Podcasts about Artsadmin

Louise Ashcroft is an artist who makes video, performance, audio, watercolours and objects which humorously chronicle her critical meddling in  real life situations. Often, her work involves analysing cultural content (like the Argos catalogue, call centres, tech culture, the reproductive industry or breakfast cereal marketing). She has made several audio works for BBC Sounds and has spoken at leading digital arts festivals such as KIKK and Chaos Computer Congress. She has presented work at Frans Hals Museum (NL), Museum of London Lates, Wellcome Lates, BQ Berlin, Arebyte, Bobinska Brownlee, Tate Learning, Open Space Contemporary, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Artsadmin, Turf Projects, Duckie, Coastal Currents Festival, Camden People's Theatre, Supernormal Festival and Latitude Festival. She teaches Fine Art at Goldsmiths, London, and co-founded the free peer-led art school AltMFA in 2010. She likes expensive trainers and angry Marxist rhetoric.Louise says"My work looks at barriers to starting a family as a queer woman, and the personal relationships that are in play in these decisions. We need to be rethinking social structures of parenting, not always going down the ‘nuclear' style family and gender binary structures. I didn't want to be a parent or non parent in a relationship, I just want to be involved in a family! How can someone parent without being a traditional ‘having a baby' parent?Childfree by choice is a movement focused on choice, which can be problematic. Choice is a very loaded word, but is also a word that capitalism is based on. Having kids or not is not always a choice for people. Like for me, but then that means you can explore different ways to be ‘family', which can be equally exciting."Useful linkshttps://www.louiseashcroft.org/bird-hut.htmlInsta @louiseashcroft1 

For episode 17 of the Creative Climate Podcast, Perry and Kirsten get into it with the supremely talented London-based, British-Ugandan Musician/Songwriter/Activist, LOVE SSEGA.  Ssega was introduced to us through Alison Tickell from Julie's Bicycle. Raving about him on our 15th episode, we were sufficiently inspired to reach out and ask him to come on the podcast. Ssega is a founding member, lead singer/songwriter for Clean Bandit, an electro-classical band that collaborated with the BBC Philharmonic and BBC Concert Orchestras. He performed in front of 45,000 at Glastonbury on the Other Stage, live on BBC's Jools Holland and to festival crowds from Tokyo to Rome.Over the past few years, he has developed his solo repertoire which  invokes a distinctive, impassioned, and angular R&B electro-rap hybrid that is proving to be a serious voice in climate activism, particularly bounding off his life as a South Londoner. Ssega was moved by the story of Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debra, a 9 year old girl who lost her life, afflicted by asthma that worsened as a result of the profound air pollution around London's highly polluted through road, the South Circular. His music and his activism around this local problem, which of course illuminates a larger problem, led to his being selected for Seasons For Change's Common Ground, led by Julie's Bicycle and Artsadmin, on a national, year-long Climate Justice and Arts Activism commission in the build up to the UN's COP26 environmental conference. His project “Airs of the South Circular” centres around uplifting Black voices in the climate crisis, specifically in response to air pollution and the communities around the South Circular.“Airs of the South Circular” – multi-arts project – includes an album of new music, a specially-commissioned “Project Earth” comic by Andrew Kiwanuka, an information pamphlet of interviews and viewpoints and a visual trailer introducing the area. Love Ssega's words and music can be found here: https://www.lovessega.com/

