Outsider Art Podcast
21 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsA podcast about Outsider Art - The Art, the Artists, the History, the Controversy.
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EP019 - Susan Te Kahurangi King - Part 2
May 16, 2022 22:58 - 26 minutes - 24.2 MBIn this episode the OAP takes a shallow dive into a deep pond - Susan Te Kahurangi King's archive - and comes up with treasure. Cover Image - Susan Te Kahurangi King, Untitled (detail), 29.5 x 21 cm, Graphite and marker, March 2012 - Image used with permission, © The Susan Te Kahurangi King Trust, all rights reserved. Reading List The Drawings of Susan Te Kahurangi King. Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami. 2016. ISBN - 978-0-9972492-7-9 Articles Susan King, Address Unknown. Robert Leo...
EP018 - Susan Te Kahurangi King - Part 1
January 16, 2022 20:28 - 24 minutes - 22.8 MB“Looking at her works demands shifting levels of attention, as we scan them to register the pattern, then again to excavate embedded images." Robert Leonard on Susan Te Kahurangi King - Vault Magazine - Issue 33 (February to April 2021) Cover Image - Untitled, 20 x 13 cm, crayon on paper, c. 1958 - Image used with permission, © The Susan Te Kahurangi King Trust, all rights reserved. Reading List The Drawings of Susan Te Kahurangi King. Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami. 2016. ISBN - 9...
EP017 - Henry Darger - Part 3
November 03, 2021 02:07 - 24 minutes - 22.8 MB“I actually just find the paintings extraordinarily beautiful - I think they can live for me that simply.” Brooke Davis Anderson on Henry Darger Cover image - Henry Darger - Untitled (Overall Flowers - Recto) - detail - n.d. Reading List Henry J. Darger: In the Realms of the Unreal. John M. MacGregor. ISBN - 978-8886455060 Henry Darger, Throwaway Boy. Jim Elledge. ISBN - 978-1590208557 Darger's Resources. Michael Moon. ISBN - 978-0822351566 Darger: The Henry Darger Collection at the...
EP016 - Henry Darger - Part 2
October 12, 2021 02:09 - 22 minutes - 20.4 MB"Rather than condescendingly and misguidedly treating Darger only as a case study, we can look into his work for what it may tell us about both the powerful allure of mass-mediated narrative and imagery and the possibility (or impossibility) of escaping the labyrinthine and often terrifying histories and politics of which we in the world today are the direct heirs.” Michael Moon. Darger's Resources. Cover image - Henry Darger - Untitled Reading List Henry J. Darger: In the Realms of the U...
EP015 - Henry Darger - Part 1
August 13, 2021 23:02 - 29 minutes - 26.7 MBIn his external life Darger was a pitiable figure, reclusive, impoverished, orphaned at 16, often regarded as crazy, suffering almost constant pain in his later years and working menial jobs his entire life. However in the internal world of his writings and art he was both a hero and anti-hero, creator of magical, violent world’s and a fiercely determined protector of children. Cover image - Henry Darger - "At Obrigano Captured once when Glandelinians had attacked Dicies headquarter, house ...
EP014 - Carlo Zinelli
June 11, 2021 09:23 - 28 minutes - 26.5 MB“As though this were the moment he had always been waiting for, Carlo immediately set out on his extraordinary journey, filling large sheets of paper one after the other, with total concentration, occasionally declaiming words in his sonorous voice and a language all his own." Michael Noble ('Memories of Carlo' in Carlo Zinelli: RectoVerso) Cover image - Carlo Zinelli. Untitled (verso). n.d. Reading List Carlo Zinelli: RectoVerso. 5 Continents Editions. ISBN 978-88-7439-844-7 Carlo Zin...
EP013 - Minnie Evans
May 07, 2021 00:39 - 26 minutes - 24.6 MB" I paint a memorandum of my dream" - Minnie Evans Cover image - Minnie Evans. My very first. 1935 Reading List Minnie Evans:Artist. Charles Muir Lovell (editor) and Erwin Hester (editor). ISBN 978-0963675903 Aspects of Minnie Evans. Nathan Kernan. On Paper, Vol.1, No. 6 (July - August 1997) Off to the garden to talk with God. John Walker Myers. Southern Quarterly, Fall 1996. Conversations with Minnie Evans 1962-1973. Nina Howell Starr. Smithsonian Institution Archives of American Art ...
