Verbal Art
Xenia Ramm
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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 the artworks we are talking about. Every episode features different guests and topics, with terms and technical details explained in a way that all conversations can be enjoyed by fellow artisans or without previous knowledge on the subject.
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08/16/23 • 65 min
For this milestone episode I thought it was a good time to check in with myself, and try another round of interviewing myself - exactly one year since the first attempt. And when I talk to myself we never end, so this is a conceptual episode in several chapters. I did two long interviews with myself in my studio in Helsinki, one in the daytime and one in the middle of the night, and then I edited parts of these recordings together as one long conversation - it ended up so long that I had to divide it into several episodes, so here is the first part of a long talk between me, myself and I about our master's thesis project The Silence of Sea Tower, an ambient noise sound art project that I self-published on cassette tape this Spring.
In this chapter I invite you into the magical realism of my studio, where I have been living and recording the sound of my surroundings the last year. I discuss the myth of neutral, objective field recording, the personality traits of kitchen appliances and the voices of tube lights, and reflect on my own role as performer in my everyday soundscape. I also explain how it feels to live in secrecy in my workspace, how I navigate the shared sounding space of the building, and how my way of listening to myself and my surroundings has changed during this project.
For inquiries about purchasing The Silence of Sea Tower on cassette tape, send an email to [email protected]
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11/08/23 • 128 min
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 concept of art biennials and how they affect the places that host them, and we reflect on how a place like the island is used and regulated by many groups with different agendas. We also talk about the sea freezing to ice, how this phenomenon is studied in a lab in Aalto University, and we learn about the existence of science-poetry.
This episode contains excerpts from the sound piece Navigating Turbulence ~ towards the making of place, made by Cyane and Myriam for the boat ride as part of their tours. The project is developed as part of The Art Mediation Forum by ViCCA@Aalto ARTS, one of five curatorial collaborators invited by curator Joasia Krysa and HAM for the Helsinki Biennial 2023.
Vallisaari on Finnish National Parks' website
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11/15/23 • 117 min
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 common history, and explains some of the differences to working as a student and artist in Thailand and Finland. We discuss student activism, censorship, and how to be brave in your position as artist and reclaim your voice in your work. We also talk about interactive poetry, audience engagement, and psychological aspects of the architecture of the new academy building.
memory field working group: concept and performance by Ladapha “Tangmo” Sophonkunkit, costume design by Pin Nicha, sound design by fluffypak, graphic design by Suwapat Rodprasert, Chiw Uparsin, Sirada Darikarnonta, patches by Jayda Sakulpoonsook, Naraphat Sakarthornsap, Beam Wong, Maya Jett, Praejeen Kunawong (Jeen Ku), bo nawacharee, Banana blah blah, Julibakerandsummer and Thanakorn Dean Siriraks.
This episode contains audio documentation from the performance recorded by me.
memory field on Uniarts' website
The Academy of Fine Arts' new building
And many of the collaborators:
Jayda Sakulpoonsook's Instagram
Naraphat Sakarthornsap's website
Praejeen Kunawong (Jeen Ku)'s Instagram
Julibakerandsummer's Instagram
Thanakorn Dean Siriraks' Instagram
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Sorry! Crazy week
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10/05/23 • 1 min
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12: Lotta Hurnanen / Film Soup & Farming
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04/12/23 • 66 min
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03/22/23 • 80 min
Tanja Silvestrini and Victoria Løvheim invite me into their home in Helsinki, to talk about different kinds of performance art. Tanja show me their homemade animal costumes and explain their plans to let people temporarily adopt them as a pet, and Victoria tell about being a drag queen as a woman. We treat the subject of co-inhabiting urban, public space, and the behavioural patterns we often collectively exhibit when we move around the city on our own, and Tanja tell how they met the Finnish people in public as a bear in a park. We also get the story of how Tanja had some artworks stolen, and we talk about adapting performance practices to pandemic lockdowns.
Trashy Bohemian Bi Pan Thruple's Instagram
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05/03/23 • 57 min
In the underground movie theatre Byens Lys, in freetown Christiania in Copenhagen, I meet Michel Winckler-Krog for a talk about VJing. We discuss the cabaret Maskefald that he has made visuals for, he tells about the many kinds of projects and different approaches his career entails, and we reflect on the fact that a lot of AV-people we know are moving from party-productions to theatre work. We also talk about his media collective Hackstage, the ups and downs of collaborative stage production, and we get some technical insight on software choices and hardware rigging.
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05: Harriina Räinä / Japanese Woodcut
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03/15/23 • 59 min
Harriina Räinä explains all about her solo exhibition The Other as Matter in Helsinki Art Museum (HAM): a large-scale, minimalist printmaking installation utilising old Japanese woodcut techniques and tools. We talk about traveling across the world to study traditional methods, and the invisible collaboration that automatically happens when you work with tools or materials containing animal products.
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03/29/23 • 68 min
In this experimental speciality of an episode, I interview myself in my childhood home in Copenhagen. I talk about making this podcast series, how I use conversation as a tool and material in my art practice, and I explain how long COVID brought my focus into my ears, because I was too light-sensitive to look at electronic screens. I also talk a bit about my family and the area I grew up in, and reflect on how I have tried to navigate as an expat in Finland the past few years.
Oma Taidetalo's website (still horribly un-updated)
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25: Natalie Hamada / War and Prints
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07/12/23 • 104 min
Natalie Hamada talks us through her solo exhibition of serigraphy prints, Tell all the truth but tell it slant, in Myymälä2 gallery in Helsinki, and meanwhile she tells us about her life in Syria, the war, and how she moved to Finland to study her master's in the art academy right when the country shut down for the first lockdown. We learn about her collage-style silk screen-printing technique, working with many layers and strong colours on different paper materials, and she explains how she mixes old family photographs with found images, working somewhere between memory and imagination, to create a new kind of photo album of familiar characters. We talk about the loneliness of moving to a new country on your own, studying and creating art in pandemic isolation, and how to integrate and establish a life after graduation. This episode contains the stark contrast between Natalie's delicate, colourful prints, and the heavy, dark experiences of living in an active war zone, and I am very grateful that she shared her stories with me and allowed me to share them with you.
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FAQ
How many episodes does Verbal Art have?
Verbal Art currently has 50 episodes available.
What topics does Verbal Art cover?
The podcast is about Painting, Art Education, Photography, Society & Culture, Interview, Performance, Music, Podcasts, Curation, Arts and Dance.
What is the most popular episode on Verbal Art?
The episode title '40: Tangmo / Oppression & (Self)censorship' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Verbal Art?
The average episode length on Verbal Art is 90 minutes.
How often are episodes of Verbal Art released?
Episodes of Verbal Art are typically released every 6 days, 23 hours.
When was the first episode of Verbal Art?
The first episode of Verbal Art was released on Mar 8, 2023.
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