Uncomics

Allan Haverholm
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Uncomics is an ongoing project to explore the intersection between comics and contemporary art — in practice and theory.

  1. 12/27/2022

    The odradek of it all: a Kafka coda to the first season of the Uncomics podcast

    In which Uncomics podcast host Allan Haverholm meditates on Kafka's tangled and ambiguous character, the odradek. Please see shownotes on uncomics.org for transcript.

    22 min

  2. 11/12/2022

    Mark Badger, from Donald Judd to Batman and everything in between

    When Mark Badger started out as a comics artist working for Marvel and DC Comics, his fine arts influences alienated his editors so much they singled him out as the very worst artist in their freelancing roster. Times have changed, though, and Badger's continued explorations into the duality between comics and modern art makes him the perfect, final guest in the Uncomics series of artist talks!

    1h 2m

  3. 11/02/2022

    Aidan Koch on the ecologies of comics and fine art

    You will be hard pressed to find a better exemplar of an artist bridging contemporary art and comics than Aidan Koch. She is a long time alternative comics favourite, exhibited and published by the Whitney museum and MoMA — her suggestive and fragmented narratives spanning comics, animation, art installations and jewellery. Make yourself comfortable as Uncomics host Allan Haverholm sits down to talk to Aidan Koch about straddling two very different art worlds; making comics inspired by classic works of art; and applying her art to urgent environmental concerns.

    1h 5m

  4. 10/23/2022

    Performing an Ollie: Oliver East on his artistic negotiations with space and place

    As often as other artists have cited Oliver East on the Uncomics podcast, it was a matter of time before host Allan Haverholm sat down to talk with himself about the life and process of a walking cartoonist, poet, university lecturer, and painter of street rubbish. Learn how skateboarding is an act of remixing architecture, about transforming space into place, and how East has made up his career as he goes along. All this, with a healthy serving of self deprecation, in this episode of the Uncomics podcast!

    1h 18m

  5. 10/14/2022

    The many transformations, cycles, and layers of Dunja Janković

    Through the 2010s, Dunja Janković churned out dizzying, confounding and increasingly abstract comics, before she turned her creative focus to other art media like art installation and screen printing. Talking to Allan Haverholm in 2020, however, it becomes clear that comics never really lost their grip on her. Hear about her nomadic life and practice (even during a pandemic!), the allures of abstraction and the need for immediacy in this episode of the Uncomics podcast!

    1h 6m

  6. 10/05/2022

    A mass for you to untangle: Peony Gent on her comics and installation art

    Between her ambiguous comics, gorgeous illustrations, installation art, and quilt making(!), Peony Gent is a renaissance multi-hyphenate. In this episode, she sits down with host Allan Haverholm to explain how they're all connected, how she creates gaps for her readers' interpretations to live in, and to declare her great love for Dungeons and Dragons.

    1h 11m

  7. 09/26/2022

    Special roundtable with Simon Russell and Gareth A Hopkins

    In this very wholesome threesome, Simon Russell and Gareth A Hopkins rejoin Uncomics host Allan Haverholm to discuss what really sets uncomics apart from, say, a Google image search; the "sound" of individual fonts; the singer Sting's sex life, and how a Finnish audience might be more open to uncomics performances. Please note that this conversation builds on the ones in the last two episodes, and it is recommended that you listen to those first! Visit uncomics.org/podcast.html to find all episodes.

    58 min

  8. 09/16/2022

    Comics are a chemical process: Simon Russell

    Simon Russell is a man of many hats in the British comics scene — (un)comics creator, editor, graphic designer, and more. He talks to host Allan Haverholm about miscolouring Garfield, setting comics on a chemical formula, using the ashes of his own burnt works in paint to make new work, and putting a highly collectible comic book into a concrete slab.

    1h 2m
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Uncomics is an ongoing project to explore the intersection between comics and contemporary art — in practice and theory.

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  • Creator
    Allan Haverholm
  • Years Active
    2K
  • Episodes
    14
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
  • Show Website
    Uncomics