Episode 56: Swamp Thing
In Anrea Bowers’s “Open Secret,” Bowers takes over the entire gallery with multi-media work, but the main attraction is the 19 by 4 meter wall standing in the middle of the gallery, like an office bulletin board, covered in long red scrolls of paper printed with the allegations and, when available, public replies of 100 men who have been accused of sexual aggression and violence in the #metoo and #timesup movements. When I read a brief description of this exhibit online, I was pretty excited about it. Of course I was interested in seeing an artist’s interpretation of #metoo. But when I read a longer description, I admit I was actually put off: I hate text-based art in general, with very few exceptions. Especially long texts because: why not just write a book?
Tracks used in this episode are Eunice Two-Step, by Zydeco musician Amédé Ardoin, and Early Stomp, by Catahoula Curse. Tracks used under the Fair Use Act.
Episode 55: The Ball is Round
In Antje Vowinckel’s “The Goal,” the artist blends the voices of the announcers across multiple sports channels, languages and countries. This mix makes them sound like a pantheon of gods, setting us poor humans on the giant pitch of the Earth, introducing something everyone wants — a round ball — and then sitting back and watching us fight for it, sprinting, pulling, jabbing, kicking, diving to try and change the course of events, pushing people down to make sure they don’t get there first, arguing or acting and trying to make it look like none of it’s our fault so we can avoid penalties… and occasionally seeing an opportunity that can only work as a team to save the game.
Featuring “The Way to Go” by Liliya Danieva. Music used with permission of the artist.
Podcast: Download file | Read transcript | Leave a review | Recorded on 20 February 2018
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Episode 54: Manon de Printemps
Art 53: Gilded Feelings (Got No Rhythm)
Artipoeus visits Monica Bonvicini’s Guilt at Joseph Koenig Galerie in Berlin. I can’t get past the chains of this piece. Chains evoke industry, and slavery. Imprisonment. Being tied down – the old ball and chain. To be more precise, I can’t get past the language of the piece. German, French, Italian and Spanish gender their nouns, and in all of those languages guilt, as a noun, is masculine. But “chain” is feminine.
Featuring “The Fall” by Rosie Bans, from her EP “Opia”. You can get it as a free download, as well as check out her debut album and her touring dates at rosiebans.com.
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And Battle with Bass Original Mix, mixed by DJ BPM, and Battle with Bass RMX2, mixed by producer and Grime pioneer JT The Goon. Both tracks are from the Grime EP Battle with Bass Remixes, instigated by Irish DJ, DJ BPM.
The original track Battle With Bass was inspired by Claudia Wenger’s project “The Women Sing at Both Sides of the Zambezi” with vocal samples by Zimbabwean journalist and activist, Soneni Gwizi. You can purchase the EP from bandcamp at djbpm-resonancefm.bandcamp.com and hear more of DJ BPM’s mixes and find her touring schedule at her website https://www.dj-bpm.co.uk/ or follow her on Soundcloud, Mixcloud and QBase FM.
And you can find more tracks and mixes from JT The Goon (Joe Taylor) on Youtube, Spotify and at record label Oil Gang Records, or follow him on Soundcloud.
Music used with permission of the artists.
Podcast: Download file | Read transcript | Leave a review | Recorded on 08 April 2018
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Art 53: Gilded Feelings (Got No Rhythm)
Artipoeus visits Monica Bonvicini’s Guilt at Joseph Koenig Galerie in Berlin. I can’t get past the chains of this piece. Chains evoke industry, and slavery. Imprisonment. Being tied down – the old ball and chain. To be more precise, I can’t get past the language of the piece. German, French, Italian and Spanish gender their nouns, and in all of those languages guilt, as a noun, is masculine. But “chain” is feminine.
Featuring “The Fall” by Rosie Bans, from her EP “Opia”. You can get it as a free download, as well as check out her debut album and her touring dates at rosiebans.com.
and
And Battle with Bass Original Mix, mixed by DJ BPM, and Battle with Bass RMX2, mixed by producer and Grime pioneer JT The Goon. Both tracks are from the Grime EP Battle with Bass Remixes, instigated by Irish DJ, DJ BPM.
The original track Battle With Bass was inspired by Claudia Wenger’s project “The Women Sing at Both Sides of the Zambezi” with vocal samples by Zimbabwean journalist and activist, Soneni Gwizi. You can purchase the EP from bandcamp at djbpm-resonancefm.bandcamp.com and hear more of DJ BPM’s mixes and find her touring schedule at her website https://www.dj-bpm.co.uk/ or follow her on Soundcloud, Mixcloud and QBase FM.
