In the first episode of Season 4, "A Different World," Addoley and Anna are back after one and a half years, recording from Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Stavanger, Norway. Addoley and Anna tally things that have changed for them during the pandemic: Addoley learning Spanish and Anna becoming a mother.

David Ashley Kerr is the first guest of the season. David is a curator and artist, who lives and works in Riga. Latvia. He helps Addoley and Anna give advice on how to stay out of the grind, how to avoid the "how's your project going" conversation, as well as what one can offer as an artist to a partner. In the other half of the episode, Addoley and Anna bring in Inga Meldere, an artist from Latvia who lives in Helsinki. The questions that Inga chose to help Addoley and Anna's listeners with are connected to parenting. How to be an artist and mother when your partner has other expectations in life? What to do if your child is an extrovert and you're an introvert?

Learn more about our guests at: 
www.david-ashleykerr.com and www.meldere.com
Follow us on Instagram: @askaddoleyandanna

Season 4: A Different World by Ask Addoley + Anna is part of “A Structure Envisioned for Changing Circumstances" (ASEFCC) curated by Maija Rudovska (Blind Carbon Copy), in close partnership with Amy Mackie (PARSE NOLA) and Tina Rigby Hanssen (Vestfold Art Center), and brings together artists from the United States, Latvia, and Norway.
www.asefcc.org

Episode 1 Season 4

For the second episode of Season 4, "A Different World," Addoley and Anna have New Orleans-based artists Cristina Molina and Dave Greber help out as guest advisors. Both artists are part of the project, "A Structure Envisioned for Changing Circumstances," along with Ask Addoley + Anna. Cristina and Dave bring up how Hurricane Ida, as well as the pandemic, has brought about changes in life and work. Cristina and Dave give advice on time management and how to prioritize. Another question regarding what an artist can offer as a partner amplifies the different cultural contexts in the conversation—as hurricanes and healthcare may play a big part in how to address the question. When a listener asks how to smoothly leave a project, Cristina offers up the best sentences to memorize.

Learn more about our guests at: www.cristinamolina.com and www.thesculpted.com
Follow us on Instagram: @askaddoleyandanna

Season 4: A Different World by Ask Addoley + Anna is part of “A Structure Envisioned for Changing Circumstances" (ASEFCC) curated by Maija Rudovska (Blind Carbon Copy), in close partnership with Amy Mackie (PARSE NOLA) and Tina Rigby Hanssen (Vestfold Art Center), and brings together artists from the United States, Latvia, and Norway.
www.asefcc.org

Episode 2 Season 4

For the third episode of Ask Addoley + Anna's Season 4, Anna and Addoley talk with artist and curator Kaspars Groševs in Riga and art worker Airi Triisberg in Tallinn. 

Addoley records from her apartment, Anna in the hallway at home (complete with baby sounds in the background), and Kaspars from bed. With Kaspars, they talk about how their relationship with social media has changed during the pandemic. A listener is very tired of looking at contemporary art and wonders what to do. Perhaps they should spend their time looking at something else, as Kaspars suggests. Addoley prefers getting inspiration from things other than art in the world. Anna thinks spending longer stretches of time, even with bad art, can help. Anna brings up (again) the question of how to have meaningful conversations with artists without ego driving it. 

When Addoley and Anna have Airi on, they tackle two of many workplace-related problems submitted by listeners. Airi draws on her own experience of working with art workers' rights. What do you do when you have a solo show at an institution but they refuse to pay you an artist fee? Or how can you follow up after taking all the steps in filing a complaint regarding sexual misconduct at your workplace?


Mentioned in the episode:
www.wageforwork.com

Kaspars Groševs:
www.kasprsg.com
www.fourtoseven.info

Airi Triisberg:
www.art-workers.org

Season 4: A Different World by Ask Addoley + Anna is part of “A Structure Envisioned for Changing Circumstances" (ASEFCC) curated by Maija Rudovska (Blind Carbon Copy), in close partnership with Amy Mackie (PARSE NOLA) and Tina Rigby Hanssen (Vestfold Art Center), and brings together artists from the United States, Latvia, and Norway.
www.asefcc.org

