Exhibitionistas: Notes on Contemporary Art and Life

Joana P. R. Neves, art curator and writer
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Your art wonderment podcast.  With Joana P. R. Neves.  Exhibitionistas was born to expand the experience of art into wider spaces of conversation. It's the meta-cigarette after the art-sex.  Prompted by a question, each episode follows a surprising path onto a topic, an exhibition, a book, or an artist studio, through the scope of contemporary art.  Mid-journey, "Art Etiquette" offers a short break where a new guest surprises Joana with their own question about art. Between a Socratic dialogue and a boozy chinwag. And finally, to finish the episode with aplomb, comes "Brainstorm in a Teacup" where Joana reads notes from the week's writings, which she has described as "too interesting to miss out on, but too weird to build an episode on".  Joana P. R. Neves is an art writer and curator, co-founder and director of the art & residency space Worlding, and artistic director of Drawing Now Paris. Check out Joana's writing:  Art Thinkosaurus (Substack) In London? Keep up to speed with her art & residency space: Worlding (co-founded with artist Diogo Pimentão) Craving an art gift? Visit:  Worlding's Boutique.

  1. 5d ago ·  Video

    Art Criticism | Does it Still Matter? An Art Curator's Honest Reckoning

    Art criticism is vanishing from mainstream media, but here's the uncomfortable question: does art and culture still need critics? Our host, Joana P. R. Neves, art curator and writer, examines why critics are leaving big outlets without being replaced—and what this means for art criticism, artistic quality assessment, curatorial etiquette, and the future of art evaluation itself. What is art criticism actually for? And where does Joana's feminist critique of critique lead to? And who decides what's good art now? Or, rather, is “good art” the yardstick by which art experiences should be measured? Did you enjoy the episode? Think about supporting Exhibitionistas by leaving a small donation: https://buymeacoffee.com/exhibitionista Joana explores 3 questions in this episode: What is Art Criticism? Who reads it and who or what does art criticism serve? And finally, what is her own relation with it as someone who admittedly is not fond of the genre? Sign up for a tiered monthly support: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2624749/monetization/supporter_settings Your contribution keeps us going. Art Etiquette Segment guest:  Elizabeth Botten, Reference Specialist at the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art  Art question: what can we do to accommodate visitors and make their exhibition experience enjoyable while preserving art etiquette? Soon: Bonus – full length Art Etiquette episodes. Segment: Brainstorm in a Teacup: Come for the art, stay for the creative writing segment, where Joana reads short texts from her notebooks exposing her inner thoughts and odd fictional flash writing. Jingle: "Wunder", experimental poem by Joana P. R. Neves. 0:00: Intro: Where to continue your Exhibitionistas experience. 2:27: Today's question: is art criticism still valid? 4:56: Why are art critics vanishing? And how? 7:05: 3 guiding questions of the episode: what is it, who does it serve and who is reading - or not 8:46: What is art criticism? A scandal and a text. 15:35: Genius, excellence, quality: are these outdated questions? 24:35: Who is reading art criticism? 27:12: Art Etiquette with Elizabeth Botten 38:08: What does art criticism do, and what or who is it upholding? 46:44: Joana's honest reckoning with art criticism 54:14: Brainstorm in a Teacup (Creative Writing segment) Did the episode stir Art Wonderment memories? Share them via text or voice message. Support the show Created & Hosted by Dr. Joana P. R. Neves, art curator and writer with over 20 years of experience in the contemporary art field. Artistic director of Drawing Now Paris since 2018, she has worked across the industry, from the art market to education. She co-launched the art residency and project space Worlding in 2020. Exhibitionistas’ first year offered exhibition discussions with guest co-host Emily Harding; organically, it grew into a more experimental show exploring art topics, stories and interviews complemented by Joana’s publication Art Thinkosaurus on Substack. She champions ‘Art Wonderment’s’ embrace of complexity against the lure of ready-made opinions. A polyglot, she grew up in Lisbon, studied and lived in Paris, to finally settle in London with her artist husband, four children and two cats.  Find us: On Instagram – @exhibitionistas_podcast On Substack (NEWSLETTER: sign up!): Art Thinkosaurus > Exhibitionistas Files Online: www.exhibitionistaspodcast.com Do you want to be a guest on Art Etiquette? Reach out: joana@exhibitionistaspodcast.com Copyright: Joana P. R. Neves, 2024.