And you can find more tracks and mixes from JT The Goon (Joe Taylor) on Youtube, Spotify and at record label Oil Gang Records, or follow him on Soundcloud.
Music used with permission of the artists.
Podcast: Download file | Read transcript | Leave a review | Recorded on 08 April 2018
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Art 52: Artipoeus does Duttnhoody
Artipoeus and the Thomas Haeder and Martin Thibualt of the Duttnhoody podcast visit Berlinische Galerie for an afternoon of champagne and Kunst.
Episode 51: We Must Not Think Bad Thoughts
Artipoeus explores technology, punk rock and Impressionism at American artist Austin Lee’s Tomato Can at Peres Projects in Berlin. Punks were left with the aftermath of the Baby Boomers, who sold out to make affordable blue jeans or unaffordable ice cream and were now at home popping out Generation X babies. Punks were the generation squeezed in between, kicking at the walls and screaming. Now that I put it that way, I’m not so sure the Impressionists were that punk after all. They weren’t protesting the injustice of an unfair system. They were just loud and colorful, trying to stay relevant.
I think… I think that makes them Glam.
Featuring “What You Need” and “Drowning” by Dead Sentries.
Music used with permission of the artists.
Podcast: Download file | Read transcript | Leave a review | Recorded on 20 February 2018
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ARTIPOEUS TURNS 50! And navigates the big 5-0 through Avigdor Arikha‘s Landscapes at Blain Southern in Berlin. I went to the Blain Southern gallery actually for the free booze. When you’re older, no one buys you drinks anymore. That sounds so depressing and it’s not actually true.. But it’s a little true. An artist I know said they were interested in seeing the work of Avrigdor Arikha, landscapes done in an Impressionist style.
Now, I hate Impressionism…
Featuring music from BenSounds.com.
Music used under Creative Commons license.
Podcast: Download file | Read transcript | Leave a review | Recorded on 28 January 2018
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Artipoeus visits German artist Malte Kebbel‘s Monoliths on the Glienicker Bridge in Potsdam. We were headed to Potsdam to see some Monoliths on the Bridge of Spies. I didn’t tell Sam and Julius much about our quest, but I figured: who doesn’t want to go on an adventure that involves traveling through a forest of ancient trees, exploring a beautiful palace, crossing a treacherous bridge and confronting a monumental symbol of power? I mean… what else are you gonna do on a Sunday?
Featuring: “The Blue Danube” by Johann Sebastian Strauss II.
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Podcast: Download file | Read transcript | Leave a review | Recorded on 14 January 2018
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Artipoeus gets lost at LOST: 48 Hour Art Festival, and interviews featured artist Christopher Bauder live on stage at the Willner Brauerei in Berlin. “How do you perfect perfection? Should I ask you an easier question? What’s your middle name?”
Featuring: “Wisdom” by Amadeus Joseph from the opera electronica The Beautiful Now.
Music used with permission of the artist.
Podcast: Download file | Read transcript | Leave a review | Recorded on 17 December 2017
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Artipoeus is thrilled to be a part of LOST: 48 Hours Art Festival from 15-17 December 2017, celebrating the final 48 hours of the historic Willner Brauerei in Berlin, closing its doors after 100 years of service to the cultural and social life of the city. We are live on stage throughout the weekend interviewing the artists and curators of LOST:
Friday 15 December:
19.00 – Katharina Greimel of Tanz + Talk “warum es geht”
20.00 – Mirjam Sögner and Andreas Völk of Tanz + Talk “Lara”
23.00 – Hyp Svenson and Anastasia from Priestsand Prawns
Saturday 16 December 2017
12.00 – Suzy Royal of Enter Art Foundation
14.00 – Aldo van den Broek of THE DARK ROOMS
16.00 – Clara Cremer of THE DARK ROOMS
20.00 – Mirjam Sögner and Andreas Völk of Tanz + Talk “Lara”
Sunday 17 December 2017
13.00 – Artist Ria Wank
14.00 – Artist Christopher Bauder
And visit Artipoeus all weekend to get inside the story of art in our immersive audiovisual This Is Your Brain on Artipoeus in the Pfoertner-Haus!
