Art Monthly Talk Show

Maria Walsh discusses Jo Spence’s photography and Emily Roysdon’s online performance for Tate Modern, Cherry Smyth discusses Nancy Holt's earthworks and Mikhail Karikis’s film installation at Wapping Project.

Sophie J Williamson discusses curating beauty after Gustave Flaubert, Peter Suchin on the collected writings of artist-educator Jon Thompson and Morgan Quaintance defends the term ‘practice’.

Paul O’Kane discusses the artwork as object in a world of immaterial labour and Omar Kholeif tracks the influences of Kraftwerk.

Christopher Townsend discusses the physicality of drawing; even the most apparently hands-off of artists are drawn to reveal their corporeality through the medium – albeit at one remove.

Morgan Quaintance makes the case for imaginative engagement as a form of participation, arguing that discussion around particpatory art has missed this important category of engagement: artwork that purposefully cues up and then directs the individual viewer’s imagination.

Omar Kholeif discusses western appropriation of art from the Arab world and Paul O’Kane redefines outsider art in an attempt decontextualise art as existing inside an ‘art world’.

John Douglas Millar discusses the Gerhard Richter exhibition at Tate Modern: ‘As this exhibition well demonstrates, Richter’s work contains a dual critique that acts as a painterly plague on both houses of the Cold War divide. There is the desire, on the one hand, to suspend and/or indict ideological thinking, coupled with the will to mourn its effects on his country and his people.’

Colin Perry discusses the vexed relationship between art and TV – where are the activist video artists?

Correction: Artworks by David Hall are misattributed to Tony Hill in this broadcast.

Mark Prince discusses the resistance of objects in relation to his article on sculpture ‘The Made v The Readymade’.

Laura McLean-Ferris discusses her essay on dissolution of the body in the internet age, and Morgan Quaintance follows up on his review of the book Digital and Other Virtualities.