God Liver Podcast
An after-breakfast experimental podcast on art and stuff
Special Episode - Live from the Midnight Sun Film Festival in Södänkylä.
Welcome to this exceptional, highly experimental, super exciting episode from the village of Sodankylä, where last weekend came about the 35th edition of the Midnight Sun Film Festival, established in the 80's by a bunch of Finnish film-makers, Kaurismäki brothers amongst them.
The episode is a dynamic conversation with the peoples, the soundscape and the scenery of the nightless Film Festival in Sodankylä. Guest-stars, French actor and film-maker Mathieu Amalric, and Brazilian director Karim Aïnouz tell us their impressions about hanging out in Lapland and being part of the Festival. We also talk to Finnish actor, and Sodankylä Film Festival regular, Tommi Korpela.
In our rambles around the village we come across many familiar faces who, like us, have made it to Sodankylä to join in the vibe and enjoy good cinema. The conversation gets enriched through contributions by our local Lapland art crew Pekka Kumpulainen, Mauri Lähdesmäki, Helena Junttila, Mette Ylikorva, Joonas Martikainen, Eemil Karila and Ville Rinne. Other cinema-lovers have travelled all the way to the North to be part of this unique happening: we chat with Festival-goers artists Marja Helander, Meiju Niskala, Laura Tahvanainen, her partner Joonas, and Ville Jolanki. Aki Juopperi and Co. delights us all with their street pop-up vegan food stall.
The meandrous, eclectic conversation delves into four movies: Mathieu Amalric's The Blue Room (2014), Finnish productions The Blind Man Who didn't Want to See Titanic (2021) and Hytti Nro 6 (2021); and an obscure German film of the 60's in black and white, a "hysterically surreal monument with a vengeance."
Welcome to this exceptional, highly experimental, super exciting episode from the village of Sodankylä, where last weekend came about the 35th edition of the Midnight Sun Film Festival, established in the 80's by a bunch of Finnish film-makers, Kaurismäki brothers amongst them.
The episode is a dynamic conversation with the peoples, the soundscape and the scenery of the nightless Film Festival in Sodankylä. Guest-stars, French actor and film-maker Mathieu Amalric, and Brazilian director Karim Aïnouz tell us their impressions about hanging out in Lapland and being part of the Festival. We also talk to Finnish actor, and Sodankylä Film Festival regular, Tommi Korpela.
In our rambles around the village we come across many familiar faces who, like us, have made it to Sodankylä to join in the vibe and enjoy good cinema. The conversation gets enriched through contributions by our local Lapland art crew Pekka Kumpulainen, Mauri Lähdesmäki, Helena Junttila, Mette Ylikorva, Joonas Martikainen, Eemil Karila and Ville Rinne. Other cinema-lovers have travelled all the way to the North to be part of this unique happening: we chat with Festival-goers artists Marja Helander, Meiju Niskala, Laura Tahvanainen, her partner Joonas, and Ville Jolanki. Aki Juopperi and Co. delights us all with their street pop-up vegan food stall.
The meandrous, eclectic conversation delves into four movies: Mathieu Amalric's The Blue Room (2014), Finnish productions The Blind Man Who didn't Want to See Titanic (2021) and Hytti Nro 6 (2021); and an obscure German film of the 60's in black and white, a "hysterically surreal monument with a vengeance."
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French film-maker Mathieu Amalric presenting one of his movies in the big tent / Kitinen Beach (2 am) the place to be.
Episode 14, 9.6.2022 - Norwegian Breakfast - Part I - with artists Tanja Koistinen and Savu Korteniemi
Our podcast about Art and Stuff. On this occasion, with very little of the former and a whole lot of the later.
In great company, from Kirkenes.
Our podcast about Art and Stuff. On this occasion, with very little of the former and a whole lot of the later.
In great company, from Kirkenes.
