More and more people like and listen to podcasts a lot. There are many good podcasts to listen to and we are noticing this in the compilation of BK information. Perhaps you have extra time during the summer to listen to podcasts and are looking for tips. We have those for you. We collected quite a few podcasts and some YouTube films related to art and culture. We begin our collection, of course, with our own podcast. The links to the podcast always refer to the last published episode (first week of July 2024), but once in Spotify, you can find the other episodes very easily.
What's that doing here?
Ten-part podcast series by BK-information in which philosopher and expert on art in public space Esther Didden and a co-host discuss artists who realize their work within a social context. A context in which very different criteria apply than within the "usual" art discourse.
Art is long
Interview program in collaboration with online art magazine Mister Motley. The pace of alternates and emerging artists is high, airtime for contemporary art modest. In Kunst is Lang, Luuk Heezen talks with a contemporary artist for an hour.
The Lonely Palette
American Tamar Avishai is an art historian and radio producer. Each episode she chooses a work of art in a museum and questions visitors as they stand in front of it. She then goes deeper into the background of the work.
99% invisible
Podcast by American radio maker Roman Mars on all the thinking that goes into objects we never think about. The unnoticed architecture and design that shape our world.
Naked on a Rug
Women are depicted naked on a rug in a museum at least as often as they are represented there as makers. To change that, Heske ten Cate and Yuki Kho are creating an alternative Rolodex full of female makers with the podcast Naked on a Rug. Each episode features a female guest who is interviewed at home or at work about a work of art by a female creator. Podcast of the radio program Never More Sleep.
Arts at CERN
Arts at CERN is a leading arts and science program that fosters dialogue between artists and physicists at CERN through residencies, art commissions and exhibitions. At CERN, the European laboratory for particle physics, scientists investigate the fundamental constituents of matter.
To celebrate its 10th anniversary, Arts at CERN launched a Podcast. Artists and CERN physicists who met at the world's largest physics laboratory discuss topics that inspire their scientific research and artistic practices.
Working title
There's a lot of talk in the arts about what people do, but less about how they do it. In the ten-part podcast Working title flex Alix de Massiac and Zoë Dankert about working conditions, the disinterest of the IRS, mental health, getting fired and the mythical Vincent van Gogh. The two initiators are writers and editors who have been freelancing in the visual arts world for a few years now. Since the beginning, they have looked around with amazement at the way working in the arts is and especially is not regulated. For artists and freelancers, but also for people in permanent employment. How does that work, working in art?
Name Takes
Art Institute Melly presents a new story-based podcast. Name Takes tells stories about naming; from street names to names of buildings, people and beyond. Inviting artists and talking about cases from the art world, podcast host Kay Em highlights the ways art can play a role in making meaning. The pilot season of Name Takes consists of four episodes dealing with naming, name change, adopting a name and name use.
Entangled
Platform DIS is a new platform for visual art and reflection with a focus on ecological issues. The podcast grew out of the long-running research project Entangled, in which writer-artist Miek Zwamborn, agro-ecologist Willem Brandenburg, sound artist Herman van den Muijsenberg and artistic infrastructurist Wouter Engelbart of Platform DIS address the question "what interaction exists and can result between seaweeds and other communities. The collaboration leads to the understanding that seaweed should be on the European agenda because it offers society socio-economic and ecological values that deserve immediate attention.
Symposium
Club Solo created the podcast Symposium in three episodes, as a follow-up to its recently published book on the future and artists' initiatives.
Art & Bondcast
In collaboration with the Kunstenbond, the Arts Education Department is launching a Podcast channel for and by the creative sector. Manu van Kersbergen talks with guests from the cultural field about various topics and themes that are currently trending topics within our daily work. Stimulating conversations, answers to complicated questions by the Arts Association lawyer, a nomination from the heart of students and pupils for the best arts professional teacher.
Destruction as Discourse
In this podcast series, Albert Westerhoff sketches in the contours of the phenomenon of artistic vandalism: think Robert Rauschenberg erasing an original Willem de Kooning, among others. Alexander Brenner painting dollar signs with spray paint over works by Maljevich and Mondrian. Or the Chapman Brothers who painted rainbows in pastel colors over some original paintings by Adolf Hitler. Each "destructive appropriation" thus has its own dynamic life story.