Episode 3 Season 4

In the final episode of Season 4: A Different World, Addoley and Anna have invited Maija Rudovska (Riga, Latvia), the curator of "A Structure Envisioned for Changing Circumstances," to help give advice along with her colleague Amy Mackie (from Parse Nola, New Orleans). In response to a listener's question about art travel and climate change, Maija challenges the notion of going back to "normal." Another listener wonders how to deal with envy towards their friends' successes, leading Amy to question how success is defined. Maija opens up about how she changed her perspective and stopped constantly running after "a better life." As curators, they both reflect on how to create boundaries for oneself and separate life and work in a healthy way. An artist with a practice spanning over a decade is wondering whether their work should surprise the audience with every new exhibition. Listen to find out how Amy and Maija respond as curators, and Addoley and Anna as fellow artists.


Amy Mackie:
www.parsenola.org

Maija Rudovska:
www.blindcarboncopy.org

Season 4: A Different World by Ask Addoley + Anna is part of “A Structure Envisioned for Changing Circumstances" (ASEFCC) curated by Maija Rudovska (Blind Carbon Copy), in close partnership with Amy Mackie (PARSE NOLA) and Tina Rigby Hanssen (Vestfold Art Center), and brings together artists from the United States, Latvia, and Norway.
www.asefcc.org

Episode 4 Season 4

During their first episode of The Friends Season, Addoley and Anna are wishing they could have recorded from The Real Show at CAC Brétigny, but instead are recording from under desks in Tulsa and Stavanger. Having been invited to an exhibition that deals with questions of popularity and populism, they decide to invite friends of the podcast or friends of either Addoley or Anna. Addoley and Anna discuss the time in their lives that they connect the most with the idea of “popularity” and how the art world is connected to it.

Addoley and Anna introduce their cast of art-friends who are joining in advice-giving for The Friends Season—Kahlil Robert Irving, Kiyoshi Yamamoto, Erik Sæter Jørgensen, Anne-Liis Kogan, Lyndon Barrois Jr., and Espen Birkedal—and invite them to talk about their teenage selves.

The questions Addoley and Anna received for The Friends Season are divided into single episodes focusing on work, love, and home.


To learn more about their cast of friends:

www.kahlilirving.com
www.kiyoshiyamamoto.com
www.esj.no
www.anneliiskogan.com
www.lbarroisjr.com
@espen_birk on Instagram

The Friends Season is presented as a physical installation in The Real Show at CAC Brétigny, January 16 - April 16, 2022, in Brétigny-sur-Orge, France. The Office for Contemporary Art Norway and Stavanger Municipality are supporting The Friends Season.

Introducing The Friends Season

For the second episode of The Friends Season, Addoley and Anna receive help from their cast of friends to give work-related advice. 

Kahlil and Anne Liis help unpack how to navigate bad terms around an exhibition, with or without burning bridges in the process. Kiyoshi and Lyndon give their thoughts on a question regarding whether to stay—or not—as a BIPOC worker in a predominantly white art institution, considering all the costs that may come with it. Kahlil and Kiyoshi give advice to a listener who wonders whether perhaps a lack of mingling could explain a lack of professional recognition. Erik and Espen wonder whether or not a listener actually should fight back against impostor syndrome or not.


The Friends Season Cast:
www.kahlilirving.com
www.kiyoshiyamamoto.com
www.esj.no
www.anneliiskogan.com
www.lbarroisjr.com
@espen_birk on Instagram

The Friends Season is presented as a physical installation in The Real Show at CAC Brétigny, January 16 - April 16, 2022, in Brétigny-sur-Orge, France. The Office for Contemporary Art Norway and Stavanger Municipality are supporting The Friends Season.

The Friends Season: Work

For this episode focusing on love, Anna and Addoley share pieces of romantic news and talk about how their relationships have changed over time. The love being addressed in this episode is mostly connected to loving oneself.

Kiyoshi and Anne Liis offer up their best flirting tips and discuss the difficulties connected to flirting. Anna likes receiving contact information on paper, Addoley finds herself teasing someone when attempting to flirt. Kahlil and Espen help Addoley and Anna find examples of structures of care in the art world. When addressing questions regarding self-care, they talk with Lyndon about the values of boundaries and basketball highlights. Erik reminds them of how life sometimes might not have space for what one might consider self-care. 

