Open Studio

S02 E06: Searching for the logic that could be taken into every decision. A conversation with Post Brothers

In the last episode of this year's Open Studio podcast, Monika Lipšic interviews the enthusiast, word processor, and curator– Post Brothers. Since 2008, the artist has organised several shows in Vilnius and beyond. This year, Post Brothers returned to Vilnius as one of the tutors of Rupert’s Alternative Education Programme and held a public lecture at the Design Innovation Center of the Vilnius Academy of Arts.

In a cozy conversation, the Post Brothers shares their journey of becoming who they are today, and together with Monika, they discuss their practice of supporting artists, and their view on ethics and economy by simply doing things.

SE2 E05 Talking writing and reading tarot for Rupert with Daniella Sanader

In the heat of the Lithuanian summer, on one of those two or three days a year, we talked with Daniella Sanader about her practice of close reading and critical writing, delving into her work as a writer and art critic, friend and teacher. For the upcoming occasion of Rupert’s Birthday, Daniella also read Rupert’s past and fortune in a tarot card session.  

SE2 E04 Eating Kimbap with Bin Koh

Over a plate full of kimbap, we are talking with Bin Koh. The experience of sharing food is part of Bin's practice and as such, during her residency at Rupert, Bin was inviting different guests for dinner and conversation. In this podcast, we speak a lot about this as well as her artistic interests in structures of labor and crafts. Bin also shares a beautiful dream she had.

Bin Koh (KR) is a visual artist based in Amsterdam. Focusing on female labour, she is interested in the ways that technological development renders the human body and its voice invisible under the current digital and social labour systems. 

 

SE2 E03: Oscillating the universe back to its balanced state with Andrius Arutiunian

In this conversation with Andrius Arutiunian, we speak about circular time, toast, tools for organising knowledge and dissonance as a historiographic phenomenon. This year, Andrius is representing Armenia in the 59th Venice Biennale and he also tells us more about his exhibition Gharib—‘a word, a notion and a stranger who enters into our mind’.

Andrius Arutiunian (AM/LT) is an artist and composer who works through objects, installations and time-based collaborations with musicians and performers. He was a resident at Rupert in March 2022.

S02 E02: How do you live and breathe inside irrational space? A conversation with Omsk Social Club

In this episode, Omsk Social Club generously share their thoughts and ideas on their work process, discussing Omsk’s take on history and aesthetics among other topics. Omsk Social Club’s work is being created between two lived worlds: one of life as we know it and the other of role play. These worlds bleed into one and move into a territory called Real Game Play (RGP), a term coined by Omsk in 2017. This term describes the working process of Omsk and has become a stimulus for experimentation to shape new cultural value systems for interdependence, world crafting and cooperation.

The conversation delved rather deep and I am very grateful to Omsk for riding a line of thought together.

S02 E01: On entry points to solitary performances & colonial permanence with Davinia-Ann Robinson

In the first episode, we talk with Davinia Ann Robinson, an artist from London and Rupert resident in January 2021. In this rather intimate conversation over a cup of ceremonial cacao, Davinia shares her stories and artistic methods of working with 'colonial emotions' she has encountered as a Black Female Body, building on her intense relationship with the earth as a living material explored through sculpture, sound, writing and performance. Davinia also reads an excerpt from the new work she developed during the residency, a poem called 'Translucent Permanence'.

E18 Francesca Grilli

Francesca Grilli is a Brussels-based Italian artist whose main practice is performance art; however, she also works with sculpture, film, audio and other media, as well as esoteric practices. The scope of her artistic research is quite broad but the core of her work is focused on different facets of the human condition: age, fragility, family ties, power relations, among others. In her multiple poetic and intimate artworks, she seeks to provoke honest, thoughtful and almost cathartic public reactions through presenting the viewers and participants with profound experiences. These include being put in a dark room together with trained birds of prey or being presented with two pianists of stark age contrast, one of whom is a hundred years old and the other, a child. The power and purity of childhood is also at the centre of her latest work, Sparks (2021), in which she invites the audience for a palm reading session with children as oracles. Francesca Grilli’s project Sparks is presented by Contemporary Locus and supported by the Italian Culture Council.

E17 Ceel Mogami de Haas

Ceel Mogami de Haas’s artistic practices incorporate both visual and literary work. In fact, it could be said that his art fuses the two together, as he creates large sculptural inlays that tell poetic stories and draws from literature creating visual scenarios. He uses a variety of media, often playing with their properties and substituting one with another. Thematically, his work explores the core of humanity and animality, reaching through thousands of years towards palaeolithic art and centuries of literature as sources of inspiration.

E16 Miriam Naeh

Miriam Naeh is a London-based multi-disciplinary artist whose work is deeply influenced by human practice of storytelling. In her installations-as-narratives, she combines Middle Eastern mythology, post-humanist thought, humor, and personal experiences. This mixture produces de-centralized experiences, where the viewer is invited to participate in a quasi-mythological story, at the same time creating it and giving it particular meaning. Miriam combines a variety of media in her work and is particularly interested in the binaries of the real versus fictional, natural versus artificial. She invites the viewer to explore this ambiguous world where grotesque meets fragility and laughter meets 'the sad sublime'.

E15 Judith Hamann

'Open Studios' podcast introduces Rupert’s recent resident and sound artist Judith Hamann. In this episode, Judith shares her recent experience of isolation and moving between different places, and how these have influenced her work with different genres of music and sound. As a result of her long-term studies into sound, different music notions and theories, she has been engaging in some experimental and collaborative projects. These have resulted in such compositions for cello and electronics as Days Collapse and Shaking Studies.