Kitchen Conversations

#6 (part 1) - in conversation with dramaturg, theatre maker and performance maker from Poland, Szymon Adamczak. Patrycja spoke with Szymon about his artistic practice preoccupied within HIV/AIDS field and its cultural artistic and social-political legacy of the past decades. During the conversation, Szymon shared the process of working on his performance piece ‘An Ongoing song’ and on his artistic...

#5 - in a live conversation with three visual artists, Julia Elyas (Ukraine), Tasha Arlova (Belarus) and Eva Mahhov (Estonia). The starting point of the discussion was an exhibition organised by Framer Framed in Amsterdam titled 'From what will we reassemble ourselves' - conducted in the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide (1995). References: From what will we reassemble ourselves...

Kitchen Conversations shares a recording from a panel discussion: 'Second Thoughts - A collective exploration on Eastern Europeanness', that Patrycja had the pleasure to moderate together with Julia Elyas, Tasha Arlova and Eva Mahhov. The event took place on the 6th of October 2020 and was hosted by The Rietveld/Sandberg Library and Radio Rietveld. Discussed books: 'Archives and Disobedience, Chan...

#4 - in conversation with photographer and managing director of Kowalsky Gallery from Poland, Michał Korta. Patrycja speaks to Michal about his ongoing fascination with the post-Soviet regions. Since 2006, he undertook several long-term journeys to Central Asia, the Caucasus and the Balkans that resulted in two unique photo books: 'The Balkan Playground' and 'Beautiful Monsters'.  References: Imag...

#3 (overdubbed) - 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 m...

#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 mig...

#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 f...

#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 f...

#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 for...

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, Secondhan...