Camden Art Audio
Camden Art Audio presents a range of podcasts related to programming at London's Camden Art Centre, including: 'The Botanical Mind' drawing on some of the leading voices in the fields of science, anthropology, music, art and philosophy to discuss new ideas around plant sentience, indigenous cosmologies, Gaia alchemy and medieval European mysticism; 'Conversations' between artists and curators and 'Public Knowledge' which provides a platform for independent and expanded forms of publishing and distribution.
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Conversations: Johanna Hedva and Phillippa Snow
04/22/2024
Conversations: Johanna Hedva and Phillippa Snow
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 the Brain, a collection of poems, performances, and essays. Their albums are Black Moon Lilith in Pisces in the 4th House and The Sun and the Moon. Their work has been shown in Berlin at Gropius Bau, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, and Institute of Cultural Inquiry; The Institute of Contemporary Arts in London; Performance Space New York; Gyeongnam Art Museum in South Korea; the LA Architecture and Design Museum; the Museum of Contemporary Art on the Moon; and in the Transmediale, Unsound, and Rewire Festivals. Their writing has appeared in Triple Canopy, Frieze, The White Review, Topical Cream, Spike, and is anthologised in Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art. Their essay “Sick Woman Theory,” published in 2016, has been translated into 11 languages. Philippa Snow is a critic and essayist. Her work has appeared in publications including Artforum, The Los Angeles Review of Books, ArtReview, Frieze, The White Review, Vogue, The Nation, The New Statesman, and The New Republic. She was shortlisted for the 2020 Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize, and her first book, Which As You Know Means Violence, is out now with Repeater.
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Conversations: Naomi Pearce and Alice Hattrick
04/22/2024
Conversations: Naomi Pearce and Alice Hattrick
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 The White Review, among others. From 2018-2022 she was a member of the Rita Keegan Archive Project, a social history and curatorial collective, whose recent activity includes an exhibition at South London Gallery and the publication Mirror Reflecting Darkly with MIT Press. Innominate is her first novel. Alice Hattrick’s criticism and interviews have appeared in publications such as frieze magazine, Art Review and The White Review. Alice’s work has most recently been included in Whitechapel Documents of Contemporary Art: HEALTH (ed. Bárbara Rodríguez Muñoz, 2020) and Mine Searching Yours (Forma, 2020). They are the co-producer of Access Docs for Artists, made in collaboration with artists Leah Clements and Lizzy Rose. In 2016, they were shortlisted for the Fitzcarraldo Essay Prize. Ill Feelings, their non-fiction book on chronic illness, intimacy and mother-daughter relationships, was published by Fitzcarraldo Editions in 2021.
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Visibility and Invisibility in Contemporary Painting
04/25/2023
Visibility and Invisibility in Contemporary Painting
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
03/23/2023
Conversations: Mohammed Sami and Martin Clark
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 himself with any specific categories of art or painting. He does not typically paint portraits, or abstract pieces, or landscapes, instead he exists outside of these classifications that painting so often falls into. Clark and Sami go on to discuss the role of painting at present, how the practice is developing and where he as an artist sits within that conversation.
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Conversations: Tenant of Culture & Arwen P. Mohun
09/07/2022
Conversations: Tenant of Culture & Arwen P. Mohun
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
09/29/2021
Assembling a Black Counter Culture: Techno at the End of the Future - Ep 2 Berlin
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
09/29/2021
Assembling a Black Counter Culture: Techno at the End of the Future - Ep 1 London
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
08/18/2021
Conversations: Dave Beech and Esther Leslie
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
08/10/2021
Earth and World: Echo-making: Where the Whistles Mingle
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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Earth and World: Being Mud
08/03/2021
Earth and World: Being Mud
Using Ursula K. Le Guin’s essay “Being Taken for Granite” as a guide, choreographer, performer and writer Okwui Okpokwasili and curator Sophie J Williamson unravel relationships between the body and the soil to consider ways of archaeologically excavating and reading bodies—human, non-human and geological—to understand their ever-present dialogue with the past.
