About this podcast
We encounter love everywhere - in romantic relationships, friendships, between parents and children. It is universal and yet individually shaped by time, society and culture. It is probably as old as humanity itself. And artists have also been dealing with it since time immemorial. The second season of the Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung podcast "Love, Maybe" is dedicated to love in contemporary art. The exhibition shows photographs, multimedia installations and glass sculptures that understand love as an active act: as responsibility, care and a political gesture. Inspired by Audre Lorde's critique of the romantic myth and bell hooks' vision of love as a political act, “Love, Maybe” opens up new perspectives: love not just as a feeling, but as a utopia. Each episode of the podcast accompanies a chapter of the exhibition and gives a voice to artists who have created works especially for the exhibition. It is about intimacy, care, desire and the view of love beyond patriarchal norms. The four episodes can be listened to as an accompaniment to the exhibition or independently of it. In each episode, artists from the exhibition and experts who deal with love, intimacy and desire in contemporary art have their say.

Episode 1: Intimacy, Maybe
Getting closer to each other: Intimacy as lived sensitivity
with Oliver Chanarin and Emilia Roig

What does it mean to get close? Whether in romantic relationships, friendships or through the camera lens - intimacy is lived sensitivity, but also a question of representation. Artist Oliver Chanarin and author Emilia Roig talk about intimacy beyond idealized body images. In a digital world that constantly pushes us towards self-optimization, the artists try to turn away from perfection - and thus create new perspectives on intimacy that challenge traditional role models.

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