In the latest episode of ON ART, Marseille-based, Adelaide-born artist Madison Bycroft on their new moving-image commission B̶I̶O̶P̶I̶C̶ or Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste André Timothée (2021) with Samstag curator Gillian Brown. In a wide-ranging conversation, they discuss the making and presentation of a feature-length film, the politics of storytelling and the philosophical notion of opacity.Bold, creative and responsive to contemporary visual art, Samstag Museum of Art is one of Australia's leading university art museums. For more, see unisa.edu.au/samstagmuseumON ART is supported by the Gordon Darling Foundation and Solstice Podcasting, edited and produced by Tilly Balding in Tarntanya/Adelaide, September 2021.

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Madison Bycroft / B̶I̶O̶P̶I̶C̶ or Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste André Timothée

In the latest episode of ON ART, Naarm/Melbourne based artist Alex Martinis Roe on the works that comprise her exhibition, To Become Two (2014—2017) with Samstag curator Joanna Kitto. They discuss feminist political practices and relationships within the collectives doing that work, as well as Alex's experience as a Samstag scholar and the ways the scholarship has impacted her practice in the years since.Bold, creative and responsive to contemporary visual art, Samstag Museum of Art is one of Australia's leading university art museums. For more, see unisa.edu.au/samstagmuseumON ART is supported by the Gordon Darling Foundation and Solstice Podcasting, edited and produced by Tilly Balding in Tarntanya/Adelaide, August 2021

Alex Martinis Roe / To Become Two

Hear from artists of the 2021 Adelaide//International. Fayen d’Evie presents a reading from her exhibition 'Endnote: The Ethical Handling of Empty Spaces', considering how we might write for a future audience. Then James Tylor speaks with poet Dominic Guerrera about the mistakes, mistranslations and loss of knowledge resulting from European colonist processes in documenting Kaurna culture. Finally, Jesse Jones discusses 'Tremble, Tremble' with exhibition curator Gillian Brown, a dramatic presentation proclaiming a new social order from a female perspective.Bold, creative and responsive to contemporary visual art, Samstag Museum of Art is one of Australia's leading university art museums. For more, see unisa.edu.au/samstagmuseumThe ON ART Podcast is supported by the Gordon Darling Foundation and Solstice Podcasting, and produced by Tilly Balding in Tarntanya/Adelaide, May 2021.

2021 Adelaide//International / Fayen d'Evie, James Tylor with Dominic Guerrera, Jesse Jones

In the last episode of ON ART for 2020, we’re looking at the practice of South Australian artist Kirsten Coelho. Listen in on a conversation she had with fellow ceramicist Honor Freeman, hear poetry and prose from the 2020 SALA Monograph dedicated to her practice, read by the publication’s author Wendy Walker, and hear music by Derek Pascoe with Together Apart, written in response to Ithaca.Bold, creative and responsive to contemporary visual art, Samstag Museum of Art is one of Australia’s leading university art museums. For more, see unisa.edu.au/samstagmuseumThe ON ART Podcast is supported by the Gordon Darling Foundation and Solstice Podcasting, and recorded by Denam Moore in Kaurna Adelaide, December 2020.

Kirsten Coelho / Honor Freeman, Wendy Walker, Derek Pascoe

Brisbane born and Melbourne based painter Anne Wallace joins Curatorial Assistant Anna Zagala in conversation. The former Samstag scholar (1994) and subject of a major survey exhibition discusses her practice, how she thinks through her ideas, when she knows a painting is finished, and how painting has changed for her across three decades of making.Anne Wallace: Strange Ways is a QUT Art Museum touring exhibition, accompanied by a major publication featuring new essays by Gillian Brown, Curator at Samstag, Francis Plagne and Vanessa Van Ooyen.Bold, creative and responsive to contemporary visual art, Samstag Museum of Art is one of Australia's leading university art museums. For more, see unisa.edu.au/samstagmuseum.This podcast was recorded over Zoom on 26 November 2020 and produced by Denam Moore.

Anne Wallace / Strange Ways

Artist and filmmaker Amos Gebhardt speaks with Naarm Melbourne based writer Adolfo Aranjuez. They delve into Amos's expansive new moving image installation currently showing at Samstag, Small acts of resistance. Bold, creative and responsive to contemporary visual art, Samstag Museum of Art is one of Australia’s leading university art museums. For more, see unisa.edu.au/samstagmuseumThe ON ART Podcast is supported by the Gordon Darling Foundation and Solstice Podcasting, and recorded by Denam Moore in Kaurna Adelaide, November 2020.

