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Tate hosts a wide-ranging programme of talks, symposia and live events at all four Tate galleries. This podcast presents highlights of this programme. Visit www.tate.org.uk/calendar for details of upcoming events at the galleries. To receive regular email updates on events and exhibitions, visit www…

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    The Black Subject: Modernism

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 17, 2015 0:01


    This symposium takes an interdisciplinary approach, exploring relationships between artists and models, multi-racial interwar communities, historical subjects, sexuality, gender and the work of previously neglected artists.

    The Black Subject: Model citizens - a panel

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 17, 2015 0:01


    This symposium takes an interdisciplinary approach, exploring relationships between artists and models, multi-racial interwar communities, historical subjects, sexuality, gender and the work of previously neglected artists.

    The Black Subject: Victorians - a conversation

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 17, 2015 0:01


    This symposium takes an interdisciplinary approach, exploring relationships between artists and models, multi-racial interwar communities, historical subjects, sexuality, gender and the work of previously neglected artists.

    The Black Subject: On presence and absence

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 17, 2015 0:01


    This symposium takes an interdisciplinary approach, exploring relationships between artists and models, multi-racial interwar communities, historical subjects, sexuality, gender and the work of previously neglected artists.

    The Black Subject: Film screening of Borderline - Q&A

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 17, 2015 0:01


    A discussion with Prof. Laura Marcus (Oxford University) and writer and critic Prof. Sukhdev Sandhu (NYU), chaired by Tate Curator Sonya Dyer

    BMW Tate Live: The Future of Live

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 30, 2014 120:19


    The talk addresses some of the thoughts and observations emerging from the inter-disciplinary debates around the nature of the performative and live art in order to identify future trajectories for performance in this highly mediated digital age

    Susan Meiselas in conversation with Simon Baker

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 30, 2014 75:29


    Documentary photographer Susan Meiselas, whose work features in Conflict, Time, Photography discusses her illustrious career in photojournalism with curator Simon Baker.

    Future Citizen Forum: Values

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 30, 2014 44:19


    What is the value of being a citizen? What are the values that will or should guide the future citizen? How can we rethink the idea of value away from a purely economic model of worth?

    The landscape in contemporary photography: From the sublime to the ridiculous

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 30, 2014 122:22


    Speakers are Thomas Struth, Penelope Umbrico, Massimo Vitali and Lauren Marsolier and Mishka Henner. The panel is chaired by William Ewing, Director of Curatorial Projects at Thames & Hudson.

    Purple and Snails: Polke's Experiments with Colour

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 30, 2014 61:11


    In the early 1980s the German artist Sigmar Polke became a dedicated scholar of pigment manufacture. He favoured highly toxic, banned or otherwise exotic substances, but as a modern day alchemist he shrouded his knowledge in mystery.

    Artist's Talk: Ciara Phillips in conversation with Emily Pethick

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 30, 2014 87:34


    Join Ciara Phillips as she discusses her collaborative projects, her Turner Prize nomination and other work with Emily Pethick, Director of The Showroom.

    Radio Benjamin: Live Now

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 30, 2014 89:46


    Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) is best known for his pioneering work on technology, culture and art, making enduring contributions to aesthetic theory and Western Marxism.

    Gregory J. Markopoulos: Film as Film

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 30, 2014 28:29


    Gregory J. Markopoulos is a key figure in the history of independent film and was, alongside Kenneth Anger, Stan Brakhage, Maya Deren and Andy Warhol, a pioneer of the New American Cinema of the 1960s.

    Future of the City: Grassroots Perspectives

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 30, 2014 93:20


    The discussion includes case studies from Latin America amongst other examples. Speakers include Justin McGuirk author of Radical Cities alongside Andreas Lang from public works, a London-based non-for-profit art and architecture practice.

    BMW Tate Live: On Mediated Experience: Transforming Performance

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 30, 2014 114:32


    This event takes the BMW Tate Live Performance Room as illustrative of the ways in which performance is responding to a highly mediated world, where performance often comes into being simultaneously live and online.

    Show Time: Curating contemporary art

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 30, 2014 92:57


    What are the exhibitions that truly changed the course of the discipline, provoked public reactions and contributed to a more complex understanding of what exhibition-making means today?

