What are you looking at?

This episode of What Are You Looking At? is a table conversation with Zara Sully, Pete Marseveen and Nour Abdullatif about the relationship between art and money, initially focussing on fundraising but then expanding to explore other facets.Zara Sully (they/them) is an artist, arts worker, curator, and researcher and director of Sawtooth ARI in Launceston, Lutruwita/Tasmania.Peter Marseveen (he/him) is a photographic artist, arts technician and activist based in Nipaluna/Hobart.Nour Abdullatif (she/they) is founder and director of Unassigned Gallery in Naarm/Melbourne. This episode is hosted and produced by Sharifah Emalia Al-Gadrie. What Are You Looking At? is presented by Contemporary Art Tasmania

This episode of What Are You Looking At? is a table conversation with Jade Lillie, Andy Hutson and Aunty Cheryl Mundy Trimanya, reflecting on collaboration and community engaged practice.Andy Hutson is a visual artist based in Nipaluna/Hobart and is the lead initiator and artist for the project Apologue Isle, which first exhibited at Contemporary Art Tasmania in 2024 and is, at the time of the episode release, showing at Burnie Regional Gallery.Aunty Cheryl Mundy Trimanya is a singer/songwriter, cultural educator, sculptor, and poet and is one of 34 collaborators on Apologue Isle as a set designer and maker and narrator for the piece The Sun, the Moon and the Caterpillar. Jade Lillie commissioned and curated ‘The Relationship is the Project’ — a resource book which has 40 different lived experience practitioners contributing insights about community engaged practice.This episode is hosted and produced by Sharifah Emalia Al-Gadrie. What Are You Looking At? is presented by Contemporary Art TasmaniaLinks: https://www.apologueisle.com/cheryl-mundy http://apologueisle.com/https://www.burniearts.net/Exhibitions/2025-Exhibits/Apologue-Islehttps://andyhutson.com/https://www.jadelillie.com/https://unsw.press/books/the-relationship-is-the-project/

This episode of What Are You Looking At? explores zines and zine culture, reflecting on the Contemporary Art Tasmania 2024 end of year exhibition, Paper Trail. Lead artists, Miranda Rogers, Jess Bateman and Leigh Rigozzi speak about the community building nature of zine-making and how zine culture is often based in sharing ideas and creating connections.This episode contains readings and excerpts from zines exhibited in Paper Trail by Beatrix, Fran Reeve, Niamh Marriott, Niccola Mudge, Siobhan Marriott and Timothy Hodge, narrated by producer Sharifah Emalia Al-Gadrie.Also included are readings and reflections from Paper Trail exhibition contributors Jade Irvine, Luke Cruddas and Tim Butcher.This episode also contains an excerpt from the Edge Radio broadcast of Xpress Radio which used their collaborative zine, created under the guidance of lead Paper Trail artist, Julia Drouhin, as a script to design their broadcast. Soundscapes and music are also provided by Xpress Radio, borrowing from an earlier work, Aquanebula, exhibited at Moonah Arts Centre in 2024.This episode was produced by Sharifah Emalia Al-Gadrie.Xpress Radio: ⁠https://www.edgeradio.org.au/shows/x-press-radio/⁠Small Press Zine Fair: ⁠https://www.facebook.com/smallpresszines/⁠Miranda Rogers: https://www.⁠instagram.com/miranda_h_rogers/⁠Leigh Rigozzi: https://www.instagram.com/leighrigozzi/Jess Bateman: https://www.instagram.com/jessbateman_/Julia Drouhin: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/julia_drouhin/⁠

Reflecting on Embraced in the Loving Arms of An Algorithm – v1.1 — curated by Jon Smeathers for Contemporary Art Tasmania in April 2024 — Sophie Penkethman-Young and Jon speak about intersections of their practices, algorithmic displacement and intervention and how care, cute and trust can be present in algorithm augmented curatorial models. This episode is hosted and edited by Sharifah Emalia Al-Gadrie and produced by Lisa Campbell-Smith for Contemporary Art Tasmania. 

