ART FICTIONS

Guest artist OLUKEMI LIJADU joins curator and PHD researcher PELUMI ODUBANJO  to discuss her multi-media art practice through the prism of 'The Stranger' (aka 'The Outsider' aka 'The Foreigner') by Nobel Prize winning writer Albert Camus. Published in 1942, the novella tells of an indifferent French settler who, soon after his mother's funeral, commits the senseless murder of an unnamed Arab man on a Algerian beach. Heralded in the west as a classic text which explores the absurd, their exchange questions the mono-critique which underlies this status, through their personal and uniquely individual experiences. For Olukemi, this is being Nigerian born and raised, where she was educated in the British system, going on to study philosophy at Stanford, USA. While Pelumi is British with Nigerian heritage.   Olukemi and Pelumi's discussion also encompasses psychoanalysis, philosophy, elusive racism, European critique, American critique, contradictory affection, self knowledge, segregated Algeria, compilation of memory, disregard for women, disregard for black people, anonymous Arab characters, ancestors speaking in the first person, the presence of absent women, who can make claims of objectivity, who can make claims of the absurd, women fading from the novel as male desire for them fades, the assumption that one must divorce one's positionality from how they engage with work for their opinion to be valid, the black woman as photographer and therefore narrator, as well as the radicalised and colonised body.    Please support the production of this podcast via https://www.patreon.com/ARTFICTIONSPODCAST Contact Art Fictions via artfictionspodcast@gmail.com Follow Instagram @artfictionspodcast OLUKEMI LIJADU olukemilijadu.com insta @kemlij contact@kemkemstudio.com 'Guardian Angel' commissioned by ICA 2022 ARTISTS + EXHIBITIONS  Atong Atem Kahlil Joseph 'BLKNWS' 2018 ongoing Theaster Gates Wura-Natasha Ogunji 'A World in Common: Contemporary African Photography' at Tate Modern til 14 Jan 2024 'Genetic Automata' by David Blandy and Larry Achiampong at Wellcome Collection til 11 Feb 2024 BOOKS + AUTHORS + FILM Frantz Fanon Fred Moten 'Black and Blur' 2017 Harper Lee 'To Kill a Mockingbird' 1960 James Baldwin 'The Fire Next Time' 1963 Jane Austen 'Pride and Prejudice' 1813 Lola Olufemi Paul Gilroy 'The Black Atlantic' 1993 Saidiya Hartman 'Lose Your Mother' 2006 Saint Omer 2022 director Alice Diop Timothy Ogene 'Seesaw' 2021 Toni Morrison MUSICIANS Aretha Franklin Bob Marley Christopher Williams Frankie Knuckles Lee Scratch Perry Rokia Traoré Whitney Houston GALLERIES + INSTITUTIONS Sanford University Institute of Contemporary Art Tate Modern V.O Curations      

Guest artist ANNA BARHAM joins artist JILLIAN KNIPE to discuss her art practice via 'Companion Piece' by Ali Smith. Published in 2023 by Penguin Books, the novel explores language, meaning, relationships and contemporary politics in what may be seen as a way of bringing a form of conclusion to Smith's urgently written then quickly published, seasonal texts: Summer, Autumn, Winter, Spring. ANNA and Jillian's discussion encompasses disfluencies, purity, transcription software, unfolding meanings, easy solutions, social spaces, silent conversations, showing off, undermining binary, performing language and dog eyebrows. As well as the body in the digital, pushing language around, stories being questions, and the pain of a pain within another body. Please support the production of this podcast via patreon.com/ARTFICTIONSPODCAST.  And you're welcome to contact the team directly on artfictionspodcast@gmail.com and follow what's happening on Instagram @artfictionspodcast.  ANNA BARHAM annabarham.net insta @banana_harm apria.artez.nl/zyx 'Magenta Emerald Lapis' 2009 The Tanks in Tate Modern til 10 Sep 2023 'Stilled Images' Tube Gallery in Palma Mallorca til 6 Aug 2023 ARTISTS Laura Owens Lindsay Seers Moyra Davey Nicola Bealing Sophie Ruigrok William Blake WRITERS + BOOKS Ali Smith 'The Accidental' 2005 Ali Smith 'How to be Both' 2014 Anna Barham 'Return to Leptis Magna' 2010 Anna Burns 'Milkman' 2018 voiced by Brid Brennan Bridget Crone Cherry Smith Claudia Rankin Elizabeth Fullerton Gertrude Stein Gustave Flaubert 'The Temptation of Saint Anthony' 1874 Nick Cave Jennifer Higgie Russell Hoban 'Ridley Walker' 1980 Judith Butler Lisa Robertson 'The Baudelaire Fractal' 2020 Lisa Robertson 'Thresholds: A Prosody of Citizenship' 2018 Lisa Roberton 'Cinema of the Present' 2014 Plato 'Cratylus' 360BCE GALLERIES + ORGANISATIONS Banner Repeater bookshop.org Chelsea College Flat Time House Large Glass Gallery 401 Contemporary    

