Guest artist HELEN JOHNSON

joins JILLIAN KNIPE for this final episode of Series 5, to discuss her work via 'The Birds' by Tarjei Vesaas. Published originally in 1957, then by Penguin Random House in 2019, this short novel describes the relationship between Hege and her younger, mentally challenged brother Mattis. With a sense of non-judgemental simplicity and acute sensitivity, we join the siblings as they negotiate everyday life in partial isolation and on the edge of something happening.

HELEN and Jillian's conversation encompasses lightning, tenderness, siblings, gullibility, hiding, tapestry, holding, frustration, anguish, excavation, metaphors, equality, masking, knitting needles, dream worlds, shattered trees, portals, body punctures, art therapy, white supremacy, honest thieves, cartography lines, blinding flies, Oedipus complex, intergenerational privilege, psychotic structure, architectural blueprints, birthing shit, monetising colonialisation, not being othered, the weight of the work, creating a space for healing, writing being like a drawing, and a lot of Lacanian psychotherapy - a real learning experience !

 

HELEN JOHNSON

helenjohnson.net

'Opening' Pilar Corrias Savile Row til 6 Jan 2024

'Agency' Pilar Corrias 2019

'Warm Ties' ICA 2017

 

ARTISTS 

Aleksandra Waliszewska

Aliza Nisenbaum 

Bridget Riley

Christina Quarles

Denzil Forrester

Fred Williams

Georgiana Houghton

Joy Labinjo

Judy Watson

Katie Pratt

Laura Owens

Maja Ruznic

Marcus Coates 'The Directors' Artangel

Melanie Jackson

Nicole Eisenman

Njideka Akunyili Crosby 

Paola Balla

Rosie Mullan

Shanti Panchal

Yhonnie Scarce

AUTHORS + BOOKS

Darian Leader 'The New Black: Mourning, Melancholia and Depression' 2008

Jackie Wullschläger 'Monet: The Resless Vision' 2023

Jennifer Higgie 'The Other Side: A Journey into Women, Art and the Spirit World' 2023

Karl Ove Knausgaard

National Gallery of Australia 'Know My Name: Australian Women Artists Since 1900' 2021 Part 1 2022 Part 2

CURATORS + ART HISTORIANS

Helen Molesworth 'Dialogues' David Zwirner

Sarah McCrory

THEORISTS + ANALYSTS + ACTIVISTS

Anna Freud

Donald Winnicott

Jacques Lacan

Joy Shaverien

Melanie Klein

Meriki Onus

Sigmund Freud

Shirley Sharon-Zisser 'What Would a Lacanian Art Therapy Look Like'

Walter Benjamin

Wilfred Bion

GALLERIES + ART INSTITUTIONS

Glasgow International

ICA Institute of Contemporary Art

Kunstverein in Hamburg

Kingsgate Project Space

Latrobe University

MCA NSW Museum of Contemporary Art Australia

NGV National Gallery of Victoria

Pilar Corrias

SeMA Seoul Museum of Art

Tate Galleries

 

 

Guest artist ELEONORA AGOSTINI joins PELUMI ODUBANJO to discuss her art practice via 'Boxes', a short story featured in 'Elephant and Other Stories' 1998 Collins Harvill. Written by Raymond Carver and originally published in The New Yorker, the story explores connections, disillusion, powerlessness, worry and loss within a mother and son relationship, as well as the distance between listening and hearing. 

ELEONORA and Pelumi's discussion encompasses immortality, microcosmos, waitressing, belonging, mothers, self representation, the grid, family frictions, bitter endings, creepy observation, archival images, being deeply uncomfortable, hiding in bushes, multiple layers of meaning, the complicated teenage years, difficulty bringing closure to relationships, connections between pictures and performance, and not wanting to be the dictator of the image.

 

@eleonoraagostini

eleonoraagostini.com

Foam Talent 2024-2025

Bloomberg New Contemporaries, 2019

'A Study of Waitressing'

'A Blurry Aftertaste' 2018

'Laying with Strangers'

'Welcome Sir'

'How to Stand in Front of the Camera'

'How to Stand in Front of the Client'

'Notes for my Clients'

'The Steps'

@pelumi.odubanjo

ARTISTS

Olukemi Lijadu

Ragnar Kjartansson

WRITERS

John Cheever

Raymond Carver

GALLERIES & INSTITUTIONS

Barbican

Borough Road Gallery 'With Monochrome Eyes' 2020

Palais de Tokyo

Royal College

 

Guest artist mentor CERI HAND joins artist and writer JILLIAN KNIPE to discuss her creative practice via 'The Blazing World' 2014 by Siri Hustvedt and published by Hodder & Stoughton. Longlisted for the Booker Prize and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, it tells tales of the life of artist Harriet Burden. Presented across snapshots of journal entries and testimonies by her family, friends and colleagues, the accounts are compiled and edited by academic researcher I.V. Hess after Harriet's death. Furious with the cultural misogyny that's left her all but ignored by the New York art world, Harriet hides her identity behind three male fronts in a series of exhibitions. While their huge success goes to prove her point, when she finally unmasks herself, not everyone believes her.

 

CERI HAND

cerihand.com

@cerihand

artistmentor.co.uk

ARTISTS

Christo Vladimirov Javacheff 1935–2020

Eva Hesse 1936-1970

Evlyne Laurin, Creative Legacy Steward and Fine Art Appraiser

Jane Hayes Greenwood

Sir Horace Shango Ové CBE

Yayoi Kusama

Zak Ové

WRITERS + BOOKS

Cherry Smyth

Dan Sullivan with Dr Benjamin Hardy '10X is Easier than 2X: How World-Class Entrepreneurs Achieve More by Doing Less' 2023

John Milton 'Paradise Lost' 1667

John Steinbeck 'Of Mice and Men' 1937

Margaret Lucas Cavendish 1623-1673

Rachel Cusk

INSTITUTIONS + GALLERIES

Castor Gallery

ICA

Somerset House 'Get Up Stand Up Now: Generations of Black Creative Pioneers' 2019

The Women's Art Library 'Make' magazine

Guest artist SUSAN SCHUPPLI joins art critic and author ELIZABETH FULLERTON to discuss her art practice via 'The Second Body' 2017 by Daisy Hildyard, published by Fitzcarraldo Books. Listed by the 'White Review' on their Books of the Year 2018, the essay presents the dissolving boundaries between all life on earth, with an updated dualism between the animal bodies in which we eat, breathe, and sleep and the virtual bodies of our global connections and environmental impacts.

Susan and Elizabeth discuss dissolving boundaries, plausible deniability, beached whales, deep time, gathering poems, chattering glaciers, foetus ownership, critical proximity, living on ice, images creating barriers, Princess Diana's wedding dress, bodies eating distance, and changing paradigms. Plus, they question where environmental knowledge resides and which modes of representation might inspire action.

 

SUSAN SCHUPPLI

susanschuppli.com

@susan_schuppli

'Cruel Radiance' Backlight Festival, Finland  - June 2023 Art & Industry Triennial, Dunkerque France - June 2023 'Re/Sisters', Barbican London 5 Oct 2023 - 14 Jan 2024 LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Spain    'Material Witness'

'Can the Sun Lie' 

'Cold Rights'

'Freezing Deaths' 'Weaponising Water' 'Icebox Detentions' 'Listening to the Ice' 2023   EVENTS  

'Earthrise' is a photograph of Earth and some of the Moon 's surface that was taken from lunar orbit by astronaut William Anders on 24 December 24 1968 during the Apollo 8 mission.  

Ultrasound was first used for clinical purposes in mid 1950s but not used widely in British and American hospitals till 1970s for foetus imaging.

In April 1965, 'Life' put a photograph called Foetus 18 Weeks on its cover which caused a sensation. The issue became the fastest-selling copy in the magazine's entire history.

The Keeling Curve is a graph of the accumulation of carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere based on continuous measurements taken at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii from 1958 to the present day. 

BOOKS + THINKERS

Christina Elizabeth Sharpe, American academic, Professor of English Literature and Black Studies at York University, Toronto, Canada

Daisy Hildyard 'The Footprint's Story: Princess Diana's Jewels and Carbon' Orion magazine, Winter Issue 30 Nov 2022

Dr Adrian Lahoud, Dean of the School of Architecture, Royal College of Art

Joseph Conrad

Silvia Federici 'Caliban and the Witch: : Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation' 2004

Sven Oskar Lindqvist 'Exterminate all the Brutes: One Man's Odyssey into the Heart of Darkness and the Origins of European Genocide' 2007

Sheila Watt-Cloutier 'The Right to Be Cold: One Woman's Story of Protecting Her Culture, the Arctic and the Whole Planet' 2015

Ursula K Le Guin 'The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction' 1986

FILM + DIRECTORS

Chantal Akerman

'Nostalgia for the Light' Patricio Guzmán, 2010

Stanley Kubrick '2001: A Space Odyssey' 1968

ORGANISATIONS

Bergin Kunsthalle, Norway

Berlin Biennale

Forensic Architecture

Goldsmiths University

Sculpture Center, New York

Toronto Biennial of Art

Guest artist SOPHIE RUIGROK joins VANESSA MURRELL of DATEAGLE to discuss her art practice via 'Nobody Belongs Here More Than You' 2007 by Miranda July, published by Canongate Books. Winner of the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, it conveys 16 stories of lonely characters desperately trying to make connections. Their means vary from quirky to the absurd and mostly only result in the disillusion of coinciding in the same space. 

Sophie and Vanessa talk about escape, clouds, tears, Buddhism, role playing, manifesting reality, body leaking, collapsing flesh, wearing wigs, cold showers, hypersensitive characters, contemporary spiritualism, movie-set extras, expressing the psyche, masks as mediators, disconnected lonely people, swimming on the carpet, beautifully weird realisations about humanity, the loss of fantasy, appropriating from art history, being allergic to the world, true signs of falsehood, and Sophie using her fingers to make images of fingers before dipping her toe into oil paint.

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SOPHIE RUIGROK

@sophie.ruigrok

'In Three Acts' Huxley Parlour 27 April - 27 May 2023

'Stilled Images' Tube Gallery, Mallorca opens 10 June 2023

ARTISTS

Alfred Stieglitz

Andrea Mantegna

Francis Bacon

Gian Lorenzo Bellini 'The Ecstasy of Saint Theresa' 1652

Hans Memling, hellscapes

Jan and Hubert Van Eck 'The Ghent Alterpiece' Belgium 1432

Katarina Caserman

René Magritte

GALLERIES

Marlborough 'Love is the Devil: Studies after Francis Bacon' 2022

Tabula Rasa 'It's Better to be Cats Than be Loved' 2022 

The Sunday Painter 'Today I Feel Relevant and Alive' 2022

WRITERS

Carl Jung

Susan Stewart 'On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection' 1984

FILMS

'Interstellar' 2014

'The Truman Show' 1998

'Thelma and Louise' 1991

 

Guest artist NICOLA BEALING

joins JILLIAN KNIPE to discuss her work via 'Pastoralia' 2020 by George Saunders. Published Riverhead Books, the book contains six short stories each presenting snapshots of contemporary American existence delivered in a deadpan, razorsharp tone, and enshrouded with dark humour.

We talk about dark humour, executions, internal panic, male strippers, 18th century working class fabrics, Goya being God, cruelty, Stasi prison, cave people, hazardous shitholes, bum cracks, lungs filling with blood, penis simulators, pictures popping up behind your eyes, boring objects, unaffordable medical care, apprenticeships, being trapped, funny voices, hot sexy breeding age, slogans of false hope, bags of human waste, hiding what's underneath and the tiny details that make up a life.

 

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NICOLA BEALING

nicolabealing.co.uk

@nicola_bealing

'The Borough' at Matt's Gallery London 15 March - 16 April 2023

ARTISTS

Alice Browne

Alice Neel

Benjamin Britten

Erich Heckel

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Francisco Goya

George Grosz

Hieronymus Bosch

Montagu Slater

Otto Dix

Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Sidney Nolan

BOOKS + AUTHORS

Aldous Huxley 'Brave New World' 1932

Broadside Ballads

E M Forster

Federico Garcia Lorca 'Blood Wedding' 1932

'Face' magazine

George Crabbe 'Peter Grimes' Letter XXII of 'The Borough' 1810

George Saunders 'A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life' 2021

GALLERIES + MUSEUMS + GALLERISTS

British Museum

Foundling Museum

Museum of Cornish Life (Helston) 

Royal Cornwall Museum (Truro)

Salisbury Art Centre

Tim Dixon

 

 

Guest artist FLORENCE PEAKE joins ELIZABETH FULLERTON to discuss her multi-faceted, performance-led art practice via 'Stone Butch Blues' 1993 by Leslie Feinberg. It tells the story of life as a butch lesbian in 1970s, working class America and is particularly unique due to the writer gaining full rights to the text, making it fully accessible online and for free.

Florence and Elizabeth talk about hysterical clay, collapsing paintings, mark-making without sight, rigid heteronormative conventions, the patriarchy's rule which brings a perpetual fear of violence, butch lesbians in the 70s, drag queens, sex workers and femmes, extractions of earthly matter and energy, the dance floor as a space for belonging and expression, splattering the audience with clay, tenderness and care, finding comfort in the face of shame, and encountering ourselves imaginatively in relationship to objective reality.