The Friends Season Cast:
www.kahlilirving.com
www.kiyoshiyamamoto.com
www.esj.no
www.anneliiskogan.com
www.lbarroisjr.com
@espen_birk on Instagram

The Friends Season is presented as a physical installation in The Real Show at CAC Brétigny, January 16 - April 16, 2022, in Brétigny-sur-Orge, France. The Office for Contemporary Art Norway and Stavanger Municipality are supporting The Friends Season.

The Friends Season: Love

For the fourth episode of «The Friends Season» by Ask Addoley + Anna, Addoley Dzegede and Anna Ihle focus on home - questions related to the domestic sphere. For the introduction they are joined by the curators of The Real Show, Agnès Violeau and Céline Poulin, before diving into advice giving about cleaning and kids with their cast of friends. 
- How can I motivate my partner to clean our apartment more?
- I'm an artist going through IVF but I'm still ambivalent about having a child. Any advice?

The Friends Season Cast:
www.kahlilirving.com
www.kiyoshiyamamoto.com
www.esj.no
www.anneliiskogan.com
www.lbarroisjr.com
@espen_birk on Instagram

The Friends Season is presented as a physical installation in The Real Show at CAC Brétigny, January 16 - April 16, 2022, in Brétigny-sur-Orge, France. The Office for Contemporary Art Norway and Stavanger Municipality are supporting The Friends Season.

The Friends Season: Home

For Ask Addoley + Anna's bonus episode of The Friends Season, Addoley and Anna (while on their trip to visit CAC Brétigny) have invited a set of new guest advisors. They are joined by The Big Conversation Space (Niki Korth and Clémence de Montgolfier) to discuss experiences and thoughts about collaboration. One question tackled in this episode is taken directly from The Talking Cure,  a project by The Big Conversation Space which is present in The Real Show at CAC Brétigny: "What is collective action and how can it co-mingle with individual agency?" The other question addressed is: How to deal with feelings about one's individual work/practice suffering while a collaboration is thriving? In addition to The Big Conversation Space, Addoley and Anna are joined by artist Linda Lamignan, who includes collaborators in many of their works, as well as Emilie McDermott (collaborator with Nour Awada on the project [Re]Production).

www.lindalamignan.com
www.thebigconversationspace.org
www.emiliemcdermott.com

@re_production_project

The Friends Season is presented as a physical installation in The Real Show at CAC Brétigny, January 16 - April 16, 2022, in Brétigny-sur-Orge, France. The Office for Contemporary Art Norway and Stavanger Municipality are supporting The Friends Season.

The Friends Season: Collaboration

For Season 6, Addoley and Anna present one single episode:  Addoley + Anna Break Up With Forms. Together they catch up after more than a year since their last recording. Addoley has spent a year in Europe as a Fulbright Researcher-in-Residence and Anna has been underground. 

For their one-episode season, Addoley and Anna get help from artists Germain Ngoma and Cassie Thornton to figure out ways to handle an artist crisis, as well as what to do with all the stuff that compiles over the years. Cassie describes how art is a way to learn things that might be applied to a world on fire, and tells us how she has cursed paintings before distributing them to bankers. Germain explains how he visits the forest when he needs inspiration, and how much he loves his storage.

Germain Ngoma: https://www.germainngoma.com/
Cassie Thornton: https://mailchi.mp/a2f4aa4b26da/working-thru-dangerous-weather

This episode/season, “Addoley + Anna Break Up With Form,” is released with the support of Nitja senter for samtidskunst. The jingles in the episode were made in collaboration with artist Siri Borge.

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For Season 6, Addoley and Anna present one single episode: “Addoley + Anna Break Up With Forms”. Together they catch up after more than a year since their last recording. Addoley has spent a year in Europe as a Fulbright Researcher-in-Residence and Anna has been underground. 

For their one-episode season, Addoley and Anna get help from artists Germain Ngoma and Cassie Thornton to figure out ways to handle an artist crisis, as well as what to do with all the stuff that compiles over the years. Cassie describes how art is a way to learn things that might be applied to a world on fire, and tells us how she has cursed paintings before distributing them to bankers. Germain explains how he visits the forest when he needs inspiration, and how much he loves his storage.