Guest artist MIKHAIL KARIKIS joins poet and art critic CHERRY SMYTH to discuss his art practice via 'Human Acts' by Han Kang, 2016 published by Granta Books. Set in 1980 South Korea, the novel tells the gruelling story of a violently suppressed student uprising and the inevitable fallout from the original trauma. MIKHAIL and CHERRY's discussion encompasses trust, courage, coalminers, eco-activism, protest and pearl-divers. As well as chance encounters, female superheroes, community collaboration, violent suppression, active listening, self censorship, activist imaginary, heteronormative language, acoustics of resistance, Greek working class, repercussions of trauma, our relationship to the earth, sounds to engender change, giving over artistic power, speaking on behalf of the dead, sound as a sculptural material, a tsunami of screaming, plus being out of tune with ourselves, our social context and the environment. Please support the production of this podcast via patreon.com/artfictionspodcast. And you're welcome to contact the team directly on artfictionspodcast@gmail.com and follow what's happening on Instagram @artfictionspodcast.   MIKHAIL KARIKIS Greek-British artist based in London & Lisbon, working in video, sound and performance. mikhailkarikis.com @mikhailkarikis 'Because We Are Together' National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens 28 Jan - 8 Oct 2023 'The Weather Orchestra' 2023 'Ferocious Love' 2020 Tate Liverpool as recommended by Laura Cumming in 'The Guardian' 'I Hear You' 2019 'No Ordinary Protest' 2018 'The Chalk Factory' 2017 Aarhus Denmark, commissioned by European Capital of Culture 'Sounds from Beneath' 2011-2012   CHERRY SMYTH 'If the River is Hidden' co-authored with Craig Jordan-Baker 'Famished'   ARTISTS + MUSEUMS + PRACTITIONERS Ceri Hand HOME Manchester Mathilda Bevan Tate Liverpool The Granary Gallery Thelma Hubert Gallery The Showroom Whitechapel Gallery   BOOKS + AUTHORS + WRITERS Alison Branagan 'The Essential Guide to Business for Artists and Designers' 2011 Hartmut Rosa 'Resonance: A Sociology of Our Relationship to the World' 2021

Guest artist ROSIE GIBBENS joins VANESSA MURRELL of DATEAGLE to discuss her art practice via 'Life Ceremony' by Sayaka Murata, 2022 published by Granta Books. This off-kilter collection of short stories brings a grotesque whimsy to fables of cultural norms, including society rituals that develop when the human species is endangered .    ROSIE and VANESSA's discussion encompasses ritual, nothingness, meatarianism, shit and vomit . As well as ribcage tables, mocking Freud, recycling flesh, consuming oneself, anatomical Venus's, muscle suits, pointless products, human hair jumpers, an alien point of view, dried stomach lampshades, humans resembling cockroaches, eating Spongebob figurines, and to borrow Rosie's words, it's all kinda dark and kinda beautiful .    ROSIE GIBBENS rosiegibbens.com @rosiegibbens   ARTISTS + CURATORS  Becca Pall-Fry Helen Chadwick Marcel Joseph Mike Stubbs   BOOKS + WRITERS Albert Camus Aldous Huxley 'Brave New World' 1932 Angela Carter Barbara Creed 'The Monstrous Feminine' 1993 Julia Kristeva Megan Milks 'Slug and Other Stories' 2021 Perfume Steven King 'Carrie' 1974   FILM 'Alien' 1979 'Evil Dead II' 1987 'Ex Machina' 2015 'Hellraiser' franchise 'RAW' 2017 'The Human Centipede' 2009, 2011, 2015   GALLERIES + EXHIBITIONS GIANT 'Body Poetics' 2023 Museum of the Home Pictorum Gallery The Bomb Factory      

