EXHIBITIONISTAS – Contemporary Art and Life
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- 9 Nov 2026
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Exhibitionista [exhi·bi·tion.ista]: noun; someone who carries their art experience into life, through feelings, books, conversations, theories, histories, etc. | Award winning podcast.
The artwork is only the starting point.
We follow its lead into life, philosophy, literature, culture, and back again.
Here, you won't be told how to look at art "correctly". We trust experience, and explore technical terms without pontificating.
Each episode is an art wonderment toolbox with which you can build your own path into art on your own terms.
Some episodes explore technical art terms; special series look at other artistic forms through a visual arts lens; and others offer exhibition discussions and walkthroughs.
Insider and outsider guests often join our host, curator and writer Joana P. R. Neves. 20 years as an art professional make her an ideal host whose knowledge is counterbalanced by her observational stance as a writer, and a devoted spectator of contemporary art and life.
Companion of EXHIBITIONISTAS, Joana's publication on Substack.
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Long form episodes: bi-weekly. Bonus episodes are published in between.
Joana P. R. Neves is an art writer and curator, co-founder and director of the art & residency space Worlding, and artistic director of Drawing Now Paris.
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Épisodes 68
Hans Ulrich Obrist | The Last Mythical Curator? | Reading HUO’s Memoir
Has “Globe-trotter” curator, artistic director of the Serpentine in London, obsessive collector of conversations with artists, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, finally laid down his secrets in writing? What makes a myth? …
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Has “Globe-trotter” curator, artistic director of the Serpentine in London, obsessive collector of conversations with artists, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, finally laid down his secrets in writing? What makes a myth? What did he carry from his predecessors and how did he negociate the patriarchal and hegemonic role of the visionary curator? And why does it feel like HUO is the last of his kind?
Joana, our host, a curator as well, goes over his recently published memoir, Life in Progress (Allen Books, Penguin, 2025) to discover a young man with a plan, cold-calling famous artists, and acquiring an enviable address book at the very young age. How did he get there and what art career did this auspicious start bring to him and to contemporary art?
Exhibitionistas is:
- An award winning podcast (Women Who Podcast Awards 2026)
- A companion Substack page with essays, articles and episode announcements.
- A YouTube Channel with art shorts.
- An instagram with questions & "visit with me series"
All with specific features.
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Jingle: "Wunder", experimental poem by Joana P. R. Neves.
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Created & Hosted by Dr. Joana P. R. Neves, art curator and writer with over 20 years of experience in the contemporary art field. Artistic director of Drawing Now Paris since 2018, she has worked across the industry, from the art market to education. She co-launched the art residency and project space Worlding in 2020. Exhibitionistas’ first year offered exhibition discussions with guest co-host Emily Harding; organically, it grew into a more experimental show exploring art topics, stories and interviews complemented by Joana’s publication Art Thinkosaurus on Substack. She champions ‘Art Wonderment’s’ embrace of complexity against the lure of ready-made opinions. A polyglot, she grew up in Lisbon, studied and lived in Paris, to finally settle in London with her artist husband, four children and two cats.
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Where you find the Exhibitionistas Files, our Newsletter: ...Art Fair Weird History | Can Visual Arts Coexist with Commerce? | Art History and the Art Market
Ready to plunge into the depths of art history to resurface with weird art fair histories from Prehistory, the Aztecs to today? Which is a way of asking: is the compulsion to buy rare goods and exemplary …
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Ready to plunge into the depths of art history to resurface with weird art fair histories from Prehistory, the Aztecs to today? Which is a way of asking: is the compulsion to buy rare goods and exemplary artefacts immemorial? How have we evolved into the format of the art fair?
Art fairs seem to defy romantic visions of creativity: artists: the art wonderment necessary to free oneself from conventional ideas and dusty traditions while reinventing them. Art works require freedom, Their art etiquette can puzzle: selling art works feels deeply contradictory with the creativity and meditative explorations that we expect from our contemporary artists.
You wouldn’t leave your favourite coffee shop, flat white in hand, without paying for it, would you?
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Read the article by Christian Monger The Evolution of the Art Fair: https://www.jstor.org/stable/0671e890-72d2-323b-964e-767f655980fe?seq=3#page_scan_tab_contents
Visit the page about The Birth of the Art Market: Rembrandt, Ruisdael and Van Goyen and the Artists of the Dutch Golden Age: https://www.codart.nl/guide/agenda/birth-art-market-rembrandt-ruisdael-van-goyen-artists-dutch-golden-age/
Caroline Monnet's website: https://carolinemonnet.ca and gallery page: https://blouin-division.com/en/artists/34-caroline-monnet/overview/
The Venus de Renancourt (the Amiens Museum Prehistory female figurines): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vénus_de_Renancourt (FR)
Jingle: "Wunder", experimental poem by Joana P. R. Neves.
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Created & Hosted by Dr. Joana P. R. Neves, art curator and writer with over 20 years of experience in the contemporary art field. Artistic director of Drawing Now Paris since 2018, she has worked across the industry, from the art market to education. She co-launched the art residency and project space Worlding in 2020. Exhibitionistas’ first year offered exhibition discussions with guest co-host Emily Harding; organically, it grew into a more experimental show exploring art topics, stories and interviews complemented by Joana’s publication Art Thinkosaurus on Substack. She champions ‘Art Wonderment’s’ embrace of complexity against the lure of ready-made opinions. A polyglot, she grew up in Lisbon, studied and lived in Paris, to finally settle in London with her artist husband, four children and two cats.
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Where you find the Exhibitionistas Files, our Newsletter: ...Chapitres (6)
Poem Delivery Service | Portuguese Poem on Art and Change | Art and Literature
Can poetry provide clues to questions raised by contemporary art? Art sets the world in motion, sparks changes which we’re not always equipped to absorb, and even understand. Luís de Camões, the great …
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Can poetry provide clues to questions raised by contemporary art? Art sets the world in motion, sparks changes which we’re not always equipped to absorb, and even understand. Luís de Camões, the great Portuguese Renaissance poet wrote beautifully about art and change… and life. Our host, contemporary art writer and curator Joana P. R. Neves picks a poem per episode in this special series.
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Poem delivery service is a new bonus series where Joana explores a poem in a non English language that she loves, but whose translation doesn’t do it justice. She focuses on one poem per episode, briefly contextualising it and shedding light on the specific meaning she took from it, guiding you through the translation. At the end, Joana reads the poem in its original language.Sign up for a tiered monthly support: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2624749/monetization/supporter_settings Your contribution keeps us going.
Jingle: "Wunder", experimental poem by Joana P. R. Neves.
Did the episode stir Art Wonderment memories? Share them via text or voice message.
Created & Hosted by Dr. Joana P. R. Neves, art curator and writer with over 20 years of experience in the contemporary art field. Artistic director of Drawing Now Paris since 2018, she has worked across the industry, from the art market to education. She co-launched the art residency and project space Worlding in 2020. Exhibitionistas’ first year offered exhibition discussions with guest co-host Emily Harding; organically, it grew into a more experimental show exploring art topics, stories and interviews complemented by Joana’s publication Art Thinkosaurus on Substack. She champions ‘Art Wonderment’s’ embrace of complexity against the lure of ready-made opinions. A polyglot, she grew up in Lisbon, studied and lived in Paris, to finally settle in London with her artist husband, four children and two cats.
