SALA Podcast

In this episode, Steph asks artist Jenna Pippett about her practice and her new exhibition ‘From Czechoslovakia with Love’ at Post Office Projects. Jenna’s work explores at her maternal family history through moving image, photography, installation and performance. Tune in to this episode to hear about the incredible discovery that inspired her exhibition, and how she makes very personal subject matter accessible through humour.
 
Show Notes
Post Office Projects website
Post Office Projects Instagram
Jenna Pippett website
Prague Spring
Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes
Beránek / Little Lamb Cake
Holy Rollers Studios – Psychache exhibition
FELTspace
Jenna Pippett Artist Talk at POP - Tue 13 April 2021
music - 'Pinky' by Blue Dot Sessions on freemusicarchive.org

In this episode, Steph visits multidisciplinary visual artist Jingwei Bu at her home to talk about her arts practice, and the work in her exhibition ‘Life Maps’ at the Mill.
 
Show Notes
Adelaide Central School of Art
Life Maps at the Mill
Life Maps – Jingwei’s website
Hairy Tales
Jingwei Bu - website
Dare Hair exhibition review

In December 2020, Steph caught up with artist Louise Flaherty and educator Jane Mant to talk about their experience of the Schools Artist in Residence Program, presented by SALA Festival in partnership with Credit Union SA. Louise worked with Jane’s students in the wake of the December 2019 Adelaide Hills bushfires, connecting the students to their local landscapes through drawing.
 
Show Notes
Louise Flaherty - website
Fabrik
2020 Schools Artist in Residence Program
Credit Union SA
Bushland Park
Friends of Lobethal Bushland Park - Flora species of conservation significance
Visualcom
Solastalgia exhibition
Music: Nothing will grow here - Komiku

This episode takes us back to the 2018 SALA Forum for the second session of the day: Social Engagement and working with communities, a panel discussion featuring Daniel Connell, Laura Wills and Paul Gazzola.
 
Show Notes:
Youtube video of this talk
Christopher Orchard
Daniel Connell Instagram
Laura Wills website / Instagram
Paul Gazzola website / Instagram
OSCA
Sauerbier House
Onkaparinga Estuary
Naomi Keyte
Collectors/Collections: Waikerie Films
 
Music: Pinky - Blue Dot Sessions

This episode takes us back to the 2017 SALA Forum for a Q&A session from The Department of Non-Corporeal Affairs. Andrew Purvis and Sasha Grbich take us through what non-corporeal means, and what necessitates a paranomal research office in the City of Adelaide.
 
Show Notes:
City Messenger – Why has a paranormal research office popped up at Adelaide City Council?
SAnews – Paranormal research office cracks open Adelaide’s ghost tales
Ouija Board
Fleetwood Mac
Sera Waters
Allen Tiller on Twitter
Haunted Adelaide
Richard Dawkins
Artpod
Sasha Grbich - website

In this episode, Kate interviews artist Sundari Carmody about her practice, which gives sculptural form to unseen phenomena. Carmody is drawn to research in the areas of dark matter, sleep and the study of nocturnal creatures, and in her work considers how to engage with universal systems and aspects of being using materials such as concrete, textiles, mist and neon. See her work at ACE Open as part of If the future is to be worth anything: 2020 South Australian Artist Survey.Show Notes:
BBC Radio 4 'In Our Time' - Bird Migration
Sundari Carmody, One: all that we can see, 2017, neon light with 95% painted black, electrical components, 40 x 40cm
Sundari Carmody, white white (summer and winter solstice), 2017, neon light, electrical components, 70 x 100cm
 ‘Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams’ Dr Matthew Walker
Sundari Carmody, Milky Way, 2018
“What then is time? If no one asks me, I know: if I wish to explain it to one that asketh, I know not.” - Saint Augustine of Hippo (354 - 430 AD) in ‘Confessions’.
Sundari Carmody, The Black Swan Suite, 2014
Sundari Carmody, The Build Up – masks, 2014
Sundari Carmody, The Build Up, 2014
ACE Open - If the future is to be worth anything: 2020 South Australian Artist Survey
Sundari Carmody at ACE Open, 2020
Jantar Mantar
SundariCarmody.com
Transcipt available
Music: 'Nothing will grow here' by Komiku via freemusicarchive.org

In this episode, Kate interviews Port Augusta artist, Adnyamathanha and Luritja woman, Juanella McKenzie. Juanella is the recipient of the Country Arts SA Breaking Ground Award, and speaks to her next steps in developing this work.
 
Show Notes
Juanella McKenzie wins Breaking Ground Award (Country Arts)
Jessica Clark
Family campaigns to stop the nuclear waste facility in Hawker
The McKenzie Powerhouse
@woven_dreaming (Instagram)

This episode actually doubles up as a do-it-yourself Audio Tour! You can follow along in real life with your headphones in, or simply enjoy tuning in like you would any other episode. Hear from Jacinta Koolmatrie as we roam the CBD and recontextualise some of Adelaide's sculptures and monuments, visit Troy-Anthony Baylis' Nomenclatures at the Art Gallery of South Australia and finish up at  Nexus Arts with Makeda Duong's exhibition Mixed Race Female. Each stop falls within Adelaide's free tram zone and you can press pause as you move between them.
Stops:
Tarntanyangga (Victoria Square)
The Art Gallery of South Australia (10am-5pm)
Nexus Arts (Tue-Fri, 10am-4pm; exhibition open until 17 Sep 2020)
Show Notes
Statues erase more history than they tell - Jacinta Koolmatrie
White Australia Policy
Art Gallery of South Australia
Troy-Anthony Baylis: Nomenclatures at Art Gallery of South Australia
Troy-Anthony Baylis (AGSA video)
The National 2019
Nomenclatures Act 1917
Guildhouse fellowship
The Castle (1997 film)
David McDiarmid, When I want your opinion, I'll give it to you, 1994
Catalogue Essay by Daniel Mudie Cunningham
Meet Your Maker: Troy-Anthony Baylis (Adelaide Review)
Troy-Anthony Baylis - Instagram
Nexus Arts
Mixed Race Female at Nexus Arts
Makeda Duong's Mixed Race Sweater: I was born wearing one, and I can never take it off' (Adelaide Review)
Makeda Duong and the warp and weft of identity (CityMag)
Makeda Duong - website
 

Christina talks to Britt Burton, Public Programs Coordinator at the Centre of Democracy, and South Australian artist Sera Waters, about craftivism and textiles in art.
Show Notes
Centre of Democracy
History Trust of South Australia
Betsy Greer
StitchandResist.com
Stitch & Resist - SALA listing
Craftivism: A Manifesto/Methodology by Tal Fitzpatrick
Sera Waters
Telling Tales
Telling Tales - SALA listing
The Riddoch Art Gallery
Walkway Gallery
Drastic Fabric
Drastic Fabric virtual tour

Steph talks to SA artist Cassie Thring about her practice, her work bringing art to different communities, what it's like to have a space in Floating Goose Studios plus a few words from Olive the dog.
Show Notes:
cassiethring.com
Floating Goose Studios Inc.
ACSA (Adelaide Central School of Art)
Carclew’s Pom Pom program
Helping Hand (2017 Article)
The Adelaide Review: Len Harvey is Young at Art
Nicholas Hanisch
Good News from Outer Space (praxis Artspace)
Music: ‘Pinky’ by Blue Dot Sessions via freemusicarchive.org