Guest artist mentor CERI HAND joins artist and writer JILLIAN KNIPE to discuss her creative practice via 'The Blazing World' 2014 by Siri Hustvedt and published by Hodder & Stoughton. Longlisted for the Booker Prize and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, it tells tales of the life of artist Harriet Burden. Presented across snapshots of journal entries and testimonies by her family, friends and colleagues, the accounts are compiled and edited by academic researcher I.V. Hess after Harriet's death. Furious with the cultural misogyny that's left her all but ignored by the New York art world, Harriet hides her identity behind three male fronts in a series of exhibitions. While their huge success goes to prove her point, when she finally unmasks herself, not everyone believes her.   CERI HAND cerihand.com @cerihand artistmentor.co.uk ARTISTS Christo Vladimirov Javacheff 1935–2020 Eva Hesse 1936-1970 Evlyne Laurin, Creative Legacy Steward and Fine Art Appraiser Jane Hayes Greenwood Sir Horace Shango Ové CBE Yayoi Kusama Zak Ové WRITERS + BOOKS Cherry Smyth Dan Sullivan with Dr Benjamin Hardy '10X is Easier than 2X: How World-Class Entrepreneurs Achieve More by Doing Less' 2023 John Milton 'Paradise Lost' 1667 John Steinbeck 'Of Mice and Men' 1937 Margaret Lucas Cavendish 1623-1673 Rachel Cusk INSTITUTIONS + GALLERIES Castor Gallery ICA Somerset House 'Get Up Stand Up Now: Generations of Black Creative Pioneers' 2019 The Women's Art Library 'Make' magazine

Guest artist SUSAN SCHUPPLI joins art critic and author ELIZABETH FULLERTON to discuss her art practice via 'The Second Body' 2017 by Daisy Hildyard, published by Fitzcarraldo Books. Listed by the 'White Review' on their Books of the Year 2018, the essay presents the dissolving boundaries between all life on earth, with an updated dualism between the animal bodies in which we eat, breathe, and sleep and the virtual bodies of our global connections and environmental impacts. Susan and Elizabeth discuss dissolving boundaries, plausible deniability, beached whales, deep time, gathering poems, chattering glaciers, foetus ownership, critical proximity, living on ice, images creating barriers, Princess Diana's wedding dress, bodies eating distance, and changing paradigms. Plus, they question where environmental knowledge resides and which modes of representation might inspire action.   SUSAN SCHUPPLI susanschuppli.com @susan_schuppli 'Cruel Radiance' Backlight Festival, Finland  - June 2023 Art & Industry Triennial, Dunkerque France - June 2023 'Re/Sisters', Barbican London 5 Oct 2023 - 14 Jan 2024 LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Spain    'Material Witness' 'Can the Sun Lie'  'Cold Rights' 'Freezing Deaths' 'Weaponising Water' 'Icebox Detentions' 'Listening to the Ice' 2023   EVENTS   'Earthrise' is a photograph of Earth and some of the Moon 's surface that was taken from lunar orbit by astronaut William Anders on 24 December 24 1968 during the Apollo 8 mission.   Ultrasound was first used for clinical purposes in mid 1950s but not used widely in British and American hospitals till 1970s for foetus imaging. In April 1965, 'Life' put a photograph called Foetus 18 Weeks on its cover which caused a sensation. The issue became the fastest-selling copy in the magazine's entire history. The Keeling Curve is a graph of the accumulation of carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere based on continuous measurements taken at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii from 1958 to the present day.  BOOKS + THINKERS Christina Elizabeth Sharpe, American academic, Professor of English Literature and Black Studies at York University, Toronto, Canada Daisy Hildyard 'The Footprint's Story: Princess Diana's Jewels and Carbon' Orion magazine, Winter Issue 30 Nov 2022 Dr Adrian Lahoud, Dean of the School of Architecture, Royal College of Art Joseph Conrad Silvia Federici 'Caliban and the Witch: : Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation' 2004 Sven Oskar Lindqvist 'Exterminate all the Brutes: One Man's Odyssey into the Heart of Darkness and the Origins of European Genocide' 2007 Sheila Watt-Cloutier 'The Right to Be Cold: One Woman's Story of Protecting Her Culture, the Arctic and the Whole Planet' 2015 Ursula K Le Guin 'The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction' 1986 FILM + DIRECTORS Chantal Akerman 'Nostalgia for the Light' Patricio Guzmán, 2010 Stanley Kubrick '2001: A Space Odyssey' 1968 ORGANISATIONS Bergin Kunsthalle, Norway Berlin Biennale Forensic Architecture Goldsmiths University Sculpture Center, New York Toronto Biennial of Art

