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RuPaul's Drag Race creators Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato join Nick Ahad to talk about their career making making television and movies, ahead of being guests of honour at this year's Sheffield DocFest.Radio 3 presenter Tom Service discusses the life and legacy of Alfred Brendel who was a celebrated author, poet and pianist.Caroline Norbury, the CEO of Creative UK, Stephanie Sirr, the Chief Executive of Nottingham Playhouse, and Sienna Rodgers, the Deputy Editor of parliamentary magazine The House, discuss how the arts will be affected by the recent spending review.The theme of this year's Liverpool Biennial is ‘bedrock'. The inspiration is the sandstone which spans the city region and is found in its distinctive architecture. 'Bedrock' is also a metaphor for the social foundations of Liverpool and the people, places and values that ground the city. From the cornucopia of work by 30 artists from all over the world, shown in galleries and venues all over the city, the art critic Laura Robertson chooses three highlights.Producer: Ekene Akalawu Presenter: Nick Ahad

The Dulwich Picture Gallery, the UK's first purpose-built public art gallery, is hosting an exhibition of one of Britain's brightest young painting talents, Rachel Jones. Ben Luke visits the gallery to talk to her about the paintings—giant and tiny—in the show. The latest Liverpool Biennial has just opened in that great British city; Louisa Buck, The Art Newspaper's contemporary art correspondent, joins Ben to review the show. And this episode's Work of the Week, is the UK Aids Memorial Quilt, which was instigated in 1989 and commemorates the lives of 384 individuals affected by HIV and Aids. It is made up of 42 quilts made from multiple panels and a further 23 individual panels. The quilt is being shown at Tate Modern this weekend, and we speak to the writer Charlie Porter, who included the quilt in his recent novel Nova Scotia House and instigated the project to show it at Tate.Rachel Jones: Gated Canyons, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, until 19 October.Liverpool Biennial: BEDROCK, until 14 September.The UK Aids Memorial Quilt, Tate Modern, until 16 June; Charlie Porter, Nova Scotia House, Penguin, £18.99; US: Nightboat Books, 21 October, $17.95. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

André Romão nasceu em Lisboa em 1984, cidade onde vive. O seu trabalho assume sobretudo a forma de escultura e poesia, explorando ideias de transformação, mutação e fluidez. Partindo da emoção e da intuição, as suas figuras e paisagens oníricas ocupam frequentemente um campo indefinido entre os domínios literário e natural. O seu trabalho tem sido apresentado em diferentes instituições como o Museu de Serralves (Porto), Centre d'art Contemporain Genève, Liverpool Biennial 2021, MAAT (Lisboa), Museu Berardo (Lisboa), Futura (Praga), The Green Parrot (Barcelona), Macro (Roma), Astrup Fearnley Museet (Oslo), CAPC (Bordéus), Spike Island (Bristol), Kunsthalle Lissabon, entre outras. Recebeu o Prémio EDP Novos Artistas em 2007 e o BES revelação em 2013. Foi artista residente na Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlim (2010), MACRO, Roma (2014) e Gasworks, Londres (2020), entre outros. A obra de Romão está representada em colecções como a Fundação de Serralves, Fundação Gulbenkian, FRAC Franche-Comté, entre outras. Links: https://andreromaonet.wordpress.com/ https://www.publico.pt/2019/04/01/culturaipsilon/noticia/noite-andre-romao-ha-corpos-pulsam-despertam-1866702 https://umbigomagazine.com/pt/blog/2019/04/26/fauna-de-andre-romao/ https://www.dn.pt/arquivo/diario-de-noticias/andre-romao-exibe-novas-esculturas-e-poemas-sobre-a-fluidez-dos-corpos-9320081.html https://www.galleriaumbertodimarino.com/andre-romao/ https://contemporanea.pt/edicoes/07-08-09-2021/andre-romao-le-volpi https://www.veracortes.com/artists/andre-romao/ https://contemporanea.pt/edicoes/06-2018/andre-romao-fruits-and-flowers https://www.serralves.pt/en/atividades-serralves/1203-visita-orientada-andre-romao/ https://www.fundacaoedp.pt/en/edition-prize/new-artists-award-2007 Episódio gravado a 21.02.2025 Créditos introdução: David Maranha - Flauta e percussão Créditos música final: Crass - Mother Earth (1979) – interpretada por Crass / letra Crass, Eve Libertine (aka Bronwen Jones), Joy De Vivre, Steve Ignorant / produzida por Crass Records http://www.appleton.pt Mecenas Appleton:HCI / Colecção Maria e Armando Cabral / A2P / MyStory Hotels Apoio:Câmara Municipal de Lisboa Financiamento:República Portuguesa – Cultura / DGArtes – Direcção Geral das Artes © Appleton, todos os direitos reservados

