Subtext and Discourse | Art World Podcast

In what will likely be the last interview for 2019, today I'm speaking with Krista Svalbonas. Krista not only took part in the Jarvis Dooney Postcard Salon but also surprised me in Arles when she booked me to review her portfolio during the opening week of the festival. Krista shares a lot of insight into her project about displaced person camps in Germany which she has been documenting for the past few years, her unique photographic process, as well as how this personal story and shared history is very relevant in these uncertain times.

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Krista Svalbonas (b.1977, USA) holds a BFA Photography (Syracuse University) and an MFA Interdisciplinary (SUNY New Paltz). Her work has been exhibited in a number of exhibitions including at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Howard Yezerski Gallery in Boston, Klompching Gallery and ISE Cultural Foundation in New York. Her work has been collected in a number of private collections, as well as the Cesis Art Museum in Latvia. Recent awards include the Rhonda Wilson Award (2017), Puffin Foundation Grant (2016) and a Bemis Fellowship (2015) among others. In 2015 Svalbonas exhibited a solo installation at the Spartanburg Art Museum in South Carolina. She is an assistant professor of photography at St. Joseph’s University. She lives and works in Philadelphia.

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Interview with Krista Svalbonas recorded by Michael Dooney on 27. September 2019 in Berlin, Germany.

• Website http://www.kristasvalbonas.com/

• http://www.jarvisdooney.com/

• https://soundcloud.com/sebastiandelaluz

• http://www.michaeldooney.net/

As 2019 draws to an end we have a couple more interviews with participants of our second Postcard Salon which took place at the beginning of this year. Back in July I met up with Louise Crawford and Stéphan Guéneau, artist couple from Scottland and France respectively. We speak about their series 36 Related Objects, their love of large format analogue photography and the inevitable transition to a digital workflow.

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Louise Crawford (Scotland) and Stéphan Guéneau (France) work on large format analogue photography (4X5), 16mm films and installations. They live in Paris and Berlin.

Louise Crawford studied at Falmouth School of Art in England followed by a postgraduate year at the Düsseldorf Kunstakademie. Stéphan Guéneau studied in l’École des Beaux-Arts de Rouen in France and in the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin. They are both Le Fresnoy — Studio national des arts contemporains alumni.

They have been collaborating since 2000. Recurrent themes throughout their work are; an interest in contemporary history and its impact on urban space and landscape, film —and the film noir aesthetic—, the archive as document/as artwork, the half-tone image and its relationship to history, archiving and cataloging.

In April 2019, they had a screenprinting residency with Atelier #808080 in association with La Maison Julien Graq; in 2016, a post-production residency with Light Cone in Paris to re-master and digitize 2 film works and in 2014 were chosen for an Écritures de Lumières’ academic photography residency at Pierre & Marie Curie college in Bolbec, Normandy. In 2010 they were commissioned by the Goethe Institut and the French Alliance in Glasgow to produce a series of photographs celebrating the 20th anniversary of German Reunification shown at Street Level Photography Gallery during Glasgow International and in 2008 they were commissioned by L’Onde Art Centre outside of Paris to produce a series of photographs exhibited in advertising panels throughout the city of Velizy-Villacoublay.

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Interview with Louise Crawford and Stéphan Guéneau recorded by Michael Dooney on 30. July 2019 in Berlin, Germany.

• Website http://www.crawfordgueneau.net/

• http://www.jarvisdooney.com/

• https://soundcloud.com/sebastiandelaluz

• http://www.michaeldooney.net/

In today’s episode of the Subtext & Discourse podcast we'll hear from Berlin based photographer Martin Waltz.

Martin is a photographer, photography educator and writer, who serves as editor of the German Street Photography Site and curator of the German Street Photography Festival. He has written and contributed to several books on street photography including the award-winning “Streetfotografie – Made in Germany” published by Rheinwerk Verlag.

Martin has won numerous international photography competitions, as well as having his work exhibited in New York, London, Dublin, Rome, Bucharest and Berlin. Martin is a passionate photography teacher, offering street photography workshops in Berlin.

Interview with Martin U Waltz recorded by Michael Dooney on 7. August 2019 in Berlin, Germany.

• Website https://streetberlin.net/

• Mallorca Beach Photo Essay https://streetberlin.net/mallorca-beach/

• Masters of Street Photography https://www.ammonitepress.com/photography/photography-techniques/masters-of-street-photography/

• http://www.jarvisdooney.com/

• http://www.michaeldooney.net/

Part 2 of 2 - This week on Subtext & Discourse we have a two part interview with Australian artist Elizabeth Gower, who was briefly in Berlin together with her partner John R Neeson, for a residency with Institut für Alles Mögliche.