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FLORENCE PEAKE

florencepeake.com

insta florence_peake

Richard Saltoun Gallery

2023 16 April - 2 July 'Factual Actual Ensemble' at Southwark Park Galleries then touring to Fruitmarket Gallery and Towner Gallery

2023 11 Feb - 7 May 'Earth Spells: Witches of the Anthropocene' at RAM Museum, Exter with Caroline Achaintre, Emma Hart, Kris Lemsalu, Mercedes Mühleisen, Grace Ndiritu, Florence Peake, Kiki Smith, Lucy Stein

2023 18 Feb - 6 May 'Body Poetics' at Giant, Bournemouth with Penny Slinger, Helen Chadwick, Florence Peake, Louise Bourgeois, Judy Chicago, Charlotte Edey, Enam Gbewonyo, Rosie Gibbens, Guerrilla Girls, Evan Ifekoya, Ad Minoliti, Senga Nengudi, Niki De Saint Phalle, Carolee Schneemann, Tai Shani, Kiki Smith, Rae-Yen Song, Holly Stevenson curated by Marcelle Joseph and Bella Pelly-Fry

2021 Factual Actual at National Gallery

2021-22 Crude Care for British Art Show at Aberdeen Art Gallery then touring UK

2019 Apparition Apparition at Venice Biennale

2018 RITE: on this pliant body we slip our WOW! at De La Warr Pavillion

2015 Voicings for Block Universe at Modern Art Oxford, Somerset House

ARTISTS + PERFORMERS

Cameron Armitage

Carolee Schneeman 'Meat Joy'

Donald Judd

Emma Hart

Eve Stainton

Fabian Peake

Igor Sravinsky 'The Rite of Spring'

Gabi Agis

Grayson Duitu

Jo Moran

Jordan McKenzie

Kate Bush

Lee Bowie

Lindsey Kemp

Mercedes Grower

Michael Clarke 'I am a Curious Orange'

Rosemary Butcher

Siobhan Davis Studios

Tai Shani

The Fall

Yvonne Rainer

BOOKS

Juliet Jacques 'Variations' 2021

Carmen Maria Machado 'In the Dreamhouse' 2019

Octavia Butler

Guest author JENNIFER HIGGIE joins JILLIAN KNIPE to discuss her art writing practice via 'Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead' by Olga Tokarczuk. It's a compelling murder mystery set in a small mountainside village in Poland. As Winter caretaker of neighbouring properties, Janina spends her spare time translating the poems of William Blake into Polish with her friend and ex-student Dizzy. 

We talk about how women found agency within the rise of spiritualism, telephoning the dead, art history as a work in progress, tigers of wrath, the golden age of female detective fiction, hanging out in Greece, bridge builders, astrology, precognitive dreams, human cruelty, climate crisis, bad writers, ghosts, eccentricities that make complete sense, taking your brain with all of its complications wherever you go, and Jennifer's passion for histories of exclusion, particularly those of women.

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JENNIFER HIGGIE

jenniferhiggie.com

instagram jennifer_higgie

BOOKS + AUTHORS + PUBLISHERS

Agatha Christie

Annie Besant 'Thought Forms' 1906

Brian Dillon 'Affinities' 2023

Dorothy L Sayers

Fitzcarraldo Editions

Georgio Vasari 'The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects' 1550

Griselda Pollock

Hetty Judah

Jennifer Higgie 'The Other Side: A Journey into Women, Art and the Spirit World' 2023 

Jennifer Higgie 'The Mirror and the Palette' 2021

Jennifer Higgie 'Bedlam' 2006

J M Coetzee 'The Childhood of Jesus' 2013

Katie Hessel

Linda Nochlin

Madame Blavatsky

Margary Allingham

Michael Bracewell 'Unfinished Business' 2023

Orion Publishing Group

Virginia Woolf

William Blake

ARTISTS 

Dean Kenning

Donna Huddleston 'Brighter' 2021

Frances Richardson

Georgiana Houghton

Helen Johnson

Hildagard of Bingen

Hilma af Klint

Homer 'Odyssey' 1614

Kazimir Malovich

Katie Pratt

Margo Neale

Mary Wigman

Paul Klee

Richard Dadd 'The Fairy Fellers Master Stroke' 1855-64

Sarah Lucas

Tracy Emin

Wassily Kandinsky 'Composition V' 1911

GALLERIES + MUSEUMS + CURATORS

Cabaret Voltaire, Zürich 'Dada'

Camden Arts Centre 'Making and Unmaking' 2016

Duo Olowu

Hugh Lane, Dublin

Margo Neale, First Nations Curator, Museum of Australia, Canberra

Modernity, Stockholm

MUMA, Monash University, Melbourne

Simon Lee, London

Tate Britain

Tate Modern 'A Year in Art: Australia 1992'

The Box, Plymouth 'Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters' 

OTHER

BBC3 'The Essay' Jennifer Higgie 'Artists and the Spirit World'

Emanuel Swedenborg

Frieze magazine

Jennifer Higgie scriptwriter 'I Really Hate My Job' 2007

Lucracia Dalt

Marie Curie

Mark Tanner Award

Thomas Edison

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Guest artist KATIE PRATT

joins JILLIAN KNIPE to discuss her work via 'Once in Europa' 1987 by John Berger. As part of the 'Into Our Labours' trilogy, the novel is set in an alpine village and describes grounded charm and limiting isolation against the encroaching industrialisation of urban life.  

We talk about the disorganised surface, organic and geometric, the French Alps, industrial revolution, the mass of strike actions across UK industries right now (and for good reason), a certain lack of idealism, sharing of the planet's resources, how communities might organise themselves, and the myriad of invisible, and often complex systems, that structure our lives and Katie's paintings.

 

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KATIE PRATT

katiepratt.net

instagram katiepratt_artist

'Reverse Parking' curated by Katie Pratt and Peter Lamb, 23 Feb - 12 Mar 2023 Thames-side Studios Main Gallery with Gordon Cheung, Will Cruickshank, Cristallina Fischetti, Oona Grimes, Paul Hosking, Peter Lamb, Katie Pratt

 

BOOKS

'A Painter of Our Time' 1958 John Berger

'Ways of Seeing' 1972 John Berger

'Why Look at Animals' 2009 John Berger

ARTISTS

Andrew Bick

Franz Haus

Jonathan Parsons

Johannes Vermeer

John Bunker 

Jackson Pollock

Lee Krasner

L S Lowry

Matt Dennis

Nan Goldin

Peter Lamb

Rosalind Davis

Vera Mulnár

Wassily Kandinsky

Willem de Kooning

OTHER

'All the Beauty and the Bloodshed' 2022

Guggenheim, New York

'Jean de Florette' 1999

Karl Marx

Tate Galleries, London

Thames-side Gallery and Studios

Turps Painting Course

Victoria & Albert Museum, London

'Ways of Seeing' 1972 BBC

 

 

 

Guest artist ANNA PERACH 

joins ELIZABETH FULLERTON to discuss her work via 'The Victorian Chaise Longue' 1953 by Marghanita Laski. The novel describes the experience of a charming yet childish lawyer's wife who wakes up in the body of her alter-ego eighty years previously. It's a chilling tale of entrapment, which closely links to Anna's sculptural work as she reacts to female stereotypes, trapped in their societal roles, trapped in her tufted wool costumes. 

 

ANNA PERACH

annaperach.com

instagram anna_perach

 

EXHIBITIONS 2022 Summer group show at Hales Gallery  2022 'Eye of the Collector' Cook Latham Gallery  24 Mar - 30 Apr 2022 'Spidora' Edel Assanti  2020 'Tomorrow London' White Cube 2020 'Seven Wives' graduation exhibition at Goldsmiths    ARTISTS Alice Neel  Anousha Payne Dorothea Tanning Leonora Carrington   BOOKS Clarissa Pinkola Estes 'Women who Run with the Wolves' Barbara Creed 'The Monstrous Feminine' Griselda Pollock 'After affects After Images'  Frederico Campanja 'Technic and Magic'   GALLERIES & ORGANISATIONS ADA Gallery, Rome Arco, Madrid ADA, Milan Cook Latham Gallery Goldsmiths College Ingram Art Prize Mother Art Prize Ryder Gallery  

Guest artist PAOLA BALLA

joins Jillian Knipe for this special edition of ART FICTIONS | Culture Exchange which is part of the UK/Australia Season, a partnership between the British Council and the Australian Government’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

Paola and I discuss colonisation in a place widely known as Australia, and its corresponding cost to herself, her family and her extensively long ancestral lineage, via poet Ellen van Neerven's 'Comfort Food' published in 2016.

We dive into Ellen's magically rich text as she describes the simplest of dishes alongside racist cruelty. All with the upper hand of calm reflection and a delicious dollop of sensuality.

Paola is extremely generous in sharing her stories of Indigenous hardship which she relays with clarity, humour and warmth . Our conversation expands on Paola's art practice which includes sculptural installation, curation and academia. We hear of the nature of bush dying and the shocking reality of forced encampment of her people, which continued into recent history. Paola shares her take on the mythological Mok Mok with her wild hair and no underwear, as she serves up well meaning treats in track pants and stilettos. 

 

PAOLA BALLA

paolaballa.art

instagram paola_balla

EXHIBITIONS 

'Treaty' 2021

'Wilam Biik' 2021

WORKS

'Banner Time' 2021

'Murrup (Ghost) Weaving in Rosie Kuka Lar (Grandmother's Camp)' 2021

'Unconditional Love Space' 2020

BOOKS & WRITERS

Ellen van Neerven 'Comfort Food' 

ARTISTS

Vernon Ah Kee

Madeleine Kelly 'Spectra of Birds' 2014-2015

 

 

 

Guest artist INGRID BERTHON-MOINE

joins Elizabeth Fullerton for this special edition of ART FICTIONS | Culture Exchange which is part of the UK/Australia Season, a partnership between the British Council and the Australian Government's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. 

Ingrid and Elizabeth discuss the absurdity of male domination within cultural identity via film maker Virginie Despentes' novel 'Kong Kong Theory' published in French in 2006 and English 2010. A mix of memoir, autobiographical essay and manifesto, Despentes shapes outrage and resilience alike, as she introduces her own experience of being gang raped. The novel pitches capitalist patriarchy as the true villian; exploiting both men and women, forcing us into rigidly codified, disempowering roles and behaviours that serve the unending cycle of global capitalism.

The conversation sharpens with painful, frustrated outrage and bubbles with giggles around the flop, juice, willy and boobies of genitalia. Ingrid describes her strongly feminist art practice that includes men as she probes ideas around masculinity including her 'I Lack it, I Like it' is instagram project in response to the stupidity of Freud's concept of penis envy.

INGRID BERTHON-MOINE

ingridberthonmoine.com

instagram ingridberthonmoine

instragram lackitlikeit

EXHIBITIONS & PROJECTS

'Hand-Held' 2021 co-curated with Holly Stevenson

'Lack It , Like It' ongoing on instagram

'You Tear Us' 2018 solo exhibition at Kelder Projects

'Looking at a Lack of Perspective' 2017

BOOKS, AUTHORS & FURTHER READING

Byung-Chul Han 'The Disappearance of Rituals'

Camille Froidevaux-Metterie

Camille Paglia

Charlotte Perkins Gilman 'Herland'

Grace Jones

Hettie Judah

Eileen Miles

Etel Adnam 

Holly Stevenson

Judy Chicago

Maggie Nelson 'The Argonauts'

Ocean Vuong 'On Earth We are Briefly Gorgeous'

Paul B Preciado 'Testo Junkie'

Sitt Marie Rose

Ursula K Le Guin

Virginie Despentes 'King Kong Theory'

ARTISTS & EXHIBITIONS - mentioned and admired -

Barbara Walker

'Georgia O'Keefe' Centre Pompidou, Paris

'Life Between Islands' Tate Britain

'Magnus Plessen' White Cube

Marcia Michael

'Nicola Tyson' Sadie Coles

'On Hannah Arendt' Richard Saltoun Gallery

Wilma Woolf 'Domestic'

ARTS ORGANISATIONS

Goldsmiths

Mark Tanner Sculpture Award

 

Guest artist MELANIE JACKSON joins artist JILLIAN KNIPE to discuss her art practice via 'Corey Fah Does Social Mobility' by Isabel Waidner. Published in 2023 by Hamish Hamilton, part of Penguin Random House, the novel explores binaries, boundaries and borders, freeing us to imagine other ways of being within the context of award winning social mobility, cyclical history, and watching reality TV. 

MELANIE and Jillian's discussion encompasses shame, humility, apology, gratitude, wormholes, reconfigured animations, cultural disruption, synthetic biology, persistent amnesia, complicated truths, brutalist architecture, unsustained caretaking, industrial metaphysics, winged penises, synthetic biology, false blaming, clashing ideologies, idealistic social housing, nano scale engineering, vulvas on horseback, ridiculing the middle class, colonialisation of language, pig fat in ice cream, what art can do as an experience, and the way histories and future technologies bounce off one another.         

MELANIE JACKSON

@melanie.jjj

melaniejackson.net

'Rouge Flambé'   

'Deeper in the Pyramid | Share of Throat'

'Spekyng Rybawdy'

'The Urpflanze'

ARTISTS + CURATORS + ACADEMICS

Esther Leslie

Ezra Lloyd Jackson

Kirsten Cooke

Nicole Eisenman 'Bambi Gregor' 1993

Olukemi Lijadu

Pelumi Odubanjo

BOOKS + MAGAZINES + WRITERS

Brian Massumi 'What Animals Teach Us About Politics' 2014

Charles Darwin 'On the Origin of the Species' 1859

Eileen Myles 'Afterglow: A Dog Memoir' 2017

Franz Kafka 'The Metamorphosis' 1915

'Frieze' magazine

Goethe 'Die Urplanze' ('The Metamorphosis of Plants') 1829

Isabel Waidner ' Sterling Karat Gold' 2021

Jo Orton

John Lahr 'Prick Up Your Ears' 1978 (film 2007)

EXHIBITIONS + INSTITUTIONS

Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth

Banner Repeater, London

Block 336, London 'Spekyng Rybawdy' 2022

Grand Union, Birmingham

Matt's Gallery, London 'Mattflix'

Max Mara Prize

Jerwood Drawing Prize

San Mei Gallery, London 'Rouge Flambè' 2023

Wellcome Collection, London 'Living with Buildings' 2018-2019

Wellcome Collection, London 'Milk' 2023

Whitechapel Gallery, London

FILM + TELEVISION

'The Nasty Girl' 1990

'Top Boy' 2011-2023

         

                                                 

Guest artist RICHARD AYODEJI IKHIDE

joins Jillian Knipe for this special edition of ART FICTIONS | Culture Exchange which is part of the UK/Australia Season, a partnership between the British Council and the Australian Government’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

Richard and I discuss his disjointed cultural story, via Amos Tutuola's second novel 'The Bush of Ghosts', published in 1954. We follow a young boy, separated from his mother and brother, into a forbidden place of ghostly slavers, violators, friends and foe, as he navigates his way through a foreign land, coming to understand his sense of rightfulness and identity. 