A 2025 preview: Georgina Adam, our editor-at-large, tells host Ben Luke what might lie ahead for the market. And Ben is joined by Jane Morris, editor-at-large, and Gareth Harris, chief contributing editor, to select the big museum openings, biennials and exhibitions.All shows discussed are in The Art Newspaper's The Year Ahead 2025, priced £14.99 or the equivalent in your currency. Buy it here.Exhibitions: Site Santa Fe International, Santa Fe, US, 28 Jun-13 Jan 2026; Liverpool Biennial, 7 Jun-14 Sep; Folkestone Triennial, 19 Jul-19 Oct; Ruth Asawa: A Retrospective, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 5 Apr-2 Sep; Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, 19 Oct-7 Feb 2026; Gabriele Münter, Guggenheim Museum, New York, 7 Nov-26 Apr 2026; Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, 4 Apr-24 Aug; Elizabeth Catlett: a Black Revolutionary Artist, Brooklyn Museum, New York, until 19 Jan; National Gallery of Art (NGA), Washington DC, 9 Mar-6 Jul; Art Institute of Chicago, US, 30 Aug-4 Jan 2026; Ithell Colquhoun, Tate Britain, London, 13 Jun-19 Oct; Abstract Erotic: Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse, Alice Adams, Courtauld Gallery, London, 20 Jun-14 Sep; Michaelina Wautier, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, 30 Sep-25 Jan 2026; Radical! Women Artists and Modernism, Belvedere, Vienna, 18 Jun-12 Oct; Dangerously Modern: Australian Women Artists in Europe, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 24 May-7 Sep; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 11 Oct-1 Feb 2026; Lorna Simpson: Source Notes, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 19 May-2 Nov; Amy Sherald: American Sublime, SFMOMA, to 9 Mar; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 9 Apr-Aug; National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC, 19 Sep-22 Feb 2026; Shahzia Sikander: Collective Behavior, Cincinnati Art Museum, 14 Feb-4 May; Cleveland Museum of Art, US, 14 Feb-8 Jun; Cantor Arts Center, Stanford, US, 1 Oct-25 Jan 2026; Jenny Saville: The Anatomy of Painting, National Portrait Gallery, London, 20 Jun-7 Sep; Linder: Danger Came Smiling, Hayward Gallery, London, 11 Feb-5 May; Arpita Singh, Serpentine Galleries, London, 13 Mar-27 Jul; Vija Celmins, Beyeler Collection, Basel, 15 Jun-21 Sep; An Indigenous Present, ICA/Boston, US, 9 Oct-8 Mar 2026; The Stars We Do Not See, NGA, Washington, DC, 18 Oct-1 Mar 2026; Duane Linklater, Dia Chelsea, 12 Sep-24 Jan 2026; Camden Art Centre, London, 4 Jul-21 Sep; Vienna Secession, 29 Nov-22 Feb 2026; Emily Kam Kngwarray, Tate Modern, London, 10 Jul-13 Jan 2026; Archie Moore, Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, 30 Aug-23 Aug 2026; Histories of Ecology, MASP, Sao Paulo, 5 Sep-1 Feb 2026; Jack Whitten, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 23 Mar-2 Aug; Wifredo Lam, Museum of Modern Art, Rashid Johnson, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 18 Apr-18 Jan 2026; Adam Pendleton, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC, 4 Apr-3 Jan 2027; Marie Antoinette Style, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 20 Sep-22 Mar 2026; Leigh Bowery!, Tate Modern, 27 Feb- 31 Aug; Blitz: the Club That Shaped the 80s, Design Museum, London, 19 Sep-29 Mar 2026; Do Ho Suh, Tate Modern, 1 May-26 Oct; Picasso: the Three Dancers, Tate Modern, 25 Sep-1 Apr 2026; Ed Atkins, Tate Britain, London, 2 Apr-25 Aug; Turner and Constable, Tate Britain, 27 Nov-12 Apr 2026; British Museum: Hiroshige, 1 May-7 Sep; Watteau and Circle, 15 May-14 Sep; Ancient India, 22 May-12 Oct; Kerry James Marshall, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 20 Sep-18 Jan 2026; Kiefer/Van Gogh, Royal Academy, 28 Jun-26 Oct; Anselm Kiefer, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 14 Feb-15 Jun; Anselm Kiefer, Van Gogh Museum, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 7 Mar-9 Jun; Cimabue, Louvre, Paris, 22 Jan-12 May; Black Paris, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 19 Mar-30 Jun; Machine Love, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 13 Feb-8 Jun Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Vid Simoniti is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy of Art at the University of Liverpool, where he also directs the MA in Art, Philosophy and Cultural Institutions. Before joining the department at Liverpool in 2018, he was the inaugural Jeffrey Rubinoff Junior Research Fellow at Churchill College, the University of Cambridge. Vid's academic work bridges philosophy, political thoughts and arts criticism. He's interested in how art can bring about social and political change and his most recent book Artists Remake the World offers his answer to that question. And as the title suggests, it's both a hopeful and an ambitious one. Vid has an exciting public profile. He has been the BBC New Generation thinker, presented radio shows, and he has hosted the Art Against the World podcast, a collaboration with the Liverpool Biennial. https://www.vidsimoniti.com/Art Against The World podcast: https://liverpoolbiennial2021.com/programme/art-against-the-world/Faculty page: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/philosophy/staff/vid-simoniti/The Cluster F Theory Podcast is edited by Julian Mayers at Yada Yada https://www.yada-yada.net/.You can also subscribe on Apple Podcasts or anywhere else you listen to podcasts.If you enjoy the podcast, it'd be great if you could rate or review it ore reccommend it to your friends! Thanks!Thank you for listening to The Cluster F Theory Podcast. This post is public so feel free to share it. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit theclusterftheory.substack.com

What if you were embroiled in a public workplace controversy? And what happens on the other side of the headlines—would you walk away from your field, or would you reengage with it to try and improve upon it? This very special episode is a break from the norm. In it, we discuss museums and change—and what it takes to get to that change. We're joined by three curators—Mia Locks, director and co-founder of Museums Moving Forward; Fatoş Üstek, curator and former director of the Liverpool Biennial; and Laura Raicovich, writer, curator, and former president and executive director of the Queens Museum. Each of them has been through a public furor. In those moments, they have found a lack of institutional support and, afterwards, each has shifted from their previous career paths. But each has reengaged with the field in more ambitious and ultimately hopeful ways. Museums can't be taken for granted. But what does it take to create change? Tune in now for more. 

Greetings Glocal Citizens! This week's guest is fast becoming a cultural icon across her chosen disciplines. Ghanaian by ancestry and born in German and spending a formative part of her life in England, Nana Oforiatta Ayim is a writer, filmmaker, and art historian. She is Founder of the ANO Institute of Arts and Knowledge (https://www.anoghana.org/), through which she has pioneered a Pan-African Cultural Encyclopaedia, a Mobile Museums Project, and curated Ghana's first pavilion at the Venice Biennale. She published her first novel The God Child (https://a.co/d/hjkYT9r) in 2019, and in German in 2021. She has made award-winning films for museums such as Tate Modern, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and The New Museum. She is the recipient of various awards and honours, having been named one of the Apollo '40 under 40'; one of 50 African Trailblazers by The Africa Report; a Quartz Africa Innovator in 2017; one of 12 African women making history in 2016 and one of 100 women of 2020 by Okayafrica. In 2020, she was appointed to the Advisory Council of Oxford University's Cultural Programme and was a Principal Investigator on the Action for Restitution to Africa programme. She received the Ghana Woman of the Year Award in 2021. And in 2022 she was awarded the world's biggest history prize from the Dan David Foundation for outstanding early and mid-career scholars and practitioners in the historical disciplines. Over the years it has been a treat to watch Nana's vision come into being and even better was the chance to sit with her in one of her places of peace in Osu, Accra. Where to find Nana? https://www.nanaoforiattaayim.com/ On LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nana-oforiatta-ayim-976644222) On Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/nanaoforiattaayim/?hl=en) On Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/nanaoforiattayim) On X (https://twitter.com/OforiattaAyim) What's Nana watching? Past Lives (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Past_Lives_(film)) Other topics of interest: About [Akyem, Ghana](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akyem ] Aburi, Ghana (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aburi) About Piet Mondrian (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piet_Mondrian) Gus Casely-Hayford (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gus_Casely-Hayford) John Picton (https://soas.academia.edu/JohnPicton) About the Liverpool Biennial (https://www.biennial.com) Ousmane Sembène (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ousmane_Semb%C3%A8ne) Mooji (https://mooji.org/) The Renoir Cinema (https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2008/nov/19/renoir-cinema-rebranding) Special Guest: Nana Oforiatta Ayim.

Danielle Radojcin talks to Sam Lackey, director at the Liverpool Biennial and the UK's largest festival of contemporary art. The biennial, a festival which happens every two years in a city around the world, and often in disused spaces, is the chance to revitalise the city it's taking place in. The 12th edition of the Liverpool Biennial, curated by ‎Khanyisile Mbongwa, addressed the history of the city of Liverpool and its connections to the slave trade, and acted as a call for  “ancestral and indigenous forms of knowledge, wisdom and healing.” Sam looks back at the highs and lows of this year's fair, and talks about her vision for it moving forward. https://www.biennial.com/@danielleradojcin

You will be successful and you will be rejected. It's time to talk cold hard cash! Episode 6 - Our Season 1 finale. We've had the idea, made the art, found a space to show it, made it look fantastic in the room and found an audience for it, now - how do we get paid? We wrap the season with Julie Lomax, CEO of a-n The Artists Information Company. Julie was previously Director of Development at Liverpool Biennial and has held the Director of Visual Arts position at Australia Council for Arts and Arts Council England, where she was responsible for visual arts policy and investment. Funding is one of the topics we get most requested to cover, so here's some tips from one of the most knowledgeable people we know in the industry to get you started or fill in the gaps!

