Art Monthly Talk Show
By Art Monthly
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Podcast Description
Art Monthly's regular visual art discussion programme presented by Matt Hale broadcast by Resonance FM. Each month writers from the London-based contemporary art magazine discuss topics featured in the current issue.
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Paul O’Kane & Omar Kholeif | Paul O’Kane discusses the artwork as object in a world of immaterial labour and Omar Kholeif tracks the influences of Kraftwerk. | 11 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Christopher Townsend | Christopher Townsend discusses the physicality of drawing; even the most apparently hands-off of artists are drawn to reveal their corporeality through the medium – albeit at one remove. | 13 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Morgan Quaintance | Morgan Quaintance makes the case for imaginative engagement as a form of participation, arguing that discussion around particpatory art has missed this important category of engagement: artwork that purposefully cues up and then directs the individual viewer’s imagination. | 9 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Omar Kholeif & Paul O’Kane | Omar Kholeif discusses western appropriation of art from the Arab world and Paul O’Kane redefines outsider art in an attempt decontextualise art as existing inside an ‘art world’. | 10 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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John Douglas Millar | John Douglas Millar discusses the Gerhard Richter exhibition at Tate Modern: ‘As this exhibition well demonstrates, Richter’s work contains a dual critique that acts as a painterly plague on both houses of the Cold War divide. There is the desire, on the one hand, to suspend and/or indict ideological thinking, coupled with the will to mourn its effects on his country and his people.’ | 13 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Colin Perry | Colin Perry discusses the vexed relationship between art and TV – where are the activist video artists? Correction: Artworks by David Hall are misattributed to Tony Hill in this broadcast. | 9 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mark Prince | Mark Prince discusses the resistance of objects in relation to his article on sculpture ‘The Made v The Readymade’. | 11 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Laura McLean-Ferris & Morgan Quaintance | Laura McLean-Ferris discusses her essay on dissolution of the body in the internet age, and Morgan Quaintance follows up on his review of the book Digital and Other Virtualities. | 14 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Christopher Townsend | Christopher Townsend discusses how mid-century British modernism has become inaccessible to contemporary viewers since it can now only be viewed through contemporary culture's mythologising of late capitalism. | 12 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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John Douglas Millar & Peter Suchin | John Douglas Millar on why experimental writing thrives in the art world, and Peter Suchin on Focal Point Gallery's 'Tarot' exhibition. | 9 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bob Dickinson & Paul O’Kane | Bob Dickinson reports on the nuclear-bunker-based Time Machine Biennial in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Paul O’Kane discusses Gillian Whiteley’s book on assemblage, Junk: Art and the Politics of Trash. | 8 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Stephanie Schwartz | Stephanie Schwartz discusses her feature article ‘Photography as Work’, which questions the utopian potential of digital photography, with reference to the Jorge Ribalta-curated exhibition ‘A Hard, Merciless Light: The Worker-Photography Movement 1926-1939’ at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid. | 10 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Maria Walsh & JJ Charlesworth | Maria Walsh discusses her interview with Mary Kelly, and JJ Charlesworth argues that theory’s current obsession with objective critique misses the mark in comparison with subjective criticism. | 13 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Morgan Quaintance & Peter Suchin | Critic, musician and curator Morgan Quaintance joins critic and artist Peter Suchin. They discuss General Idea’s ‘Haute Culture’ exhibition in Paris and Suchin’s ‘Rebel Without a Course’ article on practice-led PhDs, which questions the institutionalisation and professionalisation of artists. | 8 4 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dave Beech & Larne Abse Gogarty | Dave Beech and Larne Abse Gogarty discuss ugliness, in relation to Beech's feature article 'On Ugliness', and Gregory Sholette’s book about guerilla activist art, Dark Matter: Art and Politics in the Age of Enterprise Culture. | 11 3 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Patricia Bickers & Dean Kenning | Art Monthly Editor Patricia Bickers discusses with Dean Kenning his report on art students’ recent direct-action campaigns, including occupation, teach-ins and protests. The pair also discuss Mike Watson’s polemic (AM342), which advocates that art schools become independent of the university system. | 11 2 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Zoë Shearman & Maria Walsh | Zoë Shearman discusses the British Art Show 7: ‘In the Days of the Comet’, while Maria Walsh focuses on Berthold Brecht’s influence on artist filmmakers, who, she argues, should explore fiction and narrative rather than pure reflexivity. | 14 1 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Richard Hylton & Sophia Phoca | Richard Hylton discusses two films by Ruth McClennan and is joined by Sophia Phoca who asks how might artist filmmakers might go about producing their films today when funding bodies are being forced to close and many support structures have disappeared. | 10 12 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Colin Perry & Klara Kemp-Welch | Colin Perry and Klara Kemp-Welch discuss Manifesta 8 in Murcia and ‘Touched’, the Liverpool Biennial. | 12 11 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Andrew