    Sigmar Polke: Films

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 30, 2014 31:09


    Introduction to the film screening by special guests from Polke’s family who will discuss his relationship to film and Christof Kohlhöfer will also discuss his collaboration with Polke.

    Sound, music, visual: producing the interdisciplinary

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 30, 2014 176:26


    This half-day conference examines the motivations of artists, producers and institutions to work in the context of interdisciplinary events, and asks where is this interdisciplinary practice headed?

    Painting, Politics, Persona: What Polke Means Today?

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 11, 2014 124:17


    This audio recording aims to situate Sigmar Polke's significance within a wider art historical context before unpicking the complex layers of his diverse practice, raising questions around what makes his art of such contemporary relevance today.

    In Conversation: Wangechi Mutu

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 9, 2014 89:31


    A riveting and candid conversation charting Wangechi Mutu’s career to date via her varied sources of inspiration, including her current exploration of the possibilities of printmaking, mythology and more. Audio recording.

    Emigré Artists and their Archives: Naum Gabo and his Contemporaries - part 3

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 31, 2014 72:11


    When Naum Gabo left Russia in 1922, he did not know that he would never return. Like many of his contemporaries, circumstances forced him to move from his new home in Berlin to Paris, London and Cornwall, before finally settling in the United States.

    Emigré Artists and their Archives: Naum Gabo and his Contemporaries - part 2

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 31, 2014 72:11


    When Naum Gabo left Russia in 1922, he did not know that he would never return. Like many of his contemporaries, circumstances forced him to move from his new home in Berlin to Paris, London and Cornwall, before finally settling in the United States.

    Emigré Artists and their Archives: Naum Gabo and his Contemporaries - part 1

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 31, 2014 77:09


    When Naum Gabo left Russia in 1922, he did not know that he would never return. Like many of his contemporaries, circumstances forced him to move from his new home in Berlin to Paris, London and Cornwall, before finally settling in the United States.

    Angela De La Cruise: Artist Talk

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 30, 2014 16:23


    In this audio recording Angela de la Cruz discusses her work with curator, Carolina Grau.

    The Endless City

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 30, 2014 61:38


    Ricky Burdett, Enrique Peñalosa, Sir Richard Rogers and Deyan Sudjic discuss the book 'The Endless City', which takes six major cities as its focal point and examines the key social, structural and economic factors critical to creating a thriving city

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    Exploring Turner and the Masters - Part 5

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 30, 2014 33:00


    Turner’s powerful evocation of the landscape and revolutionary use of paint has been an inspiration to subsequent generations of artists. Audio recording of a workshop at Tate Britain.

    Exploring Turner and the Masters - Part 4

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 30, 2014 29:37


    Turner’s powerful evocation of the landscape and revolutionary use of paint has been an inspiration to subsequent generations of artists. Audio recording of a workshop at Tate Britain.

    Exploring Turner and the Masters - Part 3

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 30, 2014 43:11


    Turner’s powerful evocation of the landscape and revolutionary use of paint has been an inspiration to subsequent generations of artists. Audio recording of a workshop at Tate Britain.

    Exploring Turner and the Masters - Part 2

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 30, 2014 9:01


    Turner’s powerful evocation of the landscape and revolutionary use of paint has been an inspiration to subsequent generations of artists. Audio recording of a workshop at Tate Britain.

    Exploring Turner and the Masters - Part 1

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 30, 2014 30:42


    Turner’s powerful evocation of the landscape and revolutionary use of paint has been an inspiration to subsequent generations of artists. Audio recording of a workshop at Tate Britain.

    Susan Hiller: Defining a Practice - Part 3

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 29, 2014 86:43


    Drawing on the many interrelated and overlapping themes in Susan Hiller's work, this symposium asks how visual imagery can inform the understanding of intellectual ideas.

    Susan Hiller: Defining a Practice - Part 2

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 29, 2014 83:40


    Drawing on the many interrelated and overlapping themes in Susan Hiller's work, this symposium asks how visual imagery can inform the understanding of intellectual ideas.

    Susan Hiller: Defining a Practice - Part 1

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 29, 2014 131:29


    Drawing on the many interrelated and overlapping themes in Susan Hiller's work, this symposium asks how visual imagery can inform the understanding of intellectual ideas.

