Three Bellybuttons Podcast

Three Bellybuttons Podcast

This podcast is produced and managed by two Melbourne based artists, Siying Zhou (host), www.siyingzhou.com and Marcel Feillafé, feillafe.com. In each episode, two guests are invited in and join the host to discuss current art exhibitions/events in Australia. The cover image is created by Emanuel Rodriguez-Chaves, an artist/painter. www.emanuelrodriguez.org

Episodes

COVID19 SPECIAL EPISODE: Dr. Kate Just, Dr. Tal Fitzpatrick, Zara Sullivan and Nathan Beard on their COVID art projects

July 11, 2020
This is the 5th COVID special episode. In this episode, I have four high-achieving artists: Dr. Kate Just, Dr. Tal Fitzpatrick, Zara Sullivan and Nathan Beard talking about their art projects that they have been carrying out during COVID19 and speaking about their creative process and mind-space in making these projects during the COVID down time. Dr. Kate and Dr, Tal are...
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COVID19 SPECIAL EPISODE: Anu Radha, Dr. Priya Srinivasan and Dr. Tammy Wong Hulbert on arts in response to the COVID19 racism

June 16, 2020
In this 4th COVID19 special episode, I have invited two artist and educator, Dr. Tammy wong Hulbert, and Dr. Priya Srinivasan and a phycologist, Anu Radha to make a conversation together about how the arts and artists could respond to the COVID19 racism against the Asian population in the western societie...
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COVID 19 SPECIAL EPISODE: In conversation with the artists and curator of 'Across the Haze' exhibition - Part II

June 10, 2020
This is the 2nd part of the artist and curator talk for the exhibition Across the Haze. It starts with Shraddah. She is going to talk about her work This Beautiful Venus Trap Earth Body with Eline Bochem in this exhibition. 
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COVID 19 SPECIAL EPISODE: In conversation with the artists and curator of 'Across the Haze' exhibition - Part I

June 10, 2020
This is the 2nd special episode for COVID 19 lockdown period. This episode is made in collaboration with Trocadero Art Space, an artist run initiative space in Melbourne, to host the artist and curator talk for the exhibition titled Across The Haze. This exhibition was shown at Trocadero Art space for a short period from ...
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29, COVID19 Special Episode: Ann McGinley, Nico Reddaway and Sarah Rudledge on working creatively in a solitary environment during oversea artist residencies

May 27, 2020
This is the 3rd special episode for COVID19 time. In this episode, three visual artists: Sarah Rudlege, Ann Mcginley and Nico Reddaway and I made a delightful conversation about their pre-COVID19 oversea residencies. Sarah, as the last participating artist in the artist residency program of...
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27, COVID19 Special Episode: Leanne Waterhouse, Jaime Powell and Julie Gough on Nirin the 22nd Biennale of Sydney

April 20, 2020
In the time of COVID19 breakout, Three bellybuttons is making special episodes to accompany you with an art community on air, and to entertain you with art-related topics. In this episode, Leanne Waterhouse, Jaime Powell, Julie Gough and I made a conversaion about their ‘real’ physic...
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26, The very 1st epi of 2020: Emanuel Rodriguez and Zamara on performance art and spectacular installation works

March 25, 2020
Hello listeners, 

We have indeed gone into 2020. But I reckon it has been a very bump...
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25, SPECIAL Part Two: Sophia Cai, Diego Ramirez, Nikki Lam and James Nguyen on failures and rejections in the Art

December 29, 2019
This is the 2nd part of the special episode about rejections and failures in the art; and also the last episode of 2019. 


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24, SPECIAL Part One: Sophia Cai, Diego Ramirez, Nikki Lam and James Nguyen on failures and rejections in the Art

December 29, 2019
In response to the end of 2019, I reviewed the rejections that I had received this year as an artist. Besides self doubts and down feelings, I believed that there must be more that I could unpack from these unsuccessful results. Although it is known that receiving rejection is a common experience for most of contemporary practicing artists, within the art community, we barely mention and share about our sense of failure in our art ...
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23, Chantelle Mitchell and Emilie Walsh on the current exhibitions at Gertrude Contemporary Art, Margaret Lawrence Gallery and Incinerator Gallery

October 31, 2019
Chantelle Mitchell, a writer/curator and Emilie Walsh,  a visual artist, both Melbourne-based, talked about the current exhibitions: Hope Dies Last: Art at the end of optimism at Gertrude Contemporary and Margaret Lawrence Gallery, and Incinerator Art Award. Both Emilie and Chantelle’s excellent descriptions ...
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22, James Nguyen and Andrew Atchison on Bauhaus Now!