Hunt on Cuts to the Arts | In this 15-minute Talk Show extra, Matt Hale and Andrew Hunt discuss the likely impact of forthcoming government spending cuts on the arts. Andrew Hunt, who runs Focal Point Gallery in Southend, reports back from a meeting at Tate Modern attended by the heads of over 70 public galleries from across the country to discuss the cuts and the fightback. | 11 10 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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John Douglas Millar & Andrew Hunt | John Douglas Millar discusses the ethics and aesthetics of docu-art as practised by artists such as Renzo Martens, Harun Farocki and Aernout Mik, and asks: does art’s subjectivity give it a unique angle on the exploitation of tragedy? Andrew Hunt, meanwhile, suggests that optimism and humour are intelligent alternatives to the cynicism of postmodern irony. | 8 10 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Andrew Hunt & Jennifer Thatcher | Andrew Hunt and Jennifer Thatcher discuss new trends and approaches to gallery design, and a new book, Curating and the Educational Turn, which suggests that a shift towards education pervades current curatorial practice. | 10 9 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Coline Milliard & Mark Prince | Coline Milliard and Mark Prince discuss the the literary tendency in contemporary art, and the recent Falmouth Convention where the keynote speech was by Lucy Lippard. | 13 8 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dan Smith, John Jordan & JJ Charlesworth | Theorist Dan Smith talks to host Matt Hale about current use of the spiritual in art, and artist and activist John Jordan discusses Liberate Tate’s recent protest against BP sponsorship at Tate’s summer party while critic JJ Charlesworth argues that the activists oversimplified the issue. | 9 7 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dean Kenning & Cherry Smyth | Artist Dean Kenning and poet Cherry Smyth join Matt Hale to discuss Kenning’s feature on relational, collaborative artwork in the public realm – in particular projects by David Collins and Emma Hart in Morpeth School, Bethnal Green, London – and Smyth’s review of Rachel Harrison’s exhibition at the Whitechapel Art Gallery. | 11 6 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Gilda Williams & Maria Walsh | Gilda Williams and Maria Walsh join Matt Hale to discuss ways in which artists utilise the difference between ruined buildings and the merely derelict, and how Hannah Sawtell’s films analyse entropy in the age of the digital. | 14 5 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sally O’Reilly & Mark Prince | Sally O’Reilly and Mark Prince join Matt Hale to discuss the work of John Smith and the idea of artists as curators of the self. | 9 4 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Patricia Bickers & Alex Coles | Patricia Bickers and Alex Coles discuss the work of artist Sturtevant, appropritation in both visual art and advertising, and the failure of ‘designart’. | 12 3 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Colin Perry & Gavin Grindon | Matt Hale talks to Colin Perry and Gavin Grindon. Perry has written about artists who use the law as an artistic medium; something that can be manipulated and tested. He is joined by Grindon who writes about art and activism. Grindon has recently returned from the Climate Conference in Copenhagen and he tells us about the new forms of art and activism he saw out there. | 12 2 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dave Beech, Colin Perry & Peter Suchin | Host Matt Hale talks to Peter Suchin about Terry Smith’s show at The Foundling Museum and Colin Perry about Chen Chieh-jen’s exhibition at Iniva, while Dave Beech scrutinises the face of Conservative cultural policy in the form of Roger Scruton’s new book on beauty. | 8 1 10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Patricia Bickers & Jennifer Thatcher | Patricia Bickers and Jennifer Thatcher discuss the convergence of artistic and entrepreneurial values, and the ‘Pop Life’ exhibition at Tate Modern. | 11 12 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rachel Garfield & Mark Prince | Matt Hale discusses Modern and Conceptual Art with Rachel Garfield and Mark Prince. | 13 11 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Alex Coles & Rikke Hansen | Matt Hale in conversation with Alex Coles and Rikke Hansen discussing art criticism. | 9 10 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dave Beech & Paul Usherwood | Matt Hale in conversation with Dave Beech and Paul Usherwood discussing the fall of public art. | 11 9 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Maxa Zoller & Colin Perry | Matt Hale in conversation with Maxa Zoller and Colin Perry discussing the history of artists’ films. | 14 8 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Patricia Bickers & Lisa Le Feuvre | Matt Hale in conversation with Patricia Bickers and Lisa Le Feuvre discussing the 53rd Venice Biennale. | 10 7 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Michael Corris & Richard Grayson | Matt Hale in conversation with Dave Beech and Jennifer Thatcher discussing the economy of art.. | 12 6 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sally O'Reilly & Rikke Hansen | Matt Hale in discussion with Sally O’Reilly and Rikke Hansen talking about themed group exhibitions. | 8 5 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jamie Wagg, Jon Rees & Jessica Scott | Matt Hale discusses the student occupation of Byam Shaw School of Art with Jamie Wagg, Jon Rees and Jessica Scott. | 10 4 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Peter Suchin & Colin Perry | Matt Hale in conversation with Peter Suchin and Colin Perry discussing Nicolas Bourriaud‘s exhibition ‘Tate Triennial: Altermodern’ and A Brief History of Curating by Hans Ulrich Obrist. | 13 3 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dave Beech & Jennifer Thatcher | Matt Hale in conversation with Dave Beech and Jennifer Thatcher discussing critical art after Postmodernism. | 13 2 09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 41 Episodes |
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