The Sacred Return of Lost Things is the theme of this year's Art Biennial in Liverpool. Catherine Fletcher talks to some of the artists showing work about how they have engaged with the city's history. Visual artist Melanie Manchot introduces her first full length feature film, STEPHEN, about a character recovering from gambling and alcohol addictions. Rudy Loewe describes their new large-scale installation The Reckoning, based around the Carnival in Trinidad and Tobago. And Charmaine Watkiss introduces a sacred space she has created in Liverpool's Victoria Gallery & Museum, with life-size drawings and a sculpture representing unheard voices and stories that survived the Middle Passage. New Generation Thinker Vid Simoniti gives his view and reports on an exhibition at the Whitworth in Manchester called Economics the Blockbuster – It's not Business as Usual which looks at disrupting ideas about value, ownership, trade and economy. Liverpool Biennial runs until 17th September 2023. Economics the Blockbuster – It's not Business as Usual is part of Manchester International Festival MIF23 and this show runs until October 22nd. You can hear about music featured in MIF in other Radio 3 broadcasts and on BBC Sounds and on the Free Thinking programme website there is a collection of discussions about art, architecture, photography and museums.

I denne episoden av Kunstpodden tester vi ut et nytt format, nemlig en kombinasjon av kunstkritikk og reisebrev. Kunsthistoriker og -kritiker Hanna Hattrem har besøkt Liverpool-biennalen 2023. Vi hører hennes egne opptak fra et utvalg visninger, samt en samtale med programleder Cecilie Tyri Holt i etterkant av oppholdet. Liverpool-biennalen "uMoya: The Sacred Return of Lost Things" kan du oppleve i perioden 10. juni-17.september 2023.

As her new series for the BBC, Africa Rising, takes Afua Hirsch to Morocco, Nigeria and South Africa, we talk to her about the artists and art scenes she encountered and what she took away from her experiences. The Liverpool Biennial's latest edition opened last weekend and has a South African curator, Khanyisile Mbongwa, and an IsiZulu title, uMoya: The Sacred Return of Lost Things. The Art Newspaper's contemporary art correspondent, Louisa Buck, visited the biennial and reviews it for us. And it is Art Basel this week, in its original Swiss location, so this episode's Work of the Week is one of the most notable works for sale at the fair. Valentine was painted by Jean-Michel Basquiat in 1984 and given to his then girlfriend, Paige Powell, on Valentine's Day. Jeffrey Deitch, who is selling the work at Art Basel, tells us its story.Africa Rising: Morocco is on the BBC iPlayer now. The Nigeria episode is on BBC Two on 20 June at 9pm for UK viewers and on BBC iPlayer, and South Africa is broadcast on BBC Two at 27 June at 9pm. For listeners outside the UK, check your local listings.Liverpool Biennial, uMoya: The Sacred Return of Lost Things, until 17 September.Art Basel, until 18 June; Jean-Michel Basquiat: the Modena Paintings, Beyeler Foundation, Basel, until 27 August. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Liverpool Biennial, the UK's largest contemporary visual arts festival, begins this weekend. Arts journalist Laura Robertson reviews, and the curator of the biennial, Khanyisile Mbongwa, discuss coming up with this year's theme – uMoya: The Sacred Return of Lost things – which reflects on Liverpool's history as a slave port but also provides a sense of hope and joy. Nobel Prize-winning Italian playwright Dario Fo was famous for plays that careered between farce and current affairs. He wrote his most successful plays during Italy's years of economic crisis in the 1970s, and there's been an upsurge in productions of them in the UK this year. Playwrights Deborah McAndrew and Tom Basden discuss their respective adaptations of They Don't Pay? We Won't Pay! and Accidental Death of an Anarchist. For Dave Johns, the lead role in Ken Loach's multi-award winning film, I, Daniel Blake, marked his debut as a film actor. His performance as a man trapped and impoverished in the Catch-22 of the benefits system was admired by many. Now Dave has adapted the film for the stage. It opened at Northern Stage in Newcastle and begins a nationwide tour next week. He talks to Nick Ahad retelling the story of the film in a new way. Presenter: Nick Ahad Presenter: Ekene Akalawu

Continuing our theme of archives, Rudy Loewe (researcher and artist at University of the Arts London) shares their research on the Black Power movement in the English-speaking Caribbean, and the ways in which the British government suppressed it. Rudy also discusses their experience digging into recently declassified Foreign and Commonwealth Office records at the National Archives, and translating these records into art. Rudy is displaying their art at several upcoming exhibitions: Unattributable Briefs: Act One https://www.staffordshirest.com/rudyloewe New Contemporaries https://www.newcontemporaries.org.uk/ Precarious https://www.artexchange.org.uk/exhibition/precarious/#:~:text=This%20exhibition%20creates%20a%20platform,how%20to%20pay%20the%20rent. Unattributable Briefs: Act Two https://www.orleanshousegallery.org/news/2022/07/announcing-emerging-artists-programme-22-23-rudy-loewe/ Liverpool Biennial https://biennial.com/2023 Photo: Rudy Loewe, Trinidad #1-2 (2022). Photography: Ben Deakin.

Peter Gorschlüter, director of Museum Folkwang in Essen since 2018, is one of the youngest museum directors in Germany. Peter talks his early, formative years, growing up in a household with an affinity for culture. He talks his almost becoming a gallerist and how unexpectedly then the course was set to pursue a career as curator - and later director - of art institutions. He talks in depth about his working in different international art institutions through the years with a focus on developing an approach for Museum Folkwang that honors the history of the museum, as well as opens up new ways in corresponding with the time and the needs of the people. The demuseumization of the museum is an essential question for him and he would like to transfer the Folkwang (= hall of the people) vision of the museum founder Karl Ernst Osthaus into our times, thinking across genres and and epochs. Therefore he considers participation, transparency and putting people in the center of attention to be very important tasks. He sees himself not only as museum manager, but also as someone who intitiates content impulses. Peter studied Theater, Film and Television Studies, also German Studies and Philosophy in Cologne. He started organizing exhibitions early on, worked at a gallery for contemporary art and then was invited to the post of curator and research assistant at the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf. He spent some important years being chief curator of Tate Liverpool where he headed the Collection and Exhibitions Department. In 2010 he was co-curator of the Liverpool Biennial. After that he was appointed as deputy director of the Museum für Moderne Kunst MMK in Frankfurt a.M. from 2010 to 2018. Since 2018 he works as director of the internationally acclaimed Museum Folkwang in Essen. In 2021 Peter was awarded an honorary professorship for "Art and the Public" at the Folkwang University of the Arts. 35 min., recorded Sep. 19, 2022, language english. Photo credit: Peter Gorschlüter, Direktor Museum Folkwang, Foto: Tanja Lamers ( BILD IM AUSSTELLUNGSKONTEXT) Shownotes (mostly german): https://www.museum-folkwang.de/en https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/peter-gorschlueter-neuer-chef-des-folkwang-ein-museum-fuer-100.html https://polis-magazin.com/2022/08/prof-peter-gorschlueter-besser-in-essen/ https://www1.wdr.de/mediathek/audio/wdr3/wdr3-mosaik/audio--jahre-folkwang---musemsdirektor-ueber-jubilaeumsausstellung-100.html https://soundcloud.com/sparkasse-essen/zuhause-in-essen-8-peter-gorschluter https://vanhornshowroom.com/viewingroom/podcast/ #VoicesOnArt #VanHornGallery #Podcast #PeterGorschlueter #MuseumFolkwang #Art #Talk #Storytelling

