The Time Being Podcast: Recent Episodes
Jessica Thalmann
The Time Being is a new series of podcasts discussing lens-based art by Canadian artists, hosted by Jessica Thalmann and Eva Kolcze. This eight-part series will feature conversations with various artists and filmmakers about their commissioned works; while ruminating on how their artistic practices have changed since the pandemic began. Episodes will be released every Tuesday and Thursday at 7AM EST.
On this episode of The Time Being, we talk about queer coming-out stories, the concrete bents underneath the Gardiner Expressway and bangles as cultural signifiers with filmmaker Renata Mohamed.
Renata Mohamed is a filmmaker based in Toronto, Canada and is a graduate of the Integrated Media program at the Ontario College of Art & Design (now OCADU). Her first film "Coolie Gyal" has screened at more than 50 international festivals. She is an alumna of the Hot Docs' Doc Accelerator Emerging Filmmaker Lab (2019), WIFT Toronto/Corus Media Management Accelerator (2019), TAC and Banff Centre's Leaders Lab (2018) and TIFF Talent Lab (2008). Born in the British Virgin Islands to Indo-Guyanese parents, her work aims to explore the intersectionality of Caribbean, immigrant and queer identities through a documentary and experimental lens.
Credits
This episode of The Time Being Podcast was hosted and produced by Eva Kolcze and Jessica Thalmann. Special thanks to Renata Mohamed. The show is mixed and edited by Eva Kolcze.
Music by Steven F. Allen - AuDioChosis
On this episode of The Time Being, we dive into the lush density of digital images, portraiture during a time of isolation, and different types of loss and grief with photographer and filmmaker Alyssa Bistonath.
Alyssa Bistonath is a photographer and filmmaker based in Toronto, Canada. She focuses on themes of memory and belonging by investigating intimacy, evidence, and the archive. Most recently, she was featured in the Art Gallery of Ontario’s “Art in the Spotlight” and Canadian Art online for her series “Isolation Photographs.”
Credits
This episode of The Time Being Podcast was hosted and produced by Eva Kolcze and Jessica Thalmann. Special thanks to Alyssa Bistonath. The show is mixed and edited by Eva Kolcze.
Music by Steven F. Allen - AuDioChosis
On this episode of The Time Being, we roam the streets of Scarborough, examine nuanced family relationships and proclaim vinyl as an emblematic material of the suburbs with artist/practicing architect Esmond Lee.
Esmond Lee 李春錦 is an artist, photographer, and practicing architect based in Scarborough. Lee explores long-term and intergenerational experiences of migration in peripheral and in-between spaces. He holds a Master of Architecture and draws from this background to examine identity, belonging, and nuanced cultural and political borders in the built environment.
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This episode of The Time Being Podcast was hosted and produced by Eva Kolcze and Jessica Thalmann. Special thanks to Esmond Lee. The show is mixed and edited by Eva Kolcze. Music by Steven F. Allen - AuDioChosis
On this episode of The Time Being, we dive into the intricacies of the Lenape language, dyeing and weaving porcupine quills and the body as material for performance with artist Vanessa Dion Fletcher.
Vanessa Dion Fletcher is a Lenape and Potawatomi neurodiverse Artist. Her family is from Eelūnaapèewii Lahkèewiitt (displaced from Lenapehoking) and European settlers. She Employs porcupine quills, Wampum belts, and menstrual blood reveals the complexities of what defines a body physically and culturally. Reflecting on an indigenous and gendered body with a neurodiverse mind Dion Fletcher creates art using composite media, primarily working in performance, textiles, video.
Credits
This episode of The Time Being Podcast was hosted and produced by Eva Kolcze and Jessica Thalmann. Special thanks to Vanessa Dion Fletcher. The show is mixed and edited by Eva Kolcze.
Music by Steven F. Allen - AuDioChosis
On this episode of The Time Being, we consider the intersection of food, migration and borders, the use of narrative in visual storytelling and the merits of the ‘poor’ image with artist and filmmaker Esery Mondesir.
Esery Mondesir is a Haitian-born video artist and filmmaker. He was a high school teacher and a labour organizer before receiving an MFA in cinema production from York University (Toronto) in 2017. Mondesir’s work draws from personal and collective memory, official archives and vernacular records, and the every day to generate a reading of our society from its margins. His films, which explore migration and exile as sites of identity-formation as well as cultural resistance, have been exhibited in Canada and internationally. Mondesir currently lives in Toronto.
Credits
This episode of The Time Being Podcast was hosted and produced by Eva Kolcze and Jessica Thalmann. Special thanks to Esery Mondesir. The show is mixed and edited by Eva Kolcze.
Music by Steven F. Allen - AuDioChosis
On this episode of The Time Being, we discuss ongoing gentrification in the Joyce-Collingwood neighbourhood of Vancouver, family film archives and the slow pleasure of medium format photography with artist Jeffery Chong.
Jeffery Chong is a media artist working with photography, moving image, and archival research. His practice is rooted in family heritage, an identity forged from photographs, family stories, and recollections. His work weaves explorations of form with these subjective histories.
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This episode of The Time Being Podcast was hosted and produced by Eva Kolcze and Jessica Thalmann. Special thanks to Jeffery Chong. The show is mixed and edited by Eva Kolcze. Music by Steven F. Allen - AuDioChosis
On this episode of The Time Being, we meditate on the colour blue, engage with scores or gestures and stare at the morning sky with artist Erika DeFreitas.
Erika DeFreitas is a Scarborough-based artist whose practice includes the use of performance, photography, video, installation, textiles, works on paper, and writing. Placing an emphasis on process, gesture, the body, documentation, and paranormal phenomena, she works through attempts to understand concepts of loss, post-memory, inheritance, and objecthood.
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This episode of The Time Being Podcast was hosted and produced by Eva Kolcze and Jessica Thalmann. Special thanks to Erika DeFreitas. The show is mixed and edited by Eva Kolcze. Music by Steven F. Allen - AuDioChosis
On this episode of The Time Being, we discuss cyanotypes, the architectural intricacies of the mashrabiya and how clay/ceramics can be enveloped in a photographic practice with artist and curator Leila Fatemi.
Leila Fatemi is an emerging artist, curator and community arts worker based in Tkaronto/Toronto. Living between cultures, her work and curatorial endeavours stem from her daily experiences as a visible minority and aim to provide platforms and contribute alternative narratives to conversations of ethnic representation in contemporary art.
CreditsThis episode of The Time Being Podcast was hosted and produced by Eva Kolcze and Jessica Thalmann. Special thanks to Leila Fatemi. The show is mixed and edited by Eva Kolcze. Music by Steven F. Allen - AuDioChosis