We go on to discuss Richard's formative years in Nigeria, a country whose name itself is stained with the nasty history of colonial subjugation. He speaks of his paternal lineage, steeped in story telling, from an area of the world, rich with artisans and stolen artworks. His world suddenly changes in his teens when he and his brother arrive in the UK to live with his mother. At this point, his own negotiation in a new land begins. 

Our conversation expands on Richard studying drawing and textiles, and researching mythologies, semiotics, rituals, archetypes and visual systems. He describes the courses he's developed at The Royal Drawing School which attempt to inform students about the global lineages of and connections between imagery, representations and artistic practices across different cultures. His observations uncover the unexpected around petroglyphs, nazca lines and stone tablets of the ancient past to glass tablet phones and emojis of the high tech present.

RICHARD AYODEJI IKHIDE

instagram pandagwad

EXHIBITIONS

February 2022 - Galerie Bernhard in Zürich 

WORKS

'Awon Osere' 2020 watercolour and ink on paper

'Contemplating with Effigies' 2020 oil on wood

PODCAST

The Compendium Podcast with Dexter Orszagh 

BOOKS & WRITERS & SCREEN

Alejandro Jodorowsky & Juan Giménez 'The Metabarons' or 'The Saga of the Metabarons'

Alex Grey 'The Mission of Art'

Amos Tutuola 'My Life in the Bush of Ghosts' 

Amos Tutuola 'The Palm Wine Drinkard'

Carl Jung 'Man & His Symbols'

Erich Neumann 'The Origins and History of Consciousness'

Joseph Campbell 'Hero with a Thousand Faces'

'Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myths' Netflix

Simon Blackburn, philosopher

'Spirited Away'

'Tales by Moonlight' Nigerian Television Authority

ARTISTS

El Greco

Giacometti

Giotto

Picasso

William Blake

COUNTRIES & CULTURES & HISTORIES

Ancient Greece

Benin Empire 1440 - 1897

Benin Expedition : Or the Benin Punitive Expedition in February 1897. Invasion of the Kingdom of Benin by the British Empire. After which Benin was absorbed into colonial Nigeria. Approx 2,500 religious artefacts, mnemonics and artworks were taken by Britain, including the Benin Bronzes, then around 40% were given to the British Museum.

Benin Bronzes :  A collection of metal plaques and sculptures created by the Edo people from the 13th century onwards, which once decorated the royal palace of the Kingdom of Benin. Over 1,000 items were taken by the British as part of the Benin Punitive Expedition. 

Biafra War 1967 - 1970 : Civil war between Nigerian government and the Republic of Biafra.

Brazil

Christianity

Cuba

Egypt

Ghana

Ifá gods

Igbo people

Mesoamerica

Nigeria

Sabongida-Ora, Edo state

Yoruba

ARTS ORGANISATIONS

British Museum

Central Saint Martins

National Gallery

The Royal Drawing School

Zabludowicz Collection

 

 

Guest artist NIKA NEELOVA 

joins Jillian Knipe on this special edition of ART FICTIONS | Culture Exchange which is part of the UK/Australia Season, a partnership between the British Council and the Australian Government’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

Nika and I discuss the flow of her cultural story, via poet Rainer Maria Rilke's only novel 'The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge', first published in 1910. We follow Brigge into the depths of the down and out cityscape as he contemplates his fellow street people, acknowledging his urgency to write while being ill-equipped to do so. 

We go on to discuss the constant country hopping of her childhood. Back then, architectural details became more reliable than the passing parade of friends, schools, neighbourhoods and languages. So she now mines these ideas for her studio practice where architectural details are re-purposed and renewed, creating unexpected sculptural forms, drifting back, forth and around in meaning and time.

Our conversation taps into overlapping past and future, finding modes to retrieve, drifting in and out of focus, slipping through time, panic spasms, hypersensitivity, and reality, experience and stories overlapping to become an indiscriminate montage. 

EXHIBITIONS

2022 '(Everything) is Not What it Seems' NITJA Museum, Oslo

25 Nov 2021 - 7 Jan 2022 'b bl b' Garage off-site project, Moscow

10 Nov 2021 - 30 Jan 2022 'Not Painting' Copperfield, London

22 Oct 2021 - Dec 2022 'Silt' Brighton CCA

11 Sep 2021 - 20 Nov 2021  'One of Many Fragments : Edward Allington and Nika Neelova' New Art Centre, Roche Court, Salisbury

NIKA NEELOVA

nikaneelova.com

instagram nikaneelova

ARTISTS

Ana Mendieta

Andrei Tarkovsky (film director)

Barbara Hepworth

Emma Cousin

Eva Hesse

Eva Rothschild

Fra Angelico 

Holly Hendry

Jane Hayes Greenwood

Louise Bourgeois

Phyllida Barlow

Rachel Whiteread

Piero della Francesco

BOOKS & WRITERS

Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing 'The Mushroom at the End of the World'

Annie Ernaux 'The Years'

Donna Haraway 'Staying with the Trouble' 

Edmund de Waal 'The Hare with the Amber Eyes'

Henrik Ibsen (playwright)

Maggie Nelson 'The Argonauts'

Manuel DeLanda 'A Thousand Years of Non-Linear History'

Margaret Atwood 'The Testaments'

Martin Heidegger 'The Basic Problems of Phenomenology'

Max Frisch 'Man in the Holocene'

Jean Paul Sartre 'Nausea'

Ocean Vuong 'On Earth We're Briefly Beautiful'

Rainer Maria Rilke 'The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge' 

Susan Sontag 'The Volcano Lover' 

Tibor Fischer 'The Collector Collector'

Tom McCarthy 'Remainder'

Tom McCarthy 'Satin Island'

Virginia Woolf 'The Waves'

Welcome and Welcome Back to this special edition of ART FICTIONS | Culture Exchange which is part of the UK/Australia Season, a partnership between the British Council and the Australian Government’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.  ART FICTIONS | Culture Exchange will run until the end of March 2022. Elizabeth Fullerton and Jillian Knipe will discuss the artistic practices of our guests in the usual way - through the prism of their selected piece of fiction - though, for CULTURE EXCHANGE, there'll be a particular tilt towards cultural identity : the boundaries, hurdles, opportunities and possibilities which both curb and open up the artist's practice, as a result of their sense of culture being upended or especially challenged in a way that is unique to each life story. 

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Guest artist HOLLY HENDRY

joins ELIZABETH FULLERTON to chat about her work via Tom McCarthy's 2005 novel 'Remainder' in which the nameless narrator must re-learn body movements after a debilitating accident. He is awarded a ridiculous sum in compensation which he uses to re-enact past happenings in microscopic detail, increasingly absurd and violent in nature.

Holly is a lot more pleasant. However, she is also compelled to open up the surface of objects to discover what's inside. How things work. And when that cannot be done physically, it is explored as an idea. 

Elizabeth and Holly discuss her major recent, current and upcoming exhibitions:

Jan 2022 solo exhibition at Stephen Friedman Gallery, London

29 May - 12 Nov 2021 'Invertebrate' De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill

May 2021 - Mar 2023 group exhibition 'Breaking The Mould, Sculpture by Women since 1945 An Arts Council Collection Touring Exhibition, for venues refer to artscouncilcollection.org.uk/exhibition/breaking-mould-sculpture-women-1945

Oct - Mar 2022 group exhibition 'Beano: The Art of Breaking the Rules' Somerset House, London

19 May - 30 Aug 2021 'Indifferent Deep' De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill

Sep 2019 - Apr 2020 'The Dump Is Full of Images' Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield

 

HOLLY HENDRY

hollyhendry.com

instagram h.ollyh.endry

stephenfriedmangallery.com

ARTISTS & DESIGNERS

Andy Holden

Astrida Neimanis

Helen Turner, E-Werk Luckenwalde, Berlin

Isamu Noguchi

Le Corbusier

Louise Bourgeois 

Rebecca Horn

BOOKS & AUTHORS

Albert Camus 'The Stranger'

Beatriz Colomina 'X Rays in Architecture'

Eric Carle 'The Very Hungry Catepillar'

J G Ballard 'The Drowned World'

Maggie Nelson

Miles Orvell 'The Real Thing'

Rebecca Tamas 'Strangers : Essays on the Human and Nonhuman'

Tom McCarthy 'C'

GALLERIES & ASSOCIATES

De La Warr Pavilion

Liverpool Bienniel

Professor Parick Goswami, University of Huddersfield

Royal College of Art

Selfridges

Somerset House

Stephen Friedman Gallery

The Baltic

The International Necronautical Society

Whitehall Fabrications

Yorkshire Sculpture Park

FILMS & PERFORMERS

Buster Keaton

Pauline Oliveros

Robert De Niro

'Who Framed Roger Rabbit?'

 

 

 

Guest artist FIONA GRADY

joins me to chat about her work via Jun'ichirō Tanazaki's 1933 essay 'In Praise of Shadows'. The text describes eastern aesthetics being driven by the west, resulting in the loss of Japanese tradition and the loss of the shadow. 

Fiona Grady and I discuss her own praise of shadows, working with semi translucent colours on glass, wall murals and watercolours which celebrate subtlety, reflection and the elusiveness of the object of which, I'm quite certain, Tanazaki would approve. 

 

FIONA GRADY

fionagrady.co.uk

instagram fiona_grady

'Close to Home: The Everyday Sublime' JGM Gallery til 25 Sep 2021

'Kaleidoscope Prisms' Canary Wharf til end October 2021

'The Factory Project' October 2021

upcoming at The Foundry Gallery 2022

 

ARTISTS & CURATORS

Alfred Hitchcock

Anna Lytridou

Anne Veronica Janssens

Beatriz Milhazes

Ben McDonnell

Bridget Riley

Charley Peters

Daniel Buren

David Batchelor

Eric Thorpe

Félix González-Torres

Fumio Asakura

Gordon Matta-Clark

Hannah Luxton

James Turrell

Jane Hayes Greenwood

Julie F Hill

Linda Hemmersbach 

Nick Stavri

Poppy Whatmore

Sol leWitt

Tim Ralston

Vivienne Maier

Yukako Shibata

 

BOOKS

Haruki Murakami 'Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World' 1985

Leonard Koren 'Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers' 1984

Maggie Nelson 'The Argonauts' 2015

 

GALLERIES & ART ORGANISATIONS

Artist's Support Pledge

Asakura Museum of Sculpture

Bauhaus

Derix Glasstudios, Germany

JGM Gallery, London

Kevin Gauld Architecture

Leeds Arts University

Nightingale Arts

'Passengers' Residency, The Brunswick Centre

Projekt

Recreational Grounds

Sid Motion Gallery

The Art Station, Suffolk

The Foundry Gallery

White Conduit Projects, London

Guest artist HANNAH HUGHES 

joins ELIZABETH FULLERTON to chat about her work via Virginia Woolf's 1931 novel 'The Waves'. Not so much a story as a stream (or perhaps, more accurately, a wave) of consciousness, the book is classified as an experimental fiction. It describes the thoughts of six characters through soliloquies, whose lives all pivot around the muted Percival. 

Hannah and Elizabeth then open up the artist's practice as collages, cuts and slide-throughs of shadowy forms and real edges. They track how shapes are formed from in-between spaces around objects and the body, how multiple processes distance the form from its source, the invention of visual language and the importance of fragmentations which create a sense of the whole.

ARTISTS 

Al Loving Ana Mendieta Eva Hesse Trisha Brown Yvonne Rainer   BOOKS   Amy Sillman 'The Shape of Shape' 2019 zine and MoMA exhibition Hilma Af Klimt 'Notes and Methods' 2018 Jess Chandler, Aimee Selby, Hana Noorali & Lynton Talbot, published by Prototype (editors) 'Intertitles: An anthology at the intersection of writing and visual art' 2021 Marina Abramovic 'Walk Through Walls' 2017 Roxana Robinson 'Georgia O’Keeffe: A Life' 1999 Yvonne Rainer 'Feelings Are Facts' 2016   PODCASTS   'Talk Art' Russell Tovey and Robert Diamant 'Chats with Artists in Lockdown' Emma Cousins 'Sound and Vision' Brian Alfred 'Great Women Artists' Katy Hessel   GALLERIES   Sid Motion Gallery    

 

 

Guest artist LUKE BURTON

joins me to chat about his work via Ben Lerner's 2019 novel 'The Topeka School'. The story revolves around Adam Gordon and his parents, and the ambivalence of language as both a pathway to reparation and a driving force towards violence. 

Luke Burton and I go on to discuss his own ambivalence, working with and against male and masculine archetypes in Western art. We acknowledge the ability of psychotherapy to excavate knowledge you didn't previous have about yourself, the selective access to language, the aggression within public rhetoric and language as spells. 

