Beth Bate (Dundee Contemporary Arts), Sepake Angiama (Iniva), and Nigel Prince (Artes Mundi) join Kirsteen MacDonald for a roundtable discussion sharing strategies for navigating the decentralisation project.  

These guests represent three UK arts organisations that were founded or re-developed around the new millennium with core missions to serve historically under-resourced and overlooked communities. Whilst the ideas, assets and personnel that comprise our public infrastructure are tested anew by austerity thinking, this discussion offers distinct and overlapping models for cultivating an outward-looking cultural infrastructure. 

Art after Devolution is hosted by Marcus Jack, a curator and writer based between Exeter and Glasgow. His research looks for counternarratives in visual culture through analyses of infrastructure, statehood and socio-economics, with particular emphasis on artists’ film. He lectures in Contemporary Art and Curation at the University of Exeter. Follow him on socials @marcusfjack or online at MarcusJack.com 

TIMESTAMPS 

2:11 – Introductions  

5:42 – Consideration of state funding across the UK 

24:34 – Cultural value and the wider arts ecology 

Read the episode transcript here: https://britishartnetwork.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Transcript-Art-after-Devolution-Episode-Three.pdf

GUEST INFORMATION:

Sepake Angiama – @iniva_arts

Beth Bate – @dcadundee

Kirsteen Macdonald

Nigel Prince – @ArtesMundi

The image in our graphic is Balaclava Bust by Ursula Burke, used with her kind permission. 

Music is Too Many To Count by Comfort from their 2023 album ‘What’s Bad Enough?’ Check them out wherever you listen to music. Thanks to Natalie McGhee for the permission to include it.

This podcast has been audio produced by Clare Lynch

Art after Devolution is a British Art Network (BAN) podcast supported by the Paul Mellon Centre and Tate. Membership of the British Art Network is free and open to anyone with an active engagement in curating, researching and interpreting British art. To join, just visit britishartnetwork.org.uk  

BAN is supported financially by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and Tate, with additional public funding provided by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.  

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Abigail Gilmore traces the ways in which macro-level shifts in politics have altered the terrain for culture at a local level by tracing the arc of devolution since the late 1990s. 

Art after Devolution is hosted by Marcus Jack, a curator and writer based between Exeter and Glasgow. His research looks for counternarratives in visual culture through analyses of infrastructure, statehood and socio-economics, with particular emphasis on artists’ film. He lectures in Contemporary Art and Curation at the University of Exeter. Follow him on socials @marcusfjack or online at MarcusJack.com 

TIMESTAMPS: 

1:39 – Interview with Abigail Gilmore 

4:48 – Current state of devolution and cultural governance 

13:08 – Historical context of regionalisation 

24:33 – Data collection and evidence in cultural policy 

32:00 – Future directions 

Read the episode transcript here: https://britishartnetwork.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Transcript-Art-after-Devolution-Episode-Two.pdf 

GUEST INFORMATION:  

Abigail Gilmore – @abi_gilmore

The image in our graphic is Balaclava Bust by Ursula Burke, used with her kind permission. 

Music is Too Many To Count by Comfort from their 2023 album ‘What’s Bad Enough?’ Check them out wherever you listen to music. Thanks to Natalie McGhee for the permission to include it. 

This podcast has been audio produced by Clare Lynch 

Art after Devolution is a British Art Network (BAN) podcast supported by the Paul Mellon Centre and Tate. Membership of the British Art Network is free and open to anyone with an active engagement in curating, researching and interpreting British art. To join, just visit britishartnetwork.org.uk 

BAN is supported financially by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and Tate, with additional public funding provided by the National Lottery through Arts Council England. 

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Maria Fusco, Ursula Burke, and Michelle Hannah join Marcus Jack to explore how the complex and often violent societies produced by devolution have functioned as both a subject and working context for artists. 

Art after Devolution is hosted by Marcus Jack, a curator and writer based between Exeter and Glasgow. His research looks for counternarratives in visual culture through analyses of infrastructure, statehood and socio-economics, with particular emphasis on artists’ film. He lectures in Contemporary Art and Curation at the University of Exeter. Follow him on socials @marcusfjack or online at MarcusJack.com 

TIMESTAMPS 

2:42 – Maria Fusco, reading an extract from Who Does Not Envy With Us Is Against Us 

6:59 – Interview with Ursula Burke 

34:52 – Michelle Hannah, performance of Burnout 

WORKS OF ART MENTIONED: 

15:50 – Ursula Burke, Balaclava Bust, 2014 

18:18 – Ursula Burke, Embroidery Frieze - The Politicians, 2016 

18:46 – Jacques-Louis David, Oath of the Horatii, 1784 

19:08 – The Bayeux Tapestry, 11th century 

19:14 – Parthenon Frieze, designed by Phidias, c.447-32 BC 

30:50 – Ursula Burke, Truncheon, 2019 

Read the episode transcript here: britishartnetwork.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Transcript-Art-After-Devolution-Episode-One.pdf

GUEST INFORMATION: 

Maria Fusco – MariaFusco.net / @fuscowriting

Ursula Burke – UrsulaBurke.com / @burke.ursula 

Michelle Hannah – MichelleHannah.net / @m_h_a_n_n_a_h  

The image in our graphic is Balaclava Bust by Ursula Burke, used with her kind permission. 

Music is Too Many To Count by Comfort from their 2023 album ‘What’s Bad Enough?’ You can hear more of their work wherever you listen to music. Thanks to Natalie McGhee for the permission to include it. 

This podcast has been audio produced by Clare Lynch – linktr.ee/clarelynchred

Art after Devolution is a British Art Network (BAN) podcast supported by the Paul Mellon Centre and Tate. Membership of the British Art Network is free and open to anyone with an active engagement in curating, researching and interpreting British art. To join, just visit britishartnetwork.org.uk 

BAN is supported financially by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and Tate, with additional public funding provided by the National Lottery through Arts Council England. 

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Art after Devolution is a provocation which calls to return our understanding of contemporary art, its production, and exhibition, to the immediate political and economic contexts of our time. The Britain in question is one where provision not limited to funding and infrastructure is unevenly dispersed, and enduring deference to the metropolitan centre continues to instruct our sense of value.

Over the course of this series, we’ll unpack these realities through conversation with artists, practitioners, organisational leaders and policy experts. In doing, we hope to offer a polyvocal account of the burdensome inheritance, present challenges, and possible futures of decentralisation.

Art after Devolution is hosted by Marcus Jack, a curator and writer based between Exeter and Glasgow. His research looks for counternarratives in visual culture through analyses of infrastructure, statehood and socio-economics, with particular emphasis on artists’ film. He lectures in Contemporary Art and Curation at the University of Exeter. Follow him on socials @marcusfjack or online at MarcusJack.com

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