    Art Criticism | Does it Still Matter? An Art Curator's Honest Reckoning

  2. Jun 29 ·  Video

    Art Wonderment Manifesto | ft Lao Tzu, Susanna Inglada, Fernando Pessoa's Best Heteronym

    AI is forcing us to define what being human is. So, did our host, an art curator and writer, dare to create a Manifesto? Awkward? Or are we not used to women proclaiming things? How can art–seemingly at the brink of commodification–bear new forms of being human? Or is does it spotlight you, art wanderer? The self-help book "Tiny Experiments " by Anne-Laure Le Cunff sparked this art question: why did it excite such a meditative exploration of the role of art, and its urgent proclamation? Tune in to find out. Did you enjoy the episode? Think about supporting Exhibitionistas by leaving a small donation: https://buymeacoffee.com/exhibitionista What else to do when we live in a society of images, but don't know what they are? In Joana's words: "Art Wonderment is me, howling, in recognition, in celebration, in fear, in respect, in defiance." Read the rest of her text here because a podcast episode is not the same beast as a text. The complete experience combines the two. Sign up for a tiered monthly support: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2624749/monetization/supporter_settings Your contribution keeps us going. With the wonderful Catalan artist Susanna INGLADA; the timeless wisdom of LAO TZU's Tao Te Ching translated by Ursula K. LE GUIN–, the most innovative Portuguese poet, Fernando PESSOA and his mind blowing creation of more than 100 heteronyms (poets he invented with a persona, a life, and their own authored poetry), amongst which the most extreme of them all, Alberto Caeiro. Art Etiquette Segment guest:  Spencer Moore, Creator and host of The Hairy Chin Podcast Art question: why is contemporary art not considered art? Soon: Bonus – full length Art Etiquette episodes. Come for the art, stay for the creative writing–segment, Brainstorm in a Teacup, where Joana reads short texts from her notebooks exposing her inner thoughts and strange fictional flash writing. Jingle: "Wunder", experimental poem by Joana P. R. Neves. 00:00:00 - Intro: A Different Start + Featured Artist Susanna Inglada 00:02:06 - The Self-Help trap 00:13:36 - Art Wonderment Manifesto 00:19:26 - Art Etiquette with S. Moore: why is contemporary art not considered art? 00:28:25 - Art Wonderment Manifesto – Holding the paradox wit artist Susanna Inglada 00:33:07 - The mysterious life of Portugal’s most intriguing poet, Fernando Pessoa 00:42:06 - Brainstorm in a Teacup 00:43:55 - A message, a rant, a call for voice notes, a see you soon Did the episode stir Art Wonderment memories? Share them via text or voice message. Support the show Created & Hosted by Dr. Joana P. R. Neves, art curator and writer with over 20 years of experience in the contemporary art field. Artistic director of Drawing Now Paris since 2018, she has worked across the industry, from the art market to education. She co-launched the art residency and project space Worlding in 2020. Exhibitionistas’ first year offered exhibition discussions with guest co-host Emily Harding; organically, it grew into a more experimental show exploring art topics, stories and interviews complemented by Joana’s publication Art Thinkosaurus on Substack. She champions ‘Art Wonderment’s’ embrace of complexity against the lure of ready-made opinions. A polyglot, she grew up in Lisbon, studied and lived in Paris, to finally settle in London with her artist husband, four children and two cats.  Find us: On Instagram – @exhibitionistas_podcast On Substack (NEWSLETTER: sign up!): Art Thinkosaurus > Exhibitionistas Files Online: www.exhibitionistaspodcast.com Do you want to be a guest on Art Etiquette? Reach out: joana@exhibitionistaspodcast.com Copyright: Joana P. R. Neves, 2024.

    Art Wonderment Manifesto | ft Lao Tzu, Susanna Inglada, Fernando Pessoa's Best Heteronym

  3. Jun 15

    Art Copies v Originals | Is Art Wonderment Possible with a Reproduction of an Art Work?

