Addoley + Anna

For Season 6, Addoley and Anna present one single episode: “Addoley + Anna Break Up With Forms”. Together they catch up after more than a year since their last recording. Addoley has spent a year in Europe as a Fulbright Researcher-in-Residence and Anna has been underground. For their one-episode season, Addoley and Anna get help from artists Germain Ngoma and Cassie Thornton to figure out ways to...

For Ask Addoley + Anna's bonus episode of The Friends Season, Addoley and Anna (while on their trip to visit CAC Brétigny) have invited a set of new guest advisors. They are joined by The Big Conversation Space (Niki Korth and Clémence de Montgolfier) to discuss experiences and thoughts about collaboration. One question tackled in this episode is taken directly from The Talking Cure, a project by...

For the fourth episode of «The Friends Season» by Ask Addoley + Anna, Addoley Dzegede and Anna Ihle focus on home - questions related to the domestic sphere. For the introduction they are joined by the curators of The Real Show, Agnès Violeau and Céline Poulin, before diving into advice giving about cleaning and kids with their cast of friends. - How can I motivate my partner to clean our apartmen...

For this episode focusing on love, Anna and Addoley share pieces of romantic news and talk about how their relationships have changed over time. The love being addressed in this episode is mostly connected to loving oneself. Kiyoshi and Anne Liis offer up their best flirting tips and discuss the difficulties connected to flirting. Anna likes receiving contact information on paper, Addoley finds he...

For the second episode of The Friends Season, Addoley and Anna receive help from their cast of friends to give work-related advice. Kahlil and Anne Liis help unpack how to navigate bad terms around an exhibition, with or without burning bridges in the process. Kiyoshi and Lyndon give their thoughts on a question regarding whether to stay—or not—as a BIPOC worker in a predominantly white art instit...

During their first episode of The Friends Season, Addoley and Anna are wishing they could have recorded from The Real Show at CAC Brétigny, but instead are recording from under desks in Tulsa and Stavanger. Having been invited to an exhibition that deals with questions of popularity and populism, they decide to invite friends of the podcast or friends of either Addoley or Anna. Addoley and Anna di...

In the final episode of Season 4: A Different World, Addoley and Anna have invited Maija Rudovska (Riga, Latvia), the curator of "A Structure Envisioned for Changing Circumstances," to help give advice along with her colleague Amy Mackie (from Parse Nola, New Orleans). In response to a listener's question about art travel and climate change, Maija challenges the notion of going back to "normal." A...

For the third episode of Ask Addoley + Anna's Season 4, Anna and Addoley talk with artist and curator Kaspars Groševs in Riga and art worker Airi Triisberg in Tallinn. Addoley records from her apartment, Anna in the hallway at home (complete with baby sounds in the background), and Kaspars from bed. With Kaspars, they talk about how their relationship with social media has changed during the pande...

For the second episode of Season 4, "A Different World," Addoley and Anna have New Orleans-based artists Cristina Molina and Dave Greber help out as guest advisors. Both artists are part of the project, "A Structure Envisioned for Changing Circumstances," along with Ask Addoley + Anna. Cristina and Dave bring up how Hurricane Ida, as well as the pandemic, has brought about changes in life and work...

In the first episode of Season 4, "A Different World," Addoley and Anna are back after one and a half years, recording from Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Stavanger, Norway. Addoley and Anna tally things that have changed for them during the pandemic: Addoley learning Spanish and Anna becoming a mother. David Ashley Kerr is the first guest of the season. David is a curator and artist, who lives and works in...

In the final episode of Season 3, Addoley and Anna tackle their own reflections, evaluations, and frustrations working with the Nasjonalmuseet from a distance. Addoley points out that people possessing power can often be unaware of it themselves, and then Anna realizes that usually someone literally has to tell her «you have some power in this situation» for her to recognize it herself. They talk...

In Episode 7 of Season 3, Addoley comes to the realization that free education is not as big of a solution to accessing an art education as she thought when so many other obstacles still abound, and Anna says part of the reason she makes art is to stave off boredom and wants to explore, surprise herself and make connections. In this episode, we speak with artist and director Uma Feed Tjelta, and a...

In Episode 6 of Season 3, Anna questions what Ask Addoley + Anna is doing for the museum (Does the museum actually want our help? Will they listen to us?) and notes the positive aspects of living in a smaller city. Addoley has mixed feelings about "marketability" and doesn't want to make art that just becomes more trash in the world. In this episode, we speak with artist Ebba Moi, Christopher Wick...

