Invisible cities podcast

Episode 5: Toni Brell

Invisible cities Podcast Episode 5:Toni Brell In this week's episode we welcome Toni Bell an artist working at the intersection of installation, performance, and sound during their recent AIR at platform.

During our discussion, we are guided through a thoughtful and meandering conversation where we touch on everything from, fake tastes, blue horses, nostalgia, the rise of fascism and the importance holding space for complexity. Reflecting on their theater background, Toni describes how it has effected their methods for creating participatory spaces. Like a set-builder, Toni creates complex landscapes that are meant to be approached from different angles.

Drawing inspiration from ASMR and Foley practices, many of the sculptures they create emit sounds through touch and are often linked to gestures, rhythms, and shared rituals. Inviting activation, the audience may become active participants – characters in a narrative that unfolds.

Toni Brell lives and works in Amsterdam.

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In this week's episode, we welcome multi media artist Johan Sandås following his solo exhibition at White Box in Jakobstad.

In keeping with the broad artistic references informing his work, we discuss everything from, brain scanning devices, wooden spoons - to this year's vegetable of the year. Through these diverse topics, Johan shares his perspectives on art and usefulness, beautiful data and his playful faith in following the wildest imaginative tangents.

For the last five years, Johan has been investigating the border between the real and digital to explore the world of the imagination. Using a combination of sculpture, hand tool woodworking and digital technologies, he explores the scale of real to unreal - where the 'world of ideas' offers him the creative space to follow connections in an intuitive and free-flowing way.

Johan Sandås (b 1981) lives and works in Jakobstad, Finland.

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