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| 27 Jan 2023 | From the Ground Up: Jo Capper & Akil Scafe-Smith | 00:51:55 | |
What role can cultural spaces that are custodians of land, like Wysing, play in fostering a sense of ownership in public space? How can the resources that the culture sector currently holds contribute better to grassroots justice work? What are the imaginative possibilities of divestment? Catch up with the final archived part of our event 'From the Ground Up: The Gathering', July 2022, an event which takes Wysing’s rural context, abundant land and neighbouring Fenland (at risk due to climate change, and rich in histories of land-based struggle) as a rich context for thought and action about topics including land rights, ownership and access, sustainability, environmental time and crip time, growing, wildness and racial justice. For a PDF transcript of the podcast, please click here. Jo Capper is Grand Union (Birmingham)’s Collaborative Programme Curator. Capper is an artist educator with a strong desire to heal, restore and do good in the world, creating alternative cultural and living practices that start with simple acts of growing or sharing food - embodying the cultural specifics of human conviviality. Akil Scafe-Smith is part of RESOLVE Collective, an interdisciplinary design collective that combines architecture, engineering, technology and art to address social challenges. Much of their work aims to provide platforms for celebrating local knowledge as well as organising and collaborating in communities. Lucy Shipp was Wysing's Education Manager. | |||
| 07 Nov 2023 | Seema Mattu - podCASTE Episode 3: colourism, casteism and its intersections 🇳🇬 | 00:45:59 | |
Guest speaker: Tobi Adebajo (they/them) Tobi’s interest in the topic of caste and casteism stems from a curiosity about what can be unearthed at the intersections of casteism and colourism - especially from a Nigerian context - to focus on seeking / creating worlds and spaces where we arrive to find healing and repair from this violence. This podCASTE episode contains strong language throughout Resources for the episode (as mentioned in the episode): Tedx Talk led by Ogechukwu Stella Maduagwu (President of the IFETACSIOS or Initiative for the Eradication of Traditional and Cultural Stigmatization in Our Society Organisation) - Link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=U74ph7T3aoc Discrimination based on descent in Africa, via The International Dalit Solidarity Network - Link: idsn.org/wp-content/uploads/u…a/pdf/Africafull.pdf About Tobi Tobi Adebajo is an Anti-Disciplinary artist and Doula who navigates various creative / communal spheres. Tobi works as a full spectrum Birth and death Doula - Primarily supporting the QTIBIPoC community. Tobi’s creative pieces primarily focus on communing with ‘the Other’ via Film, Movement, Sound, Visual & Written formats. Their works centre the depths & nuances of a variety of themes such as: Dis/Ability, Black Sexuality, Desire, Healing, Queer Love, & Yoruba traditions. | |||
| 22 Sep 2023 | Seema Mattu - podCASTE Episode 1: girmit histories with izland kuli 🇫🇯 | 00:54:25 | |
Guest speaker: Esha Pillay (she/her) Taking inspiration from her feature in Tamil Futures 2020, Esha Pillay presents her vision for a Tamil future as a low-caste coolie from Fiji - encouraging viewers to further their understanding of gendered and caste-based violence(s) of indentured labour, and their intersections with intergenerational traumas. Resources for the episode (as mentioned in the episode): - Dr. Gabrielle Jamela Hosein & Dr. Lisa Outar, Indo-Caribbean Feminist Thought: Genealogies, Theories, Enactments - Lainy Malkani, Sugar, Sugar: Bitter-Sweet Tales of Indian Migrant Workers - Dr. Margaret Mishra, Between Women: Indenture, Morality and Health Biography Seema Mattu is a Valmiki world-building trickster, whose multi-channel practice is framed as a theme park—known as SEEMAWORLD. Through the playfulness of intersecting amenities and services, visitors are prompted to portal around a unifying setting weaved by Seema’s own multi-minority personhood. With an interest in lo-fi high fantasy storytelling, SEEMAWORLD fuses both CGI and IRL environment-building, character creation, mixed-media animation, sound design and visual spectacle to explore: systems of caste, South Asian GL (girl(s) love), queer sorcery, fan labour and classifications of gender via digital technologies. Recent projects include work with: Berwick Film and Media Festival, IKON gallery, Eastside Projects, New Art City, Blindspot Gallery and QUAD. In April 2022, she completed both Film London’s FLAMIN Fellowship and a year-long residency with Wysing Arts Centre in March 2023. In December 2021, Seema became a QUAD International Digital Fellow, leading to her first major solo show in Autumn 2023. Esha Pillay is an Indo-Fijian writer based in the U.S. whose research looks into intergenerational traumas among Indo-Fijian communities who are descendants of indentured labour and Girmit. She has a focus on caste violence throughout Girmit and in the present and challenges the "post-caste" narrative among descendants of indenture. Her own family stories and lived experiences guide her activism and story-telling across various digital platforms. Esha used to host a dedicated Instagram account, coolie_returns, to share further marginalized histories within larger indentured labour histories across different countries, islands, and diasporas. Her educational posts are now accessible on her website (izlandkuli.wixsite.com/cooliereturns), and you can find her other writing and projects at linktr.ee/izland_kuli. | |||
