13 episodes

Paperweight Radio: Explorations in Visual and Material Culture draws together artists, designers, academics, curators, writers and researchers around a theme, to explore the territory of visual and material culture from different vantage points.
In these explorations, Paperweight offers reports from the front-line of research into visual and material culture, running into the heat of battle and reporting back with dispatches.

Paperweight Radio Juliette Kristensen

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Paperweight Radio: Explorations in Visual and Material Culture draws together artists, designers, academics, curators, writers and researchers around a theme, to explore the territory of visual and material culture from different vantage points.
In these explorations, Paperweight offers reports from the front-line of research into visual and material culture, running into the heat of battle and reporting back with dispatches.

    Paperweight Radio: Plastic (S2 Ep6, 24th July 2014)

    Paperweight Radio: Plastic (S2 Ep6, 24th July 2014)

    On this episode of Paperweight Radio we discuss plastic. Featured are material scientist Paul Tangney on the history and material properties of plastic; the sociologists Dominik Bartmanski and Ian Woodward on the rise of vinyl in the digital age; art historian Matt Lodder on plastic surgery in fine art practice; communications scholar Emily Yochim on young men and skateboard culture; and archaeologist Sara Perry on the plasticity of media in the curator-audience relationship.

    • 55 min
    Paperweight Radio: The Art School (S2 Ep5, 17th July 2014)

    Paperweight Radio: The Art School (S2 Ep5, 17th July 2014)

    This episode of Paperweight Radio, themed The Art School, features art historian Beth Williamson on the Tate's Art School Educated project; artist Matthew Cornford and literature scholar John Beck on the death of the regional art school, and their book The Art School and The Culture Shed; and writer Emily LaBarge on the role of the humanities in the art school.

    • 53 min
    Paperweight Radio: Mixed Media (S2 Ep4, 10th July 2014)

    Paperweight Radio: Mixed Media (S2 Ep4, 10th July 2014)

    Our episode on Mixed Media featured art historian Matt Lodder on art on TV and film; geographical historian Elizabeth Haines on colonial cartography; artist and architectural theorist Marian Macken on book-architecture; and artist Judy Sparks on communication technology and fine art practice.

    The show was produced and hosted by Juliette Kristensen; the sound engineer was Chris Dixon.

    • 54 min
    Paperweight Radio: Domesticating the Modernist Body (S2 Ep3, 3rd July 2014)

    Paperweight Radio: Domesticating the Modernist Body (S2 Ep3, 3rd July 2014)

    Themed Domesticating the Modernist Body, this episode featured guests include design historian Jessica Kelly on the architect and critic J.M.Richards; Mary Vaughan Johnson on The Maison de Verre; architectural historian Simon Weir on Salvador Dali's Anti-Modernisms; and designer Julijonas Urbonas speaking about The Euthanasia Rollercoaster and The Oneiric Hotel projects.

    This episode was produced and hosted by Juliette Kristensen; the sound engineer was Chris Dixon.

    • 56 min
    Paperweight Radio: Animals (S2 Ep2, 26th June 2014)

    Paperweight Radio: Animals (S2 Ep2, 26th June 2014)

    In the Animals episode, we feature contemporary art historian Lynn Turner, medieval art historian Robert Mills and Edinburgh School of Art’s Chancellor’s Fellow Michelle Bastian.

    Produced and hosted by Juliette Kristensen
    Sound Engineer Chris Dixon.

    • 51 min
    Paperweight Radio: Collections (S2 Ep1, 19th June 2014)

    Paperweight Radio: Collections (S2 Ep1, 19th June 2014)

    This episode, themed Collection, features Goldmiths’ Curator of Art and Textile Collections Jenny Doussan, material culture specialists and historians Leonie Hannan and Kate Smith from University College London’s 100 Hours Project, Museum of Domestic Design & Architecture‘s Head of Museum Collections Zoë Hendon and the artist and writer Jane Wildgoose, keeper of the Wildgoose Memorial Library.

    Produced and hosted by Juliette Kristensen.
    Sound engineer Chris Dixon.

    • 50 min