LUKE BURTON

lukeburton.tumblr.com

bosseandbaum.com/artists/luke-burton

instagram luke_p_burton

'Impossible Weather' solo exhibition 2020 Bosse and Baum

'The Artist Oracle' Sep 2021 White Crypt

ARTISTS & ARTWORK

Coptic Textiles

Donald Judd

Hans Holbein the Younger

Lee Krasner

Neil Cummings

'Rebel Without A Cause' 1955 film

BOOKS & WRITERS

Adam Phillips 'Attention Seeking' 2019

Ben Lerner 'Leaving the Atocha Station' 2011

Ben Lerner '10:04' 2014

Ben Lerner 'Contest of Words' Harper's Magazine 2016

Harriet Lerner, clinical psychologist and author

Isabel Hardman 'Why We Get the Wrong Politicians' 2018

Lidija Haas 'The Guardian' 4 Nov 2019

Owen Jones 'The Grammar of Ornament' 1856

Rachel Kusk 'Outline' 2014 'Transit' 2016 'Kudos' 2018

GALLERIES & ORGANISATIONS

Barbican Gallery, London

Girton College, University of Cambridge 

Victoria and Albert Museum V&A

 

 

 

 

 

Guest artist KAREN McLEAN

joins Elizabeth Fullerton to chat about her work via Colson Whitehead's 2016 novel 'The Underground Railroad' published by Doubleday. The historical fiction tells of 19th century slaves Cora and Caesar and their attempts to escape to freedom in America's south west.

 

Starting with her intensely researched art practice, Karen McLean and Elizabeth explore stories of rebellion and suffering amongst individuals and the collective, including female power, body ownership, intergenerational identity, mental illness and a vast knowledge of plants used as a method of resistance. They also delve into the structural legacies created by the sugar, cotton and indigo industries; colonialism, covert operations, syncretic religions, and the rise of the blue devil.

 

(This episode is co-produced by Jillian Knipe and Elizabeth Fullerton with music by Griffin Knipe and image by Joanna Quinn of Beryl Productions)

 

KAREN McLEAN

instagram karenmclean_art

karenmclean.co.uk

'Blue Power' 2021 Block 336

'Ar'n't I A Woman' 2021 Block 336

'The Precariat' 2017 Lewisham Arthouse

ARTISTS

Anish Kapoor

Donald Judd

Doris Salcedo

El Anatsui

Eva Hesse 'Contingent' 1968

Gees Bend Quiltmakers, Alabama

Ibrahim Mahama

Joseph Beuys

Kara Walker

Louise Bourgeois

Paul Goodwin

Sheila Gowda

Teresa Margolles

Theaster Gates

Tracey Emin

BOOKS ACTIVISTS THEORISTS

Alan Krell 'The Devil's Rope: A Cultural History of Barbed Wire' 2002

Alice Walker 'Everyday Use' 1973

Bell Hooks 'Ain't I A Woman: Black Women and Feminism' 1981

Deborah Grey White 'Ar'n't I A Woman' 1985

Edward Said (Professor of Literature, Columbia University)

Emily Zobel Marshall 'Anansi's Journey: A Story of Jamaican Cultural Resistance' 2012

Harriet Tubman, 'Harriet' film 2019

Hilary Beckles 'Natural Rebels' 1989

Homi Bhabha 'Of Mimicry and Man: The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse' 1984

Jacques Lacan (psychoanalyst)

Sojourner Truth (abolotionist, women's rights activist) 'Ain't I A Woman' speech 1851

Toni Morrison 'Beloved' 1987

GALLERIES LOCATIONS RESOURCES

Afterprojects, Julie Bentley

Birmingham City University

Black Cultural Archives, Brixton UK

Block 336, Brixton UK

Gees Bend Quilting Retreat

Goldsmiths University of London UK

King's Cross Station, London UK

Shakespeare's House, Stratford UK

The Gale Plantation, Jamaica, Caribbean

The New Art Gallery, Walsall UK

The Steamhouse, Birmingham UK

Trinidad & Tobago, Caribbean

 

 

Guest artist DEAN KENNING

joins me to chat about his work via John Maxwell Coetzee's 2013 allegorical novel 'The Childhood of Jesus'. The story revolves around five year old David with his father-by-default Símon, on their quest to find a mother for the boy and a better life for the three of them. 

Winner of this year's prestigious Mark Tanner Sculpture Award, Dean Kenning, and I go on to discuss his clunky sculptures, social body-mind maps and his philosophical mish mash 'Metallurgy of the Subject'. We delve into the cracks between the flatness to explore ideas around satire, proliferation, bad infinity, socialist utopia, universal modes of seeing the world, common language, allegorical imagery, the importance of the father, avoidance of composition, a dislike for kinetic work, redundant technology, history as a bloody struggle and poo in sausages.

 

(This episode is produced by Jillian Knipe with music by Griffin Knipe and image by Joanna Quinn of Beryl Productions)

 

DEAN KENNING

deankenning.com

instagram Dean Kenning notfairbear

'The Origin of Life' 2019

'Psychobotanical' 2019 Matt's Gallery

'Renaissance Man' 2017

'Metallurgy of the Subject' ongoing

 

ARTISTS

Antony Gormley 'Angel of the North' 1998

David Bowie (musician)

Emma Cousin 'Chats in Lockdown' podcast

English Heretic (musicians)

Hieronymus Bosch

Kiki Smith 'Her Memory' Fundació Joan Miró

Leonardo da Vinci 'Vitruvian Man'

Paul McCarthy 'Painter' 1995

 

BOOKS & THEORISTS

Benjamin Markovits (writer)

C L R James 'The Black Jacobins' 1938

Colm Tóibín 'The Testament of Mary' 2012

Franz Schubert (composer)

Immanuel Kant (philosopher)

J M Coetzee 'Disgrace' 1999

J M Coetzee 'Waiting for the Barbarians' 1980

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 'Erlkönig' 1782

Jacques Lacan (psychoanalyist)

Jean Fisher (professor, art critic, writer)

Jean-Luc Nancy 'The Inoperative Community' 1986

John Roberts (philosopher) 'Dean Kenning's Kinetics' 2019

Jorge Luis Borges 'Three Versions of Judas' 1944

Joyce Carol Oates 'My Life as a Rat' 2019

Karl Marx

Kazuo Ishiguro 'The Buried Giant' 2015

Plato 'Republic' 375BC

Russell Hoban 'Riddley Walker' 1980

Susan Buck-Morss (professor, philosopher, historian)

William Burrows (writer)

William Morris 'Useful Work versus Useless Toil' 1885

Walter Benjamin (philosopher)

William Playfair (engineer)

 

TELEVISION

'Day of the Triffids' from 1981 

'Dr Who' from 1963

Kenny Everett

 

Guest artist KATE MccGWIRE

joins Elizabeth Fullerton to chat about her work via American wildlife scientist Delia Owens' 2018 novel 'Where the Crawdads Sing'. In an ode to the beauty and violence of nature, the story centres around wild "marsh girl" Kya Clark. Abandoned and isolated from childhood, young Kya relies on nature to teach her the basics of survival as well as deluding her that one day she will be rescued. Interaction with other humans provides a whole different set of support and threatening challenges. 

 

Identifying with Kya's barefoot 'n' wild soul, Kate MccGwire and Elizabeth Fullerton share stories of herons, crows, eagles, magpies, blackbirds, turkeys, pheasants, tropicbirds and the confounding snobbiness around pigeons and doves who are both part of the Columbidae family. They go on to explore snakes, oozing, gushing, skin, bones, intestines and scrotum' as well as darkness, resilience, rapture, seductions, repulsion, calm, turbulence, obsessiveness, working intensely, choir singing and Kate achieving a distinction for her dissertation at the Royal College despite being dyslexic. 

 

(This episode is co-produced by Jillian Knipe and Elizabeth Fullerton with music by Griffin Knipe and image by Joanna Quinn of Beryl Productions)

 

KATE MccGWIRE

katemccgwire.com

instagram kate_mccgwire

'Cavort' 2020

'Sluice' 2009

'Sominal' 2019

 

ARTISTS & DESIGNERS & PERFORMERS

Akram Khan

Berlinde de Bruyckere

Doris Salcedo

Eva Hesse

Helen Chadwick

Helmut Lang

Hermès

Lancelot 'Capability' Brown

Mona Hatoum

Robert Adam 

Thomas Chippendale

 

BOOKS

Annie Proulx 'Barkskins' 2016

Douglas Stuart 'Shuggie Bain' 2020

Khaled Hosseini 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' 2007

Margaret Atwood 'Dearly: Poems' 2020

Tim Winton 'The Shepherd’s Hut' 2018

 

GALLERIES & ART DESTINATIONS

Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire 

Grand Palais Éphémère 'Art Paris' 2021 contemporary art fair

Harewood House, Leeds

The Lowry, Manchester

 

SERIES

'It’s a Sin' written by Russel T Davies

 

MUSIC

Benjamin Britten 'Peter Grimes' 1945

Henry Purcell 'Hear my prayer, O Lord' 1682

Henry Purcell 'Lord, How Long Wilt Thou Be Angry'

 

 

 

Guest writer and filmmaker JULIET JACQUES joins artist and writer JILLIAN KNIPE to discuss her creative practice via 'Variations' 2021 by the one and only Juliet herself. Published in 2021 by Influx Press, this book of short stories portrays the mixed, messy and moving lives of transexual women transexual men, non binary, gender queer, cross dressers and inverts, around London, Manchester, Liverpool, Blackpool, Brighton, Belfast, Cardiff and Norwich.

 

Juliet and Jillian focus on 'Standards of Care' and also discuss humour, poverty, divorce, testosterone, rainbow capitalism, fake tits, ink blot tests, electric shock therapy, alternative Miss World, punk rock gender play, friendship in the face of prejudice, making objects that cannot be sold, itchy balls of wool for breasts, fresh meat advertising slogan, interest in post communist countries, the importance of questioning how people pay the rent and the disappointment of greater understanding not necessarily bringing about greater tolerance.

 

JULIET JACQUES

julietjacques.com

'Monaco' Toothgrinder Press 2023

'Variations' Influx Press 2021

'Trans: A Memoir' Verso Books 2015

'Transgender Journey' 2010-2012 The Guardian

'Suite 212' 2017-2021 Resonance FM

'Revivification: Art, Activism and Politics in Ukraine' 2018

 

ARTISTS

Boris Mikilov

Cecilia Sjoholm

David Goymer

Deborah Tchoudjinoff

Garth Gatrix

Hatty Buchanan

Iain Hales

Laura Moreton-Griffiths

 

WRITERS

Susan Stryker 'Transgender History' 2008

 

MUSIC

Genesis

Joy Division

Man Enough to be A Woman (Jayne County)

New York Dolls

NME magazine

Sex Pistols

Siouxsie and the Banshees

Siouxsie Sioux 

The Fall

The Roxy

Wayne County and The Electric Chairs

 

FILM + TV

Adam Curtis 'Can't Get You Out of my Head' series 2021 BBC

Bill Grundy 'Today' 1968-1977

Derek Jarman 'Jubilee' 1978

Hattie Jacques 'Carry On' series 1958-1992

Oksana Kazmina, camera and editor

Josh Appignanesi 'Female Human Animal' 2018

 

EDUCATION + INSTITUTIONS

ICA London

Somerset House Studios

The Royal College

 

POLITICS + MOVEMENTS

Black Lives Matter

Femen 2008 Ukraine founded by Anna Hutsol, Alexandra Shevchenko, Oksana Shachko

Gay Liberation Front

Margaret Thatcher for Section 28

Revolution of Dignity 18-23 Feb 2014 Ukraine

ReSew - Kyiv based feminist sewing cooperative

Viktor Yanukovych

Guest artist FIONA CURRAN 

 

joins me to chat about her work via Esther Kinsky's 2020 novel 'Grove : A Field Guide'. The story is directed by a narrator who takes a trip to a village on the outskirts of Rome which was supposed to be an adventure with her recently deceased partner. 

Fiona and I go on to discuss how the work of her current solo exhibition developed during lockdown and a nasty bout of covid, as well as an earlier, major outdoor installation. We expand on landscape as a character, contemporary poetry, a balance of bleak and beauty, loss of identity through grief, looking for solace in the landscape, loving everything Italian, beyond the optical, seduction of the screen, the colour blue, extreme fatigue, memory flooding into the present, sanitisation of nature, resurfacing, fragmentation, aimlessness, hovering, disorientation and losing a sense of self. 

 

(This episode is produced by Jillian Knipe with music by Griffin Knipe and image by Joanna Quinn of Beryl Productions)

 

FIONA CURRAN 

fionacurran.co.uk

instagram fiona_curran

'Jump Cut, Still Life' solo exhibition at Broadway Gallery

'Your Sweetest Empire is to Please' outdoor installation at Gibson Estate

 

ARTISTS

Anna Maria Garthwaite

Anni Albers

Florence Peake

Fra Angelico

Gunta Stöltzl

Hannah Luxton

Hélio Oticica

Henri Matisse

Lindsay Seers

Lygia Clark

Lygia Pape

Mary Heilman

Raoul De Keyser

Sonia Delaunay

 

BOOKS

Anne Truitt 'Daybook : The Journal of an Artist' 1982

Esther Kinsky 'River' 2014

Jeremy Cooper 'Bolt from the Blue' 2021

Joanne Kyger 'The Japan and India Journals 1960-1964' 1981

Linda J Lear 'Rachel Carson : Witness for Nature' 1994

Rachel Carson 'Silent Spring' 1962

Rebecca Solnit 'A Field Guide to Getting Lost' 2005

 

GALLERIES

Bosse & Baum

Broadway Gallery, Letchworth

 

THEORISTS & BOTANY

Gibside Estate

Kew Gardens

Mary Eleanor Bows 1749-1800

Mary Wollstonecroft 1759-1797

Paul Virilio 1932-2018

 

FILM

Michelangelo Antonioni 'Red Desert' 1964 starring Monica Vitti

Pier Paolo Pasolini 'The Hawks and the Sparrows' 1966 'Notes Towards and African Orestes' 1970

Guest artist LINDSAY SEERS 

 

joins Elizabeth Fullerton to chat about her work via Russell Hoban's 1980 novel 'Riddley Walker'. A child of sorts in a futurist, post-nuclear explosion setting which harks back to the iron age, far from walking, the narrator Riddley is on the run. His patriarchal heritage has deemed him 'connexion man' and alongside his role of puppeteer, interpreter and propaganda pusher, Riddley begins to uncover the truth of past cleverness which is officially prohibited under religious conjecture. He throws himself to the dogs and together they journey through danger and forbidden knowledge in a story held together by a fragmented new language.