Guest artist SOPHIE RUIGROK joins VANESSA MURRELL of DATEAGLE to discuss her art practice via 'Nobody Belongs Here More Than You' 2007 by Miranda July, published by Canongate Books. Winner of the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, it conveys 16 stories of lonely characters desperately trying to make connections. Their means vary from quirky to the absurd and mostly only result in the disillusion of coinciding in the same space.  Sophie and Vanessa talk about escape, clouds, tears, Buddhism, role playing, manifesting reality, body leaking, collapsing flesh, wearing wigs, cold showers, hypersensitive characters, contemporary spiritualism, movie-set extras, expressing the psyche, masks as mediators, disconnected lonely people, swimming on the carpet, beautifully weird realisations about humanity, the loss of fantasy, appropriating from art history, being allergic to the world, true signs of falsehood, and Sophie using her fingers to make images of fingers before dipping her toe into oil paint. SUPPORT this podcast via patreon.com/ARTFICTIONSPODCAST SOPHIE RUIGROK @sophie.ruigrok 'In Three Acts' Huxley Parlour 27 April - 27 May 2023 'Stilled Images' Tube Gallery, Mallorca opens 10 June 2023 ARTISTS Alfred Stieglitz Andrea Mantegna Francis Bacon Gian Lorenzo Bellini 'The Ecstasy of Saint Theresa' 1652 Hans Memling, hellscapes Jan and Hubert Van Eck 'The Ghent Alterpiece' Belgium 1432 Katarina Caserman René Magritte GALLERIES Marlborough 'Love is the Devil: Studies after Francis Bacon' 2022 Tabula Rasa 'It's Better to be Cats Than be Loved' 2022  The Sunday Painter 'Today I Feel Relevant and Alive' 2022 WRITERS Carl Jung Susan Stewart 'On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection' 1984 FILMS 'Interstellar' 2014 'The Truman Show' 1998 'Thelma and Louise' 1991  

Guest artist NICOLA BEALING joins JILLIAN KNIPE to discuss her work via 'Pastoralia' 2020 by George Saunders. Published Riverhead Books, the book contains six short stories each presenting snapshots of contemporary American existence delivered in a deadpan, razorsharp tone, and enshrouded with dark humour. We talk about dark humour, executions, internal panic, male strippers, 18th century working class fabrics, Goya being God, cruelty, Stasi prison, cave people, hazardous shitholes, bum cracks, lungs filling with blood, penis simulators, pictures popping up behind your eyes, boring objects, unaffordable medical care, apprenticeships, being trapped, funny voices, hot sexy breeding age, slogans of false hope, bags of human waste, hiding what's underneath and the tiny details that make up a life.   PLEASE SUPPORT this podcast via https://patreon.com/ARTFICTIONSPODCAST   NICOLA BEALING nicolabealing.co.uk @nicola_bealing 'The Borough' at Matt's Gallery London 15 March - 16 April 2023 ARTISTS Alice Browne Alice Neel Benjamin Britten Erich Heckel Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Francisco Goya George Grosz Hieronymus Bosch Montagu Slater Otto Dix Pieter Bruegel the Elder Sidney Nolan BOOKS + AUTHORS Aldous Huxley 'Brave New World' 1932 Broadside Ballads E M Forster Federico Garcia Lorca 'Blood Wedding' 1932 'Face' magazine George Crabbe 'Peter Grimes' Letter XXII of 'The Borough' 1810 George Saunders 'A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life' 2021 GALLERIES + MUSEUMS + GALLERISTS British Museum Foundling Museum Museum of Cornish Life (Helston)  Royal Cornwall Museum (Truro) Salisbury Art Centre Tim Dixon    