    As an art curator and writer, our host is often faced with printed or digital art portfolios – does this art digital hygiene go against art etiquette? Is art appreciation valid, or even possible through a copy of an art work? Through art images in a book? This issue hides a bigger one: how do you experience art if you live in a country far from the big museums and collections? Our host gets candid and starts with a personal anecdote–she's not always lived in London... Did you enjoy the episode? Think about supporting Exhibitionistas by leaving a small donation: https://buymeacoffee.com/exhibitionista This ‘art anxiety’ is reinforced by the concept, coined by the German thinker Walter Benjamin, of “the aura”, the "here and now of the work of art" understood as a defense of the unique art experiences ‘in the flesh’. The episode relies on his seminal book, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction", and asks the following art questions: how does one experience art in spaces where there isn't any? How important is art as an object? If the art object ceases to be important, then what does art become? Sign up for a tiered monthly support: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2624749/monetization/supporter_settings Your contribution keeps us going. What if we’d failed to see what Benjamin alerts us to in his seminal art book "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"? What if mass reproduction of images brought an art liberation? What is preserving the here and now of the aesthetic experience was a form of gatekeeping? And how can we read the concept of aura today? Art Etiquette Segment guest:  Kathy Baron, Creator and host of  Women Who Sarcast; and her amazing publication Women who Podcast Magazine.  Art question: why is contemporary art not considered art? Soon: Bonus – full length Art Etiquette episodes. Come for the art, stay for the creative writing–segment, Brainstorm in a Teacup, where Joana reads short texts from her notebooks exposing her inner thoughts and strange fictional flash writing. Jingle: "Wunder", experimental poem by Joana P. R. Neves. Interested in Worlding, my art space & residency in London? https://www.worldingproject.com/ Interested in seeing the exhibition with Collective Aid and SOS MEDITERRANEE for Refugee Week? https://www.zeffy.com/en-GB/ticketing/across-lands-and-seas-exhibition Interested in our Workshops? https://www.zeffy.com/en-GB/ticketing/workshops-across-lands-and-seas-exhibition And our talk about courage? https://www.zeffy.com/en-GB/ticketing/across-lands-and-seas Know more about Collective Aid and SOS MEDITERRANEE. And here is the link to Kathy's awesome film Navel Gazing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogy1nTiCms0&t=205s Chapters: 00:00 Can we be moved by a reproduction of an artwork? 07:04 Walter Benjamin's "Aura" is often misunderstood 15:52 My 2nd hand art experience: 2 paintings by Caspar D. Friedrich 20:12 Benjamin, a fellow podcaster? And the real change brought by tech 29:07 Art Etiquette segment! 40:13 Walter Benjamin's Influence on Art and Technology 40:13 Copy v automated reproduction 53:26 Brainstorm in a teacup segment! 54:37 Answer to the question: can we be moved by a copy of art? Did the episode stir Art Wonderment memories? Share them via text or voice message. Support the show Created & Hosted by Dr. Joana P. R. Neves, art curator and writer with over 20 years of experience in the contemporary art field. Artistic director of Drawing Now Paris since 2018, she has worked across the industry, from the art market to education. She co-launched the art residency and project space Worlding in 2020. Exhibitionistas’ first year offered exhibition discussions with guest co-host Emily Harding; organically, it grew into a more experimental show exploring art topics, stories and interviews complemented by Joana’s publication Art Thinkosaurus on Substack. She champions ‘Art Wonderment’s’ embrace of complexity against the lure of ready-made opinions. A polyglot, she grew up in Lisbon, studied and lived in Paris, to finally settle in London with her artist husband, four children and two cats.  Find us: On Instagram – @exhibitionistas_podcast On Substack (NEWSLETTER: sign up!): Art Thinkosaurus > Exhibitionistas Files Online: www.exhibitionistaspodcast.com Do you want to be a guest on Art Etiquette? Reach out: joana@exhibitionistaspodcast.com Copyright: Joana P. R. Neves, 2024.

    Art Copies v Originals | Is Art Wonderment Possible with a Reproduction of an Art Work?

