Let's Talk Art!

Hello and welcome back to Let's Talk Art!

Today Ash, Anna, Maureen and Unnur share their favourite self-portraits with one another and open up Pandora's Box full of endless artists, exhibitions and recommendations. In need of a relaxing cup of tea with a dynamic art historical discussion as ambience?  Join us in this episode and enjoy!

PSA: due to some health issues of one of our cast members our podcast was put on hold for a period of time and this episode brought to you in May was recorded in January.

Primarily discussed works in the episode:

- Anna's portrait of choice: Bianca Maria Sforza by Giovanni Ambrogio de Predis, 1493

- Unnur's portrait of choice: Self Portrait by Judith Leyster, 1630

- Maureen's portraits of choice: Self-portrait with Monacle by Anna Dorothea Therbusch, 1777 / Portrait of Louise Jane Jopling by Sir John Everett Millais, 1879

-Ash's portrait of choice: The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo, 1939

Hello and welcome back to Let's Talk Art!

Today, Ash, Anna, Maureen and Unnur sit down with special guest professor Julian Ross to talk about NFTs and their impact on the art world. What exactly are NFTs? How do they impact the world? What can we expect from them in the future? Stay tuned to discuss these questions and much more!

Work mentioned in the episode:

·        Digital Canon - https://www.digitalcanon.nl/#list

·        Rijksmuseum Thuis - https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/ontdek-meesterwerken

·        Van Gogh Museum - https://360stories.com/amsterdam/story/van-gogh-museum

·        Another Screen - https://www.another-screen.com/

·        Anne Frank House - https://360stories.com/amsterdam/place/anne-frank-house

·        Notes on Blindness (2016)

·        Meet Vermeer - https://artsandculture.google.com/project/vermeer

This episode was recorded remotely due to a Covid-19 related lockdown in the Netherlands. If you or anyone you know is struggling, please reach out and get support. Following are some anonymous services that provide mental support or a listening ear.

Alles Oké? - https://www.allesoke.nl/ (Dutch, possible in English)

Ease - https://www.ease.nl/ (Dutch, possible in English)

De Luisterlijn - https://www.deluisterlijn.nl/ (Dutch, other languages possible depending on the person on the line)

Hello and welcome back to Let’s Talk Art! 

Today, Ash, Anna and Maureen will be having a chat about representation in art, the philosophy of understanding one another and many iconic queer art pieces and artists. Stay tuned for personal anecdotes and an abundance of recommendations on enjoying queer content!

Articles/work/literature used for and mentioned in the episode:

·        “Playfulness, ‘World’-Traveling, and Loving Perception” by Maria Lugones

·        “Ten Queer Theses on Abstraction” by David J. Getsy

·        Artists Mentioned; Louise Fishman, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Dolly Parton, Frida Kahlo, J J Levine

·        Shows Mentioned; Bridgerton, Euphoria, Critical Role, Pose

·        Movies Mentioned; Paris is Burning, Your Name Engraved Herein, Rafiki, Portrait of a Lady on Fire

See content warnings at the end of the description.

Hello and welcome to our first episode of the second season of Let’s Talk Art! 

Because today, the 28th of October, it is international animation day and Halloween is just around the corner, this week’s episode is about Halloween themed animations. We are joined by Ali Shobeiri, a photography and cinema art professor at Leiden University, with whom we’ll discuss various animations, starting with an in-depth discussion of Phantom Limb. Stay tuned for some fun and spooky Halloween film recommendations to watch for yourself this weekend at the end of the episode! So, get cozy, grab a cup of hot chocolate and come join us in today’s episode!

Special thanks to dr. Ali Shobeiri for joining us on the podcast for our first episode!

Articles/works/literature used for and mentioned in the episode:

• “Phantom Limb” an animation by Alex Grigg 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcnQ-qXrTIc

• “Negative Space” an animation by Tiny Inventions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KI2lsdXJQ40 
• Ali Shobeiri, “Antumbral Memory: A Psychosomatic Phenomenon in Phantom Limb”, in Animation and Memory, edited by Maarten van Gageldonk, László Munteán and Ali Shobeiri, 2020
• The film “The Wolf House” (2018)
• The film “It Follows” (2014)
• The short-film “Street of Crocodiles” (1986)
• The short-film “Cat Soup” (Nekojiru-so) (2001)
• The movie “Coraline” (2009)
• The movie “The Nightmare Before Christmas” (1993)
• The animated horror anthology “Junji Ito Collection” (2018)
• “The Cat Piano” an animation by The People's Republic of Animation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj4RBmU-PIo 

• The animation series “Over the Garden Wall” (2014)
• The movie “Pan’s Labyrinth” (El laberinto del fauno) (2006)

Content warnings:

• Trauma
• Amputation
• Body Horror
• Grief
• Oikophobia
• Phobias
• War
• Torture
• Animal abuse
• Mentions of: Death

Hello and welcome back dear listeners - and of course, welcome new listeners!
Last year, Dasha, Unnur and Zazie had the joy to bring interesting content regularly in relation to art to your ears. This year, Unnur will continue with a brand new team, hereby welcoming Ash, Anna and Maureen on board to keep the fun going! Enjoy!

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Hey, listeners! We are back after a while to present you our very last episode of season 1! :) In this episode, Unnur and Zazie sit down with a new guest - board member of De L.K.V. 2020-2021 and Arts, Media & Society student Margo. In a wonderful discussion, girls explore and dive into the work of Katie Grinnan, who is an artist. In her work, Katie Grinnan explores the relationship between visual, kinesthetic, and cognitive experience. To know more, join Unnur, Zazie, and Margo for a talk :)

We would love to thank everyone who was listening to and supporting this podcast throughout this year! It would not be possible without you :) Thank you and see (hear) you soon!