READ JOANA'S TEXTS:
Joana on Substack: https://joanaprneves.substack.com
Where you find the Exhibitionistas Files, our Newsletter: ...Redefining Art with Reto Pulfer–Understanding Contemporary Art through Skill–Artist Conversations
So many definitions of contemporary art… but what if the notion of skill took us deeper into it? As a curator, our host often hears: “my kid could do this”. So, she put her art writer and curator talents to the …
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So many definitions of contemporary art… but what if the notion of skill took us deeper into it? As a curator, our host often hears: “my kid could do this”. So, she put her art writer and curator talents to the task of uncovering expectations and misconceptions about visual arts that it expresses. This is also an artist conversation episode: the first part explores 20th century art through the notion of skill, and the second invites the Swiss self-taught artist Reto Pulfer to provide his own art experience and education insights into this matter.
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Skill, takes us to art tradition, craft, art education, curatorial work, exhibition expertise and more. Together, Reto Pulfer and our host explore art as a raw and dynamic relation with ourselves and the world around us.
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To know more about Reto Pulfer:
Follow him on Instagram: @zustand_retopulfer
Visit his website: www.retopulfer.com | www.artmap.com/retopulfer
Or have a look at his gallery, Hollybush Gardens, London
https://hollybushgardens.co.uk/artists/reto-pulfer/
You can find his novel, Gina (2020) in the links below:
Jingle: "Wunder", experimental poem by Joana P. R. Neves.
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Created & Hosted by Dr. Joana P. R. Neves, art curator and writer with over 20 years of experience in the contemporary art field. Artistic director of Drawing Now Paris since 2018, she has worked across the industry, from the art market to education. She co-launched the art residency and project space Worlding in 2020. Exhibitionistas’ first year offered exhibition discussions with guest co-host Emily Harding; organically, it grew into a more experimental show exploring art topics, stories and interviews complemented by Joana’s publication Art Thinkosaurus on Substack. She champions ‘Art Wonderment’s’ embrace of complexity against the lure of ready-made opinions. A polyglot, she grew up in Lisbon, studied and lived in Paris, to finally settle in London with her artist husband, four children and two cats.
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Exhibition Discussions | Is the Curatorial Twist of Ana Mendieta's Tate Show Anti-Feminist?
Biography enlightens the work of an artist but, in rare occasions, it can obliterate it. A polemic curatorial choice in Ana Mendieta's exhibition at Tate Modern illustrates this puzzling question. This …
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Biography enlightens the work of an artist but, in rare occasions, it can obliterate it. A polemic curatorial choice in Ana Mendieta's exhibition at Tate Modern illustrates this puzzling question. This unexpected curatorial twist may lean into anti-feminism if we stay on the surface of the discourse. Dive into it with our host Joana P. R. Neves, a curator and an art writer. What decision did Valentina Umansky and Michael Wellen, the curators of the show make, and what third person, instrumental in delivering the work, helped them?
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Have you ever wondered what it's like to curate a big, blockbuster exhibition? If you have, this episode is for you. It unveils certain ethics of curatorial work, an extremely important aspects of the job, especially when the artist is no longer alive.
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Jingle: "Wunder", experimental poem by Joana P. R. Neves.
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Created & Hosted by Dr. Joana P. R. Neves, art curator and writer with over 20 years of experience in the contemporary art field. Artistic director of Drawing Now Paris since 2018, she has worked across the industry, from the art market to education. She co-launched the art residency and project space Worlding in 2020. Exhibitionistas’ first year offered exhibition discussions with guest co-host Emily Harding; organically, it grew into a more experimental show exploring art topics, stories and interviews complemented by Joana’s publication Art Thinkosaurus on Substack. She champions ‘Art Wonderment’s’ embrace of complexity against the lure of ready-made opinions. A polyglot, she grew up in Lisbon, studied and lived in Paris, to finally settle in London with her artist husband, four children and two cats.
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Joana on Substack: https://joanaprneves.substack.com
Where you find the Exhibitionistas Files, our Newsletter: ...Paula do Prado, “Tejedora” | What Stories–and Histories–Resurface in Her Textile Art? | Contemporary Artist Interviews
What if weaving released untold stories? And how does textile art with such narrative yet abstract powers fit into contemporary art and its traditionally European systems? Joana’s conversation with contemporary …
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What if weaving released untold stories? And how does textile art with such narrative yet abstract powers fit into contemporary art and its traditionally European systems? Joana’s conversation with contemporary artist Paula do Prado takes unexpected turns and spreads across at least 3 different continents–if not more. What influence did the lost language of the Charrúa people and her Uruguayan past and lineage have on her work? Or, rather, is it even possible to locate the intuitive, dreamt and compulsive patterns and figures that emerge from her fingers, without any preconceived sketches or pre-established patterns?
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This episode is a partnership with Worlding, a non-profit co-founded by our host, Joana P. R. Neves, in Elephant and Castle, London. Paula do Prado’s Residency is a proposal by Adelaide Bannerman / Never Done. The artist’s residency is supported by Creative Australia.
Paula do Prado is represented by Station Australia and is current a studio resident at Artspace, Woolloomoloo. Following her Worlding residency, Paula will hold her first institutional show as part of the Artspace x Art Gallery of New South Wales Co-Commission as part of the Contemporary Arts Project Space, Art Gallery of New South Wales 28 November 2026 to 14 February 2027. See more https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/whats-on/exhibitions/paula-do-prado/
To know more about Worlding, visit the website: www.worldingproject.com/
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Resources:
Conversation between Paula do Prado and Mónica Michelena: https://vimeo.com/835732257?fl=pl&fe=sh (Spanish)
Paula do Prado’s website (art / projects / workshops): www.studiodoprado.com
Jingle: "Wunder", experimental poem by Joana P. R. Neves.
Did the episode stir Art Wonderment memories? Share them via text or voice message.
Created & Hosted by Dr. Joana P. R. Neves, art curator and writer with over 20 years of experience in the contemporary art field. Artistic director of Drawing Now Paris since 2018, she has worked across the industry, from the art market to education. She co-launched the art residency and project space Worlding in 2020. Exhibitionistas’ first year offered exhibition discussions with guest co-host Emily Harding; organically, it grew into a more experimental show exploring art topics, stories and interviews complemented by Joana’s publication Art Thinkosaurus on Substack. She champions ‘Art Wonderment’s’ embrace of complexity against the lure of ready-made opinions. A polyglot, she grew up in Lisbon, studied and lived in Paris, to finally settle in London with her artist husband, four children and two cats.
READ JOANA'S TEXTS:
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Bonus Episode – The Embodied Art of Reading Aloud – Poem Delivery Service
There are pockets of creativity in our everyday life. The embodied art of READING ALOUD is an overlooked source of joy, containing so many aspects that contemporary art and artists explore in their practice …
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There are pockets of creativity in our everyday life. The embodied art of READING ALOUD is an overlooked source of joy, containing so many aspects that contemporary art and artists explore in their practice... Performance, drawing, text, breathing patterns... It all starts with Joana P. R. Neves, our host, asking what the body can do by itself, or with very little assistance, inspired by the last episode dedicated to artist Ana Mendieta. This is also our way of introducing the upcoming bonus mini-series POEM DELIVERY SERVICE, a poem-per-episode... with a twist.
