Exhibitionistas: Notes on Art

Your host, writer and curator Joana P. R. Neves, challenges you to explore the mystery of a missing paragraph in Virginia Woolf's 'The Mark on the Wall', and its significance for creative pursuits. You're about to dwell on the flow of consciousness as creative flow – the art of mastering and letting go simultaneously.

How do we create? How to we get to that special place where we're in control while accepting the randomness of the reactive materials we work with? And what does that say about life?

Links, as promised:

Explorations of Sex and Self (reference to the Angel in the House): https://joanaprneves.substack.com/p/explorations-of-sex-and-self

About being drawn to "minor works": https://joanaprneves.substack.com/p/when-art-says-the-unspeakable

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We're fine-tuning the show in the background, so we're on a hiatus of sorts–but episodes will drop every two weeks, now on Mondays. We're clarified our purpose: we're now Exhibitionistas - Notes on Art, which feels good and more in tune with our vibe.

Takeaways
Textual discrepancies in literary works can reveal insights into the author's creative process.
Favorite texts can deeply influence creativity and self-perception. Better than self-help books? Find out for yourself!
The Mark on the Wall by Virginia Woolf explores the balance between creative control and letting go, reflecting the complexities of the artistic process.

Chapters
00:00 Unraveling the Mystery
11:41 Introduction to the Special Series
17:28 Virginia Woolf's Life and Influence
32:31 The Angel in the House and Creative Freedom
01:01:24 Reading 'The Mark on the Wall'

ART TOPIC is is an exploration of a topic through visual arts or vice-versa. Hosted by Joana P. R. Neves, this episode is an experiment in opposing writing to oral communication. It also engages with queer lives at the height of modernism, the notion of genius and its patriarchal tendencies, as well as the intriguing, unique couple of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas.
Discover Joana's text "G is for Genius, Grammar and Girl", published on her Substack Art Thinkosaurus. She reads it here as a performance of sorts, with mistakes, reflexions and all, to test voice versus word. What will she discover?
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What you get from this episode:
How do we write about art?
Is talking about art different than writing about it?
Is Modernism entangled in Gender issues?
How did gender influence modernism and vice-versa?
Why were we obsessed with the "genius"?
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ART BOOK CLUB is a segment where a guest suggests a book which was not written with visual arts in mind and yet is a source of inspiration, guidance and / or creativity for their work. Hosted by Joana P. R. Neves, this episode welcomes visual artist Laisul Hoque.

How can a work of fiction influence the work of an artist?

Can a visual arts practice be illuminated by storytelling? How can art practices she light on the value and limitations of archives and photographic documentation of the past?

To what extent do images convey the truth?

Is visual arts the territory where we reckon with our ties with the past, and our emotional needs?

Laisul chose: Babu Bangladesh!, written by Numair Atif Choudhury.

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What you get from this episode: Curating revelations, unexpected curating methods, lessons in community, art philosophies, ethical art questions.

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0:00 Intro
04:19 Choosing an artistic career
11:13 Autobiography in visual arts
18:26 Book: Babu Bangladesh! By NUmair Atif Choudhury
20:14 How a book intersects with personal life
22:15 The personal, the politics, the art, the book
28:20 What is Babu Bangladesh! about?
35:14 Family photo archive and visual arts
39:26 Break and call for action
41:43 Speculative fiction as device for truth telling
45:58 Why is Babu Bangladesh! In English?
48:32 Taking ownership of the historical archive?
56:18 StorytellingThe Ground Beneath Me: An artistic exploration of care
01:03:34 Displaced spaces of art
01:10:16 Does art provide answers?
01:21:14 Outro 

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You're bound to get an art education with our guest, curator Sarah Carrington! Our art talk with her explores her work as director of the Public Art Trail in East London The Line, as well as the joys of producing visual arts projects and supporting artistic commissions for an urban space full of wildlife and industrial areas, away from the capital's most overcrowded areas.

Art Insider is an art discussion segment with fascinating visual arts thinkers and curators who lift the veil on their corner of the field (hosted by Joana P. R. Neves).

​When is an art trail more than a walk from sculpture to sculpture?
​And how does a visual arts curator work with artists for a context such as... a city?

Hosted by Joana P. R. Neves.
Guest: Sarah Carrington, Director of The Line
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Host & Founder
Exhibitionistas is hosted by Joana P. R. Neves, a seasoned curator and writer with over 20 years of experience in the contemporary visual art field. She loves demystifying contemporary art by blending art history, theory, and personal reflections to reveal how art can uncover views on today's hottest topics as much as on everlasting existential questions.
Instagram: @joanaprneves / @exhibitionistas_podcast
For collaborations, text commissions and questions: [email protected]

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For some, colour is subjective, for others it's vital. In visual arts, is it a universal idea or a local material? As far as art themes go, this one leads to a world of possibilities. Curator Joana P. R. Neves welcomes María Castro Jímenez, whose Substack page "Pigments, Colours & Other Stories" reveals new pathways into art history, art making and creativity. Perfect for artists, ideal for polymaths, superb for creative souls and idyllic for those who enjoy a mix of prehistory, archeology, chemistry, anthropology and magic. Ultimately, this is the best art podcast to creatively explore creativity...

Art Topic is an art discussion segment focusing on the most intriguing art themes, or providing exciting new approaches to classic art themes in visual arts, with art experts, thinkers or curators (hosted by Joana P. R. Neves).

Hosted by Joana P. R. Neves
Guest: María Castro Jímenez

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✤ Joana P. R. Neves on Substack (Art Thinkosaurus) If you enjoy 1)reading; 2) our topics... you'll love Joana's Substack
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Donating allows us to produce more and better. https://exhibitionistaspodcast.com/support-us
If a membership is too much, leave us a tip–every donation is a boost! ⁠https://buymeacoffee.com/exhibitionista⁠

Host & Founder
Exhibitionistas is hosted by Joana P. R. Neves, a seasoned curator and writer with over 20 years of experience in the contemporary visual art field. She loves demystifying contemporary art by blending art history, theory, and personal reflections to reveal how art can uncover views on today's hottest topics as much as on everlasting existential questions.
Instagram: @joanaprneves / @exhibitionistas_podcast
For collaborations, text commissions and inquiries: [email protected]
00:00 WELCOME TO OUR COLOUR EPISODE!
00:43 Is colour merely subjective?
02:33 Colour & Line in art academies
05:18 Colours are cultural. Is RED an exception?
01:02:54 BLUE, a favourite.
01:05:29 Book recommendation about colour in art
01:12:23 OUR GOODBYES.... until next time