I Hope This Message Finds You Well

About I Hope This Message Finds You Well

I Hope This Message Finds You Well is a podcast on curating hosted by Kris Dittel and Eloise Sweetman. It grew out of our friendship and delight in talking about art, where we, two freelance curators, openly discuss and question what we are doing, why we are doing it, and open up this conversation to our colleagues. In each episode we talk to our guests about their work, professional trajectory, motivation, and reasons to work as a curator or otherwise.

Category

arts

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

11 Oct 2021

Latest episode

23 May 2024

Latest episodes

21 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   23 May 2024

   I Hope This Message Finds You Well – Bonus episode

   As we are wrapping up the third season of the podcast, we’d like to share with you a short bonus episode, recorded at the gym. We talked about our relationship to exercise and understanding of our limits. We also discussed failure, body-work and writing via Kathy Acker, and writing as a physical experience. If you have feedback we’d love to receive your email at ihopethismessagefindsyouwell@gmail.com; you can also follow us on Instagram @ihopethismessage. The jingle was made by the artist Natalia Solzano and sound engineering by Nick Thomas. Graphic design by Christophe Clarijs. The episode was recorded in March 2024.

2. 

   10 May 2024

   I Hope This Message Finds You Well, Clémentine Deliss (S3/Ep5)

   In the fifth episode of the season we talked to Dr. Clémentine Deliss who works across the borders of contemporary art, critical anthropology, curatorial practice, and publishing. We talked about her curatorial beginnings and significant projects in her professional trajectory as an “artist to artist” curator. We also discussed her take on the exhibition that foregrounds and reflects a “conceptual intimacy”, where non-didactic learning, visual thinking and juxtapositions take center stage. Dr. Clémentine Deliss is Global Humanities Professor in History of Art, University of Cambridge, and Associate Curator at KANAL-Centre Pompidou in Brussels, where she runs the “Metabolic Museum-University”. Between 2020-23, she was Associate Curator at KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin. Her exhibition at KW “Skin in the Game” included seminal prototypes by Ruth Buchanan, Otobong Nkanga, Collier Schorr, Rosemarie Trockel, Joëlle Tuerlinckx and Andrea Zittel. Since 1996, she has published the artists and writers’ organ “Metronome”. In the introductory mini conversation we, Eloise and Kris, talk about our relationship to food, nourishment, AI friends and online communities. If you have feedback we’d love to receive your email at ihopethismessagefindsyouwell@gmail.com; you can also follow us on Instagram @ihopethismessage. The jingle was made by the artist Natalia Solzano and sound engineering by Nick Thomas. Graphic design by Christophe Clarijs. The episode was recorded in February 2024. SHOW NOTES: “Metabolic Museum-University” www.mm-u.online University of applied Arts Vienna, Ulay, Vito Acconci, Marina Abramović, Joseph Kosuth, Susan Hiller, Michael Oppitz, Valie Export, Rudi Fuchs, Kasper König, Harald Szeeman Hayward Gallery London DUACH, Mike Kelley, Rosemarie Trockel, Lubaina Himid, Jay Gorney, Jeff Koons “Lotte or the Transformation of the Object” https://formerwest.org/ResearchLibrary/LotteortheTransformationoftheObjectLotteoderderTransformationdesObjekts Haim Steinbach, Mr. Salt “Manifesto on Neighborly Dislike as Curatorial Critique” https://www.moussemagazine.it/magazine/manifesto-on-neighborly-dislike-as-curatorial-critique-clementine-deliss-2023/ “Skin in the Game” at KW Berlin https://www.kw-berlin.de/en/skin-in-the-game/ “Metronome, an artists’ and writers’ organ” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metronome_(artists%27_and_writers%27_organ) Paul Virilio, Issa Samb, Yinka Shonibare, Robert Loder, Gasworks London, Stuart Morgan, Artscribe magazine, John Akomfrah, June Givanni, Mark Sealy Africa95 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa95 “Seven Stories About Modern Art in Africa” https://contemporaryand.com/magazines/seven-stories-about-modern-art-in-africa/ El Hadji Sy, Chika Okeke, Wanjiku Nyachae Cédric Fauq Okwui Enwezor Frieze Mathis Esterhazy Dilijan Arts Observatory https://mm-u.online/project/arts-observatory/ Theaster Gates Ruth Buchanan, Otobong Nkanga, Collier Schorr, Joëlle Tuerlinckx, Andrea Zittel

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   25 Apr 2024

   I Hope This Message Finds You Well, Hendrik Folkerts (S3/Ep4)

   In the fourth episode of the season we talked to Hendrik Folkerts, Curator of International Contemporary Art and Head of Exhibitions at Moderna Museet in Stockholm. With Hendrik we talked about the ways his former experience in curating performance and public programmes influenced his current curatorial practice and approach to exhibition-making. He sees the exhibition as a relational mechanism, manifested by his interest in scenography, staging artworks and the way bodies move through space. We also talked about Hendrik’s approach to curating and his recent projects: Seven Rooms and a Garden: Rashid Johnson and the Moderna Museet collection, and a large-scale solo exhibition Vaginal Davis: Magnificent Product. Hendrik Folkerts is Curator of International Contemporary Art and Head of Exhibitions at Moderna Museet in Stockholm. Previously he served as the Dittmer Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Art Institute of Chicago between 2017–2021. He was also a member of the curatorial team of documenta 14 and served in Amsterdam as curator of performance, film, and discursive programs at the Stedelijk Museum. If you have feedback we’d love to receive your email at ihopethismessagefindsyouwell@gmail.com; you can also follow us on Instagram @ihopethismessage. The jingle was made by the artist Natalia Solzano and sound engineering by Nick Thomas. Graphic design by Christophe Clarijs. We have launched our I Hope This Message Finds You Well t-shirts, get them via our Everpress campaign: everpress.com/i-hope-this-message The episode was recorded in January 2024. Show notes: Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam https://www.stedelijk.nl/en Curatorial Programme at De Appel Arts Centre https://www.deappel.nl/en/curatorial-programme/518-intro Seven Rooms and a Garden: Rashid Johnson and the Moderna Museet collection https://www.modernamuseet.se/stockholm/en/exhibitions/rashid-johnson-seven-rooms-and-a-garden/ University of Amsterdam https://www.uva.nl/en Rachel Esner Marga van Mechelen Miriam van Rijsingen Sophie Berrebi If I Can't Dance, I Don't Want to be Part of Your Revolution https://ificantdance.org/ Tino Seghal Maria Hassabi Alexandra Bachzetsis Stuart Comer Catherine Wood Sharon Hayes Wu Tsang Every Ocean Hughes Rashid Johnson Ann Goldstein The Sovereignty of Quiet by Kevin Quashie https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/the-sovereignty-of-quiet/9780813553108/ Vaginal Davis Nationalmuseum Stockholm https://www.nationalmuseum.se/en/ Index Stockholm https://indexfoundation.se/ Accelerator Stockholm https://acceleratorsu.art/en/frontpage/ Tensta konsthall https://www.tenstakonsthall.se/en documenta 14 https://www.documenta14.de/en/ Adam Szymczyk The Art Institute of Chicago https://www.artic.edu/

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