 

Layering ideas and various time zones, Lindsay Seers and Elizabeth Fullerton explore imposter syndrome, hunger for power, problems with articulation, excess of language, confusion, the puppet who overwhelms the puppetmaster, the search for new forms of artwork, becoming a camera, character instability, non normative brains, compassion, discomfort, connections, coincidences, blips, misunderstandings, signs, traces, unknown causes, unknown effects, mass hallucination, states of becoming, constant evolution, multitude of narratives, grand historical narratives, personal history, quantum theory, quantum biology, metaphysics, unified consciousness, the impossibility of identifying origin, and eye gouging.

 

(This episode is co-produced by Jillian Knipe and Elizabeth Fullerton with music by Griffin Knipe and image by Joanna Quinn of Beryl Productions)

 

LINDSAY SEERS

lindsayseers.info

instagram lindsayseers1

'Entangled'

'Every Thought There Ever Was'

'Nowhere Less Now' 

 

The following references are mentioned on Podcast Episode 22 or suggested by guest artist Lindsay Seers : 

 

AUTHORS & BOOKS 

Anthony Burgess 'A Clockwork Orange' 1962

Arto Paasilinna

Brian Massumi 'What Animals Teach Us About Politics' 2017

EE Cummings

Frances Yates

Gerard Manley Hopkins

James Joyce

Jim Al-KKhalili & Johnjoe McFadden 'Life on the Edge : The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology' 2014

Jeremy Cooper 'Bolt From the Blue' 2021

Kevin Breathnach 'Tunnel Vision' 2019

Lindsay Seers 'Human Camera' 2007

T S Eliot

Virginia Woolf

 

THEORISTS

Benjamin Libet - Libet's Clock

Carl Jung, psychiatrist

Giles Deuleuze

Henri Bergson

Jacques Lacan, psychoanalyst

John Dee

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Samuel Barclay Beckett, novelist and playwright

 

ARTISTS & GALLERIES & ART ORGS

Artangel

Derek Jarman 'Jubilee' 1978

Ewerk, Berlin

Fabrica Gallery, Brighton UK

Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea UK

Hospitalfield Gallery, Arbroath, Scotland UK

Ikon Gallery, Birmingham UK

John Hansard Gallery, Southampton UK

MONA (Tasmania), Australia

Nine Elms site, Matt's Gallery, London UK

Robin Klassnik, Matt's Gallery, London UK

Sharha Art Foundation, UAE

Sursock Museum, Lebanon

Tate, London UK

 

TELEVISION & FILM

Everything by Adam Curtis (English documentary filmaker)

'The Bridge' series 2011

'The Fly' film series

'The Quartermass Experiment' series 1953

'Twin Peaks' series 1990

'Twin Peaks : The Return' series 2020

 

 

Guest artist LIZ ELTON

joins me to chat about her work via Max Porter's 2019 novel 'Lanny'. The story revolves around a young boy named Lanny and his disappearance in the setting of an English village bordered by a forest. Little lad Lanny is as captivating as his author's ability to envelope us deep within the seams of the village's social and ecological networks, where Dead Papa Toothwort oversees all, over all time. 

 

Bouncing off nature and infinite ephemerality, Liz and I go on to discuss her work selected for the John Moores Painting Prize as well as her upcoming residency with the Mark Rothko Memorial Trust. We talk of the constant state of becoming, nourishment, self care, delicate touch, bruising, translucency, landscape, lightness, mortality, composting, ritual, recycling, equality, silk thread, internal shadows, wastage, potential, breakdown, food labour and that fragile layer of soil on which all life depends connecting with our own skin.

 

(This episode is co-produced by Jillian Knipe and Elizabeth Fullerton with music by Griffin Knipe and image by Joanna Quinn of Beryl Productions)

 

LIZ ELTON 

lizelton.com

instagram liz_elton

'John Moores Painting Prize' exhibition at Walker Art Gallery

'Flowers of Romance' group exhibition at White Conduit Projects

 

ARTISTS

Alice McCabe

Allyson Keehan, curator

Angela de la Cruz

Dillwyn Smith

Din Q Lê 'The Colony' 2016

Eliza Bennett

Elizabeth Murton

Eric Ravilious

Francisco Goya

Jem Finer 'Longplayer' at Trinity Buoy Wharf, longplayer.org

Johannes Vermeer 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' 1665

Julie F Hill

Katharina Grosse

Mark Rothko

Michael Landy 'Breakdown' 2001

Michelangelo 'Pieta' ('The Pity') 1498-1499

Paul Bramley, curator

Sam Gilliam

Sarah Pager

William Dyce 'Pegwell Bay, Kent - a Recollection of October 5th 1858' 1858

Yves Klein

 

AUTHORS & BOOKS

Anna Souter 'Vegetate Project'

Anna Tsing 'The Mushroom at the end of the World' 2015

Charlotte Higgins on Michael Landy, 'The Guardian' 27 Jan 2021

Clive King 'Stig of the Dump' 1963

Donna Haraway

Frances Hodgson Burnett 'The Secret Garden' 1911

Jane Bennett 'Vibrant Matter : A Political Ecology of Things' 2009

Merlin Sheldrake 'Entangled Life : How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures' 2020 

Norman Bryson 'Looking at the Overlooked' 1990

Robin Wall Kimmerer

Steven Connor 'The Book of Skin' 2004

Sue Stuart-Smith 'The Well Gardened Mind' 2020

T S Eliot 'Burnt Norton' 1935

Thomas Hardy

Thomas Piketty 'Capital in the Twenty-First Century' 2013

Tim Dee 'Landfill' 2018

Timothy Morton 'Being Ecological' 2018

Tracy Chevalier 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' 1999

 

GALLERIES

163 Gallery, London, juliebentley.co.uk

South London Gallery

Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

White Conduit Projects, London

 

FILM & TELEVISION & RADIO

'Girl with a Pearl Earring' 2003, director Peter Webber

'Princess Mononoke' 2001, director Hayao Miyazaki

'The Archers' 1950-ongoing BBC Radio 4

 

PLACES

Belarus

Chew Valley Lake, Somerset UK

Harris, Outer Hebrides Scotland UK

Latvia

Lithuania

Maeshowe, Orkney Scotland UK

Pegwell Bay, UK

Ring of Brodgar, Orkney Scotland UK

St Kilda, archipelago off Scotland UK

 

OTHER

A P Fitzpatrick Fine Art Materials

Artangel 

Mark Rothko Memorial Fund

Maye E Bruce, inventor of 'Quick Return' compost system 1935

Slade School of Fine Art

Wimbledon School of Art

Guest artist MILLY PECK

joins me to chat about her work via Alan Ayckbourn's play 'Taking Steps - A Farce'. Published in 1981 by Haydonning Ltd and first performed at Stephen Joseph Theatre in 1979, the story revolves around a Victorian manor house in faltering disrepair. While the characters upstairs and downstairs their way around three storeys, the play is actually performed on only one floor so that various scenes interact simultaneously. It's then a cacophony of mishaps, misunderstandings and misdirections. Elizabeth wants to leave Roland. Roland wants to buy this tremendous house from Leslie for Elizabeth. Mark wants to marry Kitty. Kitty wants to leave Mark. Tristram, the junior solicitor, is just utterly confused about what's happening and where and by whom, and if all those strange noises are thanks to a resident ghost. 

 

Milly and I go on to discuss her solo exhibitions, most recently at Vitrine Gallery in Basel, her upcoming residency at British School at Rome and all the work inbetween. Mentions go to foley sound production, the physicality of the stage, playing with dimensions, scale, collage, flattening, inflating, puppeteers, backstage antics, confusing performance with reality, implicating the audience, dark elements shrouded in comedy, hands in gloves, hand in black and hands holding celery. 

 

(This episode is co-produced by Jillian Knipe and Elizabeth Fullerton with music by Griffin Knipe and image by Joanna Quinn of Beryl Productions)

 

MILLY PECK

millypeck.com

instagram millypeck

'A Matter of Routine' Vitrine Gallery Basel solo exhibition 

'Loud Knock' Matts Gallery solo exhibition

'Pressure Head' Assembly Point solo exhibition

Works mentioned: 'Alight', 'Moquette', 'The Unforgiving Hour', 'Straphangers'

 

ARTISTS

Amelia Barrett (performer at Milly's solo exhibition at Assembly Point)

Andrea Montagne

Art Green

Edward Hopper

Emma Cousin ('Chats in Lockdown' podcast host)

Jordan Baseman (Royal College tutor and Art Fictions Episode 10)

Konrad Klapheck

Nick Mauss

Steve McQueen ('Deadpan' 1997)

William Hogarth ('A Rake's Progress' 1732-1734)

 

ACTORS & DIRECTORS

Bong Joon-ho (South Korean director, screenwriter, producer)

Buster Keaton (silent movies)

Charlie Kaufman (American screenwriter, producer, director, novelist)

David Thewlis

Imelda Staunton 

Mark Ruffalo

Robin Herford (British Theatre Director)

Sir Matthew Bourne OBE (choreographer)

Toby Jones 

 

GALLERIES & THEATRES

Assembly Point, London 

Goldsmiths CCA, London ('Solos' 2020, 'How! Chicago Imagists' 2019)

Kunsthalle, Basel Switzerland

Little Angel Theatre, Islington London

Matt's Gallery, London

National Theatre Archives

Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford UK

Sir John Soane's Museum, London

Stephen Joseph Theatre in the Round, Scarborough UK

Vitrine Gallery, London and Basel Switzerland

 

PLAYS

'A Chorus of Disapproval'

'Fantastic Mr Fox'

'House and Garden' (Alan Ayckbourn dyptich)

'Mr What Not' (Alan Ayckbourn, where the central character does not speak and, otherwise, there is speech and sound)

'Noises Off'

'Relatively Speaking' (Alan Ayckbourn)

'The Red Shoes'

 

BOOKS & MAGAZINES

'American Zoo: A Sociological Safari' 2015 David Grazien

'Frieze' magazine (review by Kito Nedo 2 Dec 2020)

'Feel Free' 2018 Zadie Smith

 

FILMS

'Anomalisa' 2015

'Berbarian Sound Studio' 2012 (also performed at Donmar Warehouse)

'Birdman: The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance' 2014 

'Dark Waters' 2019

'Snowpiercer' 2013 (based on French graphic novel 'Le Transperceneige' by Jacques Lob, Benjamin Legrand and Jean-Marc Rochette)

'Steamboat Bill Junior' 1928

 

Join this year's guest host Elizabeth Fullerton and myself as we map out what's happening with Art Fictions this year, including Culture Exchange, Elizabeth's book on the YBAs, 24 Hour Hitchcock, psychiatric illness, fragmented compositions, personal and environmental narratives, sexuality, gender, race, queer, cis, boobs and cupcakes ! 

instagram artfictions2020 and jillianknipe2020

website jillianknipe.co.uk

instagram elizabethfullerton

website elizabethfullerton.co.uk

 

ARTISTS, BOOKS, GALLERIES

'ArtRage : The Story of the Brit Art Revolution' 2016 hardback with paperback due out Autumn 2021

Christina Quarles

Douglas Gordon

Jane Wilson

Laura Owens

Louise Wilson

Pilar Corrias

'Studio International' magazine

Thames & Hudson

American artist Cecilia Charlton selects two short stories by Italo Calvino: 'A Sign in Space' and 'The Origin of the Birds'. Both stories focus on the very inception of what comes into being and what we now take for granted - signs/signals/artworks as well as birds/the other/evolutionary rejects. All the while, 'A Sign in Space' draws extraordinary parallels with an art practice. From the anxieties of creating something new to the egotistic punchiness of asserting authenticity, we join Qfwfa who journeys throughout space and time, pontificating on what it is to create and leave a mark in the world of one's existence. Likewise, 'The Origin of the Birds' focuses on the start of beginnings. In this story, Qfwfa narrates his (his?) adventures into the void to discover and embrace the evolutionary rejects as part of his ancestry and presence, particularly their leader Queen Or with whom he is besotted. 

'A Sign in Space' appeared in 'Cosmicomics' in 1965 while 'The Origin of the Birds' was first published in ‘t zero’ 1967. Both stories feature in ‘The Complete Cosmicomics’ comprising 'Cosmicomics' and 't zero' plus other stories published 2009. 

 

CECILIA CHARLTON

ceciliacharlton.com

instagram ceciliacharlton

 

BOOKS IDEAS WRITERS 

'A Room of One's Own' 1929, Virginia Woolf

'Against Interpretation' 1966, Susan Sontag

'Agnes Martin' 2015, Tate 

'Brave New World' 1932, Aldous Huxley

Jane Austen

'No One Belongs Here More Than You' 2007 Miranda July 

Gabriel Garcia Marquez 'Eyes of a Blue Dog' 1947, 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' 1967, 'The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World' 1968 co-author Hernan Diaz

'The World of Ornament' 2006, Auguste Racinet and M Dupont-Auberville

The concept of multiple discovery

'The Sixteen Trees of the Somme' 2014 Lars Mytting

Three Fates from Greek mythology

William Beebe, American naturalist, ornithologist, marine biologist, entomologist, explorer, and author

William Weaver, Italo Calvino's translator

'Women's Work: A Personal Reckoning with Labour, Motherhood and Privilege' 2019, Megan K Stack

 

ARTISTS CURATORS GALLERIES

Alison Jacques Gallery London, 'The Gees Bend Quiltmakers' in partnership with the Souls Grow Deep Foundation, a non-profit organisation dedicated to the preservation and promotion of the contributions of African American artists from the Southern states, 20 Dec 2020 - 6 Feb 2021

Anni Albers

Agnes Martin 'Words' 1961

Dolly Parton

Hannah Brown 'Art Fictions' Episode 17, 9 Dec 2020

Helen Frankenthaler

Hilma Af Klimt

Lee Krasner

London Art Fair, 'Platform' focus on folk art londonartfair.co.uk/fair-programme/platform, 20-31 Jan 2021

Nicolaus Schafhausen, 'Der Speigel' 2013, resigned as Director of Kunsthalle Wein 2019

Robert Rauschenberg 'Erased de Kooning Drawing' 1963

Sheila Hicks

Turner Contemporary Margate, 'We Will Walk: Art and Resistance in the American South' curated by Hannah Collins and Paul Goodwin, 7 Feb - 6 Sep 2020 

Willem de Kooning

Hannah Brown selects the small but beautiful poem by WH Auden ‘As I Walked Out One Evening'. Written in 1937, it is preoccupied with questions of the eternal, focussing on love versus time. It travels through younger days and the excitement of new loves to a more settled life, when kisses are replaced by health, when the focus of wondering is on how things may have been different and culminates in one’s final moments.