Germain Ngoma: https://www.germainngoma.com/
Cassie Thornton: https://mailchi.mp/a2f4aa4b26da/working-thru-dangerous-weather

This episode/season, “Addoley + Anna Break Up With Form,” is released with the support of Nitja senter for samtidskunst. The jingles in the episode were made in collaboration with artist Siri Borge. Illustration of Addoley and Anna by Alice Caldwell.

www.nitja.no

Addoley + Anna Break Up With Forms feat Germain Ngoma + Cassie Thornton

- How to make money as artists? We explain how we make money as artists in the US and Norway.
- How to budget as artists? We explain how we budget for specific projects and life in general.
- How do you stay connected while living apart from your partner?
- Retirement savings with irregular incomes
- How our upbringings have affected our approach to relationships.
- Struggle climaxing while with a partner?

Addoley + Anna May 20th

We give advice on the following and more:
- Coping with the instability of being an artist
- "What do you think of polyamory?" (Is this person asking for advice?)
- Making friends in a new city

...and here is a link to a read about the reseach Anna refers to:
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/bisexual-people-mental-health-risk-lgbt-heterosexual-issue-a7933806.html

Addoley + Anna June 3rd

Final advice for the season!

Addoley + Anna will discuss why they are eligible for giving advice, and they give advice on the following:
- How can I get out of a hellhole of responsibilty?
- How do you buy a house?
- How do you deal with climate anxiety?
- How to handle my best friend dating my ex?
- How do you deal with desiring others when you are in a long distance monogamous relationship?
And don't worry; Addoley+Anna will be back in the fall!

Addoley+Anna June 17th

Ask Addoley + Anna asks  Ruben Steinum, artist and president of The Association of Norwegian Visual Artists, for advice at a cafe in Molde. 
- When is a good time to get pregnant?
- How do I get what I want without being a guy?
Instagram: @roiiben

Ask Addoley + Anna is a collaboration between artists Addoley Dzegede and Anna Ihle in the form of a podcast. Ask Addoley + Anna offers advice on career, home economics and relationships.

Season 2 is commissioned by Coast Contemporary. Coast Contemporary is supported by: KORO, Utenriksdepartementet, Bergen Kommune and Stavanger kommune. Thanks to Espen Birkedal and Hans Edward Hammonds for jingle support.

Ask Ruben Season 2 Episode 1

Ask Addoley + Anna asks artist Kiyoshi Yamamoto for advice at the tiny island Håholmen.
www.kiyoshiyamamoto.com

-How to get back into the arts after ten years?
-How do you deal with post-graduate anxiety?
35 year old living like a 20 year old?
-How to point out race and gender bias in institutions?

Ask Addoley + Anna is a collaboration between artists Addoley Dzegede and Anna Ihle in the form of a podcast. Ask Addoley + Anna offers advice on career, home economics and relationships.

Season 2 is commissioned by Coast Contemporary. Coast Contemporary is supported by: KORO, Utenriksdepartementet, Bergen Kommune and Stavanger kommune. Thanks to Espen Birkedal and Hans Edward Hammonds for jingle support.

Ask Kiyoshi  Season 2 Episode 2

Ask Addoley + Anna asks artist Marthe Elise Stramsrud for advice at the tiny island Håholmen.
www.martheelise.com

- How do I get a solo show?
- How do I chose my images?
- How to deal with many crushes while in a monogamous relationship?

Ask Addoley + Anna is a collaboration between artists Addoley Dzegede and Anna Ihle in the form of a podcast. Ask Addoley + Anna offers advice on career, home economics and relationships.

Season 2 is commissioned by Coast Contemporary. Coast Contemporary is supported by: KORO, Utenriksdepartementet, Bergen Kommune and Stavanger kommune. Thanks to Espen Birkedal and Hans Edward Hammonds for jingle support.

Ask Marthe Elise Season 2 Episode 3

Ask Addoley + Anna asks curators from the Norwegian National Museum, Geir Haraldseth and Lisa Andrine Bernhoft-Sjødin advice after lunch in a cafe at a small island. www.nasjonalmuseet.no/en 

- What steps should I take to get a solo show? 
- Is there a professional way I can point out instances of race and gender bias in institutions?
And more!

