploring one’s identity, experimenting with morality

ABOUT THE ARTIST:

Bio:

Cassia Powell (they/them) is an emerging contemporary artist and curator based in the unceded lands of Lekwungen-speaking peoples, otherwise known as Victoria, BC. Powell is a BFA Visual Arts honours graduate from the University of Victoria. They are the co-founder of the Dirty Dishes Collective; a curatorial project which aims to support emerging artists and cultural practitioners as a site of critical discourse, creative experimentation, and community engagement.

Statement:

Between their personal artistic practice and their curatorial focus, Powell’s work explores comfort + care as a radical act of social resistance. They create surreal, affective visual structures and depictions of quotidian rituals using a combination of soft sculpture and large-scale oil painting. Each one of Powell’s works signifies vast lifeworlds of queer relationality, encrypted sociality, and utopian potentiality.

WHERE TO FIND THEIR WORK:

socials: @cassiapowell

website: cassiapowell.com

BONUS GOODIES!!

J&J STUFFZ:

stay up to date with this series and many other exciting projects on ig: @jigglenjuice

check out our website, where you can find FREE support resources, artist database & much more: ⁠jigglenjuicecollective.com⁠

chewing on something rlly good & wanna be on our next season? fire us an email! ⁠[email protected]

TW: mention of suicide in this episode - please take care while listening or skip to the next one!<3 xo J&J

what better way to kick off brat girl summer than with this episode….

For our fifth episode of Chewing Gum we have Christian McGinty! Christian is an artist with a focus on new media, appropriated imagery, collage and installation.

THIS EP'S CHEWY TOPICS:

techno music: its history in queerness, how it became (and still is today) a beacon of joy, expression and freedom in times of crisis, great political unrest and instability.

ABOUT THE ARTIST:

Christian McGinty (he/they) is a visual artist whose practice encompasses digital media and installation. He constructs dense collages, blending found and newly created media to evoke eerie narratives reflecting his lived experiences. These deeply personal works aim to resonate with viewers by incorporating a diverse array of found media, encouraging them to discover elements of their own experiences within the work.

McGinty's thesis work, Meditation on a Potential Death, examined the trauma surrounding his father's attempted suicide, utilizing media from various sources such as YouTube videos, films, advertisements, and popular music. McGinty's recent research focuses on the queer history of techno, viewing its futuristic and endurance-driven beats as metaphors for urban living. Residing in Vancouver, he is intrigued by the city's stark contrast between futurity and urban/socio-economic decay. His current work integrates 3D programs, AI art, DJ mixes, and video game engines.

McGinty's career includes exhibitions at the Anna Leonowens Gallery, The Polygon Gallery, and with the MSVU Art Gallery. He has received prestigious honors, such as the BC Arts Council Scholarship, being both short and longlisted for the Philip B. Lind Emerging Artist Prize, and the University of Victoria John Locke Malkin scholarship. He has self-published two books, Bounty and Animism, and he has contributed to the arts community through curatorial projects, mentorship, and teaching roles at institutions such as Nocturne Festival, NSCAD University, and the University of Victoria.

WHERE TO FIND THEIR WORK:

socials: www.instagram.com/christian.mcginty

website: www.christianmcginty.com

BONUS GOODIES!!

Essays:

DJ Mixes:

J&J STUFFZ:

stay up to date with this series and many other exciting projects on ig: @jigglenjuice

check out our website, where you can find FREE support resources, artist database & much more: ⁠jigglenjuicecollective.com⁠

chewing on something rlly good & wanna be on our next season? fire us an email! ⁠[email protected]

It’s time for the fourth episode of Chewing Gum!!

Our next guest is our art podcast bestie Isotta Page! Isotta is an artist working in sculpture and the host of Art Is… a podcast for artists.

THIS EP'S CHEWY TOPICS:

marble: what it means to work with a material that’s millions of years old, viewing it through an ecological perspective, through care and craft, its existence in a contemporary practice, and honouring traditional carving methods.

ABOUT THE ARTIST:

Italian-American artist Isotta Page, (b. 1996) splits her time between Rome and Valencia. She completed her Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture and Contemporary Art History at the University of Edinburgh's Edinburgh College of Art in 2020.