A conversation with Leyla Stevens and Melanie Lane, reflecting on Balinese and Javanese dance, diasporic bodies working within and from traditional stories in contemporary practice, and the intersections of cultural knowledge and choreography.This episode was hosted by Sharifah Emalia Al-Gadrie and produced and edited by Lisa Campbell-Smith for Contemporary Art Tasmania. Sound courtesy of the artist, Leyla Stevens from the artwork 'Patiwangi, death of fragrance', 2021Leyla Stevens: https://leylastevens.com/Melanie Lane: https://melanielane.info/

For her final episode of What are you looking at? podcast Pip Stafford talks to Nadia Refaei, Alex Kelly, and Amy Spiers, asking them: What *can* art do?This episode explores how art can contribute to social change in the world. Nadia talks about the importance of exploring political identity through her work, Alex discusses how artists can collaborate with or contribute to social movements, while Amy shares how her work aims to highlight some of Australia's history of colonial violence. They emphasise that art can help unravel complex topics, tell stories, imagine futures, inspire conversations and act as a resistance tool, challenging ingrained structures and systems of thought.This episode was produced, edited and hosted by Pip Stafford for Contemporary Art Tasmania. Additional music from Blue Dot Sessions.Alex Kelly: https://echotango.org/ | https://unquiet.com.auNadia Refaei: https://www.nadiarefaei.com | https://www.instagram.com/tpanlutruwita/Amy Spiers: https://amyspiers.com.au/Zoe Samudzi: https://www.zoesamudzi.com/

This episode discusses Feras Shaheen and Jay Hennicke's exhibition at Contemporary Art Tasmania, Our Side of Things. The installation and associated programs were a vivid representation of freestyle football battles, workshops, and a celebration of the culture, incorporating dance, design, and sports. In this interview Feras recounts his experience combining his interest in dance and football, while Jay talks about his journey as a freestyle footballer that started at 14. The episode records their insights into this unique culture and its representation within the gallery. They share the inspiration behind aesthetics of the installation, freestyle football competition experiences, and their influences from other cultures and communities.Episode produced by Pip Stafford for Contemporary Art TasmaniaAdditional live audio courtesy of Feras Shaheen and Jay Hennicke from Our Side of Things main event, 26 August 2023https://contemporaryarttasmania.org/programs/our-side-of-things/

Artists are well-known pack rats. If you conjure up the stereotypical artist's studio in your mind, it might well be a sort of wunderkammer of materials of creation, inspiration and detritus. Artists also use collections, archives and the more orderly functions of taxonomy as material and conceptual underpinning. What do artists and archivists have in common? What are you looking at? host Pip Stafford explores the tensions between the past, the now, the subjective and the relational as it rubs up against the real, human lives and inspirations of artists. Featuring artist Ashe, artist and archivist Samara McIlroy and Gabbee Stolp talking about grief, online scams, the unruliness of digital memory, and the Sydney Olympics.**Editor's apology: this episode states that in Ashe's exhibition This Too Shall Pass, the performer was replaced with an image of the artist. This is incorrect - the photograph is not of the artist.**To read more about Ashe's Contemporary Art Tasmania exhibition, This Too Shall Pass and read Sebastian Henry-Jones' B-Theory: https://contemporaryarttasmania.org/programs/this-too-shall-pass/To read Gabbee Stolp's Inventory: https://contemporaryarttasmania.org/journal/The texts mentioned or quoted in this episode are (in alphabetical order of author name):Sara Ahmed, Happy Objects, The Affect Theory Reader (Melissa Gregg and Gregory J Seigworth, Duke University Press, 2010), p 29 - 51Kathy Carbone, Archival Art: Memory Practices, Interventions, and Productions, Curator The Museum Journal 53(2), 2020, p 257 - 263Elisabeth Kaplan, We Are What We Collect, We Collect What We Are: Archives and the Construction of Identity, The American Archivist 53(1), 2000, p 126 - 151Music for this episode is by Blue Dot SessionsWhat are you looking at? is produced for Contemporary Art Tasmania by Pip Stafford