September 29, 2019
In this episode, I joined two Melbourne-based artists: James and Andrew to elaborate our thoughts on the experience of visiting the exhibition: Bauhaus Now! at Buxton Contemporary. It is shown till Oct 20. Together, we discussed about the idea of PLAY in the process of making and creating; the institutional environment...
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21, The 58th Venice Biennale.

July 27, 2019
This is a special episode that I recorded with three artist friends: Kate Davis, Ash Perry and Ramo Zeroual in Venice in June this year. Unplanned, we found each other in Venice for 2019 Venice Biennale at the same time. This gave me a great opportunity to make an episode about 2019 Venice Biennale and to share some ou...
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20. Peter Aldrich and Natalie Trofimiuk: Contemporary Tapestry Works, the Influence of Exhibition Spaces and the Existence of Light

June 13, 2019
A Melbourne-based artist couple: Peter Aldrich (painter and drawer) and Natalie Trofimiuk (print and drawer), are alert to the contemporary art exhibitions in town and nation wide. The number of the art exhibitions that they have seen in last month are so impressive and enviable for many artists, including me. In this episode, they shared their rich knowledge about some recent exhibitions in Melbourne, such as, Ry David Bradley's 5...
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19, the practice and art merchandise, with Sanja Pahoki and Vivian Cooper Smith

April 25, 2019
In this episode, two Melbourne-based photographers, Sanja Pahoki and Vivian Cooper Smith shared their thoughts over three past visual art exhibitions in Melbourne. In the conversation, they did not only bring the visual of the works they saw in the exhibitions, but also opened the discussion in regarding to the practic...
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18, An art trip in LA and MCA Art Bar event by Ka-yin Kwok and Walter Bakowski

March 2, 2019
This is the very first episode of 2019. In this episode, two Melbourne based artists: Ka-yin Kwok and Walter Bakowski shared their memorable art experiences obtained during the time towards the end of last year 2018.  Ka-Yin talked ...
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17, Janelle Koh & Hugh Davies - 'Catastrophe & the Power of Art' at Mori Art Museum & ATP9

December 29, 2018
Two speakers, Janelle Koh, a law student who enjoys writing about arts, and Hugh Davies, a senior researcher in games and an artist, joined me and shared their individual experiences of visiting Mori Art Museum in Japan. Janelle vividly described her favourite works in the current exhibition titled 'Catastrophe and the Power of Art'. Whereas, Hugh shared some history of Mori and another exhibition he saw last year there. Hugh also ...
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Special: New Year Greeting From Siying

December 29, 2018
Happy 2019! A sincere new year greeting to every listener from Siying, host of Three Bellybuttons. x
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16, Ann McGinley and Sarah Pirrie on the ProsCons of doing international artist-in-residence programs and seeing art exhibitions with a vision impaired person

December 2, 2018
In this episode, I had two good friends: Ann McGinley (Melbourne) and Sarah Pirrie (Darwin) to chat about their recent engagements with the art. Ann share with us her experiences of doing two international artist-in-residence programs: at Studio Kura (Japan) and Hotel St Valière (France). Comparing with the two program...
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15, Chloé Hazelwood and Sarah Rudledge on two exhibitions featuring people with disabilities and 'State of the Union'

November 11, 2018
Episode note:
In this episode, Chloé Hazelwood, an art writer/independent curator, shared her knowledge about two unique exhibitions that she recently visited at Art Project Australia and the City Library of Melbourne. One was 'All Our Relations' (to 24/11); the other:'Weave Movement Theatre 21 years' (to 15/11). Both exhibitions featured the artworks ma...
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14, Polly Borland's 'Polyverse', Consuelo Cavaniglia's 'between and among objects' with Simon Cooper, & a private house-show: 'Freya's Revenage' with Manisha Anjali

October 20, 2018
Episode Note:

This episode is different from the previous ones. Instead of presenting one big conversion between two guest speakers and I, this episode includes...
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