Dr Irene Watson (Tanganekald, Meintangk, Bunganditj and Potaruwutj) sits down with Dr Vernon Ah Kee (Kuku Yalandji, Waanji, Gugu Yimithirr and Koko Berrin) for a yarn, six years after the pair first worked together on Vernon’s commission to create an ephemeral site-specific artwork of Kaurna language words on the grounds of UniSA, City West campus.…

Saudi/Palestinian artist Dana Awartani joins Samstag Curator Anna Zagala to discuss her art practice, living between cultures, and the importance of her unique art education in both contemporary art and traditional crafts, in shaping her art practice and career. Dana shares the background to the two moving image installation works currently on disp…

Artist Hayley Millar Baker (Gunditjmara/Djabwurrung) joins Anna Zagala, Associate Curator at Samstag Museum of Art, to discuss her moving image work, Nycyninasty (2021) currently screening at Samstag as part of the 4th Indigenous Art Triennial: Ceremony curated by Hetti Perkins for the NGA. Hayley shares what prompted her to pivot from photography …

In 2022 Samstag Museum of Art and ACMI commissioned a new moving image work by award winning Bundjulung/Ngapuhi artist Amrita Hepi. Ahead of Samstag’s presentation of Scripture for a smoke screen: Episode 1 – dolphin house (SASA Gallery, 7 July – 11 August 2023), Associate Curator Anna Zagala sits down with the artist to discuss the genesis of the …

Archie Moore (Kammilaroi/Bigambul) is an artist and Samstag Scholar. While a student in Prague, Archie travelled extensively around Europe, including a visit to the Venice Biennale. He returns to Venice 23 years later representing Australia as the 2024 Venice Biennale artist. In a wide-ranging conversation with Associate Curator Anna Zagala Archie …

Tarntanya-based Dancer and choreographer Daniel Jaber and Kuala Lumpar-based art critic Lee Weng Choy join Samstag Associate Curator to discuss Jaber’s dance trilogy Rite, Rot and Dirt performed at Samstag Museum of Art in 2022 and explore the nature of engagement from afar. “When Samstag approached me about writing on Daniel Jaber’s trilogy of per…

Julie Blyfield, a South Australian/Tarntanya based artist and UniSA alumnus, sits down with art historian, writer and curator Julie Ewington to discuss her exhibition .flowers of the sea Julie shares how her grandmother was a formative influence, the importance of engaging with scientific collections, and the unique quality of bi-metal (copper and …

Trans-media artist, writer and performer Virginia Barratt is joined by Em König, a multidisciplinary artist, to discuss their collaboration Exosmosis, premiering at Samstag on Thursday 16 June. Under the moniker [sadworm], Virginia and Em will present a new performance-based work centered around Virginia as a performer and Em’s responsive live soun…

UniSA visiting research fellow, writer, curator, activist and proud Bandjalung man Djon Mundine OAM sits down with Samstag’s Associate Curator Anna Zagala to discuss his venerable career. Along the way Djon shares his curatorial process, the importance of maintaining a wide perspective and open approach, how the Aboriginal Memorial came about, and …

Samstag Director Erica Green sits down with two Tarntanya/Adelaide-based makers, ceramicist Helen Fuller and designer Khai Liew. Helen Fuller’s exhibition of objects or ‘pots’ as she refers to them, is currently on at Samstag Museum of Art presented in collaboration with Khai Liew who conceived of the imaginative installation. They discuss Helen’s …

Elyas was awarded the Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship in 2019 which enabled him to undertake a Master of Fine Arts at Chelsea College of Arts, London. He discusses the process of applying, selecting an institution, the factors influencing his decision and how he navigated the disruption of a global pandemic. On Art is su…

In the latest episode of ON ART, Samstag Curator Gillian Brown speaks with artist Pilar Mata Dupont and writer Jessica Bunch about working together to write for Pilar’s 2018 moving image work , on exhibition at Samstag from 22 October until 10 December, 2021. Speaking on Zoom from the UK, Netherlands and Australia, they touch on processes of collab…

In the latest episode of ON ART, Marseille-based, Adelaide-born artist Madison Bycroft on their new moving-image commission B̶I̶O̶P̶I̶C̶ (2021) with Samstag curator Gillian Brown. In a wide-ranging conversation, they discuss the making and presentation of a feature-length film, the politics of storytelling and the philosophical notion of opacity.or…

In the latest episode of ON ART, Naarm/Melbourne based artist Alex Martinis Roe on the works that comprise her exhibition, (2014—2017) with Samstag curator Joanna Kitto. They discuss feminist political practices and relationships within the collectives doing that work, as well as Alex's experience as a Samstag scholar and the ways the scholarship h…

Hear from artists of the 2021 Adelaide//International. James Tylor speaks with poet Dominic Guerrera about the mistakes, mistranslations and loss of knowledge resulting from European colonist processes in documenting Kaurna culture. Jesse Jones discusses 'Tremble, Tremble'—a dramatic presentation proclaiming a new social order from a female perspec…

In this episode, we’re looking at the practice of South Australian artist Kirsten Coelho. Listen in on a conversation she had with fellow ceramicist Honor Freeman, hear poetry and prose from the 2020 SALA Monograph dedicated to her practice, read by the publication’s author Wendy Walker, and hear music by Derek Pascoe with , written in response to …