In Episode 5 of Season 3 of Ask Addoley + Anna, we chat with artist Hanan Benammar, Per Odd Bakke (Special Adviser Department: Education and Visitor Experience) at Nasjonalmuseet, and art student Galina Tatarkina. Hanan shares some of her reflections on colonial awareness and being a woman with a critical voice within the art world. Per Odd wears a T-shirt during our Skype meeting for its institut...

In Episode 4 of the stay-at-home-season of Ask Addoley and Anna, we have artist Aleksander Andreassen, Director of Exhibitions and Collections at the National Museum Norway, Stina Högkvist and art student Gulbahar Adanc help us tackle the following questions (and many more): - How to deal with intimacy and sex as a single person during this time? - Acquisitions of performance works in the collecti...

In Episode 3 of Ask Addoley + Anna, Addoley proposes that if a museum has to ask itself bizarre questions regarding storage, they are doing something right, and Anna realizes that it is not a museum task to improve her mental health. Guests in Episode 3 of Ask Addoley + Anna are Ida Madsen Følling (artist), Ellen Marie Fodstad (Curator Learning at the National Museum Norway) and Sara Rodrigues de...

Guests in episode 2 of Ask Addoley + Anna are Ya Jing Wong (art student at Kunstskolen i Stavanger), Rolf Yngve Uggen (Director of Collections management at The Norwegian National Museum) and Ayatgali Tuleubek (artist).They help Addoley and Anna give advice on the following: -A big percentage of artists are experiencing exhibitions online through photo and video. How can we engage people in a more...

As artists who love giving advice, Addoley Dzegede and Anna Ihle, give advice to both individuals and institutions in season 3. In this first episode Addoley and Anna give advice on the following: - How do we break down the intimidation that many people feel coming into a museum? - Keep wanting to be rude to other people? - Gallery attendants at the front line of community engagements? Season 3 is...

ASK ALICIA Still at a noisy cafe at Hurtigruten, Ask Addoley + Anna asks advice from Alicia Knox, curator at the Centre Pompidou. www.centrepompidou.fr/en/ - If museums are non-commercial institutions, but most often exhibit commercially successful artists, how concerned should young/emerging artists be with their marketability? - How do you deal with feeling institutionalized? Ask Addoley + Anna...

ASK TRINE AND TROND HUGO Ask Addoley + Anna asks advice from Trine Bille, professor in economics, and artist Trond Hugo Haugen in a noisy cafe at Hurtigruten. https://www.cbs.dk/en/research/departments-and-centres/department-of-management-politics-and-philosophy/staff/tbimpp http://www.trondhugo.no/ Is pension even an idea? How to start saving? Ask Addoley + Anna is a collaboration between artists...

ASK ANNE SARA Ask Addoley + Anna asks advice from artist Anne Sara Loe in a noisy cafe at Hurtigruten. www.annesaraloe.no - How to be an artist in a small place? - How is possible to make art when life expects too much of you?
- How can I become more bold in my artistic practice? Ask Addoley + Anna is a collaboration between artists Addoley Dzegede and Anna Ihle in the form of a podcast. Ask Addol...

ASK PIA AND SATU Ask Addoley + Anna asks advice from curators Piia Oksanen and Satu Oksanen (Kiasma) in our Hurtigruten cabin. www.kiasma.fi/en How can artists best position themselves to be noticed by curators? How important is a social media presence? How can I deal with the hierachy in the art world? No longer an emerging artist? Ask Addoley + Anna is a collaboration between artists Addoley Dze...

ASK RAGNHILD AND KRISTEN Ask Addoley + Anna asks advice from artist Ragnhild Aamås (also part of the team at Podium, Oslo) and Kristen Alfaro (arts planning and evaluation officer at Barbican Centre)in their Hurtigruten cabin. www.ragnhild-aamas.no / www.podium.enterprises www.barbican.org.uk - What makes a good curator? - Self doubt and depression? - Is pension even an idea? How to start saving?...

ASK PAUL Ask Addoley + Anna asks advice from artist and publisher Paul John in our cabin. www.endlesseditions.com He sheds his wisdom on the following questions:
 How to find a side kick/ assistant that can work with me a couple of times a week? Is it ok to be hyper commercial and hyper underground at the same time What should I do if someone plagiarizes my work? Ask Addoley + Anna is a collaborat...

Ask Addoley + Anna asks artist and organizer Heidi Rognskog for advice in our cabin on a small island.
ttps://www.heidi-rognskog.com/ - How to deal with post graduate anxiety?
- How is it possible to make art when life expects too much of you? Ask Addoley + Anna is a collaboration between artists Addoley Dzegede and Anna Ihle in the form of a podcast. Ask Addoley + Anna offers advice on career, ho...