    Julião Sarmento In Conversation

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 23, 2014 85:32


    In this audio recording Portuguese artist Julião Sarmento draws upon themes of memory, sexuality, transgression, morality and duality. He is in conversation with critic and writer Adrian Searle.

    Gabriel Orozco: In Conversation

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 23, 2014 91:37


    Gabriel Orozco is in conversation with Jessica Morgan, curator of the exhibition at Tate Modern.

    Gauguin: Curator’s Talk

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 23, 2014 57:41


    Assistant curator Amy Dickson discusses how the Gauguin exhibition aspires to challenge commonly held assumptions about the artist and his practice by revealing the complexity of his narrative strategies and explore the myths central to his creativity.

    Zaha Hadid and Suprematism

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 21, 2014 80:31


    Considering Hadid’s concept of architecture and its relationship to space and the city, this audio recording reflects on Malevich’s Architektons, as well as other works of Suprematism, as formative inspiration for her own practice.

    TV as Material 3: The Television Studio

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 21, 2014 33:51


    The material structures of the TV studio, including sets, production apparatus and control rooms, provide a starting point and a setting for many contemporary artists seeking to explore television’s changing institutional architecture and culture.

    TV as Material 2: Broadcast Collaborations

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 21, 2014 69:08


    This screening and discussion will explore how artists have collaborated with broadcasters in both the public and commercial sectors, ranging from pioneers to contemporary practitioners.

    TV as Material 1: Artists and Archive at the BBC

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 21, 2014 50:20


    This event showcases a diverse range of artists’ approaches both to television and the archive, including new works by Kate Davis, Kathryn Elkin, Luke Fowler, Torsten Lauschmann, Stephen Sutcliffe and Alia Syed, followed by a discussion.

    Artist's talk: David Batchelor

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 21, 2014 86:00


    David Batchelor’s work comprises three-dimensional structures, photographs and drawings, mostly related to a long term interest in colour and urbanism. To coincide with the Malevich exhibition, Batchelor hosts his talk The Story of the Un-Squared Square

    BMW Tate Live: On Publicness

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 21, 2014 116:29


    How can performance shape our use and understanding of public space? Who is represented through public performative events? What does publicness mean in a global community?

    What makes an artist? Grayson Perry in conversation with Sarah Thornton

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 21, 2014 81:01


    Who do artists think they are? What myths are they rejecting and propagating? What is the social role of artists in different countries around the world today? How do artists negotiate power? Self-belief? Recognition?

    American Artist Lecture Series: Julie Mehretu

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 21, 2014 81:23


    Julie Mehretu is an artist whose paintings have been described by curator Douglas Fogle as ‘perfect metaphors for the increasingly interconnected and complex character of the 21st century’. Audio recording.

    Anthony McCall: Artist's Talk

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 21, 2014 79:30


    British-born, US-based artist Anthony McCall talks about new projects, including the recent vertical works, as well as public commissions.

    Rachel Whiteread Drawings: Curator’s Talk

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 19, 2014 52:42


    In this audio recording Lizzie Carey-Thomas, curator at Tate Britain, explores the drawings that provide a rare insight into the creative process of the artist.

    Ai Weiwei in Conversation

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 19, 2014 101:55


    In this audio recording Ai Weiwei is in conversation with Katie Hill, curator and Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Chinese Art.

    Rosa Barba: In Conversation

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 19, 2014 40:02


    On the occasion of her exhibition in 2010 in the Level 2 Gallery, Rosa Barba has put together a screening programme of her single-channel film works followed by a conversation with curator Ben Borthwick.

    Who Was Eadweard Muybridge?

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 19, 2014 55:03


    Much has been written about Eadweard Muybridge’s work and accomplishments. While we know the bare facts of his life, there is little understanding of Muybridge the person.

    Muybridge’s Models

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 19, 2014 55:11


    Eadweard Muybridge is renowned as a pioneer photographer, scientist and inventor of the zoopraxiscope which he used to project his images to create the illusion of movement. Audio recording.

    Projecting the Living Image

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 19, 2014 43:59


    In this audio recording Leading British Muybridge scholar and specialist in the history of audio-visual media, Stephen Herbert talks about the influential photographer’s experiments with the Zoöpraxiscope, and recent research into Muybridge's 'lost years'

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