ABC Radio National, The Art Show with Daniel Browning
Broadcast: Wed 16 Mar 2022, 10:05am

Over the course of his career Isaac Julien has moved from making art films shown in cinemas to making films shown in art galleries, unfolding over multiple screens. His lavish, cinematic installations tell stories of Black identity, immigrant workers trapped in a British underclass and heroic figures like the 19^th C. abolitionist Frederick Douglass. But also films about architecture and design – such as the revolutionary ideas of Brazilian modernist Lina Bo Bardi. Isaac's work is on show now in Adelaide at the Samstag Museum of Art and at the John Curtin Gallery in Perth.

Listen Here

Copyright 2022, Australian Broadcasting Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

Ep 24 | Djon Mundine OAM

UniSA visiting research fellow, writer, curator, activist and proud Bandjalung man Djon Mundine OAM sits down with Samstag’s Associate Curator Anna Zagala to discuss his venerable career.   

Along the way Djon shares his curatorial process, the importance of maintaining a wide perspective and open approach, how the Aboriginal Memorial came about, and what the dingo has to tells us about settler culture.  

ON ART is supported by the Gordon Darling Foundation and Solstice Podcasting, edited and produced in Tarntanya/Adelaide on 11 March 2022.

Ep 23: Helen Fuller and Khai Liew | Samstag Director Erica Green sits down with two Tarntanya/Adelaide-based makers, ceramicist Helen Fuller and designer Khai Liew.

Helen Fuller’s exhibition of objects or ‘pots’ as she refers to them, is currently on at Samstag Museum of Art presented in collaboration with Khai Liew who conceived of the imaginative installation.

They discuss Helen’s love of the night sky in the Flinders Ranges, her recently recent foray in working with clay, how a visit to Helen’s home and studio was a source of inspiration to Khai, and the steps that led them both to the present moment.

ON ART is supported by the Gordon Darling Foundation and Solstice Podcasting, edited and produced in Tarntanya/Adelaide on 8 March 2022.

Ep 20 | In the latest episode of ON ART, Marseille-based, Adelaide-born artist Madison Bycroft on their new moving image commission BIOPIC or Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste André Timothée  (2021) with Samstag curator Gillian Brown. In a wide-ranging conversation, they discuss the making and presentation of a feature length film, the politics of storytelling and the philosophical notion of opacity.

Ep 19 | In this episode, Naarm/Melbourne based artist Alex Martinis Roe on the works that comprise her exhibition, To Become Two with Samstag curator Joanna Kitto. They discuss feminist political practices and relationships within the collectives doing that work, as well as Alex's experience as a Samstag scholar and the ways the scholarship has impacted her practice in the years since.

Ep 18 | Hear from artists of the 2021 Adelaide//International. James Tylor speaks with poet Dominic Guerrera about the mistakes, mistranslations and loss of knowledge resulting from European colonist processes in documenting Kaurna culture. Jesse Jones discusses Tremble, Tremble—a dramatic presentation proclaiming a new social order from a female perspective—with exhibition curator Gillian Brown.

Photo: James Tylor and Dominic Guerrera by Sia Duff