HeyJaredART THINKOSAURUS Joana P. R. Neves
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Start Here (opens the original)
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Welcome to Art Thinkosaurus.I’m Joana P. R. Neves, an art curator, writer, artistic director and podcaster. I’ve written for artist catalogues and books all throughout my twenty-year career; I’ve dedicated a few (delightful) years of my life to a PhD about the “indexical line”, an obsessive 19th French inventor–Etienne-Jules Marey–and two conceptual artists I adore–Sol LeWitt and Douglas Huebler. Writing is a walking stick for my speculative mind. Which is why I articulate it with embodied art e
Exhibition Discussions | Is the Curatorial Twist of Ana Mendieta's Tate Show Anti-Feminist? (opens the original)
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Biography enlightens the work of an artist but, in rare occasions, it can obliterate it. A polemic curatorial choice in Ana Mendieta's exhibition at Tate Modern illustrates this puzzling question. This unexpected curatorial twist may lean into anti-feminism if we stay on the surface of the discourse. Dive into it with our host Joana P. R. Neves, a curator and an art writer. What decision did Valentina Umansky and Michael Wellen, the curators of the show make, and what third person, instrumental
MOTHER TONGUE / OTHER TONGUE: Nomadic Languages (opens the original)
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The story of a tattooI have a perplexing tattoo above my collarbone. I know it is perplexing because of people’s reactions to it, beyond the socialised likes and dislikes of what is, after all, a forgotten ancestral ritual.On the left it says “mother” and on the right it says “tongue”. These two words encircle my neck, my throat, my voice. The words are separated by the vocal cords whose modulations they refer to. Since I started podcasting, I’ve become even more aware of language, accent, the p
Paula do Prado, “Tejedora” | What Stories–and Histories–Resurface in Her Textile Art? | Contemporary Artist Interviews (opens the original)
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What if weaving released untold stories? And how does textile art with such narrative yet abstract powers fit into contemporary art and its traditionally European systems? Joana’s conversation with contemporary artist Paula do Prado takes unexpected turns and spreads across at least 3 different continents–if not more. What influence did the lost language of the Charrúa people and her Uruguayan past and lineage have on her work? Or, rather, is it even possible to locate the intuitive, dreamt and
Bonus Episode – The Embodied Art of Reading Aloud – Poem Delivery Service (opens the original)
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There are pockets of creativity in our everyday life. The embodied art of READING ALOUD is an overlooked source of joy, containing so many aspects that contemporary art and artists explore in their practice... Performance, drawing, text, breathing patterns... It all starts with Joana P. R. Neves, our host, asking what the body can do by itself, or with very little assistance, inspired by the last episode dedicated to artist Ana Mendieta. This is also our way of introducing the upcoming bonus min
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