| 02 Mar 2021 | A Lament for Power: In-Conversation with Larry Achiampong, David Blandy, and John Eng Kiet Bloomfield | 00:55:20 | |
In collaboration with Art Exchange, we presented A Lament for Power: Screening and In-Conversation with artists Larry Achiampong and David Blandy, and John Eng Kiet Bloomfield, Curator / Acting Head of Programme at Wysing. The screening and in-conversation took place on 3rd February 2021, and this podcast is a recording of the in-conversation. The event began with a screening of A Lament for Power, the outcome of a nine-month residency by artists Larry Achiampong and David Blandy at the University of Essex, exhibited at Art Exchange in 2020. This ambitious new film explores the ethics of scientific discovery and the complex relationship between science, politics and race in our age of avatars, video gaming and DNA Ancestry testing. This was followed by an in-conversation between the artists and John Eng Kiet Bloomfield, with an opportunity for questions from the audience. Click here for a transcript of the podcast as a PDF: https://wysingbroadcasts.art/discover/a-lament-for-power-screening-and-in-conversation/A%20Lament%20For%20Power%20Transcript_otter.ai%20(1).pdf Click here for a transcript of the podcast as a Word document: https://wysingbroadcasts.art/discover/a-lament-for-power-screening-and-in-conversation/A%20Lament%20For%20Power%20Transcript_otter.ai%20(1).docx Larry Achiampong (b. 1984, UK) is a Jarman Award nominated artist (2018). He completed a BA in Mixed Media Fine Art at University of Westminster in 2005 and an MA in Sculpture at The Slade School of Fine Art in 2008. He lives and works in Essex, and has been a tutor on the Photography MA programme at Royal College of Art since 2016. Achiampong currently serves on the Board of Trustees at Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts) and is represented by C Ø P P E R F I E L D. David Blandy (b. 1976) lives and works in Brighton and London. He studied at Chelsea College of Art and The Slade School of Art. Blandy has established his terrain through a series of investigations into the multiple cultural forces that inform and influence him, ranging from his love of hip hop and soul, to computer and role playing games, geopolitical events and climate cataclysm. His works move between performance, video and installation. | |||
| 14 Nov 2023 | Seema Mattu - podCASTE Episode 4: caste-oppressed queers 👽 | 00:51:15 | |
Guest speaker: Manu Kaur (they/them) Caste-oppressed diasporic queers discuss tragic love through Seema’s 2022 Role-Playing Game (RPG), love x lore, and the influence of caste on power dynamics & social hierarchies within South Asian queer circles - plus a comparison of lived experiences between India, the US and the UK. This podCASTE episode contains strong language throughout. Resources for the episode (as mentioned in the episode): Caste, Queerness, Migration and the Erotics of Activism - Link: journals.openedition.org/samaj/7173 love x lore (2022) -RPG by Seema Mattu – Link: tinyurl.com/lovexlore About Manu: Manu is a queer, Dalit, non-binary femme who is committed to caste annihilation, queer liberation, and mental health activism. Their work is centered around advocating for caste oppressed communities, defending queer and trans lives, and dismantling the anti-Blackness that exists within the diasporic South Asian community. Manu dreams of a world that amplifies, uplifts, and protects Black, Indigenous, Dalit, queer, and trans lives. | |||
| 13 Dec 2023 | The New Block Commission: Carol Sorhaindo and Bella Milroy in conversation: Part two: Q&A | 00:37:50 | |
To celebrate the launch of The Golden Crown, a new site-based commission from artist Carol Sorhaindo that explores memory, reflection, time and fragmentation, join artists Carol Sorhaindo and Bella Milroy for a conversation exploring their research. The discussion will focus on their shared interests in growing projects and practices which are centred in collaboration and care. The New Block Commission is a new set of commissioning from Wysing Arts Centre. Supported by the Art Fund Reimagine Project, the New Block Commission moves away from indoor, exhibition-based projects to an outdoor site-based approach that makes our work more visible. This event has been published in two sections:
On Wysing Broadcasts, this podcast is available as videos with toggleable closed captions. Click ‘CC’ on the YouTube videos to toggle this on or off. You can also listen to the conversation as a podcast on SoundCloud, Spotify and other podcast platforms. About Carol Carol Sorhaindo is a visual artist with an MA in Creative Practice and a diverse portfolio career. She draws inspiration from nature and landscapes, with a particular interest in plants of economic, health, and ethnobotanical interest on the island of Dominica where she currently lives. Her research extends to use of plants as pigments and fibre extraction for textile dyeing and creative applications. Having lived in both the UK and Dominica, Carol’s own migration story, entangled transatlantic history and impact on mental wellbeing are of key importance. Carol explores the interplay of dark and light, joy and pain which are brought to light through botanical narratives which speak of migration, trauma, African and indigenous knowledge, resistance and healing. Carol also took part in a residency at Wysing in 2022. About Bella Bella Milroy is an artist and writer who lives in her hometown of Chesterfield, Derbyshire. She works responsively through mediums of sculpture, drawing, photography, text, writing, gardening and curating. She makes work about making work (and being disabled) and not being able to make work (and being disabled). This process-based practice is fundamental to her as a disabled artist. She is continually motivated by concepts of public and private spaces and where the sick and/or disabled body exists within them, themes which emerge throughout much of her work. | |||
