Hosted by Polish artist Patrycja Rozwora, this podcast features in-depth yet accessible conversations with artists, curators, and researchers working across Eastern Europe. Each episode explores visual and socially engaged practices through discussions on art, politics, everyday life, and cultural context, shaped by diverse accents and perspectives. New episodes are released every four weeks, on Mondays.
Episodes
![Art as a voice for migrants in Poland - with Marta Romankiv [original]](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog8430230/Marta-Romankiv-zdje_cie_v1_small7cjan_300x300.jpg){kind=logo}
Friday Aug 14, 2020
Friday Aug 14, 2020
#3 (original) - 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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![Constructed image of a Bulgarian migrant - with Hristina Tasheva [part 2]](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog8430230/_mg_4403_v2_small_300x300.jpg){kind=logo}
Friday Jul 17, 2020
Friday Jul 17, 2020
#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
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Friday Jul 17, 2020
Friday Jul 17, 2020
#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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Friday Jul 17, 2020
Friday Jul 17, 2020
#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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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