This is the 5th COVID special episode. In this episode, I have four high-achieving artists: Dr. Kate Just, Dr. Tal Fitzpatrick, Zara Sullivan and Nathan Beard talking about their art projects that they have been carrying out during COVID19 and speaking about their creative process and mind-space in making these projects during the COVID down time. Dr. Kate and Dr, Tal are producing a collaborative project titled: #covid19quilt on the instagram platform @covid19quilt. Zara is delivering her project “Angle Exchange” and hosting a live performance channel on IGTV.  Nathan is managing his island of Slovetzia in Animal Crossing game where he has built an art gallery and migrated his 1st life exhibition tilted White Gilt 2.0 and originally shown at FirstDraft into this Slovetzia gallery. 

To me, like many other artists and people who struggled in the 1st lockdown period to keep up a creative life and now is adjusting mentally again in the 2nd lockdown, hearing about these artists' wonderful artworks and persistence in art-making, is absolutely inspiring and stimulating. I hope this episode could bring the same positive and creative energy to the listeners and help you all happily go through the new low of the 2nd lockdown time.

Episode notes:

Dr. Kate Just

http://www.katejust.com

Dr. Tal Fitzpatrick

https://talfitzpatrick.com

Zara Sullivan

https://www.zarasullivan.com

Nathan Beard

https://www.nathanbeard.org

Projects:

1, Kate and Tal's COVID19quilt

Instagram @covid19quilt

2, Zara's Angle Exchange

Instagram @Zarasully.artist

https://busprojects.org.au/program/angel-exchange?fbclid=IwAR2SoJ_6zWaTDb-AQILeqpzVmBfJHYftTOYCk7kZZm49QbYim5MmkP0MxTI

3, An interview and announcement about Nathan's White Gilt 2.5 on FirstDraft website 

https://firstdraft.org.au/news/nathanbeardnewhorizons

White Gilt 2.0

https://firstdraft.org.au/2020-program-pt-1/whitegilt2point0-s3c82

In this 4th COVID19 special episode, I have invited two artist and educator, Dr. Tammy wong Hulbert, and Dr. Priya Srinivasan and a phycologist, Anu Radha to make a conversation together about how the arts and artists could respond to the COVID19 racism against the Asian population in the western societies. 

In this episode, Tammy told us about a collaborative social engagement project called Unmasked selfies in Solidarity that she had taken part in. This project had widely-reached on Facebook platform. Tammy also talked about how her visual art practice had been enriched through her roles as a curator and academic. Priya, with her rich knowledge on Australian performance art and the subject on cultural and gender equality in the postcolonial and capitalist societies, shared her view on what was the role of arts and artists that COVID19 had indicated to us, and her critical thoughts on how COVID19 broke the Western traditional notion that "artists are solo genius". Moreover, Anu from her professional psychologist perspective, did not only give an explanation on the stress and anxiety that were brought by racism and the time of COVID19, but also shared many brilliant valuable and wise exercises for thoughts for the artists and everyone to practice. There are so much more in this conversation to take on. 

As this conversation was made before the #blacklivesmatter global movement took off, the subjects of racism in this conversation were focused on the Asian communities in the western societies. However, I think that the discussions on the topic about the arts&racism in this conversation has a broad application. The value of the speakers' words doesn't lessen due to limit of the timing. Please sit back and enjoy this empowering episode! 

Episode Note:

Dr. Tammy Wong Hulbert

https://www.tammywonghulbert.com

The team of collaborators of this project includes: Isabella Capezio, Marnie Badham, Klare Lansen, Sherry Liu, Wilson Yeung, Jan Sze Wing Ting, Rosina Yuan and Tammy Wong Hulbert and the RMIT School of Art community.

Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1050235468694361

Dr. Priya Srinivasan

https://www.liminalmag.com/interviews/priya-srinivasan

The info about Pathways project that Priya talked about can be find on Sangam Facebook page

https://www.facebook.com/artsouthasia

Anu Radha, a psychologist 

currently working in Northern Health https://www.nh.org.au

This is the 2nd part of the artist and curator talk for the exhibition Across the Haze. It starts with Shraddah. She is going to talk about her work This Beautiful Venus Trap Earth Body with Eline Bochem in this exhibition. Then, the sound recordings of Ivetta and Cynthia talking about their works Proposition 1: Hands, and Commune will be played, because they couldn’t attend to this talk. In the end, all the artists in the conversation share the fun activities they have been doing in the home isolation. 