Sculptures like mouldy fruit, sea creatures that look like oil, blocks of ice carved from a melting glacier and transported to a gallery, reforesting a disused quarry: Vid Simoniti looks at different examples of environmental art and asks whether they create empathy with nature and inspire behaviour change or do we really need pictures of loft insulation and ground source heat pumps displayed on gallery walls? Vid Simoniti lectures at the University of Liverpool. He hosted a series of podcasts Art Against the World for the Liverpool Biennial 2021. He was selected as a New Generation Thinker in 2021 on the scheme run by BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council which turns research into radio. You can hear him taking part in this Free Thinking discussion about Who Needs Critics? https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000w5f3 Producer: Luke Mulhall

Sculptures like mouldy fruit, sea creatures that look like oil, blocks of ice carved from a melting glacier and transported to a gallery, reforesting a disused quarry: Vid Simoniti looks at different examples of environmental art and asks whether they create empathy with nature and inspire behaviour change or do we really need pictures of loft insulation and ground source heat pumps displayed on gallery walls? Vid Simoniti lectures at the University of Liverpool. He hosted a series of podcasts Art Against the World for the Liverpool Biennial 2021. He was selected as a New Generation Thinker in 2021 on the scheme run by BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council which turns research into radio. You can hear him taking part in this Free Thinking discussion about Who Needs Critics? https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000w5f3 Producer: Luke Mulhall

Black Obsidian Sound System: Lisa Amanda Palmer with Nzinger Sounds is the second of two episodes of podcasts produced by Sable Radio with FACT and Liverpool Biennial to accompany the exhibition ‘The Only Good System is a Sound System' by artist collective Black Obsidian Sound System. This episode is a conversation between writer and Deputy Director of the Stephen Lawrence Foundation, Lisa Amanda Palmer, and veteran DJ duo Nzinga Sounds, as they talk about their formation, experiences of being Black women in sound system culture, and their role in the wider Black arts movement in the eighties and nineties. For more information about FACT's programme, head to fact.co.uk

Black Obsidian Sound System: In Focus with TYGAPAW is the first of two episodes of podcasts produced by Sable Radio with FACT and Liverpool Biennial to accompany the exhibition ‘The Only Good System is a Sound System' by artist collective Black Obsidian Sound System. The exhibition can be seen at FACT from 19 May until 28 August 2021.This episode is a conversation between DJ, Curator and Producer TYGAPAW and B.O.S.S. member, writer and filmmaker Deborah Findlater. Stay tuned for the second episode of this podcast, coming soon. You can keep up with B.O.S.S.' work here and TYGAPAW's here. For more information about FACT's programme, head to fact.co.ukCommissioned by Liverpool Biennial for the 11th edition, The Stomach and the Port, curated by Manuela Moscoso.

Sierra Leone’s best-known journalist, Sorious Samura, discusses his documentary, Sing, Freetown. After growing tired of hearing only negative stories from Africa, the film follows Sorious and playwright Charlie Haffner’s journey to create a play that shows the true Sierra Leone. The entire Liverpool Biennial, the UK’s largest festival of contemporary art, has now opened, almost a year after it was due to because of the pandemic. Art critic Louisa Buck gives her response to the 11th Biennial and what it has to offer. As the Scottish Government discusses reducing social distancing requirements, where does that leave this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe? Kirsty Lang talks to Shona McCarthy, the Fringe's Chief Executive, about the situation and options that might allow 50,000 performances of over 3,500 shows in over 300 venues – the figures for 2019 – to go on. As part of our series featuring the authors shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, there’s another chance to hear Susanna Clarke, best known for Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, talk about her second novel, Piranesi. It’s set in the House, an endless sprawl of halls lined with statues, but it is falling apart, flooded by tides and populated at first by just the eponymous narrator and someone he knows only as The Other. Presenter: Kirsty Lang Producer: Jerome Weatherald

Slavery and empire building shaped Liverpool's development. Can art works help give a new understanding of the city's history? In a discussion organised in partnership with the Liverpool Biennial, Anne McElvoy is joined by the Festival curator Manuela Moscoso, by the artist Xaviera Simmons, the historian Dr Diana Jeater and the composer Neo Muyanga. The Biennial runs from 20 March to 6 June 2021 with art works sited around the city. Neo Muyanga is a composer and sound artist whose work traverses new opera, jazz improvisation, Zulu and Sesotho idiomatic songs. His project A Maze in Grace is a 12'' vinyl record and a video installation at the Lewis’s Building, inspired by the song “Amazing Grace”, composed by English slaver-turned-abolitionist John Newton, who lived in Liverpool. The piece was co-commissioned by Fundação Bienal São Paulo, echoing some of the trading links which operated in the transatlantic slave trade. Xaviera Simmons has previously spent two years on a walking pilgrimage retracing the transatlantic slave trade with Buddhist monks. Her installation at the Cotton Exchange Building uses images and texts set against backdrops of the American landscape to explore ideas about "whiteness". It's co-presented by Liverpool Biennial and Photoworks Curator Manuela Moscoso has worked at the Tamayo Museo in Mexico City and has come up with a framework for the Biennial -The Stomach and the Port- that uses the body as an image to think about the city Historian Diana Jeater, from the University of Liverpool, is also Emeritus Professor of African History at the University of the West of England, Bristol, and teaches themes that help understand African history such as witchcraft and territorial cults, healing systems, nationalist movements and religious institutions. Producer: Torquil MacLeod You can find a playlist of programmes exploring the visual arts on the Free Thinking website, include discussions with museum curators held in partnership with Frieze Art Fair and interviews with artists including Michael Rakowitz, Taryn Simon, William Kentridge and Sonia Boyce amongst others https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p026wnjl And our 2021 New Generation Thinker Vid Simoniti is hosting a podcast talking to some of the Biennial artists called Art Against the World which you can find here https://www.biennial.com/

Orlando Bloom talks to Samira Ahmed about taking on a very different kind of role in his intense and visceral film Retaliation, and the new career challenges he’s excited about. As the delayed Liverpool Biennial gets underway – showing only online and outdoor work for the moment because of the restrictions on galleries opening – art critic and editor of The Double Negative cultural website Mike Pinnington considers how the commissioned artists have responded to the theme of ‘the body’, and how the city is preparing to re-open its doors. Best selling New Zealand writer Elizabeth Knox discusses her new novel The Absolute Book, an apocalyptic fantasy novel which explores contemporary issues including climate change through a fusion of ancient myths, other worlds and a murder mystery in a spell binding story. Presenter: Samira Ahmed Producer: Simon Richardson Image: Retaliation (2017) Credit: Zee Studios International

