Public Knowledge: New Radical with Aaron Bastani & Alina Kolar
Release Date: 05/07/2021
Conversations: Karimah Ashadu, Dr Clive Chijioke Nwonka, Alessandro Rabottini, and Leonardo Bigazzi
Camden Art Audio
This panel discussion explores the themes within Karimah Ashadu's exhibition 'Tendered' at Camden Art Centre, alongside the artist's wider practice. Listen to artist Karimah Ashadu in conversation with Dr Clive Chijioke Nwonka, Alessandro Rabottini (Artistic Director, Fondazione In Between Art Film), and Leonardo Bigazzi (Curator, Fondazione In Between Art Film).
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Conversations: Alex Kitnick and Nat Faulkner
Camden Art Audio
This recorded conversation brings Nat Faulkner into dialogue with Alex Kitnick, Associate Professor of Art History and Visual Culture at Bard College and faculty member of the Centre for Curatorial Studies. Focusing on Faulkner’s exhibition Strong Water, the discussion draws on Kitnick’s writing on frottage as both a technique and a conceptual position, exploring its relationship to memory, contact and material translation, and its renewed relevance within Faulkner’s work.
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Episode One: Resonant Networks: Art, Place & Practice
Camden Art Audio
Resonant Networks: Art, Place & Practice is a new two-part podcast series by interdisciplinary artist Evan Ifekoya, exploring the infrastructures that sustain creative practice in Lagos and beyond. In Episode One, Ifekoya is joined by Moni Aisida, Executive Director (GAS), and Magda Kaggwa, Comms & Projects Manager (Yinka Shonibare Foundation), for a conversation on building cultural ecosystems and nurturing artistic exchange.
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Episode Two: Resonant Networks: Art, Place & Practice
Camden Art Audio
Resonant Networks: Art, Place & Practice is a new two-part podcast series by interdisciplinary artist Evan Ifekoya, exploring the infrastructures that sustain creative practice in Lagos and beyond. Episode Two features Amanda Iheme, Igbo-Nigerian architectural photographer, writer and educator, in conversation with Ifekoya on the intersections of art, psychology, and the architectural landscape of Lagos.
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New Curators on 'akâmi-'
Camden Art Audio
Three of the New Curators, Nailah Reine Barnes, Jasmine Lee and Ugbad Yussuf sat down for a discussion around 'akâmi-' by Duane Linklater with Ethel (Trapper) Linklater, Tobias Linklater and Grey Plumes.
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RALLY Artist Commission 2025: Anna Howard and Matt Williams in conversation
Camden Art Audio
To accompany her artist commission for RALLY 2025, Anna Howard and our Public Programme Curator Matt Williams were in discussion about how her piece 'Record' will be realised at the festival.
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Conversations: Richard Wright & Martin Clark
Camden Art Audio
Artist Richard Wright and our Director Martin Clark discuss how Wright's artistic practices have been informed and influenced over time. Wright also gives an insight into his site-specific approach to painting and how his wall painting in Camden Art Centre's Gallery Three was manifested, produced and executed.
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Conversations: Gregg Bordowitz & Josephine Pryde
Camden Art Audio
Artist Gregg Bordowitz and Josephine Pryde discuss what it means to make art in the present moment and explore how established infrastructures shape and influence artistic practice.
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Conversations: 'American Genius: A Comedy' with Emily LaBarge, Michael Bracewell, and Lynne Tillman
Camden Art Audio
To mark the first UK publication of 'American Genius: A Comedy', author Lynne Tillman is joined by Emily LaBarge and Michael Bracewell for a discussion at Camden Art Centre.
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Conversations: Isabel Seligman & Matthew Krishanu
Camden Art Audio
Curator and writer Isabel Seligman discusses Matthew Krishanu’s works on paper and their relationship to his wider painting practice.
info_outlineThe New Radical is an online series of conversations between Arts of the Working Class and contributing writers for Verso Books, discussing what the new radical means today. Aaron Bastani and Alina Kolar try to determine The New Radical between the news, fact and fiction. They examine voices that make up the realm of thinking and unthinking the mainstream and the grass-roots.
Aaron Bastani is co-founder and Senior Editor at Novara Media and has a doctorate from the University of London. His research interests include new media, social movements and political economy. He has written for Vice, the Guardian, the London Review of Books and the New York Times and regularly appears as a commentator on the BBC and Sky News. He is the author of Fully Automated Luxury Communism, out now in paperback with Verso.