EP012 - Nek Chand - Part 2
March 31, 2021 03:56 - 43 minutes - 39.7 MB"Curiously, the Garden seems simultaneously made and not made for the visitor, and I felt as though I had happened across a great secret—despite the fact that on that day, like any other at the Garden, thousands of other paying visitors are also enmeshed in the same “secret.” Tracy Ann Buck Bonfitto from The Rock Garden: A Study of Memory, Place-Making, and Community in Chandigarh, India (Dissertation). Nek Chand Foundation website - nekchand.com Cover image - Nek Chand. Sculptures in the ...
EP011 - Nek Chand - Part 1
March 09, 2021 00:39 - 22 minutes - 20.8 MB“(Nek) Chand’s private vision engaged India’s collective spirit. Here, what has been called “outsider” art proves more culturally affirmative than the aesthetic of high modernism officially endorsed and imposed as the architectural vision for the region.” (Groundwaters: A Century of Art by Self-Taught and Outsider Artists - Charles Russell - ISBN 978-3791344904) Nek Chand Foundation website - nekchand.com Cover image - Nek Chand. Sculptures in the Rock Garden of Chandigarh Reading List...
EP010 - Madge Gill
February 01, 2021 20:26 - 20 minutes - 18.3 MBThere is something unique and fascinating about the work of the self-taught visionary Madge Gill - the nameless women that feature in almost all of her drawn and painted works provide a haunting gaze challenging the viewer to both look more closely but, so intensely do they stare, it’s hard not to look away - they are the eyes to the soul of an unseen force that unrelentingly drove the hand of an artist for over forty years. Madge Gill on Artsy - https://www.artsy.net/artist/madge-gill Cov...
EP009 - Bill Traylor
December 19, 2020 22:24 - 21 minutes - 19.6 MBBorn into slavery in the American South in 1853, emancipated in 1865 and living into his 90's Bill Traylor's life spanned a tumultuous time in US history. He had lived for over 8 decades before he began creating the art for which he has become known and his extant works come from a period between 1939 and 1942. Bill Traylor is an American Master who packed a lifetime of experiences into his short career as an artist creating a potent and still relevant body of work that resonates just as pow...
EP008 - Judith Scott
November 23, 2020 23:51 - 21 minutes - 19.6 MBJudith Scott was born on May 1st 1943 and passed away, in the arms of her twin sister Joyce, in March 2005 aged 62 years old. Not unlike Adolf Wolfli and Martin Ramirez, Scott lived a life that was broken into distinct parts, but unlike Wolfli and Ramirez it was her freedom from institutionalisation that led to her embarking on her artistic career. Judith Scott on Artsy - https://www.artsy.net/artist/judith-scott Cover Image - Judith Scott. Untitled. 2004 Reading List Judith Scott – Boun...
EP007 - Martín Ramírez - Part 3
October 27, 2020 00:34 - 15 minutes - 14.6 MBThe artwork of Martín Ramírez is singularly distinctive. Once seen, never forgotten and always recognisable, his drawings play many of the same notes time and again, rearranged and reimagined but always clearly in his hand... Martín Ramírez on Artsy - https://www.artsy.net/artist/martin-ramirez Cover image - Martín Ramírez - Untitled (Alamentosa) - detail - C.1953 Reading List Martín Ramírez - Framing his life and art. Victor M. Espinosa. ISBN 978-1-4773-0775-5 Framing Martín Ramírez. V...
EP006 - Martín Ramírez - Part 2
October 07, 2020 07:46 - 19 minutes - 18.1 MBLast time on the Outsider Art Podcast we left Martín Ramírez in 1948, having met Tarmo Pasto, the main actor in his discovery narrative. Pasto would go on to play one of the major roles in the last part of Ramírez’s life as an artist and be the primary source of his story and guardian and promoter of his work as it made it’s way firstly into minor exhibitions and then, via Jim Nutt and Phyllis Kind, into the commercial art world. Martín Ramírez on Artsy - https://www.artsy.net/artist/marti...