HANNAH BROWN

hannahbrown.co.uk

Hannah Brown, confirmed British landscape painter, introduces us to her love of fiction, reading excerpts from her selected poem. In our discussion she relays the importance of fiction, giving up television, sudden changes brought about by lockdown, connections between a time of world wars and the global pandemic, the range of experiences for those of us untouched by illness, missing friends, the blow up of Black Lives Matter and the sense of powerlessness when it comes to the changes needed for the wellbeing of our planet. She describes her art practice, detailing the witnessing of changes in the landscape from the west country to East London, what makes a site compelling for a landscape painter, how the presence of human life is portrayed without figures, the sublime tinged with fear, staying true to one’s own temperament and passion, being genuine and authentic, attempts to domesticate nature and how she cried when Victoria Park was closed to the public.

Together we wonder is love eternal or only time? Is it sudden endings which punctuate time, leading to its reassertion as a pivotal marker in our lives? Can we rely on nature itself to continue or is this also a thing of the past? When we look about, how much do we really see that is present and how much is imposed from our childhood past? Is the end of young love depressing or is it a relief to grow up and worry about a pension? Will worry take over our conscious life as it slips away? Is having less time a better condition for decisiveness? For taking risks in the studio? Is seeing less exhibitions better for looking more thoroughly?  

FEMALE BRITISH WRITERS around the time of THE AUDEN GROUP and The Great War!

Alice Meynell 1847-1922

Cicily Isabel Fairfield 1892-1983

Jessie Pope 1868-1941

Millicent Garrett Fawcett 1847-1929

Margaret Sackville 1881-1963

Margaret Postaget Cole 1893-1980

May Wedderburn Cannan 1893-1973

Rose MaCaulay 1881-1958

Vera Brittain 1893-1970

 

BOOKS

‘A God in Ruins’ 2015 by Kate Atkinson

‘After the End’ 2019 by Clare MacIntosh

‘Girl, Woman, Other’ 2019 by Bernardine Evaristo

‘My Dark Vanessa’ by Kate Elizabeth Russell 2020

‘Nobody Told Me: poetry and Parenthood’ 2016 by Hollie McNish

 ‘Patrick Melrose’ 2016 by Edward St Aubyn

‘Take Nothing with You’ 2018 and ‘Notes From an Exhibition’ 2007 by Patrick Gale

‘Queenie’ 2019 by Candice Carty-Williams

Robert Goddard

 

ARTISTS & GALLERIES & DESIGNERS

‘Ambit’ magazine

Ansel Adams

Ellen Altfest

‘Forest, Rocks, Torrents: Norwegian and Swiss Landscapes from the Lunde Collection’, 2011, The National Gallery

George Shaw

Graeme Sutherland

Guy Oliver

Jerwood FVU Awards

John Constable

John Everett Millais, Ophelia’ 1852

John William Waterhouse, ‘The Lady of Shalott’ 1888

Liberty

Paul Nash

Reman Sadani, ‘Walkout 1’ 2020

Samuel Palmer

The John Moores Painting Prize, Walker Art Gallery Liverpool, 12 Feb – 27 June 2021

Union Gallery

White Cube, ‘In the Studio’

William Morris

Daniel Sturgis selects two books by American author Nicholson Baker - his first novel 'The Mezzanine' published in 1988 and 'Room Temperature' in 1990. Both portray the mindful meanderings of the protagonist, from tender moments to an astonishing level of detail, often with a good dollop of amusement. In 'The Mezzanine', we spend a lunch hour with Howie as he fixates on the micro-details of staplers, Scotch tape, escalators and an assortment of other office paraphernalia, as well as his family, returning continually to his astonishment that both his shoelaces have broken within days of one another. 'Room Temperature' takes place across a mere 20 minutes as Howie recalls a series of domestic specifics, largely around his wife Patty, as he nurses their baby Bug.

 

DANIEL STURGIS

danielsturgis.co.uk

 

BOOKS, WRITERS, SCREEN

'A Mark on the Wall' 1917 Virginia Woolf

'Fly' 2010 Season 3, Episode 10 from 'Breaking Bad'

'City Poet: The Life and Times of Frank O'Hara' 1993 by Brad Gooch

'The Diary of a Nobody' 1892 George and Weedon Grossmith 

'Great Expectations' 1860 by Charles Dickens

John Updike

'Mr Bean' series 1990 starring Rowan Atkinson

'No Lab: A Novel' 2019 by Richard Roth 

'The Journal of a Disappointed Man' 1919 by W. N. P. Barbellion

Paul Auster

 

ARTISTS, DESIGNERS, CRITICS

Barney Bubbles

Benjamin Buchloh

Dan Walsh

Emma Hart

Francesco Borromini

Gerhard Richter

Ian Hamilton Finlay

Frances Richardson

Jeremy Moon

Le Corbusier

Leonardo da Vinci

Michael Bracewell

Patrick Caulfield

Peter Kinley

Pontormo

Prunella Clough

Shila Khatami

Sonia Delaunay

 

GALLERIES

Chelsea Space, London

Luca Tommasi, Milan

Martina Geccelli

PS Project Space, Amsterdam

Raumx, London

Rocket Gallery, London

Frances Richardson selects two short texts by Virginia Woolf - 'The Mark on the Wall' published in 1917 and 'Solid Objects' in 1918. Both begin with a black dot which becomes a jumping off point for musing about the structures and systems which govern our livelihoods. The first text has the narrator enjoying their own wondering about the identity of the mark on the wall, pulling away from the dreariness of logical thinking, championing instead, the inventiveness and possibilities in imaginative thinking. While the second text revolves around two politicians, one of whom finds a piece of smoothed glass at the seaside. He becomes obsessed with observation and collecting, giving up his political aspirations for a more materially intimate life - what an excellent idea for many of that lot ! 

 

FRANCES RICHARDSON

francesrichardson.co.uk

karstenschubert.com

 

ARTISTS

Alicja Kwade

Alison Wilding

Brancusi

Charlotte Posenenski

Jane Hayes Greenwood

Peter Dreher

Robert Morris

 

BOOKS 

'Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead' 2009 and 'Flights' 2007 by Olga Tokarczuk

 

 

 

Jane Hayes Greenwood selects 'The Argonauts' by Maggie Nelson. Published in 2015, it is a whirlwind fusion of contemporary queer theory, autobiography, philosophy, art, motherhood and, perhaps best of all, a beautiful love story.

 

JANE HAYES GREENWOOD

janehayesgreenwood.com

 

ARTISTS, THINKERS, PUBLICATIONS

Ambit Magazine

Dana Schutz

D W Winnicott

Edward Burra

Emma Cousin

Esther Leslie

Harry Dodge

Jane Gallop

Kristian Day

Lindsey Mendick

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Melanie Jackson

Olivia Bax

Roland Barthes 'A Lovers Discourse' 1977

Rosalind Krauss

Stanley Spence

 

ART GALLERIES

Block 336

City and Guilds of London Art School

Goldsmiths CCA

Grand Union

Peter von Kant Gallery

Saatchi Gallery

Tate Modern

Guest artist ANNA CLEGG joins curator and critic VANESSA MURRELL to discuss her multi-disciplinary art practice via 'My Loose Thread' by Denis Cooper. Published in 2002 by Canongate Books, this claustrophobic novel circulates around teenage Larry who is wrestling with the point of his own existence and explores teen depression, moral vacuity and the confusion of love.

 

Please be warned that in following the content of Cooper's text, the programme contains references to violence and suicide.

 

Anna and Vanessa's discussion also encompasses psychedelics, obsession, faux Nazis, feeling violated, animal stickers, unwavering sensitivity, stupid imagery, internal rhyming, Santa Claus, swimming through mud, looping back on oneself, eyes being gummed shut, the value of confusion, dark and disturbing worlds, begrudging awareness of the reader, not being able to fathom the logic of decision making, writing through an idea rather than creating a story, and the steampunk weaponisation of ice skates.

 

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ANNA CLEGG

relevant-confluences.com

'Half Truths' curated by Vanessa Murrell til 30 November 2023 at Unit 2 Cassia Building 97-101 Hackney Road Shoreditch London E2 8ET

 

ARTISTS

David Musgrave 'Lambda' 2022

James Turrell

John Baldassari 'Wrong' 1967

Joseph Cornell

 

BOOKS + MAGAZINES + WRITERS

Artforum magazine

Barry Pierce 'Another Magazine'

Beatrice Forster

Brett Eastern Ellis

Denis Cooper 'The George Miles Cycle' series 1989-2000

Denis Cooper 'I Wished' 2021

Elliot Jeffries

Frieze magazine

George Bataille 'Story of the Eye' 1928

Hervé Guibert 'Ghost Image' 2014

Interview magazine

Kathy Acker

Katja Kemnitz 'Too Much Love' on Tumblr

Nour El Saleh

Paul Auster

Roland Barthes 'An Introduction to the Structural Analysis of Narrative', 1975

Spin magazine

Tao Lin 'Leave Society' 2021

Tom of Finland

Victory Burgin 'Remembered Film' 2004

Vivian Sobchack

William Burroughs

 

MUSICIANS + FILM

Brooke Shields

Claire Denis, director and screenwriter

Larry Clark 'Bully' 2001

NLE Chopper

Terence Stamp

Xaviersobased

 

GALLERIES + ORGS

Chelsea School of Art

Greengrassi

Nicoletti Contemporary

Split Gallery

 

Grace Woodcock selects 'Mind of my Mind' by Octavia Butler. Published in 1977, it details the development of a new species of telepaths led by Mary, a mixed-race young woman raised in poverty. In our conversation, we discuss what distinguishes Octavia Butler as a unique sci-fi voice as we focus on Grace's debut London solo exhibition GUT-BRAIN at Castor, exploring the ideas behind her research-led practice around the body, mind, tech, science and alternative medicine.

 

0:00-0:20 Summary of the book 'Mind of my Mind', wondering how to make the book into a movie, afro-futurism, what it might be like to be in someone else's mind, hybridity, blue-blackness, meaning through action, transcending racial delineation, transracial, breeding programme elitism, shapeshifting gender and race, jealousy of the next generation.

20:00-45:00 Grace's art practice, retro futurism, the current dystopian edge, pills for sex, pushing the limits of what it is to be human, NASA spaceship design, how sliding doors came about, shaping of sculptures around the body, memories in objects wrt Japanese Shinto, hidden materials, potential medicinal elements, gut as the original brain, the fate of the sea urchin brain, multiples, subconscious, conversation pits, the gut as a surveillance system for the body

45:00-55:00 other stuff about Grace, from her influences to the books she's reading now!

 

GRACE WOODCOCK

gracewoodcock.com

castor.gallery

 

BOOKS

Aldous Huxley 'Brave New World' by 1932

Jonathan Crary '24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep' 2013

Mark Fisher 'Capitalist Realism' 2009

Octavia E Butler 'The Patternist Series' 1976-1980, 'The Parable Series' 1993-1998, 'Bloodchild & Other Stories' 1995

Phillip K Dick 'The Man in the High Castle' 1962

Svetlanda Boym 'The Future of Nostalgia' 2001

Tibor Fischer 'The Collector Collector' 1997

 

FILMS & SERIES

'Barbarella' 1968

'Forbidden Planet' 1956

'Gattaca' 1997

'Star Treck' 1966-1969

'The Devil Girl from Mars' 1954

'The Jetsons' 1962-63

'The Man in the High Castle' 2015-2019

'The Truman Show' 1998

 

ARTISTS & THINKERS

Alison Wilding

Anicka Yi

Diane Simpson

Ernesto Neto

Glenn Ligon

Hannah Levy 

Ittah Yoda

Keith Piper - BLK Art Group

Pakui Hardware

Paloma Proudfoot

Rafal Zajko

Saelia Aparicio

Wilhelm Reich - Orgone Theory

 

Emma Cousin selects the seminal novel 'Nausea' by Jean-Paul Sartre. Published in 1938, it describes Antoine Roquentin's existential crisis which plays out in the library, streets and cafes of Bouville, which literally means 'mud town'. In a world devoid of God, lacking in meaning, Antoine shrinks further and further inside himself as he struggles in his search for purpose, finally deciding the best use of his life is to write a really critical book. Like 'Nausea' I guess ! In our conversation, we focus on Emma's post-lockdown solo show at Goldsmith's CCA, though her ideas - from biology to geometry - and her approach to working across drawing, painting, curating and podcasting, encompass her whole studio practice. 

 

0:00-0:30 Summary of 'Nausea', fluid consciousness, isolation, observation, madness, body, dangling arms, a mouth as thin of a dead snake, spreading cheeks, vomit, nausea, seat as a dead donkey, natural states, the shortcomings of the autodidact, humanism, experiences, projectile vomiting, experimentation in colour, shift, change, the future, elitism, Rembrandt

0:30-1:10 Emma's art practice - contemporary dance, verbing reaching, showing an idea, actively working something out, bodily boundaries, breasts, skin, grounding of figures, 'New Dirt', colour, background as a surround,  'Wash your Hands' for Ambit magazine, wall drawing, social classes, 2D & 3D composition, drawing, drawing, drawing, 'Trigonometry', 'Flower Moon' animation for exhibition, failing meditation, the physical highs and memories thru gardening

1:10-1:20 other Emma stuff - Morandi, folk music, 'Bread and Jam', 'Chats in Lockdown' podcast, activism, what Emma's reading now!