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Breakfast table and a recent drawing by Raisa Raekallio
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Norwegian Breakfast - Part II - with Jasmina Bosnjak A sequel of our Norwegian Breakfast conversations from Kirkenes. In this shorter episode, we speak with Troms and Finnmark cultural supernova Jasmina Bosnjak, about the elephant in the room. And we review, rather superficially to be honest, the absolutely handsome publication Arctic Art Newspaper. |
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Episode 13, 4.6.2022 - Pikes and Paintings
Can smelling a piece of paper take you 20 years back in time to an obscure art class in Athens? How was it that you say ‘ahven’ in English? Why no one told us how to make teasers before? We talk about the appreciation of painting and the phenomenon of delay in transference of presence from the studio to the gallery. Plus the worst doctor jokes you’ll ever hear. Ladies, gentlemen, anything beyond and in-between, get a grip, this is God Liver. 
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Episode 12, 26.5.2022 - Yesterday - with Anu Välitalo
In this episode we sit with our friend, graphic artist Anu Välitalo in probably the most dazzling flat of all Krunuunhaka in Helsinki. We talk about the opening of our exhibition in galleria Huuto with its unutterable name; morphing old saunas in Finland; Anu’s recent series of drawings; cancel culture... We provide down-to-earth examples of the forced ways of being natural and improvising in the world, ventilate our opinions about grant applications, and do little more than to mention the film ‘Everywhere Everything All at Once’. All of it, as usual, with a soundtrack of cutlery clanks, nibbling of strawberries and sipping coffee.
In this episode we sit with our friend, graphic artist Anu Välitalo in probably the most dazzling flat of all Krunuunhaka in Helsinki. We talk about the opening of our exhibition in galleria Huuto with its unutterable name; morphing old saunas in Finland; Anu’s recent series of drawings; cancel culture... We provide down-to-earth examples of the forced ways of being natural and improvising in the world, ventilate our opinions about grant applications, and do little more than to mention the film ‘Everywhere Everything All at Once’. All of it, as usual, with a soundtrack of cutlery clanks, nibbling of strawberries and sipping coffee.
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Anu and Raisa sharing a mic. On the Right 'The Ball' RR+MdV, 55 x 65 cm. oil on linen, 2021
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Episode 11, 20.5.2022 - Please don't Bang the Table!
It's Friday in Lapland! And Friday is Pooooodcast Day! Today we talk about... not having anything to say; we digress about the documentary film The Divided Brain (while we have Iain Mcgilchrist sitting placidly on our sofa); we discuss our recent raid in the land of works on paper; and we open up our feelings about our upcoming exhibition in Galleria Huuto in Helsinki next week. |
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Episode 10, 13/5/2022 - The Jelly
We are back in the mics after some time... In this podcast we suddenly learn by talking about it that our paintings are darker than we thought; we (well, Raisa) belts out Romania's Eurovision Song Contest entry of last night; del Val, confused by an unconscious bunch of emotions, makes some conceited remarks; the taking off of our career as collectors: our first art-piece ever purchased; and Rovaniemi post-corona amenities. |
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Episode 9, 13/4/2022 - TURKU*
*not to confuse with Turkey
*not to confuse with Turkey
Smashing the hotel room in Turku, just like two podcast rock stars
Episode 8, 26/2/2022
In this program: why we missed a program last week, pondering about national identity, organic mess in nature and in painting, and long live the Arts in Kittilä.
In this program: why we missed a program last week, pondering about national identity, organic mess in nature and in painting, and long live the Arts in Kittilä.
Raekallio, from del Val point of view, enjoys a good cuppa coffee during the program
Episode 7, 12/2/2022 - 'Plastic Cakes, Winter Olympics and the Wolf of Painting'
No matter what the Tao Te Ching says, there are bad cakes and good cakes in the world.
