On Goingness

Jenny Morris
  • 5.0 (4)
  • ARTS

On Goingness is a pod project started by Jenny Morris, made with the intention of documenting transparent interviews with artists + creative entrepreneurs around the world. These talks are meant to lend an unfiltered lens into the underbelly of process and work. Thanks for being here! Want to reach out? Hit us up at ongoingnesspod@gmail.com or DM us on Instagram @ongoingnesspod. Find the Season 3 Spotify playlist here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6RSkd6XBsghph5zRtm6qWB?si=790b3623fabf4937

  1. Elan Rodman: On Persistence, Dealing Vintage, and Fashion Taboo

    08/11/2023

    Elan Rodman: On Persistence, Dealing Vintage, and Fashion Taboo

    Elan Rodman is a fashion professional with a flair for the past. He founded the @thelostandfoundmuseum on Instagram, a space that connects sportswear history with design and cultural histories. While a graduate student at Parsons School of Design in their M.A Fashion Studies program, he explored the possibilities of connecting fashion history with art and theory as a way to understand the effects fashion has on society. His interest in vintage clothing became a focal point, as his thesis focused on the history of taboo, seen through vintage t-shirt graphics and phraseology. Today, he is the Footwear & Packaging Specialist for the Reebok Archive in Boston, Massachusetts, where he combines his passion for footwear fashion history to help maintain Reebok’s rich legacy in sporting culture.  In this episode, Elan and I talk about his genuine and unconventional path to building a career in fashion, how he got started as a vintage dealer and the importance of pushing through rocky terrain to pursue your dreams.

    44 min
  2. Adam Trunell: On Community in Skid Row

    08/04/2023

    Adam Trunell: On Community in Skid Row

    Adam Trunell⁠ is an LA-based filmmaker. In the past, Adam's been a writer, producer, and editor, depending on the job. Eventually, by necessity, he had to do all those things at once, including camera. That, plus the need to make anything into something, is where you end up with "filmmaker." In this conversation we focus on Adam's feature documentary The Row that he shot and produced on his own in Skid Row, Los Angeles during Covid-19. We chat about unraveling typical expectations of community and the nonprofit harm reduction organization called ⁠The Sidewalk Project⁠. Below is Adam's written bio for this project: "The first time I heard someone cry on the streets of Skid Row, I was stunned, realizing it was only the first time. The sound should be an anthem in a place like this, its chorus rising every night with the moon. Instead it sang unremarkably among the silent, sleeping bodies curled on the sidewalk—impossible in repose—falling like a whisper on deaf ears.   That was my first year in Skid Row; eight since and I know better. Tears come at the breaking point, and if you’re already here, you’re past broke. By the here and now, you found a way to deal and people to deal with.  We co-exist in Skid Row, home of the eccentric, troubled, corrupted, enlightened, exemplary, and unhinged. It cuts a complicated beauty whose diversity is unknown in any modern city, anywhere. I keep friends who have roofs and walls and friends without; friends with addiction disorders and friends without; friends who make victims and those who’d been one.  None of us got the same story; all of us share the same space."

    1h 15m
  3. Christine Mai Nguyen: On Screen, Off Screen

    07/28/2023

    Christine Mai Nguyen: On Screen, Off Screen

    Christine Mai Nguyen (b. 1988 Fountain Valley, CA) is an artist living and working in Los Angeles. With a background in film studies and new media, Christine has been creating journalistic video diaries for the past 15 years. At the recommendation of a therapist she picked up clay in an effort to find peace in a tactile, off screen pursuit. She found comfort in the beginner’s mind of a new medium.  I’ve been following and loving her soothing video content on YouTube for 10+ years, and was excited she agreed to pop on for an episode. In this one, we discuss how she got started on Youtube, how she’s maintained it all of these years, her start to DJ’ing and ceramics, how creativity can spring from both organic and structured spaces, and how switching mediums to avoid burnout is often a good idea.  You can see her show "On Returning" on view until September 1st at Umico Gallery.

    47 min
  4. Laura Splan: On Art, Science, and Sticky Settings

    07/21/2023

    Laura Splan: On Art, Science, and Sticky Settings

    Laura Splan is a transdisciplinary artist working at the intersections of science, technology, and culture. She creates conceptually layered and carefully crafted artworks that explore the sublime complexity of the biological world while unraveling entanglements of natural and built systems. Her research-driven projects connect hidden artifacts of biotechnology to everyday lives through embodied interactions and sensory experiences. Recent exhibitions have included immersive installations, networked devices, and tactile sculptures. Splan often engages audiences with themes in her work through companion programming, including participatory workshops covering laboratory techniques, specialized software, and textiles methods that she uses in her own studio practice. Her artworks exploring biomedical imaginaries have been commissioned by the Centers for Disease Control Foundation and the Bruges Triennial. Her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Arts & Design, Pioneer Works, and New York Hall of Science and is represented in the collections of the Thoma Art Foundation, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, NYU’s Langone Art Collection, and the Berkeley Art Museum. Reviews and articles including her work have appeared in The New York Times, Wired, Discover, designboom, American Craft, and Frieze. Splan’s research and residencies have been supported by the Jerome Foundation, Institute for Electronic Arts, Harvestworks, the Knight Foundation, and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. In this episode, Laura and I discuss where art and science meet, Sticky settings in software and DNA, the relationship between learning and teaching, the presence of sound, early memories of where her art practice began and where it stands now.