 

EMMA COUSIN

emmacousin.info

 

BOOKS & WRITERS & THINKERS (get ready for a long list!)

Albert Camus 'The Myth of Sisyphus' 1942

Anne Carson

Derek Jarman 'Modern Nature : Journals 1989-1990' 2018

Eula Biss 'On Immunity : An Inoculation' 2014 

Elias Canetti 'Earwitness : Fifty Characters' 1974 & 'Crowds and Power' 1960

Edwin A Abbott 'Flatland : A Romance of Many Dimensions' 1884

Friedrich Nietzsche

Gregory Bateson 'Steps to an Ecology of Mind' 1972

Honoré de Balzac

JG Ballard 'High Rise' 1975

Joanna Pocock 'Surrender : The Call of the American West' 2019

John Berger 'A Painter of our Time' 1958

Maurice Merleau-Ponty 'The Phenomenology of Perception' 1945

René Descartes

Richard Power 'The Overstory' 2018

Samuel Beckett

Sergei Eisenstein 'On Disney' 1986

Simone de Beauvoir

Thomas Mann 'Death in Venice' 1912

William Petter Blatty 'The Exorcist' 1971

 

OTHER ARTISTS

Amy Sillman

Andrea V Wright

Appau Jnr Boakye-Yiadom

Georgio Morandi

Hardeep Pandhal

John Cage, composer, artist, music theorist

Lindsey Mendick

Mark Morris, dancer and choreographer

Michael Tippett, composer

Paul Carey-Kent, art critic, curator

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn

William Blake

 

PODCAST

'Chats in Lockdown' hosted by Emma Cousin

Dr Charley Peters selects ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Published in 1892, it was inspired by the author’s own experience of post natal depression and the resulting inappropriate treatment she battled against. The short story describes one woman’s descent into madness as she is overtaken by the yellow wallpaper she loathes. Her supposedly devoted husband keeps her isolated in a room, based on the authority of a nasty little cluster of so called expert mental health physicians including his learned self. This only worsens her condition. Charley identifies with the main character’s need for stimulation, for creativity and for a way of being that doesn’t fall subject to a cold logic. She describes the the book as a testament to creativity as a type of freedom, of intellectual freedom, of social freedom. It's also a timely selection as we emerge from lockdown which has been, amongst other things, a challenging time of coping with isolation.

0:00 - 0:22 the book, post natal depression, social repression, marriage, isolation, feminism, inspiration, pattern, gothic horror, human rights, social reform, independence

0:22 - 0:28 project for Hospital Rooms at Bluebird House, a mental health unit in Southampton

0:28 - 0:30 the decorative, design, contrasting unplanned

0:30 - 0:37 Charley's process, creating a ground, building up a painting, blending, tone, 'sb|2m2h (smiling back, too much to handle)' 2020, 'eod/\qtpi (end of discussion, cutie pie)' 2020

0:37 - 0:43 collaboration with Tobias Revell and Wesley Goatley at 'Emergence', London College of Communication as part of London Design Festival 2019, 'charismatic megapigment' 2019, webcam, abstraction, symbol, machine intelligence

0:43 - 0:55 Charley's wider practice, colour, intuition, shape, abstract painting, finishing the painting, physical reaction, phd, drawing, unlearning, boredom

0:55 - 1:03 Charley's writing and influences, Agnes Martin, sensitivity, emptying out, minimalism, Instantloveland, Lee Krasner, female trailblazers, resilience, creative spirit, energy, robots, Judas Priest, cartoons, growing up in Birmingham, staying indoors, painting leather jackets

1:03 - 1:08 Upcoming exhibitions, virtual exhibitions, skateboard auction and what Charley's reading RIGHT NOW!

 

CHARLEY PETERS

charleypeters.com

 

BOOKS & WRITERS

‘Women and Economics’ 1898 by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

‘The Home, it’s Work and Influence’ 1903 by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

‘What Diantha Did’ 1909 by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

‘Herland’ 1915 by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ 1852 by Harriet Beecher Stowe

‘A Room of One’s Own’ 1929 by Virginia Wolf

‘Do You Compute’ 2019 by Ryan Mungia and Steven Heller

 

COMMISSIONS

Bluebird House for Hospital Rooms

Centrepoint for House of Vans

 

ARTISTS

Eva Hesse 1936-1970

Agnes Martin 1912-2004

Lee Krasner ‘Living Colour’ exhibition

Clare Price, Alison Goodyear, EC as collaborators for Instantloveland article

 

GALLERIES

The Barbican

405 Gallery

Hauser & Wirth

 

Frog tape !!!

Welcome back to Art Fictions ! Jordan Baseman selects ‘Strangers on a Train’ by Patricia Highsmith. Published in 1950, the book tells of Bruno and Guy who happen meet on a train and, between whiskies and cigarettes, Bruno suggests they swap murders. I’ll kill your pesky wife if you kill my horrid father. Seems fair though somewhat macabre, not at all the sort of thing a nice young woman from Texas ought to be writing about and very much against the law. What starts badly ends even worse as the double murders lead to Bruno drowning in the sea and Guy drowning in guilt. Jordan is very much taken by the book’s single focussed account of the two men as we contrast the multitude of aspects found in any one person, which he depicts as simply as possible in his short films. Alfred Hitchcock’s adaption of the book into film makes for further pondering about social status and the American post war context.

0:00 - 0:28 the book, the film, post war America, context, no happy endings, celebrity, image, good and evil, Trump, complexity of the self, psychoanalysis, expectations of wealth and material goods

0:28 - 0:55 Jordan's films, portraiture, self portraiture, construction, artifice, film production techniques, interplay of visuals and audio

0:55 - 1:06 influences, artists, books, where to see Jordan's work  

 

JORDAN BASEMAN

Jordanbaseman.co.uk

mattsgallery.org

‘Blackout’

‘Gendersick’

‘Veil’

‘The Sun Always Shines on the Righteous’

‘The Dandy Doctrine’

‘The Last Walk’

 

BOOKS & WRITERS

‘Difficult Women’ 2017 by Roxane Gay

‘Critical Path’ 1981 by Buckminster Fuller

Czenzi Ormonde, author and screenwriter

Phyllis Nagy, screenwriter

Raymond Chandler, author and screenwriter

Roxane Gay, author, professor, editor, social commentator

Stephen King

Jonathan Franzen

 

SCREEN

‘Strangers on a Train’ 1951 directed by Alfred Hitchcock

‘The Wizard of Oz’ 1939 directed by Victor Fleming

‘The Hitch Hiker’ 1953 directed by Ida Lupino

‘Match Point’ 2005 directed by Woody Allen

‘The Midnight Gospel’ 2020 animation series on Netflix

 

ARTISTS

Robert Mapplethorpe 1946-1989

Jennifer West – film, installation, performance, zines

‘Christ’s Entry into Journalism’ by Kara Walker at MoMA

 

MUSIC

‘Extreme Love’ by Holly Hendron

‘Horses’ by Patti Smith

Michael Stipe

In this final episode of Series 1, Alice Browne selects 'Seawater and the Dragon' by Luciana Chetwynd and the Chetwynd Children. Published in 1973, the children's book tells of a feared dragon and his monster buddies who find an ally in naughty boy Seawater, and together, they all go on to become darlings of the village. As a painter of measured inaccuracies, Alice identifies with the book's wobbly illustrations, their over the top colours and contradictory perspectives. Along with the narrative, she too brings fantasy and reality onto the same surface, as well as a range of devices which explore how a painting might be put together. Together, we make some unexpected connections such as the way human presence brings about colour changes on cave walls, like a peculiar form of cave painting. And how Socrates might align with Seawater and the practice of an artist. Alice's use of symbols present a rich dossier of playfulness, for our eyes and our imaginations to wander around the canvas and compose our own personal stories. (Mixed Tapes is an introductory series recorded in lockdown with variations in audio quality, however, this episode is the only exception, being recorded before lockdown.)

 

ALICE BROWNE

 

alicebrowne.com

@alicerbrowne (instagram)

'DPM' 2019

'Mighty-Connect-Discovery (Spaghetti Factory)' 2018

'After The Last Word/ Vindolanda' 2018

 

BOOKS

 

'Earthsea' by Ursula K Le Guin

'New Dark Age : Technology and the End of the Future' by James Bridle

'One Hundred Years of Solitude' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

 

GALLERIES / EXHIBITIONS

 

flatlandgallery.com (solo exhibition 'Camouflage')

tintypegallery.com (solo exhibition 'Found')

 

Tom Wilmott selects 'The Exorcist' by William Peter Blatty. Published in 1971, the novel portrays the wildly disturbing behaviour of 12 year old Regan, whose mother seeks help from a plethora of medical specialists until, in desperation, she arranges a priest to perform an exorcism of her daughter to cast out the devil. In a fascinating and deeply personal reading of the book, Tom sees the devil as a stand in for depression. We discuss the lengths to which he has shaped his practice in a dedicated effort to keeping his own destructive side at bay and maintain mental wellness. Resulting in a non-commercial art practice, his unique approach has also given rise to charitable initiatives including Painting Pro Bono and Painting Per Diem. (Mixed Tapes is an introductory series recorded in lockdown with variations in audio quality.)

 

TOM WILMOTT

 

- tomwilmott.co.uk

- instagram tomrtwilmott

 

BOOKS

 

- 'Tell Them I Said No' by Martin Herbert

- 'On Being an Artist' by Michael Craig-Martin

- 'On Truth' by George Orwell

 

ARTISTS / GALLERIES

 

- Agnes Martin 1912-2004

- After Nyne Gallery

- Bedwyr Williams (featured on 'Chats in Lockdown' with Emma Cousin podcast Episode 11 May 2020)

- Douglas Gordon b.1966 (represented by Gagosian Gallery, '24 Hour Psycho' 1993, 'What Have I Done' solo exhibition at Hayward Gallery, Between Darkness and Light (After William Blake) 1997 featured double sided film showing 'The Exorcist', 1973 directed by William Friedkin and 'The Song of Bernadette', 1943 directed by Henry King)

- Ed Harris (directed and starred in 'Pollock' 2002)

- Robert Motherwell 1915-1991

- Helen Frankenthaler 1928-2011

- Robert Ryman 1930-2019

- Rosalind Davis (featured on 'Art Fictions' podcast Episode 2)

Andrea Wright selects 'Flatland : A Romance of Many Dimensions' by theologian, schoolmaster and Anglican priest Edwin A Abbott. Published in 1884, the novella tells a story of geometry and the pettiness of the class system in equal tones of giggly satire and eye rolling dismay. We venture into Andrea's Irish ancestry and the shifts throughout her family's history, as well as her own vast experience from jazz singer to fashion stylist. She is an artist dedicated to the act of doing. Her reading of philosophy wouldn't make sense without the physical making and experimentation that is essential to her practice. We discuss her art as creating a voice for lost industries and the memory embedded in spaces as well as her exhibitions with Thorpe Stavri, The Koppel Project and Dateagle. (Mixed Tapes is an introductory series recorded in lockdown with variations in audio quality.)

 

ANDREA V WRIGHT

andreavwright.com

instagram andreavwright

 

BOOKS

- 'A Little History of Philosophy' by Nigel Warburton

- Carlos Castaneda

- ‘Narcissis and Goldmunn’ by Herman Hess

- ‘Notes on the Index’ by Rosalind Krauss

- ‘On the Road’ by Jack Karoac

- ‘Species of Spaces and Other Pieces’ by Georges Perec

- ‘The Eyes of the Skin’ by Juhani Pallasmaa

 

GALLERIES/CURATORS

- Alexander Stavrou (‘Substance Bundle’ at The Koppel Project)

- Dateagle (‘Prevent this Tragedy’)

- David Cass (‘Surface’ at Projection Room)

- PLOP Residency (Oli Epp)

- Thorpe Stavri (‘Index’ at World Unit Whitechapel)

 

ARTISTS

- Matthew Burrows (Artist Support Pledge 2020), Jordan Baseman (‘Radio Influenza’ 2019 with The Wellcome Collection), Professor Maria Lalic (Bath School of Art & Design), Donald Judd (1928-1994)

Hannah Luxton selects 'A Field Guide to Getting Lost' by Rebecca Solnit, published by Canongate Books in 2005. We join the author’s drunken debut and travel with her to extremes at the western edges of America as she explores a myriad of geographical, ancestral and metaphysical ways of getting lost. Picking up on Rebecca’s fascination with the elusiveness of blue - the colour of where you are not and where you can never go - Hannah’s work is particularly spurred on by the sublime; that which is beyond knowledge. She describes her American road trip, her obsession with Iceland and we discuss in detail, her paintings and installations including those seen at Glass Cloud, Lily Brooke and Arthouse1. (Mixed Tapes is an introductory series recorded in lockdown with variations in audio quality.)

 

Notes and Links:

HANNAH LUXTON

- hannahluxton.com

- instagram hannahluxton_

 

- BOOKS / TEXT / WRITERS

- ‘Of Stars and Chasms’ exhibition catalogue text by Sara Jaspan

- ‘The Faraway Nearby’ by Rebecca Solnit

- ‘The Magic Mountain’ by Thomas Mann

- Albert Camus (Nobel Prize winning French philosopher, author, journalist who attended Yves Klein exhibition ‘The Void’ 1958)

- Slavoj Zizek (Slovenian philosopher who introduced the concept of unknown knowns)

GALLERIES

- Arthouse1

- Barbican Arts Group Trust

- Glass Cloud Gallery

- Lily Brooke Gallery 

- The Hayward Gallery

ARTISTS

- Julie F Hill juliehill.co.uk, Grant Foster grantfoster.com, Yves Klein 1928-1962, Mark Rothko 1903-1970, Ansel Adams 1902-1984, John Martin 1789-1854, J M W Turner 1775-1851, Caspar David Friedrich 1774-1840, Raphael 1483-1520, Joachim Patinir 1480-1524, Hans Memling 1430-1494

Simon Linington, visual artist and story writer, has selected his own fiction for this episode. ‘Evangaline Too’ was originally published in New York’s ‘Sunday Salon’ zine and creates an intriguing viewing platform for our conversation. We probe the meticulous details of smoking, worms, dirty water and so on, as Simon grasps at that which is readily available. Dreams, travel and memories feed his writing. Dust and detritus, his installations. He shares some of the backstories to the development of his work at London sites including William Benington Gallery, Castor Projects, Lily Brooke, Division of Labour and Brooke Benington in Mexico City. (Mixed Tapes is an introductory series recorded in lockdown with variations in audio quality.)