On the anniversary of the 2015 Paris Attacks, Artipoeus pays tribute to the City of Light through the art of the torn posters in the Paris Metro. What I love about the posters in the metro is that they are a true collaboration – they are picked at by all the hands of the city: bored hands, frustrated hands, angry hands. Hand that are juvenile, mature, horny, repressed, delicate, rough. Sometimes, when you look closely, a tear is handled carefully, or the edges of a tear have been delicately picked away to highlight whatever is beneath. And sometimes they are giant rips, made angrily or in a hurry or just to be a punk. All the moods of Paris are in those ripped posters, and all the emotions, too.
Featuring: “Drive” and “Trying to Remember” by Oliver Bernard.
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Podcast: Download file | Read transcript | Leave a review | Recorded on 13 November 2017
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Kate Leismer of the About Face podcast sat down for an in-depth interview about my background and the turning point events that shape the way I see art and the world. A warm, funny, intimate and raw conversation about the art of surviving, and living. Warning: this episode contains adult themes and graphic descriptions of violence. Listener discretion advised.
With Kate Leismer, in English.
Thank you, Kate!
Artipoeus visits Jennifer Abessira’s installation, “Don’t Think Twice,” at London Bridge Station in London, England. I flew into Heathrow Airport for the first time since 1999, and didn’t recognize a thing — it’s so new and shiny and futuristic, I felt like Jason Bourne, trying to find.. Well, the exit. I was going straight to the London Bop, the annual gathering of T.Rex fans and family, for a night of reunion and revelry and rock & roll. But I had to take a cab to the Bop because the Tube would take too long, and also… well… there had just been a terrorist attack. Again.
Featuring I Want My Country Back. Download for free at shemakeswar.com!
Featuring: “Deleted” and “I Want My Country Back” by She Makes War.
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Podcast: Download file | Read transcript | Leave a review | Recorded on 22 October 2017
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Martin and Thomas of Berlin’s Duttnhoody podcast asked me to explain art to them, and I asked for help with my German homework. None of us walked away any wiser. Artipoeus meets talks to the boys at the George R for cocktails & quatch.
With Thomas Häder and Martin Thibault. In German and English
Thank you, boys ! Es war sehr Spaßtick!
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Artipoeus visits Françoise Shein and Barbara Reiter’s project Inscrire at the Westhafen Ubahn station, in Berlin. If you are exiting the train at Westhafen, and want to go up to the Putlizbrücke that connects Moabit to Wedding, or transfer to the Ringbahn that circles town, you follow a little green “S” and an arrow that tells you where to go. You pass big blocks of text on the wall, meaning… what? Who knows? Patterns of letters and images, primary colors, black block lettering that is neither beautiful nor un-beautiful, but factual and clear. I don’t know what it means. It’s just typography, which is ok if you’re into that kind of thing.
I’m into that kind of thing.
Featuring: “Placed You” by Oliver Bernard and “Vocabulary of Loneliness” by Ivan Chiarelli
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Podcast: Download file | Read transcript | Leave a review | Recorded on 08 October 2017
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Artipoeus visits Henrik Strömberg’s Echoes in Dust at A Plus in Berlin. My mom and dad used to throw amazing parties. One time, they threw a party that featured a whole roast suckling pig. I remember sitting in the kitchen with my Swedish grandmother, wondering whether pig’s brains were tasty or not. Our discussion was interrupted by my dad, suddenly appearing kitchen to get something, who proclaimed, “never eat brains. They’re disgusting.” Moral questions aside, one thing we knew for sure: my dad isn’t a zombie.
Featuring: “Jazz” by Ben Sound
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Podcast: Download file | Read transcript | Leave a review | Recorded on 10 September 2017
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Artipoeus interviews American video artist and VJ Aaron Kulik, in Berlin. One of the things Berlin is best known for is its music scene. You can find every kind of music here, from electronica to ambient to trance to dance to hip hop to pop, grunge, rock, rockabillly, punk, and polka. Aaron Kulik is a Berlin-based video artist, working as a VJ supporting Michigan born, DJ Seth Troxler. The two are a natural fit: Seth’s work is based in techno and house, with a good dose of sounds from the African and Latino diaspora. Even when they.re dark, his tracks are bright, in high relief and a little surreal, sort of the way every day objects look in a solar eclipse.
Podcast: Download file | Read transcript | Leave a review | Recorded on 27 August 2017
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