Amos Gebhardt / Small acts of resistance

In 1996, South Australian artist Angela Valamanesh travelled to Glasgow, Scotland on a Samstag scholarship. Angela joins Curatorial Assistant Anna Zagala to discuss her year abroad, what it taught her, and how it set the course for future work.Bold, creative and responsive to contemporary visual art, Samstag Museum of Art is one of Australia's leading university art museums. For more, see unisa.edu.au/samstagmuseum.This podcast was recorded by Denam Moore at Solstice Podcasting, Kaurna Adelaide in September 2020.

Angela Valamanesh / 1996 Samstag Scholar

Join artist Kirsten Coelho and Joanna Kitto, Samstag Associate Curator, as they discuss working with porcelain, the significance of the ‘ruin’, and Homer’s Odyssey—the Ancient Greek text that inspired her most recent body of work, Ithaca. Bold, creative and responsive to contemporary visual art, Samstag Museum of Art is one of Australia's leading university art museums. For more, see unisa.edu.au/samstagmuseum.This podcast was recorded by Denam Moore at Solstice Podcasting, Kaurna Adelaide in July 2020.

Kirsten Coelho / Ithaca

Join artist Kirsten Coelho and Joanna Kitto, Samstag Associate Curator, as they discuss working with porcelain, the significance of the ‘ruin’, and Homer’s Odyssey—the Ancient Greek text that inspired her most recent body of work, Ithaca. This podcast was recorded by Denam Moore at Solstice Podcasting, Kaurna Adelaide in July 2020.

Kaula Lumpur-based art critic Lee Weng Choy joins Samstag curator Joanna Kitto for a conversation around art and life. They discuss missing the experience of viewing art in person, what we’re consuming, and how the present moment is making us commit to empathy. In the next episode, Weng will answer listener’s questions about art and arts writing. Send your question for Weng to Joanna at joanna.kitto@unisa.edu.au.This podcast was recorded in part on Zoom and in part by Denam Moore at Solstice Podcasting, Kaurna Adelaide in June 2020.

Lee Weng Choy / On art and arts writing

Kaula Lumpur-based art critic Lee Weng Choy joins Samstag curator Joanna Kitto for a conversation around art and life in the present moment. They discuss missing the experience of viewing art in person, what we’re consuming, and how the present moment is making us commit to empathy. In the next episode, Weng will answer listener’s questions about art and arts writing. Send your question for Weng to Joanna at joanna.kitto@unisa.edu.au.This podcast was recorded in part on Zoom and in part by Denam Moore at Solstice Podcasting, Kaurna Adelaide in June 2020.

Pittsburgh-based Samstag Scholar Georgia Saxelby joins Curatorial Assistant Anna Zagala to discuss her experience of applying to study at Carnegie Mellon in the USA, strategies for selecting a school, what it takes to get in and why she can’t wait to get back.Bold, creative and responsive to contemporary visual art, Samstag Museum of Art is one of Australia's leading university art museums. For more, see unisa.edu.au/samstagmuseum.This podcast was recorded by Denam Moore at Solstice Podcasting, Kaurna Adelaide in June 2020.

Georgia Saxelby / 2019 Samstag Scholar

Pittsburgh-based Samstag Scholar Georgia Saxelby joins Curatorial Assistant Anna Zagala to discuss her experience of applying to study at Carnegie Mellon in the USA, strategies for selecting a school, what it takes to get in and why she can’t wait to get back.This podcast was recorded by Denam Moore at Solstice Podcasting, Kaurna Adelaide in June 2020.

Melbourne based artist Zoë Croggon speaks with Samstag curator Gillian Brown about her body of collage works in Samstag’s ‘Effect in three movements’. They discuss Zoë’s interest in movement and architecture, and the heightened relevance in thinking about how we occupy domestic space at a time when we’ve all been forced to do so.Bold, creative and responsive to contemporary visual art, Samstag Museum of Art is one of Australia's leading university art museums. For more, see unisa.edu.au/samstagmuseum.Recorded remotely by Denam Moore of Solstice Podcasting in May 2020.

Zoë Croggon - The Magazine Series

In 'Hold Me', audiences listen in on a frustrated phone conversation between Adelaide-based artist Brad Darkson and a Centrelink worker trying to unravel the ramifications of a robo-debt, interspersed by the relentless sound of the hold music. While we're all working from home due to COVID-19, Samstag curator Gillian Brown discusses this eerily prescient work with Darkson, over the phone.Bold, creative and responsive to contemporary visual art, Samstag Museum of Art is one of Australia's leading university art museums. For more, see unisa.edu.au/samstagmuseum.Recorded remotely by Denam Moore of the Message Pod in April 2020.

Brad Darkson - Hold Me

Talks and discussions that follow the lead of contemporary art, from the Samstag Museum of Art at the University of South Australia.

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