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
Monday Nov 09, 2020
Monday Nov 09, 2020
EP. 5 - in a live conversation with three visual artists, Julia Elyas (Ukraine), Tasha Arlova (Belarus) and Eva Mahhov (Estonia).
The starting point of the discussion was an exhibition organised by Framer Framed in Amsterdam titled 'From what will we reassemble ourselves' - conducted in the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide (1995).
References:
From what will we reassemble ourselves (exhibition)
Srebrenica is Dutch History (petition)
The Fog of Srebrenica by Samir Mehanovic (trailer)
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Live recording: Jonas Kröper
Editing: Patrycja Rozwora
Mix & master: Jonas Kröper
Sunday Oct 11, 2020
Sunday Oct 11, 2020
Kitchen Conversations shares a recording from a panel discussion: 'Second Thoughts - A collective exploration on Eastern Europeanness', that Patrycja had the pleasure to moderate together with Julia Elyas, Tasha Arlova and Eva Mahhov. The event took place on the 6th of October 2020 and was hosted by The Rietveld/Sandberg Library and Radio Rietveld.
Discussed books:
- 'Archives and Disobedience, Changing Tactics of Visual Culture in Eastern Europe', Margaret Tali & Tanel Rander
- 'The Light That Failed', Ivan Krastev & Stephen Holmes
- 'Secondhand Time- The Last of the Soviets', Svetlana Alexievich
- 'Twilight of Democracy-The seductive power of authoritarianism', Anne Applebaum
- 'Postcolonialism & Postsocialism in fiction and art', Madina Tlostanova
- 'What does it mean to be post-soviet', Madina Tlostanova
- 'Red Hangover: Legacies of Twentith-Century Communism' Kristen Ghodsee
- 'Comradeship: Curating, Art, and Politics in Post-socialist Europe', Zdenka Badovinac
- 'KAJET. A Journal of Eastern European Encounters'
Monday Sep 28, 2020
Monday Sep 28, 2020
EP. 4 - in conversation with photographer and managing director of Kowalsky Gallery from Poland, Michał Korta.
Patrycja speaks to Michal about his ongoing fascination with the post-Soviet regions. Since 2006, he undertook several long-term journeys to Central Asia, the Caucasus and the Balkans that resulted in two unique photo books: 'The Balkan Playground' and 'Beautiful Monsters'.
References:
Imagining the Balkans by Maria Todorova (book)
Wojciech Wilczyk (photographer)
Niewinne oko nie istnieje by Wojciech Wilczyk (art project)
Post-Soviet Vision (exhibition)
Favourite home food: Pierogi with sheep fat
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Recording & editing: Patrycja Rozwora
Mix & master: Jonas Kröper
![[ENG] Kitchen Conversations with Marta Romankiv](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog8430230/Marta-Romankiv-zdje_cie_v1_smallbvsgn_300x300.jpg){kind=logo}
Sunday Sep 13, 2020
Sunday Sep 13, 2020
EP. 3 (ENG version) - in conversation with multidisciplinary artist from Ukraine, Marta Romankiv.
Patrycja speaks to Marta about her socially engaged project 'Immigrant, take a vote’ organised on the occasion of Polish presidential elections 2020. Thanks to the artistic intervention, immigrants living in Poland where able to ‘vote’ for the president and finally start a discussion about the rights of migrants living in the country.
References:
Mock Election in Poland Highlights Rights Denied to Migrants (article)
Inne wspólne życie jest możliwe (panel)
Favourite home food: Ukrainian pierogi and Pierogi with cherries
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Recording & editing: Patrycja Rozwora
Voice-over: Amy Pekal
Mix & master: Jonas Kröper
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Friday Aug 14, 2020
Friday Aug 14, 2020
EP. 3 (PL version) - in conversation with multidisciplinary artist from Ukraine, Marta Romankiv.
Patrycja speaks to Marta about her socially engaged project 'Immigrant, take a vote’ organised on the occasion of Polish presidential elections 2020. Thanks to the artistic intervention, immigrants living in Poland where able to ‘vote’ for the president and finally start a discussion about the rights of migrants living in the country.
References:
Mock Election in Poland Highlights Rights Denied to Migrants (article)
Inne wspólne życie jest możliwe (panel)
Favourite home food: Ukrainian pierogi and Pierogi with cherries
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Recording & editing: Patrycja Rozwora
Mix & master: Jonas Kröper
![[Part 2] Kitchen Conversations with Hristina Tasheva](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog8430230/_mg_4403_v2_small_300x300.jpg){kind=logo}
Friday Jul 17, 2020
Friday Jul 17, 2020
EP. 2 (part 2) - in conversation with artist and photographer from Bulgaria, Hristina Tasheva.
Upon meeting at her lovely home in Bodegraven (The Netherlands) host Patrycja speaks to Hristina about the concept of "soviet idealism", domestic labour and black markets in addition to her three latest photo books that deal with the mental in-between space, the constructed image of a migrant, the fear of foreigners and the Bulgarian identity.
References:
The houses of Hristina' by Suzanne Raes
Artist website
Favourite home food: Chicken with Rice - Bulgarian Style
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Recording & editing: Patrycja Rozwora
Mix & master: Jonas Kröper
Friday Jul 17, 2020
Friday Jul 17, 2020
EP. 2 (part 1) - in conversation with artist and photographer from Bulgaria, Hristina Tasheva.
Upon meeting at her lovely home in Bodegraven (The Netherlands) host Patrycja speaks to Hristina about the concept of "soviet idealism", domestic labour and black markets in addition to her three latest photo books that deal with the mental in-between space, the constructed image of a migrant, the fear of foreigners and the Bulgarian identity.
References:
The houses of Hristina' by Suzanne Raes
Artist website
Favourite home food: Chicken with Rice - Bulgarian Style
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Recording & editing: Patrycja Rozwora
Mix & master: Jonas Kröper
Friday Jul 17, 2020
Friday Jul 17, 2020
EP. 1 - in conversation with filmmaker and artistic researcher from Georgia, Misho Antadze.
For the very first episode, host Patrycja meets Misho at his Amsterdam apartment to speak about his documentary film ‘The Harvest’ (2018) that sets in Kakheti, eastern Georgia. Twenty years ago people of Georgia suffered daily power outages. Today their country engages in a highly technological form of Capitalism.
References:
The Harvest (trailer)
Slow Writing by Thom Anderson (book)
Salomé Jashi (film director)
Favourite home food: Chicken/Cauliflower Bazhe
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Recording & editing: Patrycja Rozwora
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Friday Jul 17, 2020
Friday Jul 17, 2020
Welcome to Kitchen Conversations - a podcast where in an easy going manner, without big words, and in various accents - artists, curators and activists are invited to speak about their works in relation to the diverse region of so-called ‘Eastern Europe’, with all its complexities, histories, cultures, traumas, and their inevitable contemporary consequences.
Reading: Svetlana Alexievich, Secondhand Time, The last of the Soviets (New York: Random House, 2016), 17-19.
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Recording & editing: Patrycja Rozwora
Mix & master: Jonas Kröper