NAVA: in conversation

Curator and writer, Jeff Khan joins Penelope Benton in conversation about Performance Contemporary as part of Sydney Contemporary Art Fair and Liveworks 2018, Performance Space's annual festival.

Esther speaks with Tess Maunder ahead of the launch of her new publication, Absolute Humidity.

Absolute Humidity is a volume that aims to re-position conversations about the climate, weather and the environment by placing artist’s voices at the centre of the discussion. The publication focuses on contemporary artists from the Asia-Pacific region, including twenty-eight new conversations and other contributions that form a new constellation of inquiries. Through this project, contributors discuss how ideas surrounding weather, the environment and the climate be conceptualised by artists producing fresh ideas surrounding artistic agency.

Tess Maunder is a writer, curator. editor and researcher based in

Brisbane.

In Cairns for the annual Indigenous Art Fair, Esther speaks with Artistic Director Janina Harding about this year's program.

Curator and artist Bianca Beetson discusses her recent exhibition at NERAM gallery, and her son Aidan Finn about his study of contemporary Australian Indigenous art at Griffith University.

Finally, Esther speaks to artist Laliana Tusa and her mother about their work featured at the fair.

For more information about the CIAF program, head to the website: https://ciaf.com.au/

Soda_Jerk​ sits down with Esther Anatolitis in the NAVA office to talk about their most recent and controversial work, 'Terror Nullius, a political revenge fable in three acts'. The artists discuss their approach to making work as a seizing and hacking of culture as an act of political resistance and solidarity.

Formed in Sydney in 2002, Soda_Jerk is a two-person art collective who work at the intersection of documentary and speculative fiction.

In the window of the Australia Council building in Sydney, Esther Anatolitis is in conversation with Gosia Wlodarczak, during her drawing residency. They discuss Gosia's approach to drawing as looking and focus, what that means, and how she built her art practice in Poland and Australia over the years.

Artist Abdul-Rahman Abdullah in conversation with Esther Anatolitis about his most recent work in 'Enough خلاص Khalas' exhibition at UNSW Galleries, and the development of his practice as a professional artist in Australia.

For this episode, artist Chris Fox is in conversation with Esther Anatolitis and Penelope Benton around public art, and his most recent public artwork at Wynyard Station, 'Interloop'.

The conversation discusses the value and role of art in the public space,

and the challenges inherent in public art policy and delivery - through competing stakeholders and agendas.

This episode unpacks the challenges facing contemporary artists working in public space, and makes suggestions for change.

Check out Chris Fox's work via his website: http://chrisfox.com.au/

For this episode, Esther Anatolitis is in conversation with artist Sarah Goffman.

Sarah describes her work as an obsession and compulsion, and her role as 'trash converter' as she reframes plastics and everyday consumer products and packaging into beautiful objects through the critical lens of waste and excess consumption.

For more information about Sarah's work, and upcoming shows, head to her website: http://www.sarahgoffman.com/

Esther Anatolitis in conversation with Elvis Richardson, the curator of 2018 Adelaide Biennial. They discuss the exhibition, artists and the arts in South Australia.

For this episode, Esther Anatolitis is in conversation with artist and activist, Elvis Richardson. Founder of the Countess Report, Elvis has been exposing gender inequity in the arts since the blog launched in 2008, and subsequent 'counts' of gender imbalance in gallery and museum representation, media and opportunities.

Elvis lives and works in Melbourne, and has an upcoming show at Kyneton Contemporary Art Triennial, and a new website for The Countess Report.