Steven J Fowler chats asemic poetry and the kindness of the avant-garde writing world with Michelle Moloney King. No editing of this video, forgive the cough at the beginning as I whip baby grows out of the shot view, lockdown life, eh! I live the meta vibe of no editing so enjoy or not, whatever. What a cool chap, so kind and considered...to have so many avant-garde books published and so open to supporting all in the field....sound fella. WHO: SJ Fowler is a writer, poet and artist who lives in London. His work has been commissioned by Tate Modern, BBC Radio 3, Somerset House, Tate Britain, London Sinfonietta, Southbank Centre, National Centre for Writing, National Poetry Library, Science Museum and Liverpool Biennial amongst others. He has published eight collections of poetry, five of artworks, six of collaborative poetry plus volumes of selected essays and selected collaborations. His writing has explored subjects as diverse as prescription drugs, films, fight sports, museums, prisons and animals. He is the founder and curator of The Enemies Project and Poem Brut as well as poetry editor at 3am magazine and former executive editor at The Versopolis Review. He is lecturer in Creative Writing and English Literature at Kingston University, has taught at Tate Modern, Poetry School and Photographer's Gallery and is a Salzburg Global Fellow. He is the director of Writers' Centre Kingston and European Poetry Festival. LINKS: S J Folwer website and Twitter http://www.stevenjfowler.com/ https://twitter.com/stevenjfowler Asker of questions https://michellemoloneyking.com/ https://twitter.com/MoloneyKing https://beirbuajournal.wordpress.com/ Beir Bua Journal https://beirbuajournal.wordpress.com/ https://twitter.com/BeirBuaJournal

On art that reflects our changing bodies. Pedro Neves Marques' film raises the possibility of male pregnancies; Ane Graff's sculptures show how our bodies adapt to pollution. We are joined by curator Chus Martinez. Presented by Vid Simoniti. Liverpool Biennial 2021 www.biennial.com LINKS Liverpool Biennial 2021: find out more about the artists and the exhibition Twitter: Liverpool Biennial / Vid Simoniti Instagram: Liverpool Biennial  Works featured Pedro Neves Marques A Mordida (The Bite) (2019) http://www.pedronevesmarques.com/amordida_filminstallation.html  Becoming Male in the Middle Ages (2021) This work is showing at the Liverpool Biennial. http://www.pedronevesmarques.com/becomingmaleinthemiddleages.html Ane Graff States of Inflammation (2019) https://www.anegraff.com/ Commentator Chus Martinez

How do biennial curators weave a narrative out of diverse artworks? Liverpool Biennial Director Sam Lackey shares her experience; curator Manuela Moscoso discusses the process behind Liverpool Biennial 2021. Presenter Vid Simoniti. Liverpool Biennial 2021 www.biennial.com LINKSLiverpool Biennial 2021: find out more about the artists and the exhibition Twitter: Liverpool Biennial / Vid Simoniti Instagram: Liverpool Biennial Works mentioned: Sam Lackey Neo Muyanga – A Maze in Grace (forthcoming at Liverpool Biennial) Anthony Gormley – Another Place (2005) Koo Jeong A – Evertro (Everton Park Skatepark) (2015) Teresa Solar – Osteoclast (forthcoming at Liverpool Biennial) Linder Sterling – The Ultimate Form (2012) exhibition at the Hepworth Wakefield Manuela Moscoso Oswald de Andrade: Manifesto Antropófago (1928) Jorge Manuela Barreto – Environmental Sculpture (forthcoming at Liverpool Biennial) Neo Muyanga – A Maze in Grace (forthcoming at Liverpool Biennial)  

Art that imagines alternative futures and pasts. Artist Larry Achiampong discusses the legacies of Afrofuturism today, while Luisa Ungar's debates the role of fiction in the archive. We are joined by the critic Pablo Larios. Presenter Vid Simoniti. Liverpool Biennial 2021 www.biennial.com LINKS Liverpool Biennial 2021: find out more about the artists and the exhibition Twitter: Liverpool Biennial / Vid Simoniti Instagram: Liverpool Biennial  Larry Achiampong Relic Traveller Phase 1 and 2 (2017-19) https://www.larryachiampong.co.uk/projects/relic-traveller-phase-1 https://www.larryachiampong.co.uk/projects/relic-traveller-phase-2 Luisa Ungar Guided Zoo Visits (2012) Dominion of Extinction (2018) Pavilion (2017) https://issuu.com/deluxu/docs/ungar_portafolio_reciente commentator Pablo Larios

Art that portrays seas and migration. Alberta Whittle's new video unearths links between climate change and colonialism. Invernomuto's sound installation traces the influences of the Black diaspora on the Mediterranean culture. We are joined by curator Elvira Dyangani Ose. Presenter Vid Simoniti. Liverpool Biennial 2021 www.biennial.com LINKS Liverpool Biennial 2021: find out more about the artists and the exhibition Twitter: Liverpool Biennial / Vid Simoniti Instagram: Liverpool Biennial  Works featured Alberta Whittle between a whisper and a cry (2019) https://www.biennial.com/2020/exhibition/artists/alberta-whittle The opening of Alberta Whittle's work contains a quotation from Christina Sharpe's book In the Wake: On Blackness and Being (Duke University Press) 2016 Invernomuto (Simone Bertuzzi and Simone Trabucchi) Black Med (2018-) https://blackmed.invernomuto.info/ commentator Elvira Dyangani Ose

How can art respond to ecological challenges? Jorge Menna Barreto relates how his “stomach sculpture” protects the Amazon rainforest, and video artist Bo Zheng discusses whether we can have sex with plants. We are joined by curator Margarida Mendes. Presenter Vid Simoniti.  LINKS Liverpool Biennial 2021: find out more about the artists and the exhibition Twitter: Liverpool Biennial / Vid Simoniti Instagram: Liverpool Biennial  Works featured Jorge Menna Barreto Il Restauro (2016) https://www.visibleproject.org/blog/project/restauro-environmental-sculpture-32a-bienal-of-so-paulo-brazil/ Bo Zheng Pteridophilia (2016) http://zhengbo.org/2018_PP3.html commentator Margarida Mendes

How can artists show violence with sensitivity? Painter Ebony G Patterson discusses her portraits of gang members in Jamaica. Photographer Sohrab Hura's explains his response to social media violence in India. We are joined by curator Catalina Lozano. LINKS Liverpool Biennial 2021: find out more about the artists and the exhibition Twitter: Liverpool Biennial / Vid Simoniti Instagram: Liverpool Biennial Works discussed: Ebony G Patterson Gangstas for Life Series (2007-) http://ebonygpatterson.com/works.php The Of 72 Project (2011) http://www.theof72project.com/ Sohrab Hura The Coast (2019) https://www.sohrabhura.com/The-Coast The Lost Head and the Bird (2017) https://www.sohrabhura.com/The-Lost-Head-The-Bird commentator Catalina Lozano