Guest artist FLORENCE PEAKE joins ELIZABETH FULLERTON to discuss her multi-faceted, performance-led art practice via 'Stone Butch Blues' 1993 by Leslie Feinberg. It tells the story of life as a butch lesbian in 1970s, working class America and is particularly unique due to the writer gaining full rights to the text, making it fully accessible online and for free. Florence and Elizabeth talk about hysterical clay, collapsing paintings, mark-making without sight, rigid heteronormative conventions, the patriarchy's rule which brings a perpetual fear of violence, butch lesbians in the 70s, drag queens, sex workers and femmes, extractions of earthly matter and energy, the dance floor as a space for belonging and expression, splattering the audience with clay, tenderness and care, finding comfort in the face of shame, and encountering ourselves imaginatively in relationship to objective reality. Please support this podcast via patreon.com/ARTFICTIONSPODCAST FLORENCE PEAKE florencepeake.com insta florence_peake Richard Saltoun Gallery 2023 16 April - 2 July 'Factual Actual Ensemble' at Southwark Park Galleries then touring to Fruitmarket Gallery and Towner Gallery 2023 11 Feb - 7 May 'Earth Spells: Witches of the Anthropocene' at RAM Museum, Exter with Caroline Achaintre, Emma Hart, Kris Lemsalu, Mercedes Mühleisen, Grace Ndiritu, Florence Peake, Kiki Smith, Lucy Stein 2023 18 Feb - 6 May 'Body Poetics' at Giant, Bournemouth with Penny Slinger, Helen Chadwick, Florence Peake, Louise Bourgeois, Judy Chicago, Charlotte Edey, Enam Gbewonyo, Rosie Gibbens, Guerrilla Girls, Evan Ifekoya, Ad Minoliti, Senga Nengudi, Niki De Saint Phalle, Carolee Schneemann, Tai Shani, Kiki Smith, Rae-Yen Song, Holly Stevenson curated by Marcelle Joseph and Bella Pelly-Fry 2021 Factual Actual at National Gallery 2021-22 Crude Care for British Art Show at Aberdeen Art Gallery then touring UK 2019 Apparition Apparition at Venice Biennale 2018 RITE: on this pliant body we slip our WOW! at De La Warr Pavillion 2015 Voicings for Block Universe at Modern Art Oxford, Somerset House ARTISTS + PERFORMERS Cameron Armitage Carolee Schneeman 'Meat Joy' Donald Judd Emma Hart Eve Stainton Fabian Peake Igor Sravinsky 'The Rite of Spring' Gabi Agis Grayson Duitu Jo Moran Jordan McKenzie Kate Bush Lee Bowie Lindsey Kemp Mercedes Grower Michael Clarke 'I am a Curious Orange' Rosemary Butcher Siobhan Davis Studios Tai Shani The Fall Yvonne Rainer BOOKS Juliet Jacques 'Variations' 2021 Carmen Maria Machado 'In the Dreamhouse' 2019 Octavia Butler

Guest author JENNIFER HIGGIE joins JILLIAN KNIPE to discuss her art writing practice via 'Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead' by Olga Tokarczuk. It's a compelling murder mystery set in a small mountainside village in Poland. As Winter caretaker of neighbouring properties, Janina spends her spare time translating the poems of William Blake into Polish with her friend and ex-student Dizzy.  We talk about how women found agency within the rise of spiritualism, telephoning the dead, art history as a work in progress, tigers of wrath, the golden age of female detective fiction, hanging out in Greece, bridge builders, astrology, precognitive dreams, human cruelty, climate crisis, bad writers, ghosts, eccentricities that make complete sense, taking your brain with all of its complications wherever you go, and Jennifer's passion for histories of exclusion, particularly those of women. SUPPORT this podcast via https://www.patreon.com/ARTFICTIONSPODCAST JENNIFER HIGGIE jenniferhiggie.com instagram jennifer_higgie BOOKS + AUTHORS + PUBLISHERS Agatha Christie Annie Besant 'Thought Forms' 1906 Brian Dillon 'Affinities' 2023 Dorothy L Sayers Fitzcarraldo Editions Georgio Vasari 'The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects' 1550 Griselda Pollock Hetty Judah Jennifer Higgie 'The Other Side: A Journey into Women, Art and the Spirit World' 2023  Jennifer Higgie 'The Mirror and the Palette' 2021 Jennifer Higgie 'Bedlam' 2006 J M Coetzee 'The Childhood of Jesus' 2013 Katie Hessel Linda Nochlin Madame Blavatsky Margary Allingham Michael Bracewell 'Unfinished Business' 2023 Orion Publishing Group Virginia Woolf William Blake ARTISTS  Dean Kenning Donna Huddleston 'Brighter' 2021 Frances Richardson Georgiana Houghton Helen Johnson Hildagard of Bingen Hilma af Klint Homer 'Odyssey' 1614 Kazimir Malovich Katie Pratt Margo Neale Mary Wigman Paul Klee Richard Dadd 'The Fairy Fellers Master Stroke' 1855-64 Sarah Lucas Tracy Emin Wassily Kandinsky 'Composition V' 1911 GALLERIES + MUSEUMS + CURATORS Cabaret Voltaire, Zürich 'Dada' Camden Arts Centre 'Making and Unmaking' 2016 Duo Olowu Hugh Lane, Dublin Margo Neale, First Nations Curator, Museum of Australia, Canberra Modernity, Stockholm MUMA, Monash University, Melbourne Simon Lee, London Tate Britain Tate Modern 'A Year in Art: Australia 1992' The Box, Plymouth 'Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters'  OTHER BBC3 'The Essay' Jennifer Higgie 'Artists and the Spirit World' Emanuel Swedenborg Frieze magazine Jennifer Higgie scriptwriter 'I Really Hate My Job' 2007 Lucracia Dalt Marie Curie Mark Tanner Award Thomas Edison                