Panel discussion at the Academy of Ideas Arts & Society Forum, via Zoom, on 6 August 2020. What future do the arts have after the economic disruption wrought by the lockdown and post-lockdown precautionary measures? Theatres, concert venues, cinemas and festivals may be the worst hit, having lost months’ worth of box-office revenues. But other arts organisations are also suffering considerable losses due to the limitations on their activities. Meanwhile, actors, musicians and other performers and technicians in the arts may have lost their livelihoods.As the arts struggle to make adjustments to post-lockdown requirements and to huge financial losses, what might aid their recovery? Will the arts eventually bounce back from this devastation and return to normal or are they likely to be profoundly changed? The different arts will to be affected in different ways, but what are we likely to gain and lose in the post-Covid-19 world? What about audiences? How soon will people overcome their fear of enclosed spaces? For how long will theatres, concert venues and cinemas remain empty and festivals cancelled? How will access to the arts be affected: for how long will audiences be willing to make do with the digital experience? What should the role of government be in aiding the recovery of the arts? Should the government increase subsidies? Is this an opportunity for completely rethinking the arts, as some people are suggesting, clearing out the dross to allow the pearls to shine through? How do we create an environment in which the arts can thrive again? SPEAKERS: (All speakers are appearing in a personal capacity) JONATHAN BAZJonathan is an independent critic regularly invited (pre-pandemic) to review West End, regional and fringe productions, together with occasional Broadway openings. His reviews can be found at www.jonathanbaz.com and on Twitter @MrJonathanBaz MANICK GOVINDAManick has worked in the arts for many years, mentoring artists and arts professionals, providing personal and professional development support and guidance. Manick was formerly programme director for SPACE and previously headed Artsadmin’s innovative artists’ development programme for 18 years. He is a writer and cultural commentator. MO LOVATTMo is programme & events coordinator with the Academy of Ideas. Prior to this she worked as a writer, researcher, lecturer and producer in the arts sector, predominantly in the North East of England, but also nationally and internationally. Mo appears on a number of current affairs and politics programmes for Sky and the BBC and is a regular guest on Sky News’s Sunrise programme where she reviews the morning papers.Follow Mo on Twitter: @MoLovatt JOEL MILLSJoel is senior music programme manager at British Council, the UK’s cultural relations organisation. She develops and oversees a programme of international music and arts projects, which Include showcasing UK artists, music, and arts organisations around the world, brokering international connections, collaborative commissions, and professional exchange opportunities. Joel has worked in the arts and music for over 25 years, with a background that bridges both the commercial and funded sector. ALISON SMALLAlison has been UK production training manager at Netflix since March 2020, developing and overseeing training for freelance production crew for Netflix series and film. She was previously the CEO of the Production Guild of Great Britain, which she joined in 2012.

'Too Close to Home: Irish Theatre and Home' by Róise Goan, Artistic Director of Artsadmin, London recorded in Glebe House, Donegal, Ireland.

“My life ended and began with a prison sentence, those metal doors awoke the faith in me” Sitting in her front room, with a group of like-minded friends, Lady Unchained and her friends would have debates and discussions about the problems they faced and write about how they made them feel. This inspired her to set up Unchained Poetry, a platform for artists with experience of the criminal justice system. She now hosts Unchained Nights in partnership with Artsadmin at Toybee Stations, a night of inspirational storytelling, through poetry and music, performed by artists with lived experience of the justice system. She also co-hosts for National Prison Radio’s show We Are StraightLine, a show about Getting out of prison and Staying out of prison and has just featured in a new podcast Secret Life of Prisons. Lady Unchained’s mission is to prove that there is life after prison. Through poetry she tells her own personal story and the untold stories that are often left untold, because of shame or labels. In this podcast she perforoms a selection of her poems. Join in the conversation online using #BeingtheStory

For Edge of an Era - Robin Bale has responded to BLED EDGE by Alastair MacLennan (EDGE 88). Robin Bale is a London-based poet/performer and sound artist. He makes improvised performances utilising verbal and non-verbal vocalisation and musical equipment, including self-built instruments. He also makes recordings that experiment with aural space and noise, creatively deploying studio technology to create sonic landscapes that reflect the fragmented and contested space of urban and exurban environments. His performances incorporate ritualised antagonism, the intonation of found texts and enigmatic phrases, historical trivia, grunts and howls and the pouring of Special Brew onto the floor as libation for the spirits of the dead. The texts are infested with sphinxes, ghosts and winos. These performances have often taken place in, and are responses to, what nowadays passes for public space. www.robinbale.blogspot.com This was commissioned for Edge of an Era, 2018.Edge of an Era (2018) was curated by Helena Goldwater and Rob La Frenais, Alex Eisenberg and Live Art Development Agency. It is produced in partnership with Artsadmin and Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, supported using public funding by Arts Council National Lottery Project Grants with additional activities made possible through the Jonathan Ruffer Curatorial Grant from Art Fund. www.edgeofanera.co.uk

‘Stop supporting the death of the earth! Know it when you see it!’As part of her series Stage Left, Jen Harvie interviews performance artist Reverend Billy. "I met the Reverend Billy – also known as Bill Talen – at Artsadmin’s Toynbee Studios in east London near the end of his Trump Depression Hotline Tour across England in October 2017. Based in New York since the 1990s, the Reverend Billy and his secular-political Church of Stop Shopping use public preaching and singing to protest against rampant consumerism, corporate greed, ecological injustice, and Trump. Reverend Billy and I discussed what’s important in using the arts to change the world, including local activism, collaboration, music, and love." The Trump Depression Hotline Tour is directed by Savitri D; the musical director is Nehemiah Luckett. www.revbilly.comStage Left is presented by Jen Harvie, Professor of Contemporary Theatre and Performance at Queen Mary, University of London, and is produced by Deb Kilbride. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