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Earth and World: Interactions with Clay
07/20/2021
Earth and World: Interactions with Clay
Building on her ongoing research into the agency of matter, professor Louise Steel examines the history of clay and how the cultural and technological knowledge of the earliest settled farming and urban communities were informed by people’s engagement with, and manipulation of, earthly materials.
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Public Knowledge: New Radical with John Merrick & Alina Kolar
05/07/2021
Public Knowledge: New Radical with John Merrick & Alina Kolar
The 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.
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Public Knowledge: New Radical with Maya Goodfellow & Alina Kolar
05/07/2021
Public Knowledge: New Radical with Maya Goodfellow & Alina Kolar
The 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. Maya Goodfellow and Alina Kolar speak about the understanding of the word Radical in relation to Immigration and Borders, Affect and Effect of Time, with regards to the ongoing impact of the pandemic, and what is within and beyond our control.
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Public Knowledge: New Radical with Aaron Bastani & Alina Kolar
05/07/2021
Public Knowledge: New Radical with Aaron Bastani & Alina Kolar
The 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.
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Public Knowledge: Flock Together
05/07/2021
Public Knowledge: Flock Together
Flock Together is a birdwatching collective for people of colour initiated to challenge and dismantle existing prejudices. Over the past year, every month, they have been organising walks around London’s green spaces. For this episode of Public Knowledge, Flock Together co-founder Nadeem Perera walks us through Hackney Marshes in East London. To explain what interested him in birdwatching, how he and Ollie Olanipekun came together to form the collective – and why birds can teach us all a thing or two.
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Conversations: Gina Buenfeld & Tamara Henderson
05/07/2021
Conversations: Gina Buenfeld & Tamara Henderson
Artist Tamara Henderson in conversation with Gina Buenfeld (Camden Art Centre Exhibitions Curator) co-curator of The Botanical Mind: Art, Mysticism and The Cosmic Tree. They discuss the concerns that run throughout Henderson's work including hypnosis, altered states, life processes, seasonal patterns and vegetal motifs.
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Conversations: Michael Marder & Martin Clark
05/07/2021
Conversations: Michael Marder & Martin Clark
Michael Marder, author of numerous books on plant philosophy, will be in-conversation with Camden Art Centre Director, Martin Clark, to discuss the significance of plants for our lives, ways of thinking, and relationships between human and non-human beings.
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What's Love Got To Do With It? Ariana Reines & Sophie Robinson
05/07/2021
What's Love Got To Do With It? Ariana Reines & Sophie Robinson
What's Love Got To Do With It? is a three-part podcast series about Radical Love. The final episode of this podcast series is a conversation between two friends: Ariana Reines and Sophie Robinson, poets and educators who look to spaces of hospitality for connection and kinship. Sharing their poetry, the pair discuss possibilities for care despite institutional cruelty, getting sober as an act of radical love, and how the Sun and Moon communicate very different truths.
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What's Love Got To Do With It? Alice Notley & Precious Okoyomon
05/07/2021
What's Love Got To Do With It? Alice Notley & Precious Okoyomon
What's Love Got To Do With It? is a three-part podcast series about Radical Love. In the second episode, poets Alice Notley and Precious Okoyomon converse together for the first time to discuss how they tune into interconnectedness, why dreaming together might forge collective states of belonging, and ask each other how love moves them and the world.
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What's Love Got To Do With It? CAConrad & LeAnne Howe
04/07/2021
What's Love Got To Do With It? CAConrad & LeAnne Howe
CAConrad and LeAnne Howe share an intensely personal conversation about First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln, who insisted she was tormented by an Indigenous Spirit – a reminder that her husband’s record on racial equality is fraught with violence & oppression; AIDS and loving during the Reagan years.
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Public Knowledge: Stop Making Sense
03/11/2021
Public Knowledge: Stop Making Sense
‘Stop Making Sense : Part 1 – Portals to understanding’ is a two-part online series, curated by Camden Art Centre’s Freelands Lomax Ceramics Fellow, Phoebe Collings-James. The work looks to unravel what it means to facilitate and hold spaces of knowledge sharing. In Part 1, Collings-James invites Serafine1369 and Daniella Valz Gen to consider how their practices of tarot, divination and performance can embody queer thinking around teaching in spaces outside of institutional structures. Rooted in spirituality, the artists consider how, through these shared practices and spaces, one can gain a deeper understanding of ourselves and find relief from alienation. Produced by Sandra Pierre White with music by Kelman Duran.
