In this podcast, Polish artist Patrycja Rozwora engages in insightful conversations with fellow artists, curators, and researchers about their visual and socially engaged work, all connected to the vibrant and diverse region known as 'Eastern Europe.' Each episode offers an easy-going yet thought-provoking dialogue, exploring topics like art, politics, and food, all through a rich tapestry of accents and perspectives. New episodes are released every four weeks, on Monday.
Episodes
Friday Mar 11, 2022
Friday Mar 11, 2022
EP. 25 - about art and culture from Ukraine.
Kitchen Conversations for Ukraine was created to highlight the culture of Ukraine and spread information on how to help the country and its artists. Episode 1 was curated by contemporary painter and muralist, Tatyana Ostapenko.
References:
Pavlo Borshchenko @pavloborshchenko
Anna Sarvira @anna.sarvira
Kadyrova Zhanna @jannkad
Winter On Fire by Evgeny Afineevsky
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Recording & editing: Patrycja Rozwora
Mix & master: Jonas Kröper
Monday Feb 21, 2022
Monday Feb 21, 2022
EP. 24 - in conversation with multidisciplinary artist from Poland and Senegal, Maja ∀. Ngom.
Maja's body of work is shaped by her unique experience of coming from an intergenerational and multi-ethnic family and explores issues of identity in the context of belonging and displacement.
The conversation circulated around Maja's mixed media installation 'The Sweet Taste of Otherness', her unique relation to writing, colonial structures operating in non-colonial countries, as well as about European museums and ways of decolonizing them.
References:
Romuald Demidenko in conversation with Maja ∀. Ngom
Mixed-race in a phenomenological context: Naomi Zack, Linda Martin Alcoff and Tina Fernandes Bott
Grada Kilomba: Plantation Stories
Irruptive Chora (curatorial platform)
@Black is Polish (insta profile)
'Don't Call Me Murzyn' (Time article)
Favourite home food: Polish Barszcz and Senegalese Thieboudienne
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Buying the Kitchen Conversations Cookbook
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Recording & editing: Patrycja Rozwora
Mix & master: Jonas Kröper
Monday Jan 17, 2022
Monday Jan 17, 2022
EP. 23 - in conversation with host of the ost.GAYze podcast from Poland and Germany, Kai Hermann.
ost.GAYze focuses on queer Eastern-European perspectives from and in Germany. Patrycja spoke to Kai about the history of Silesia, where his family migrated from, about the intersection of his dual identity (being Polish and queer) and about the great work being done by Eastern European queers all over the region.
References:
Die 7 osTraum Podcasts auf Deutsch
Favourite Christmas food: Siemieniotka
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Buying the Kitchen Conversations Cookbook
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Recording & editing: Patrycja Rozwora
Mix & master: Jonas Kröper
Tuesday Dec 21, 2021
Tuesday Dec 21, 2021
EP. 22 - in conversation with curator of the exhibition Young Poland: An Arts and Crafts Movement (1890–1918), Julia Griffin.
From the end of the 18th-century Poland underwent successive partitions, resulting in the country disappearing from the map of Europe for 123 years. After a couple of failed military uprisings, Polish people understood that making art was the only remaining way to preserve their endangered national identity.
On the occasion of the exhibition Young Poland: An Arts and Crafts Movement (1890–1918) organised by the William Morris Gallery in London, Patrycja spoke to one of the shows curators, Julia Griffin.
References:
Reportage about Portrait of Doom
Favourite Christmas food: 'Russian' pierogi, pierogi with sauerkraut, cumin & mushrooms, Borsch (beetroot soup)
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This episode was created for Contemporary LYNX and with support of Polish Cultural Institute London.
Recording & editing: Patrycja Rozwora
Mix & master: Jonas Kröper
Monday Nov 22, 2021
Monday Nov 22, 2021
EP. 21 - in conversation with choreographer, theatre maker, dancer, performer and singer from East Germany, Burkhard Körner.
In his work Burkhard examines questions of the individual within the collective and looks for ways to translate memories into different forms. The conversation revolved around a theatre piece he created together with Rika Weniger and Noah Voelker. "Wie macht man gute Kunst fur Ostdeutsche?" (How to make good art for East Germans?) talks about the history of East Germany and the memories and experiences of the 'nach der Wende' generation.
References:
Favourite home food: Kaffee und Kuchen
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Buying the Kitchen Conversations Cookbook
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Recording & editing: Patrycja Rozwora
Mix & master: Jonas Kröper
Monday Oct 25, 2021
Monday Oct 25, 2021
EP. 20 - in conversation with visual artist and embroiderer from Belarus, Rufina Bazlova.
Rufina is the artist behind the red and white embroidery that appeared in many exhibitions and events, illustrating the Belarusian Revolution. During the conversations Rufina shared the process of creating 'The History of Belarusian Vyzhyvanka' as well as her plans for upcoming projects focusing on the political prisoners of Belarus.
References:
The History of Belarusian Vyzhyvanka
Favourite home food: Shchi soup
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Buying the Kitchen Conversations Cookbook
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Recording & editing: Patrycja Rozwora
Mix & master: Jonas Kröper
Monday Sep 13, 2021
Monday Sep 13, 2021
EP. 18 - in conversation with Patrycja’s Polish grandmother (part 3)
Grandma's tales is a three episode mini series of Kitchen Conversations, devoted to the life of Marianna Farin. On the occasion of Marianna’s 100th birthday, Patrycja sat down with her grandmother to speak about her long life and the many history-changing moments she lived through.
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Buying the Kitchen Conversations Cookbook
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Recording & editing: Patrycja Rozwora
Mix & master: Jonas Kröper
Monday Aug 23, 2021
Monday Aug 23, 2021
EP. 17 - in conversation with Patrycja’s Polish grandmother (part 2)
Grandma's tales is a three episode mini series of Kitchen Conversations, devoted to the life of Marianna Farin. On the occasion of Marianna’s 100th birthday, Patrycja sat down with her grandmother to speak about her long life and the many history-changing moments she lived through.
References:
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Buying the Kitchen Conversations Cookbook
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Recording & editing: Patrycja Rozwora
Mix & master: Jonas Kröper
Monday Aug 09, 2021
Monday Aug 09, 2021
EP. 16 - in conversation with Patrycja’s Polish grandmother (part 1)
Grandma's tales is a three episode mini series of Kitchen Conversations, devoted to the life of Marianna Farin. On the occasion of Marianna’s 100th birthday, Patrycja sat down with her grandmother to speak about her long life and the many history-changing moments she lived through.
References:
Armia Krajowa (Polish underground force)
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Buying the Kitchen Conversations Cookbook
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Recording & editing: Patrycja Rozwora
Mix & master: Jonas Kröper
Monday Jul 19, 2021
Monday Jul 19, 2021
EP. 15 - in conversation with head of Research Center at Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź, Poland, Agnieszka Pindera.
The Museum’s unique connection with the avant-garde dates back to the turn of the 1920s and 1930s, when a group of radical artists from the “a.r.” group began gathering works of the most important artists of that time for the Museum. Patrycja spoke with Agnieszka about a series of exhibitions prepared for the celebratory 90 years of the Museum's existence.
References:
The Avant-Garde Museum (publication)
The Polish Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale
Favourite home food: Leczo
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Support the podcast by:
Buying the Kitchen Conversations Cookbook
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Recording & editing: Patrycja Rozwora
Mix & master: Jonas Kröper