I met the Reverend Billy – also known as Bill Talen – at Artsadmin’s Toynbee Studios in east London near the end of his Trump Depression Hotline Tour across England in October 2017. Based in New York since the 1990s, the Reverend Billy and his secular-political Church of Stop Shopping use public preaching and singing to protest against rampant consumerism, corporate greed, ecological injustice, and Trump. Reverend Billy and I discussed what’s important in using the arts to change the world, including local activism, collaboration, music, and love. The Trump Depression Hotline Tour is directed by Savitri D; the musical director is Nehemiah Luckett. www.revbilly.com

During the London’s Burning festival, audiences were invited to experience 'Holoscenes', a five hour underwater performance installation inspired by the threat we face from rising sea levels. Join Artichoke Director Helen Marriage as she discusses art and crisis with artist Lars Jan and Judith Knight (co-Director of ArtsAdmin), exploring how each of them use art to respond to issues impacting the world today. Part of the talks series for London's Burning, a festival of arts and ideas for Great Fire 350, a season of events commemorating the Great Fire of London.

In this episode, Emma is again in Brighton, talking with performance maker Rosana Cade about identity and difference.  About holding hands in public space; performances in public space; fear in public space and the Brighton Safety Map Project. Also about weird hugs and kissing your cousins. We were invited to record this episode by Pink Fringe in conjunction with The Safety Map, a project they were facilitating across the recent bank holiday weekend at the Marlborough Theatre. It was an invitation for people to share experiences of anti-social behaviour in Brighton as well as spaces where they feel welcomed and celebrated. Rosana says ”I am a performance maker based in Glasgow. Whilst the form of my performance work varies, and emerges in relation to the specific process or context I am engaging with, it is firmly rooted in a queer discourse and straddles live art and activism. My performances happen in various contexts including theatres, public spaces, as well as club and cabaret settings. I was part of the Spill National Showcase in 2013, a National Theatre of Scotland ‘Auteur’ in 2014 and I am an Artsadmin artist bursary recipient 2014/15. My work has been shown extensively across the UK with over twenty organisations including the National Theatre in London, at Summerhall as part of the Made in Scotland Showcase at the Edinburgh Fringe 2014, Contact Theatre – Manchester, the Arches in Glasgow, Forest Fringe, Battersea Arts Centre, and at international venues including Teatro Maria Matos in Lisbon, Frascati in Amsterdam and Kwai Fong Theatre in Hong Kong. I also collaborate regularly with my partner Eilidh MacAskill in our live art riot girl boi band, Double Pussy Clit Fu*k to create club and cabaret performances. And I am co-founder of //BUZZCUT// festival.” You can find links below or follow the Safety Map Project online at #safetymap and you can follow Rosana at @RosanaCade And you can keep up to date with Emma's movements through the None of Us is Yet a Robot project at www.notyetarobot.co.uk or @elbfrankland on twitter. Opening music was by Kraftwerk and Closing music by Señor Coconut y Su Conjuto Some things we mentioned in the conversation were: The Safety Map - https://www.facebook.com/events/1780845748818488/ The Marlborough, Brighton - http://www.marlboroughtheatre.org.uk Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs - http://www.simplypsychology.org/maslow.html Walking / Holding - https://rosanacadedotcom.wordpress.com Judith Butler - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Butler Casey Plett - http://topsidepress.com/titles/a-safe-girl-to-love/ Rituals for Change at the Yard Theatre (10 - 14 May) - http://notyetarobot.co.uk/portfolio-item/rituals-for-change/ Advice about reporting hate crime - https://www.gov.uk/report-hate-crime LGBT Support Gendered Intelligence: http://genderedintelligence.co.uk Stonewall: http://www.stonewall.org.uk Brighton & Hove LGBT Switchboard - http://switchboard.org.uk See you next time. xxx

James Smith interviews Ellie Harrison about her Work-a-thon project at Artsadmin's Two Degrees festival for the This Is Tomorrow website

James Smith interviews Ellie Harrison about her Work-a-thon project at Artsadmin's Two Degrees festival for the This Is Tomorrow website