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Verbal Art

// Autumn update: new episodes coming soonish! // Xenia Ramm, a Danish artist educated at The Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki, interviews creative colleagues in different locations such as galleries, a darkroom or an old water reservoir. We talk about all kinds of creative and cultural work, from conceptual thinking to practical techniques and industry-specific insights. We bring the listeners with us into the space, via ambient sound recordings and verbal descriptions of the places we are in and

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1:11:37

Backlog Lookback pt. 2 / ep. 9-18

Verbal Art ·

2024/01/30

This is part 2 of my 2023 reflections & recommendations, looking through the catalogue of previous interviews and presenting them to you as technical & thematic summaries with additional retrospective thoughts. In this episode I also go off on a tangent of historic vs. millennial pop-culture vampire lore, and I talk about how I sometimes forget to listen to the people I talk to. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:28:04

Backlog Lookback pt. 1 / ep. 1-8

Verbal Art ·

2024/01/21

This month I am not releasing new interviews, so instead I am looking back at the year that passed and the 45 episodes which are already available in the archive. I summarise each episode, expanding on themes and techniques, to help you pick & choose episodes based on your specific interests. Even if you have already listened to all my previous episodes, you might still enjoy these reflections & recommendations, as I reminisce on the podcast thus far and add extra bits of retrospective info

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Happy New Year!

Verbal Art ·

2023/12/31

A short New Years greeting from me in Copenhagen, with a small public-service announcement of how the podcast is continuing after this holiday. Thank you for listening, talk to you next year! For questions, comments, or other feedback, write me on verbal.art@protonmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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45: Oskar Partanen / Kinetic Sculpture

Verbal Art ·

2023/12/30

I meet Oskar Partanen in Annantalo in Helsinki, to see his solo exhibition Self Titled and talk about his cute but eerie sculptures that move and make sounds. His creatures live side-by-side in one room, but somehow seem to all exist within each their own universe. We talk about repurposed items, pragmatic choices in materials, and Oskar explains how he has hacked electronic audio devices and built motorised constructions to give his figures life. We get into childhood dreams, discuss how children

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22:13

Merry X Mess!

Verbal Art ·

2023/12/24

Today on the podcast, I have little treat! As a Christmas present, I made a live recording of an exclusive, improvised Christmas collage concert! I am layering five Finnish Christmas cassette tapes, all played on old, analogue tape players, to sculpt a new old holiday sound for you to enjoy while you are waiting for Christmas Eve. There is a lot of old gold in the mix, but everything is in Finnish and played simultaneously. A very merry, morphed X Mess Mashup, to all of you from every me <3

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44: Kamila Śladowska / Painting Plants & Private Parts

Verbal Art ·

2023/12/20

I return to Asbestos Art Space in Helsinki, to see Kamila Śladowska's solo exhibition Growing Interconnectedness, which has turned the gallery into a surreal painting installation of water, plants, and morphed shapes of naked, human bodies. Kamila tells about foraging herbs and finding inspiration in nature's ecosystems, and guides us through her assemblage of deconstructed paintings and sculptural elements. She explains how her art is an existential and political tool to deal with topics such as

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43: Paola Fernanda Guzmán Figueroa / Familia Forever

Verbal Art ·

2023/12/14

I meet Paola Fernanda Guzmán Figueroa in Oodi library in Helsinki, to talk about her video work Nanita, para siempre. Paola explains how her Colombian roots grew stronger while living in Finland, and how she keeps a close connection to her family by making them a focal point in her art. We discuss different techniques for working with film- and video, and Paola talks about the process, and feeling, of making one thousand drawings of her grandmother for the animation film projected in the library. We

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1:29:31

42: James Prevett / Sculpting Socially

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2023/11/29

In this crossover episode with OOO Radio (Out of Office), James Prevett guides me through his exhibition Together With in Forum Box gallery in Helsinki. James explains how ongoing collaborations with other artists, the public, and his daughter, helps him reconsider and reinvent himself as sculptor, teacher and curator, as we look at years of different initiatives of socially engaged sculpture displayed side-by-side. We talk about material translation, travelling artworks, methods of public

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41: Niko Nordström / Time

Verbal Art ·

2023/11/22

I finally sit down with Niko Nordström, to talk about his solo performance This Is Why I'm Late, in The Theatre Academy in Helsinki. We talk through his semi-fictionalised self-portrait of monologues about clocks, dreams and the struggles between thought and time, all the while dipping into the history of structured time; the societal needs for, and science behind, these structures. Niko explains how the framework of his performance is inspired by experiences in his immediate life, and how he

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1:57:18

40: Tangmo / Oppression & (Self)censorship

Verbal Art ·

2023/11/15

I join Tangmo's participatory performance memory field in The Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki, and meet her there later to unpack it. Together we talk through the performance from beginning to end, and Tangmo expands on how she developed the project and incorporated multiple collaborations with other Thai artists. She tells about the horrific background of the piece: The Thammasat Massacre in 1976, a student uprising event in Thailand which was violently shut down and almost completely erased from

