Guest artist ANNA BARHAM joins artist JILLIAN KNIPE to discuss her art practice via 'Companion Piece' by Ali Smith. Published in 2023 by Penguin Books, the novel explores language, meaning, relationships and contemporary politics in what may be seen as a way of bringing a form of conclusion to Smith's urgently written then quickly published, seasonal texts: Summer, Autumn, Winter, Spring.

ANNA and Jillian's discussion encompasses disfluencies, purity, transcription software, unfolding meanings, easy solutions, social spaces, silent conversations, showing off, undermining binary, performing language and dog eyebrows. As well as the body in the digital, pushing language around, stories being questions, and the pain of a pain within another body.

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'Magenta Emerald Lapis' 2009 The Tanks in Tate Modern til 10 Sep 2023

'Stilled Images' Tube Gallery in Palma Mallorca til 6 Aug 2023

ARTISTS

Laura Owens

Lindsay Seers

Moyra Davey

Nicola Bealing

Sophie Ruigrok

William Blake

WRITERS + BOOKS

Ali Smith 'The Accidental' 2005

Ali Smith 'How to be Both' 2014

Anna Barham 'Return to Leptis Magna' 2010

Anna Burns 'Milkman' 2018 voiced by Brid Brennan

Bridget Crone

Cherry Smith

Claudia Rankin

Elizabeth Fullerton

Gertrude Stein

Gustave Flaubert 'The Temptation of Saint Anthony' 1874

Nick Cave

Jennifer Higgie

Russell Hoban 'Ridley Walker' 1980

Judith Butler

Lisa Robertson 'The Baudelaire Fractal' 2020

Lisa Robertson 'Thresholds: A Prosody of Citizenship' 2018

Lisa Roberton 'Cinema of the Present' 2014

Plato 'Cratylus' 360BCE

GALLERIES + ORGANISATIONS

Banner Repeater

bookshop.org

Chelsea College

Flat Time House

Large Glass Gallery

401 Contemporary