Guest artist KATIE PRATT joins JILLIAN KNIPE to discuss her work via 'Once in Europa' 1987 by John Berger. As part of the 'Into Our Labours' trilogy, the novel is set in an alpine village and describes grounded charm and limiting isolation against the encroaching industrialisation of urban life.   We talk about the disorganised surface, organic and geometric, the French Alps, industrial revolution, the mass of strike actions across UK industries right now (and for good reason), a certain lack of idealism, sharing of the planet's resources, how communities might organise themselves, and the myriad of invisible, and often complex systems, that structure our lives and Katie's paintings.   PLEASE SUPPORT this podcast via https://www.patreon.com/ARTFICTIONSPODCAST   KATIE PRATT katiepratt.net instagram katiepratt_artist 'Reverse Parking' curated by Katie Pratt and Peter Lamb, 23 Feb - 12 Mar 2023 Thames-side Studios Main Gallery with Gordon Cheung, Will Cruickshank, Cristallina Fischetti, Oona Grimes, Paul Hosking, Peter Lamb, Katie Pratt   BOOKS 'A Painter of Our Time' 1958 John Berger 'Ways of Seeing' 1972 John Berger 'Why Look at Animals' 2009 John Berger ARTISTS Andrew Bick Franz Haus Jonathan Parsons Johannes Vermeer John Bunker  Jackson Pollock Lee Krasner L S Lowry Matt Dennis Nan Goldin Peter Lamb Rosalind Davis Vera Mulnár Wassily Kandinsky Willem de Kooning OTHER 'All the Beauty and the Bloodshed' 2022 Guggenheim, New York 'Jean de Florette' 1999 Karl Marx Tate Galleries, London Thames-side Gallery and Studios Turps Painting Course Victoria & Albert Museum, London 'Ways of Seeing' 1972 BBC      

Guest artist PAOLA BALLA joins Jillian Knipe for this special edition of ART FICTIONS | Culture Exchange which is part of the UK/Australia Season, a partnership between the British Council and the Australian Government’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Paola and I discuss colonisation in a place widely known as Australia, and its corresponding cost to herself, her family and her extensively long ancestral lineage, via poet Ellen van Neerven's 'Comfort Food' published in 2016. We dive into Ellen's magically rich text as she describes the simplest of dishes alongside racist cruelty. All with the upper hand of calm reflection and a delicious dollop of sensuality. Paola is extremely generous in sharing her stories of Indigenous hardship which she relays with clarity, humour and warmth . Our conversation expands on Paola's art practice which includes sculptural installation, curation and academia. We hear of the nature of bush dying and the shocking reality of forced encampment of her people, which continued into recent history. Paola shares her take on the mythological Mok Mok with her wild hair and no underwear, as she serves up well meaning treats in track pants and stilettos.    PAOLA BALLA paolaballa.art instagram paola_balla EXHIBITIONS  'Treaty' 2021 'Wilam Biik' 2021 WORKS 'Banner Time' 2021 'Murrup (Ghost) Weaving in Rosie Kuka Lar (Grandmother's Camp)' 2021 'Unconditional Love Space' 2020 BOOKS & WRITERS Ellen van Neerven 'Comfort Food'  ARTISTS Vernon Ah Kee Madeleine Kelly 'Spectra of Birds' 2014-2015      