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39: Myriam Gras & Cyane Findji / Helsinki Biennial

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2023/11/08

I take a walk on Vallisaari island with Myriam Gras and Cyane Findji, to look at a selection of works from Helsinki Biennial 2023. They have organised a series of guided tours for the exhibition, with focus on more site-specific works. Their project, Navigating Turbulence ~ towards the making of place, also contains a publication and a sound piece. We talk about the island's many functions; military defence, natural habitat for plants and animals, and now international art gallery. We discuss the

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38: Sara Rantanen / Performance Installation

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2023/10/25

I visit the Bachelor's Degree Show in The Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki, to talk to Sara Rantanen about her sculptural installation that she activates with performances. She tells about self-discoveries in her recent transition from painting to performance art, using her body as a research tool, and we discuss how a change in medium can affect the way you approach not only your work but also yourself. Sara explains how it feels to put herself on display in the gallery, and we talk about

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37: Harriina Räinä / Oyster Portrait

Verbal Art ·

2023/10/18

Verbal Art is back after a short hiatus - I could not keep up with my schedule...I have my first ever return guest on the podcast, Harriina Räinä, this time I visit her solo exhibition Volatile Shells in Hippolyte Studio in Helsinki (check Verbal Art episode 5 for my first interview with Harriina, in Helsinki Art Museum). She explains how she is continuing her research on relationships between humans and animals, currently in an ongoing three-part exhibition series with oysters as subject matter,

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1:49

Sorry! Crazy week

Verbal Art ·

2023/10/05

Sorry, I had to skip this week because my master's thesis deadline took all I had to give! And I had the flu. So episode 37 will come next Wednesday instead. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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36: Ana Gutieszca / Drawing Noise

Verbal Art ·

2023/09/27

I visit Ana Gutieszca in her studio in Helsinki, where she gives us a listen through her electronic music gear, and talks about her love of noise and drum machines. We also take a look at her animal drawings, and she explains how she turns her drawings into sound by using the electric conductivity of graphite and her own custom-built devices. We discuss the aspects of time and flow in music making and performance settings and share anecdotes of stage moments and musical realisations, and Ana tells

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35: David Lundström Nabel / Large-Scale Sculpture

Verbal Art ·

2023/09/20

David Lundström Nabel shows me his very large sculpture in the group exhibition Yhtäkiä - Suhduhnle in Kuva/Tila gallery in Helsinki. David explains how he transported a massive cable drum through the city and into the gallery, and talks us through his assembly of different materials and found objects. We discuss what makes a work masculine, if size matters in the exhibition space, and how the different works affect each other in a group show. We also talk about casting your own body parts, finally

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34: Chih-Tung Lin / Curator

Verbal Art ·

2023/09/13

I visit the group exhibition Shall we sleep on this? in Yö Galleria, curated by Chih-Tung Lin. They talk us through the works of the three artists Amanda Lono, Minjee Hwang Kim and Noora Lehtovouri, and tell us all about their curatorial process and decisions of the show. We discuss exhibitions as enduring entities, the non-linear dynamics of group shows, expectations vs. outcome, and how to curate chaos. We reflect on the role of the curator and question why some people hyphenate their title as

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33: Laura Dahlberg / Robotic Alien Babies

Verbal Art ·

2023/09/06

I visit Helsinki Art Museum (HAM) again, this time to see Laura Dahlberg's new sci-fi inspired solo exhibition Abiotic Variables feat. Alien Babies. Laura explains how she has used silicone to cast soft robots, and how she learned to use air as a mechanic tool. We also get to know about the crazy, lively material called liquid crystal polymer, and Laura tells the story of how she got to develop her artwork in a science lab together with PhD researchers who study the material for other applications

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32: Clément Beraud / Museum Technician

Verbal Art ·

2023/08/30

I meet Clément Beraud in Helsinki Art Museum (HAM) where he works as exhibition technician. He talks us through the installation of selected works from Helsinki Biennial, explains the practical considerations and tells about what can go wrong in the long, delicate process of transport and re-assembly. We get an insight into the greater ecology of a large gallery and all the people involved in the production of an exhibition, and how all the different roles approach common objectives with different

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31: Xenia Ramm / Me, Myself & Our Thesis (Pt.2)

Verbal Art ·

2023/08/23

In this second, final part of my self-reflective solo episode, I continue to explain about my current master's thesis project: a site-specific sound art piece on cassette tape, titled The Silence of Sea Tower. I reminisce on all the challenges and wonders I have come across during this year-long engagement, talk about how this whole thing in many ways feels like one big puzzle I am trying to piece together, and I reflect on how it is like an investigation with clues and surprises and red threads. I

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