On Display By Raw And Radical - Conversations With Extraordinary Women In The Arts

Curator and art historian Nathalie Herschdorfer shares with us her wisdom and thoughts on the body and body-image, the influence of photography on the self-conception of the body, including its importance in the emergence of social media. Nathalie Herschdorfer talks about her journey of becoming an art historian, the experiences that have raised her awareness of the gender disparity in the art world, what this means for the industry, and for her research on the body and body-image. She speaks about several kinds of deconstruction and reflects on how the evolving photography practices have impacted these processes. Finally, she gives insightful thoughts on her book “Body” and the ‘feminist prism’, sculpting the landscape of art photography nowadays and how it has come to change through the emergence of social media. Nathalie closes the conversation with final reflections on the importance of women’s experience – as women – as they relate to their art. Conversation Highlights When it becomes clear that coun

In this episode, Laia Abril discusses the origins of her career, her methodology, the themes she explores in her work, often related to women, such as rape and abortion. She also shares her insights from creating art out of polarizing issues, and being a woman in the art world. Laia Abril traces back to what led her to study journalism, then end up doing art photography through a need to communicate about certain stories. She discusses the myriad ways in which to express a story, and the roadblocks she’s faced during her career in attempting to shed light on certain difficult stories and realities. Laia tells us how her work has naturally veered towards a central theme: being a woman. Moreover, she explores with us what this means in the art world, discusses the roles of our institutions and the paradoxical fact that these very creative institutions are sometimes averse to work that depicts themes that still create unease: abortion, rape. She shares with us the intricacies of her art and the challenges of wo

Violaine Lochu tells us about her fascination with voice, which led to her art, and how this materializes in her performances and installations. She also talks about her thoughts on being a woman in her field, her work process, and all the forms her art can take. Violaine Lochu shares her fascination on voice and how she uses it for her art, a transdisciplinary practice which takes its roots in encounters with humans and non-humans and voice recordings. She talks about her process, her discipline and emotional connection to her art, her views on being a woman artist, and speaks about her upcoming exhibition at the Galerie Analix Forever: MblaHah. Conversation Highlights How Violaine uses voice in her art The role of improvisation, and an improvised performance night Being a woman in the arts for Violaine Violaine’s upcoming exhibition at Galerie Analix Forever: MblaHah To learn more about our guests and our podcast, please visit rawradical.com This podcast is supported by Pro Helvetia the swiss art

Olivia Fahmy tells us about her background as an art historian in relation to her curatorial work, the co-founding and running of the independent art space Tunnel Tunnel, and the question of heritage, particularly attached to her recent curation of African contemporary art. Show summary Olivia Fahmy begins by tracing back to her roots: how she developed an interest in art history which propelled her to current career, explaining that she initially didn’t have encouraged exposure to the art world. She goes on elaborating on the question of heritage and legitimacy, having Egyptian parents. She co-founded an independent art space, Tunnel Tunnel, and talks about the experience of this collective and what they strive to achieve through their projects, with a highlight on diversity and multiplicity. She speaks about the relation between curatorial work and societal changes, being a woman in her field of work, the reshaping of education, discrepancies in matters of equality and identity, the panel discussions on ph

Nadine Wietlishbach talks about her career as a curator and her philosophy in relation to exhibitions and art, and insights on being a woman in her environment. Nadine Wietlishbach has an unusual background for her career as a curator and museum director: she has no formal education or background in arts history. But her immense curiosity and interest for visual arts in all its mediums has propelled her to her current standing. In this episode we discuss the catalyst of her interest in visual arts, where she draws inspiration from, her approach and vision on exhibition creation and the space that surrounds it, the reality of contemporary photography being a medium of exclusion, and her punk attitude coasting through her career. Conversation Highlights Nadine’s background and inspiration The art of making exhibitions Photography: a medium of exclusion On Institutions’ social responsibilities & the punk attitude To learn more about our guests and our podcast, please visit rawradical.com This podcas

