ON ART

Saudi/Palestinian artist Dana Awartani joins Samstag Curator Anna Zagala to discuss her art practice, living between cultures, and the importance of her unique art education in both contemporary art and traditional crafts, in shaping her art practice and career.

Dana shares the background to the two moving image installation works currently on display at Samstag Museum of ArtI Went Away and Forgot You. A While Ago I Remembered. I Remembered I’d Forgotten You. I Was DreamingandListen to my Words,her passion forgeometry and what being Arab means to her.

ON ART is supported by the Gordon Darling Foundation and Solstice Podcasting. It is produced by Tilly Balding in Tarntanya/Adelaide. The conversation was recorded on 4 April 2023.

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Artist Hayley Millar Baker (Gunditjmara/Djabwurrung) joins Anna Zagala, Associate Curator at Samstag Museum of Art, to discuss her moving image work,Nycyninasty(2021) currently screening at Samstag as part of the 4thIndigenous Art Triennial: Ceremonycurated by Hetti Perkins for the NGA.

Hayley shares what prompted her to pivot from photography to moving image, how the pressure of the pandemic lockdowns created a shift in her work, and what fuels her art practice.

ON ART is supported by the Gordon Darling Foundation and Solstice Podcasting and produced by Tilly Balding in Tarntanya/Adelaide. The conversation was recorded on 30 October 2023.

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In 2022 Samstag Museum of Art and ACMI commissioned a new moving image work by award winning Bundjulung/Ngapuhi artist Amrita Hepi. Ahead of Samstag’s presentation of Scripture for a smoke screen: Episode 1 – dolphin house (SASA Gallery, 7 July – 11 August 2023), Associate Curator Anna Zagala sits down with the artist to discuss the genesis of the project and her interest in NASAs 1960s 'dolphin house' experiment that attempted to teach dolphins human language in the hope that it would help them learn how to communicate with extraterrestrial life, what training in choreography and a background in the theatre taught her, and why music videos are a source of inspiration.

ON ART is supported by the Gordon Darling Foundation and Solstice Podcasting and produced by Tilly Balding in Tarntanya/Adelaide. The conversation was recorded on 25 May 2023.

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Archie Moore (Kammilaroi/Bigambul) is an artist and Samstag Scholar. While a student in Prague, Archie travelled extensively around Europe, including a visit to the Venice Biennale. He returns to Venice 23 years later representing Australia as the 2024 Venice Biennale artist.

In a wide-ranging conversation with Associate Curator Anna Zagala Archie shares his preparations for Venice, plans for his forthcoming Samstag commission, his experience while on scholarship, and offers an insight into his practice through an in-depth discussion of a number of his key artworks, from the Dwelling series to the public art commission for Sydney airport.

ON ART is supported by the Gordon Darling Foundation and Solstice Podcasting and produced by Tilly Balding in Tarntanya/Adelaide. The conversation was recorded over Zoom on 18 May 2023.

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Tarntanya-based Dancer and choreographer Daniel Jaber and Kuala Lumpar-based art critic Lee Weng Choy join Samstag Associate Curator to discuss Jaber’s dance trilogyRite,RotandDirtperformed at Samstag Museum of Art in 2022 and explore the nature of engagement from afar.

“When Samstag approached me about writing on Daniel Jaber’s trilogy of performances, we decided upon a pair of conversations and a podcast with Daniel. I asked friends and colleagues Aminah Ibrahim and Denise Lai to join me in a discussion of Daniel’s work—or, more accurately, photo-documentation from the museum. For our first exchange, onRite, our conversation was framed by the fact that we three were seeing it from a distance—we live in Kuala Lumpur—and not only would we be looking at the performance solely through images and well after it had taken place, but cultural and geographical differences might also factor into our responses as well. For our second conversation, focusing onRotandDirt, while we three still worked with only photo-documentation for our visual materials, we were joined by Anna Zagala from Samstag".— Lee Weng Choy

ON ART is supported by the Gordon Darling Foundation and Solstice Podcasting, edited and produced in Tarntanya/Adelaide on 20th January 2023.

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Julie Blyfield, a South Australian/Tarntanya based artist and UniSA alumnus, sits down with art historian, writer and curator Julie Ewington to discuss her exhibition .flowers of the sea Julie shares how her grandmother was a formative influence, the importance of engaging with scientific collections, and the unique quality of bi-metal (copper and sterling silver) that uniquely lent itself to this new body of work. ON ART is supported by the Gordon Darling Foundation and Solstice Podcasting, edited and produced in Tarntanya/Adelaide on 13 July 2022.

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Trans-media artist, writer and performer Virginia Barratt is joined by Em König, a multidisciplinary artist, to discuss their collaboration Exosmosis, premiering at Samstag on Thursday 16 June. Under the moniker [sadworm], Virginia and Em will present a new performance-based work centered around Virginia as a performer and Em’s responsive live soundscape. Joanna Kitto, former Associate Curator at Samstag Museum of Art, joins them. ON ART is supported by the Gordon Darling Foundation and Solstice Podcasting, edited and produced in Tarntanya/Adelaide on 11 March 2022.

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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.

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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 recent foray into working with clay, how a visit to Helen’s home and studio was a source of inspiration for 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.

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Elyas was awarded the Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship in 2019 which enabled him to undertake a Master of Fine Arts at Chelsea College of Arts, London. He discusses the process of applying, selecting an institution, the factors influencing his decision and how he navigated the disruption of a global pandemic. On Art is supported by the Gordon Darling Foundation and Solstice Podcasting, edited and produced by Tilly Balding in Tartanya/Adelaide on 10 December.

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