I Hope This Message Finds You Well is a podcast on curating hosted by Kris Dittel and Eloise Sweetman. In this episode, we talk with Zippora Elders with whom we delve into the imaginative realm of curating, connecting the personal to profound questions, and her approach to navigating institutions. Zippora Elders is the chief curator (head curatorial department & outreach) of the Gropius Bau in Berlin. Previously she was director of Kunstfort bij Vijfhuizen in the Netherlands, where she...

I Hope This Message Finds You Well is a podcast on curating hosted by Kris Dittel and Eloise Sweetman. In this episode, we talk with Paul O'Neill. We discuss Paul’s professional trajectory from being an artist to becoming a curator; the many different modes one can work as a curator; the notion of failure as a threshold of learning, and accumulative exhibition models. Dr. Paul O’Neill is an Irish curator, artist, writer and educator. He is the Artistic Director of PUBLICS, a position he...

I Hope This Message Finds You Well is a podcast on curating hosted by Kris Dittel and Eloise Sweetman. In this episode we talk with Sofia Lemos who shares with us her curatorial trajectory, how she relates to art institutions and her interest in bringing together the discursive, the spiritual and the artistic. We also discuss the meaning of utopia and how art can help us to envision new worlds, alongside the question of intimacy as a possibility and the limits of institutional care. Sofia...

I Hope This Message Finds You Well is a podcast on curating hosted by Kris Dittel and Eloise Sweetman. In this episode we talk to the three core members of Sarmad: Alireza Abbasy, Golnar Abbasi, and Arvand Pourabbasi. Sarmad is an independent, non-profit interdisciplinary platform for research, publishing, collective thinking, and education in the fields of art, architecture and design. In this episode we discuss editorial practices and their possible links to curating, how curating can be...

I Hope This Message Finds You Well is a podcast on curating hosted by Kris Dittel and Eloise Sweetman. In this episode we talk to Sara Giannini, curator, writer and educator currently affiliated with the Amsterdam based organisation If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part of Your Revolution. We discussed Sara’s approach to curating, which usually includes experimental situations and platforms that continue over time; how the loneliness of freelancing led her to take an institutional...

Welcome to the second season of I Hope This Message Finds You Well, a podcast on curating hosted by Kris Dittel and Eloise Sweetman. This episode is with us. We return to our initial conversation in 2020 and discuss what we have learned from our guest in season 1, and what has changed in our personal and professional lives since then. The episode was recorded in April 2022. If you have feedback we’d love to receive your email at [email protected]; you can also...

I hope this message finds you well, heading into 2022! What a year it’s been! We are thankful for the genuine and joyful conversations to all our guests. As we are wrapping up our first season, we’d like to share with you some cheerful moments full of laughter. We will be back soon with Season 2. ~ Stay tuned ~ As always, if you have feedback, we’d love to receive your email at [email protected]; you can also follow us on Instagram @ihopethismessage and find us on...

In this bonus episode of I Hope This Message Finds You Well we share fragments of conversations with our guests that did not make it into the final edit. With Cédric Fauq we discuss our “professional crushes”, curators we hold in high regard. We also talk about what it means to involve the audience into the thinking and making process. With Jo-ey Tang we consider email protocols in pandemic times and beyond. Last but not least, with Clare Butcher we talk about office life vs. freelance time...

I Hope This Message Finds You Well is a podcast on curating hosted by Kris Dittel and Eloise Sweetman. In this episode we talk to Cédric Fauq, recently appointed chief curator at Capc – Musée d'Art Contemporain de Bordeaux. In this joyful conversation full of laughter, we also discuss important issues, such as why and if the exhibition as a format should be abolished, and the internal double bind we share when working with this format. Cédric also talks about the issues of class and...

I Hope This Message Finds You Well is a podcast on curating hosted by Kris Dittel and Eloise Sweetman. In this episode we talk to curator and educator Clare Butcher. With Clare’s enthusiasm to discuss curatorial methodologies, we kick off our conversation by talking about her professional trajectory and early interest in a critical exploration of archival practices. We talk about institutional hierarchies, learning curves and the importance of collectivity and context-sensitivity. Clare also...

I Hope This Message Finds You Well is a podcast on curating hosted by Kris Dittel and Eloise Sweetman. In this episode we talk to Jo-ey Tang about his approach to being an artist as well as a curator and how these two roles are intertwined in his practice. Our discussion revolves around the question of time, beginnings and endings in curatorial practice, but also as parameters of living a life. How to work with institutional constraints and establish the practice of Slow Programming with the...

I Hope This Message Finds You Well is a podcast on curating hosted by Kris Dittel and Eloise Sweetman. In this episode, we talk to Lara Khaldi about her professional trajectory, from being trained as an archeologist to becoming a curator, or cultural worker, as she prefers to call herself. We also talk about power relations between artist and curator, learning from artists, being a parent or caretaker while maintaining a career in the arts, and collective ways of working. And possibly, we...

I Hope this Message Finds You Well is a podcast on curating hosted by Kris Dittel and Eloise Sweetman. It grew out of our friendship and delight in talking about art, where we, two freelance curators, openly discuss and question what we are doing, why we are doing it, and open up this conversation to our colleagues. Recorded in July 2020, this episode is an excerpt from our conversation where we discuss why we, Eloise & Kris, became curators and freelancers in particular. We talk about...

I Hope this Message Finds You Well is a podcast on curating hosted by Kris Dittel and Eloise Sweetman. It grew out of our friendship and delight in talking about art, where we, two freelance curators, openly discuss and question what we are doing, why we are doing it, and open up this conversation to our colleagues. In each episode we talk to our guests about their work, professional trajectory, motivation, and reasons to work as a curator or otherwise. The first season includes interviews...