| 28 Jul 2020 | Victoria Sin - The Miracle Body | 00:50:02 | |
This mix is a collection of ambient tracks, samples, and sketches with writing in progress reflecting on the experience of taking things day by day and sitting in the experience of your body in a constantly changing world. The mix title is inspired by the penultimate track The Miracle Planet by Yoichiro Yoshikawa. Track list: 星の誕生 (Birth Of Galaxy) – Takao Naoi Victoria Sin (b. 1991, Toronto CA) is an artist using speculative fiction within performance, moving image, writing, and print to interrupt normative processes of desire, identification, and objectification. Drawing from close personal encounters of looking and wanting, their work presents heavily constructed fantasy narratives on the often unsettling experience of the physical within the social body. Find out more on our broadcast site, WysingBroadcasts.Art | |||
| 14 Apr 2018 | more of an avalanche: Elijah | 00:16:04 | |
This podcast is a recording from the event that closed our gallery exhibition more of an avalanche with an afternoon of talks and conversations expanding on the themes it raised. The day featured contributions from Nick Aikens, Curator at Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven and co-curator of recent exhibitions 'The Place Is Here' and 'Rasheed Araeen: A Retrospective'; artists Raju Rage, Trishna Shah, Leah Clements and Phoebe Collings-James; and music producer Elijah. In this episode, music producer Elijah presented 'Last Dance', a timely and urgent investigation into the rapid changes affecting UK club culture, and the impact of those changes on music and youth culture. PDF transcript available here: https://wysingbroadcasts.art/discover/podcast-transcripts/MOAA-Elijah.pdf Word document transcript available here: https://wysingbroadcasts.art/discover/podcast-transcripts/MOAA-Elijah.docx | |||
| 18 Sep 2019 | Possibilities of Rural Belongings - Jade Montserrat, Harold Offeh, and Hansi Momodu Gordon | 01:01:00 | |
Recording of an in-conversation as part of The Rural Assembly, 22 June 2019 at Wysing Arts Centre. For more information about the event, please visit our website, here: http://www.wysingartscentre.org/archive/events/the_rural_assembly/2019 In advance of their performances later in the day, this conversation between artists Jade Monserrat and Harold Offeh, considered critical approaches and practices from the position of being Black British artists in rural environments. Chaired by curator Hansi Momodu Gordon. A full transcript is available here as a PDF: The transcript is also available as a word document, here: | |||
| 14 Apr 2018 | more of an avalanche: Phoebe Collings-James | 00:14:21 | |
This podcast is a recording from the event that closed our gallery exhibition more of an avalanche with an afternoon of talks and conversations expanding on the themes it raised. The day featured contributions from Nick Aikens, Curator at Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven and co-curator of recent exhibitions 'The Place Is Here' and 'Rasheed Araeen: A Retrospective'; artists Raju Rage, Trishna Shah, Leah Clements and Phoebe Collings-James; and music producer Elijah. In this episode, current artist-in-residence Phoebe Collings-James talked about the new work she is developing with Last Yearz Interesting Negro/Jamila Johnson-Small in relation to disobedience and sound as a weapon. PDF transcript available here: https://wysingbroadcasts.art/discover/podcast-transcripts/MOAA-phoebe-collings-james.pdf Word document transcript available here: https://wysingbroadcasts.art/discover/podcast-transcripts/MOAA-phoebe-collings-james.docx | |||
| 15 Aug 2018 | Farmhouse Podcast: Anna MacMahon and Salote Tawale | 00:33:50 | |
Our programme of residencies, retreats, exhibitions and events bring many fascinating artists, thinkers, musicians and curators to Wysing each year. Many of these stay in our 17th century farmhouse, the beating heart of our site. The farmhouse has long been a site of exchange, best encapsulated by the kitchen table where ideas are shared over a meal and by a conceptual work in the house by artist Ruth Beale, which asks residents to leave a book as a contribution to a growing library. In this new podcast series, we will be taking inspiration from this role the farmhouse plays to focus a conversation on the idea of exchange, asking visitors to talk about something they've brought to the house and something they're taking away with them when they leave. In this first episode, we caught up with summer artists-in-residence Anna MacMahon and Salote Tawale to chat about their collaborative project focusing on queerness, family and food; their reflections on the Cambridgeshire landscape and the importance of bathing to good hosting. The Farmhouse podcast was recorded in Wysing's Polyphonic Studio by Wilf Speller. Music is by Alice Theobald's Taking Stock With Alice project, which provides free music for not-for-profit creative use. To view a PDF transcript of this podcast, please click here: https://wysingbroadcasts.art/discover/podcast-transcripts/Farmhouse_Podcast_Transcript.pdf To view a word document transcript of this podcast, please click here: https://wysingbroadcasts.art/discover/podcast-transcripts/Farmhouse_Podcast_Transcript.docx | |||
| 23 May 2022 | Desktop Studio Visit: Maëva Berthelot & Coby Sey | 00:59:15 | |
