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ART FICTIONS episodes

  • Wild's Eye and Archiving Obsessions (AYO AKINGBADE)

    Guest artist AYO AKINGBADE

    joins ELIZABETH FULLERTON to discuss her work via 'In the Eye of the Wild' by Nastassja Martin. Published in 2021, the story follows the aftermath of a French anthropologist's gruesome attack by a bear, while she is living with the Evan people on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula.

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    Ayo and Elizabeth's conversation encompasses healing, hostility, joy, architecture, nepotism, romance, underdogs, irony, phobias, animism, neglect, transformation, swimming, analogue, memoir, disfigurement, hopefulness, multifaceted, strong women, self-centring, turning points, arthouse niche, tarot reading, anthropological study, defence mechanisms, shared fearlessness, spiritual guides, questioning society's expectations, power in names, thinking the worse, colonisation of microbes, French new wave and the rewards of positive thinking.

    AYO AKINGBADE

    ayoakingbade.com

    'Keep Looking' 2024, 14 minute film

    'Head of Idoani Girl' 2024, giclee print

    'Show Me the World Mister' 2023, publication

    'Faluyi' 2022, 14 minute film

    'The Fist' 2022, 24 minute film

    'Jitterbug' 2022, 24 minute film

    'Dear Babylon' 2019, 21 minute film

    'Tower XYZ' 2017 3 minute film

    BOOKS WRITERS

    Derek Walcott 'The First'

    Franz Kafka 'The Trial'

    Fred Moten

    FILM ARTISTS

    Agnès Varda

    Alfred Hitchcock

    Alice Rohrwacher 'La Chimera'

    Chantal Akerman 'Family Business'

    Chris Marker 'Sans Soleil'

    David Lynch

    Harun Farocki 'Workers Leaving the Factory' 1995

    Mark Dion

    Jacques Rivette

    Jean-Luc Godard

    Jim Jarmusch

    Julian Schnabel 'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly'

    Lumière Brothers 'Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory in Lyon' 1895

    Roni Horn

    Stanley Kubrick 'Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb'

    Steve McQueen 'Caribs' Leap / Western Deep' 2002

    Steven Spielberg

    Quentin Tarantino 'Inglorious Bastards'

    Werner Herzog 'Grizzly Man'

    ARCHITECTURE

    Dora Boatemah

    Le Corbusier

    ART INSTITUTIONS

    Artangel London

    Chisenhale Gallery

    Cinereach

    Institute of Contemporary Art

    John Hansard Gallery

    London Film Festival

    London LCC

    Spike Island

    The Baltic Gateshead

    The Whitworth

    PERFORMERS

    Ebenezer Obey 'The Only Condition to Save Nigeria'

    Josh O'Connor

    Kate Bush

    Okwui Okpokwasili

    Sade Adu

    ART FICTIONS MUSIC Griffin Knipe 

    ART FICTIONS LOGO Joanna Quinn 

    1 hr 18 min
  • Mayhem Soup and Collaborative Patterning (LAUREN GODFREY)

    Guest artist LAUREN GODFREY

    joins JILLIAN KNIPE to discuss her work via 'Heartburn' by Nora Ephron. Published in 1983, it tells a recipe rich story of Rachel Samstat and her husband Mark's marriage breakdown as a result of his affair with Thelma Rice.

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    Lauren and Jillian's conversation encompasses misogyny, kreploch soup, fat phobia, hot sass, slaying haters, brilliant naivety, acerbic wit, catching glimpses, high drama and potatoes as a signpost for the progress and decline of relationships. Also: losing the plot, aubergine as icon, minutiae of life, mid pregnancy betrayal, magnifying tiny moments, passing on recipes through generations, mapping of time and place through food, flood of linguistic lyricism, the power of choosing clothes, menu choice as an identity market and distilling culture into a witty sentence.

     

    LAUREN GODFREY

    @laurengodfreystudio

    laurengodfrey.co.uk

    'Pattern Portraits podcast'

    'Group Hat'

    'What We Wore'

    GET IN TOUCH with us by EMAIL [email protected]

    ARTISTS CURATORS

    Adam Boyd

    Anni Albers

    Anthea Hamilton

    Bethan Laura Wood

    Bruce MacLean

    Capability Brown

    Cinzia Ruggeri

    Dr George Vasey 'Harrow March 31st 2005...'

    George Richardson

    Gunta Stöltzl

    Holly Graham

    JB Blunk

    Jennie Moncur

    Luke Burton

    Marcus Coates 'Nature Calendar'

    Maria Zahle

    Martin Parr

    Mary Godfrey

    Nadia Hebson

    Patrick Heron

    Rosalind Nashashibi

    Rosie Gibbens

    Tacita Dean 'Kodak 2006'

    BOOKS AUTHORS WRITERS

    AA Gill

    Asako Yuzuki 'Butter'

    Bob Woodwood

    Carl Bernstein

    Carmen Callil

    David Batchelor

    David Sedaris

    JD Salinger 'The Catcher in the Rye' 'Franny and Zooey'

    John Updike

    Lena Dunham

    Lennie Goodings 'Virago founder Carmen Callil was a powerhouse who changed the publishing world for the better' The Guardian 18 Oct 2022

    Michelle Zauner of Japanese Breakfast 'Crying in H Mart'

    Miranda July 'All Fours'