Founder of the Women Photographers International Archive (WOPHA), Aldeide Delgado comes in to talk about her organization, the ongoing research project that unveiled the work of past generations of women artists/photographers in Cuba, leading to a career defined by her contributions to photography, empowering women and gender equality through establishing meaningful connections and threads across multiple organizations, eventually redefining art history. Show Summary Aldeide Delgado has been on a mission to uncover lost art and artists, particularly women photographers, particularly in Cuba, where she started out. She founded the Women Photographers International Archive (WOPHA). While studying art history she noticed a gap in the curriculum that had failed to notice women in the history of Cuban Photography before the 90s. This has led to her ongoing research that aims to uncover some of this lost art and forgotten women photographers. This in turn led to the creation of WOPHA – Women Photographers Internat

Celebrated and award-winning contemporary photographer Jessica Backhaus is on the show as the first guest of the season to talk about her artistic journey from being a child brought up around Art, to her photography studies, mentorship with Gisele Freund, first assignments, and her current work as one of the most highly regarded contemporary photographers in Germany. She shares valuable insights and meditations on her career and being a woman in her field of work. Show Summary Jessica Backhaus has had a long career. So in this packed double-episode, we untangle the several aspects of Jessica’s life, roots, career, and passion. In Part 1, she talks about her childhood and novice experiences as a photographer: from being a student in Paris, to getting under the mentorship of iconic Gisèle Freund, her first professional assignments, moving to New York, and being a woman in a field of work that held strong stigma against women at the time Jessica started working. In Part 2, we will delve deeper into Jessica’s wo

Celebrated and award-winning contemporary photographer Jessica Backhaus is on the show as the first guest of the season to talk about her artistic journey from being a child brought up around Art, to her photography studies, mentorship with Gisele Freund, first assignments, and her current work as one of the most highly regarded contemporary photographers in Germany. She shares valuable insights and meditations on her career and being a woman in her field of work. Show Summary Jessica Backhaus has had a long career. So in this packed double-episode, we untangle the several aspects of Jessica’s life, roots, career, and passion. In Part 1, she talks about her childhood and novice experiences as a photographer: from being a student in Paris, to getting under the mentorship of iconic Gisèle Freund, her first professional assignments, moving to New York, and being a woman in a field of work that held strong stigma against women at the time Jessica started working. In Part 2, we will delve deeper into Jessica’s wo

This episode is part of a series of four live round tables that took place in the art fair artgenève in early March 2022. They took place in French and will be available soon in English as a dubbed version. La Fluidité du Genre, la Fluidité de l’Art/The Fluidity of Gender, the Fluidity of Art Dimanche 6 mars à 15 heures, stand A10 / Sunday March 6th 3 p.m. stand A10 avec Véronique Caye, artiste, FR Angela Marzullo, artiste, CH/IT Victoria Mühlig, conservatrice au Musée d’art de Pully, CH Barbara Polla, autrice, commissaire d’expositions indépendante et galeriste, CH « Et peut-être les sexes sont-ils plus parents qu’on ne croit, et le grand renouvellement du monde consistera peut-être en ce que l’homme et la jeune fille, libérés de tout sentiment erroné et de toute répugnance, ne se chercheront plus comme des contraires, mais comme frère et sœur, et comme voisins, et se réuniront en tant qu’êtres humains pour porter ensemble, avec simplicité, sérieux et patience, ce que le sexe a de gr

This episode is part of a series of four live round tables that took place in the art fair artgenève in early March 2022. They took place in French and will be available soon in English as a dubbed version. Sexisme, Discrimination Positive et Qualité Artistique/Sexism, Positive Discrimination, and Artistic Quality Samedi 5 mars à 18 heures, stand A10 / Saturday, March 5th, 3 p.m. stand A10 avec Emilie Ding, artist, CH Delphine Bedel, artiste, éditrice et présidente de la Fondation Engagement Arts NL, NL Nathalie Herschdorfer, directrice du Musée des Beaux-Arts Le Locle, CH Alain Quemin, professor of sociology of art, GEMAS - Sorbonne Université / Institut Universitaire de France, FR Lancée depuis de nombreuses années aux Etats-Unis par rapport aux discriminations raciales, l’idée de la discrimination positive est de favoriser les femmes dans un certain nombre de domaines afin de rétablir une forme d’équité qui, de fait, n’est pas la règle. Cette action désormais présente sous différentes formes en Europe

