Group Show

Group Show is an art podcast series by Caitlin Merrett King covering topics like work, collaboration and criticism. Series One was conceived of as part of 12o's S/S17 curatorial residency as an exploration into expanded curatorial practice. Each episode includes a mixture of interviews, sound commissions and regular features covering artist-led activity around the UK. Series Two was produced at The NewBridge Project, Newcastle for the Practice Makes Practice residency in March 2019, and features music, sound pieces and interviews from studio and associate NBP members.

Series 2 - Episode 9 08/16/2019

Series 2 - Episode 9 The (maybe) FINAL episode of Group Show Series 2! For this episode, Kat Bevan, Midge Ryall and Zara Worth, current participants of The Collective Studio at The NewBridge Project, present Ask Me Anything! Asking those important questions about being an artist today and discussing things they wish they'd known when they'd just graduated. /episode/index/show/groupshow/id/10737701

Series 2 - Episode 8 08/02/2019

Series 2 - Episode 8 The penultimate episode of Series 2 is a conversation between Ilana, Hannah, Helen, Lorna, Marwa and Katy who were all involved in artist Bobby Baker's Great and Tiny War project last year. The project, commissioned as part of 14-18-NOW, a series of World War I centenary art commissions, took place in an immersive installation in a house on Sidney Grove in Newcastle and featured an audio guided tour. The project aimed to highlight the role of women during wartime and the impact of war on mental health. /episode/index/show/groupshow/id/10731002

Series 2 - Episode 7 07/23/2019

Series 2 - Episode 7 This episode features an interview with Clare Gomez who is Studio and Programme Coordinator at The NewBridge Project, a new sound piece by Rotterdam-based artists Nick Thomas and Sophie Bates featuring interviews with fellow passengers on the ferry from Amsterdam to Newcastle and back. Then a conversation with Jon Cornbill an artist and DJ based in Gateshead about his youtube channel project, Camo045 and his trip to Arnold, Missouri to meet his YouTube idol Petro062. /episode/index/show/groupshow/id/10629764

Series 2 - Episode 6 07/02/2019

Series 2 - Episode 6 This episode features a conversation with Grace Denton (NBP studio holder), Craig Pollard and Will Edmondes chatting about Wild Pop. Wild Pop is a practice-led research group exploring the ways critical discourse might find a place within contemporary popular music practice(s). Wild Pop hosts music and art events, public talks and participatory workshops. /episode/index/show/groupshow/id/10371530

Series 2 - Episode 5 06/21/2019

Series 2 - Episode 5 This episode begins with an interview with The NewBridge Project's Artist Development Coordinator, Dan Russell. Then a new collaborative sound piece by Sam Blackwood and Luke Garthwaite followed by an interview with Holly Argent about the Women Artists of the North East Library. /episode/index/show/groupshow/id/10220294

Series 2 - Episode 4 06/06/2019

Series 2 - Episode 4 This episode features three sound pieces from TOT-TOT-TOTALALAZOLA, an exhibition by TOTALLER curated by Lesley Guy at The NewBridge Project in January-February 2019. In order of listening - 'Mithrayer Meditation', 'Solstice Meditation' and 'Totaller Deinitiation'. /episode/index/show/groupshow/id/10076456

Series 2 - Episode 3 05/24/2019

Series 2 - Episode 3 This episode features Niomi Fairweather, who is Programme Director at The NewBridge Project. I spoke to Juliet Fleming, a studio holder and director of Goldtapped gallery at NBP on skype whilst she was on residency in London. Also there are three poems by Collective Studio member Imogen Charvill Ryall, 'Things My Mother Gave Me', 'Process' and 'Mug'. /episode/index/show/groupshow/id/9897701

Series 2 - Episode 2 05/10/2019

Series 2 - Episode 2 This episode features 'A Working Thesaurus for Collaboration', a new text written by Gordon Douglas, a NBP associate member and artist based in Glasgow. And music by Gateshead-based artist Graeme Hopper aka Chlorine- 'Confession of a Broken Temperament', 'Velvet Teeth' and 'My Trying Hands, Lost and Tied' - you can hear more on bandcamp. /episode/index/show/groupshow/id/9688223

