Brush and Paper: 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.
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Conversations: Johanna Hedva and Phillippa Snow
Camden Art Audio
This episode marks the launch of Hedva's latest book, Your Love is Not Good. It features a reading and discussion with esteemed art critic Philippa Snow. The episode provides an insightful exchange, bridging literature, art, and contemporary issues at the time of recording in Autumn 2023. Johanna Hedva (they/them) is a Korean American writer, artist, and musician, who was raised in Los Angeles by a family of witches, and now lives in LA and Berlin. Hedva is the author of the novels Your Love Is Not Good and On Hell, as well as Minerva the Miscarriage of...
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Conversations: Naomi Pearce and Alice Hattrick
Camden Art Audio
The discussion recorded in Autumn 2023 is complemented by readings from Innominate by Pearce and Ill Feelings by Hattrick. These works reflect on the character of "queer evidence" and their shared interest in blending autobiography with historical narrative. Naomi Pearce is a writer and curator. Recent projects include Good Bad Books? At the Barbican (co-programmed with Anna Bunting-Branch) and Almost Conceptual, Matt’s Gallery, both in London. Her writing has been published by Art Monthly, Happy Hypocrite, Kunstverein Munich, e-flux Criticism and...
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Visibility and Invisibility in Contemporary Painting
Camden Art Audio
With Martin Clark, Darian Leader, Ralph Rugoff and Mohammed Sami Building upon themes and visual quotations from Sami’s exhibition , The Point 0, this panel discussion examines contemporary painting and its capacity to exist as repositories of information, invoking subjective interpretations of private and public experiences through various material and technical processes.
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Conversations: Mohammed Sami and Martin Clark
Camden Art Audio
On the occasion of Mohammed Sami's exhibition The Point 0 at Camden Art Centre, Director Martin Clark sat down with Sami to discuss his journey of artistic practice. Recalling memories from when he was a child and his relationship to art, Sami speaks of how he started painting and continued to develop his practice through various different stages of his career. The discussion walked through the exhibition as a whole, while also touching on wider conversations developing around the role of painting in contemporary society. As Sami himself points out during the talk, he does not align...
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Conversations: Tenant of Culture & Arwen P. Mohun
Camden Art Audio
How can discourses between seemingly disparate disciplines inspire art? Tenant of Culture and historian Arwen P. Mohun reflect on the importance of research in their respective practices and discuss the influence of Mohun’s book Steam Laundries: Gender, Technology, and Work in the United States and Great Britain, 1880-1940 on the exhibit Soft Acid.
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Assembling a Black Counter Culture: Techno at the End of the Future - Ep 2 Berlin
Camden Art Audio
Episode 2 focuses on past, present and future of the Detroit-Berlin axis. By means of an interview collage, writer and Make Techno Black Again activist DeForrest Brown, Jr., Lerato Khathi aka Lakuti, Boris Dolinski and Mark Ernestus explore how the rapid growth of techno and club culture in Germany after 1989 relates to the music’s origins in the Black neighbourhoods of the post-industrialised city of Detroit
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Assembling a Black Counter Culture: Techno at the End of the Future - Ep 1 London
Camden Art Audio
Led by DeForrest Brown Jr, author of Assembling a Black Counter Culture, in conversation with Steve Goodman (aka Kode9 and founder of Hyperdub) and Nkisi (co-founder of NON Worldwide).
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Conversations: Dave Beech and Esther Leslie
Camden Art Audio
For this episode of Conversations, Dave Beech and Esther Leslie navigate Olga Balema’s installation Computer to examine a range of formal, material and theoretical concerns. With a focus on the geographies of production, digital processes, architectural grids, artistic labour, and how domestic spaces have also functioned as workplaces since the onset of the pandemic.
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Earth and World: Echo-making: Where the Whistles Mingle
Camden Art Audio
On March 20, 1980, Mount St. Helens (traditionally known as Lawetlat’la or Loowit) erupted. A site connected with indigenous whistling spirits known as Tsiatko, Kristen Gallerneaux (Métis-Wendat) uncovers its sonic, material, and poetic resonances by focusing on folklore born from cataclysmic events, new mineral formats, and knowledge held within landscapes affected by geological and ecological transformation.
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As one of the first mineral substance to be transformed from a malleable to a durable state. Many societies perceive it as an animate substance permeated with "a spiritual energy and life-force" that retains a "thing-power", allowing it to be shaped into various forms.[1] [2]
Building on her ongoing research Steel looks at the agency of matter to illustrate how the distinct capacities of clay (in relationship with water and fire) shaped and facilitated, but equally constrained, people’s behaviour, resulting in distinctive social and material worlds. Focusing on the vitality of matter, Steel considers how “the materials themselves are determining—even actively responsible—for the final shape and manner by which the finished article can manifest”. [3]
[1] Boivin, N. 2012. From veneration to exploitation: Human engagement with the mineral world. In Soils, Stones and Symbols: Cultural Perceptions of the Mineral World; Boivin, N., Owoc, M.A., (Eds). London: Routledge, pp. 1–29. [2] Bennett, J. 2010.Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. [3] Attala, L. and Steel, L. 2019.Body Matters: Exploring the Materiality of the Human Body> Cardiff: Wales University Press.
Louise Steel is Professor in Near Eastern Archaeology at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, Lampeter. Her research focuses on materiality and the interaction of objects in people's social worlds. She is series editor of Materialities in Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Wales Press, and is currently editing a volume on Earthy Matters: Exploring Human Interactions with Earth, Soil and Clay.
Produced by: Zakia Sewell
Music by: Nicolas Gaunin
Design by: Mariana Vale
This series has been programmed as part of the Freelands Lomax Ceramics Fellowship.