Mentions of: #anthonymccall #eteladnan #emilydickinson #gerhardrichter #rebeccahorn #jimjarmush and more...
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WORLDING SOUNDINGS JAM TICKETS: https://tinyurl.com/yey2sdyrFind out more about WORLDING: https://www.worldingproject.com/Jingle: "Wunder", experimental poem by Joana P. R. Neves.
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Created & Hosted by Dr. Joana P. R. Neves, art curator and writer with over 20 years of experience in the contemporary art field. Artistic director of Drawing Now Paris since 2018, she has worked across the industry, from the art market to education. She co-launched the art residency and project space Worlding in 2020. Exhibitionistas’ first year offered exhibition discussions with guest co-host Emily Harding; organically, it grew into a more experimental show exploring art topics, stories and interviews complemented by Joana’s publication Art Thinkosaurus on Substack. She champions ‘Art Wonderment’s’ embrace of complexity against the lure of ready-made opinions. A polyglot, she grew up in Lisbon, studied and lived in Paris, to finally settle in London with her artist husband, four children and two cats.
READ JOANA'S TEXTS:
Joana on Substack: https://joanaprneves.substack.com
Where you find the Exhibitionistas Files, our Newsletter: ...Chapitres
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Ana Mendieta | Earth and Feminist Art Embodied at Tate Modern Exhibition
What does the artist’s body do? No one pushes us to ask this more than the Cuban-American artist Ana Mendieta. Her excavated silhouettes in the landscape, where her body would at times lie, covered with petals …
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What does the artist’s body do? No one pushes us to ask this more than the Cuban-American artist Ana Mendieta. Her excavated silhouettes in the landscape, where her body would at times lie, covered with petals or feathers, are but one of the actions and rituals that she performed during her short career. What did occur in her own body? Community? Communion? What was the origin and the purpose of her embodied art? And what is the medium for this kind of art, happening in and with the body of the artist?
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Celebrated for being a visionary eco-feminist, an activist against violence women, Ana Mendieta’s work is often obliterated by the sensationalism around it. The exhibition at Tate Modern feels like meeting the artist for the first time. For more info: https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/ana-mendieta
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Art Etiquette Segment guest:
Esther Stanford, is the co-host of award winning podcast Limited Time Only (with Susie Riddell, WINNER: ‘BEST COMEDY MOMENT’ International Women In Podcast Awards 2025 sponsored by BBC SOUNDS), she is a sketch and TV writer. You can find her on Instagram, on YouTube, March House, a channel she has just launched where you can also find her podcast Conversations with Creatives. Or simply her website: ww.estherstanford.co.uk.
Soon: Bonus – full length Art Etiquette episodes.
Segment: Brainstorm in a Teacup:
Come for the art, stay for the creative writing segment, where Joana reads short texts from her notebooks exposing her inner thoughts and unexpected fictional / poetic / non-fiction / flash writing.
Jingle: "Wunder", experimental poem by Joana P. R. Neves.
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Created & Hosted by Dr. Joana P. R. Neves, art curator and writer with over 20 years of experience in the contemporary art field. Artistic director of Drawing Now Paris since 2018, she has worked across the industry, from the art market to education. She co-launched the art residency and project space Worlding in 2020. Exhibitionistas’ first year offered exhibition discussions with guest co-host Emily Harding; organically, it grew into a more experimental show exploring art topics, stories and interviews complemented by Joana’s publication Art Thinkosaurus on Substack. She champions ‘Art Wonderment’s’ embrace of complexity against the lure of ready-made opinions. A polyglot, she grew up in Lisbon, studied and lived in Paris, to finally settle in London with her artist husband, four children and two cats.
READ JOANA'S TEXTS:
Joana on Substack: https://joanaprneves.substack.com
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Surprise Bonus Episode | The Way: What Ursula K. Le Guin's Favourite Book Uncovered | Art and Literature Edition
We have great news! We're an Award Winning Podcast–Women Who Podcast award in the LGBTQIA+ categoryBonus Episode: Le Guin / Indigenous History / Lao Tzu / and more...What was Ursula K. Le Guin's …
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We have great news! We're an Award Winning Podcast–Women Who Podcast award in the LGBTQIA+ category
Bonus Episode: Le Guin / Indigenous History / Lao Tzu / and more...
What was Ursula K. Le Guin's favourite book, and what did it uncover about the revered author's world-building and family legacy?
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When she was a guest on the podcast, art Curator Catherine Li brought in a revelation about Ursula K. Le Guin's favourite book, tied in with her family's history, which didn’t make it to the final cut. Here it is for you, as a little end of Summer bonus, while we prepare the rentrée with panache.
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This reminded our host, art curator and writer Joana P. R. Neves, about a traumatic episode in Le Guin's family and close peer circle, which reflects indigenous trauma and the hidden history of the USA that was certainly crucial for Le Guin's worldview.
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With a short reading from the The Wave in the Mind, Le Guin's collection of essays about writing, reading and more, and of the Tao Te Ching / text 48, translated by Le Guin.
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[Unpublished segment of Joana's conversation with art curator Catherine Li around the writer Ursula K' Le Guin's seminal text The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction with a few quick curiosities that shed a different light on the science fiction author.]
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YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/N97yd5t3pFY?si=i5kLWV6dXO5NPRic
Award winning episode with Gemma Rolls Bentley and E-J Scott:
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YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/RQvmgEXMAlQ?si=gu3fJlVPiPRDgSCN
Jingle: "Wunder", experimental poem by Joana P. R. Neves.
Did the episode stir Art Wonderment memories? Share them via text or voice message.
Created & Hosted by Dr. Joana P. R. Neves, art curator and writer with over 20 years of experience in the contemporary art field. Artistic director of Drawing Now Paris since 2018, she has worked across the industry, from the art market to education. She co-launched the art residency and project space Worlding in 2020. Exhibitionistas’ first year offered exhibition discussions with guest co-host Emily Harding; organically, it grew into a more experimental show exploring art topics, stories and interviews complemented by Joana’s publication Art Thinkosaurus on Substack. She champions ‘Art Wonderment’s’ embrace of complexity against the lure of ready-made opinions. A polyglot, she grew up in Lisbon, studied and lived in Paris, to finally settle in London with her artist husband, four children and two cats.
READ JOANA'S TEXTS:
Joana on Substack: https://joanaprneves.substack.com
Where you find the Exhibitionistas Files, our Newsletter: ...Chapitres
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Creative Flow | The Artifice of Summer in Art and Life | Climate, Desire and Loss
How and why do art and Summer join forces? Art, and visual arts especially, show imminent change–but so does Summer and its ideal of creative flow. How did–or did not–art speak of the climate emergency, gender …
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How and why do art and Summer join forces? Art, and visual arts especially, show imminent change–but so does Summer and its ideal of creative flow. How did–or did not–art speak of the climate emergency, gender policing, the war–in short, of loss? What role does this hot and luscious season play in the hubris of conquest, or the black hole of grief? Art curator and writer Joana P. R. Neves, our host, reminisces about Agnes Martin and John Cheever, and their opposing ideas of Summer and of creation, touching on two paintings by David Hockney and a poignant text by Luigi Pirandello. Joana loved a text sent to her by its author, Vittorio Zappa, on Substack, that guided the last part of the episode, leading to its denouement.