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The Botanical Mind: The Coloniality of Planting
07/31/2020
The Botanical Mind: The Coloniality of Planting
For the final podcast of the series, Ros Gray and Shela Sheikh introduce how planting was central to colonialism and explain why it is vital that we recognise the ongoing effects of colonial botany and the plantation system. They discuss how gardens – from botanical collections to municipal parks – are historical sites of exclusion and labour as well as leisure and enjoyment, detailing the hierarchies that exist within these spaces, and describing how artists have actively sought to decolonise these spaces through planting with reference to ongoing projects in London.
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The Botanical Mind: Queer Nature
07/17/2020
The Botanical Mind: Queer Nature
Queer Nature explores the little-known, often-overlooked and rare intimate behaviour of the botanical world. Investigating the relationships between ecological thought and queer theory to celebrate the multitude of shapes, gender, sexes and colours that exist around us. Landscape architect Céline Baumann describes the journey that led her to discover and examine diversity within the plant kingdom.
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The Botanical Mind: Gaia Alchemy
07/02/2020
The Botanical Mind: Gaia Alchemy
Dr Stephan Harding explains how Gaia Alchemy integrates the sciences of the Earth with alchemical approaches to psyche so we can live harmoniously within the limits of our planet. Although the development of science has given us many benefits, its predominance has made us into detached observers fundamentally disconnected from each other and from nature. And yet, in our own time, science has given us detailed knowledge about the evolution of our Earth – Gaia - whilst depth psychology in the guise of alchemy provides us with profound insights about the workings of the human psyche. Dr Harding holds a doctorate in ecology from the University of Oxford and is the Resident Ecologist and Deep Ecology Research Fellow at Schumacher College, where he co-founded (with Professor Brian Goodwin) and co-ordinated the MSc in Holistic Science for the last two decades. He is author of Animate Earth: Science, Intuition and Gaia, his first book. His forthcoming book is called Gaia Alchemy.
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The Botanical Mind: Hildegarde Von Bingen
06/18/2020
The Botanical Mind: Hildegarde Von Bingen
The Botanical Mind draws on some of the leading voices in the fields of science, anthropology, music, art and philosophy to discuss new ideas around plant sentience, indigenous cosmologies, Gaia alchemy, and medieval European mysticism. Produced by Alannah Chance, programmed by Matt Williams and presented by Camden Art Audio.
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The Botanical Mind: Plant Healing In The Amazon
06/03/2020
The Botanical Mind: Plant Healing In The Amazon
The Amazon Rainforest is the world's most abundant pharmacopeia - filled with countless plants that are used traditionally to heal physical, psychological and spiritual ailments. The traditional healers who live here say that they receive their knowledge as transmissions from the plants themselves during periods of solitary retreat in the jungle. In this podcast, Gina Buenfeld - Co-Curator of The Botanical Mind - describes some of her experiences in the Amazon rainforest alongside recordings of Justina - a Maestra (healer) from the Shipibo-Conibo people, an ethnic group living along the Ucayali River in the Amazonian rainforest in Peru - to provide a rare insight into physical and spiritual relationships with sacred plants. For the last three years, Gina Buenfeld (Curator, Camden Art Centre), been researching traditional plant healing in Europe, Central and South America. In particular, she has spent time in the Colombian, Peruvian and Brazilian areas of the Amazon Rainforest learning about the plant-knowledge and healing practices of indigenous, and mestizo, communities.
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The Botanical Mind: A New Model of Intelligent Life
05/18/2020
The Botanical Mind: A New Model of Intelligent Life
Leading scientist of plant cognition, Monica Gagliano (Australia), presents a new understanding of the vegetal world. She argues that, in order to understand plant sentience we need to radically rethink our definitions of intelligence and consciousness to move away from a human-centric model. Through a survey of plant capabilities from sight, smell and touch to communication, the podcast will challenge our notion of intelligence, presenting a vision of plant life that is more sophisticated than most imagine.
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