EP005 - Martín Ramírez - Part 1
September 24, 2020 22:18 - 19 minutes - 17.7 MBFirst things first – let’s get some of the myths about Martín Ramírez straight – he wasn’t mute, at the time of his committal he was very likely not severely mentally ill, and the Freudian interpretation of a sexualised meaning to his many drawings of trains and tunnels is highly likely to be erroneous and, in the cold light of meaningful biography, wildly out of context... Martín Ramírez on Artsy - https://www.artsy.net/artist/martin-ramirez Cover image - Martín Ramírez - Untitled (Four a...
004 - Adolf Wolfli - Part 3
September 16, 2020 08:29 - 23 minutes - 21.9 MB“The victor (Wolfli), at one with the sacrifice, here in full grandeur; never has the front of the coin contrasted so strongly with the reverse: on the one side, ithyphallic, pursuing some poor little girl, on the other side, cheerful, though always locked in, sleeves rolled up, plug of tobacco in his cheek, in front of a pile of his most vivid creations, which, as an ensemble, represent one of the three or four most important oeuvres of the twentieth century. And, what is not, shall be. Ame...
003 - Adolf Wolfli - Part 2
September 10, 2020 00:01 - 22 minutes - 20.5 MBIn 1916 as part of the second of his narrative works, the Geographic and Algebraic Books, Wolfli assigned himself a new name (which required some explanation), “St. Adolf the I, Great-King of Grenoble-St. Adolf King, Giant-City in Savojen; last named with an additional calculation-supplement of 50 hours is my third-youngest brother as a Great-God! And I am St. Adolf II, Couscous King and King Great-God. Bern, Friday, the 23rd June 1916” After 16 years of concentrated work he must have felt...
Adolf Wolfli - Part 1
September 02, 2020 01:05 - 18 minutes - 17.2 MBWhen Adolf Wolfli passed away on November 6th, 1930 he was working on what would become his final uncompleted work - Funeral March. He left behind 45 large self-bound books, and 16 exercise books of over 25,000 pages in total which included 1,600 drawings and 1,600 collages as well as approximately 50 Early artworks (from 1904-1907), numerous pieces of, what Walter Morgenthaler called, “Bread Art” but are now more commonly referred to as his single sheet drawings, as well as intricately pain...
002 - Adolf Wolfli - Part 1
September 02, 2020 01:05 - 18 minutes - 17.2 MBWhen Adolf Wolfli passed away on November 6th, 1930 he was working on what would become his final uncompleted work - Funeral March. He left behind 45 large self-bound books, and 16 exercise books of over 25,000 pages in total which included 1,600 drawings and 1,600 collages as well as approximately 50 Early artworks (from 1904-1907), numerous pieces of, what Walter Morgenthaler called, “Bread Art” but are now more commonly referred to as his single sheet drawings, as well as intricately pain...
Outsider Art Podcast - The Journey Begins
August 25, 2020 00:45 - 20 minutes - 18.8 MBEpisode 001 - Outsider Art - The Journey Begins An introduction to the Outsider Art Podcast in which I introduce myself, tell you what the podcast series is going to be about and get tangled up in the existential quagmire that is Outsider Art. In short summary the Outsider Art Podcast will be an episodic series looking at the Art, Artists, History, Controversies and whatever else raises its head as we do a deep dive into this fascinating genre. We will be exploring the Art and Artists th...
001 - Outsider Art Podcast - The Journey Begins
August 25, 2020 00:45 - 20 minutes - 18.8 MBAn introduction to the Outsider Art Podcast in which I introduce myself, tell you what the podcast series is going to be about and get tangled up in the existential quagmire that is Outsider Art. In short summary the Outsider Art Podcast will be an episodic series looking at the Art, Artists, History, Controversies and whatever else raises its head as we do a deep dive into this fascinating genre. We will be exploring the Art and Artists that sit (often uncomfortably) within the genre, fin...