Guest artist INGRID BERTHON-MOINE joins Elizabeth Fullerton for this special edition of ART FICTIONS | Culture Exchange which is part of the UK/Australia Season, a partnership between the British Council and the Australian Government's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.  Ingrid and Elizabeth discuss the absurdity of male domination within cultural identity via film maker Virginie Despentes' novel 'Kong Kong Theory' published in French in 2006 and English 2010. A mix of memoir, autobiographical essay and manifesto, Despentes shapes outrage and resilience alike, as she introduces her own experience of being gang raped. The novel pitches capitalist patriarchy as the true villian; exploiting both men and women, forcing us into rigidly codified, disempowering roles and behaviours that serve the unending cycle of global capitalism. The conversation sharpens with painful, frustrated outrage and bubbles with giggles around the flop, juice, willy and boobies of genitalia. Ingrid describes her strongly feminist art practice that includes men as she probes ideas around masculinity including her 'I Lack it, I Like it' is instagram project in response to the stupidity of Freud's concept of penis envy. INGRID BERTHON-MOINE ingridberthonmoine.com instagram ingridberthonmoine instragram lackitlikeit EXHIBITIONS & PROJECTS 'Hand-Held' 2021 co-curated with Holly Stevenson 'Lack It , Like It' ongoing on instagram 'You Tear Us' 2018 solo exhibition at Kelder Projects 'Looking at a Lack of Perspective' 2017 BOOKS, AUTHORS & FURTHER READING Byung-Chul Han 'The Disappearance of Rituals' Camille Froidevaux-Metterie Camille Paglia Charlotte Perkins Gilman 'Herland' Grace Jones Hettie Judah Eileen Miles Etel Adnam  Holly Stevenson Judy Chicago Maggie Nelson 'The Argonauts' Ocean Vuong 'On Earth We are Briefly Gorgeous' Paul B Preciado 'Testo Junkie' Sitt Marie Rose Ursula K Le Guin Virginie Despentes 'King Kong Theory' ARTISTS & EXHIBITIONS - mentioned and admired - Barbara Walker 'Georgia O'Keefe' Centre Pompidou, Paris 'Life Between Islands' Tate Britain 'Magnus Plessen' White Cube Marcia Michael 'Nicola Tyson' Sadie Coles 'On Hannah Arendt' Richard Saltoun Gallery Wilma Woolf 'Domestic' ARTS ORGANISATIONS Goldsmiths Mark Tanner Sculpture Award  

Guest artist RICHARD AYODEJI IKHIDE joins Jillian Knipe for this special edition of ART FICTIONS | Culture Exchange which is part of the UK/Australia Season, a partnership between the British Council and the Australian Government’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Richard and I discuss his disjointed cultural story, via Amos Tutuola's second novel 'The Bush of Ghosts', published in 1954. We follow a young boy, separated from his mother and brother, into a forbidden place of ghostly slavers, violators, friends and foe, as he navigates his way through a foreign land, coming to understand his sense of rightfulness and identity.  We go on to discuss Richard's formative years in Nigeria, a country whose name itself is stained with the nasty history of colonial subjugation. He speaks of his paternal lineage, steeped in story telling, from an area of the world, rich with artisans and stolen artworks. His world suddenly changes in his teens when he and his brother arrive in the UK to live with his mother. At this point, his own negotiation in a new land begins.  Our conversation expands on Richard studying drawing and textiles, and researching mythologies, semiotics, rituals, archetypes and visual systems. He describes the courses he's developed at The Royal Drawing School which attempt to inform students about the global lineages of and connections between imagery, representations and artistic practices across different cultures. His observations uncover the unexpected around petroglyphs, nazca lines and stone tablets of the ancient past to glass tablet phones and emojis of the high tech present. RICHARD AYODEJI IKHIDE instagram pandagwad EXHIBITIONS February 2022 - Galerie Bernhard in Zürich  WORKS 'Awon Osere' 2020 watercolour and ink on paper 'Contemplating with Effigies' 2020 oil on wood PODCAST The Compendium Podcast with Dexter Orszagh  BOOKS & WRITERS & SCREEN Alejandro Jodorowsky & Juan Giménez 'The Metabarons' or 'The Saga of the Metabarons' Alex Grey 'The Mission of Art' Amos Tutuola 'My Life in the Bush of Ghosts'  Amos Tutuola 'The Palm Wine Drinkard' Carl Jung 'Man & His Symbols' Erich Neumann 'The Origins and History of Consciousness' Joseph Campbell 'Hero with a Thousand Faces' 'Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myths' Netflix Simon Blackburn, philosopher 'Spirited Away' 'Tales by Moonlight' Nigerian Television Authority ARTISTS El Greco Giacometti Giotto Picasso William Blake COUNTRIES & CULTURES & HISTORIES Ancient Greece Benin Empire 1440 - 1897 Benin Expedition : Or the Benin Punitive Expedition in February 1897. Invasion of the Kingdom of Benin by the British Empire. After which Benin was absorbed into colonial Nigeria. Approx 2,500 religious artefacts, mnemonics and artworks were taken by Britain, including the Benin Bronzes, then around 40% were given to the British Museum. Benin Bronzes :  A collection of metal plaques and sculptures created by the Edo people from the 13th century onwards, which once decorated the royal palace of the Kingdom of Benin. Over 1,000 items were taken by the British as part of the Benin Punitive Expedition.  Biafra War 1967 - 1970 : Civil war between Nigerian government and the Republic of Biafra. Brazil Christianity Cuba Egypt Ghana Ifá gods Igbo people Mesoamerica Nigeria Sabongida-Ora, Edo state Yoruba ARTS ORGANISATIONS British Museum Central Saint Martins National Gallery The Royal Drawing School Zabludowicz Collection    