Greed/Rakus/Geirig curator Lisa Campbell-Smith talks to lead artist Tisna Sanjaya. Interview translation by Daffa Sanjaya.The Jeprut artist community was founded in the 1980s in Bandung, West Java. Indonesian artist, Tisna Sanjaya is a leading figure in this community movement, and has gone on to produce many collaborative performance based art actions within this unique movement. Jeprut is a Sundanese term for a regenerative force. The performances held as part of Dark Mofo in partnership with Contemporary Art Tasmania and Project Eleven were a rare blend of contemporary, ephemeral, immersive spaces for shared experience steeped in traditional Sundanese spiritual practice understood through the global scope of art as activism.This project was presented by Contemporary Art Tasmania and Project Eleven in partnership with Dark MofoThis episode features a track by Jeprut Artist Collective called SinyurArtists: Bi Raspi, Yoyon Darson, Ayi Ruhat, Yaya SuryadiThis recording was engineered by Chris Townend, recorded at Frying Pan Studios at MONA. It is the first ever professional recording made by the musicians collectively.For more information about Greed/Rakus/Geirig click here: https://contemporaryarttasmania.org/programs/greed-rakus-geirig/

The C word is “class”. In this episode Pip Stafford and guest host, Andrew Harper, talk about the friction between class and art, featuring interviews with Mish Grigor and Miriam McGarry.Miriam McGarry’s Hidden Cities podcast: https://hiddencitiespodcast.net/Mish Grigor’s Class Act: https://aphids.net/projects/class-act/Music by Blue Dot SessionsEpisode produced, edited and hosted by Pip Stafford

What are you looking at? producer Pip Stafford and CAT Communications Co-ordinator Nadia Refaei took a visit to Broom and Brine farm in winter 2022. This episode is an interview with Broom and Brine's co-founder, artist, boxer and gardener, Grace Gamage. Listen now to hear more about her practice, and the history of plants.Grace's work featured in BIOGYM at CAT earlier in 2022: https://contemporaryarttasmania.org/programs/biogym/To read more about Broom and Brine: https://www.broomandbrine.com/This episode was produced by Pip StaffordAdditional music by Blue Dot Sessions

Tomoko Momiyama and Joel Stern in conversation at Contemporary Art Tasmania, speaking about the concepts and experience of creating 'Listening Within the Opacities of our Times and Places' at Contemporary Art Tasmania.Following a month-long residency in Lutruwita with Contemporary Art Tasmania, Japanese artist-composer Tomoko Momiyama presented a new collaborative work with Tasmanian artists, musicians and practitioners expanding upon her long-term research into the ethics and aesthetics of listening.Curators: Lisa Campbell-Smith and Joel SternCollaborators:Maggie Abraham (percussionist), Finn Clarke (sound recordist), Rosie Hastie (lighting assistant), Georgia Shine (cellist), Jon Smeathers (AV gallery technician), Joe Weller (trombonist), Ursula Woods (filmmaker)The exhibition and residency was funded by the Australia Japan Foundation and supported by Asialink Arts.For more information head to www.contemporaryarttasmania.org

