Podcasts about atong atem

The self-portrait is perhaps the most ubiquitous image of the modern era, but how do contemporary artists use the portrait, not just to reflect themselves or their subject, but to shift our understanding of who we are and who we can be?Atong Atem takes us into her practice of self-portraiture, exploring how the history of beautification has inspired her images, and why a love for interior design has been an important influence.And acclaimed contemporary artist Joan Ross explains why fluorescent yellow became central to her work, and how she is reframing the colonial context of the portrait.Those trees came back to me in my dreams is on at the National Portrait Gallery until February 2025

"I'm a black woman in the world. Every day when I step outside of my door, I can't be invisible."  From Tate Modern to the National Gallery of Victoria, Atong Atem has captured the eye of curators, critics and collectors alike as an artist who creates beautifully crafted images that explore family, migration and her South Sudanese heritage. Her work explores the inherent intimacy of portraiture and photography as well as the role photographers take as story tellers, interrogating photography as a framework for looking at the world and positioning people in it, inviting the viewer to look at them through a surreal and constructed lens. In this episode, anthropologist and curator Pedram Khosronejad investigates the artist's history, inspiration and projects to come. A transcript of this conversation is available HERE, thanks to the Australian Arts Channel Atong's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/atongatem/ MARS Gallery catalogue: https://marsgallery.com.au/atong-atem/  

Atong Atem's way of expressing herself has taken the art world by storm. Within a culture that celebrates whiteness, Atong's futuristic self-portraits celebrate and centre blackness. Yumi Stynes speaks to artist Atong Atem about her experience migrating to Australia, finding community and the weight of hypervisibility as a black woman in today's world.

Yukultji Napangati grew up with no contact with the outside world. Just her and her family, living on a shimmery salt lake. She learned how to live on Country, how to find food, water, and shelter. She was a particularly great hunter. When she turned 14, everything changed. She saw her first other humans, and saw a car for the first time. She had been brought to live with other people from her mob, and here she found out she was really good at something else too, painting. It used to be men's only business, but by the time Yukultji picked up her first paintbrush, it was something women in her community would do too. Her stroke was unique. It was special. It made her work shimmer just like the salt lake she grew up on. And her paintings now hang on the walls of some of the most famous people in the world. Narrated by artist Atong Atem.

A conversation with award-winning visionary artist and director Jenn Nkiru to gain insight into her vibrant video practice. Nkiru will be in dialogue with fellow artist Atong Atem, to discuss experimental documentary-making, Afrofuturism, reclaiming the archive, and cultural histories in her video art practice.

They say the personal is political – that our own intimate experiences can't help but inform larger social structures. The same is true in the stunning photographic work of visual artist Atong Atem, whose hyper-saturated images are at once joyous, traditional, surreal and deeply connected to her familial roots in South Sudan.  Atong Atem talks art, politics and family with Good Weekend editor Katrina Strickland on the latest episode of Good Weekend Talks. Atem is the inaugural recipient of the $80,000 La Prairie Art Award. It involves the acquisition by the Art Gallery of NSW of a large four-panel photographic self-portrait by Atem, and a residency at Art Basel in Switzerland, where the La Prairie skincare company is based, and where Atem will head later this month. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Who makes up “the canon” in Art today? A new book picks 50 artists from around the world, and across centuries, to take a meaningful snapshot of art masters. Plus, a curator on 16th C. artist Lavinia Fontana, Europe's first female professional painter. And Atong Atem's panoramic collage that charts 10 years of life, family and art.

Who makes up “the canon” in Art today? A new book picks 50 artists from around the world, and across centuries, to take a meaningful snapshot of art masters. Plus, a curator on 16th C. artist Lavinia Fontana, Europe's first female professional painter. And Atong Atem's panoramic collage that charts 10 years of life, family and art.

Who makes up “the canon” in Art today? A new book picks 50 artists from around the world, and across centuries, to take a meaningful snapshot of art masters.Plus, a curator on 16th C. artist Lavinia Fontana, Europe's first female professional painter.And Atong Atem's panoramic collage that charts 10 years of life, family and art.

Who makes up “the canon” in Art today? A new book picks 50 artists from around the world, and across centuries, to take a meaningful snapshot of art masters. Plus, a curator on 16th C. artist Lavinia Fontana, Europe's first female professional painter. And Atong Atem's panoramic collage that charts 10 years of life, family and art.

Support Queering the Air's radiothon at our crowdraiser! Shout outs to support Wuurn of Kanak and Love for Crystal Love. We hear from Gala Vanting speaking on the Emerging Writers' Festival and The Intro Room's event, Sex work in Space, who speaks about her practices, sex worker advocacy and community.We then hear from Leilani who speaks on local films: Skate Bitches, Atong Atem's Banksia, My First Summer, and HTMLFlower's SickoVision twitch channel. We air excerpt from highlights featuring The Food Angels (Podcast here), and Laniyuk (Podcast here).We finish with shout-outs to upcoming Palestine rally on July 3rd, and letter writing to people inside prison at the Emerging Writers' Festival. SongsEdith Lane - Kings of PlinthJune Jones - EchoKee'Ahn - Man on the MoonJune Jones - EchoAlice Skye - Party tricks [Music Video]Tracy Chapman - Talkin' bout a revolution 

Australian-South Sudanese artist Atong Atem brilliantly flips the Ethnographic gaze to create gorgeous studio portraits with a powerful statement.Plus, how does the medium of video art exist in the era of binge watching?And Namila chats to incoming guest host Daniel Browning, a familiar voice to RN listeners — but did you know he trained as an artist?

