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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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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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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.
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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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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

What if a visual artist’s favourite tool revealed their underlying art themes and intrinsic creative processes?

Hosted by Joana P. R. Neves.
Guests: Ana María Caballero and Alexandra Jabre.

This segment is as much:
​an art education as
​an introduction to art critique,
by empowering you
​with art tips
​art techniques we seldom talk about.

My Art Tools is a segment associating two art talks where an established visual artist opens their tool box: what is their fetish instrument? An artist life can get as technical as it can be spiritual. In fact, they may be related...

But most of all, a visual artist's hand guides you through the passion of following one’s vision, the pleasures of trusting an instinct, and the resilience it takes to work creatively. After all, creative processes are everywhere, for the visual artist as for any problem-solving situation, with an added philosophical twist.

Our two guests also discuss what it takes to embark on a creative life, what it takes to create poetry, sculpture, and more. What sacrifices do you make, what path do you take, and what kind of healing does art bring?

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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.
For collaborations, text commissions and inquiries: [email protected]
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A part of our work and leisure is spent online and so is our art. Posted on social media and even made with the help of AI, LLMs, and more, creative initiatives and art objects may now also live in online art spaces. Is an art podcast to be confused with it? What are the joys and dangers of real art spaces becoming virtual ones? Or is the danger elsewhere, and the art education potentially everywhere?

Art Topic is an art discussion segment about intriguing art themes, or exciting new approaches to classic art topics in visual arts, with art experts, thinkers or curators. This time, host and art writer Joana P. R. Neves shares some insights about art spaces in light of our presence in online spaces, through her relatively new role as a female podcaster.

Does being present online affect our presence IRL in galleries, museums and art spaces in general? Two exhibitions stimulated this critique of digital engagement and creativity: Peter Doig's House of Music and Danielle Brathwaite Shirley's The Delusion at the Serpentine gallery. Before we visit the two exhibitions, and proposing an art review of sorts, Joana analyses how her work as an art podcaster provides insights into the realities of new technologies, creativity, the social feedback loop and having a sentient body.
Art spaces can and should help us understand the impact of the internet and AI on our humanity.

For further reading, Joana has written extensively on Substack about the reception of art, spectatorship and the exhibitions aforementioned: https://joanaprneves.substack.com/p/the-comedy-of-contemporary-art

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0:00 Introduction
8:50 Art Spaces and Online Spaces Intersect
14:35 How Work Online and at Work Creating Content Impacts our Notion of Presence
17:23 The Other Side of the Mirror: The Ethics of Creating Art Content Online
20:14 Does Less = Nothing? The Impact of Measuring
31:47 Two case studies: Peter Doig and Danielle Brathwaite Shirley at the Serpentine Gallery