    1h 7m
  5. Torkil Stavdal: On A Photograph's Unspoken Story

    07/14/2023

    Torkil Stavdal: On A Photograph's Unspoken Story

    Torkil Stavdal (b. 1974) is a Norwegian photographer and curator currently residing in New York. At the age of 12, Torkil's grandmother gifted him a Kodak Instamatic 126, and he has not stopped taking photos since. In the mid-90's, after studying photography more formally in Copenhagen, he continued his education by assisting iconic photographers such as Knut Bry, Johan Wildhagen and Massimo Leardini, amongst others. Originally based out of Oslo, Norway, he started his studio "Konfekt" in the early 2000s with Lars Pettersen, Catarina Caprino and Tove Sivertsen. In 2009, Torkil moved to NYC and worked with a number of editorial and commercial clients, including: the New York Times, Elle, Dwell, Apple, VW, Bollinger Motors and Pollack Associates. In 2011, he added motion to his repertoire, and has since worked on shows and movies with Netflix, Lionsgate, BBC, the History Channel and several others. Torkil appreciates the unspoken in a photograph; that there is a story that the spectator gets to finish. In this episode, Torkil and I chat about nature taking back human occupied spaces, the functionality and use of objects (or lack thereof), the photo as a conversation starter, finding your play space, and keeping his art practice going. You can find the gate photo Torkil references in our conversation on our instagram page ⁠here.

    1h 10m
  6. Chelsea Hodson: On Writing, Ritual, and Rose Books

    07/07/2023

    Chelsea Hodson: On Writing, Ritual, and Rose Books

    Chelsea Hodson is the author of the book of essays Tonight I'm Someone Else and the chapbook Pity the Animal. She is the publisher and editor of Rose Books, and she founded the Morning Writing Club. She has taught at Bennington College and co-founded the Mors Tua Vita Mea workshop in Sezze Romano, Italy. She has been awarded fellowships from MacDowell Colony and PEN Center USA. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Frieze Magazine, Hazlitt, i-D, and elsewhere. She lives in Sedona, Arizona. In this episode, Chelsea and I discuss her move from NYC to Sedona, finding stability in instability, allowing a project to find its own timeline, starting an indie press, and Chelsea's writing process.

    1h 3m
  7. Kimberly Jenkins: On the Cultural Impact of Dress

    06/30/2023

    Kimberly Jenkins: On the Cultural Impact of Dress

    Kimberly Jenkins is the founder of The Fashion and Race Database and Artis Solomon Consulting. Artis Solomon offers consulting on fashion history and cultural awareness, and is a one of a kind learning platform that is supported by subscribing universities and museums globally. Kim formerly held the position of Assistant Professor of Fashion Studies at Toronto Metropolitan University and lecturer at Parsons School of Design and Pratt Institute. She has spent over ten years studying the impact of our clothes and how we express ourselves, through the lenses of politics, race, psychology and anthropology. She is best known for introducing the course "Fashion and Race" at Parsons, and for working as an education consultant for Gucci in Europe and Asia to support their efforts in design and cultural awareness. Most recently, Kim co-produced and hosted the podcast, "The Invisible Seam," in partnership with Tommy Hilfiger, highlighting the underrepresented contributions Black culture has made to fashion.  In this episode, Kim and I discuss how she became interested in the cultural contexts of dress, how she became disenchanted and then excited again by building much-needed communities and databases within the industry, on looking to fill voids within the industry, and how her journey blossoming towards an authentic career has led to invaluable conversations and communities.

    48 min

  8. 08/18/2022

    Leona Naess: On Brood X, Resilience, and The Act of Letting Go

    Singer-songwriter Leona Naess made her name in the early 2000s on warm, radiant, lyrically-driven indie rock, earning a wide range of rave reviews. In those years, Naess was living in the historic Chelsea Hotel and had put out three records in quick succession between 2000 and 2003. Naess’ diverse musical past also includes time studying music composition and even singing onstage as a child with her then-stepmother, the legendary Diana Ross. Midway through making her new album in 2021, Naess read an article detailing the upcoming emergence of Brood X, a family of cicadas due to emerge along the East coast of the United States for the first time since 2004—the same year she’d last released an album. The same year she met her now-husband. The same year her father passed away. And in the intervening years, Naess had lived her own life “underground,” nesting, preparing for motherhood and growing her family. After 17 years, birthed from a kit of remarkable vulnerability, honesty, and strength, Brood X (via MessyNaess Records/distributed through AWAL and co-produced by Max Cooke) is an album of rebirth, reemergence, and rediscovery. In this episode, we discuss the emergence of a new project after years in the making, the wisdom gleaned from several years in the music industry, keeping your art and work honest, and the merging and balance of work, motherhood and real life.

    1h 11m
See All (26)

Ratings & Reviews

5
out of 5
4 Ratings

About

On Goingness is a pod project started by Jenny Morris, made with the intention of documenting transparent interviews with artists + creative entrepreneurs around the world. These talks are meant to lend an unfiltered lens into the underbelly of process and work. Thanks for being here! Want to reach out? Hit us up at ongoingnesspod@gmail.com or DM us on Instagram @ongoingnesspod. Find the Season 3 Spotify playlist here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6RSkd6XBsghph5zRtm6qWB?si=790b3623fabf4937

Information

  • Creator
    Jenny Morris
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2023
  • Episodes
    26
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Jenny Morris
  • Show Website
    On Goingness