Australian-South Sudanese artist Atong Atem brilliantly flips the Ethnographic gaze to create gorgeous studio portraits with a powerful statement. Plus, how does the medium of video art exist in the era of binge watching? And Namila chats to incoming guest host Daniel Browning, a familiar voice to RN listeners — but did you know he trained as an artist?

Australian-South Sudanese artist Atong Atem brilliantly flips the Ethnographic gaze to create gorgeous studio portraits with a powerful statement. Plus, how does the medium of video art exist in the era of binge watching? And Namila chats to incoming guest host Daniel Browning, a familiar voice to RN listeners — but did you know he trained as an artist?

Australian-South Sudanese artist Atong Atem brilliantly flips the Ethnographic gaze to create gorgeous studio portraits with a powerful statement. Plus, how does the medium of video art exist in the era of binge watching? And Namila chats to incoming guest host Daniel Browning, a familiar voice to RN listeners — but did you know he trained as an artist?

BW + BL explore Beyonce's visual album Black is King with artist Atong Atem, contemplate how to do nothing with Jenny Odell and how to do kids' books, with rapper and new author Briggs.

BW + BL explore Beyonce's visual album Black is King with artist Atong Atem, contemplate how to do nothing with Jenny Odell and how to do kids' books, with rapper and new author Briggs.

BW + BL explore Beyonce's visual album Black is King with artist Atong Atem, contemplate how to do nothing with Jenny Odell and how to do kids' books, with rapper and new author Briggs.

BW + BL explore Beyonce's visual album Black is King with artist Atong Atem, contemplate how to do nothing with Jenny Odell and how to do kids' books, with rapper and new author Briggs.

BW + BL explore Beyonce's visual album Black is King with artist Atong Atem, contemplate how to do nothing with Jenny Odell and how to do kids' books, with rapper and new author Briggs.

Atong Atem views Melbourne’s lockdown due to COVID, as not just a political state of emergency but an emotional one too. Atong is an internationally acclaimed South Sundanese artist and writer whose exhibition ‘To Be Real’ at the Melbourne Immigration Museum was postponed due to the pandemic. In this episode, we discuss coping strategies, how growing up in a refugee camp prepares you for instability and coming to terms with the fact that the state of emergency is not a situation we can control. Content warning. This episode discusses mental health and trauma. If you need mental health support contact Beyond Blue at 1300 22 4636. Credits: Producer: Imogen Wait Music: Zoe Alsop Artwork: Emma Ismawi via The Creative Co-Operative If you liked this episode please subscribe and leave us a rating & comment. Say hello to us at @itsbeenhardlately on Instagram.

Atong Atem is a South Sudanese artist and writer living in Melbourne. Her work is currently being exhibited at Melbourne’s Immigration Museum in a show called To Be Real and she's this week's guest for The Year That Made Me.

In this episode Bigoa chats to Atong Atem, a South Sudanese artist and writer from Bor living in Birraranga, Melbourne. Her 2015 Studio series was recently acquired by National Gallery of Victoria as an integral part of the NGV Contemporary Australian Collection. She shares the interwoven experiences of art and identity and where lately, she finds joy. Atong “is alive and doing OK.” Check out Atong's work: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/atongatem/ Website: www.atongatem.com This podcast is proudly supported by Maribyrnong City Council and The City of Melbourne COVID-19 Arts Grants Program.

BW + BL explore Beyonce's new visual album, Black is King with artist Atong Atem, contemplate how to do nothing with Jenny Odell and rate themselves on a scale of bemused to exasperated on the "Which Jonathan Swan are you today?" mood board

BW + BL explore Beyonce's new visual album, Black is King with artist Atong Atem, contemplate how to do nothing with Jenny Odell and rate themselves on a scale of bemused to exasperated on the "Which Jonathan Swan are you today?" mood board

BW + BL explore Beyonce's new visual album, Black is King with artist Atong Atem, contemplate how to do nothing with Jenny Odell and rate themselves on a scale of bemused to exasperated on the "Which Jonathan Swan are you today?" mood board

BW + BL explore Beyonce's new visual album, Black is King with artist Atong Atem, contemplate how to do nothing with Jenny Odell and rate themselves on a scale of bemused to exasperated on the "Which Jonathan Swan are you today?" mood board