Is Summer the season of creative flow of life and art making, full of light and sensorial stimuli? Is creativity about desire or meditative art? Or are all these myths, perpetuated by capitalist simplifications? Has art contributed to create them? Or has it always been alerting us to the cruelty of change via Art Wonderment, the art of paradox?
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The painting A Bigger Splash, 1967, by David Hockney, is the epitome of hubristic summer. But it hides another painting, Portrait of an Artist (Pool with two figures), 1972, with a far more poignant story: they both tell the extremes of summer, and investigate the very special artifice telling a story of desire, change, loss and healing?
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Joana P. R. Neves reads a text by Vittorio Zappa: https://substack.com/@vittoriozappa/p-209760240
Other references include:
The Swimmer, John Cheever, 1964, New Yorker.
The Swimmer, a film by Frank Perry, 1968.
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Created & Hosted by Dr. Joana P. R. Neves, art curator and writer with over 20 years of experience in the contemporary art field. Artistic director of Drawing Now Paris since 2018, she has worked across the industry, from the art market to education. She co-launched the art residency and project space Worlding in 2020. Exhibitionistas’ first year offered exhibition discussions with guest co-host Emily Harding; organically, it grew into a more experimental show exploring art topics, stories and interviews complemented by Joana’s publication Art Thinkosaurus on Substack. She champions ‘Art Wonderment’s’ embrace of complexity against the lure of ready-made opinions. A polyglot, she grew up in Lisbon, studied and lived in Paris, to finally settle in London with her artist husband, four children and two cats.
READ JOANA'S TEXTS:
Joana on Substack: https://joanaprneves.substack.com
Where you find the Exhibitionistas Files, our Newsletter: ...Rachel Cusk | Can Men Be (Good) Artists? | Art & Literature edition
Writer Rachel Cusk asked: "Can a Woman who is an Artist Ever Just Be an Artist?" (NYT). Our host Joana, your favourite contemporary art writer and curator, turns this question of gender and skill on its head …
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Writer Rachel Cusk asked: "Can a Woman who is an Artist Ever Just Be an Artist?" (NYT). Our host Joana, your favourite contemporary art writer and curator, turns this question of gender and skill on its head: can men be (good) artists? Cusk's book "Parade" (2024) is this Art & Literature episode book of choice to tackle the issue. Can art and life be a continuous flow for female artists, as it seems to be for male ones?
Joana embarks on an art and feminism quest: is gender a prison? Or is it the forceful power of the patriarchy's creative flow? She is helped by living and fictional contemporary artists and writers, intersectional feminism, and philosophy of art via Vilem Flusser and his "theory of gestures".
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Art and Feminism claim to walk hand in hand, but what if the structure of the art system itself was an inheritance of archaic patriarchal systems? The famous artist Georg Baselitz, who passed away this year, is a central figure in Cusk's book "Parade". Was he a product or an instigator of the system? And what is the patriarchal system? How and where does it manifest? And finally, where are modern men now, within this system that seems to block creative flow and artistic expression?
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Read Cusk's article in the New York Times (07/11/ 2019).
Jingle: "Wunder", experimental poem by Joana P. R. Neves.
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Created & Hosted by Dr. Joana P. R. Neves, art curator and writer with over 20 years of experience in the contemporary art field. Artistic director of Drawing Now Paris since 2018, she has worked across the industry, from the art market to education. She co-launched the art residency and project space Worlding in 2020. Exhibitionistas’ first year offered exhibition discussions with guest co-host Emily Harding; organically, it grew into a more experimental show exploring art topics, stories and interviews complemented by Joana’s publication Art Thinkosaurus on Substack. She champions ‘Art Wonderment’s’ embrace of complexity against the lure of ready-made opinions. A polyglot, she grew up in Lisbon, studied and lived in Paris, to finally settle in London with her artist husband, four children and two cats.
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Art Criticism | Does it Still Matter? An Art Curator's Honest Reckoning
Art criticism is vanishing from mainstream media, but here's the uncomfortable question: does art and culture still need critics? Our host, Joana P. R. Neves, art curator and writer, examines why critics …
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Art criticism is vanishing from mainstream media, but here's the uncomfortable question: does art and culture still need critics? Our host, Joana P. R. Neves, art curator and writer, examines why critics are leaving big outlets without being replaced—and what this means for art criticism, artistic quality assessment, curatorial etiquette, and the future of art evaluation itself. What is art criticism actually for? And where does Joana's feminist critique of critique lead to? And who decides what's good art now? Or, rather, is “good art” the yardstick by which art experiences should be measured?
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Joana explores 3 questions in this episode: What is Art Criticism? Who reads it and who or what does art criticism serve? And finally, what is her own relation with it as someone who admittedly is not fond of the genre?
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Art Etiquette Segment guest:
Elizabeth Botten, Reference Specialist at the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art
Art question: what can we do to accommodate visitors and make their exhibition experience enjoyable while preserving art etiquette?
Soon: Bonus – full length Art Etiquette episodes.
Segment: Brainstorm in a Teacup:
Come for the art, stay for the creative writing segment, where Joana reads short texts from her notebooks exposing her inner thoughts and odd fictional flash writing.
Jingle: "Wunder", experimental poem by Joana P. R. Neves.
0:00: Intro: Where to continue your Exhibitionistas experience.
2:27: Today's question: is art criticism still valid?
4:56: Why are art critics vanishing? And how?
7:05: 3 guiding questions of the episode: what is it, who does it serve and who is reading - or not
8:46: What is art criticism? A scandal and a text.
15:35: Genius, excellence, quality: are these outdated questions?
24:35: Who is reading art criticism?
27:12: Art Etiquette with Elizabeth Botten
38:08: What does art criticism do, and what or who is it upholding?
46:44: Joana's honest reckoning with art criticism
54:14: Brainstorm in a Teacup (Creative Writing segment)
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Created & Hosted by Dr. Joana P. R. Neves, art curator and writer with over 20 years of experience in the contemporary art field. Artistic director of Drawing Now Paris since 2018, she has worked across the industry, from the art market to education. She co-launched the art residency and project space Worlding in 2020. Exhibitionistas’ first year offered exhibition discussions with guest co-host Emily Harding; organically, it grew into a more experimental show exploring art topics, stories and interviews complemented by Joana’s publication Art Thinkosaurus on Substack. She champions ‘Art Wonderment’s’ embrace of complexity against the lure of ready-made opinions. A polyglot, she grew up in Lisbon, studied and lived in Paris, to finally settle in London with her artist husband, four children and two cats.
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Art Wonderment Manifesto | ft Lao Tzu, Susanna Inglada, Fernando Pessoa's Best Heteronym
AI is forcing us to define what being human is. So, did our host, an art curator and writer, dare to create a Manifesto? Awkward? Or are we not used to women proclaiming things? How can art–seemingly at the …
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AI is forcing us to define what being human is. So, did our host, an art curator and writer, dare to create a Manifesto? Awkward? Or are we not used to women proclaiming things? How can art–seemingly at the brink of commodification–bear new forms of being human? Or is does it spotlight you, art wanderer? The self-help book "Tiny Experiments " by Anne-Laure Le Cunff sparked this art question: why did it excite such a meditative exploration of the role of art, and its urgent proclamation? Tune in to find out.