Ask Addoley + Anna is a collaboration between artists Addoley Dzegede and Anna Ihle in the form of a podcast. Ask Addoley + Anna offers advice on career, home economics and relationships.

Season 2 is commissioned by Coast Contemporary. Coast Contemporary is supported by: KORO, Utenriksdepartementet, Bergen Kommune and Stavanger kommune. Thanks to Espen Birkedal and Hans Edward Hammonds for jingle support.

Ask Geir And Lisa Season 2 Episode 4

Ask Addoley + Anna asks Antonio Cataldo, artistic director at Fotogalleriet, Oslo for advice during Coast Contemporary. 
www.fotogalleriet.no

-If museums are non-commercial institutions, but most often exhibit commercially successful artists, how concerned should young/emerging artists be with their marketability? 
-Do you have a instagram /social media presence to succeed as an artist today? -How can I deal with the hierarchy in the art world?

Ask Addoley + Anna is a collaboration between artists Addoley Dzegede and Anna Ihle in the form of a podcast. Ask Addoley + Anna offers advice on career, home economics and relationships.

Season 2 is commissioned by Coast Contemporary. Coast Contemporary is supported by: KORO, Utenriksdepartementet, Bergen Kommune and Stavanger kommune. Thanks to Espen Birkedal and Hans Edward Hammonds for jingle support.

Ask Antonio Season 2 Episode 5

Ask Addoley + Anna asks Lisa Andrine Bernhoft-Sjødin, curator at the Norwegian National Museum, for even more questions! Instagram: @ lisasjoodin

- Snobbery of taste in Norwegian art scene?
-When to get pregnant? - How do I get what I want without being a guy? - Is art networking really necessary?

Ask Addoley + Anna is a collaboration between artists Addoley Dzegede and Anna Ihle in the form of a podcast. Ask Addoley + Anna offers advice on career, home economics and relationships.

Season 2 is commissioned by Coast Contemporary. Coast Contemporary is supported by: KORO, Utenriksdepartementet, Bergen Kommune and Stavanger kommune. Thanks to Espen Birkedal and Hans Edward Hammonds for jingle support.

Ask Lisa Season 2 Episode 6

Ask Addoley + Anna asks artist and organizer Heidi Rognskog for advice in our cabin on a small island. ttps://www.heidi-rognskog.com/

- How to deal with post graduate anxiety? - How is it possible to make art when life expects too much of you?

Ask Addoley + Anna is a collaboration between artists Addoley Dzegede and Anna Ihle in the form of a podcast. Ask Addoley + Anna offers advice on career, home economics and relationships.

Season 2 is commissioned by Coast Contemporary. Coast Contemporary is supported by: KORO, Utenriksdepartementet, Bergen Kommune and Stavanger kommune. Thanks to Espen Birkedal and Hans Edward Hammonds for jingle support.

Ask Heidi Season 2 Episode 7

ASK RAGNHILD AND KRISTEN

Ask Addoley + Anna asks advice from artist Ragnhild Aamås (also part of the team at Podium, Oslo) and Kristen Alfaro (arts planning and evaluation officer at Barbican Centre)in their Hurtigruten cabin.
www.ragnhild-aamas.no / www.podium.enterprises
www.barbican.org.uk

- What makes a good curator?
- Self doubt and depression?
- Is pension even an idea? How to start saving?
- Why do I not dress up for my own openings?
- How to be heard in meetings?

Ask Addoley + Anna is a collaboration between artists Addoley Dzegede and Anna Ihle in the form of a podcast. Ask Addoley + Anna offers advice on career, home economics and relationships.

Season 2 is commissioned by Coast Contemporary. Coast Contemporary is supported by: KORO, Utenriksdepartementet, Bergen Kommune and Stavanger kommune. Thanks to Espen Birkedal and Hans Edward Hammonds for jingle support.

Ask Ragnhild And Kristen Season 2 Episode 9

ASK ALICIA

Still at a noisy cafe at Hurtigruten, Ask Addoley + Anna asks advice from Alicia Knox, curator at the Centre Pompidou.
www.centrepompidou.fr/en/

- If museums are non-commercial institutions, but most often exhibit commercially successful artists, how concerned should young/emerging artists be with their marketability?
- How do you deal with feeling institutionalized?

