Viskleken är en utställning som visas på Växjö konsthall som är uppbyggd kring inbjudningar som inspirerats av leken, Viskleken. Ni vet leken när man viskar en mening till någon som i sin tur viskar vidare till någon annan. Och allteftersom förvanskas vad som sas från början, samtidigt som det finns ett klart samband mellan de som sas först och sist.

Viskleken är organiserad av konstnärerna Ann-Catrin Olsson och Filippa Nilsson Kallhed som båda ingår i Cana - en konstnärsdriven förening som arbetar med att utforska och ta fram olika metoder för att sätta samman utställningar. Cana startade utställningsprojektet med med att bjuda in Tilda Lovell som i sin tur bjöd in Tobias Bradford osv.

Allt som allt presenteras fem konstnärer i utställningen: Tilda Lovell, Tobias Bradford, Oona Libens, Fia Linnéa Emelie Doepel och Hanna Andersson.

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1969 förvärvande Moderna Museet John-E Franzéns målning Hell’s Angels of California, United States of America. Ett monumentalt verk som porträtterar bikers och två kvinnor utan kläder. Idag en målning med en given plats inom av svensk konsthistoria. Målningen hade John-E börjar arbeta på i Los Angeles. Hur var det att bo i Los Angeles som svensk målare som precis gått ut från Kungliga Konsthögskolan då? Vad var det som lockade det nygifta paret som precis fått en bebis att ta båten över?

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An NFT is an ownership registry, a database for creatives to know who has made what and track the information over time. Artist Ry David Bradley speaks about his relationship with the digital, the difference between working on a screen and seeing his tapestry works. We also talk about age, the importance of knowing what’s inside and what medium will outlast us.

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Stockholm-born Oscar Gustave Rejander (1813–1875) relocated to the UK in the 1830s. Some twenty years later he abandoned his profession as a painter to pursue a career in photography. Karen Hellman, assistant curator in the Department of Photographs at the Getty Museum talks about the medium of photography in the 1850s – what it was and what Rejlander thought that the medium could do. Rejlander’s position as an outsider allowed him to do what was not expedited, like double exposures, photographic manipulations and retouching. Today he is often referred to as the father art photography, a pioneer experimenting with the medium. We talk about his legacy and how it fits within photo history and about his wife Mary Bull, her role as a model and support running the studio in Kentish Town, London.

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Adee Roberson moved to Los Angeles a few years ago. We talk about her connection with the city and its tradition of experimental black artists and spirituality. In the show she presents Awolowo Road, a wall piece made in Nigeria. To be more precise in Awolowo Road in Lagos. She describes her stay in the sprawling city, the feeling of becoming a part of its bustling energy, and how the location impacted her work.

This is a special episode made in collaboration with Royale Projects, on the occasion of the group show If You Steal My Sunshine - California Abstraction Now, installed in the gallery November 3 – December 22, 2019

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Color is the most relevant ingredient in Chelsea Boxwell’s work. She takes fondly about the similarities between house paint and shiny pink fabrics she finds around the warehouses in The L.A. Fashion District. Painting is an act, and she paints without a conception in mind. The concept of the painting comes after. Equally, the installation of her work is site-specific, in correspondence with the specific room at a specific time. Also, glitter makes everything more active and she keeps an optimistic attitude.

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We all see things differently, but Heather Day filters color in a particular way. Quite late in life she found out that she has synesthesia. She works intuitively, often pushing paint around and recalls an obsession with color from an early age. Over the years her studio and paintings have grown larger. From pastels on paper, via wider brushes on canvas to murals and spray paint, her whole body is always involved in the act of painting. She speaks on how she decides when a work is finished; the evolution of a painting from the materials touching, to the making of the painting and documentation.

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Director of Individual Giving at MOCA, Brooke Devenney gives us some proper behind the scenes information about the role of fundraising at a large museum. She talks about different layers of engagement with the museum. How the museum invite individuals and companies to become a part of the community. We learn that she works closely with the curatorial team and the importance of a strong mission statement. MOCA is the only collection institution in Los Angeles that completely rely on private donations.

Brooke has since we did the interview changed jobs. Today she is Director of Development at USC Roski School of Art and Design.

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Dapper Day is an organization celebrating refined style by organizing social events with various locations. The founder Justin Jorgensen tell us all about the first outing at Disneyland. We discuss life and art and what a good party must include.

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Los Angeles Contemporary Archive (LACA), a hidden gem in Chinatown, is an artist-run repository archive. Director Hailey Loman and I sit down to speak about how the archive came about, what you can find there and what makes the value of residue.   

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Jeffrey Alan Scudder is a contemporary artist who travels and spends his time performing, programming and making pictures. In this episode we discuss Jeffrey’s lecture performances on Radical Digital Painting. A conversation around technologies, media and the history of painting. When has a digital painting found its final form? Can we understand systems by thinking about them as musical scores?

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Artist Emanuel Röhss grew up in Gothenburg, Sweden. Today he lives in Los Angeles. We talk about the differences between the two cities, aspects of sculpture and architecture and his site-specific outdoor sculpture installation De-Ruining, on view at Thielska in Stockholm, until October 7, 2018.

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Finding a mood and to pay attention to detail are vital components within multi-disciplinary Norwegian artist Constance Tenvik practice. Here she talks about her daily drawing routine, and a trip to Scotland, to reenact a grand vision for a video, and the unexpected result. We also speak about nature and Scandinavian children’s litteratur, like Astrid Lindgren, Roald Dahl and Mumin.

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American writer and curator Kate Sutton has been regular contributor to artforum.com for a decade. For a long period of time she lived in Moscow and today she is based in Zagreb.  Consequently, she has written about many artists located outside of places oftentimes describe as art centres, like London and New York. She mentions a couple of artist, among them Taus Makhacheva from Dagestan.

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