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What else to do when we live in a society of images, but don't know what they are? In Joana's words: "Art Wonderment is me, howling, in recognition, in celebration, in fear, in respect, in defiance." Read the rest of her text here because a podcast episode is not the same beast as a text. The complete experience combines the two.
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With the wonderful Catalan artist Susanna INGLADA; the timeless wisdom of LAO TZU's Tao Te Ching translated by Ursula K. LE GUIN–, the most innovative Portuguese poet, Fernando PESSOA and his mind blowing creation of more than 100 heteronyms (poets he invented with a persona, a life, and their own authored poetry), amongst which the most extreme of them all, Alberto Caeiro.
Art Etiquette Segment guest:
Spencer Moore, Creator and host of The Hairy Chin Podcast
Art question: why is contemporary art not considered art?
Soon: Bonus – full length Art Etiquette episodes.
Come for the art, stay for the creative writing–segment, Brainstorm in a Teacup, where Joana reads short texts from her notebooks exposing her inner thoughts and strange fictional flash writing.
Jingle: "Wunder", experimental poem by Joana P. R. Neves.
00:00:00 - Intro: A Different Start + Featured Artist Susanna Inglada
00:02:06 - The Self-Help trap
00:13:36 - Art Wonderment Manifesto
00:19:26 - Art Etiquette with S. Moore: why is contemporary art not considered art?
00:28:25 - Art Wonderment Manifesto – Holding the paradox wit artist Susanna Inglada
00:33:07 - The mysterious life of Portugal’s most intriguing poet, Fernando Pessoa
00:42:06 - Brainstorm in a Teacup
00:43:55 - A message, a rant, a call for voice notes, a see you soonDid the episode stir Art Wonderment memories? Share them via text or voice message.
Created & Hosted by Dr. Joana P. R. Neves, art curator and writer with over 20 years of experience in the contemporary art field. Artistic director of Drawing Now Paris since 2018, she has worked across the industry, from the art market to education. She co-launched the art residency and project space Worlding in 2020. Exhibitionistas’ first year offered exhibition discussions with guest co-host Emily Harding; organically, it grew into a more experimental show exploring art topics, stories and interviews complemented by Joana’s publication Art Thinkosaurus on Substack. She champions ‘Art Wonderment’s’ embrace of complexity against the lure of ready-made opinions. A polyglot, she grew up in Lisbon, studied and lived in Paris, to finally settle in London with her artist husband, four children and two cats.
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Art Copies v Originals | Is Art Wonderment Possible with a Reproduction of an Art Work?
As an art curator and writer, our host is often faced with printed or digital art portfolios – does this art digital hygiene go against art etiquette? Is art appreciation valid, or even possible through a copy …
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As an art curator and writer, our host is often faced with printed or digital art portfolios – does this art digital hygiene go against art etiquette? Is art appreciation valid, or even possible through a copy of an art work? Through art images in a book? This issue hides a bigger one: how do you experience art if you live in a country far from the big museums and collections? Our host gets candid and starts with a personal anecdote–she's not always lived in London...
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This ‘art anxiety’ is reinforced by the concept, coined by the German thinker Walter Benjamin, of “the aura”, the "here and now of the work of art" understood as a defense of the unique art experiences ‘in the flesh’. The episode relies on his seminal book, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction", and asks the following art questions: how does one experience art in spaces where there isn't any? How important is art as an object? If the art object ceases to be important, then what does art become?
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What if we’d failed to see what Benjamin alerts us to in his seminal art book "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"? What if mass reproduction of images brought an art liberation? What is preserving the here and now of the aesthetic experience was a form of gatekeeping? And how can we read the concept of aura today?
Art Etiquette Segment guest:
Kathy Baron, Creator and host of Women Who Sarcast; and her amazing publication Women who Podcast Magazine.
Art question: why is contemporary art not considered art?
Soon: Bonus – full length Art Etiquette episodes.
Come for the art, stay for the creative writing–segment, Brainstorm in a Teacup, where Joana reads short texts from her notebooks exposing her inner thoughts and strange fictional flash writing.
Jingle: "Wunder", experimental poem by Joana P. R. Neves.
Interested in Worlding, my art space & residency in London?
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Interested in seeing the exhibition with Collective Aid and SOS MEDITERRANEE for Refugee Week? https://www.zeffy.com/en-GB/ticketing/across-lands-and-seas-exhibition
Interested in our Workshops? https://www.zeffy.com/en-GB/ticketing/workshops-across-lands-and-seas-exhibition
And our talk about courage? https://www.zeffy.com/en-GB/ticketing/across-lands-and-seas
Know more about Collective Aid and SOS MEDITERRANEE.
And here is the link to Kathy's awesome film Navel Gazing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogy1nTiCms0&t=205s
Chapters:
00:00 Can we be moved by a reproduction of an artwork?
07:04 Walter Benjamin's "Aura" is often misunderstood
15:52 My 2nd hand art experience: 2 paintings by Caspar D. Friedrich
20:12 Benjamin, a fellow podcaster? And the real change brought by tech
29:07 Art Etiquette segment!
40:13 Walter Benjamin's Influence on Art and Technology
40:13 Copy v automated reproduction
53:26 Brainstorm in a teacup segment!
54:37 Answer to the question: can we be moved by a copy of art?
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Created & Hosted by Dr. Joana P. R. Neves, art curator and writer with over 20 years of experience in the contemporary art field. Artistic director of Drawing Now Paris since 2018, she has worked across the industry, from the art market to education. She co-launched the art residency and project space Worlding in 2020. Exhibitionistas’ first year offered exhibition discussions with guest co-host Emily Harding; organically, it grew into a more experimental show exploring art topics, stories and interviews complemented by Joana’s publication Art Thinkosaurus on Substack. She champions ‘Art Wonderment’s’ embrace of complexity against the lure of ready-made opinions. A polyglot, she grew up in Lisbon, studied and lived in Paris, to finally settle in London with her artist husband, four children and two cats.
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Time for Digital Hygiene | Why Analog Art Wonderment is Required Online
Art curator, writer and host Joana P. R. Neves, asks the ultimate art question of art questions: could art appreciation be a powerful combination of the analog and the digital? Even stranger: how does it hinge …
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Art curator, writer and host Joana P. R. Neves, asks the ultimate art question of art questions: could art appreciation be a powerful combination of the analog and the digital? Even stranger: how does it hinge on the meaning of word "wonder" and "wander"? In a nutshell, are we in need of art digital hygiene? Is Art Wonderment the response to the decline of 20th century art criticism? As ever, Joana gets candid and exposes her own journey into the art digital spaces and social digital platforms?
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Art and culture go hand in hand in this episode. But what does Wordsworth's poetry have to do with art philosophy? And why is it connecte with Agnes Martin's meditative exploration of life and art? Learn about real art etiquette, plus the night Joana's curated performance went viral and Snoop Dogg reposted it. A new era. A new episode structure. New segments. Your art theory explained through unexpected perspective shifts.
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Segment: Brainstorm in a Teacup:
Come for the art, stay for the creative writing segment, where Joana reads short texts from her notebooks exposing her inner thoughts and odd fictional flash writing.
Music by Sarturn.