    Nora Ephron 'Forget the Hamsters' The Guardian 6 Nov 2004

    Phillip Roth

    Raven Smith 'Men' 'Trivial Pursuits'

    Salena Barry

    Tank Magazine 'Pancake Day'

    Vanessa Murrell

    Virago Books Modern Classics

    ART INSTITUTIONS

    Bauhaus

    Coal Drops Yard

    De La Warr Pavillion

    Design Museum

    Gasworks

    Goldsmiths CCA

    Harewood House Trust

    ICA

    Kingsgate Project Space

    Krupa Gallery

    The Memphis Group

    New Contemporaries

    Vital Arts at Newham Hospital

    FILM

    Anijam animation initiative

    Cher

    'Ghostbusters'

    'Julie and Julia'

    Meg Ryan

    Meryl Streep

    'Sex and the City'

    Silkwood

    Stanley Tucci 'Taste: My Life Through Food'

    When Harry Met Sally

    Woody Allen

    CHEFS

    Elizabeth David

    Julia Childs

    ORGANISATIONS

    Taylors of Harrogate

    Selfridges

    NOTED PEOPLE

    James Callaghan

    Margaret Thatcher

    Margaret Ann Jay, Baroness Jay of Paddington

    Maria Montessori

    Melanie Klein

    CREDITS

    Griffin Knipe - music

    Joanna Quinn of Beryl Productions - logo

     

    1 hr 16 min
  • Unfathomable Creatures and Bridging Realities (MARCUS COATES)

    Guest artist MARCUS COATES

    joins JILLIAN KNIPE to discuss his work via 'Welsh Incident' by Robert Graves. Published in 1929, this short poem is a retelling of an overhead conversation about "un-Welsh" creatures emerging from the sea.

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    Marcus and Jillian's conversation encompasses longing, empathy, humour, grasping, death, wolves, psychosis, parenting, migration, birds, badgers, unknowability, parenting, morality, predators, blindfolding, eagles, immigration and a willingness to be uplifted. Also: feeling inadequate, religious conformity, instinctive behaviours, war experiences, emptying yourself, the mundane, sounding pathetic, false destinations, exploitation of care, limitations of language, modes of relating, suspension of disbelief, de-centring of humanity, failure of the imagination, the ripple effect of artworks, plaster on a broken leg, stark realities of survival, travelling in the mind, proliferation of domestic cats, and the human need to buy in, to belong, to believe.

    MARCUS COATES

    @marcus_coates_

    'Conference of the Birds'

    katemacgarry.com/artworks/9111-marcus-coates-conference-for-the-birds-2019/

    'The Trip'

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEAuRv0xv8M

    'The Directors'

    artangel.org.uk/project/the-directors/

    whatsgoingon.org.uk

    'Sunbird for Palestine'

    bookworks.org.uk/publishing/shop/palestine-sunbird/

    'Dawn Chorous'

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF1uihdcZmY

    'The Last of its Kind'

    workplace.art/exhibitions/the-last-of-its-kind

    'Nature Calendar'

    katemacgarry.com/artworks/10446-marcus-coates-nature-calendar-2022/

    'Finfolk'

    COLLABORATORS

    Helen Macdonald 'H is for Hawk'

    Jeff Samples

    ARTISTS & PERFORMERS

    Brian Catling

    Fiona Curran 'Your Sweetest Empire is to Please'

    Helen Chadwick

    Marylin Munroe

    Richard Ayodeji Ikhide

    Richard Burton

    Thomas Bewick

    AUTHORS & BOOKS

    Anna Burns 'The Milkman'

    Flann O'Brien 'The Third Policeman'

    Robert Graves 'Welsh Incident'

    GALLERIES & ART ORGS

    Artangel

    Freize Art Fair

    Kate MacGarry

    Royal Academy

    The Serpentine

    FILM

    'The Boy and the Heron' Hayao Miyazake for Studio Ghibli

    RESEARCH ARTICLE

    theguardian.com/environment/2024/dec/12/why-birdsong-matters-more-than-you-think

     

     

     

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    1 hr 29 min
  • Symbolic Prose and Personal Politics (HELEN JOHNSON)

    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

     

     

    1 hr 29 min
  • Closure Difficulties and Performative Reality (ELEONORA AGOSTINI)

    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

     

    51 min
  • Social Mobility and Beyond Language (MELANIE JACKSON)

    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

             

                                                     

    1 hr 18 min
  • Revealing Histories and Gender Variations (JULIET JACQUES)

    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

    1 hr 3 min
  • Unwavering Sensitivity and Valuing Confusion (ANNA CLEGG)

    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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    Recorded at Cubitt Community Radio by Andi Armishah

    Music GRIFFIN KNIPE

    Production consultant LORI E ALAN

    Logo JOANNA QUINN of BERYL PRODUCTIONS

     

    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

     

    1 hr 6 min
  • Absent Mothers and Colonised Bodies (OLUKEMI LIJADU)

    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

    '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

     

     

     

    1 hr 11 min
  • Suppressed Voices and Transformative Communities (RORY PILGRIM)

    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.

     

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    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

    Site Gallery

     

     

     

    1 hr 12 min

About ART FICTIONS

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ART FICTIONS is a monthly, contemporary art meets literature programme, created by artist Jillian Knipe. Each guest artist selects a piece of fiction, which we both explore, then use as a lens…

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