ART CRUSH INTERNATIONAL

Jozefien Buydens & Svea Vikander
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ART CRUSH INTERNATIONAL is a podcast from textile artist Jozefien Buydens and journalist Svea Vikander. Based in Belgium and Norway respectively, Jozefien and Svea have spent the last three years combing the globe for the world’s most interesting and unusual artist spaces. And now they’re ready to take you with them...

  1. 07/15/2021

    CRUSHED VELVET: 18 Artists in 20 Weeks

    What a ride! ART CRUSH INTERNATIONAL's first season is coming to an end. It's been wild, adventurous, lovely and above all, very cozy. Join Svea and Jozefien in this season finale as they reminisce and relive all the crushes they've had so far. Which artist served the best snacks? What backstory surprised them the most? What was the most emotionally challenging interview and which one was the most physically demanding? ART CRUSH INTERNATIONAL will be back on August 31st with many more crushes - Ana Teresa Fernández (https://anateresafernandez.com/) is our first crush of season 2! - and CRUSHED VELVETS, in which we debunk misconceptions about artists and give Svea a chance to process her feelings. Have a healthy, safe and lovable summer!

    20 min

  2. 07/09/2021

    Is Your GP Secretly an Artist? Lorraine Bonner on Healing With Clay

    Onward! To East Oakland where artist-physician-writer Lorraine Bonner sculpts clay in the house that was once her mother’s home. Lorraine shows us the space, now converted completely to a studio-gallery, and talks about growing up in Queens, moving to rural California in 1970, moving to Tanzania with her husband so they could have their baby in an African socialist country, and studying Medicine at Stanford with two small children at home. Bonner’s work addresses personal, societal, and environmental traumas including racism, abuse, and torture through figurines and abstract shapes. How does she navigate such heavy topics without buckling under their weight? Why doesn’t she want to be a doctor anymore? What does it mean to “redeem” the colour black? All this and more. Plus cat. Lorraine Bonner's website: https://www.lorrainebonner.com/ Follow Lorraine on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100009601983966 Visual tour and transcript of this interview: https://artcrushinternational.com/lorraine-bonner.html Learn more about the East Bay Open Studios: https://eastbayopenstudios.com/ Our Beautiful Online Thing of the week: the Rhoda Kellog Child Art Collection: http://www.early-pictures.ch/kellogg/en/ Follow ART CRUSH INTERNATIONAL on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/artcrush_international/

    32 min

  3. 07/01/2021

    CRUSHED VELVET #1: Do You Have to Be A Jerk to Make Good Work?

    Jozefien and Svea are fed up with misconceptions about artists and in this series, called CRUSHED VELVET because it sounds good even if it makes no sense, they're setting the record straight. There's more to life than making art. There is, for example, trauma, sexism, capitalism, haikus, and other funny things. THIS EPISODE'S VELVETEEN RABBITS: When you were depressed, did you make better art? Would it be worth it to be an artist if it meant you were necessarily depressed? Have you known happy artists? How does the idea of the tortured artist affect people (artists and the poor schmucks who love them)? With what can we replace the idea of the tortured artist? And they'd love to hear your feedback and experiences. Let us know on Instagram, at email, through our website... Look up Svea's 'How Poems Work' project: http://howpoemswork.blogspot.com/ Watch the documentary "The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography" on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/watch/80145699?tctx=0%2C1%2C%2C%2C%2C Herman Van Rompuy is the former Belgian Prime Minister who writes haikus. This is the one he wrote in 2018 for the Engelenburcht in Tildonk, Belgium: "Als wapens zwijgen, hoor je in de stille tuin, de wind en de vogels". Extremely Crushable Keats: “Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?”

    21 min

  4. 06/22/2021

    Linocut Prints and a Tenderhearted Prince: Sofia Shu and her Siberian-San Francisco Love Story

    We climb and descend the hills of Potrero Hill in San Francisco - in high heels of course! - as we search for Sofia Shu's secluded studio. We're mesmerised by Sofia's meditative, spiritual, detailed abstract paintings and wall hangings. Sofia serves us a delicious vegan latte and talks about growing up walking through snow tunnels in Siberia, learning English by tending bar in NYC, ending up in the Bay Area, and meeting her sweetheart prince. We love her love story and you will, too. Sofia Shu Studio online: https://www.sofiashu.com/ Sofia on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sofiashustudio/ Pictures of Sofia's hometown Nefteyugansk: https://www.google.com/search?q=nefteyugansk&client=firefox-b-d&sxsrf=ALeKk037A7y-P3VanCUSJ5OgOymov5sMyQ:1624458540658&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiwhpLS-63xAhVvoosKHebMDc4Q_AUoAXoECAEQAw&biw=1410&bih=792 Beautiful Online Thing: the Norwegian Sexguiden: https://www.nrk.no/spesial/sexguide  ART CRUSH INTERNATIONAL on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/artcrush_international/ Suggestions? contact@artcrushinternational.com Subscribe to our newsletter on https://artcrushinternational.com/