Series 2 - Episode 1 04/26/2019

Series 2 - Episode 1 This episode features an interview with Rebecca Huggan, the Director of NBP, sound pieces by Gobscure and marginendeavour and a chat between Tamara Micner and Yael Roberts who is currently on Collective Studio based at NBP. The next episode comes out on Friday 10th May and features a new project by Gordon Douglas and music by Graeme Hopper. Hope you enjoy listening! /episode/index/show/groupshow/id/9535517

Series 2 - Teaser! 04/19/2019

Series 2 - Teaser! Welcome to Series 2 of Group Show! This is a wee teaser of what's to come.. This series was produced by me (Caitlin Merrett King) for the Practice Makes Practice Residency that I did at The NewBridge Project in Newcastle in March 2019. The first episode comes out on Friday 26th April, when there will be a launch party at NBP, for more details go to their website or search 'Unintimacy' on Facebook. Hope you enjoy listening! (Image: Eva Duerden) /episode/index/show/groupshow/id/9459290

Group Show Live Show 10/26/2017

Group Show Live Show The LIVE SHOW was at Light Eye Mind on 30th September - sorry took us a while to get it online we’ve all got other jobs you know ;-) we reflected on Caitlin Merrett King’s five episode podcast series and broadcasting in the arts more generally with Zarina Muhammad along with conversations about structural racism in artist-led scenes, accountability, equity and policy. Followed by live sets from Group Show contributors Abigail's Tail (Joseph Hulme) and Molejoy accompanied by special guest Aidan Strudwick /episode/index/show/groupshow/id/8974457

Education 09/24/2017

Education The fifth and final episode of Group Show includes content from art educators and students, both alternative and institutional. We hear two recordings from Reading Room: meeting the universe half way, a project by artist Harriet Plewis with Grace Denton, Victoria Guy, Alice MacKenzie and Nicola Singh which happened in Sunderland earlier this year, followed by music selected by Jamie Hudson in response to the theme of this episode. Next is a conversation between Group Show regulars and fab artists Sophie Ch /episode/index/show/groupshow/id/8974460

Artist As Curator 09/10/2017

Artist As Curator The fourth episode of Group Show is about the ARTIST AS CURATOR, and discusses gallery committees, nepotism and what it means to wear two hats. We hear three segments from Transmission, an artist-led gallery in Glasgow, split across the first half of the episode, plus a recording of an email conversation that I had with Hamish Chapman and Freya Fullerton earlier this year (featuring the voices of Hannah Reynolds and Theo Vass). We then hear from Muesli, who are Meg Brain and Mia Cathcart, a curatorial duo w /episode/index/show/groupshow/id/8974463

Collaboration 08/27/2017

Collaboration This episode is about COLLABORATION. Firstly, Kerri Jeffris and Sophie Chapman introduce a choral recording based on deep listening practices developed by composer Pauline Oliveros, made at The Palace, a collaborative artist residency and festival in Poland. Then Sid and Jim, an artist duo from London discuss what collaboration means within their own joint practice, followed by another recording from Kerri and Sophie at The Palace, led by Giles Bunch. (Kerri, Sophie and Giles are in Molejoy, who you can hea /episode/index/show/groupshow/id/8974466

Criticism 08/13/2017

Criticism The second episode of Group Show is all about CRITICISM. First off, Gary Zhang talks to three different curators and critics about the relevance of art criticism today, followed by some musings on 'All What Jazz: A Record Diary' by Philip Larkin from Francisco Garcia, and a track responding to the theme of the episode from Jamie Hudson. Next, an interview with Morgan Quaintance by Lou from 12ø on how to get writing jobs and THAT Virginia Whiles Art Monthly podcast. We then hear the first half of 12ø's Bad /episode/index/show/groupshow/id/8974469

Work 07/30/2017

Work The first episode of Group Show is all about WORK. In the first half of the show, Bobby Sayers presents two poems on the subject, Molejoy give us their cover of Dolly Parton’s ‘Nine to Five’ recorded at Antiuniversity last year and Tom Holland chats about the philosopher Hannah Arendt. After an intermission from Tzuzjj.FM (James Harper and Louis Palliser-Ames), Gabrielle de la Puente and Zarina Muhammed of The White Pube give us their thoughts on criticism and tenderness in the first of their regular /episode/index/show/groupshow/id/8974472

Introducing Group Show 07/23/2017

Introducing Group Show Coming soon, a new podcast series by Caitlin Merrett King covering topics like work, collaboration and criticism - first episode comes out this Sunday 30th July !! /episode/index/show/groupshow/id/8974475

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