Catch up with a very special Desktop Studio Visit to celebrate our gallery exhibition ‘A Tender Ascent’. Maëva Berthelot and Coby Sey were joined by Wysing’s Senior Curator of Programmes, John Eng Kiet Bloomfield, to discuss their exhibition ‘A Tender Ascent’ and the research and influences behind the collaboration. Using a number of references from the project as a framework for an informal chat, they touched on topics including the role of chance, role reversal and collaborating during Covid-19. The in-conversation event was followed by an opportunity for questions from the audience. Click here to download a transcript of the event as a PDF. Click here to download a transcript of the event as a Word document. To find out more about ‘A Tender Ascent’, visit the exhibition website page here. To watch the Desktop Studio Visit back, please click here. Biographies Maëva Berthelot is a choreographer, performer and teacher whose mode of working unfolds along the threshold between experimental, performative and collaborative approaches. After graduating in 2003 from the Paris Superior Conservatoire of Music and Dance, she has collaborated with artists and companies such as Emanuel Gat, Ohad Naharin, Clod Ensemble, Sharon Eyal, Rambert and spent six years as a senior member with Hofesh Shechter Company, contributing creatively as an original cast member in numerous pieces and as a teacher. Her work intends to instil a dialogue between material and immaterial realms, drawing attention to the tension between visible/invisible, conscious/unconscious and rehearsed/improvised. Whilst her research is rooted in a movement practice which is an ongoing inquiry into the themes of consciousness, transformation, healing, death and rebirth, her interest lies in creating cathartic spaces in which the emotional and sensational states related to loss, grief and change can be explored, processed and assimilated into conscious experience. Coby Sey is a vocalist, musician and DJ, who, after years spent buzzing around the DIY artist circuitry of South East London, has developed a distinctive presence as a performer and producer offering a shifting, disorienting vision of club music. A long-time collaborator with Mica Levi, Tirzah, Babyfather, Klein and Kwes, Coby’s recorded work– as best evidenced on the Whities 010: Transport for Lewisham 10′′ – spans the realms of live instrumentation, sample-based productions and experimental music, melding recognisable motifs of hip hop, drone, jazz, grime and more into a dubbed-out anaesthesia. Live, these dreamlike compositions are imbued with a heavy, uneasy dancefloor energy, often abetted by live vocals as well as saxophone interjections c/o regular cohorts Ben Vince and Calderwood. Coby’s open-door approach to sharing and making music stretches to his work with London collective Curl, who release records and host events with a collaborative, improvisatory approach, as well as a regular slot on NTS which offers a portal into his appealingly murky musical world. | |||
| 29 Jun 2021 | Caroline Wendling - Hypoteinousa | 00:30:05 | |
Caroline Wendling presents Hypoteinousa, a Test Space commission for Wysing Arts Centre. Taking its title from the Greek word meaning ‘stretching under’, Hypoteinousa is a sound walk through Wysing’s rural landscape. In dialogue with the nineteenth-century science fiction novel Journey to the Centre of the Earth (Jules Verne), Hypoteinousa draws on Wysing's topography: a landscape shaped by its wildlife, ancient geologies, and the many voices of Wysing’s artists and their interventions at the site. Click here for a PDF transcript: https://wysingbroadcasts.art/discover/hypoteinousa/Text%20version%20(1).pdf Click here for a large-text PDF transcript: https://wysingbroadcasts.art/discover/hypoteinousa/Large%20text%20version%20(1).pdf Caroline Wendling is an Associate Artist and studio holder at Wysing Arts Centre. Caroline was born in France and moved to Britain after completing her art studies at ESAD, Strasbourg and Edinburgh College of Art. Caroline's work explores ideas of place and belonging through layered projects that draw on history and explore local myths, inviting re-imaging of sites. Daily rural walks from home to studio, at Wysing Arts Centre, feed her multidisciplinary practice. She creates artworks that are fragile and transient in the form of sensory walks/performances and events, blurring notions of audiences and performers. She also makes drawings, prints, objects and, more recently, moving images. She often works with collaborators, specialists in their fields such as children, chefs, musicians, foresters, and perfumers. Commissioners include Kettle’s Yard, 2019, Whitechapel Ga | |||
| 20 Aug 2021 | Desktop Studio Visits: Ain Bailey & Hannah Wallis | 00:52:21 | |
Revisit sound artist and DJ Ain Bailey in conversation with curator Hannah Wallis for the third in our series of Desktop Studio Visits. Desktop Studio Visits are a new strand in our online events programme aimed at highlighting research from recent artists-in-residence and platforming new works in progress. Discussion focused on the development of Version, Ain Bailey’s current exhibition at Wysing Arts Centre, curated by Hannah Wallis as DASH Curator-in-Residence. The in-conversation event was followed by an opportunity for questions from the audience. The artists Ain Bailey mentioned at the end are: Phoebe Collings-James, Adam Farah, Jimmy Robert, Jasleen Kaur, Rehana Zaman, Sonia Boyce, Claudette Johnson, Helen Cammock, Remi Graves, and Junior Boakye-Yiadom. Please click here to read a transcript of this podcast as a PDF in 14pt 1.5 spacing: https://wysingbroadcasts.art/discover/desktop-studio-visit-ain-bailey-and-hannah-wallis/DSV%20Ain%20Bailey%20Hannah%20Wallis%20Transcript.pdf Please click here to read a transcript of the podcast as a .docx file: https://wysingbroadcasts.art/discover/desktop-studio-visit-ain-bailey-and-hannah-wallis/DSV%20Ain%20Bailey%20Hannah%20Wallis%20Transcript.docx To watch this conversation and to find out more, visit our Broadcasts site here: https://wysingbroadcasts.art/discover/desktop-studio-visit-ain-bailey-and-hannah-wallis | |||