Episode 3 of Season 2 of ARTiculate. I continue to talk to remarkable artists who inspire me in their pursuit of finding their authentic voice within their practise. In a time when it is dangerous to touch our friends, the sensitive touch embodied in a good painting is a genuine gift. They embody something of the human intelligence that made them. They are the products of care embedded in a surface through touch. They speak to us as physical bodies, and remind us of how that physicality connects us to the people around us and to the larger world. I had the pleasure of talking with Jai Chuhan who's unique and expressive paintings are as she puts it ‘painterly exploration of displacement, conflict and desire challenging tropes of exploitation or celebration. Jai is an Indian born British artist who studied at UCL Slade School of Fine Art in the 80s and is currently based in Manchester. Her paintings are sculptural, thick with the texture of impasto paint giving her portraits a certain gravitas. The deliberate use of a vivid colour palette presents the female body as a physical and psychological presence, suggested by simplified geometric areas of colour and lines and shifting viewpoints. Anonymous figures observed in the city are complemented by portrayal of familiar people including self-portraits, using a combination of observation, memory and photographs. Jai's thinks of her practise as an act of zoning in to process beginning with layers of marks. She invests her time in reworking each and every individual picture by erasing an image, after another image, negotiating with time and the image as an act of searching and finding a visual crystallization of ideas. Whether she uses thick impasto of pigments or thin washes that fill the canvas, whatever the method, it makes us as the viewer lose sense of time. Her genre of painting reflects her transcultural aesthetic influences. Jai's work have been exhibited widely in the UK and internationally in solo including the Home and Unhome group show in China, and two solo shows for Asia Triennial Manchester 2018. Some of the prestigious institutions in the Uk include the Tate Liverpool; Barbican, London; Ikon, Birmingham; Arnolfini, Bristol, University of Cambridge; among many many other galleries and institutions.
Recent solo exhibitions include at People's History Museum for Asia Triennial Manchester 2011; Victoria Gallery & Museum, Liverpool 2013; Liverpool Biennial 2014; Gallery Oldham and at HOME for Asia Triennial Manchester 2018. Recent group exhibitions include at ArtANKARA Contemporary Art Fair, Turkey 2020.

River systems and the molecular body Margarida Mendes Curator, researcher and activist Lisbon, 12 November 2020 Can we actually trace the exact perimeter of a river’s molecular cartography and the extent of the consequences that these systems of catalytic flux have within and outside living bodies? River systems and their surrounding infrastructures are enormous hydrogeological, chemical and electromagnetic systems that connect their surrounding inhabitants and ecosystems through an irreverent flux of discharges and motions that humans attempt to tame through flowage rights and coastal restoration projects. Hence, aquatic and riverine infrastructures are essential points of departure for system analysis and reflection about the bodies and ecosystems, from the molecular through to the planetary scale. In attempting to understand the connection between river flux, noise, toxicity, and industrialization, I will focus on the habitats of the Mississippi and the Tagus rivers, questioning how the level of background noise and chemical imbalance may be connected with endocrinological disruptions. By investigating the chemical and vibrational continuity between bodies and the environment, I will speculate how different ontologies and mechanisms for sensing and registry might be needed, in order to provide a deeper debate about ecosystems under distress. Margarida Mendes Margarida Mendes's research explores the overlap between cybernetics, ecology and experimental film, investigating environmental transformations and their impact on societal structures and cultural production. She is interested in exploring alternative modes of education and political resilience through her collaborative practice, programming, and activism. She was part of the curatorial team of the 11th Gwangju Biennale (2016), 4th Istanbul Design Biennial (2018), and 11th Liverpool Biennial (rescheduled for 2021). In 2019 she launched the exhibition series Plant Revolution! which questions the interspecies encounter while exploring different narratives of technological mediation and in 2016 curated Matter Fictions, publishing a joint reader with Sternberg Press. She is a consultant for environmental NGOs working on marine policy and deep sea mining and has directed several educational platforms, such as escuelita, an informal school at Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo - CA2M, Madrid (2017); The Barber Shop project space in Lisbon dedicated to transdisciplinary research (2009-16); and the ecological inquiry curatorial research platform The World In Which We Occur/Matter in Flux, (2014-18). She is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Research Architecture, Visual Cultures Department, Goldsmiths, University of London with the project “Deep Sea Imaginings” and is a frequent collaborator on the online channel for exploratory video and documentary reporting Inhabitants-tv.org. http://goldsmiths.academia.edu/MargaridaMendes https://soundcloud.com/margaridamendes http://www.twwwo.org Organised by CADA

Give yourself compassion to learn who you are and make sure that you dream Some pretty great advice from this amazing conversation with mathematician turned independent curator & writer Fatoş Üstek. Her list of accolades is HUGE and this is just a small preview: listed in the celebratory Apollo 40 under 40 Thinkers section in 2018 ; included in Evening Standard's Progress 1000 London's most influential people in 2018 and 2017; Artlyst Power 100 list 2018, and 2017; Artsy The Top 20 Most Influential Young Curators in Europe and nominated for ICI Gerrit Lansing Independent Curatorial Vision Award in 2016. She was Director of Liverpool Biennial (2019-20), a jury member for Turner Prize Bursaries 2020, Arts Foundation Futures Award 2021, Scotland in Venice 2022, Dutch Pavilion 2022, and as an external member of the acquisitions committee for the Arts Council Collection (2018-2020). She is the curator of Do Ho Suh's largest UK commission (2018-2020). She was formerly Director and Chief Curator of DRAF (David Roberts Art Foundation), curated miart Talks 2018; Art Night, East London, 2017 and fig-2 50 exhibitions in 50 weeks, ICA, 2015. She acted as Associate Curator for the 10th Gwangju Biennale, 2014. Ustek is a contributing editor to Extra Extra Magazine, a founding member of the Association of Women in the Arts (AWITA); trustee of Art Night; board member of Urbane Kunste Ruhr; advisory panel for Jan van Eyck Academie; member of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA) UK; and an ICI alumni. Recently, Ustek delivered keynote lectures at London City Hall, Tate Modern, Leicester University and presented papers in conferences held in the UK, Europe, and South America. She publishes regularly in exhibition catalogues and art magazines and was the co-founding Editor of Nowiswere (2008-12a). Find out more here. I LIKE NETWORKING is the mentoring and networking program for womxn and non-binary people in the creative industries. Please share, leave a review and subscribe if you enjoyed it to make sure you don't miss any episodes and to give us a BOOST! Some of the links mentioned in this episode: MUBI Stefan Zweig The Queen's Gambit Leviathan The Riddle of the Labyrinth Joni Mitchell

Future Matter #2 "The Bodily Life" Written and Narrated by Ane Graff Sound and Mixing by Ignas Krunglevicius Cover Design by Helin Şahin The text "The Bodily Life" is about a body dealing with autoimmunity and reflecting upon issues of identity, permeability and materiality. Discussing what a body is and how it is positioned in the world, the text draws from an era of privilege, where the self was perceived not only as unique and self-contained but uncontaminated. This view is challenged along with the idea of "Horror autotoxicus", the idea that the body cannot attack itself. Autoimmune diseases refer to a collection of chronic diseases wherein normal tissues are misidentified by the immune system as "foreign" and the body starts "attacking itself". Thus the dangers of the world exist both "without" and "within". Ane Graff is an artist and researcher based in Oslo, Norway. Graff's practice is informed by feminist new materialism – a re-thinking of our material reality, in which a process-oriented approach to matter plays an integral part. Her work traces lines between Western intellectual history and how ideas of human exceptionalism and dualism relate to the ecological disasters we face today. Recent exhibitions include the 58th Venice Biennale, Italy; KIASMA, Finland, the Rhizome/ New Museum/ Stavanger Kunsthall collaboration 7x7; and Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, United Kingdom. https://www.futurematter.institute

