Have you given your heart and soul to mastering a “high” artform only to find yourself unwanted on the market? My name is Ema Katrovas and I’m an opera-singer-turned-experimental-performer. On the Artists on the Verge podcast I interview artists who have found ways to exist in the “real” world outside of major art institutions and academies while still making the art they want, especially by founding and collaborating with “indie” companies and ensembles. I also read and talk about research on the philosophy, anthropology, politics and economics of the arts as well as the impact of technology on the arts, among other things.
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Latest Podcast Episodes and Blog Posts:
Interviews
May 31st: Ep. 25: Reilly Smethurst (composer, Web III researcher)| Artists on the Verge (podcast)
May 5th: Ep. 23: David Devereux (audio fiction maker, founder of Tin Can Audio) | Artists on the Verge (podcast)
March 13th: Ep. 22: Nika Dubrovsky (artist, founder of the Museum of Care) | Artists on the Verge (podcast)
November 13th: Deyiş Görgülü (singer of Ottoman music, founder of Evden Musique) | Artists on the Verge (podcast)
October 13th: Helena Mamich (psychiatrist, singer) | Artists on the Verge (podcast)
September 13th: Felicita Brusoni (vocal experimenter) | Artists on the Verge (podcast)
Snippets & Bonuses
August 10th: Snippet No. 14: I Read a G20 Report on the Creative Economy So You Won’t Have To | Artists on the Verge
July 26th: Snippet No. 13: Reading “The Arts After Darwin” by Ellen Dissanayake Pt. 2 | Artists on the Verge
July 19th: Snippet No. 12: Reading “The Arts After Darwin” by Ellen Dissanayake | Artists on the Verge
July 5th: Snippet No. 11: Summary + My Reaction to “Another Artworld” by Nika Dubrovsky & David Graeber | Artists on the Verge
June 21st: Snippet No. 10: Streaming is the Message/Opera Americana (ft. Theorema Review & Experiments in Opera) | Artists on the Verge (podcast)
June 6th: Snippet No. 9: Reacting to “Another Art World” by Nika Dubrovsky and David Graeber Pt. 3 | Artists on the Verge (podcast)
May 10th: Snippet No. 8: Reacting to “Another Art World” by Nika Dubrovsky and David Graeber Pt. 2 | Artists on the Verge (podcast)
April 17th: Bonus: Reacting to TV opera Everything for Dawn Pt. 2 (ft. Jim Osman)
April 13th: Snippet No. 7: Reacting to “Another Art World” by Nika Dubrovsky and David Graeber Pt. 1 | Artists on the Verge (podcast)
April 10th: Bonus: Reacting to TV opera Everything for Dawn (ft. Jim Osman)
March 27th: Bonus: The Trials and Tribulations of a Short Film (ft. director Vivian Säde & producer Eve Tisler)
February 13th: Snippet No. 6: Debating Myself About the Internet (ft. my Medium article)| Artists on the Verge (podcast)
January 26th: Snippet No. 5: Communication vs. Experimentation (ft. Theorema Review) | Artists on the Verge (podcast)
January 13th: 2 Year Retrospective Livestream (also available in audio version with better audio)
December 12th: Snippet No. 4: Can contemporary art / theater / music still be original? | Artists on the Verge (podcast)
Blog Posts
August 13th: Three Questions I’m Asking About Theater, These Days | Soprano on the Verge (blog)
June 19th: The Purgatory of Pitching Projects | Soprano on the Verge (blog)