| 28 Jul 2020 | Rebecca Jagoe - Shiten Mouth Ful of Tordes | 01:29:55 | |
The following work is a podcast which combines text work, research, and musings, examining gut health and herbal cure associated with laxatives. Grounded in a Western medicinal history, the podcast is structured around a piece of writing called It is proven, a fictional response to the medieval Welsh medical text The Physicians of Myddfai. The podcast also brings in Hildegard von Bingen’s writings on the stomach, astrology as a form of medicine, and a reading list of medieval to Renaissance medical writings. CONTENT WARNING Download a transcript to this work at: http://www.wysingartscentre.org/images/uploads/RJagoe_PodcastTranscript.pdf Rebecca Jagoe’s practice examines how within European culture, the notion of femininity has historically been shaped at the meeting point of medical discourse and fashion aesthetics. Spanning sculpture, performance, text and drawing, their practice is project-based, and often rooted in one aspect of their own neurodiversity or experiences of mental or physical illness. They have recently shown work at CCA Goldsmiths and Jupiter Woods; their writing has recently been published in The Happy Hypocrite; and after co-editing the anthology ON VIOLENCE with Sharon Kivland, they are currently editing the forthcoming ON CARE together. Find out more on our broadcast site: wysingbroadcasts.art | |||
| 14 Mar 2024 | Syllabus: Meet the new Partners podcast | 00:14:32 | |
Tune in to hear the new Syllabus partners PS2, TACO! (guest partner 2024-25) and New Art Exchange talk about their organisations and what they are most looking forward to on the Syllabus programme.
Read the podcast transcript here: https://www.wysingartscentre.org/images/uploads/Syllabus_Meet_the_new_Partners_Podcast_Transcript.pdf Syllabus is a collaboratively produced alternative learning programme in its seventh year that will support ten artists across ten months. The programme offers time to come together with artists from across the UK to discuss ideas, work, life and approaches to practice. Applications close Monday 18 March at midnight. Apply now! | |||
| 14 Apr 2018 | more of an avalanche: Leah Clements | 00:12:03 | |
This podcast is a recording from the event that closed our gallery exhibition more of an avalanche with an afternoon of talks and conversations expanding on the themes it raised. The day featured contributions from Nick Aikens, Curator at Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven and co-curator of recent exhibitions 'The Place Is Here' and 'Rasheed Araeen: A Retrospective'; artists Raju Rage, Trishna Shah, Leah Clements and Phoebe Collings-James; and music producer Elijah. In this episode, expanding on themes in the exhibition of sickness and illness, artist Leah Clements discussed ideas around ‘crip’ theory and talked about a new network of art practitioners who will be in residence later this year at Wysing. PDF transcript available here: https://wysingbroadcasts.art/discover/podcast-transcripts/MOAA-leah-clements.pdf Word document transcript available here: https://wysingbroadcasts.art/discover/podcast-transcripts/MOAA-leah-clements.docx | |||
| 12 Dec 2022 | From the Ground Up: Khairani Barokka, Bella Milroy & Hannah Wallis | 01:07:18 | |
Khairani Barokka and Bella Milroy in-conversation, chaired by Hannah Wallis In this second archived event from our event 'From the Ground Up: The Gathering', join Khairani Barokka and Bella Milroy with Hannah Wallis for readings, an in-conversation and an audience Q and A. You can find out more about 'From the Ground Up' by clicking here. A full transcript is available to read by clicking here. ————— If ‘normative time’ can be understood as artificial and possible to change, what can we learn from ‘crip time’ as a new way of understanding time that acknowledges different lived realities? Join Bella Milroy and Khairani Barokka in thinking through and with crip time in relation to rural contexts and anti-colonial praxis. Khairani Barokka is an Indonesian writer and artist in London, whose work centres disability justice as anticolonial praxis, and has presented widely internationally. Okka is the new Editor of Modern Poetry in Translation. Her latest book is Ultimatum Orangutan (Nine Arches), shortlisted for the Barbellion Prize. Bella Milroy is an artist and writer who lives in her hometown of Chesterfield, Derbyshire. She works responsively through mediums of sculpture, drawings, photography, writing and text. She makes work about making work (and being disabled) and not being able to make work (and being disabled). | |||
| 24 Apr 2020 | Wysing 30th Anniversary Podcast: Taylor Le Melle | 00:22:53 | |
In the fourth and final podcast of our series hosted by artist and Wysing Trustee, Harold Offeh, we hear from curator and writer Taylor Le Melle on their thoughts on Wysing. Taylor was Curator in-residence during 2019 and curated a series of events alongside the exhibition Boundary + Gesture. A transcript is available here: http://www.wysingartscentre.org/images/uploads/PDFs/Podcast_Transcripts/023_Wysing_30th_Anniversary_Podcast_Taylor_Le_Melle | |||
| 30 Mar 2020 | Wysing 30th Anniversary Podcast: Jenny Brooks | 00:24:43 | |