Season 7 continues with another Talk Art exclusive! Russell & Robert meet artist Jadé Fadojutimi for a special tour of 'Jesture', her recent London solo exhibition at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery. Fadojutimi created this remarkable new series of paintings during lockdown. Next year, she will participate in Liverpool Biennial 2021 as well solo exhibitions at Institute of Contemporary Art (Miami), The Hepworth (Wakefield) and Taka Ishii (Tokyo). The title of the exhibition, Jesture, touches on a sense of the absurd, responding to the disruption of daily rhythms arising from forced isolation during lockdown. Central to Fadojutimi’s practice is a repeated questioning of identity, its fluid nature and how the understanding of notions of pleasure, desire and choice are integral to a sense of self. Addressing the exchange between an individual and their environment, the vivid choices of colour and form derive from the associative qualities of the special items that capture her attention and the memories they invoke. Fadojutimi’s studio is filled with objects, drawings and writings that evoke nostalgic pleasure. Powerful memories, experienced whilst listening to film, animation and video game soundtracks, transport Fadojutimi to the first time she encountered them, eliciting a response that is experienced through intense colour. The synthesis of these various influences, through which Fadojutimi understands her sense of self, is transformed into large-scale gestural paintings charged with energy and emotion. Described by Fadojutimi as environments, these complex compositions, neither wholly abstract nor figurative, are built up with layers of oil paint, interrupted by the more linear mark-making made possible by her recent adoption of oil pastels. The introduction of new materials into her painting has enabled the artist to think more broadly about palette, composition and depth, while translating the spontaneity of her drawing on to the canvas. Jadé Fadojutimi (b.1993) lives and works in London. She earned a BA from The Slade School of Fine Art, London in 2015 and an MA from the Royal College of Art, London in 2017. After Pippy Houldsworth Gallery took on representation of the artist and presented her first solo exhibition at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery in 2017-18, she had her first one-person institutional show at PEER UK, London in 2019. Acquisitions by Tate London; ICA Miami, and a promised gift to Dallas Museum of Art followed soon after. She had her first solo exhibition in Germany with Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, in 2018 and will have her first solo exhibition in Japan with Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, opening March 2021. Fadojutimi has been selected to participate in Liverpool Biennial 2021. Her first solo US museum exhibition will be presented at ICA Miami, opening in November 2021. She will also have a solo exhibition of new work at The Hepworth Wakefield in 2021.Visit her website at: http://jadefadojutimi.com/ and Pippy Houldsworth Gallery: https://www.houldsworth.co.uk/. Follow Jade at Instagram: @JadeFadojutimiFor images of all artworks discussed in this episode visit @TalkArt. Talk Art theme music by Jack Northover @JackNorthoverMusic courtesy of HowlTown.com We've just joined Twitter too @TalkArt. If you've enjoyed this... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ceri Hand originally trained as an artist and has extensive experience of working in the arts and culture sector, with previous key positions including: Director of Programmes, Somerset House, London; Associate Director: Institutions and Public Relations, Simon Lee Gallery, London; Associate Consultant, Contemporary Art Society, London; Director, Ceri Hand Gallery, London/Liverpool; Director of Metal, Liverpool; Director of Exhibitions, FACT, Liverpool; Deputy Director of Grizedale Arts, Cumbria and Director of Make, London. . . She has worked closely with emerging and established artists throughout her career, commissioning, producing, programming, exhibiting and selling new interdisciplinary, inter-generational work, including large scale live events, performances, public realm works, touring exhibitions and public engagement, participation and education programmes. . . She has curated over 250 exhibitions and events and was a contributing curator to Liverpool Biennial in 2004 and 2006 and Liverpool’s Capital of Culture year in 2008. . . Henny Acloque is an artist currently living in London. Having recently graduated form MA Painting course at Royal College of Art London. . . Recent solo Exhibitions include: 2019 - Haatschi, EBENSPERGER RHOMBERG Salzburg 2016 - Jerk, Galerie Tristan Lorenz Frankfurt 2013 - Life After Magic, (Ceri Hand Gallery, London, UK) 2012 - Justice (The China Shop, Oxford, UK) / Lugar De Culto (Ceri Hand Gallery, Liverpool, UK) 2010 - Circumstances (First Floor Projects, London, UK) 2009 - A Dressing (Ceri Hand Gallery, Liverpool, UK) . . You can get in touch with us with opinions and suggestions at: Email - tothestudio@gmail.com Instagram - instagram.com/tothestudio Facebook - facebook.com/tothestudiopodcast . . This podcast features an edited version of the song "RSPN" by Blank & Kytt, available under a Creative Commons Attribution license. http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Blank__Kytt/Heavy_Crazy_Serious/Blank__Kytt_-_Heavy_Crazy_Serious_-_08_RSPN

Introducing Season 1 of Art Against the World.  In the next six episodes, we interview politically engaged contemporary artists, thinkers and curators. Produced in collaboration with Liverpool Biennial and the University of Liverpool. Episodes released 25 October 2020 More info at www.biennial.com  

This week on The Lonely Arts Club, we're joined by Fatos Üstek. Fatos is the Director of the Liverpool Biennial, a curator and an art writer. We're taken on a journey that begins in Turkey in the 1980s, where Fatos studied hard and dreamt of becoming a mathematician."Turkey has been going through a lot of changes - you might have been following. But growing up there has many positive sides. It was good but also you have many hardships, growing up as a woman in Turkey is an arduous task and I feel I've been supported by my family to cultivate the strong voice that I have today". We hear about the transition into the arts; where this passion was ignited and how it's influenced Fatos' career, which has allowed her to travel and work around the world before coming to Liverpool. Although like all events at the moment, Liverpool Biennial 2020 has been put on hold, we look forward to seeing what the future of the festival has in store. 

In episode 15 of the Baltic Triangle podcast, our presenters Mick and Mark meet the ex-career criminal from Liverpool who's turned his life around and is now helping to rehabilitate prisoners back into society by finding them worthwhile jobs ….and we hear from the woman behind this year's planned Liverpool Biennial which kicks off in July bringing an explosion of art onto our streets and buildings.

In Episode 17 of The Great Women Artists Podcast, Katy Hessel interviews one of the most exciting young artists working in the world right now, JADÉ FADOJUTIMI !! And WOW was it amazing to record at Jadé's South London studio surrounded by her monumental works. She is SO brilliant and not only did we have so much fun recording this episode, but it is such a great insight to her work and also an honest experience being an artist. Working in painting and drawing, Jadé is known for her large-scale, vibrant and complex emotional landscapes that offer an insight into the artist’s quest for identity. Made up of loose, expressive and translucent brushstrokes, when witnessed in the flesh, the energy and conviction in her medium is completely infectious.  A fairly recent graduate of The Slade School of Art, where she completed her BA, and the Royal College of Art, where she completed her MA in 2017, the London born and bred Jadé has since gone on to exhibit widely across the world, including shows at Pippy Houldsworth, PEER, and more! Despite only being 26, Jadé has received high critical acclaim for her paintings, and this summer, will be included in the upcoming Liverpool Biennial as well as having a solo exhibition in Japan. Speaking about her work, she has said ‘painting is like looking into a windowpane and seeing the reflection of her self, the context in which she lives, and the distorted fusion of the two’.   See more of Jadé's works here:  http://jadefadojutimi.com/ Thank you for listening!! This episode is sponsored by the National Art Pass and the Affordable Art Fair! @artfund: https://www.artfund.org/katy-hessel To receive a free tote bag with your National Art Pass, enter the code GREAT at checkout!  @affordableartfairuk: https://affordableartfair.com/ Follow us: Katy Hessel: @thegreatwomenartists / @katy.hessel Sound editing by @_ellieclifford Artwork by @thisisaliceskinner Music by Ben Wetherfield https://www.thegreatwomenartists.com/