Notes and Links:

SIMON LININGTON

simonlinington.com

instagram simonlinington

 

BOOKS / TEXT

- ‘Evangeline Too’ 2019 sundaysalon.com/2020/01/evangeline-too

- ‘Ghosts’ 2020 soanywaymagazine.org

- ‘Palinure de Mexico’ by Fernando del Paso

- ‘Shoplifting’ from American Apparel by Tao Lin

- ‘Tristessa’ by Jack Kerouac

- ‘Under the Volcano’ by Malcolm Lowry

- ‘Not I’ by Samuel Barclay Beckett, performed by Billie Whitelaw

- ‘Waiting for Godot’ by Samuel Barclay Beckett

 

GALLERIES/CURATORIAL 

- Brooke Benington (residency, Mexico City)

- Castor Projects (‘In from the Light’)

- Dateagle (‘Not to be Trusted’, ‘Prevent this Tragedy’)

- Division of Labour (‘Everything can be Broken’)

- Hayward Gallery (‘Out of the Dark Concrete’)

- Lily Brooke (‘Everything is Medicine’)

- Tate Gallery (‘From the Freud Museum’ 1991-1996 Susan Hiller)

- William Benington (‘La La Land’)

 

MUSIC

- song ‘Evangeline’ by Angels of Light

- song ‘Volcano’ by Beck

 

Grant Foster and I pick up where we left off, discussing connections between his work and J G Ballard's 1970 novel 'The Atrocity Exhibition'. Considering Ballard often referred to parallels with painters, it seems natural that an artist might return the gesture, drawing on this author to feed his own practice. In this episode, Grant talks about eternal life, use of the motif and painting as a sequence of gestures where reality is founded in the ideas which follow the forms.(Mixed Tapes is an introductory series recorded in lockdown with variations in audio quality.)

 

Notes and Links:

 

GRANT FOSTER

- grantfoster.org (website)

- foster_grant (instagram)

- tintypegallery.com/artists/grant-foster (gallery)

 

BOOKS / TEXT

- 'Ambit' magazine

- 'The Cradle of Humanity: How the Changing Landscape of Africa Made us so Smart' by Daniel Lieberman

- 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' by Oscar Wilde

- 'The Yellow Wallpaper' by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

- 'Apollo' magazine, article by Simon Grant

- 'Thoughts on Doom' by Eleanor Hartney of AICA (aicainternational.com)

- 'The Brothers Karamazov' by Fyodor Dostoevsky

- 'Pattern Recognition' by William Gibson

 

GALLERIES

- Lychee One ('I'm not being Funny' solo exhibition, 2019)

- Transition Gallery ('A Stone in the Mountain' with Georgia Hayes, 2018)

- Tintype Gallery ('Ground Figure Sky' solo exhibition, 2017)

 

PODCASTS

- 'Weird Studies' with Phil Ford and J F Martel

- 'Extinction Rebellion and the End of the World' hosted by Rana Mitter on 'BBC Arts & Ideas'

 

ARTISTS

- Georgia Hayes b. 1946, Sigmar Polke 1941-2010, Andy Warhol 1928-1987, Max Ernst 1891-1976, Marcelle Duchamp 1887-1968, Francis Picabia 1879-1953, George Grosz 1893-1959, J W Turner 1775-1851, Albrecht Dürer 1471-1528 

Guest artist OLUKEMI LIJADU joins curator and PHD researcher PELUMI ODUBANJO  to discuss her multi-media art practice through the prism of 'The Stranger' (aka 'The Outsider' aka 'The Foreigner') by Nobel Prize winning writer Albert Camus. Published in 1942, the novella tells of an indifferent French settler who, soon after his mother's funeral, commits the senseless murder of an unnamed Arab man on a Algerian beach. Heralded in the west as a classic text which explores the absurd, their exchange questions the mono-critique which underlies this status, through their personal and uniquely individual experiences. For Olukemi, this is being Nigerian born and raised, where she was educated in the British system, going on to study philosophy at Stanford, USA. While Pelumi is British with Nigerian heritage.

 

Olukemi and Pelumi's discussion also encompasses psychoanalysis, philosophy, elusive racism, European critique, American critique, contradictory affection, self knowledge, segregated Algeria, compilation of memory, disregard for women, disregard for black people, anonymous Arab characters, ancestors speaking in the first person, the presence of absent women, who can make claims of objectivity, who can make claims of the absurd, women fading from the novel as male desire for them fades, the assumption that one must divorce one's positionality from how they engage with work for their opinion to be valid, the black woman as photographer and therefore narrator, as well as the radicalised and colonised body. 

 

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OLUKEMI LIJADU

olukemilijadu.com

insta @kemlij

contact@kemkemstudio.com

'Guardian Angel' commissioned by ICA 2022

ARTISTS + EXHIBITIONS 

Atong Atem

Kahlil Joseph 'BLKNWS' 2018 ongoing

Theaster Gates

Wura-Natasha Ogunji

'A World in Common: Contemporary African Photography' at Tate Modern til 14 Jan 2024

'Genetic Automata' by David Blandy and Larry Achiampong at Wellcome Collection til 11 Feb 2024

BOOKS + AUTHORS + FILM

Frantz Fanon

Fred Moten 'Black and Blur' 2017

Harper Lee 'To Kill a Mockingbird' 1960

James Baldwin 'The Fire Next Time' 1963

Jane Austen 'Pride and Prejudice' 1813

Lola Olufemi

Paul Gilroy 'The Black Atlantic' 1993

Saidiya Hartman 'Lose Your Mother' 2006

Saint Omer 2022 director Alice Diop

Timothy Ogene 'Seesaw' 2021

Toni Morrison

MUSICIANS

Aretha Franklin

Bob Marley

Christopher Williams

Frankie Knuckles

Lee Scratch Perry

Rokia Traoré

Whitney Houston

GALLERIES + INSTITUTIONS

Sanford University

Institute of Contemporary Art

Tate Modern

V.O Curations

 

 

 

Grant Foster selects 'The Atrocity Exhibition' by J G Ballard, first published by Jonathan Cape UK, 1970. Both artist and writer embrace in equal measure the freedom, fear and disappointment that results from the individual being a fragmented composition, vulnerable to manipulation and capable of dynamic reconfiguration. In hope and despair, Grant points out that there is the possibility that 'true form' can be found 'beneath the lie; beneath the sludge'. We discuss in detail, works from his exhibitions at Tintype, Lychee One and Transition Galleries, as well as the ideas, concerns and formal observations which shape his paintings.(Mixed Tapes is an introductory series recorded in lockdown with variations in audio quality.)

 

Notes and Links:

GRANT FOSTER

- grantfoster.org (website)

- foster_grant (instagram)

- tintypegallery.com/artists/grant-foster (gallery)

 

BOOKS / TEXT

- 'Ambit' magazine

- 'The Cradle of Humanity: How the Changing Landscape of Africa Made us so Smart' by Daniel Lieberman

- 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' by Oscar Wilde

- 'The Yellow Wallpaper' by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

- 'Apollo' magazine, article by Simon Grant

- 'Thoughts on Doom' by Eleanor Hartney of AICA (aicainternational.com)

- 'The Brothers Karamazov' by Fyodor Dostoevsky

- 'Pattern Recognition' by William Gibson

 

GALLERIES

- Lychee One ('I'm not being Funny' solo exhibition, 2019)

- Transition Gallery ('A Stone in the Mountain' with Georgia Hayes, 2018)

- Tintype Gallery ('Ground Figure Sky' solo exhibition, 2017)

 

PODCASTS

- 'Weird Studies' with Phil Ford and J F Martel

- 'Extinction Rebellion and the End of the World' hosted by Rana Mitter on 'BBC Arts & Ideas'

 

ARTISTS

- Georgia Hayes b. 1946, Sigmar Polke 1941-2010, Andy Warhol 1928-1987, Max Ernst 1891-1976, Marcelle Duchamp 1887-1968, Francis Picabia 1879-1953, George Grosz 1893-1959, J W Turner 1775-1851, Albrecht Dürer 1471-1528 

Rosalind Davis - artist, curator, author, educator - and I weave in, out and around her paintings, installations and the mysterious diaries of Hungarian painter Janos Lavin from 'A Painter of Our Time' 1958 by John Berger. Rosalind details the decision to build her own art community and the many branches of her practice which have developed as a result. (Mixed Tapes is an introductory series recorded in lockdown with variations in audio quality.)

 

ROSALIND DAVIS

rosalinddavis.co.uk (website)

rosalindnldavis (instagram)

rosalinddavis (twitter)

'Irreversible Entanglements' 2020

'Vanishing Points' 2019

'Haus Konstruktive' 2018

'Strangelands' 2017

'No one Lives in the Real World' 2015

'Echo Chamber' 2014

Artistic Collaborator : Justin Hibbs justinhibbs.com carolfletcher.com

 

BOOKS

'Wolf Hall' by Hilary Mantel

'What They Didn't Teach You in Art School' by Rosalind Davis and Annabel Tilley

'Whatever Happened to Interracial Love' by Kathleen Collins

'Autumn' by Ali Smith

'Art Monthly' magazine

'Bringing Up the Bodies' by Hilary Mantel

'G.' by John Berger

'Tell Them I Said No' by Martin Herbert

 

GALLERIES

Koppel Project thekoppelproject.com

JGM Gallery jgmgallery.com

The Foundry Gallery thefoundrygallery.org

No Format Gallery secondfloor.co.uk

Collyer Bristow collyerbristow.com/gallery

Coffee is My Cup of Tea Instagram/richard_ducker

 

ARTISTS

Tomma Abts davidzwirner.com

Jordan Baseman jordanbaseman.co.uk rca.ac.uk/more/staff/jordan-baseman 

Lockdown has given the unharmed among us, opportunities, doubts and challenges in equal measure. The first 'Art Fictions' series, using a mixed bag of equipment, is a buzzing start to a down-to-earth podcast exploring creative connections between fiction and fine art. Each artist shares insights and inspirations around fictional themes and teenage dreams, and this podcast would not be possible without their imagination and their work. Thanks to them. And thanks to you for listening. Episode 1 is a brief overview of how the podcast is constructed. Design and illustration are by Joanna Quinn at Beryl Studios. The music is written and performed by Griffin Knipe.

 

(Shout out to Matt at The Tennis Podcast and Steve at Animation Magazine for their recording tips!)

Guest artist RORY PILGRIM joins author and critic ELIZABETH FULLERTON to discuss his musically inspired, community-based art practice through the prism of 'The Bell' by Irish British writer and philosopher, Dame Jean Iris Murdoch. Published in 1958, this funny and sad novel explores religion, human frailty and who has the right to a voice, set within the confines of a lay community.

Please be warned that in following the content of Murdoch's text, the programme contains references to sexual abuse and to suicide.

Rory and Elizabeth's discussion also encompasses unheard voices, sunken voices, historical voices, awoken voices, shutting down voices, empathy, songwriting, drawing, poetry, kissing, dancing, stories, transformation, spiritual striving, moral dilemma, social practice, closet homosexuality, transformative moments, nuns getting naked and writing off people who are too complicated. They also delve into the toxic politics of speech, wrestling with faith, music as a first language, pathways of self destruction, the stress of being part of communities, suppression leading to the harm of others, the desire and courage to learn and to listen, experiences shaped by nuance and interconnections, and ways in which direct democracy can be built on consensus and intergenerational dialogue. And together, they question: how can you be completely yourself within a group, how can we imagine new forms of law through storytelling, and how can art play a civic role in transforming lives and developing networks of care.

 

Please support the production of this podcast via patreon.com/ARTFICTIONSPODCAST.

Contact Art Fictions via artfictionspodcast@gmail.com or instagram @artfictionspodcast.

 

RORY PILGRIM

rorypilgrim.com

insta @rainbowsofgorse

'Turner Prize' at Towner Eastbourne 28 Sep 2023-14 Apr 2024

'Rafts' 2020 The Migros Museum of Contemporary Art in Zurich, EVA International 31 Aug – 29 Oct 2023 Limerick city of Ireland, 49 Nord 6 Est Frac Lorraine in Metz of France

'The Undercurrent' 2019

'The Resounding Bell' 2018

ARTISTS

Abba 'The Visitors' 1981

Barbara Hepworth

Evelyn Taocheng Wang

Helen Cammock

Ilona Sagar

Jane Jeffcot

Mel Brimfield 

Ragnar Kjartansson 'The Visitors' 2012

Robyn Haddon 

Sands Murray-Wassink

Sonia Boyce

Susie Green

BOOKS + AUTHORS

Lucy Lippard 'Mapping the Terrain: New Genre in Public Art' 1994

Suzi Gablik 'The Re-enchantment of Art' 1991

Toni Morrison 'Beloved' 1987

Toni Morrison 'Song of Solomon' 1977

Toni Morrison 'The Bluest Eye' 1970

GALLERIES + MUSEUMS + ORGANISATIONS

Auto Italia

Chisenhale Gallery

Green Shoes Arts

Interfaith Sanctuary, Boise, Idaho

Serpentine Gallery 'Radio Ballads' 2022

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