In the first of a series of podcasts on how Wysing began and has been developed, have a listen to artist and Wysing Trustee, Harold Offeh, in conversation with Jenny Brooks, one of the original founders and Directors of Wysing. Structured around three questions that draw out personal relationships, perspectives, and histories with Wysing, each episode will give a glimpse into a moment of Wysing’s 30 year history. A transcript is available here: http://www.wysingartscentre.org/images/uploads/PDFs/Podcast_Transcripts/Transcript_020_Wysing_30th_Anniversary_Podcast_Jenny_Brooks.pdf | |||
| 13 Aug 2022 | From the Ground Up: James Boyce & Elsa Noterman | 01:01:50 | |
From the Ground Up: The Gathering ArchiveJames Boyce & Elsa Noterman in-conversation Revisit some highlights from our mini-festival 'From the Ground Up: The Gathering', which took place on 16 July 2022. Fenland communities fought to keep their common land for over a hundred years. Strategies to quash these lively resistance movements in the 17th century became a blueprint for Britain’s Imperial project. Access to space in Cambridgeshire remains contested; the countryside and parts of the City are inaccessible to many. How can we learn from the past, change structures of ownership and control, to re-shape access to public space and the land? Join James Boyce, award-winning author of Imperial Mud: the Fight for the Fens, 2020, in conversation with Dr Elsa Noterman, Junior Research Fellow and Director of Studies for Geography at Queens' College Cambridge. The conversation is chaired by Rosie Cooper, Wysing's Director. You can find the talk as a video on our Wysing Broadcasts site by clicking here. | |||
| 03 Apr 2020 | Wysing 30th Anniversary Podcast: Terry Brooks | 00:21:19 | |
In the second of our series of four podcasts hosted by artist and WysingTrustee, Harold Offeh and recorded in our Wysing Polyphonic studio, hear from Terry Brooks, one of the original founders and Directors of Wysing. Structured around three questions that draw out personal relationships, perspectives, and histories with Wysing, each episode will give a glimpse into a moment of Wysing's 30 year history. A transcript is available at: http://www.wysingartscentre.org/images/uploads/PDFs/Podcast_Transcripts/Transcript_021_Wysing_30th_Anniversary_Podcast_Terry_Brooks | |||
| 05 Nov 2021 | 'and then, a harrowing' Audio Tour | 00:40:01 | |
Listen to an audio tour of Linda Stupart, Carl Gent, and Kelechi Anucha's exhibition 'and then, a harrowing' at Wysing. The tour features a described walkthrough of the exhibition given by Linda Stupart and Carl Gent, and explores some of the research and process that went into the making of the show and the artists' residencies at Wysing over 2020/2021. Click here to find a transcript of this podcast: https://wysingbroadcasts.art/discover/and-then-a-harrowing-audio-tour A harrow breaks up the surface of the earth or the skin, an agitation of soil that has been left dormant too long where the harrow can excavate whatever ghosts, traditions, memories, viruses, melodies and gestures have been buried. The gallery reverts to barn; the barn disintegrates back to soil. Installed across Wysing’s grounds, gallery and Amphis building, the exhibition includes recent film, sculptural, and video work by Gent and Stupart and sound work by Anucha and Gent. | |||
| 14 Jun 2021 | Desktop Studio Visits: Crystallmess | 00:58:15 | |
Desktop Studio Visits are a new strand in our online events programme aimed at highlighting research from recent artists-in-residence and platforming new works in progress. For this event, Crystalmess (Christelle Oyiri-K) was joined by Wysing Curator and Acting Head of Programme John Eng Kiet Bloomfield to discuss a recent residency at Wysing. Using a number of artefacts from the residency as a framework for an informal chat, they touched on Christelle’s experimentation with sound synthesis and field recordings from a research trip to Guadeloupe and Martinique and work developing a new body of work exploring the intersection of anti-environmentalism, state secrecy and institutional racism. Content warning: this conversation includes discussion of racism, miscarriage, and rape. Click here for a transcript of the event as a PDF in 14pt 1.5 line spacing. | |||
| 12 May 2021 | Desktop Studio Visits: Ruth Angel Edwards | 01:05:22 | |
In our first Desktop Studio Visit with Ruth Angel Edwards, hear more about the research and references that have shaped and come out of her residency at Wysing over the past year through a conversation with Wysing's curator John Eng Kiet Bloomfield. Ruth Angel Edwards' ongoing residency at Wysing has included various collaborations and investigations, to produce sound, radio, video works and research. Desktop Studio Visits are a new strand in our online events programme aimed at highlighting research from recent artists-in-residence and platforming new works in progress. To view a transcript for this episode, please click here for a PDF in 14pt with 1.5 line spacing: https://wysingbroadcasts.art/discover/desktop-studio-visit-ruth-angel-edwards/Desktop%20Studio%20Visit%20Transcript%20RAE.pdf Or click here for a Word document: https://wysingbroadcasts.art/discover/desktop-studio-visit-ruth-angel-edwards/Desktop%20Studio%20Visit%20Transcript%20RAE.docx Ruth Angel Edwards explores the dissemination of ideology through pop culture, drawing from sub and counter cultural movements both past and present, as well as the conditions which give rise to them. Individualism, the body, gender and sexuality, consumerism and spirituality are recurring themes in her work; hedonism, spectacle and dissent are deconstructed and reformed to create communicative works across a variety of media. For the past few years her 'ENEMA' series of installation works have used fan fictional narratives staged within dens | |||