Brisbane-born, Melbourne-based painter Anne Wallace joins Samstag curator Anna Zagala in conversation. The former Samstag scholar (1994) and subject of a major survey exhibition discusses her practice, how she thinks through her ideas, when she knows a painting is finished, and how painting has changed for her across three decades of making. Bold, …

Artist and filmmaker Amos Gebhardt speaks with Naarm/Melbourne based writer Adolfo Aranjuez. They delve into Amos's expansive new moving image installation currently showing at Samstag, Small acts of resistance. Bold, creative and responsive to contemporary visual art, Samstag Museum of Art is one of Australia’s leading university art museums. For …

In 1996, South Australian artist Angela Valamanesh travelled to Glasgow, Scotland on a Samstag scholarship. Angela joins curator Anna Zagala to discuss her year abroad, what it taught her, and how it set the course for future work. Bold, creative and responsive to contemporary visual art, Samstag Museum of Art is one of Australia's leading universi…

Join South Australian artist Kirsten Coelho and Samstag curator Joanna Kitto as they discuss working with porcelain, the significance of the ‘ruin’, and Homer’s —the Ancient Greek text that inspired her most recent body of work,.Odyssey Ithaca Bold, creative and responsive to contemporary visual art, Samstag Museum of Art is one of Australia's lead…

Kaula Lumpur-based art critic Lee Weng Choy joins Samstag curator Joanna Kitto for a conversation around art and life. They discuss missing the experience of viewing art in person, what we’re consuming, and how the present moment is making us commit to empathy. This podcast was recorded in part on Zoom and in part by Denam Moore at Solstice Podcast…

Pittsburgh-based Samstag scholar Georgia Saxelby joins Samstag curator Anna Zagala to discuss her experience of applying to study at Carnegie Mellon in the USA, strategies for selecting a school, what it takes to get in and why she can’t wait to get back. Bold, creative and responsive to contemporary visual art, Samstag Museum of Art is one of Aust…

Naarm/Melbourne-based artist Zoë Croggon speaks with Samstag curator Gillian Brown about her body of collage works in Samstag’s ‘Effect in three movements’. They discuss Zoë’s interest in movement and architecture, and the heightened relevance in thinking about how we occupy domestic space at a time when we’ve all been forced to do so. Bold, creati…

In 'Hold Me', audiences listen in on a frustrated phone conversation between Adelaide-based artist Brad Darkson and a Centrelink worker trying to unravel the ramifications of a robo-debt, interspersed by the relentless sound of the hold music. While we're all working from home due to COVID-19, Samstag curator Gillian Brown discusses this eerily pre…

Did you know that architect John Wardle designed the Samstag Museum of Art, working closely with Director Erica Green? Today on the ON ART Podcast, they discuss this process, as well as — the intriguing timber structure developed by John Wardle Architects in collaboration with artist Natasha Johns-Messenger that was Australia's contribution to the …

Belgian artist David Claerbout sits down with UniSA's Rachel Hurst to discuss his monumental moving-image work '.Olympia (the real-time disintegration into ruins of the Berlin Olympic stadium over the course of a thousand years)' Bold, creative and responsive to contemporary visual art, Samstag Museum of Art is one of Australia's leading university…

In our first episode for 2020, Naarm/Melbourne-based artist Helen Grogan speaks with Samstag curator Gillian Brown about her work in the exhibition '.Effect in three movements' Bold, creative and responsive to contemporary visual art, Samstag Museum of Art is one of Australia's leading university art museums. For more, see unisa.edu.au/samstagmuseu…

Naarm/Melbourne-based artist James Nguyen joins Samstag curator Anna Zagala in the studio to discuss his experience as a Samstag scholar at UnionDocs, New York on a one year fellowship in 2015, and how the lab environment subsequently shaped his practice and methodology. Bold, creative and responsive to contemporary visual art, Samstag Museum of Ar…

In this episode, Samstag curator Gillian Brown speaks with artist Fiona Tan about her filmic work ', tracing imagery of Mount Fuji, Japan over the course of 150 years. Gillian was in Tarntanya/Adelaide in front of a live audience, Fiona was at home in Amsterdam.Ascent' Bold, creative and responsive to contemporary visual art, Samstag Museum of Art …

South Australian artist Louise Haselton makes sculptural works using materials gleaned from the world around her, fascinated by the push/pull between function and aesthetic. In this episode, Ken Bolton and Monte Masi respond to Haselton’s practice through poetry and performance. Later, Samstag curator Gillian Brown chats with Louise amongst her exh…

Poetry, stories and letters from the Unbound Collective – artists, activists and academics Ali Gumillya Baker (Mirning), Faye Rosas Blanch (Mbararam/Yidinyji), Natalie Harkin (Narungga) and Simone Ulalka Tur (Yankunytjatjara). They are joined by Kaurna Elder and scholar, Uncle Lewis Yarluburka O’Brien with an introduction by Samstag curator Joanna …

Aotearoa/New Zealand artist Lisa Reihana sits down with Samstag curator Gillian Brown to discuss her moving image work ' a re-imagining of the French scenic wallpaper ' depictingCaptain Cook's arrival on the Pacific Islands.in Pursuit of Venus [infected]',Les Sauvages de la Mer Pacifique' Bold, creative and responsive to contemporary visual art, Sa…