  4. Jun 1

    Time for Digital Hygiene | Why Analog Art Wonderment is Required Online

    Art curator, writer and host Joana P. R. Neves, asks the ultimate art question of art questions: could art appreciation be a powerful combination of the analog and the digital? Even stranger: how does it hinge on the meaning of word "wonder" and "wander"? In a nutshell, are we in need of art digital hygiene? Is Art Wonderment the response to the decline of 20th century art criticism? As ever, Joana gets candid and exposes her own journey into the art digital spaces and social digital platforms?  Did you enjoy the episode? Think about supporting Exhibitionistas by leaving a small donation: https://buymeacoffee.com/exhibitionista Art and culture go hand in hand in this episode. But what does Wordsworth's poetry have to do with art philosophy? And why is it connecte with Agnes Martin's meditative exploration of life and art? Learn about real art etiquette, plus the night Joana's curated performance went viral and Snoop Dogg reposted it. A new era. A new episode structure. New segments. Your art theory explained through unexpected perspective shifts. Sign up for a tiered monthly support: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2624749/monetization/supporter_settings Your contribution keeps us going. Segment: Brainstorm in a Teacup: Come for the art, stay for the creative writing segment, where Joana reads short texts from her notebooks exposing her inner thoughts and odd fictional flash writing. Music by Sarturn.  Visit Worlding online and sign up to our newsletter or follow us on Instagram: @worldingproject https://www.worldingproject.com Small donations are great! "Buys us a book": https://buymeacoffee.com/exhibitionista Do you LOVE podcasts? Do you want to support female-led businesses? Get your podcasting magazine here: Women Who Podcast Magazine - https://www.womenwhopodcastmag.com/ Sources: My definition of wonderment is actually taken from the noun ‘wonder’: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/wonder  Hollis Frampton’s text: Digression on the Photographic Agony, Artforum, November 1972: https://www.artforum.com/features/digressions-on-the-photographic-agony-209932/ Agnes Martin’s photo credits: Agnes Martin in the mesas near Cuba, New Mexico, 1974. Photo Gianfranco Gorgoni. Pliny the Elder’s mention of the origin myth of art is in Natural History Book XXXV My strange viral experience article Going Viral: if your exhibition is reposted by Snoop Dog, does it matter? https://substack.com/home/post/p-157358364 The article where I mention Katy Hessel’s strange Art Self Help Book, Art as Function, Automatic Education, and Self-Care: the Politics of Culture Replaced by the Commodification of Creativity: https://substack.com/@joanaprneves/p-190450394 Find Walter Benjamin’s first “read Walter Benjamin with me” here” https://joanaprneves.substack.com/s/your-crazy-aunt-book-shelf 00:00 Introduction to Exhibitionistas and New Format 01:30 Wonderment 06:03 Reading Out Loud 08:25 Agnes Martin on Joy 12:58 Ekphrasis 19:51 Digital Hygiene 41:32 Build Exhibitionistas With Me! 46:33 Brainstorm in a Teacup Segment 47:37 Outro Did the episode stir Art Wonderment memories? Share them via text or voice message. Support the show Created & Hosted by Dr. Joana P. R. Neves, art curator and writer with over 20 years of experience in the contemporary art field. Artistic director of Drawing Now Paris since 2018, she has worked across the industry, from the art market to education. She co-launched the art residency and project space Worlding in 2020. Exhibitionistas’ first year offered exhibition discussions with guest co-host Emily Harding; organically, it grew into a more experimental show exploring art topics, stories and interviews complemented by Joana’s publication Art Thinkosaurus on Substack. She champions ‘Art Wonderment’s’ embrace of complexity against the lure of ready-made opinions. A polyglot, she grew up in Lisbon, studied and lived in Paris, to finally settle in London with her artist husband, four children and two cats.  Find us: On Instagram – @exhibitionistas_podcast On Substack (NEWSLETTER: sign up!): Art Thinkosaurus > Exhibitionistas Files Online: www.exhibitionistaspodcast.com Do you want to be a guest on Art Etiquette? Reach out: joana@exhibitionistaspodcast.com Copyright: Joana P. R. Neves, 2024.

    Time for Digital Hygiene | Why Analog Art Wonderment is Required Online

  5. May 18

    Chris Kraus | Creative Freedom and Visual Art in “I Love Dick” | Art & Literature Edition

