Vol. 6 - Lise Soskolne

The sixth episode consist of “The Provenance of Jeanne Dielman" a text written by Lise Soskolne and read by Tamara Faith Berger.

Lise Soskolne was born in Canada in 1971 and lives and works in New York since the late 1990s. She is a co-founder of Working Artists and the Greater Economy and has been its core organizer since 2012. The organization advocates for the payment of artist fees by nonprofit art institutions in the U.S. In the context of her first institutional solo exhibition in Germany, Humour Then, at Kunstverein Nürnberg in 2020, Lise wrote provenance records for each of her paintings in the show. She decided on this format to document and convey the creation process of her paintings as well as their exhibition participations and changes of ownership. The latter played an especially interesting role in regards to “Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles”, a painting which is part of the group exhibition in Vienna. In "The Provenance of Jeanne Dielman", the artist interweaves “the violent refusal” of the character of Jeanne Dielman in Chantal Ackerman’s 1975 film with the events surrounding the sale of the work in the late 1990s.

Tamara Faith Berger is the author of Lie With Me (2001), The Way of the Whore (2004) – republished together as Little Cat in 2013 – Maidenhead (2012) and Kuntalini (2016). Her fifth book, Queen Solomon, was published by Coach House Books in October 2018. It was nominated for a Trillium Book Award. Her work has been published in Apology, Canadian Art, Taddle Creek and Canadian Notes and Queries. She runs Smutburger, a literary collective. She lives in Toronto.

Music written and produced by Mike Ratledge

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Podcast unterstützt durch österreichisches Bundesministerium für Kunst, Kultur, öffentlicher Dienst und Sport.