Passionate about manipulating materials, Isotta draws inspiration from traditional craftsmanship and industrial fabrication. From 2020 to 2022, she worked with recycled materials like styrofoam, resin, and fiberglass, utilizing boat and motorcycle manufacturing techniques for large-scale outdoor and hanging sculptures. In 2023, she shifted from sculpting styrofoam to carving marble, influenced by training with master marble carver in Italy.

In her ongoing series, Dark Optimism: Ghost in the Stone, Isotta explores ecological and geological themes, creating organic studies in marble of the human figure emerging from raw stone. She views her work as intuitive three-dimensional drawings, and she creates unconventional compositions of the human anatomy, juxtaposing carved and un-carved elements and high polish finishes with raw marble. Isotta's interest in marble focuses on its materiality and its unique ability to provoke consciousness about geological time.

WHERE TO FIND THEIR WORK:

socials: https://www.instagram.com/isottapage/

website: http://www.isottapage.com/

BONUS GOODIES!!

podcast: https://www.artispodcast.com/

newsletter: https://isotta.beehiiv.com/

Watch Art Is… a podcast for artists Season 6 Trailer

Watch Art Is… a podcast for artists Season 6 Episode 1

J&J STUFFZ:

stay up to date with this series and many other exciting projects on ig: @jigglenjuice

check out our website, where you can find FREE support resources, artist database & much more: ⁠jigglenjuicecollective.com⁠

chewing on something rlly good & wanna be on our next season? fire us an email! ⁠[email protected]

Welcome back to our third episode of Chewing Gum!

Our next guest is the lovely Rudra Manani! Rudra is an interdisciplinary artist with a focus on painting.

THIS EP'S CHEWY TOPICS:

her relationship to her name, etymology, experiencing a duality of identities where either can feel like home, making mistakes and the importance of taking the time to learn a person’s name

ABOUT THE ARTIST:

Rudra Manani (she/her) is an artist of Indian heritage living and learning on the unceded lands of the Lekwungen-speaking peoples, also known as Victoria B.C. She is an honours graduate with a BFA in Visual Arts from the University of Victoria. Rudra exhibited her first solo exhibition, Tunnel Vision, in 2023.

At the moment, her work is informed by Hindu ideologies of yoga, karma and reincarnation, and the liminality within these principles. Also fascinated by the cultural appropriation of Hinduism in the West, she investigates her biculturalism using themes of tradition, alienation, and spirituality.

WHERE TO FIND THEIR WORK:

ig: @ rudramanani

website: rudramanani.ca

BONUS GOODIES!! (if you wanna learn more about this episode's topics, the following are provided by today's guest!)

J&J STUFFZ:

stay up to date with this series and many other exciting projects on ig: @jigglenjuice

check out our website, where you can find FREE support resources, artist database & much more: ⁠jigglenjuicecollective.com⁠

chewing on something rlly good & wanna be on our next season? fire us an email! ⁠[email protected]

Back again for episode 2 of ‘Chewing Gum’, we have THE Jordan Hill! Jordan is is an interdisciplinary with a focus on new media and installation.

THIS EP'S CHEWY TOPICS:

facade, insincerity in public spaces, digital cultures’ influence on our ability to process the world, acts of slowing down, in-between spaces

ABOUT THE ARTIST:

Jordan Hill is a Coast Salish (T’Sou-ke Nation) multimedia artist from Vancouver Island whose work alludes to the blurred line between fact and fiction within contemporary culture. Hill questions how we navigate a manipulated world where truth is incredibly difficult to locate both physically and virtually. He juxtaposes unexpected ideas and seemingly unrelated locales, uncovering the intersections between urban and rural facades in ways that transform how we think about both. Hill’s work utilizes our relationship with technology and virtual imagery in a way that helps us foster a deeper connection with the world away from it.