    Does obscurity lead to creative freedom? Why do I ask? Because of one sentence in American writer Chris Kraus' "I Love Dick" saying that once we accept obscurity, we can do what we want. Could this be the most daring feminist art statement? But then, why does it intersect with a cliché of sexual desire, the cowboy? Enter artists Sophie Calle, Hannah Wilke, intellectual Sylvère Lotringer, experimental art, the New York art scene of the 90s and more... Did you enjoy the episode? Think about supporting Exhibitionistas by leaving a small donation: https://buymeacoffee.com/exhibitionista Welcome to our Art & Literature series where we asked: where are the books that talk about art appreciation, art enjoyment, art judgement, being art enthusiast? Where is the fiction, the literary essays that discuss topics such as art wonderment, art criticism, creative freedom, creative flow, meditative explorations of art, and even art and technology? Well, we found a few art nuggets for you! Sign up for a tiered monthly support: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2624749/monetization/supporter_settings Your contribution keeps us going. Art Etiquette Segment guest:  Elizabeth Botten, Reference Specialist at the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art  Art question: what can we do to accommodate visitors and make their exhibition experience enjoyable while preserving art etiquette? Soon: Bonus – full length Art Etiquette episodes. Segment: Brainstorm in a Teacup: Come for the art, stay for the creative writing segment, where Joana reads short texts from her notebooks exposing her inner thoughts and odd fictional flash writing. Chapters: 00:00 Intro: On creative freedom and obscurity 02:51 A feminist sensation: "I Love Dick" by Chris Kraus  09:47 Dick, Sylvère... and Chris 15:12 The Structure of the Book 23:29 The Triangle of Obscurity 26:05 Exposure of Self or Obscurity of the Muse? 30:53 Transgression as Sexlessness 41:04 Economic Obscurity 47:21 Sex, Desire, and Visibility 54:26 Art, Identity, and Obscurity 55:44 The Life and Legacy of Hannah Wilke 01:09:39 Art Monsters 01:17:56 Outro Did the episode stir Art Wonderment memories? Share them via text or voice message. Support the show Created & Hosted by Dr. Joana P. R. Neves, art curator and writer with over 20 years of experience in the contemporary art field. Artistic director of Drawing Now Paris since 2018, she has worked across the industry, from the art market to education. She co-launched the art residency and project space Worlding in 2020. Exhibitionistas’ first year offered exhibition discussions with guest co-host Emily Harding; organically, it grew into a more experimental show exploring art topics, stories and interviews complemented by Joana’s publication Art Thinkosaurus on Substack. She champions ‘Art Wonderment’s’ embrace of complexity against the lure of ready-made opinions. A polyglot, she grew up in Lisbon, studied and lived in Paris, to finally settle in London with her artist husband, four children and two cats.  Find us: On Instagram – @exhibitionistas_podcast On Substack (NEWSLETTER: sign up!): Art Thinkosaurus > Exhibitionistas Files Online: www.exhibitionistaspodcast.com Do you want to be a guest on Art Etiquette? Reach out: joana@exhibitionistaspodcast.com Copyright: Joana P. R. Neves, 2024.

    Chris Kraus | Creative Freedom and Visual Art in “I Love Dick” | Art & Literature Edition

  6. May 4

    Marcel Proust | The Art Anxiety of Missing Artistic Quality with "La Berma" | Art & Literature Edition

    Isn't art trepidation about failing to spot artistic quality? Art curator and writer Joana P. R. Neves suggests that Proust's magnum opus tackles this particular art anxiety. So, how can art appreciation in his book "In Search of Lost Time" enlighten us about contemporary art judgements of artistic quality? Is it worth still asking how to spot a masterpiece? Perhaps the question may be: how do we recognise talent, rather than artistic quality? Or, would pleasure be a real indicator of artistic quality? Or is aesthetic pleasure inseparable from the art anxiety of failing to recognise it? Did you enjoy the episode? Think about supporting Exhibitionistas by leaving a small donation: https://buymeacoffee.com/exhibitionista Welcome to our Art & Literature series where we asked: where are the books that talk about art appreciation, art enjoyment, art judgement, being art enthusiast? Where is the fiction, the literary essays that discuss topics such as art wonderment, art criticism, creative freedom, creative flow, meditative explorations of art, and even art and technology? Well, we found a few art nuggets for you! Sign up for a tiered monthly support: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2624749/monetization/supporter_settings Your contribution keeps us going. Spotting great art may be trickier but more exciting than we think. We look into Proust, specifically into one of the most intriguing narrative lines of In Search of Lost Time (Vol I): the presumed greatness of the famous actress, "La Berma”, inspired by the very real and very famous turn of the century Sarah Bernhardt, whose performance tests the main character’s artistic judgment. Follow his tribulations with aesthetic anxiety, anticipation, experience, enjoyment and appreciation. Jingle: "Wunder", experimental poem by Joana P. R. Neves. Did the episode stir Art Wonderment memories? Share them via text or voice message. Support the show Created & Hosted by Dr. Joana P. R. Neves, art curator and writer with over 20 years of experience in the contemporary art field. Artistic director of Drawing Now Paris since 2018, she has worked across the industry, from the art market to education. She co-launched the art residency and project space Worlding in 2020. Exhibitionistas’ first year offered exhibition discussions with guest co-host Emily Harding; organically, it grew into a more experimental show exploring art topics, stories and interviews complemented by Joana’s publication Art Thinkosaurus on Substack. She champions ‘Art Wonderment’s’ embrace of complexity against the lure of ready-made opinions. A polyglot, she grew up in Lisbon, studied and lived in Paris, to finally settle in London with her artist husband, four children and two cats.  Find us: On Instagram – @exhibitionistas_podcast On Substack (NEWSLETTER: sign up!): Art Thinkosaurus > Exhibitionistas Files Online: www.exhibitionistaspodcast.com Do you want to be a guest on Art Etiquette? Reach out: joana@exhibitionistaspodcast.com Copyright: Joana P. R. Neves, 2024.