Articles/works/literature used for and mentioned in the episode:
- Katie Grinnan, "Mirage"
- Lunchtime Lecture with Katie Grinnan, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAuJDgqESHQ
- Katie Grinnan, "Enter-Face"
- Surbhi Singh, Hindu God With Many Arms and Heads?, https://vedicsources.com/why-hindu-god-with-many-arms-and-heads/
- Molly Glentzer, Houston Chronicle, Dreams made of plastic: Katie Grinnan's "Nocturnal Hologram", https://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/gray-matters/article/Dreams-perception-and-Friendly-Plastic-6594311.php
- Robby Herbst, The Art of Katie Grinnan: Perception in a Changing Universe, https://www.kcet.org/shows/artbound/the-art-of-katie-grinnan-perception-in-a-changing-universe
- Huffpost, Katie Grinnan Captures the Potential of The Human Body, https://www.huffpost.com/entry/katie-grinnan-captures-the-potential-of-the-human-body_n_1179852
- David Pagel, Critic's Choice: Sex, Death and Beyond: A surreal ride through the dreamland of Katie Grinnan at LAXArt, https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-katie-grinnan-laxart-20160315-story.htm

Many thanks to our listeners for providing us with wonderful thoughts, questions and feedback as a response to episode no. 6 on "Representation of Sexualized Bodies in Art"! Join us in this episode special where Dasha and Unnur listen to the recordings sent in from listeners and address some of the topics and questions raised. You will hear plenty about sex, gender, representation, and more related to those topics. Along with that, we reflect on the journey of making this particular podcast and discuss some of our favorite podcasts. So you, dear listener, are in for an episode jam-packed with intriguing discussions and various perspectives. Enjoy!

Order of listener recordings:
Margo, Assesor and Vice President of de L.K.V.
Domo, Secretary of de L.K.V
Tessa, Treasurer of de L.K.V.
Aleksa, Head of Travels of de L.K.V.
Fabius, Philosophy student
Sabine, President of de L.K.V.

Favourite podcasts so you can go and look them up:
The Empire Podcast
Rose and Rosie's Parental Guidance
The Cinemile
The Lonely Palette
Bow Down
99% invisible

Hello there! We are continuing our talks about nudity, nakedness, and bodies' representations in art. In this episode, we decided to focus more particularly on the notion of eroticism and how it is portrayed, for example, by Wilhelm van Gloeden. The episode sheds light on different issues of eroticism representation, how it is tight to voyeurism and how it can be overturned. Enjoy! 

Articles/works mentioned in the episode:
- Jason Goldman , "The Golden Age of Gay Porn": Nostalgia and the Photography of Wilhelm von Gloeden," in A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, Volume 12, Number 2, 2006, pp. 237-258.
- Joanna Frueh, "The Erotic as Social Security," in  Art Journal, Spring, 1994, Vol. 53, No. 1, Art and Old Age (Spring, 1994), pp. 66-72.
- Gustave Courbet, Origin of the World, 1866, oil on canvas. https://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/collections/works-in-focus/search/commentaire/commentaire_id/the-origin-of-the-world-3122.html

Hi listeners! We are back with another episode, this time with Dr. Eliza Steinbock, assistant professor in Cultural Analysis at LUCAS. Together we talked about the representation of sexualized bodies in art; their presentation as well as interpretation. In doing so we focus on representing non-binary identities in order to broaden our perspective and break free of binary gender structures. Hopefully we will manage to broaden your perspective as well :) We discussed a great amount of things: is there a fine line between pornography and art? should we focus mainly on physical representation of non-binary peoples? how art represent changes in understanding gender and sex? 

Join us for this insightful discussion to know more and do not miss an opportunity to send in your own opinion about it. Record small audio, send it to [email protected], and be featured in our next, special episode :) 

Big thank you to Dr. Eliza Steinbock for joining us this time!

Articles/artworks/artists mentioned in the episode:

- Radical Tenderness: Trans for Trans Portraiture // https://aliceausten.org/radical-tenderness
- Gerda Wegener // http://www.artnet.com/artists/gerda-wegener
- Sleeping Hermaphroditus // https://borghese.gallery/collection/sculpture/sleeping-hermaphroditus.html
- Juliana by Frank Benson // https://www.icaboston.org/art/frank-benson/juliana
- Buck and Allanah by Marc Quinn // http://marcquinn.com/artworks/single/buck-allanah
- Evolution by Marc Quinn // http://marcquinn.com/artworks/evolution
- Matt Lambert on changing landscapes of intimacy, sexuality and porn on Dazed // https://www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture/article/51969/1/matt-lambert-on-the-changing-landscapes-of-intimacy-sexuality-and-porn
- Masculine. The Nude Man in Art from 1800 to the Present Day exhibition at Musee d'Orsay // https://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/events/exhibitions/archives/exhibitions-archives/article/masculin-masculin-37292.html?print=1
- Peter Lehman, The Prosthetic Penis and the Trans Penis: Changing Representations of the Cultural Discourses About the Penis // https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15240657.2020.18575:

Hello, our dear members! As our Mindful March is coming to an end, we decided to suggest you do the very last mindful activity of the month - guided meditation and sound experience held by our lovely treasurer Tessa and based on the artwork!

Just slow down, breathe and enjoy 5 minutes of calmness. Do not look up the painting first, let yourself go through the whole experience and see it after.

Artwork: Joana Choumali, Holding Those Strings, 2019. 50x 50cm. From the series Albahian.
https://joanachoumali.com/