Japanese composer and artist Tomoko Momiyama speaks to Pip Stafford about her collective sound practice.Tomoko Momiyama works internationally as a music composer, artist, dramaturg, and producer of multi-disciplinary art events, installations, and performances. Tomoko’s works, many of which are community-based and site-specific, have been performed throughout Japan, as well as in different parts of Asia, Europe, North and Central Americas, and Africa.www.tomokomomiyama.comSounds featured on this episode:'A Cave Dream' for Soprano, Period Clarinet, Period Violoncello, and FortepianoComposed by Tomoko Momiyama in 2010.Commissioned and performed by niwebyrth ensemble:Lilith Verhelst (soprano), Soren Green (period clarinet), Anton Baba (period cello), Tullia Melandri (period fortepiano)Performed at Korzo Theater in Den Haag, the Netherlands on Feb 12, 2010. 'Subli ng Karagatan : a Chant for the Sea Forest'Commissioned by the “33rd Asian Composers League Conference and Festival: Likha-Likas: Reconfiguring Music, Nature, and Myth” and composed during a month long residency in Batangas, Philippines.Performed by:Sinala Subli Dancers (Luisita M. Abante, Severino D. Cruzat, Beda M. Dimayuga, and Neri G. Manalo), SBC-PAO Repertory Brigid (Jan Jilliene M. Alday, Rhainne Cshyra M. Dimatatac, Veronica Mae E. Lalusin, Drecz Alecz A. Maderazo, Wendhyl M. Manalo, Michelle C. Marqueses, Ma. Zshalia Eleni M. Muñoz, Ma. Gloria Isabelle N. Pechay, Carl Joshua B. Seno, and Angela Denise S. Viceral), and the audience of the 33rd Asian Composers League Conference and Festival.Performed at Laiya beach in San Juan, Batangas, the Philippines on Nov 11, 2015. 'Code Purnama Hatiku'Commissioned by API Regional Project and Pemerti Kali CodePerformed by:Agus Supriyanto, Dani Koco, Dian Novita Sari, Gardika Gigih Pradipta, Ibnu Sutapa, Risma Kurniawan Riski, and Soyono.Performed at Jogoyudan village, Yogyakarta, Indonesia on Feb 2011.For more information about Tomoko Momiyama's project at Contemporary Art Tasmania: https://contemporaryarttasmania.org/programs/listening-within-the-opacities/

In this bonus, short episode of What are you looking at? Pip Stafford talks to Gay Hawkes about the experience of losing her home and studio during the 2013 Dunalley bushfires. Gay’s exhibition, featuring works made before and after the fires, continues at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery until August 2022: https://www.tmag.tas.gov.au/whats_on/exhibitions/current_upcoming/info/gay_hawkes_the_house_of_longingThis episode was produced and hosted by Pip Stafford.Music from Blue Dot Sessions.Additional audio from ABC News Australia.With many thanks to Gay Hawkes.

This episode uses Diana Baker Smith’s the Lost Hour as a starting point to explore three very different stories, of art, of culture and of loss.Pip Stafford talks to Fiona Fraser, Julie Gough and Diana Baker Smith about their work, and how loss and rediscovery has featured in their recent work and lives.What are you looking at? podcast is produced by Pip Stafford for Contemporary Art Tasmania.Music for this episode comes from Blue Dot Sessions.The Lost Hour was an exhibition at Contemporary Art Tasmania in 2022. For more information about this podcast and Contemporary Art Tasmania’s programs head to: contemporaryarttasmania.org

Dalam episode ini Christina Schott, jurnalis dan manajer proyek budaya, berbicara dengan empat anggota kolektif ruangrupa. Didirikan di Indonesia pada tahun 2000, ruangrupa adalah organisasi seni nirlaba yang berbasis di Jakarta. Pada tahun 2019 diumumkan bahwa mereka, secara kolektif, akan menjadi Artistic Director untuk dokumenter bergengsi lima belas di Kassel, Jerman.Podcast ini awalnya ditugaskan dan direkam pada tahun 2021 oleh organisasi seni yang berbasis di Melbourne The Substation for 'Platform: Indonesia' yang diprogram dan dikuratori oleh Kristi Monfries untuk Volcanic Winds.Contemporary Art Tasmania telah menerjemahkan wawancara ini untuk audiens berbahasa Inggris dan juga tersedia, versi bahasa Indonesia.Terjemahan sulih suara oleh: Kristi Monfries, Taufiq Tanasaldy, Adi Tahak, Stefanus Mario Henky Ang dan Mely Riyana.Lagu pertamaBand: KudaJudul: Lurus Ke depanLagu keduaBand: Orkes Keroncong Cafrinho TuguJudul: Oud BataviaPengeditan dan pencampuran audio oleh Brendan Walls.Tuan rumah: Lisa Campbell SmithInformasi lebih lanjut tentang ruangrupa dapat dilihat di sini: ruangrupa.id/en/Informasi lebih lanjut tentang documenta lima belas di sini: documenta-fifteen.de/en/