This episode is part of a series of four live round tables that took place in the art fair artgenève in early March 2022. They took place in French and will be available soon in English as a dubbed version. La Financiarisation, la Valorisation Économique et la Représentation Médiatique/Financialization, Economic Valuation, and Media Representation Samedi 5 mars à 15 heures, stand A10 / Saturday, March 5th, 3 p.m. stand A10 avec Laurence Rasti, artiste photographe, CH Anne-Claire Bisch, directrice générale des Ports Francs et Entrepôts de Genève, CH Frédéric Elkaïm, conseiller en art, spécialiste du marché de l’art et fondateur de Art Now! CH/FR Les faits sont éloquents ! Si le prix record d’une œuvre d’art contemporain d’une femme se situe dans les dizaines de millions de dollars, le niveau maximal atteint par l’œuvre d’un homme doit être multiplié par dix ! Difficile alors pour certains de ne pas considérer que la « valeur artistique » des pièces réalisées par les artistes femme seraient

This episode is part of a series of four live round tables that took place in the art fair artgenève in early March 2022. They took place in French and will be available soon in English as a dubbed version. L’art Écologique entre Mysticisme, Activisme et Dogme / The Ecological Art Between Mysticism, Activism, and Dogma Vendredi 4 mars à 15 heures, stand A10 / Friday, March 4th, 3 p.m., stand A10 avec Marie Velardi, artiste, CH Garance Primat, entrepreneure philantropique engagée pour la Nature et l’Art, CH/FR Bernard Vienat, historien de l’art, curateur et directeur de art-werk, CH L’actuel enjeu écologique est majeur. À̀ travers lui est engagée la survie de l’espèce humaine. Rien moins. À travers lui, se pose la question du maintien ou non de cette même espèce humaine au sein de la « Terre Mère », si possible dans des conditions non-apocalyptiques. Lutter contre le désastre environnemental ? C’est maintenant ou jamais. À cette aune que peut l’art ? Que peuvent les femmes, pionnières dans l’art écologiq

Dana Hoey, a San Fransisco born artist and photographer based in upstate New York, talks about her photography and video work which investigates gender roles, archetypes, aggression, and power in society. For the last episode of the season, we welcome Dana Hoey, an American artist that captures videos and photographs, and blends fact and fiction to question society’s preconceived ideas of gender, relations between each other, masculinity, and femininity. Avid in her practice of combat sports, she integrates that into her work as well and uses it in the directions she gives her models. She also talks to us about her thoughts on being a woman in the arts as well as her philosophy on motherhood and how it impacted her career. Conversation Highlights The use of combat sports in her work Exploring gender roles and identity In for freedom and being a woman/mother in the art world To read the story and learn more about Dana Hoey's work, please visit our website rawradical.com Subscribe to our newsletter here.

Lyz Parayzo, a Brazilian-born artist currently studying in the Beaux-Arts de Paris talks about her art, inspired by her personal experiences, and which focuses on the body, gender identity, and fluidity. Lyz Parayzo, a Brazilian artist who works sculptures, live performances and audiovisual pieces, is with us on the show recorded from the gallery Espace L in Geneva, where there’s an exhibition called “PornoChic”. It was inspired by one of the tale of the book of the “Erotic Tales” by the Brazilian writer Hilda Hilst. In this episode, we talk about the feminine performative, gender, its fluidity and its place in the art world that sometimes remains conservative. Through her work, like sharply cut sculptures representing ‘jewelry as self defense’, she aims to create the aforementioned debate, raising questions on desire and violence and its relation to the feminine performative. She shares how her personal experiences have heavily influenced her art, along with external inspiration through writers, artists and

Calling herself a ‘visual narrator’, ‘intimate outsider’, and ‘subjective documentarist’, Mimiko Türkkan comes on the show to talk about her visual video project on water, in relation to fear, her creative process and social identity. Our unique guest in this episode is Turkish artist Mimiko Türkkan. She creates artwork such as photography series, books and videos with a focus on gender roles and socially constructed identities. She shares with us her artistic process in coming up with ideas, forming a narrative and going through a project. We focus particularly on her most recent creative endeavour, resulting in “Energy Watery Incantations” in the Galerie Analix Forever in Geneva, to which we get to listen to an excerpt. She investigates her fears, in relation to ‘the flow’, her creative process and her relation to the world. With traveling and physical activity playing a major role in her artistic process, she gives us a glimpse into the making of “Energy Watery Incantations.” She also gives her piece abou