    Marcel Proust | The Art Anxiety of Missing Artistic Quality with "La Berma" | Art & Literature Edition

  7. Apr 20

    Adolfo Bioy Casares | Dark Side of Creativity in "The Invention of Morel" | Art & Literature Edition

    Is there a dark side to creativity? Can the intersection of art and literature reveal it? Host Joana P. R. Neves, an art curator and writer, steps back from her job, and into the art questions it stimulates by digging into her favourite books: can art and technology have a balanced relationship? What effect do their outcomes have on us, the spectators? Will art and literature bring us a sobering reckoning? "The Invention of Morel" (1940) by Argentinian writer Adolfo Bioy Casares brings together art and literature through cinema and its potential developments. Are we going through an "Invention of Morel" era? Did you enjoy the episode? Think about supporting Exhibitionistas by leaving a small donation: https://buymeacoffee.com/exhibitionista Is the figure of the visionary artist accurate? Bioy Casares laid out a novel about cinema and pre-empted computers and Ai, while asking the question: can we really merge life and art? If one was given the change, would one live in an endless cinematic loop? Welcome to our Art & Literature series where we asked: where are the books that talk about art appreciation, art enjoyment, art judgement, being art enthusiast? Where is the fiction, the literary essays that discuss topics such as art wonderment, art criticism, creative freedom, creative flow, meditative explorations of art, and even art and technology? Well, we found a few art nuggets for you! Sign up for a tiered monthly support: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2624749/monetization/supporter_settings Your contribution keeps us going. Jingle: "Wunder", experimental poem by Joana P. R. Neves. Chapters 00:00 The Island of Isolation06:36 The Mysterious Miracle37:28 Introduction to Adolfo Bioy Casares and 'The Invention of Morel'47:50 The Island and Its Inhabitants56:00 Morel's Invention and Its Implications01:04:29 The Narrator's Response and Ethical Considerations01:19:02 The Dark Side of Creativity and Technology01:30:14 The Interconnection of Human Condition and TechnologyDid the episode stir Art Wonderment memories? Share them via text or voice message. Support the show Created & Hosted by Dr. Joana P. R. Neves, art curator and writer with over 20 years of experience in the contemporary art field. Artistic director of Drawing Now Paris since 2018, she has worked across the industry, from the art market to education. She co-launched the art residency and project space Worlding in 2020. Exhibitionistas’ first year offered exhibition discussions with guest co-host Emily Harding; organically, it grew into a more experimental show exploring art topics, stories and interviews complemented by Joana’s publication Art Thinkosaurus on Substack. She champions ‘Art Wonderment’s’ embrace of complexity against the lure of ready-made opinions. A polyglot, she grew up in Lisbon, studied and lived in Paris, to finally settle in London with her artist husband, four children and two cats.  Find us: On Instagram – @exhibitionistas_podcast On Substack (NEWSLETTER: sign up!): Art Thinkosaurus > Exhibitionistas Files Online: www.exhibitionistaspodcast.com Do you want to be a guest on Art Etiquette? Reach out: joana@exhibitionistaspodcast.com Copyright: Joana P. R. Neves, 2024.

