The Installation Art Podcast

Leave a voice message: https://www.speakpipe.com/installationartpodcastMichael Johansson is a Swedish installation artist based in Malmö, known for precisely assembled sculptures and installations made from ready-made objects that he describes as ‘real life Tetris’. His work has been shown across Europe, Asia and beyond, and ranges from ephemeral site-specific installations to large-scale permanent public commissions cast in bronze.What we cover:• The art school realisation: being technically skilled at drawing is not the same as knowing what kind of art you want to make• Sourcing from flea markets and secondhand stores• Institutional installations made entirely from objects borrowed from a museum's own back rooms and storage• Residencies for installation artists and the newer model he thinks would work much better• The Taiwan passport disaster: two days to install a large site-specific work and why it turned out almost too good to be true• Time as the greatest challenge: procrastinating until the last possible moment and forgetting to eat• Moving a whole city: why an entire Swedish town is being relocated and how his new project is linked09:00 Growing Up and Early Making10:42 Finding Artistic Direction13:15 Into Installations and Public Art15:37 First Breakthrough Opportunities18:08 Ready-Made Process Rules20:42 Sourcing and Colour Logic36:32 Fabricators and Collaborations40:00 Residencies Reality Check43:59 Taipei Install Panic46:52 Afterlife of Installations53:37 Work Life Balance Reset01:00:02 Hard Truths and Highlights01:07:16 Advice and Dream ProjectsMichael Johansson is based in Malmö, Sweden. You can find out more about his work on his website: https://www.michaeljohansson.com/ and follow him on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/michaeljohansson/Michael works with several international galleries:Aeroplastics in Belgium: https://www.aeroplastics.net/ | https://www.instagram.com/aeroplastics_gallery/Helsinki Contemporary in Finland: https://helsinkicontemporary.com/ | https://www.instagram.com/helsinkicontemporary/GSA Gallery in Sweden: https://gsa.se/ | https://www.instagram.com/gsagallerystockholm/ | @gsagallery1690Galleri Arnstedt Östra Karup in Sweden: https://www.galleriarnstedt.se/ | https://www.instagram.com/galleriarnstedt/Galerie Ramakers in the Netherlands: https://www.galerieramakers.nl/ | https://www.instagram.com/galerieramakers2Galeria Enrique Guerrero in Mexico: https://www.galeriaenriqueguerrero.com/ | https://www.instagram.com/galeriaenriqueguerrero/Massimo Carasi – The Flat: https://www.carasi.it/ | https://www.instagram.com/theflat_massimocarasiGalerie Hartwich in Germany: https://www.galerie-hartwich.de/ | https://www.instagram.com/galeriehartwich44309//Gallery in Germany: https://44309gallery.net/ | https://www.instagram.com/44309gallery/Galleri Christoffer Egelund in Denmark: https://christofferegelund.dk/ | https://www.instagram.com/gallerichristofferegelund/Also mentioned in this episode:Club Mate: https://www.club-mate.de/en/ | https://www.instagram.com/clubmate_original/Lego: https://www.lego.com/ | https://www.instagram.com/lego | @LEGOAirfix: https://uk.airfix.com/ | https://www.instagram.com/officialairfix/ | @OfficialAirfixPreview Berlin: https://www.previewberlin.de/Skog Art Space: https://skogart.org/ | https://www.instagram.com/skogartspace/Helsinki Contemporary: https://www.helsinkicontemporary.com/ | https://www.instagram.com/helsinkicontemporary/The Installation Art Podcast is a show about people who love and work with the contemporary art medium of installation. The host Anastasia Parmson, an artist herself, interviews internationally renowned artists and arts workers about the intricacies and behind-the-scenes stories of creating and showing work that is site-specific, ephemeral, large-scale or immersive.🔔 Hit subscribe or follow wherever you’re listening to never miss a new episode.📢 Follow us on social media:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/installationartpodcast/Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@installationartpodcast📚 More information about the show and previous episodes: www.installationartpodcast.comYour host Anastasia Parmson: www.anastasiaparmson.art https://www.instagram.com/anastasiaparmson.art/

