Outsider Art Podcast

In this episode the OAP takes a shallow dive into a deep pond - Susan Te Kahurangi King's archive - and comes up with treasure.Cover Image - Susan Te Kahurangi King, Untitled (detail), 29.5 x 21 cm, Graphite and marker, March 2012 - Image used with permission, © The Susan Te Kahurangi King Trust, all rights reserved.Reading ListThe Drawings of Susan Te Kahurangi King. Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami. 2016. ISBN - 978-0-9972492-7-9ArticlesSusan King, Address Unknown. Robert Leonard. Vault Magazine - Issue 33 (February to April 2021)Explosive Drawings: Susan King's Mash-ups, Strange Landscapes, and Other Worlds. Edward M. Gomez. Hyperallergic (2014)The Joys and Terrors of an Outsider Artist. Patrick Price. Hyperallergic (2017)Other LinksSusan Te Kahurangi King. Instagram Link - https://www.instagram.com/susantekahurangiking/The Petita Cole Collection. Instagram Link - https://www.instagram.com/thepetitacolecollection/Aotearoa Print Studios. Website - https://apseditions.co.nz/collections/susan-king

“Looking at her works demands shifting levels of attention, as we scan them to register the pattern, then again to excavate embedded images."Robert Leonard on Susan Te Kahurangi King - Vault Magazine - Issue 33 (February to April 2021)Cover Image - Untitled, 20 x 13 cm, crayon on paper, c. 1958 - Image used with permission, © The Susan Te Kahurangi King Trust, all rights reserved.Reading ListThe Drawings of Susan Te Kahurangi King. Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami. 2016. ISBN - 978-0-9972492-7-9ArticlesSusan King, Address Unknown. Robert Leonard. Vault Magazine - Issue 33 (February to April 2021)Explosive Drawings: Susan King's Mash-ups, Strange Landscapes, and Other Worlds. Edward M. Gomez. Hyperallergic (2014)The Joys and Terrors of an Outsider Artist. Patrick Price. Hyperallergic (2017)Other LinksSusan Te Kahurangi King. Instagram Link - https://www.instagram.com/susantekahurangiking/The Petita Cole Collection. Instagram Link - https://www.instagram.com/thepetitacolecollection/

“I actually just find the paintings extraordinarily beautiful - I think they can live for me that simply.” Brooke Davis Anderson on Henry DargerCover image - Henry Darger - Untitled (Overall Flowers - Recto) - detail - n.d.Reading ListHenry J. Darger: In the Realms of the Unreal. John M. MacGregor. ISBN - 978-8886455060Henry Darger, Throwaway Boy. Jim Elledge. ISBN - 978-1590208557Darger's Resources. Michael Moon. ISBN - 978-0822351566Darger: The Henry Darger Collection at the American Folk Art Museum. Brooke Davis Anderson. ISBN - 0-8109-1398-4There are several other books on Henry Darger which can be found via a quick internet search.Video ListIn the Realms of the Unreal. Director - Jessica Yu. 2004Other Links mentioned in the EpisodeOutsider, The amazing story of Henry Darger - Podcast (Philippe Cohen Solal) - Podcast LinkWas Henry Darger Autistic? - Website Article (Cameron Straughan) - Article LinkInspired by Henry Darger - Kyoko Nakamura - Website Link

"Rather than condescendingly and misguidedly treating Darger only as a case study, we can look into his work for what it may tell us about both the powerful allure of mass-mediated narrative and imagery and the possibility (or impossibility) of escaping the labyrinthine and often terrifying histories and politics of which we in the world today are the direct heirs.” Michael Moon. Darger's Resources.Cover image - Henry Darger - UntitledReading ListHenry J. Darger: In the Realms of the Unreal. John M. MacGregor. ISBN - 978-8886455060Henry Darger, Throwaway Boy. Jim Elledge. ISBN - 978-1590208557Darger's Resources. Michael Moon. ISBN - 978-0822351566Darger: The Henry Darger Collection at the American Folk Art Museum. Brooke Davis Anderson. ISBN - 0-8109-1398-4There are several other books on Henry Darger which can be found via a quick internet search.Video ListIn the Realms of the Unreal. Director - Jessica Yu. 2004

