Or Gallery Podcasts

Post-Studio Visit links up with LA-based artist Rachelle Sawatsky. She describes her process for creating the work in her recent China Art Objects show. Plane Crashes, reincarnation and after-the-fact collaborations all figure in the conversation.

Jonah and artist Tegan Moore met up while she was in town for her recent show at CSA. They discuss her interest in a subtractive theory of architecture; a building designed to be destroyed by a hurricane; and the careful material inquiry from which her projects emerge.

Jonah meets up with artist Isabelle Pauwels to discuss her latest project. They talk mixed martial arts, its parallels to the art world, and the tension between composition and improvisation in her art making process.

Post-Studio Visit checks in with the co-curators of "The Fraud That Goes Under the Name of Love" at the Audain Gallery at SFU Woodwards. They unpack the notion of the "labour of love" and discuss the challenge of creating an embodied politics in an exhibition.

Matt Browning joins Jonah to discuss his latest projects. Much of Browning's output involve small monochrome swatches of fabric or embroidery, which involve labour-intensive techniques that strain against both tradition and dominant economic modes.

Deborah Edmeades invites Jonah Gray into her studio to discuss recent projects, including her artworks for a recent group exhibition at Artspeak and the new projects that has spawned.

In the first of the Or Gallery's beach talks, critic Steven Maye considers the work of Lisa Robertson in relation to the theme of distraction as originally described by Walter Benjamin. This talk took place August 11, 2012.

Artist Carmen Papalia joins Jonah at the Or Gallery to discuss his recent projects, which include a mobility device that takes you where it wants to go and a recent collaborative accessibility audit of the Vancouver Art Gallery.

In this episode, Jonah interviews artist Babak Golkar. Golkar describes multiple ongoing projects, including one that makes surprising use of his university degrees.

In this episode Jonah Gray sits down with artist and writer Jamie Hilder. He describes his latest project, a puppet show about the conflict between the German and Austrian schools of economics. He rails about the nearby Heritage Hall clock tower and speculates about an economics of love.

In the first episode of our Post-Studio Visits, Jonah Gray interviews writer, critic, and now Director of Artspeak Gallery, Bopha Chhay. She discusses her collaborative project, Lived Space, and her forthcoming shadow puppet play about Cambodian garment workers.