Ask Addoley + Anna is a collaboration between artists Addoley Dzegede and Anna Ihle in the form of a podcast. Ask Addoley + Anna offers advice on career, home economics and relationships.

Season 2 is commissioned by Coast Contemporary. Coast Contemporary is supported by: KORO, Utenriksdepartementet, Bergen Kommune and Stavanger kommune. Thanks to Espen Birkedal and Hans Edward Hammonds for jingle support.

Ask Alicia Season 2 Episode 13

As artists who love giving advice, Addoley Dzegede and Anna Ihle, give advice to both individuals and institutions in season 3.

In this first episode Addoley and Anna give advice on the following:
- How do we break down the intimidation that many people feel coming into a museum?
- Keep wanting to be rude to other people?
- Gallery attendants at the front line of community engagements?

Season 3 is commissioned by the Norwegian National Museum.

Ask Addoley + Anna Episode 1 Season 3

Guests in episode 2 of Ask Addoley + Anna are Ya Jing Wong (art student at Kunstskolen i Stavanger), Rolf Yngve Uggen (Director of Collections management at The Norwegian National Museum) and Ayatgali Tuleubek (artist).They help Addoley and Anna give advice on the following:
-A big percentage of artists are experiencing exhibitions online through photo and video. How can we engage people in a more and more technology-driven art world?.
-Should I ban materials that we know to be very detrimental to the environment from the course I lead?
- I was asked to sell my work in a not-very-happening gallery/store in a little town in Norway... 
- How we can be decolonizing?
 - How to deal with art if you can not see it physically and experience it in a space?
- How do I know that what I’m spending my time and energy on is the right thing to do?
- If we strip down what the essential one needs to do as an artist, what would that be?
- How to deal with a narcissistic psychopath as a co- worker?
- What kind of communication you would expect museums and curators to have with artists?

Season 3 is commissioned by the Norwegian National Museum.

Ask Addoley + Anna Episode 2 Season 3

In Episode 3 of Ask Addoley + Anna, Addoley proposes that if a museum has to ask itself bizarre questions regarding storage, they are doing something right, and Anna realizes that it is not a museum task to improve her mental health. 

Guests in Episode 3 of Ask Addoley + Anna are Ida Madsen Følling (artist), Ellen Marie Fodstad (Curator Learning at the National Museum Norway) and Sara Rodrigues de Miranda (art student at Kunstskolen i Stavanger). We will give advice on the following (and more):
How do I figure out what I should be paid for my performance at an institution?
How can I succeed as an artist living in a small town? Is it always better to move to a bigger city with a bigger art community? 
What does it mean to make art "accessible"? 
How do I start up an art space when my peers are not engaged?
Is it too much to ask that my friend meets up with me without their boyfriend for once? Can I ask them for that?

Season 3 is commissioned by the Norwegian National Museum.

Ask Addoley + Anna Episode 3 Season 3

In Episode 4 of the stay-at-home-season of Ask Addoley and Anna, we have artist Aleksander Andreassen, Director of Exhibitions and Collections at the National Museum Norway, Stina Högkvist and art student Gulbahar Adanc help us tackle the following questions (and many more):
- How to deal with intimacy and sex as a single person during this time?
- Acquisitions of performance works in the collection? How to go about it?
- How is the museum doing anti racist work?
- How to enhance visitor experience and learning?
 
During the episode, while talking about sex during corona crisis, Aleksander is referring to this article (in Danish): https://www.dr.dk/mitliv/sex-under-coronakrisen-hvad-maa-du-egentlig?fbclid=IwAR3_7UkMV6zryzAsULRB1oc3yTdov074KbOxQzj83WFEndVHEtS8kp_Bsxs

Season 3 is commissioned by the Norwegian National Museum.

Ask Addoley + Anna Episode 4 Season 3

In Episode 5 of Season 3 of Ask Addoley + Anna, we chat with artist Hanan Benammar, Per Odd Bakke (Special Adviser Department: Education and Visitor Experience) at Nasjonalmuseet, and art student Galina Tatarkina. Hanan shares some of her reflections on colonial awareness and being a woman with a critical voice within the art world. Per Odd wears a T-shirt during our Skype meeting for its institutional critique and asks us how can the museum include more diverse voices. Galina shares her experience working in a grocery store during these times and tackles our most recurring relationship question!