Spanish curator, art historian, writer and currently the director of the Art Gender Nature Institute at the FHNW Academy of Art and Design in Basel, Chus Martinez talks about reimagining the exhibition public space, the transformative role of art in society and being a woman in her field of work. It’s a pleasure to welcome Chus Martinez to the show and to listen to her enriching thoughts, opinions, and experiences as a woman in the very pit of the artworld. She talks about how she reimagines and innovates the exhibition space as a curator, art’s powerful impact in driving social change, and being a woman in the art world. We also discuss the mindset of artists working collaboratively versus this false idea of “the genius”, the experience of being immersed in the art education world, and the gradual coming back of man into cohabitation with nature. Conversation highlights: Reimagining exhibitions The impact of art on society The stigma around gender and motherhood in the art world For more information

Photojournalist, and then litigator turned one of the most celebrated photographers of the female nude of our time, Renée Jacobs talks about her career transformation, the visual representation of women in society and being a queer woman in her field of work. I’m happy to receive Renée Jacobs on today’s episode. She explains her career choices and transitions, details on her “PARIS” and “POLAROIDS” book, insights and anecdotes on the pressure of being a woman, especially queer, photographer of the female nude. We also highlight the importance of authenticity in the depiction of female sensuality, and of accurately shaping our own image (as women). In her words, “women can’t be heard if we can’t be seen.” Conversation Highlights: Her transition from photojournalism to law to photography of the female nude The visual representation of women in our society, particularly of the erotic woman Her books “PARIS” and “POLAROIDS”, and the “PHOTOS DE FEMME” organization For more information on our guest, read th

Radical feminist artist, video artist, and Italian-Swiss performer Angela Mazullo talks about artistic alter egos, motherhood, and third wave feminism Today I’m delighted to welcome Angela Mazulla to the show to talk about her artistic alter ego, how she has combined motherhood and art, and a unique oral history project she has nurtured over the past several years titled, “The Archives of Radical Feminism.” Today’s podcast is unique in that it was originally conducted in French, and the interview is overlaid with an English translation. Key points of the conversation: Her artistic alter ego Being a mother and an artist The Archives of Radical Feminism Her artistic alter ego Angela was born to an Italian father and a Swiss mother and grew up in a small village near Zurich, where there was a great deal of liberal thought and conversations about progressive political movements. This shaped a great deal of her early thinking and influenced the direction of her artistic exploration later. After she moved to

Musician, educator, and mentor Laura Escudé shares her tips for success and self-confidence, and the importance of prioritizing joy in your career Many of us are multi-passionate, but are told that we must focus on one thing to become successful. Laura Escudé, a multifaceted artist and entrepreneur, is here with us today to share how she has found success in her career. Laura is a violinist, songwriter, live performance specialist and sound engineer, and has worked and played with artists such as Kanye West, Ariana Grande, Bon Iver, and the Pentatonix. She also educates and mentors other artists and musicians through her Transmute Accelerator and Transmute Academy coaching and training programs. Finding success through letting go Laura says one of the keys to her success is hiring specialists and learning to trust other people to handle the work she hires them to do. “I’ve been able to get a lot of help in the areas that I’m not the best at,” Laura says. “I think that’s one of the secrets to my success, espe

Brigitte Renaud shares the inspiration behind Pièces d’été, her contemporary art festival, and the similarity between engineering and art Today I’m excited to welcome Brigitte Renaud, who is the founder of Pièces d’été (Summer Piece), a free outdoor contemporary art festival that takes place every four years in the village of Mabuisson. The art pieces are staged along a 5-kilometer path that meanders between the village, forest, and the shores of Lake Saint-Point, allowing visitors to wander between them and experience each piece in a different setting. For more information on our guest and the podcast, please visit our website www.rawradical.com, subscribe to our newsletter and follow us on social media @rawradical This podcast is supported by the Swiss arts council prohelvetia and the city of Lancy --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rawradical/message