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Sources:
My definition of wonderment is actually taken from the noun ‘wonder’: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/wonder
Hollis Frampton’s text:
Digression on the Photographic Agony, Artforum, November 1972: https://www.artforum.com/features/digressions-on-the-photographic-agony-209932/Agnes Martin’s photo credits: Agnes Martin in the mesas near Cuba, New Mexico, 1974. Photo Gianfranco Gorgoni.
Pliny the Elder’s mention of the origin myth of art is in Natural History Book XXXV
My strange viral experience article
Going Viral: if your exhibition is reposted by Snoop Dog, does it matter? https://substack.com/home/post/p-157358364The article where I mention Katy Hessel’s strange Art Self Help Book,
Art as Function, Automatic Education, and Self-Care: the Politics of Culture Replaced by the Commodification of Creativity: https://substack.com/@joanaprneves/p-190450394Find Walter Benjamin’s first “read Walter Benjamin with me” here” https://joanaprneves.substack.com/s/your-crazy-aunt-book-shelf
00:00 Introduction to Exhibitionistas and New Format
01:30 Wonderment
06:03 Reading Out Loud
08:25 Agnes Martin on Joy
12:58 Ekphrasis
19:51 Digital Hygiene
41:32 Build Exhibitionistas With Me!
46:33 Brainstorm in a Teacup Segment
47:37 Outro
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Created & Hosted by Dr. Joana P. R. Neves, art curator and writer with over 20 years of experience in the contemporary art field. Artistic director of Drawing Now Paris since 2018, she has worked across the industry, from the art market to education. She co-launched the art residency and project space Worlding in 2020. Exhibitionistas’ first year offered exhibition discussions with guest co-host Emily Harding; organically, it grew into a more experimental show exploring art topics, stories and interviews complemented by Joana’s publication Art Thinkosaurus on Substack. She champions ‘Art Wonderment’s’ embrace of complexity against the lure of ready-made opinions. A polyglot, she grew up in Lisbon, studied and lived in Paris, to finally settle in London with her artist husband, four children and two cats.
READ JOANA'S TEXTS:
Joana on Substack: https://joanaprneves.substack.com
Where you find the Exhibitionistas Files, our Newsletter: ...Chris Kraus | Creative Freedom and Visual Art in “I Love Dick” | Art & Literature Edition
Miniseries–Does obscurity lead to creative freedom? Why do I ask? Because of one sentence in American writer Chris Kraus' "I Love Dick" saying that once we accept obscurity, we can do what we want. Could …
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Miniseries–Does obscurity lead to creative freedom? Why do I ask? Because of one sentence in American writer Chris Kraus' "I Love Dick" saying that once we accept obscurity, we can do what we want. Could this be the most daring feminist art statement? But then, why does it intersect with a cliché of sexual desire, the cowboy? Enter artists Sophie Calle, Hannah Wilke, intellectual Sylvère Lotringer, experimental art, the New York art scene of the 90s and more...
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Welcome to our Art & Literature series where we asked: where are the books that talk about art appreciation, art enjoyment, art judgement, being art enthusiast? Where is the fiction, the literary essays that discuss topics such as art wonderment, art criticism, creative freedom, creative flow, meditative explorations of art, and even art and technology? Well, we found a few art nuggets for you!
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Art Etiquette Segment guest:
Elizabeth Botten, Reference Specialist at the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art
Art question: what can we do to accommodate visitors and make their exhibition experience enjoyable while preserving art etiquette?
Soon: Bonus – full length Art Etiquette episodes.
Segment: Brainstorm in a Teacup:
Come for the art, stay for the creative writing segment, where Joana reads short texts from her notebooks exposing her inner thoughts and odd fictional flash writing.
Chapters:
00:00 Intro: On creative freedom and obscurity
02:51 A feminist sensation: "I Love Dick" by Chris Kraus
09:47 Dick, Sylvère... and Chris
15:12 The Structure of the Book
23:29 The Triangle of Obscurity
26:05 Exposure of Self or Obscurity of the Muse?
30:53 Transgression as Sexlessness
41:04 Economic Obscurity
47:21 Sex, Desire, and Visibility
54:26 Art, Identity, and Obscurity
55:44 The Life and Legacy of Hannah Wilke
01:09:39 Art Monsters
01:17:56 Outro
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Created & Hosted by Dr. Joana P. R. Neves, art curator and writer with over 20 years of experience in the contemporary art field. Artistic director of Drawing Now Paris since 2018, she has worked across the industry, from the art market to education. She co-launched the art residency and project space Worlding in 2020. Exhibitionistas’ first year offered exhibition discussions with guest co-host Emily Harding; organically, it grew into a more experimental show exploring art topics, stories and interviews complemented by Joana’s publication Art Thinkosaurus on Substack. She champions ‘Art Wonderment’s’ embrace of complexity against the lure of ready-made opinions. A polyglot, she grew up in Lisbon, studied and lived in Paris, to finally settle in London with her artist husband, four children and two cats.
READ JOANA'S TEXTS:
Joana on Substack: https://joanaprneves.substack.com
Where you find the Exhibitionistas Files, our Newsletter: ...Marcel Proust | The Art Anxiety of Missing Artistic Quality with "La Berma" | Art & Literature Edition
Miniseries–There is a little discussed sub-plot in Proust's books: the narrator growing into art wonderment. Joana unfolds this storyline about art and life: How can you spot artistic talent? To what …
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Miniseries–There is a little discussed sub-plot in Proust's books: the narrator growing into art wonderment. Joana unfolds this storyline about art and life: How can you spot artistic talent? To what extent the narrator's art anxiety and art appreciation abilities, first as a child, then a teen, and later a young adult are affected by his environment, the reluctance of his father and the enthusiasm of a fallen high society friend of the family? Or is aesthetic delight inseparable from the art anxiety of failing to recognise it?
Did you know that "In Search of Lost Time" tackles visual arts, art history, in such delicate and accessible ways? As an art curator and writer, finding meditative writers that associate books and art is an obsession for Joana. This is just the beginning...
But... Is it still worth asking how to spot a masterpiece? Perhaps the question may be: how do we recognise talent, rather than artistic quality? Is pleasure a real indicator of artistic quality?
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Welcome to our Art & Literature series where we asked: where are the books that talk about art appreciation, art enjoyment, art judgement, being art enthusiast? Where is the fiction, the literary essays that discuss topics such as art wonderment, art criticism, creative freedom, creative flow, meditative explorations of art, and even art and technology? Well, we found a few art nuggets for you!
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Spotting great art may be trickier but more exciting than we think. We look into Proust, specifically into one of the most intriguing narrative lines of In Search of Lost Time (Vol I): the presumed greatness of the famous actress, "La Berma”, inspired by the very real and very famous turn of the century Sarah Bernhardt, whose performance tests the main character’s artistic judgment. Follow his tribulations with aesthetic anxiety, anticipation, experience, enjoyment and appreciation.
Jingle: "Wunder", experimental poem by Joana P. R. Neves.
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Created & Hosted by Dr. Joana P. R. Neves, art curator and writer with over 20 years of experience in the contemporary art field. Artistic director of Drawing Now Paris since 2018, she has worked across the industry, from the art market to education. She co-launched the art residency and project space Worlding in 2020. Exhibitionistas’ first year offered exhibition discussions with guest co-host Emily Harding; organically, it grew into a more experimental show exploring art topics, stories and interviews complemented by Joana’s publication Art Thinkosaurus on Substack. She champions ‘Art Wonderment’s’ embrace of complexity against the lure of ready-made opinions. A polyglot, she grew up in Lisbon, studied and lived in Paris, to finally settle in London with her artist husband, four children and two cats.
