Anastasia Parmson
49 episodes listed below
Installation art, from sketch to site.
The Installation Art Podcast is a measured interview series about installation art as both idea and job site. Artists and arts professionals talk through materials, budgets, institutions, mistakes, scale, collaboration, and the moments when an artwork meets people in space.
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The Installation Art Podcast is a focused arts series about the making of installation art, told through careful interviews and occasional first-hand field reports. Its strongest episodes feel less like gallery commentary than a studio visit that keeps walking until it reaches the loading dock. The pace is unhurried. Guests are allowed to circle through biography, materials, institutional pressure, mistakes, and the private logic that holds a work together before anyone else can see it. Mike Hewson’s episode turns playground design into a serious conversation about infrastructure, legal responsibility, risk, drainage, heavy objects, and the hidden engineering beneath a public artwork. Tanja Smeets speaks from the underside of ordinary things, where daily materials, ceramics, textiles, roots, suburban unease, and imagined growth begin to merge. Monika Grzymala’s discussion frames drawing as a spatial act, with tape, line, gesture, ephemerality, and authenticity carrying more weight than correction. Carrie Scott’s return brings the art world’s support structures into view, including fees, access, ambition, failure, and the idea of creative health. Zadok Ben-David’s episode reaches toward scale and public feeling, with welding, figures, color, money, and unexpected audience emotion all part of the story. Uffe Isolotto’s conversation moves through world-building, collaboration, uncertainty, Venice Biennale, pandemic time, war, and the challenge of asking people to believe in a work before its parts have fully met. The bonus Helsinki Biennale episode shifts into a travelogue, noticing how art experiences can be shaped by ferries, islands, museums, time, and effort. Another bonus episode becomes a practical reflection on residencies, cardboard kitchens, rushed making, documentation, shipping, legacy, and whether installation art can ever be separated from the place where it happens. Across these pieces, the show returns to a clear question: what does it take to make art that a person must physically enter, navigate, or confront? The answers are rarely tidy. They involve budgets, tools, collaborators, institutions, compromises, deadlines, and bodies in space. They also involve joy. The show’s gift is its patience with process, especially the parts that polished exhibitions tend to hide.
Made for: For artists, curators, arts workers, students, and visually curious listeners who want the practical backstory behind spatial work. It is best suited to people who enjoy slow, detailed conversations about process, materials, institutions, and public experience.
What sets it apart: The show stays close to the real conditions of making installation art: budgets, engineering, residencies, collaborators, shipping, risk, and site constraints. It treats logistics as part of the artwork rather than an afterthought.
A new resource for all things installation art is here! Join host Anastasia Parmson – an artist herself — as she uncovers stories, challenges, and lessons from behind the scenes. The show brings you in-depth conversations with internationally renowned artists and arts professionals who have exhibited installation art on the global stage. In each episode, you will hear about the creative process and the personal journeys of these exceptional artists. We will gain insights into the unique joys and challenges; as well as the logistical and financial aspects of working with installation art. Join us every fortnight as we shine a light on t...
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Anastasia Parmson makes the practical risks and creative decisions behind installation art unusually clear.
The Installation Art Podcast follows the point where an artistic idea becomes a physical problem. Anastasia Parmson leads detailed conversations with artists about making large-scale work, while bonus episodes turn toward her own process or a live institutional controversy.
Smoke baffles enter the conversation when you want everything the gallery wall label left out.
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A playground commission becomes a serious study of risk, trust, and hidden infrastructure.
The Installation Art Podcast treats a playground commission as more than a building story. It presents Mike Hewson's project as a study of risk, responsibility, and the unseen labor required to make art hold its place in the world.
An artist's account of materials, layers, and making growth visible.
The piece follows an artist moving from the assumption that studio work would be enough to the harder lesson that opportunities have to be made.
Installation art is tested here by shipping, scale, and the strain of making it hold.
The bonus episode follows an experimental installation residency at Drawspace Sydney and keeps its attention on a practical question: what a work preserves, and what it yields, when it has to balance legacy, reach, archival quality, and ease of shipping.
A quiet, detail-rich conversation about collaborative installation work, uncertain time, and materials that keep a project from settling into one era.
The discussion centers on Uffe Isolotto and the strain of turning a project that started as a sketch into something collaborators could trust before a full version existed.
A dispute around Khaled Sabsabi becomes a sharp meditation on censorship and institutional trust.
This episode frames the dispute around Khaled Sabsabi as a pointed test of how far institutional caution can go before it starts to resemble surrender.
Art historian Tamar Avishai interviews critics, curators, and writers about single paintings and ideas.
Russell Tovey and Robert Diament interview artists about their materials, biography, and process.
Cinematographer Roger Deakins and James Deakins interview film crew about the craft behind specific shots.
Robert Bound interviews artists and reviews new film, book, and music releases with critics.
Sound art from places, recordings, and memory.
People questioned the playground.
Materials have backstories.
The host shares personal impressions from visiting Helsinki Biennale, focusing on the island exhibition at Vallisari and encouraging listeners to consider experiencing it despite the travel effort.
This episode features an interview with installation artist Monika Grzymala, discussing her work with tape-based spatial drawings, artistic process, and the concept of authenticity in ephemeral art.
This episode features a personal story about struggling in the cutthroat New York art world, leading to reflections on creative health and the impact of installation art, as part of a podcast exploring behind-the-scenes careers in the art industry.
Artist Zadok Ben-David shares his transformative experience creating a large-scale installation involving welding with prisoners, highlighting the unexpected emotional impact of art on people.
Installation art can look disposable.
Uffe Isolotto begins with doubt.
Political appeasement worries the host.
This episode features an interview with installation art pioneer Sandy Skoglund discussing her use of unconventional materials and the meditative, healing aspects of her creative process.
The host celebrates the one-year anniversary of the Installation Art Podcast by re-releasing a previously split interview with artist Alex Chinneck as a single uninterrupted bonus episode.
This episode features an interview with Korean-American installation artist Won Ju Lim, discussing her career journey, artistic process using disposable materials, and experiences in the art world.
This episode features an interview with artist Jason Peters, who creates large-scale sculptures from discarded objects, exploring themes of beauty in overlooked materials and the creative process.