Refigure

Chris and Rifa are in London on a visual art binge. We talk about Now You See Us: Women Artists in Britain 1520-1820 at Tate Britain. We also argue about Judy Chicago: Revelations at the Serpentine Gallery. Rifa is reading the classic Theosophical Society book Thoughtforms: A Record Of Clairvoyant Investigation by Annie Besant and Charles Leadbeater. Chris is reading The Place Where Souls Are Born, A Journey Into The American South West by the Australian novelist Thomas Keneally. Thanks for listening!

More adventures in the arts and culture with Rifa and Chris. We watched the new doc Eno at the cinema, about the artist Brian Eno (obviously), which recuts itself and runs differently, every single time it's screened, making a review somewhat moot. Rifa went to an LGBTQI+ 'late' event at the Wallace Collection in London, while Chris went to Black Country, New Road's gaza benefit at Brighton Concorde.

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Adventures in culture and the arts, with Rifa and Chris. Thanks for joining us! This episode we're in Barcelona for Primavera Sound 2024 and we also checked out some art: photographer Jeff Wall — Possible Tales at La Virreina Centre de la Imatge, and painter and collagist Armand Boua at OOA Contemporary Gallery in Sitges.

Rifa is reading Mikaela Loach's book It's Not That Radical and, on a similar climate crisis jag, Chris is reading Andreas Malm's How To Blow Up A Pipeline.

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Chris and Rifa are in Paris to visit the Brancusi retrospective at Centre Pompidou and also stumble on the lost 1950s Parisian painter Requichot's abstract work. They also binge-watch season three of Sweet Tooth. Rifa is reading Katy Hessel's Great Women Artists substack and Chris is reading Adèle Oliver's essay Deeping It: Colonialism, Culture & Criminalisation of UK Drill, which is published as an Inklings edition. Thanks for listening.

Dipping into Brighton Festival, Rifa and Chris see Sunny Singh in conversation about her new book A Bollywood State Of Mind and watch Natalie Sharp's experimental solo mixed media performance Marra! connecting her heritage in Cumbria and the Seychelles. They also watch a bunch of Netflix stuff about coercive control. Rifa is reading Meiko Kawakami's Heaven and Chris is reading Roxanne De Bastion's The Piano Player Of Budapest.

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Chris and Rifa attempt to make it through Richard Gadd's controversial Netflix dramedy Baby Reindeer and enjoy Dunstan Bruce's Chumbawamba documentary I Get Knocked Down. Rifa goes to UXCampBrighton unconference. Chris is reading Richard Norris of The Grid's memoir Strange Things Are Happening, while Rifa is reading the Tate Magazine (again).

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Refigure podcast with Chris and Rifa returns for a 7th season of the homemade culture review show from the English south coast. This week, we're watching the TV series Shōgun on Disney+ and we went to Tate Modern to see Yoko Ono: Music Of The Mind. In 'What You Reading For?' Chris is reading the new Joel Morris dissection of comedy, Be Funny Or Die and Rifa bought Yoko Ono's little art book Grapefruit.

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To end 2023, Rifa and Chris reflect on their year in arts and culture, while drinking several glasses of the good stuff.

Chris and Rifa talk about Renaissance: A Film By Beyoncé. Rifa is reading Angela Davis - Freedom Is A Constant Struggle and Chris is reading Aflo The Poet's new poetry zine Warm Up.

Please send us your questions for next week's Best Of 2023 episode, when we'll try to answer anything you throw at us.

This week Rifa and Chris dug into two 'end of the world' TV things: they watched Sam Esmail's Netflix movie Leave The World Behind, starring Julia Roberts, Mahershala Ali and Ethan Hawke. They also watched the new TV series A Murder At The End Of The World, made by Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij (creators of The OA) which stars Emma Corrin and Clive Owen. Rifa is reading Sultana's Dream by Begum Rokeya, a classic Indian feminist sci-fi novella from 1905. Chris is reading Isaac Butler's book The Method: How The Twentieth Century Learned To Act.

Hey, dear listener, in two weeks, our end-of-the-year Refigure will include an AMA. So send us your questions and we'll try to answer them. Thank you!