READ JOANA'S TEXTS:
Joana on Substack: https://joanaprneves.substack.com
Where you find the Exhibitionistas Files, our Newsletter: ...Adolfo Bioy Casares | Dark Side of Creativity in "The Invention of Morel" | Art & Literature Edition
Miniseries–Is there a dark side to creativity? Can the intersection of art and literature reveal it? Host Joana P. R. Neves, an art curator and writer, steps back from her job, and into the art questions it …
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Miniseries–Is there a dark side to creativity? Can the intersection of art and literature reveal it? Host Joana P. R. Neves, an art curator and writer, steps back from her job, and into the art questions it stimulates by digging into her favourite books: can art and technology have a balanced relationship? What effect do their outcomes have on us, the spectators? Will art and literature bring us a sobering reckoning? "The Invention of Morel" (1940) by Argentinian writer Adolfo Bioy Casares brings together art and literature through cinema and its potential developments. Are we going through an "Invention of Morel" era?
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Is the figure of the visionary artist accurate? Bioy Casares laid out a novel about cinema and pre-empted computers and Ai, while asking the question: can we really merge life and art? If one was given the change, would one live in an endless cinematic loop?
Welcome to our Art & Literature series where we asked: where are the books that talk about art appreciation, art enjoyment, art judgement, being art enthusiast? Where is the fiction, the literary essays that discuss topics such as art wonderment, art criticism, creative freedom, creative flow, meditative explorations of art, and even art and technology? Well, we found a few art nuggets for you!
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Jingle: "Wunder", experimental poem by Joana P. R. Neves.
Chapters
- 00:00 The Island of Isolation
- 06:36 The Mysterious Miracle
- 37:28 Introduction to Adolfo Bioy Casares and 'The Invention of Morel'
- 47:50 The Island and Its Inhabitants
- 56:00 Morel's Invention and Its Implications
- 01:04:29 The Narrator's Response and Ethical Considerations
- 01:19:02 The Dark Side of Creativity and Technology
- 01:30:14 The Interconnection of Human Condition and Technology
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Created & Hosted by Dr. Joana P. R. Neves, art curator and writer with over 20 years of experience in the contemporary art field. Artistic director of Drawing Now Paris since 2018, she has worked across the industry, from the art market to education. She co-launched the art residency and project space Worlding in 2020. Exhibitionistas’ first year offered exhibition discussions with guest co-host Emily Harding; organically, it grew into a more experimental show exploring art topics, stories and interviews complemented by Joana’s publication Art Thinkosaurus on Substack. She champions ‘Art Wonderment’s’ embrace of complexity against the lure of ready-made opinions. A polyglot, she grew up in Lisbon, studied and lived in Paris, to finally settle in London with her artist husband, four children and two cats.
READ JOANA'S TEXTS:
Joana on Substack: https://joanaprneves.substack.com
Where you find the Exhibitionistas Files, our Newsletter: ...Virginia Woolf | Creative Flow and the Missing Paragraph | Art & Literature Edition
Miniseries–Your host, writer and curator Joana P. R. Neves, invites you to read "The Mark on the Wall", a short and strange essay by the British writer Virginia Woolf. What prompts a meditative exploration, and …
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Miniseries–Your host, writer and curator Joana P. R. Neves, invites you to read "The Mark on the Wall", a short and strange essay by the British writer Virginia Woolf. What prompts a meditative exploration, and how does it lead to art making? Is the creative flow gendered? Do female artists and writers have direct access to it? Is it possible for them to hold it, uninterrupted?
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But there is yet another mystery: Joana finds a missing paragraph in her book, compared to the internet version of the text. Virginia Woolf's 'The Mark on the Wall' was about creative flow, but what happens to it once it has been edited, and has entered into the world though one of its creations?
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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?
Welcome to our Art & Literature series where we asked: where are the books that talk about art appreciation, art enjoyment, art judgement, being art enthusiast? Where is the fiction, the literary essays that discuss topics such as art wonderment, art criticism, creative freedom, creative flow, meditative explorations of art, and even art and technology? Well, we found a few art nuggets for you!
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
Jingle: "Wunder", experimental poem by Joana P. R. Neves.
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'
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Created & Hosted by Dr. Joana P. R. Neves, art curator and writer with over 20 years of experience in the contemporary art field. Artistic director of Drawing Now Paris since 2018, she has worked across the industry, from the art market to education. She co-launched the art residency and project space Worlding in 2020. Exhibitionistas’ first year offered exhibition discussions with guest co-host Emily Harding; organically, it grew into a more experimental show exploring art topics, stories and interviews complemented by Joana’s publication Art Thinkosaurus on Substack. She champions ‘Art Wonderment’s’ embrace of complexity against the lure of ready-made opinions. A polyglot, she grew up in Lisbon, studied and lived in Paris, to finally settle in London with her artist husband, four children and two cats.
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Where you find the Exhibitionistas Files, our Newsletter: ...Digital and Analog | Why Art Speaking (podcasts) and Art Writing (text) Are Both Important
What if writing and talking about contemporary art and life, art and literature, were two completely different things - but complementary? Instead of pitching them against each other, have we thought about …
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What if writing and talking about contemporary art and life, art and literature, were two completely different things - but complementary? Instead of pitching them against each other, have we thought about articulating their qualities? Our host, art writer and curator, Joana P. R. Neves, tests this notion with a performance of sorts: reading one of her texts about the modernist writer Gertrude Stein without correcting her mistakes, with a minimum of editing. The goal: to make it apparent how different it is to read a text, read from a script and improvise from it, and to write for the mind’s inner voice.
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ART TOPIC is is an exploration of a topic through visual arts or vice-versa. 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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Where you find the Exhibitionistas Files, our Newsletter: ...1 Artist 1 Book | Laisul Hoque | "Babu Bangladesh!" by N. Atif Choudhury
How can a work of fiction influence the work of an artist? Can a visual arts practice be illuminated by storytelling? Are there art questions at the intersection between art and literature? Our host, art …
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How can a work of fiction influence the work of an artist? Can a visual arts practice be illuminated by storytelling? Are there art questions at the intersection between art and literature? Our host, art curator and writer Joana P. R. Neves, invites Bengali artist Laisul Hoque to choose an important book for his path into contemporary art.
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Laisul Hoque chose quite a book, Babu Bangladesh! by Atif Choudhury. How did such a political book, based on archives affect Hoque? Did it shed some light on the value and limitations of archives?To what extent do images and their stories, or lack thereof, convey the truth?
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Laisul chose: Babu Bangladesh!, written by Numair Atif Choudhury.
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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Where you find the Exhibitionistas Files, our Newsletter: ...Curator Sarah Carrington | Encounters Along "The Line" Art Trail
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 …
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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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Where you find the Exhibitionistas Files, our Newsletter: ...Colour in Art | Can the Politics of Colour Surpass its Subjective Stigma?
