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After a longer pause we are back with a fantastic conversation the artist Nathan Gulick, visiting town from LA for his solo show, Waiting Room, at C4 Projects. We met and had a live recording at C4, and it was both a lot of fun and very interesting. Nathan is eloquent and engaged, and we got a great podcast out of it. Please enjoy and be sure to check out the installation images from the exhibition.

And we are back! Thanks for hanging in there. Today we have a conversation we’ve been really excited to share with you, with the artist FOS, also known by his government name of Thomas Poulsen. This talk was recorded during the summer when he had a quite ambitious show up at Gallery Nils Stærk here in Copenhagen, and it turned out to be a really fun one. He is one of the guest who was both really easy and really interesting to speak with, and this is a great combination when you are talking about very engaging and expansive exhibition to begin with. We had a good long talk about many subjects, please enjoy.

The warm months have fully settled upon the land, and with every Danish summer comes the yearly tradition of Roskilde Festival, one of the world’s largest music festivals. Around 130,000 people attend the festival, which is run by a non-profit organization. For many years now they have also had a surprisingly ambitious art zone during the festival, with running themes and critical commentary on social and political issues. This year, for example they built four one-to-one replicas of the proposed wall types for the donald’s anti-cooties barrier between Mexico and the US. We spoke with the head curator, Mette Woller, and three of the exhibiting artists, Jillian Mayer, Oskar Koliander, and previous guest of the program, Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen. It was nice to see a large festival working on promoting critical and contemporary art, and we are already looking forward to next years program. This episode is brought to you in collaboration with the Artland App. Please visit artlandapp.com for more information

We have Signe Vad on the show today, which is very exciting, and has been a long time coming. She is an exceptionally hard working artist, with tons of projects always in the works as well has her own production, and she somehow gets it all done. She is a serial collaborator, exhibition space leader and cultural front runner, and we have the pleasure of hearing about it. Our talk is also fascinating because she talks a lot about her doubts, thoughts and dreams about her total practice, and goddamn it, if that isn’t what this show is for, then what is it for? Enjoy!

We are back again today with another super interesting talk, with the artist group Mathias & Mathias. They had a show up at Overgaden a little while back, and we were fortunate enough to have the chance to sit down and talk to them. It was a great conversation, touching on many topics, with a lot of behind the scenes talk, which is always interesting. It’s good to hear from working artists what their experiences are in the art world, and that always leads into a discussion about their work. They are a group you should keep an eye on, they have a lot of interesting projects in the pipeline. And they are also gentlemen, which also such a nice thing to find out here in these mean streets. So with no further ado, enjoy our talk with Mathias & Mathias!

Today we are terribly excited to bring you an actually well timed conversation, with the wonderful Jonas Liveröd. It’s been a while coming, but it fits perfectly, because already on this Friday, April 20th, he has a solo show opening at the great Steinsland Berliner Gallery in Stockholm. So as awesome as the conversation we are about to play for you is, it’s always better to go and see the work in real time and space, so if you are anywhere near Stockholm, then you should go see the show. As a bonus, you can have a chat with Jonas, who is really just a sweet and open hearted fellow, so that comes highly recommended as well. It’s all good news from the Cultural Bandwidth headquarters today! I feel that Jonas needs no introduction, his work is excellent and lively, and we do a pretty good job of covering things in the talk. Thanks to Jeanette Steinsland for setting this up, and for all the support. Please enjoy our conversation with Jonas Liveröd!

Today, in serendipitous timing, we are joined by the art group Sara, Peter & Tobias, who were kind enough to sit down with us for a wide ranging conversation about their first book, Phenomina. And just last week they won the British Journal of Photography International Photography Award for their new project, The Merge. We had a very interesting conversation together not only about their projects, but also about the role of ego in photography, authorship, research, fundraising, and giving up your individuality to strengthen a group. This is a long one, but only because there was so much good stuff in there. Check out their book, Phenomina, we can’t recommend it enough, and keep and eye on their new project as it develops.

When you talk process with an artist, many similarities between practices begin to pop up over time, but there are also those occasions where you hear about more independent ways of working and thinking. Todays conversation with Johan Furåker is of that ilk, one of the ones which are quite inspiring. He’s a thoughtful artist, and methodical, and if you look at his work, you can see that his way of producing is certainly working well. There is a balance to doing your homework, research and inspirational legwork, yet keeping a sense of mystery, happy accident and experimentation in your practice, and I think Johan is one of the people who have been on this program who exemplifies that best. Please enjoy this talk with Johan Furåker.

Ah, the march of time, the learning of lessons, the rediscovery of delight! What a great talk we have for you today! In the middle of significant personal and political chaos we are so very proud to bring to you today a wonderful conversation with Ditte Ejlerskov recorded a couple of months ago. Talking to her was a reminder of so many important things one must hold dear as an artist; choosing the harder path at times, about trust in yourself and your relationship to your practice, the value of plain old hardheadedness. As humans we walk a fine line in balancing everything, and as artists’ it is essential. We must remember this, it is imperative, if for nothing else then for our own contentedness. Ditte has a big show up at Kristiansand Kunsthal in Norway called The Muse, which looks amazing, so if you are in that part of the world then be sure to check it out. Check out her website, it’s amazing just like her work, and check out the sound piece she made for the show, link is below. Enjoy!

We had the great pleasure of meeting and speaking with Yazan Khalili last week, who is the winner of the extract prize 2015 from GLStrand, and just opened his solo show there, by the name of No One Saw The Colours. We had a really fantastic talk about making art, politics, representation and working under tough conditions. Yazan is very dedicated to and active in art and culture in general, and on top of it is an interesting artist, so go see his show at GLStrand (up until 11th march), and enjoy our talk with Yazan Khalili.