Episodios

  • frances and syd have a mid-career crisis
    Apr 20 2025

    It's the first episode of Season 2!


    Over the break, we had a chance to reflect.

    That reflection showed a couple of withered husks who no longer qualify for emerging artist grants.

    We have been forced to admit that, after 4 years, the window of acceptability for sucking at our university's shapely tit is now closed.

    That we are now just a couple of dudes in their 30s who keep hanging around their old high school to relive the glory days.

    That the drum of time continues to beat out its relentless tune, as we shuffle closer and closer to the grave.

    But anyway how have you been?


    This episode's Two Minute Google is a discussion on fan art, wherein Syd is exposed as a Twilight fanatic.



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    55 m
  • Season Finale Hate-fest!
    Oct 9 2024

    Its the last episode of the season!


    This episode is a bit different. There is no research, no educational overtones, just 28 minutes of us ranting about things in the art world that have made us eyeroll so hard we needed an ice pack.


    It's more like "art rants and fuming" haha that's an episode 7 call back we have fun here


    Thank you so much for joining us for our first season, we had such fun making it. We will see you all in the new year!



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    28 m
  • Two Minute Googles: Hyperrealism
    Sep 24 2024

    We would like to formally apologise to hyperrealism. For many years we were like "JuSt TaKe A pHoTo MaTe!", but then we googled it for two minutes and realised that there is more to it than just being technically impressive.


    Content warning for this episode, Sydelle uses the phrase "bussin".



    Links:

    Guy who does the honey ladies

    Patricia Piccinini

    Robert Gober

    Duane Hanson

    Ron Mueck

    Bill Braun (crepe paper guy)

    Andrew Grassie


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    21 m
  • Two Minute Googles: Abstract Expressionism
    Sep 11 2024

    On this episode we defend Abstract Expressionism, voted the #1 art movement most likely to baffle your snobby-ass grandparents.



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    Abstract Expressionism

    The Irascibles

    Mark Rothko

    Jackson Pollock


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    29 m
  • Two Minute Googles: Sublime!
    Aug 28 2024

    This episode of Barely Emerging we give the word "Sublime" a quick Google and talk about what we found.

    Mainly, a lot of seascapes and long-dead artists with too many names.

    But also, we uncovered a rich catalogue of artists from throughout history who have sought to give face to their feelings of awe and inadequacy when confronted with the stupendousness of the natural world. Who have attempted to capture on canvas the feeling of overwhelm and wonderment that comes from pondering ones place in the vast and unknowable universe, and realising that they are but one diminutive cog in a machine that can, and will, survive long after they have ceased to be a part of it. Or, who have sought to understand and share the breathless love and quiet terror of existing under the weight of heaven.

    You know, fun little things like that.



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    Turner's Steamboat

    Turner's Shipwreck

    Friedrich's Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog

    Martin's Last Judgement Triptych


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    22 m
  • Two Minute Googles: Kitsch on the Cob
    Aug 13 2024

    On this highly informative episode of Barely Emerging, we learn that 'Kitsch' is derived from the German word for trash, and if you say it enough times on a podcast episode it loses all meaning.


    We also discuss contemporary artists who work within the kitsch aesthetic, and debate whether or not these artists can truly be considered kitsch or not.

    Artists mentioned include Paul Yore, Jeff Koons, Mab Graves, Troy-Anthony Baylis and Margaret Keane.



    Links:

    Paul Yore's Spectacular, Spectacular

    Jeff Koon's Winter Bears

    Mab Graves' DinoKitties

    Margaret Keane's Big Eyes



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    19 m
  • Art Conspiracies
    Aug 6 2024

    This episode, Riley O'Keeffe joins us for a paranoid rant about the conspiracies that have plagued the art world.


    Dan Brown's "Da Vinci Code" may be eyeroll-inducing, but what about rumours that Marina Abramovic is a cult leader? Or that the CIA assassinated Mary Pinchot Meyer?


    From Abstract Expressionism being Anti-Soviet propaganda, to the bizarre death of Mark Lombardi, we bunk and debunk some of the art world's most easily Google-able conspiracies.


    A trigger warning for this episode, some of the discussions include mentions of suicide, domestic violence, sexual assault, drugs and murder.



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    Da Vinci Conspiracies

    Marina Abramovic's Cult

    Walter Sickert Is Jack The Ripper

    Mary Pinchot Meyer

    Carl Andre and Ana Mendieta

    Abstract Expressionism and the Cold War

    Mark Lombardi

    LombardiNetworks.net


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    1 h y 9 m
  • Two Minute Googles: Controversial Art
    Jul 17 2024

    This episode we discuss artworks that have caused controversy both in and out of the art world.


    We talk about Ai Weiwei's 1995 triptych Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn, that pissed off people who saw it as nothing more than a brazen act of destruction.

    And Santiago Sierra's Union Flag, proposed as an inclusion in 2021's Dark Mofo festival in Hobart. It caused so much outrage that not only was it scrapped, but Dark Mofo itself felt the need

    to sanitise its 2022 exhibition line up in order to avoid any more negative publicity.


    Links:

    Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn

    Maximo Caminero Smashes Weiwei vase

    Santiago Sierra Union Flag

    Sierra on the decision to cancel

    Dark Mofo One Year On


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    29 m