How do you overcome the extreme subjectivity of colour as a topic in art? María Castro Jímenez, pigment specialist and art historian, offers surprising new histories of colour. Can the study of colour reveal …
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How do you overcome the extreme subjectivity of colour as a topic in art? María Castro Jímenez, pigment specialist and art historian, offers surprising new histories of colour. Can the study of colour reveal hidden pplitics of the past, present and perhaps the future of art? How do we go beyond the usual art explorations of perception? Or do they still have something to teach us? Why is colour taught conceptually and not as something you make?
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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.
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Chapters
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
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Where you find the Exhibitionistas Files, our Newsletter: ...Ana Maria Caballero - Alexandra Jabre | Visual Artist Studio Secrets: Blockchain Poetry and Spirituality in Contemporary Art
What if a visual artist’s favourite tool revealed their creative process and philosophies? Even to themselves? This dual artist series inquires about contemporary artists’ studio practices. What are really …
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What if a visual artist’s favourite tool revealed their creative process and philosophies? Even to themselves? This dual artist series inquires about contemporary artists’ studio practices. What are really artists working with today? What materials do they cherish? What other disciplines are they looking at? Cuban artist Ana María Caballero and British-Lebanese artist Alexandra Jabre answer these questions and reveal what is behind their artworks.
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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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.
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Where you find the Exhibitionistas Files, our Newsletter: ...New Technologies & Art | The Other Side of The Mirror: Art Spaces in the Age of Online Life
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 …
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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.
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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
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Where you find the Exhibitionistas Files, our Newsletter: ...Roni Horn | Sculpting Water: Have you Ever Been Under the Spell of a Work of Art?
Have you ever been under the irresistible spell of an art work? Art Story is a shorter episode exploring an art work, an artist, an exhibition or even a concept through a proudly subjective narrative. Narrated …
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Have you ever been under the irresistible spell of an art work?
Art Story is a shorter episode exploring an art work, an artist, an exhibition or even a concept through a proudly subjective narrative.
Narrated by: the host, Joana P. R. Neves
Joana explores an aesthetic shock involving a tongue twister and a photography by Roni Horn in a busy art fair. Maybe you’ll jump into the flow, maybe you’ll be touched by Joana's devotion to the art, the feeling, and the inscrutable nature of certain contemporary art attractions.
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Key themes:
Roni Horn's work; conceptual art art; photography; art installation; art and language; identity and fluidity; androgyny, aesthetic shock
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Where you find the Exhibitionistas Files, our Newsletter: ...Emily Kame Kngwarreye | Indigenous Knowledge – Painting as Mapping and Archive Tate Modern
What can you paint at the end of your life? How does painting feature in a Aboriginal culture? Does contemporary art culture intersect with Aboriginal art – should we even look for this kind of connection? How …
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What can you paint at the end of your life? How does painting feature in a Aboriginal culture? Does contemporary art culture intersect with Aboriginal art – should we even look for this kind of connection? How did exhibitions of the great painter and artist of the Northern Territory explose her work and contextualise it? How do exhibitions in contemporary museums welcome aboriginal art?
Exhibition Chinwag is the original segment of the podcast where Joana invites professionals from other fields to visit and discuss the work of artists through their solo exhibitions.
Guest: Emily Harding the OG Exhibitionistas co-host!
Surprise Guest: John McDonald, Art Critic.
The artist: Emily Kam Kgnwarray at Tate Modern until 11 January, curated by Kelli Cole.
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Key themes:
Painting; children in art; painting the body; the representation of the body, Jenny Saville
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Where you find the Exhibitionistas Files, our Newsletter: ...Curator Catherine Li | How The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction by Ursula K. Le Guin Intersects with Curatorial Ethos
Le Guin demonstrates how we can totally change the STORY.But... how does this apply to curating?Hosted by Joana P. R. Neves.Catherine Li chose: Ursula K. Le GuinSIGN UP TO THE EXHIBITIONISTAS …
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Le Guin demonstrates how we can totally change the STORY.
But... how does this apply to curating?
Hosted by Joana P. R. Neves.
Catherine Li chose: Ursula K. Le Guin
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00:00 Intro 00:05:10 What does a curator do?00:09:57 The book over which Joana and Catherine bonded00:15:29 The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction00:23:16 An exhibition the size of a lunchbox00:33:22 Ideas and practicalities of curating00:40:49 Le Guin’s critique of the hero-centric story00:45:55 The curator: hero, opinion maker?00:52:09 Feminism, pre-history and curating00:59:49 The curator as a carrier01:07:23 Traditions and experimentations in curating01:16:59 Le Guin’s vision: process rather than conflict
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Where you find the Exhibitionistas Files, our Newsletter: ...Anouk Mercier – Marina Roca Díe | Artist Studio Secrets and a Career in Contemporary Art
In My Art Tools (new segment) we look into 2 artists' tool box: what is their fetish instrument? Artists think with their hands. Let's get technical! The artist's hand will guide you through the …
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In My Art Tools (new segment) we look into 2 artists' tool box: what is their fetish instrument? Artists think with their hands. Let's get technical! The artist's hand will guide you through the passion of following one’s vision, the pleasures of trusting an instinct, and the resilience it takes to work creatively. Hosted by Joana P. R. Neves.
The guests: Anouk Mercier (UK + FR) and Marina Roca Díe (SP).
In an endearingly geeky manner, the answers reveal fantastic methods and unimaginable stories. A big plus: hilarious little incidents and big misadventures that lead to a breakthrough, or a new possibility.
What you get from this episode: Have you ever thought about the stuff art is made of? Wondered how artists make what you see in museums and galleries? How they train their hand, eye, body? Artmaking revelations, art techniques, lessons in resilience, art philosophies, ethical questions.
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Where you find the Exhibitionistas Files, our Newsletter: ...Ben Luke | What is Art For? Art Podcasting and Writing, Contemporary Art and Life in the 1990s until Today
Guest: Ben Luke (Host of A Brush With)Ben Luke is an art journalist whose voice reaches a wider audience through his successful podcast A Brush With, where each episode is dedicated to an artist interview led …
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Guest: Ben Luke (Host of A Brush With)
Ben Luke is an art journalist whose voice reaches a wider audience through his successful podcast A Brush With, where each episode is dedicated to an artist interview led by him. His new book, What is art for? Contemporary artists on their inspirations, influences and disciplines (2025, Heni), stems from it.
Art Insider is an interview segment with fascinating figures of the art field who lift the veil on their corner of contemporary art.
The scope of Luke’s questions is aimed toward building a good perspective on what artists look at, listen to, and where they draw their energy, inspiration and creative flow from. This spirited worldview applies also, in this episode, to pop music and visual art crossovers in the 80s and the boisterous 90s whose suppressed history Luke knows and shares brilliantly.
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Created & Hosted by Dr. Joana P. R. Neves, art curator and writer with over 20 years of experience in the contemporary art field. Artistic director of Drawing Now Paris since 2018, she has worked across the industry, from the art market to education. She co-launched the art residency and project space Worlding in 2020. Exhibitionistas’ first year offered exhibition discussions with guest co-host Emily Harding; organically, it grew into a more experimental show exploring art topics, stories and interviews complemented by Joana’s publication Art Thinkosaurus on Substack. She champions ‘Art Wonderment’s’ embrace of complexity against the lure of ready-made opinions. A polyglot, she grew up in Lisbon, studied and lived in Paris, to finally settle in London with her artist husband, four children and two cats.
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