In his external life Darger was a pitiable figure, reclusive, impoverished, orphaned at 16, often regarded as crazy, suffering almost constant pain in his later years and working menial jobs his entire life. However in the internal world of his writings and art he was both a hero and anti-hero, creator of magical, violent world’s and a fiercely determined protector of children.Cover image - Henry Darger - "At Obrigano Captured once when Glandelinians had attacked Dicies headquarter, house to left middle of pictures They escaped with the four younger children however" - circa 1955/60Reading ListHenry J. Darger: In the Realms of the Unreal. John M. MacGregor. ISBN - 978-8886455060Henry Darger, Throwaway Boy. Jim Elledge. ISBN - 978-1590208557Darger's Resources. Michael Moon. ISBN - 978-0822351566Darger: The Henry Darger Collection at the American Folk Art Museum. Brooke Davis Anderson. ISBN - 0-8109-1398-4There are several other books on Henry Darger which can be found via a quick internet search.Video ListIn the Realms of the Unreal. Director - Jessica Yu. 2004

" I paint a memorandum of my dream" - Minnie EvansCover image - Minnie Evans. My very first. 1935 Reading ListMinnie Evans:Artist. Charles Muir Lovell (editor) and Erwin Hester (editor). ISBN 978-0963675903Aspects of Minnie Evans. Nathan Kernan. On Paper, Vol.1, No. 6 (July - August 1997)Off to the garden to talk with God. John Walker Myers. Southern Quarterly, Fall 1996.Conversations with Minnie Evans 1962-1973. Nina Howell Starr. Smithsonian Institution Archives of American ArtVideo LinksThe angel that stands by me: Minnie Evans' Paintings - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJHnCB6DYf4&list=PL7IzWuVD2YXAEx2b3tp_xH5GdIw_ODOPt&index=4Websiteshttp://minniesdreamscapes.org

"Curiously, the Garden seems simultaneously made and not made for the visitor, and I felt as though I had happened across a great secret—despite the fact that on that day, like any other at the Garden, thousands of other paying visitors are also enmeshed in the same “secret.” Tracy Ann Buck Bonfitto from The Rock Garden: A Study of Memory, Place-Making, and Community in Chandigarh, India (Dissertation).Nek Chand Foundation website - nekchand.comCover image - Nek Chand. Sculptures in the Rock Garden of ChandigarhReading ListNek Chand's Outsider Art: The Rock Garden of Chandigarh. Lucienne Perry (Author), John Maizels (Author), Philippe Lespinasse (Photographer) - ISBN 978-2080305183The Ruin, the Collection and the Theatre: archtiecture, sculpture and landscape of Nek Chand's Rock Garden, Chandigarh. Soumyen Bandyopadhyay and Iain Jackson. ISBN 978-1846311208PapersThe Rock Garden: A Study of Memory, Place-Making, and Community in Chandigarh, India. Tracy Ann Buck Bonfitto. UCLA 2017

“(Nek) Chand’s private vision engaged India’s collective spirit. Here, what has been called “outsider” art proves more culturally affirmative than the aesthetic of high modernism officially endorsed and imposed as the architectural vision for the region.” (Groundwaters: A Century of Art by Self-Taught and Outsider Artists - Charles Russell - ISBN 978-3791344904)Nek Chand Foundation website - nekchand.comCover image - Nek Chand. Sculptures in the Rock Garden of ChandigarhReading ListNek Chand's Outsider Art: The Rock Garden of Chandigarh. Lucienne Perry (Author), John Maizels (Author), Philippe Lespinasse (Photographer) - ISBN 978-2080305183The Ruin, the Collection and the Theatre: archtiecture, sculpture and landscape of Nek Chand's Rock Garden, Chandigarh. Soumyen Bandyopadhyay and Iain Jackson. ISBN 978-1846311208Papers The Rock Garden: A Study of Memory, Place-Making, and Community in Chandigarh, India. Tracy Ann Buck Bonfitto. UCLA 2017ArticlesThe Vulnerability of Outsider Architecture. Roger Cardinal. Southern Quarterly, Fall 2000Also check out the Bibliography on the Nek Chand Foundation's website - https://nekchand.com/select-bibliography-nek-chand-outsider-art-chandigarh