Points of Entry
Points of Entry is an international podcast about reinventing cultural organizations in a rapidly changing world. Each episode is an intimate and wide-ranging conversation with artists, curators and activists from around the world. The Podcast explores who they are, what they do and how their unique practices and perspectives can help us think differently about art and the people it moghttps://open.spotify.com/show/2uoLzjhh976fs4HhJJtowA?si=48f24d94334944a9ible.
The Octopus
During the months of February and March 2023, the podcast series The Octopus published. In this series, artist Nele Brökelmann and Witte Rook explored in eight conversations with artists and curators how we can define the artist's process. The title is based on the metaphor of the octopus, a living creature with eight tentacles that can function independently.
Feedback
As editor of Metropolis M, Alix de Massiac hears and sees a lot of art. Interviews and sounds from the white cube and elsewhere draw you into the exhibition and form a time document of Dutch art anno 2023.
Cannot exist
A podcast about nonexistent art. In conversation with Lieneke Hulshof and Maurits de Bruijn, artists talk about a work they never completed. The stories give an insight into the world behind the successes our museums do achieve. How do you describe something as physical as a work of art if it never actually existed?
Agenda item
Agenda items define the conversation - at work, in politics, at the association and during ongoing collaborations in the cultural field. An agenda item as a reminder, for clarification or as a planning tool. Super handy. But who or what sets the cultural policy agenda? As a link between cultural policy and practice, the Boekman Foundation looks for ways to fulfill its linking function, so in the podcast they ask Agenda item each episode a thinker, doer, maker, organizer or researcher to introduce a point.
Art is Collective
What does it mean to be a collective? In the ten-part podcast Art is Collective - the special spring series of Kunst is Lang - host Luuk Heezen goes in depth for an hour for ten weeks with a different collective each time. Art is Collective looks for makers who make, live and/or work together - collective is also just a term and terms can fall short.
Taking Art Apart
The podcast dives into themes surrounding contemporary art, philosophy and personal stories from a variety of people within the art world. Taking Art Apart is an experimental podcast series for both artists and institutions, curious listeners and casual passersby. The series consists of six main episodes.
Testing Grounds
As the climate crisis accelerates, how can artist residencies be testing grounds for new and better ways of living and working? This eight-part podcast series brings together artists, researchers and activists from across Scandinavia and Scotland to explore this question. Each episode looks at the crisis through the lens of an artist residency.
Culture Shift
Culture Shift is a five-part podcast about digital transformation for culture professionals. In our digital world, the cultural sector cannot be left behind. How is it engaging the audiences of the future? What are the most progressive theaters, museums and pop venues doing? How do you make the culture shift?
Future Materials Encounters
Future Materials encourages the development of ecologically responsible art and design practices by gathering and disseminating knowledge and research around sustainable, non-toxic materials. The four podcasts bring together creators Sarmīte Polakova, Gaia d'Arrigo, Eline ten Busschen, Pei-Ying Lin, as well as Future Materials Fellows Jesse Adler and Dorieke Schreurs reflecting on the Future Materials Bank, the language of materiality, and their own making practices.
Art Force
A five-part podcast series by Kunstloc Brabant in which the cultural sector and politics meet. In each podcast, a politician talks to someone from the cultural sector. One theme takes center stage. The podcast aims to make politicians aware of the innovative capacity of the cultural sector.
Northern Lights
In episode 1 of season 2 of Noorderlicht the podcast, host Joost Wierenga joins photographer Patrick Laan and mixed media artist and researcher Roosje Klap to talk about A.I. and how it affects the art landscape. Questions such as: Why are we all talking so much about A.I.? How do you deal with all these developments in education? and Are there artists we really need to keep an eye on? will be discussed. Joost also speaks with photomedia artist Boris Eldagsen about his experience with A.I. and the Sony World Photography Award.
Youtube
James Kalm
Not in the Netherlands but viewable in the Netherlands is the youtube channel of James kalm. An American artist who visits and comments on exhibitions in New York galleries on his bicycle and armed with a video camera.
School of Life Youtube
The School of Life was founded in 2008 by British philosopher and writer Alain de Botton. The school's mission is to present philosophical ideas about everyday life for a curious audience. Most of what we think of every day has been thought of before. And often a lot better. Nearly three thousand years of intellectual development provides us with a wealth of bright ideas for everyday life. Philosophers, artists, writers and scientists teach us to become aware of topics you were not taught in school: how to find a job that suits you? What is a good friend? How do you argue well? How do you have a real conversation? In addition to the online courses (for a fee) through the website, there are many free short videos on Youtube.
Do you know of another podcast about art that is not on our list? Let us know via redactie@bk-info.nl
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