Trocadero Art Space

http://www.trocaderoartspace.com.au

Cross the Haze

http://www.trocaderoartspace.com.au/corinna-berndt/current-march-18-april-4-project-space-curated-by-corinna-berndt-across-the-haze/

Cynthia Arrieu-King (USA)

http://cynthiaarrieuking.blogspot.com

Corinna Berndt (Australia / Germany)

https://corinnaberndt.net

Shraddha Borawake (India)

http://shraddhaborawake.com

Dongyan Chen (Singapore / China)

https://dongyanchen.com

Rochyne Delaney McNulty (England)

https://www.curatorspace.com/artists/Rochynedm

Sophie Morrow (Australia)

https://www.sophiemorrow.com

Ivetta Sunyoung Kang (Canada / South Korea)

https://ivettakang.com/About

Marcia Vaitsman (Brazil)

https://vaitsman.wordpress.com

This is the 2nd special episode for COVID 19 lockdown period. This episode is made in collaboration with Trocadero Art Space, an artist run initiative space in Melbourne, to host the artist and curator talk for the exhibition titled Across The Haze. This exhibition was shown at Trocadero Art space for a short period from March 18 to April 4, before COVID19 lockdown. It, a group exhibition, presented new works produced by 8 artists who are working across the world in response to the curatorial question about the connectivity in the midst of uncertainty. This exhibition was curated by one of the exhibiting artist, Corinna Berndt, a Melbourne based artist and PhD candidate of the Victorian College of the Arts.  The 6 exhibiting artists join in this talk. They are Shraddha Borawake, Dongyan Chen, Rochyne Delaney McNulty, Sophie Morrow, Marcia Vaitsman and Corinna Berndt. 

Due to the large number of speakers, this episode has been divided into two parts. You are listening to the first part. In this part, Corinna will introduce this exhibition by talking about the curatorial concept and the making of this exhibition. Marcia, Dongyan, Rochyne and Sophie, and Corina will speak about their works. 

Trocadero Art Space
http://www.trocaderoartspace.com.au

Cross the Haze

http://www.trocaderoartspace.com.au/uncategorized/troc-talks-online/?fbclid=IwAR1nMYWLrWpS1v4WkTCm_eMfMvKDjbpWEzXCi_OpyzUk9i81nfkYwH1eDF8

Cynthia Arrieu-King (USA)
http://cynthiaarrieuking.blogspot.com

Corinna Berndt (Australia / Germany)https://corinnaberndt.net

Shraddha Borawake (India)http://shraddhaborawake.com

Dongyan Chen (Singapore / China)https://dongyanchen.com

Rochyne Delaney McNulty (England)https://www.curatorspace.com/artists/Rochynedm

Sophie Morrow (Australia)https://www.sophiemorrow.com

Ivetta Sunyoung Kang (Canada / South Korea)https://ivettakang.com/About

Marcia Vaitsman (Brazil)https://vaitsman.wordpress.com

This is the 3rd special episode for COVID19 time. In this episode, three visual artists: Sarah Rudlege, Ann Mcginley and Nico Reddaway and I made a delightful conversation about their pre-COVID19 oversea residencies. Sarah, as the last participating artist in the artist residency program of Matsushima Bunko Museum, went to Matsushima island in Japan; Ann took Casa Na Iiha artist residency in Iihabela in Brazil; and Nico engaged in the art program for asylum seeker refugees in Finland and worked for the art workshops at Heikinharju Reception Centre in Oulu, when she visited Oulu as an exchange student with University of Oulu.

Listening to them talking about their times outside Australia in this COVID19 isolation, was like to hear fictional stories. But it took my mind on a pleasant trip across the brick walls of my flat and national borders. Before the conversation, I imagined a lonely working environment that they would have confronted in their times overseas, and expected to get some tips from them to overcome the challenge in this solitary working environment. I hoped these tips would be applicable for artists who struggle in COVID 19 social isolation life. However, their answers were surprised me and opened up a new way for me to think about the idea of working in solitude. 

I hope you will enjoy to listening to this episodes.

