Critical Dialogs
Critical Dialogs is a podcast on contemporary art and criticism hosted by art writers Christine Anta
24/01/2022
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17/12/2021
New episode out today! We talked to the artist Ann Böttcher whose exhibition VERK 2000–2021 recently opened at Malmö konsthall. In this conversation, Ann reflects on doing a mid-career survey, drawing’s status as a minor practice, and art’s potential to intervene in history.
https://soundcloud.com/user-810055740/ann-bottcher?si=9a89f87ee9aa4f999fa6beca95785e5c&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
10/12/2021
New episode out today! We talked with the wonderful artist Kah Bee Chow about being a goblin in the basement, the working conditions of artists and her right to mobility as a second generation Chinese immigrant to Malaysia.
https://soundcloud.com/user-810055740/kah-bee-chow?si=92b54c3334d6416ba002dbea9b282de5&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
Born in 1980, Kah Bee grew up in Penang Malaysia and Auckland New Zealand, and has lived and worked in Malmö since 2010. She received her MFA from Malmö Art Academy in 2012 and in 2018 was the recipient of the Barbro and Holger Backstrom scholarship, one of Sweden’s largest and most prestigious art awards. Kah Bee has exhibited in Sweden at venues such as Moderna Museet and Lund Konsthall, and internationally at Vermillion Sands (Copenhagen), Tranen (Hellerup), Goya Curtain (Tokyo), Drei (Cologne), and, most recently, in the group show “What We Are Working With” at Kunstlerhaus Bregenz.
Thanks to the City of Malmö for funding this season of the podcast, and to Inter Arts Center
03/12/2021
New episode out today! We had the pleasure of talking to artist, filmmaker, editor and curator C Grace Chang.
We talked about art washing, radical hope, the difference between decoloniality and decolonisation, and waking up feeling like Eminem in 8 Mile.
https://soundcloud.com/user-810055740/c-grace-chang
C. Grace Chang is an artist, filmmaker, editor, and curator from New Jersey living in Malmö. She holds a B.A. in English Language and Literature from Smith College and two MAs from Lund University, in Literature, Culture & Media and Visual Culture.
She has worked as a curator at Skånes Konstförening since 2020. There she founded the Third Space Residency, which aims to cultivate a space of power and community for local QTBIPOC artists.
05/11/2021
New episode out now! We talked to the artist Ingela Ihrman about her captivating performance works.
https://podcasts.apple.com/se/podcast/critical-dialogs/id1481714530?l=en&i=1000540861232
12/10/2021
New episode out today with the great photographer Ikram Abdulkadir! We talked about portrait photography, making the transition from instagram to exhibitions, and the expectations linked to being a muslim artists.
https://soundcloud.com/user-810055740/ikram-abdulkadir
Ikram Abdulkadir Season 2, Episode 3: A conversation with photographer Ikram Abdulkadir
24/09/2021
New episode out today! We talked to the delightful Sigrid Holmwood about plant dyes, painting's temporal networks, artistic research, and figuration.
14/09/2021
03/09/2021
New episode out now! This fall will focus on Malmö artists, highlighting the city's art scene by delving deep into a series of interesting practices. We're very happy to be able to present episode 1, with the artist Runo Lagomarsino.
Runo’s work has been exhibited extensively in Sweden and internationally including the Istanbul Biennial, Liverpool Biennial, Sao Paolo Biennial, and the Gothenburg Biennial, and in 2019 he was awarded the Friends of Moderna Museet Sculpture Prize. While his work remains grounded in decolonial critique, it has also taken on an increasingly personal register in recent years – a development that was clearly evident when we visited his recent exhibition at Lund’s Konsthall, ‘The Square Between the Walls’.
Critical Dialogs i Apple Podcasts Konst · 2021
07/10/2020
New episode! We're finally back in the studio and we've recorded an episode on public art in Malmö, a proposed anti racist monument, and the opacity of the city’s public art organisation.
https://podcasts.apple.com/se/podcast/critical-dialogs/id1481714530?l=en =tag%3Asoundcloud%2C2010%3Atracks%2F906073912
Critical Dialogs on Apple Podcasts Arts · 2020
We are on a hiatus as we don't have access to our studio, which is in a university building. We hope to be able to resume recording in a not too distant future. In the meantime, stay safe, try to read something that isn't news, and take care of each other!
15/02/2020
New episode out! We talk about the recently opened exhibition at Malmö Konsthall featuring painters Ragna Bley and Inger Ekdahl. https://podcasts.apple.com/se/podcast/critical-dialogs/id1481714530?l=en =tag%3Asoundcloud%2C2010%3Atracks%2F760738873
Critical Dialogs on Apple Podcasts Arts · 2020
02/12/2019
New episode out! We talk a bit about our backgrounds, and how we found our ways into art criticism. We also talk about what it’s like writing on art and living in Malmö.
Critical Dialogs: Christine Antaya & Matthew Rana on Apple Podcasts Show Critical Dialogs, Ep Christine Antaya & Matthew Rana - 29 nov. 2019
02/11/2019