Samuelle Green grew up in rural Pennsylvania in a family of makers and studied art at Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia and Parsons in New York. After nearly 20 years in NYC working across galleries, museums, fabrication and film sets, she made a pivotal decision: leave the city to have the space to finally build the work she had always wanted to make.That work is large scale immersive installations built from rolled cones of reclaimed books and found paper. Exhibited across the US as well as in China, Italy, France and Estonia. Green’s work has also appeared on HBO and AMC+ and won the Arte Laguna Prize in Venice.What we cover:• The decision to leave New York City after nearly 20 years to reclaim her studio practice• What it takes to create immersive installations out of paper and what happens when huge panels of work go missing two weeks before a show• The accidental acoustic discovery: paper installations as anechoic chambers, concert venues and restaurant sound dampeners• Creating art for TV and film sets and what artists should know before saying yes• Reflective outdoor sculptures activated only by car headlights and flash photography and pivoting your medium after finding successSamuelle Green is based in rural Pennsylvania and represented by Ivy Brown Gallery in New York and Bonham Gallery in Arrowtown, New Zealand. Her work is also available through Holly Hunt Design showrooms across the US.You can see her reflective installation in person near Cochecton Fire Station at 54 County Road 114 in Cochecton, New York.Find out more about her work on her website: https://samuellegreen.com and follow her on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/samuellegreen03:44 Growing Up Creative05:58 Leaving New York08:10 First Big Break09:49 Crowdfunding the Installation15:33 Paper Durability and Storage16:54 Install Timeline and Logistics20:42 Safety and Public Interaction22:51 Overseas Exhibitions31:21 Grant Funded Pivot To Public Art34:34 TV Film Set Work42:53 Studio Practice And Sketches55:45 Sound And SilenceAlso mentioned in this episode:Tyler School of Art: https://tyler.temple.edu/ | https://www.instagram.com/tyler_artandarchitecture/Pearl Paint: https://www.pearlpaintco.com/Parsons School of Design: https://www.newschool.edu/parsons/ | https://www.instagram.com/TheNewSchool/ | @thenewschoolHatch Fund: https://thehatchfund.org/ | https://www.instagram.com/hatchfund/Rosco flame retardant: https://au.rosco.com/en/products/roscoflamex | https://www.instagram.com/rosco_labs/ | @rosco_labsTAKKK Symposium: https://www.takkksymposions.ee/en/sümpoosion | https://www.instagram.com/takkkkunstikeskus/Holly Hunt Design: https://www.hollyhunt.com/ | https://www.instagram.com/hollyhuntdesign/ | @hollyhuntdesignArt on Paper New York: https://ny.thepaperfair.com/Morris Museum: https://morrismuseum.org/ | https://www.instagram.com/morrismuseum/ | @morrismuseum131Taizé: https://www.taize.fr/en/ | https://www.instagram.com/taize | @taizeThe Installation Art Podcast is a show about people who love and work with the contemporary art medium of installation. The host Anastasia Parmson, an artist herself, interviews internationally renowned artists and arts workers about the intricacies and behind-the-scenes stories of creating and showing work that is site-specific, ephemeral, large scale or immersive.🔔 Hit subscribe or follow wherever you’re listening to never miss a new episode.📢 Follow us on social media:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/installationartpodcast/Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@installationartpodcast📚 More information about the show and previous episodes: www.installationartpodcast.comYour host Anastasia Parmson: www.anastasiaparmson.art https://www.instagram.com/anastasiaparmson.art/

I made a 3-minute listener survey to help shape the podcast's future. Your feedback genuinely matters.Fill out here: https://forms.gle/qqHJrMXpsC9UYu2m7Leave a voice message: https://www.speakpipe.com/installationartpodcastKatriina Campitelli is a Toronto-based public art curator with Finnish and Italian roots who has spent over five years commissioning permanent and temporary public art across Canada. She started during the pandemic by creating a projection mapping festival when galleries shut down, and hasn't stopped since. This is a conversation from the other side of the public art table: what do public art curators actually do, what they are looking for and what many artists get wrong.Katriina's work spans permanent commissions to ephemeral festivals, sculpture gardens and community engagement programs.This episode is essential listening for any artist thinking about making the jump into public art. But it's equally fascinating for anyone who's ever walked past a sculpture and wondered how it got there.What we cover:• The