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>>> Episode notes: 

/// The artists:

Ann McGinley

http://www.annmcginley.net

Follow her art on instagram: @mcginley985

Nico Reddaway

https://nicoreddaway.com/about/

Follow her art projects on instagram: @incognic0

Sarah Rudledge

http://www.sarahrudledge.com

/// Casa Na Iiha artist residency, Bazil

https://www.casanailha.org

/// University of Oulu

https://www.oulu.fi/university/

/// Matsushima Bunko Museum 

http://matsushima.site

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvNk6iR4iTg

In the time of COVID19 breakout, Three bellybuttons is making special episodes to accompany you with an art community on air, and to entertain you with art-related topics. In this episode, Leanne Waterhouse, Jaime Powell, Julie Gough and I made a conversaion about their ‘real’ physical experiences in visiting the 22nd Biennale of Sydney titled Nirin. 

Julie and Leanne have generously shared the photos and videos they took in the biennale. Please go to Three Bellybuttons blog to view them. https://threebellybuttonspodcast.blogspot.com

Speakers:

Leanne Waterhouse

https://www.leannewaterhouse.com

Jaime Powell

http://www.jaimepowell.com.au

Julie Gough

https://juliegough.net/brief-biography/

The links to the contents mentioned in the conversation:

Nirin - the 22nd Biennale of Sydney

https://www.biennaleofsydney.art

The First Nations symposium that Julie participated during Nirin, the biennale of Sydney is:

Aabaakwad Symposium. It was convened by Wanda Nainbush and Brook Andrew

http://events.biennaleofsydney.art/aabaakwad

Biennale of Sydney Spotify channel

https://open.spotify.com/user/ehst2171vge3al8pzunkxyo5q

The learning resources: 

https://www.biennaleofsydney.art/learn/learning-resources/

The exhibitions at AGNSW

https://www.biennaleofsydney.art/venues/art-gallery-new-south-wales/

The exhibitions at MCA

https://www.biennaleofsydney.art/venues/museum-contemporary-art-australia/

Brook Andrew

http://www.brookandrew.com

Tony Albert

https://tonyalbert.com.au

Kunmanara Mumu Mike Williams

https://www.biennaleofsydney.art/artists/kunmanara-mumu-mike-williams/

Karla Dickens

https://www.biennaleofsydney.art/artists/karla-dickens/

Warwick Thornton

https://www.biennaleofsydney.art/artists/warwick-thornton/

Tony Albert’s work in Cockatoo Island

https://www.biennaleofsydney.art/learn/learning-resources/learning-nirin-home-tony-albert/

Mohamed Bourouissa

https://www.biennaleofsydney.art/artists/mohamed-bourouissa/

Aziz Hazara’s work Bow Echo

https://www.biennaleofsydney.art/artists/aziz-hazara/

Latai Taumoepeau

https://www.biennaleofsydney.art/artists/latai-taumoepeau/

Extra: 

Jaime’s print is featured in the recent series of Sex Zine along with other 8 artists/illustrators,. This zine is edited by Anngee Neo and can be purchased from Slowburn Books. 

Hello listeners, 

We have indeed gone into 2020. But I reckon it has been a very bumpy transfer of the year for many people. Particularly in this current strange and fearful coronavirus pandemic time, I wish everyone stay safe at home and keep positive. I hope this podcast could bring you some stress relief and a contact to the art at home.

This first episode of 2020, is a conversation made in December 2019 between Zamara Zamara, Emanuel Rodriguez and I.  It was just before Emanuel returned to his home country Costa Rico. In the conversation, Emanuel shared his experience of visiting MONA at the first time, in particularly his personal experience of visiting Alfredo Jaar’s spectacular installation titled The Divine Comedy shown at MONA at that time.  Joined with Emanuel, Zamara talked about their experiences of seeing some performance artworks in Documenta 14 and the 57th Venice Biennale in 2017. Please enjoy listening this episode. More episodes will come up shortly. 

**Apology for the mistake in this episode: The title of Alfredo Jaar's work shown in MONA is The Divine Comedy. 

Episode Notes:

Speakers:

Emanuel Rodriguez Chaves

http://www.emanuelrodriguez.net

Zamara Zamara

http://zamarazamara.com

The artists and exhibitions talked about in this episode: 

Alfredo Jaar

https://alfredojaar.net/projects/

“The Divine Comedy” 2019

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=470846330447160

Peter Greenaway

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000425/

James Turrell

http://jamesturrell.com

Jamie McCartney

The Great Wall of Vagina (2008)

https://jamiemccartney.com

Tino Sehgal

Living Memory 2016

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/reviews/living-memory-tino-sehgal-takes-over-pariss-palais-de-tokyo-with-300-performers-and-a-few-friends-7186/

Aphids

www.aphids.net

This is the 2nd part of the special episode about rejections and failures in the art; and also the last episode of 2019. 

