Exhibitionistas: Notes on Contemporary Art and Life
Your art wonderment podcast.
With Joana P. R. Neves.
Exhibitionistas was born to expand the experience of art into wider spaces of conversation. It explores the sound (and visual) potential of this unique format of experimental podcasting to convey deep, fascinating experiences of art from the perspective of the artist, the curator, an you, the spectator.
Prompted by a question, each episode follows a surprising path onto an urgent topic, a unique exhibition, a fantastic book, or an artist studio. It reminds you that contemporary art and life are intertwined.
Mid-journey, "Art Etiquette" offers a short break where a new guest surprises Joana with their own question about art. Between a Socratic dialogue and a boozy chinwag.
And finally, to finish the episode with aplomb, comes "Brainstorm in a Teacup" where Joana reads notes from the week's writings, which she has described as "too interesting to miss out on, but too weird to build an episode on".
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.
Check out Joana's writing:
Art Thinkosaurus (Substack)
In London? Keep up to speed with her art & residency space:
Worlding (co-founded with artist Diogo Pimentão)
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Exhibitionistas: Notes on Contemporary Art and Life
Latest Episodes
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 policing, the war–in short, of los...
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: can men be (good) artists? Cu...
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 are leaving big outlets without being re...
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 brink of commodification–bea...
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 of an art work? Through art images...
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