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Chris and Rifa sift through their past week in culture and the arts, with a nod to technology and representation. Freshly ground in Brighton on the English south coast.
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Chris and Rifa look back over their year in arts and culture. Thank you for listening and supporting the show in 2025, we've had a blast, you've made it all feel worthwhile.
Chris and Rifa do their final art trip of the year, to Tate Britain for the Turner and Constable exhibition and the Lee Miller show.Rifa is reading Baldwin's The Fire Next Time and Chris is reading a book-length essay called Pirate Care from the Vagabonds series of small radical books, published by Pluto Press.Thanks for listening. Find us on Insta @RefigureUK
Chris and Rifa's adventures in culture and the arts. We scooted up to Wembley to see the seminal cult shoegaze / noise-rock band My Bloody Valentine on their arena tour, before checking out former reggae singer-turned-stage actor Lorna Gee's powerful one-woman (autobiographical) music theatre show The Legends Of Them on tour at Brighton Dome Corn Exchange. Two contrasting ways for artistry to offer a direct access to spiritual nourishment. Rifa is reading the play script of The Legends Of Them, while Chris is reading John Higgs' new exploration of David Lynch, Lynchian.Thanks for listening. Find us on Insta @RefigureUK.
Rifa and Chris watch the premier of Dr David Bramwell's film The Haunted Moustache at the Duke Of York's Cinema, fail to resist watching The Celebrity Traitors and check out young Irish singer-songwriter George Houston on his first UK tour.Chris is reading a book about pop music and Rifa is reading a book about art.Thanks for listening. Find us on Insta @refigureUK.
Chris and Rifa watch the new PT Andersen film One Battle After Another and Netflix animated series Long Story Short, from the team behind Bojack Horseman.Rifa is re-reading Iain Banks' classic thriller Complicity, while Chris is reading Beans On Toast's collection Wild Folk People.Thanks for listening. Find us on Insta @RefigureUK
A packed episode of Chris and Rifa's bitesize arts review show, we watched US emergency room drama series The Pitt, saw Tim Key's comedy film The Ballad Of Wallis Island and checked out Paul Foot's transformative new stand-up show Dissolve. Chris is reading Ta-Nehisi Coates' The Message and Rifa is reading John Higgs' book about the KLF.Thanks for listening, find us on Insta @RefigureUK.
Chris and Rifa's bitesize adventures in arts and culture get messy as the plucky pair regret watching The Thursday Murder Club on Netflix, so then watch the most different film possible, Hot Milk on MUBI. Chris is reading Emily Herring's biography of Henri Bergson, Herald Of A Restless World, while Rifa is reading Ursula Le Guin's 1971 scifi classic The Lathe Of Heaven. Thank you so much for listening. Find us on Insta @refigureUK.
Bitesize adventures in arts and culture with Rifa and Chris. We watched the opening few episodes of The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox on Disney+ and went to Tate Modern to see the major retrospective of Australian artist Emily Kam Kngwarray.Rifa is reading another bell hooks book, this time on art, while Chris has just started Ian Leslie's John & Paul: A Love Story In Songs.Thank you for listening, please leave a nice rating and find us on Insta @RefigureUK.
Chris and Rifa's bitesize adventures in arts and culture. We went to Tate Britain for the retrospective of 20th century British surrealist Ithell Colquhoun, and taped that segment in the café. Then Rifa reports back from poet Akila Richards' performance piece Mango Ritual at Brighton Dome.Rifa is reading Poor Artists by Zarina Muhammed & Gabrielle De La Puente (aka the White Pube), while Chris is reading Boff Whalley's book But. Thanks for listening! Find us on Insta @refigureUK.
Chris and Rifa chat festivals Primavera Sound in Barcelona and Glastonbury in Somerset. Thanks for listening.
Chris and Rifa are back for series #8 of Refigure, our bitesize arts and culture podcast. This is episode #78 and we chat about Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona and the 19th season of Taskmaster on Channel 4. Thanks for listening. We are @refigureUK on Insta.
Season 8 of Refigure is (finally) coming!
Chris and Rifa are in London on a visual art binge. We talk about Now You See Us: Women Artists in Britain 1520-1820 at Tate Britain. We also argue about Judy Chicago: Revelations at the Serpentine Gallery. Rifa is reading the classic Theosophical Society book Thoughtforms: A Record Of Clairvoyant Investigation by Annie Besant and Charles Leadbeater. Chris is reading The Place Where Souls Are Born, A Journey Into The American South West by the Australian novelist Thomas Keneally. Thanks for listening!
More adventures in the arts and culture with Rifa and Chris. We watched the new doc Eno at the cinema, about the artist Brian Eno (obviously), which recuts itself and runs differently, every single time it's screened, making a review somewhat moot. Rifa went to an LGBTQI+ 'late' event at the Wallace Collection in London, while Chris went to Black Country, New Road's gaza benefit at Brighton Concorde.
Thank you for listening to Season 7, we really appreciate it, just tipped over 10k listeners, which is fab.
Adventures in culture and the arts, with Rifa and Chris. Thanks for joining us! This episode we're in Barcelona for Primavera Sound 2024 and we also checked out some art: photographer Jeff Wall — Possible Tales at La Virreina Centre de la Imatge, and painter and collagist Armand Boua at OOA Contemporary Gallery in Sitges.
Rifa is reading Mikaela Loach's book It's Not That Radical and, on a similar climate crisis jag, Chris is reading Andreas Malm's How To Blow Up A Pipeline.
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Chris and Rifa are in Paris to visit the Brancusi retrospective at Centre Pompidou and also stumble on the lost 1950s Parisian painter Requichot's abstract work. They also binge-watch season three of Sweet Tooth. Rifa is reading Katy Hessel's Great Women Artists substack and Chris is reading Adèle Oliver's essay Deeping It: Colonialism, Culture & Criminalisation of UK Drill, which is published as an Inklings edition. Thanks for listening.
Dipping into Brighton Festival, Rifa and Chris see Sunny Singh in conversation about her new book A Bollywood State Of Mind and watch Natalie Sharp's experimental solo mixed media performance Marra! connecting her heritage in Cumbria and the Seychelles. They also watch a bunch of Netflix stuff about coercive control. Rifa is reading Meiko Kawakami's Heaven and Chris is reading Roxanne De Bastion's The Piano Player Of Budapest.
Thanks very much for listening.
Chris and Rifa attempt to make it through Richard Gadd's controversial Netflix dramedy Baby Reindeer and enjoy Dunstan Bruce's Chumbawamba documentary I Get Knocked Down. Rifa goes to UXCampBrighton unconference. Chris is reading Richard Norris of The Grid's memoir Strange Things Are Happening, while Rifa is reading the Tate Magazine (again).
Thanks very much for listening.
Refigure podcast with Chris and Rifa returns for a 7th season of the homemade culture review show from the English south coast. This week, we're watching the TV series Shōgun on Disney+ and we went to Tate Modern to see Yoko Ono: Music Of The Mind. In 'What You Reading For?' Chris is reading the new Joel Morris dissection of comedy, Be Funny Or Die and Rifa bought Yoko Ono's little art book Grapefruit.
Thanks for listening.
To end 2023, Rifa and Chris reflect on their year in arts and culture, while drinking several glasses of the good stuff.
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