percent-for-art funding model and why most permanent public art is tied to infrastructure budgets• What a public art curator actually does start to finish• Why the only way to learn public art is to make public art and why that's a genuine problem given that public art cannot fail• The Drunk Frat Boy test: what your work needs before it can be installed in a public space• The giant chrome cow that led to two years of community backlash• Why Maurizio Cattelan's middle finger outside the Milan stock exchange became a permanent installation• What selection panelists notice (and remember) about artists and why being kind is a strategic career choice• Why public art matters beyond aesthetics: as a tool for economic development, wayfinding, community belonging and joy05:40 Growing Up Between Cultures 07:20 Master's in Italy 10:23 What a Public Art Curator Does 17:19 Finding Artists 19:16 How to Start in Public Art 30:00 Community Buy-In and Cautionary Tales 37:14 Temporary vs Permanent Public Art 38:24 Design Longevity Rules 47:30 Community Engagement Wins 57:36 Advice for Applicants 01:03:46 Career HighlightsKatriina Campitelli is based in Toronto, Canada.Find out more about Katriina’s work on her website https://katcampitelli.ca/ and follow her on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/katcampitelli/Also mentioned in this episode:JR: https://www.jr-art.net/ | https://www.instagram.com/jr/Percent For Public Art: https://www.toronto.ca/city-government/planning-development/official-plan-guidelines/design-guidelines/percent-for-public-art-inventory/Ron Baird: https://ronbairdartist.com/National Film Board of Canada: https://www.nfb.ca/ | https://www.instagram.com/onf_nfb/ | @nfbMaurizio Cattelan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurizio_Cattelan | https://www.instagram.com/mauriziocattelan/Francesco Perilli: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Perilli_(artista)Joel Sears: https://joelsears.com/about-joel/Alex Seton episode: https://installationartpodcast.com/alex-seton-024The High Line: https://www.thehighline.org/ | https://www.instagram.com/highlinenycFourth Plinth: https://www.london.gov.uk/programmes-strategies/arts-and-culture/current-culture-projects/fourth-plinth-trafalgar-squareAnish Kapoor: https://anishkapoor.com/ | https://www.instagram.com/dirty_cornerClaes Oldenburg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claes_OldenburgMyfanwy MacLeod: https://www.myfanwymacleod.com/ | https://www.instagram.com/mittens_macleod_again/Pasi Rauhala: https://pasirauhala.fi/ | https://www.instagram.com/pasirauhala/Korkeasaari Zoo: https://korkeasaari.fi/en/ | https://www.instagram.com/korkeasaari/ | @KorkeasaareneläintarhaAmos Rex Museum: https://amosrex.fi/en/ | https://www.instagram.com/amoskonst/Toronto Sculpture Garden: https://www.toronto.ca/explore-enjoy/history-art-culture/public-art/public-art-monuments-collection/comp-sculpture-garden/National Gallery of Canada: https://www.gallery.ca/ | https://www.instagram.com/NatGalleryCan/ | @ngcmediaThe Installation Art Podcast is a show about people who love and work with the contemporary art medium of installation. The host Anastasia Parmson, an artist herself, interviews internationally renowned artists and arts workers about the intricacies and behind-the-scenes stories of creating and showing work that is site-specific, ephemeral, large scale or immersive.🔔 Hit subscribe or follow wherever you’re listening to never miss a new episode.📢 Follow us on social media:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/installationartpodcast/Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@installationartpodcast📚 More information about the show and previous episodes: www.installationartpodcast.comYour host Anastasia Parmson: www.anastasiaparmson.art https://www.instagram.com/anastasiaparmson.art/

I made a 3-minute listener survey to help shape the podcast's future. Your feedback genuinely matters.Fill out here: https://forms.gle/qqHJrMXpsC9UYu2m7Leave a voice message: https://www.speakpipe.com/installationartpodcastAaron T Stephan is a sculptor and public artist who is so interested in process and materials, he builds and installs nearly every project himself. His permanent installations can be found all over the USA and he has also created numberous gallery installations and performative events. His work has been acquired by institutions like Portland Museum of Art, John Michael Kohler Arts Center and Farnsworth Art Museum.This conversation is candid, funny and full of hard-won insight. Aaron grew up on a