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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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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This episode is a triptych experiment wherein I visit Madeleine Andersson three times in Helsinki Cable Factory, during her three month artist residency in HIAP. We have an ongoing conversation about her artistic research on - among other things - speculative theory, radical stupidity, petrosexuality and toilet-science, and her first stay in Finland. She talks us through her ideas, challenges and decisions along the way, and as I follow the progress of her work, we simultaneously form a new friendship off record. We talk about different work methods and -motivations, how this form of self-employment affects your personal life and mental state, and we get to follow the expansion of Madeleine's mind map on the wall in her studio as her projects evolve. This is a fragmented, intimate insight into the (slightly chaotic) process of developing an artistic project, from pitch to final shape, and a discussion of the academic aspects of art, and how it can overlap with science and philosophy. We branch out and touch on many different topics, and reflect on some of the premises and opportunities that go along with an artist career, such as the concept of artist residencies. And we laugh, quite a lot!
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26: Yun-Chen Chang / Tables & Dreams
I visit Yun-Chen Chang's performance/exhibition Relax on a Shaky Ground, in the White Studio in the Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki. We talk about inviting other artists into multidisciplinary collaborations, how to dance with tables, what it takes for an item to change from functional object to art piece or inanimate performer, how many sounds you can produce with one table - and how to avoid being labeled as a furniture-artist. We also discuss the concept of an ongoing, evolving sculpture installation and soundscape, what it means to respond to existing architecture, and how to morph a space without changing its aesthetic characteristics. Yun-Chen reflects on the artist's bodily presence in a performance, and explains how a choreographed structure created safety for improvisation in this project. We also talk about earthquakes, how the feeling of being (away from) home can manifest itself in your dreams, turning embodied memories into spatial experiences, and whether we live several lives when we are asleep.
This episode contains ambient sound from one of Yun-Chen's performances recorded by me, with original sound design by Jouni Ilari Tapio and music performance by Teemu Mustonen. This episode also contains selected dreams from Yun-Chen's dream diary, recorded by the artist for the exhibition.
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