    33 min

  5. 06/15/2021

    Queering the Kudzu: Richard Jonathon Nelson on Plants, Roots, and Colonialism

    Hop into our car to East Oakland where we’ll meet textile artist Richard Jonathan Nelson at his friend and fellow artist Jamee Crusan’s place. Richard talks about being a black, queer man in the US, how his mother and aunts encouraged him to make textile art as a child and how language plays an important role in his life. What’s a hand baby and who brought the Kudzu? Richard tells us all. Richard’s website: http://www.richard-jonathan-nelson.com/ Richard on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rich_nels/ Visual tour and transcript of the interview: https://artcrushinternational.com/richard-jonathan-nelson.html Check out Jamee Crusan, artist and good friend of Richard Jonathan Nelson. Her work Black and Blue/Lack and Lure is our Beautiful Online Thing of the week: https://jameecrusan.com/new-index#/black-and-bluelack-and-lure/ Learn more about the Gullah Geechee people: https://gullahgeecheecorridor.org/thegullahgeechee/ the South Carolina Lowcountry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Carolina_Lowcountry Get ready for our next crush, Ana Teresa Fernández: https://anateresafernandez.com/ Follow ART CRUSH INTERNATIONAL on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/artcrush_international/ We’re on YouTube! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcIyQdD132sdIc23PO8k0vA/featured Send love letters to contact@artcrushinternational.com

    34 min

  6. 06/01/2021

    It’s Only Creepy If You Are: How BRIK TU-TOK Free Their Minds

    Join us on a trip to the harbour of Ghent, Belgium, where we meet Linde Carrijn and Maxim Storms, the avant-garde performance-duo known as BRIK TU-TOK. At their light-filled studio in an old red-brick factory we marvel at BRIK TU-TOK's handmade fashionable costumes, colorful accessories and extraordinary DIY music instruments. What's the Giggle Gallery, and can we come? Welcome to our crushes' bizarre, but fascinating universe! BRIK TU-TOK on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/briktutok/ Watch BRIK TU-TOK's music videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_kFfBUcDuc91hHBISrM26A All music during the interview is by BRIK TU-TOK. 'Worse' plays at 14'25", 'Cheap Trip' at 20'24" and 'Badass' at 26'40". Visual tour & transcript of the interview: https://artcrushinternational.com/brik-tu-tok Look up atelier Pantserschip, the collective of makers that's now housed in the old red-brick factory of I. Mahy & ses fils: https://www.instagram.com/atelierpantserschip/ Beautiful Online Thing: NauticalWaters on Etsy - https://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/NauticalWaters Our next crush! Shirley Watts of Natural Discourse: https://naturaldiscourse.org/ ART CRUSH INTERNATIONAL on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/artcrush_international/ Send your fan mail to: contact@artcrushinternational.com

    34 min

  7. 05/25/2021

    If You Escaped Nazi Germany, What Would You Do with Your One Precious Life? At 88, Edith Hillinger Is Still Making Art

    We rush to visit Edith Hillinger at her garden studio inside the West Berkeley house she built in the 1990s. Hillinger is 88 years old and studied at New York’s Cooper Union College in the 1960s. She draws from her childhood experiences as a refugee in Ankara, Turkey, to create obscenely masterful full-scale collages and paintings. She quotes Rilke! She tells us about fleeing Nazi Germany, her marriage, the women’s movement (and how it helped her get a divorce), and what it’s like to be an accomplished female artist in her later years. We fête her. Edith's website Edith on Wikipedia Edith on Instagram Read more about Edith's father, Franz Hillinger, on Wikipedia About White Terror in Hungary  Take a look at the Women in the Arts Foundation  Find out more about the Bay Area Women Artists' Legacy Project here Beautiful Online Thing: Dante's Divine Comedy Music at 6'50" and 18' is from the album The Long Embrace by Vega Victoria Our next crush! Ghent based performance duo BRIK TU-TOK ART CRUSH INTERNATIONAL on Instagram Visual tour and transcript of this interview at artcrushinternational.com We love mail! contact@artcrushinternational.com

    33 min

  8. 05/18/2021

    How Is a Textile Designer Like a Turtle? Leda Devoldere Is About to Find Out

    Join us on a trip to Oostakker, Belgium where we meet textile designer Leda Devoldere in the art studio she has in her parents' garden. Leda designs carpets, pillows and plaids in bright, vibrant colors and abstract shapes. She also has a lisp, which makes some English words hard to pronounce and her voice very easy to love. She knits almost all of her work by hand on her historic hand knitting machine, which makes every single object a real act of devotion. We are in full awe of all this beauty and high design coziness!  Leda online: ledadevoldere.com Atelier Leda on Instagram Visual tour of the interview on the ART CRUSH INTERNATIONAL website Beautiful Online Thing: Taryn O'Gorman Designs Read more about woollen Viking ship sails here Our next crush: Edith Hillinger! Contact Svea and Jozefien: contact@artcrushinternational.com Other crushes on our Instagram All music during the interview with Leda is from the album Abel by Kabas, a Ghent-based jazz quartet, with Jan Daelman (flute), Elias Devoldere (drums) (Leda's brother!), Thijs Troch (piano/harmonium) (Jozefien's cousin!) and Nils Vermeulen (double bass).

    23 min
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ART CRUSH INTERNATIONAL is a podcast from textile artist Jozefien Buydens and journalist Svea Vikander. Based in Belgium and Norway respectively, Jozefien and Svea have spent the last three years combing the globe for the world’s most interesting and unusual artist spaces. And now they’re ready to take you with them...

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    Jozefien Buydens & Svea Vikander
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  • Episodes
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