self-sustaining hippie farm in rural Maine where self reliance, making and fixing things was expected. That relationship with objects, materials and technique has never left him and sits at the core of everything he makes.What we cover:• Proposing projects you have no idea how to execute and teaching yourself new fabrication techniques on the fly• Performative works where he builds structures around audiences mid-dinner or installs work as a live performance on-site• Navigating job sites where artists have essentially no power and the only leverage you have is that they want you to leave• What it actually takes to work at public scale and establishing a practice that lets you fail before you're locked in• Why the projects that nearly break you are always the best ones• Advice to artists who are intrigued by public artAaron T Stephan lives and works in Portland, Maine. You can see his permanent installations across the US, for example Woven Lines at City of Altoona, IA, Paths Rising at Tampa International Airport, Point of View at Salt Palace Convention Center, Salt Lake City and more.More information on his website: https://aarontstephan.com and his Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aarontstephan/Watch Aaron’s TED talk performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=697QUP6iYw805:23 Childhood And Making08:14 Art School And Wandering09:46 How He Got Into Big Installations11:12 Guardrail Knot Story13:35 Torture And Magic18:01 Building It Yourself19:45 Funding Realities24:48 Building Site Chaos29:30 Hiring An Actor To Play Him At Openings33:57 Public Art Hard Truths38:59 Concrete Block Vortex Idea47:13 Advice To ArtistsAlso mentioned in this episode:Tampa International Airport: https://www.tampaairport.com/ | https://www.instagram.com/flyTPA | @FlyTPASan Diego International Airport: https://www.san.org | https://www.instagram.com/sandiegoairport/Texas Tech University: https://www.ttu.edu | https://www.instagram.com/texastech/ La Croix: https://www.lacroixwater.com/ | https://www.instagram.com/lacroixwater/The Art Angle: https://news.artnet.com/multimedia/the-art-angle | https://www.instagram.com/artnet | @artnetPurchase College: https://www.purchase.edu/ | https://www.instagram.com/purchasecollege/ | @PurchaseCollegeSUNY New Paltz: https://www.newpaltz.edu/ | https://www.instagram.com/sunynewpaltz | @sunynewpaltzTEDxDirigo: https://www.tedxdirigo.com/ | https://www.instagram.com/tedxdirigo/https://www.ted.com/ | https://www.instagram.com/ted | @TEDMaurizio Cattelan: https://www.perrotin.com/en/artists/maurizio-cattelan | https://www.instagram.com/mauriziocattelan/Sears, Roebuck & Co: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SearsMatthew Mazzotta: https://www.matthewmazzotta.com/ | https://www.instagram.com/matthewmazzotta/The Installation Art Podcast is a show about people who love and work with the contemporary art medium of installation. The host Anastasia Parmson, an artist herself, interviews internationally renowned artists and arts workers about the intricacies and behind-the-scenes stories of creating and showing work that is site-specific, ephemeral, large scale or immersive.🔔 Hit subscribe or follow wherever you’re listening to never miss a new episode.📢 Follow us on social media:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/installationartpodcast/Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@installationartpodcast📚 More information about the show and previous episodes: www.installationartpodcast.comYour host Anastasia Parmson: www.anastasiaparmson.art https://www.instagram.com/anastasiaparmson.art/

I made a 3-minute listener survey to help shape the podcast's future. Your feedback genuinely matters.Fill out here: https://forms.gle/qqHJrMXpsC9UYu2m7Leave a voice message: https://www.speakpipe.com/installationartpodcastBuy me a coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/installationartpodcastDonna Dennis is one of the contemporary art pioneers who pushed sculpture toward the domain of architecture in the early 1970s. Her complex sculptural installations draw from overlooked fragments of American vernacular architecture.This conversation dives into five decades of art-making in New York's evolving art world. We discuss how she taught herself carpentry, pipe bending and electrical work to build pieces based on her body's scale. How Virginia Woolf's "Shakespeare's sister" gave her the drive to make work even if no one ever saw it. How feminism shaped her False Front Hotels as self-portraits when she decided "women's lives were worthy