Kaula Lumpur-based art critic Lee Weng Choy joins Samstag curator Joanna Kitto for a conversation around art and life in the present moment.

Pittsburgh-based Samstag Scholar Georgia Saxelby joins Curatorial Assistant Anna Zagala to discuss her experience of applying to study at Carnegie Mellon in the USA, strategies for selecting a school, what it takes to get in and why she can’t wait to get back.

In ‘Hold Me’, audiences listen in on a frustrated phone conversation between Adelaide-based artist Brad Darkson and a Centrelink worker trying to unravel the ramifications of a robo-debt, interspersed by the relentless sound of the hold music. While we’re all working from home due to COVID-19, Samstag curator Gillian Brown discusses this eerily prescient work with Darkson, over the phone.

Did you know that architect John Wardle designed the Samstag Museum of Art, working closely with Director Erica Green?

Belgian artist David Claerbout sits down with Rachel Hurst to discuss his monumental moving-image work Olympia (the real-time disintegration into ruins of the Berlin Olympic stadium over the course of a thousand years).

In our first ON ART episode for 2020, Melbourne-based artist Helen Grogan speaks with Samstag curator Gillian Brown about her work in Effect in three movements.

Melbourne-based artist James Nguyen joins Anna Zagala in the studio to discuss his experience as a Samstag Scholar at UnionDocs, New York on a one year fellowship in 2015, and how the lab environment subsequently shaped his practice and methodology.

In this episode, Samstag curator Gillian Brown speaks with artist Fiona Tan about her filmic work Ascent, a work that traces imagery of Mount Fuji, Japan over the course of 150 years. Gillian was Adelaide in front of a live audience, Fiona was at home in Amsterdam.

South Australian artist Louise Haselton makes sculptural works using materials gleaned from the world around her, fascinated by the push/pull between function and aesthetic.