| 13 Dec 2023 | The New Block Commission: Carol Sorhaindo and Bella Milroy in conversation: Part one: Presentations | 00:41:53 | |
To celebrate the launch of The Golden Crown, a new site-based commission from artist Carol Sorhaindo that explores memory, reflection, time and fragmentation, join artists Carol Sorhaindo and Bella Milroy for a conversation exploring their research. The discussion will focus on their shared interests in growing projects and practices which are centred in collaboration and care. The New Block Commission is a new set of commissioning from Wysing Arts Centre. Supported by the Art Fund Reimagine Project, the New Block Commission moves away from indoor, exhibition-based projects to an outdoor site-based approach that makes our work more visible. This event has been published in two sections:
On Wysing Broadcasts, this podcast is available as videos with toggleable closed captions. Click ‘CC’ on the YouTube videos to toggle this on or off. You can also listen to the conversation as a podcast on SoundCloud, Spotify and other podcast platforms. About Carol Carol Sorhaindo is a visual artist with an MA in Creative Practice and a diverse portfolio career. She draws inspiration from nature and landscapes, with a particular interest in plants of economic, health, and ethnobotanical interest on the island of Dominica where she currently lives. Her research extends to use of plants as pigments and fibre extraction for textile dyeing and creative applications. Having lived in both the UK and Dominica, Carol’s own migration story, entangled transatlantic history and impact on mental wellbeing are of key importance. Carol explores the interplay of dark and light, joy and pain which are brought to light through botanical narratives which speak of migration, trauma, African and indigenous knowledge, resistance and healing. Carol also took part in a residency at Wysing in 2022. About Bella Bella Milroy is an artist and writer who lives in her hometown of Chesterfield, Derbyshire. She works responsively through mediums of sculpture, drawing, photography, text, writing, gardening and curating. She makes work about making work (and being disabled) and not being able to make work (and being disabled). This process-based practice is fundamental to her as a disabled artist. She is continually motivated by concepts of public and private spaces and where the sick and/or disabled body exists within them, themes which emerge throughout much of her work. | |||
| 10 Oct 2023 | Seema Mattu - podCASTE Episode 2: troublemakers in trinidad 🇹🇹 | 01:03:19 | |
Guest speaker: Helen Starr (she/her) With an undercurrent of friendship captured throughout the episode’s joy and laughter, Helen and Seema sit in community with one another and discuss: how caste in Trindidad came not to be, attitudes toward bodily fluids in municipal work, touch and hapticality, how we can hold each other through caste and by a Global South lens - and the ties between all of this and SEEMAWORLD. Can we get to the beat? Content Warning: This podCASTE episode contains strong language around the 38-minute mark - Fantasy in the Hold, by Fred Moten and Stefano Harney: HAPTICALITY, OR LOVE - The metamorphosis of caste among Trinidad Hindus by N. Jayaram - Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture by Gaiutra Bahadur About Helen Starr Helen Starr is an Afro-Carib Trinidadian world-building curator, commissioner, cultural activist and founder of The Mechatronic Library (2010). Her innovative practice establishes a Carib epistemology for digital art focusing on immersive media and AI technologies that express Indigenous concepts such as gender fluidity, skin-thinking, simultaneous multiple realities and nature godded worlds. Working mainly with artists who have protected characteristics, Helen Starr has commissioned artworks from artists including Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Seema Mattu, Aliyah Hussain, Rebecca Allen, Phoebe Collings James, Kinnari Saraiya and Anna Bunting-Branch, who have gone on to exhibit in museums across the globe. Helen Starr has curated and produced artworks shown at many exhibitions both nationally (FACT, Liverpool, Wysing Art Centre, Cambridge, QUAD in Derby and Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead) and internationally. As board member she was part of the launch of Format Festival’s Mass Isolation Project (2020-23) where image makers from around the world were invited to document the Coronavirus pandemic via Instagram. With over 40,000 submissions from 90 countries it became the largest visual archive of the pandemic. She has published several essays on the duality of Afro-indigeneity, was digital consultant on the Ab Rogers Design team (Wolfson Economic Prize 2021) and has served on the Jury for Ars Electronica Animation Festival in Linz Austria. Starr lives in London with her family and is devoted to the writings of the Jamaican philosopher Sylver Wynter. | |||
| 14 Apr 2018 | more of an avalanche: Roundtable Discussion | 00:54:34 | |
This podcast is a recording from the event that closed our gallery exhibition more of an avalanche with an afternoon of talks and conversations expanding on the themes it raised. The day featured contributions from Nick Aikens, Curator at Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven and co-curator of recent exhibitions 'The Place Is Here' and 'Rasheed Araeen: A Retrospective'; artists Raju Rage, Trishna Shah, Leah Clements and Phoebe Collings-James; and music producer Elijah. In this episode, the contributors reconvened for a roundtable discussion chaired by Nick Aikens. A PDF transcript of this episode is available here: https://wysingbroadcasts.art/discover/podcast-transcripts/MOAA-Roundtable.pdf A Word Document transcript of this episode is available here: https://wysingbroadcasts.art/discover/podcast-transcripts/MOAA-Roundtable.docx | |||