Art galleries and museums globally are struggling with the coronavirus pandemic, with some closing permanently. This week on The Cultural Frontline, Tina Daheley hosts a discussion on what's next for the visual arts and how artists and curators are radically re-thinking the future of the art world. Her panel includes Israeli born artist and educator Oreet Ashery; South Sudanese artist and photographer Atong Atem; Ben Vickers, Chief Technology Officer at the Serpentine Gallery; and Tim Marlow, Director and Chief Executive of the Design Museum in London and former Artistic Director of the Royal Academy of Arts. (Photo: A visitor at the newly reopened State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow. Credit: Dimitar Dilkoff /AFP via Getty Images)

Atong Atem is a Melbourne-based South Sudanese artist, whose work features young African Australians looking bold, powerful and regal - a welcome change to the tradition of ethnographic photography. We also visit the studio of Darwin artist Franck Gohier, and delve into the world of monsters and demons in Japan Supernatural at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

Atong Atem is a Melbourne-based South Sudanese artist, whose work features young African Australians looking bold, powerful and regal - a welcome change to the tradition of ethnographic photography. We also visit the studio of Darwin artist Franck Gohier, and delve into the world of monsters and demons in Japan Supernatural at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

Atong Atem is a Melbourne-based South Sudanese artist, whose work features young African Australians looking bold, powerful and regal - a welcome change to the tradition of ethnographic photography. We also visit the studio of Darwin artist Franck Gohier, and delve into the world of monsters and demons in Japan Supernatural at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

"A lot of confessions we make are performative" - Serena Bentley In this podcast Melbourne-based curator Serena Bentley talks to Mark Amery about Personal Space, CIRCUIT's 2019 programme of Artist Cinema Commissions. Personal Space features new works by Natasha Matila-Smith, Campbell Patterson, Janet Lilo, Tanu Gago and Atong Atem. Each artist was asked by Bentley to make a short film which responded to the questions 'What do we call 'home'? What are our shared values? What does home look like?' 'Personal Space' premieres 6.30pm, Friday 4 October at the Newtown Community Centre, Wellington. Free Admission. More info: http://www.circuit.org.nz/project/personal-space-circuit-artist-cinema-commissions-2019

How important is it to make yourself and others visible? What can a photograph achieve, and what is the power of the photographer? Tai Snaith and Atong Atem discuss all the different aspects of Atong’s identity and how making sense of them informs her artwork. Atong explains what it is like to grow up ‘between cultures’ as a South Sudanese person in Australia and the liminality that exists as part of that. Atong openly addresses the complex nature of racism and the very real issue of ‘everyday racism’, often by ‘good’ people. With a practice that has always leaned towards portraiture and self-portraiture, this conversation with Atong very much revolves around ideas of the self, the power of the photographer, and power of accessing and owning your family history. Additional Resources: Atong’s website: https://www.atongatem.com/ Native Tongue by Mojo Juju: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLQ4by3lUJo https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/jul/17/turnbull-says-there-is-real-concern-about-sudanese-gangs-in-melbourne LightWork website: http://www.lightwork.org The Bakehouse Project: http://bakehousestudios.com.au/art-project MECCA M-Power: https://www.vogue.com.au/beauty/news/mecca-teams-up-with-the-national-gallery-of-victoria-for-a-beautymeetsart-prize/news-story/8034beb56a5cd05cb5eb22fa7e353e7b

How important is it to make yourself and others visible? What can a photograph achieve, and what is the power of the photographer?Tai and Atong discuss all the different aspects of Atong's identity and how making sense of them informs her artwork. Atong explains what it is like to grow up ‘between cultures' as a South Sudanese person in Australia and the liminality that exists as part of that. Atong openly addresses the complex nature of racism and the very real issue of ‘everyday racism', often by ‘good' people. With a practice that has always leaned towards portraiture and self-portraiture, this conversation with Atong very much revolves around ideas of the self, the power of the photographer, and power of accessing and owning your family history.Links, more episodes, and information about A World of One's Own, at taisnaith.com/podcastAudio production: Bec FaryTheme music: ‘End of the Day' by Phia www.listentophia.com

We're delving deep and asking 3 incredible black pillars of our community the tough question: Hey Aunty! Why are we like this? In part 1 Shantel catches up with the wonderful Lisa Hilli. Lisa is a contemporary artist, a Collection Manager for Melbourne Museum and a proud descendant of the Tolai and Gunantuna people of Papua New Guinea. Throughout her work Lisa centres indigenous knowledge and matriarchal structures in powerful and moving ways. She’s an artistic and cultural force! Yet she faces the same struggles as the rest of us. Here we get personal and share a beautiful chat about hurting and healing, at the hands of our sisters. Give it a listen, we’d love to hear what you think. Photo by Atong Atem

This episode of The Hanging reviews 'Us' a solo exhibition by Atong Atem at Custom's House in Sydney by Nerida Ross.

Atong Atem was born in Ethiopia, her family is from South Sudan but she grew up as a proud bogan on the Central Coast of NSW. She acknowledges that she's somewhere in the middle, a Third Culture Kid. This extends into her photography work, exploring the ideas of colonialism and migrant narratives, and also extends into her motley taste in music.

Atong Atem speaks on being a 'Third Culture Kid', studying fine art in a very white institution and why she identifies with Womanism. atongatem.tumblr.com Front To The Back- Akoko