of study." And why she refuses to use the word "practice" to describe her work.Donna's work is held in collections including Brooklyn Museum, the Walker Art Center, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.Key moments from this episode:• From failing at abstract painting in Paris to her first steps toward installation• SoHo in the 1970s: how big raw loft spaces made it possible for artists to think bigThe Holly Solomon Gallery story: from studio visit ("we're buying a country house") to "I'm starting a gallery and I want you to be in it"—then Whitney Biennial within two yearsVenice Biennale 1982: realizing in April the show is in June, not 1984—quit your job, six assistants, work doubling in size• A car roll into the river in slow motion, with Donna’s belongings inside – and how that inspired a public artwork that also suffered a tragic end• ”A woman made this!?" The comment that captures why size matteredDonna Dennis is based in Germantown, New York. You can learn more about her work and subscribe to her newsletter on her website: https://www.donnadennisart.comAnd follow her on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/donnadennisstudio03:00 Hudson Valley Roots04:07 Rapid Fire Warmup05:06 Virginia Woolf Feminist Purpose07:28 Night Studio Rituals09:40 Early Art Calling12:36 From Painting to Installations47:28 Storage Risks49:58 Hidden Vistas51:19 Meaning And Mystery54:34 Audience Boundaries57:09 Vandalism Tale01:04:01 Funding Choices and Final ReflectionsBooks mentioned:Writing Toward Dawn: Journals 1969-1982: https://www.donnadennisart.com/publications/writing-toward-dawnDonna Dennis: A Poet in Three Dimensions: https://www.donnadennisart.com/publications/donna-dennis-poet-in-three-dimensionsAlso mentioned in this episode:Petah Coyne: https://www.petahcoyne.org/ | https://www.instagram.com/petahcoyne/Episode with Petah Coyne: https://installationartpodcast.com/petah-coyne-032Robert Fulton: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_FultonVirginia Woolf: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Room_of_One's_OwnGustave Doré: https://www.wikiart.org/en/gustave-doreBen Shahn “The Shape of Content”: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/284780.The_Shape_of_ContentArt Students League: https://www.artstudentsleague.org/ | https://www.instagram.com/aslnyc/ | @ArtStudentsLeagueNYMartha Diamond: https://marthadiamondtrust.org/ |Carleton College: https://www.carleton.edu/ | https://www.instagram.com/carletoncollege | @CarletonCollegeClaes Oldenburg: https://www.wikiart.org/en/claes-oldenburgJane Bowles “Two Serious Ladies”: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/215262.Two_Serious_LadiesDeafman Glance by Robert Wilson: https://robertwilson.com/deafman-glanceHistory of Art by Horst Waldemar Janson: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/2693801-history-of-artPeter Schjeldahl: https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/peter-schjeldahlThe New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/ | https://www.instagram.com/newyorkermag/ | @newyorkerThe Poetry Project: https://www.poetryproject.org/ | https://www.instagram.com/poetry_project | @ThePoetryProjectHolly Solomon: https://bonhams.shorthandstories.com/the-collection-of-holly-solomon/Andy Warhol: https://www.wikiart.org/en/andy-warholDenise Green: https://www.denisegreen.net/ |Judy Pfaff: https://www.judypfaffstudio.com/ | https://www.instagram.com/judy.pfaff/Whitney Biennial: https://whitney.org/exhibitions/the-biennial | https://www.instagram.com/whitneymuseum/ | @whitney_museumVenice Biennale: https://www.labiennale.org/en | https://www.instagram.com/labiennale/ | @BiennaleChannelO’Flaherty’s: https://www.donnadennisart.com/exhibitions/houses-and-hotels | https://www.instagram.com/oflahertys.nyc/The Installation Art Podcast is a show about people who love and work with the contemporary art medium of installation. The host Anastasia Parmson, an artist herself, interviews internationally renowned artists and arts workers about the intricacies and behind-the-scenes stories of creating and showing work that is site-specific, ephemeral, large scale or immersive.🔔 Hit subscribe or follow wherever you’re listening to never miss a new episode.📢 Follow us on social media:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/installationartpodcast/Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@installationartpodcast📚 More information about the show and previous episodes: www.installationartpodcast.comYour host Anastasia Parmson: www.anastasiaparmson.art...