In this episode Christina Schott, journalist and culture project manager, speaks with four members of the ruangrupa collective. Founded in Indonesia in 2000, ruangrupa are a not-for-profit arts organisation based in Jakarta. In 2019 it was announced that they, as a collective, would be the Artistic Director for the prestigious documenta fifteen in Kassel, Germany.This podcast was originally commissioned and recorded in 2021 by Melbourne-based arts organisation The Substation for ‘Platform: Indonesia’ programmed and curated by Kristi Monfries for Volcanic Winds.Contemporary Art Tasmania has translated this interview for English speaking audiences and there is also available, an Indonesian language version.Voice-over translation by: Kristi Monfries, Taufiq Tanasaldy, Adi Tahak, Stefanus Mario Henky Ang and Mely Riyana.First songBand: The KudaTitle: Lihatlah Lurus Ke depanSecond songBand: Orkes Keroncong Cafrinho TuguTitle: Oud BataviaAudio edit and mix by Brendan Walls.Host: Lisa Campbell SmithMore information about ruangrupa can be found here: ruangrupa.id/en/More information about documenta fifteen here: documenta-fifteen.de/en/

This episode of What are you looking at? is a commission produced by Dr Lucreccia Quintanilla. Conchcast invites the listener on a journey into the smooth interior of the conch shell, to consider its history and its physical qualities.Conchcast features the following music:Conch Shell by Skinny Fabulous, Machel Montano & Iwer George Whāia Te Māramatanga by Rob Thorne [Short] Conch Shell Trumpets (Q'eros Authorities) Various Artists.Dr. Lucreccia Quintanilla is an artist, DJ, sound system operator and writer. She has recently completed her doctoral research at Monash University. Recent sound and written works include: On the volatility of noise, residual bass with AM Kanngieser for Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Austria, Brian Fuata; A Generous Opacity, for the Anti LIVE Art International Award publication, Finland. Records of Displacement for Disclaimer online Journal.

What do art prizes mean to artists? Is there an Olympics for the arts? Pip Stafford interviews Julie Ewington, Loren Kronemyer and Daniel Mudie Cunningham about the purpose and place of art prizes in Australia.Produced and edited by Pip Stafford.Additional audio for this episode comes from Abolish the Olympics by Pony Express.Music:Cheap Sunglasses by Kabbalistic Village https://soundcloud.com/kabbalisticvillageWinters Mist by Joseph McDade https://josephmcdade.com/

This episode is a special edition produced by Liquid Architecture and co presented by Contemporary Art Tasmania featuring interviews and audio from the recent instrument builders project as part of Mona Foma 2021 – a durational performance held at the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania.Instrument Builders Project’s (IBP) avant-garde, transdisciplinary and socially engaged approach has, over its previous four iterations in Indonesia, Australia and Japan, generated many fruits for the artistic communities involved. In short IBP is where artists invent, build, present and perform using invented ‘instruments’ that mix traditional and contemporary forms including sound sculpture, installation, improvisation and performance through international residencies. Each IBP is configured differently, however pre-pandemic iterations have consistently worked with an intensive 3-week international residency model, whereby new and alumni IBP artists work in a collaborative setting, culminating in an in-situ performance/presentation. IBP5 is a partnership project presented by Contemporary Art Tasmania, Liquid Architecture and Volcanic Winds. Curated by Kristi Monfries, Joel Stern and Lisa Campbell-Smith, featuring artists Richie Cyngler, Julia Drouhin, Dylan Sheridan and Pip Stafford IBP5 is supported by Australia Japan Foundation, Asialink, Regional Arts Fund, Mona Foma and The School of Architecture & Design, UTAS With very special thanks to Mara Schwerdtfeger (sound producer) and Mish Szekelyhidi (documentation and audio.