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Episode 6, 5/2/2022 - 'Raisa and the Raisins'
This week in our God Liver podcast introducing Raisa and the Raisins (Raisa Raekallio, Misha del Val and our dear friend from Rovaniemi Pekka Kumpulainen). We started off as a music band, because we love the name of the band, bu haven't made any music yet. Raisa and the Raisins, live from our kitchen table in the Arctic, talking straight about making paintings in a threesome, losing teeth and the myth of Martin Kippenberger.
This week in our God Liver podcast introducing Raisa and the Raisins (Raisa Raekallio, Misha del Val and our dear friend from Rovaniemi Pekka Kumpulainen). We started off as a music band, because we love the name of the band, bu haven't made any music yet. Raisa and the Raisins, live from our kitchen table in the Arctic, talking straight about making paintings in a threesome, losing teeth and the myth of Martin Kippenberger.
Paintings in progress by Raisa and the Raisins at the artists' studio
Episode 5, 29/1/2022 - 'The Joys of Selling Paintings; Oxford and Cambridge'
Raisa Raekallio & Misha del Val, 'Peto' (Beast), 43 x 49 cm, oil on linen, 2021 - Collection of Aine Art Museum, Tornio
Episode 4, 22/1/2022 - 'Conversation with Artist Solveig Ovanger and Skipping Around Tromsø'
We swap kitchen-tables to broadcast from the Paris of the North (since we didn't make it to see Ilya Repin's exhibition in the Petit Palace). Gently-spoken, Tromsø-based artist Solveig Ovanger talks with us about her art and her sensitivity for materials. Sharing the other mic, you see we only have two, Raisa and Misha get nice and close enough to feel each other's warmth.
We swap kitchen-tables to broadcast from the Paris of the North (since we didn't make it to see Ilya Repin's exhibition in the Petit Palace). Gently-spoken, Tromsø-based artist Solveig Ovanger talks with us about her art and her sensitivity for materials. Sharing the other mic, you see we only have two, Raisa and Misha get nice and close enough to feel each other's warmth.
Solveig Ovanger 'Stor Klode' 150 cm diameter, fish (saithe) skin. Pic: Rob Barrett
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Marsil Andjelov Al-Mahamid 'Hunted Down' embroidery on cotton,
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Episode 2, 7/1/2022 - Bilbao painting scene, and how a photo of Misha almost provokes a fire in Raisa's house
In today's podcast we introduce the work of painters Al Daw (Sheffiled), Damaris Pan (Bilbao) and Ander Sagastiberri (Bilbao). And we do a bit of conversational jazz, you know, how we met in Greece many many years ago and how a photo of Misha almost provokes a fire in the house. Towards the end of the program we discuss one of our latest paintings 'As Above So Below, As Below So Above', pictured below.
In today's podcast we introduce the work of painters Al Daw (Sheffiled), Damaris Pan (Bilbao) and Ander Sagastiberri (Bilbao). And we do a bit of conversational jazz, you know, how we met in Greece many many years ago and how a photo of Misha almost provokes a fire in the house. Towards the end of the program we discuss one of our latest paintings 'As Above So Below, As Below So Above', pictured below.
RR + MdV 'As Above So Below, As Below So Above' 147 x 173 cm. oil on linen, 2021
Episode 3, 17/1/2022 - 'Going back to the studio! the wasted energy of repetitive thought and Paris shoes'
In this conversation, we touch upon kitchen-table psychology, meta-podcast observations, the latest news from the studio and thwarted travelling plans, without really talking about anything in particular.
In this conversation, we touch upon kitchen-table psychology, meta-podcast observations, the latest news from the studio and thwarted travelling plans, without really talking about anything in particular.
WeeEpisode 1, 31/12/2021 - what we did in 2021, plus towns and villages
In this podcast, our first ever, we delve into our shared artistic memories of 2021. Also included in this podcast our kitchen table, the will of painting, corona coughing, the making of 'As Above So Below' painting and why the US is not a proper name for a country.
It's quite bad, please do not listen!
(Well, no that any of the other episodes are any better)