Interview with Elizabeth Gower recorded with Michael Dooney on 19. June 2019 in Berlin, Germany; coinciding with the 2019 Jarvis Dooney Postcard Salon. 

• https://elizabethgower.com/

• http://www.jarvisdooney.com/

• http://www.michaeldooney.net/

Part 1 of 2 - This week on Subtext & Discourse we have a two part interview with Australian artist Elizabeth Gower, who was briefly in Berlin together with her partner John R Neeson, for a residency with Institut für Alles Mögliche.

Interview with Elizabeth Gower recorded with Michael Dooney on 19. June 2019 in Berlin, Germany; coinciding with the 2019 Jarvis Dooney Postcard Salon. 

• https://elizabethgower.com/

• http://www.jarvisdooney.com/

• http://www.michaeldooney.net/

After a busy couple of months we're back on track with post production of the podcast. John R Neeson, who participated in the Postcard Salon, was in Berlin last summer together with Elizabeth Gower for a residency with Institut für Alles Mögliche. Prior to that they completed a residency in Italy, were briefly in Greece for the Athens Platform Project and will be in Connecticut for the 2019 Site-Responsive Art Residency & Biennale.

Interview with John R Neeson recorded with Michael Dooney on 19. June 2019 in Berlin, Germany; coinciding with the 2019 Jarvis Dooney Postcard Salon. 

• http://johnrneeson.com/

• http://www.jarvisdooney.com/

• http://www.michaeldooney.net/

Continuing our series of interviews with Postcard Salon participants, today's episode features young artist Lama Ahmed. Based in Cairo, Egypt, Lama is an artist, graphic designer and poet, currently working towards her MFA in design with a focus on materials. Her image included in the show was from the first issue of her self published magazine Habashtakanat which explores the visual culture of Cairo and the many makeshift solutions that can be observed throughout the city

This week is also Berlin Art Week, official starting on Wednesday the 11th of September 2019 and continuing until Sunday the 15th September: https://www.berlinartweek.de

The 15th will also mark six years since we opened Jarvis Dooney back in 2013.

Interview with Lama Ahmed recorded with Michael Dooney on 20. April 2019 in Berlin, Germany; coinciding with the 2019 Jarvis Dooney Postcard Salon. 

• https://lamaa.myportfolio.com/

• http://www.jarvisdooney.com/

• http://www.michaeldooney.net/

This interview (part 2 of 2) with native New Yorker, and Berlin based artist Lynne Margaret Brown was recorded with Michael Dooney on 17. April 2019 in Berlin, Germany; coinciding with the 2019 Jarvis Dooney Postcard Salon.

• http://www.lynnemargaretbrown.com/

• http://www.lynnemargaretbrown.com/north-to-south-berliner-voices-my-corner Official Project Page

• http://www.jarvisdooney.com/

• http://www.michaeldooney.net/

1. What is your name?

Berlin  - (site specific) Questions

1. What do you think is special about Berlin?

Questions formulated / based lightly upon research of various current and historical questionnaires used in letter writing, interviews and story-telling projects i.e. the Proust questionnaire and StoryCorps.

This interview (part 1 of 2) with native New Yorker, and Berlin based artist Lynne Margaret Brown was recorded with Michael Dooney on 17. April 2019 in Berlin, Germany; coinciding with the 2019 Jarvis Dooney Postcard Salon.

• http://www.lynnemargaretbrown.com/

• http://www.lynnemargaretbrown.com/north-to-south-berliner-voices-my-corner Official Project Page

• http://www.jarvisdooney.com/

• http://www.michaeldooney.net/

1. What is your name?

Berlin  - (site specific) Questions

1. What do you think is special about Berlin?

Questions formulated / based lightly upon research of various current and historical questionnaires used in letter writing, interviews and story-telling projects i.e. the Proust questionnaire and StoryCorps.

In this episode of Subtext & Discourse I talk about the Jarvis Dooney Gallery collaborative experiment in exhibition making, the Postcard Salon.

• Call for entries (Facebook event)

• Call for entries (Facebook event)

number of artists in 2018 – 35

male artists in 2018 - 15 (43%) in 2019 – 21 (35%)

We are based in Berlin, represent a number of artists from Australia and New Zealand.

DE artists in 2018 - 15 (43%) in 2019 – 15 (25%)

2018 other demographic: USA & Canada, Austria & Switzerland, Netherlands, France, Bulgaria.

2018 – 14 of 35 based in Berlin, 40%

In 2018 – 10 of the 35 people were living outside their home country, 28%

• http://www.jarvisdooney.com/

• http://www.michaeldooney.net/