Notes and links for stuff mentioned in the episode:
- Dr. Ila Sheren https://arthistory.artsci.wustl.edu/people/ila-sheren
- @KSMoCA
- @camstl
- link to article on the incident we discussed about museum-goers being rude and racist to students: https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/10/02/mfa-new-way-welcome-school-groups-response-racial-incident/368zt5m9jsmu2tZPKicURK/story.html

Ask Addoley + Anna Episode 5 Season 3

In Episode 6 of Season 3, Anna questions what Ask Addoley + Anna is doing for the museum (Does the museum actually want our help? Will they listen to us?) and notes the positive aspects of living in a smaller city. Addoley has mixed feelings about "marketability" and doesn't want to make art that just becomes more trash in the world. In this episode, we speak with artist Ebba Moi, Christopher Wick Wegner Simonsen, an art student at Kunstskolen i Stavanger, and Birgit Jordan, Special Librarian at the National Museum. With our guests, we discuss the pros and cons of small organizations working with larger institutions, the topic of trust and betrayal in experiences with contemporary art, how to prioritize time, fear of missing out, and more. 

-How can smaller institutions work better with the National Museum?
-Which kinds of games or challenges can art institutions do to attract more visitors?
-How can I succeed as an artist living in a small town? Is it always better to move to a bigger city with a bigger art community?
-Is it okay to be rude to other people?
-Do you have any advice on how to combine freelance work and your own work as an artist? How do I prioritize my time?
-How does the museum reconnect artists and society? How to bridge the gap between those who are lacking resources to become engaged in art?
-How important is consistency in my work? Can I work in more than one style and still be marketable?
-How is the openness of the museum reflected in its exhibition texts, educational resources,  etc, in the first meeting with the museum?

Ask Addoley + Anna Episode 6 Season 3

In Episode 7 of Season 3, Addoley comes to the realization that free education is not as big of a solution to accessing an art education as she thought when so many other obstacles still abound, and Anna says part of the reason she makes art is to stave off boredom and wants to explore, surprise herself and make connections. In this episode, we speak with artist and director Uma Feed Tjelta, and artist and writer Agatha Wara. With our guests, we discuss which audiences museums cater to with their text, programming and exhibitions, how to stay creative with limited supplies, and problems with thinking about “marketability” when making art.

-At this specific moment in time, I think we (the museum) should be asking ourselves on whose premises are we attempting to be inclusive? -Are we just ticking off boxes and not really committing to inclusion beyond our need for getting a larger audience? 
-How important is consistency in my work? Can I work in more than one style and still be marketable?
-How is the openness of the museum reflected in its exhibition texts, educational resources,  etc, in the first meeting with the museum?
-How do you stay creative when you are not home and do not have creative supplies with you? 
-I  keep falling in love with other people. How can I live well with this situation, while still in a relationship?

Ask Addoley + Anna Episode 7 Season 3

In the final episode of Season 3, Addoley and Anna tackle their own reflections, evaluations, and frustrations working with the Nasjonalmuseet from a distance. Addoley points out that people possessing power can often be unaware of it themselves, and then Anna realizes that usually someone literally has to tell her «you have some power in this situation» for her to recognize it herself. They talk about how art institutions are not very good at listening to advice, the noticeable difference between how artists, art students, and museum staff answer questions, and more.

As a guest in this final episode, Lisa Bernhoft-Sjødin, Curator of Learning at the Nasjonalmuseet, helps Addoley and Anna give advice on topics from accessing networks to disrupting social hierarchies and leveraging power. Together they address the following:

-Any advice on how to become a guest curator at an art institution?
-How do you think museums should change as a result of people around the world paying more attention to institutional racism?

Ask Addoley + Anna Episode 8 Season 3

Artists Addoley Dzegede and Anna Ihle provide you with advice!

Ask Addoley + Anna is an ongoing collaboration which started in 2019 between artists Addoley Dzegede and Anna Ihle, presented online in a seasonal advice-podcast format.

How can you stay connected while living far from your partner? How to deal with envy? How to mingle at openings? Should I go on living with my ex? Whatever your question is, we will give our best advice from our perspectives.

Submit your question through our instagram @askaddoleyandanna to have your question answered during our next season.

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