Guest artist NIKA NEELOVA  joins Jillian Knipe on this special edition of ART FICTIONS | Culture Exchange which is part of the UK/Australia Season, a partnership between the British Council and the Australian Government’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Nika and I discuss the flow of her cultural story, via poet Rainer Maria Rilke's only novel 'The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge', first published in 1910. We follow Brigge into the depths of the down and out cityscape as he contemplates his fellow street people, acknowledging his urgency to write while being ill-equipped to do so.  We go on to discuss the constant country hopping of her childhood. Back then, architectural details became more reliable than the passing parade of friends, schools, neighbourhoods and languages. So she now mines these ideas for her studio practice where architectural details are re-purposed and renewed, creating unexpected sculptural forms, drifting back, forth and around in meaning and time. Our conversation taps into overlapping past and future, finding modes to retrieve, drifting in and out of focus, slipping through time, panic spasms, hypersensitivity, and reality, experience and stories overlapping to become an indiscriminate montage.  EXHIBITIONS 2022 '(Everything) is Not What it Seems' NITJA Museum, Oslo 25 Nov 2021 - 7 Jan 2022 'b bl b' Garage off-site project, Moscow 10 Nov 2021 - 30 Jan 2022 'Not Painting' Copperfield, London 22 Oct 2021 - Dec 2022 'Silt' Brighton CCA 11 Sep 2021 - 20 Nov 2021  'One of Many Fragments : Edward Allington and Nika Neelova' New Art Centre, Roche Court, Salisbury NIKA NEELOVA nikaneelova.com instagram nikaneelova ARTISTS Ana Mendieta Andrei Tarkovsky (film director) Barbara Hepworth Emma Cousin Eva Hesse Eva Rothschild Fra Angelico  Holly Hendry Jane Hayes Greenwood Louise Bourgeois Phyllida Barlow Rachel Whiteread Piero della Francesco BOOKS & WRITERS Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing 'The Mushroom at the End of the World' Annie Ernaux 'The Years' Donna Haraway 'Staying with the Trouble'  Edmund de Waal 'The Hare with the Amber Eyes' Henrik Ibsen (playwright) Maggie Nelson 'The Argonauts' Manuel DeLanda 'A Thousand Years of Non-Linear History' Margaret Atwood 'The Testaments' Martin Heidegger 'The Basic Problems of Phenomenology' Max Frisch 'Man in the Holocene' Jean Paul Sartre 'Nausea' Ocean Vuong 'On Earth We're Briefly Beautiful' Rainer Maria Rilke 'The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge'  Susan Sontag 'The Volcano Lover'  Tibor Fischer 'The Collector Collector' Tom McCarthy 'Remainder' Tom McCarthy 'Satin Island' Virginia Woolf 'The Waves'