WHERE TO FIND THEIR WORK:

ig: @ jhill.93

website: www.thejordanhill.com

J&J STUFFZ:

stay up to date with this series and many other exciting projects on ig: @jigglenjuice

check out our website, where you can find FREE support resources, artist database & much more: ⁠jigglenjuicecollective.com⁠

chewing on something rlly good & wanna be on our next season? fire us an email! ⁠[email protected]

Welcome to the first episode of our new series: Chewing Gum!

Creative people are always ruminating on niche things, making unlikely connections or falling down bizarre rabbit holes... In order to crack open the minds of our fellow artists, we wanted to ask just one simple question: "what's a thought you've been chewing on?"

Each episode the perfect length to accompany your morning coffee, your evening commute, or your afternoon hot girl walk.

Up first we have the incredible Laveen Gammie! Laveen is an interdisciplinary artist with a focus on sculpture currently getting her masters from the University of Chicago.

THIS EP'S CHEWY TOPICS:

death & the seductive qualities of death, lore (how it plays out in systems), necro-politics, signifiers of power.

ABOUT THE ARTIST:

I (Laveen Gammie) use sculpture installation, provisional supports, video, and photographic images to consider various notions of value (social, monetary, systemic). I explore how various values are created, upheld, or challenged. I am interested by the relationship between values, violence, world-building, seduction, and power. I am currently based in Chicago, where I am completing my MFA.

WHERE TO FIND THEIR WORK:

ig: @alwaysl8t3

website: ⁠www.laveengammie.com⁠

BONUS GOODIES!! (if you wanna learn more about this episode's topics, the following are provided by today's guest!)

J&J STUFFZ:

stay up to date with this series and many other exciting projects on ig: @jigglenjuice

check out our website, where you can find FREE support resources, artist database & much more: jigglenjuicecollective.com

chewing on something rlly good & wanna be on our next season? fire us an email! [email protected]

You’re listening to The Jiggle n Juice Show, episode eight, titled: “Get It? Get It? A Conversation with Kosar Movahedi & Carly Greene”. Today we’ll be discussing the use of humour in a Fine Arts setting, independent curation projects, accessible art experiences and DIY spaces. 

 About Get it? Get it?:

https://www.getitexhibition.com/ 

https://www.instagram.com/getitexhibition/

Opening Fri, April 14th, 6-9 pm

April 15th & 16th, 2-5 pm

Vault Gallery, 780 Blanshard St.

Get it? Get it? is the second iteration of a project exploring jokes and humour as they emerge in artistic practices. The exhibition will feature 6 artists whose work indulges in absurd narratives, head-shaking puns, and knee-slapping one-liners, as a means to facilitate connection through laughter.

Kosar Movahedi

https://www.kosar.ca/

https://www.instagram.com/kmovii/

Kosar Movahedi’s practice explores space; how our bodies take it up, hold it and are shaped by it. Through drawing, sculpture, photography and video, she combines minimalist aesthetics with tongue-in-cheek humour to examine the relationship between us and our social, political, and physical environments. Kosar holds a BSc in Architecture from University of Tehran and is an MFA candidate at the University of Victoria.

Carly Greene

https://www.carlygreene.com

https://www.instagram.com/carlyjogreene/

Carly Greene’s practice is motivated by an interest in materials - their histories, potentials, implication in, and impact on larger systems of value and labour. Working across sculpture and installation, she susses out messy, complex, and absurd ways in which materiality intersects with personal and cultural narratives. Greene is an instructor and the Wood and Metal Shop Technician at the University of Victoria. 

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Thank you so much for listening!! See ya next time! xx

You’re listening to The Jiggle n Juice Show, episode seven, titled: “How To Be A Full-Time Artist: Shae’s Career Mapping Project”. Being an artist is so elusive. The way people become a “successful” artist is even more elusive. This project will map everything Shae does in 2023 to try and make sense of how it happens as she work towards her goal of being a full time artist. You’ll be able to read her applications, see how she organizes her practice, and track her success rate.

We hope that by being able to track Shae's process and look back on what she did throughout 2023, we’ll be able to spot the mistakes and flaws, or the key moments and achievements that got her to where she is! Obviously, everyone’s journey will look different, but we hope at the very least, this project will be interesting, and at best, motivating to you!

learn more about the project here

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Thank you so much for listening!! See ya next time! xx