As the last episode of 2019, I,  the host of Three Bellybuttons, would like to thank all the speakers who shared their valuable time and talked in the podcast this year! Thank you for your generosity and knowledge on the art! Also, I would like to thank the listens and Three Belly Buttons instagram followers! 

By making this podcast, I have gained a great supportive and caring community in the art and many pleasant and fun moments throughout the year. I hope the listeners feel the same from this podcast. For this reason, I will continue to make this podcast next year and talk about future art events and topics. 

So, bye for now! Have a great New Year celebration! See you in 2020!

Siying

In response to the end of 2019, I reviewed the rejections that I had received this year as an artist. Besides self doubts and down feelings, I believed that there must be more that I could unpack from these unsuccessful results. Although it is known that receiving rejection is a common experience for most of contemporary practicing artists, within the art community, we barely mention and share about our sense of failure in our art career.

Why? Maybe rejections are too embarrassing to talk about. Or perhaps we try very hard to forget about them. By the end of 2019, I refuse to internalise these rejections solely again.

For the questions: Why was I rejected? What should I think about the rejection? How could I emotionally cope with the rejection?, I invited four curators, writers and visual artists: Sophia Cai, Diego Ramirez, Nikki Lam and James Nguyen to share their experiences in receiving rejections in the art. I hope our conversation would be helpful for many other artist listeners.

** Our conversation went for nearly 2 hour long. In an organic order, the four speakers came in and left the conversation at various points due to their availabilities on that day. Therefore, it was divided into two episodes. Also, I kept some background noises in the sound tracks, such as the sound of door bells, of chewing, of a kettle boiling, etc.. I apologise if they might be too much of annoyance for the listeners. It was because 1, it was difficult to separate them from our voices; 2, I did want to convey the domestic and relaxed atmosphere where our conversation was conduced.

Anyway, enjoy this special podcast conversation! THANK for listening!

Speakers:

1, Sophia Cai

Curator, Writer

https://www.sophiacai.info

2, Diego Ramirez

Visual Artist, Writer, Gallery Manager of Seventh Gallery

http://www.diego-ramirez.net

3, Nikki Lam

Visual Artist, Writer, Curator

http://nikkilam.info

4, James Nguyen

Visual Artist

http://jamesnguyen.com.au

Chantelle Mitchell, a writer/curator and Emilie Walsh,  a visual artist, both Melbourne-based, talked about the current exhibitions: Hope Dies Last: Art at the end of optimism at Gertrude Contemporary and Margaret Lawrence Gallery, and Incinerator Art Award. Both Emilie and Chantelle’s excellent descriptions and insightful read of the works in these exhibitions have certainly opened a great conversation between us. I hope this episode would inspire you to check these shows out if you haven’t seen them. 

Speakers: 

Chantelle Mitchell, a write/curator/art manager

Emilie Walsh, a visual artist

https://www.emilouwalsh.com/about

The exhibitions: 

Hope Dies Last: Art at the end of optimism

Gertrude Contemporary 

http://gertrude.org.au/exhibitions/gallery-11/

Open till 9 Nov

Margaret Lawrence Gallery

https://finearts-music.unimelb.edu.au/about-us/margaret-lawrence-gallery

 Opent till 16 Nov.

Myuran Kukumaran

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myuran_Sukumaran

Sanja Pahoki

https://www.sanjapahoki.com

Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Araya_Rasdjarmrearnsook

Alex Seton

Architecture as…

George Paton gallery

https://umsu.unimelb.edu.au/studentlife/gallery/exhibitionprogram/

Incinerator Art Award 

Incinerator Gallery

Open till 1 Dec

Ashley Perry

https://incineratorgallery.com.au/exhibition/incinerator-art-award/

Department of homo affairs (Sydney)

Tense Past

Julie Gough

https://www.tmag.tas.gov.au/whats_on/exhibitions/current_upcoming/info/julie_gough_tense_past

Till 3 Nov

Emilie’s upcoming exhibition

Glowry

21 Jan - 1 Feb 2020

https://www.fortyfivedownstairs.com/wp2016/events/

Chantelle will present a couple of papers at Research Humanity Centre of ANU in Dec on topics around poetry and curatorship.