    Adolfo Bioy Casares | Dark Side of Creativity in "The Invention of Morel" | Art & Literature Edition

  8. Apr 6

    Virginia Woolf | Creative Flow and the Missing Paragraph | Art & Literature Edition

    Your host, writer and curator Joana P. R. Neves, invites you to read "The Mark on the Wall", a short and strange essay by the British writer Virginia Woolf. What prompts a meditative exploration, and how does it lead to art making? Is the creative flow gendered? Do female artists and writers have direct access to it? Is it possible for them to hold it, uninterrupted?  Did you enjoy the episode? Think about supporting Exhibitionistas by leaving a small donation: https://buymeacoffee.com/exhibitionista But there is yet another mystery: Joana finds a missing paragraph in her book, compared to the internet version of the text. Virginia Woolf's 'The Mark on the Wall' was about creative flow, but what happens to it once it has been edited, and has entered into the world though one of its creations?  Sign up for a tiered monthly support: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2624749/monetization/supporter_settings Your contribution keeps us going. How do we create? How to we get to that special place where we're in control while accepting the randomness of the reactive materials we work with? And what does that say about life?  Welcome to our Art & Literature series where we asked: where are the books that talk about art appreciation, art enjoyment, art judgement, being art enthusiast? Where is the fiction, the literary essays that discuss topics such as art wonderment, art criticism, creative freedom, creative flow, meditative explorations of art, and even art and technology? Well, we found a few art nuggets for you! Links, as promised: Explorations of Sex and Self (reference to the Angel in the House): https://joanaprneves.substack.com/p/explorations-of-sex-and-self About being drawn to "minor works": https://joanaprneves.substack.com/p/when-art-says-the-unspeakable Jingle: "Wunder", experimental poem by Joana P. R. Neves. Chapters 00:00 Unraveling the Mystery11:41 Introduction to the Special Series17:28 Virginia Woolf's Life and Influence32:31 The Angel in the House and Creative Freedom01:01:24 Reading 'The Mark on the Wall'Did the episode stir Art Wonderment memories? Share them via text or voice message. Support the show Created & Hosted by Dr. Joana P. R. Neves, art curator and writer with over 20 years of experience in the contemporary art field. Artistic director of Drawing Now Paris since 2018, she has worked across the industry, from the art market to education. She co-launched the art residency and project space Worlding in 2020. Exhibitionistas’ first year offered exhibition discussions with guest co-host Emily Harding; organically, it grew into a more experimental show exploring art topics, stories and interviews complemented by Joana’s publication Art Thinkosaurus on Substack. She champions ‘Art Wonderment’s’ embrace of complexity against the lure of ready-made opinions. A polyglot, she grew up in Lisbon, studied and lived in Paris, to finally settle in London with her artist husband, four children and two cats.  Find us: On Instagram – @exhibitionistas_podcast On Substack (NEWSLETTER: sign up!): Art Thinkosaurus > Exhibitionistas Files Online: www.exhibitionistaspodcast.com Do you want to be a guest on Art Etiquette? Reach out: joana@exhibitionistaspodcast.com Copyright: Joana P. R. Neves, 2024.

    Virginia Woolf | Creative Flow and the Missing Paragraph | Art & Literature Edition
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Your art wonderment podcast.  With Joana P. R. Neves.  Exhibitionistas was born to expand the experience of art into wider spaces of conversation. It's the meta-cigarette after the art-sex.  Prompted by a question, each episode follows a surprising path onto a topic, an exhibition, a book, or an artist studio, through the scope of contemporary art.  Mid-journey, "Art Etiquette" offers a short break where a new guest surprises Joana with their own question about art. Between a Socratic dialogue and a boozy chinwag. And finally, to finish the episode with aplomb, comes "Brainstorm in a Teacup" where Joana reads notes from the week's writings, which she has described as "too interesting to miss out on, but too weird to build an episode on".  Joana P. R. Neves is an art writer and curator, co-founder and director of the art & residency space Worlding, and artistic director of Drawing Now Paris. Check out Joana's writing:  Art Thinkosaurus (Substack) In London? Keep up to speed with her art & residency space: Worlding (co-founded with artist Diogo Pimentão) Craving an art gift? Visit:  Worlding's Boutique.

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