| 24 Nov 2022 | Earth A.D. In-Conversation | 01:04:06 | |
Revisit our very special celebration event for Dr Uma Breakdown's show at Wysing 'Earth A.D.' Uma has invited researcher, curator and artist Angela YT Chan and Dr Tom Dillon to discuss systems of archiving, collapse and repair and queer counter-culture science fiction. Angela YT Chan discusses how self-archiving current climate experiences resists future data gaps in our inherently political climate histories, and Tom Dillon presents a short presentation on the science fiction writer Michael Moorcock, focusing on his relationship with 60s counterculture and queerness, before a conversation following the overlaps of these ideas with the research behind Uma's show. Please follow this link for a transcript and video of the conversation: https://wysingbroadcasts.art/discover/uma-breakdown-in-conversation-event | |||
| 14 Apr 2018 | more of an avalanche: Raju Rage and Trishna Shah | 00:17:31 | |
This podcast is a recording from the event that closed our gallery exhibition more of an avalanche with an afternoon of talks and conversations expanding on the themes it raised. The day featured contributions from Nick Aikens, Curator at Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven and co-curator of recent exhibitions 'The Place Is Here' and 'Rasheed Araeen: A Retrospective'; artists Raju Rage, Trishna Shah, Leah Clements and Phoebe Collings-James; and music producer Elijah. In this episode, exhibition artist Raju Rage invited Trishna Shah, an artist and contributor to the interview portion of the work, to be in conversation. Taking their contribution to ‘more of an avalanche’ as a starting point, they discussed their research and experiences of activism that informed the work. PDF transcript available here: https://wysingbroadcasts.art/discover/podcast-transcripts/MOAA-raju-rage-and-trishna-shah.pdf Word document transcript available here: https://wysingbroadcasts.art/discover/podcast-transcripts/MOAA-raju-rage-and-trishna-shah.docx | |||
| 02 Dec 2017 | Studio Visit: Highlights of 2017 | 00:59:59 | |
As part of our final event of 2017 with residency artists Maryam Monalisa Gharavi, Imran Perretta and Morgan Quaintance, Morgan staged a live recording of 'Studio Visit', his Resonance 104.4FM radio show, available to listen back to here. A panel of guests included writer John Douglas Millar; independent curator, writer and educator Shama Khanna; independent curator and writer Amanprit Sandhu and artist Erica Scourti were invited to contribute to this special end-of-year episode, titled 'That Was the Year That Was'. The panel surveyed the highs and lows of art and culture in 2017 before engaging in a discussion with a live audience. PDF transcript available here: https://wysingbroadcasts.art/discover/podcast-transcripts/studio-visit-2017.pdf Word document transcript available here: https://wysingbroadcasts.art/discover/podcast-transcripts/studio-visit-2017.docx | |||
| 06 Feb 2024 | Joanna Holland and John Bloomfield In-Conversation - In Flux: Sickness as practice and landscapes as freedom | 00:31:06 | |
Please note that the audio becomes quite loud at 9:43. In this podcast we join artist-curator Joanna Holland (she/her) in conversation with Senior Programme Curator John Bloomfield (he/him) to discuss Joanna’s recent exhibition ‘Out of the Blue’, and aspects of her Wysing residency which took place from 2020-2023. Her residency extended over a long period as it worked around several flares of chronic illness and three hospitalisations. The residency moved with Joanna, back and forth from the ‘blue’ spaces of hospital to the ‘green’ spaces of Wysing. | |||
| 14 Apr 2018 | more of an avalanche: Nick Aikens and John Bloomfield | 00:30:53 | |
This podcast is a recording from the event that closed our gallery exhibition more of an avalanche with an afternoon of talks and conversations expanding on the themes it raised. The day featured contributions from Nick Aikens, Curator at Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven and co-curator of recent exhibitions 'The Place Is Here' and 'Rasheed Araeen: A Retrospective'; artists Raju Rage, Trishna Shah, Leah Clements and Phoebe Collings-James; and music producer Elijah. This episode is a recording of the conversation between Nick Aikens, Curator at Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven and 'more of an avalanche' curator John Bloomfield, which opened the event. Nick's recent projects 'The Place Is Here' and 'Rasheed Araeen: A Retrospective' are situated in the 1970s and 1980s and it was hoped that by revisting this research, the conversation could provide a broader historical context for 'more of an avalanche' and an opportunity to view the work through a longer historical lens. PDF transcript available here: https://wysingbroadcasts.art/discover/podcast-transcripts/MOAA-nick-aikens-and-john-bloomfield.pdf Word document transcript available here: https://wysingbroadcasts.art/discover/podcast-transcripts/MOAA-nick-aikens-and-john-bloomfield.docx | |||
| 24 Apr 2020 | Wysing 30th Anniversary Podcast: Donna Lynas | 00:25:08 | |
In the third of our new podcast series, Wysing Director, Donna Lynas, speaks to artist and Wysing Trustee, Harold Offeh about how Wysing has been developed over the fifteen years she has been in post. A transcript of the podcast is available here: http://www.wysingartscentre.org/images/uploads/PDFs/Podcast_Transcripts/Transcript_022_Wysing_30th_Anniversary_Podcast_Donna_Lynas | |||