No episódio #011 a artista curadora Mônica Hoff canta Carinhoso e fala sobre momento político brasileiro. -- Mônica Hoff Gonçalves (1979) é artista e pesquisadora, e mãe da Zoé, de 8 anos. Co-fundadora do Espaço Embarcação, em Florianópolis. Mestre em Artes Visuais pela UFRGS e doutoranda em Artes Visuais na linha de Processos Artísticos Contemporâneos na UDESC, com investigação sobre escolas de artistas, ou como metodologias artísticas se convertem em pedagogias intituintes e estas em escolas. Desde 2005 vem colaborando, através de conferências, workshops e publicações, com instituições brasileiras e internacionais como Bienal do Mercosul, Museo Picasso Málaga, Liverpool Biennial, Bienal de Cuenca, Bienal da Bahia, Colección Cisneros, De Appel Arts Centre, NC-Arte, Museu de Arte do Rio (MAR), Bienal de São Paulo, MASP, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, MACBA, MALBA, FelipaManuela, TEORéTICA, MUAC, XIII Bienal FEMSA, Museo Reina Sofía, entre outros. Tem 3 livros publicados e alguns projetos realizados e/ou em curso, como: Laboratorio de curadoria, arte e educação, com a curadora e pesquisadora Fernanda Albuquerque; Escola Extraordinaria, com Kamilla Nunes, Cristina Ribas, Fabio Tremonte e Daniela Castro; e Oficina Pública de Perguntas e La Grupa, ambos realizados no contexto do grupo de estudos em processos curatoriais que tem com Kamilla Nunes desde 2016. Desde 2015 tenta por em prática a Escola de surf-etc, um projeto de auto-des-aprendizagem a modo de acampamento para crianças e suas famílias. Como é muito otimista acredita que em 2019 conseguirá realizá-lo. -- VER.SAR é um podcast com artistas convidadas a compartilhar leituras de textos sobre práticas artísticas, maternidades e feminismos. Este Podcast é uma plataforma de comunicação colaborativa que reúne mulheres artistas e seus referenciais textuais, a partir do exercício da leitura e busca criar um arquivo de consulta e compartilhamento gratuito de conteúdo relacionado às questões estruturais e conceituais implicadas em ser mulher na contemporaneidade. As artistas convidadas são mulheres que investigam e discutem os conflitos políticos da vida doméstica e pública produzindo pensamento crítico em nosso contexto e propondo mudanças significativas no mundo da arte. É preciso Ouvir as mulheres! ESCUTE: www.podcastversar.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/podcastversar/message

Bruce Davies was a brilliant guest who came along to tell us all about his Basement Arts Project and discusses the public benefit of art and how accessible (or not) it can be.Bruce opens the basement of his Beeston home to artists to display works of art which the public may view by appointment (if they are unable to make any of his opening times and dates).He tells us about what he has planned as part of the Index Festival - a collaboration of artists working on the On The Corner will be producing an 8ft sculpture of Jacob's Ladder.Music this week is provided by HiFi Richard with Always Be The Same (HiFi Richard are made up of our talented producer, Will Gurrey and his equally talented brother, Owen Gurrey).https://www.basementartsproject.com/https://www.leedsinspired.co.uk/index-festivalhttps://yorkshire-sculpture.org/https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/hi-fi-richard/1367555453https://youtu.be/MS4So5tlxHshttp://dolce-vita.co.uk/https://www.phill-hopkins.co.uk/https://www.instagram.com/jadenefine_art/?hl=enhttps://www.dominichopkinson.com/http://independent.academia.edu/DerekHortonJessica Penn is the engneer on this epiode:https://www.facebook.com/JessPennMusic

Cultural Peeps Podcast Episode 4: Emma Thomas Links to Podcast content: Seaton Delaval Hall: https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/seaton-delaval-hall National Trust: https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/ Seaton Delaval Hall Redevelopment: Heritage Lottery Fund helps put the drama back into Seaton Delaval Hall (Article): https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/seaton-delaval-hall/features/heritage-lottery-fund-helps-put-the-drama-back-into-seaton-delaval-hall Christies: https://www.christies.edu/ Tate St Ives: https://www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-st-ives Museum of Modern Art Oxford: https://www.modernartoxford.org.uk/ The Bluecoat (Liverpool): https://www.thebluecoat.org.uk/ Liverpool Biennial: https://www.biennial.com/ Baltic: http://baltic.art/ Quay at Baltic: http://baltic.art/visit-quay BALTIC publication: learning on the frontline: http://balticplus.uk/baltic-learning-on-the-frontline-c21169/ St Mary’s Heritage Centre: https://www.gateshead.gov.uk/article/4521/St-Mary-s-Heritage-Centre Sune Nordgren: http://www.sunenordgren.com Engage: https://www.engage.org/ NSEAD: http://www.nsead.org/home/index.aspx Northern Architecture: https://www.northernarchitecturelegacy.com/ Don’t forget you can follow the podcast at: Twitter: twitter.com/culturalpeeps Instagram: www.instagram.com/culturalpeeps/ SoundCloud: @culturalpeeps Facebook: www.facebook.com/culturalpeeps/ SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/culturalpeeps Blog: https://culturalpeeps.wordpress.com/

Sinta Tantra is a contemporary artist who exhibits art all around the world. Our friendship started one summer in Camden, North London when she was asked by a very naive and clueless project manager to paint a 40m bridge... Sinta pops round for a chat and we talk about how people can make sense of modern art when it's often toilets and unmade beds to the naked eye and how our heritage influences our creativity. Minidisc players (RIP) get a brief mention and of course, when south Asian, Caribbean, Indian and African DNA meet in a kitchen, we have to talk about food too. Find Sinta on Instgram and Twitter (@sintatantra), her art is truly sensational.  Also visit www.sintatantra.com More about Sinta: A British artist of Balinese descent, Sinta Tantra was born in New York in 1979. She studied in London at the Slade School of Fine Art (1999-2003) and at the Royal Academy Schools (2004-06).  Highly regarded for her site-specific murals and installations in the public realm, commissions include; Facebook London (2018); Folkestone Triennial (2017) Newnham College, Cambridge University (2016); Songdo South Korea (2015); Royal British Society of Sculptors (2013); Liverpool Biennial (2012); Southbank Centre (2007). Tantra's most notable public work includes a 300-metre long painted bridge commissioned for the 2012 Olympics, Canary Wharf, London.     Didn't I tell you she was brilliant?? Now go eat some modern art. 

On this episode, I went to the Andy Warhol Museum to meet up with José Carlos Diaz, the Chief Curator there. We used the office meeting rooms late one summer day, just as the sun began to fall towards the horizon line. Prior to the Warhol, José was the Curator of Exhibitions at the Bass Museum of Art in Miami Beach, where he helped program shows with artists such as Rachel Harrison and El Anatsui. Before the Bass Museum, he worked at Tate Liverpool and on the Liverpool Biennial. José received an M.A. in Cultural History from the University of Liverpool and a B.A. in Art History from San Francisco State University. In 2016, José was listed as one of the 20 most influential young curators in the US by Artsy. José’s first saw me in the first week of his working at the Warhol. I happened to be giving a talk at the museum with Jessica Beck, also a curator at the Warhol. José and I connected shortly after over some tacos and we’ve been hanging out ever since. José’s constant hustling never ceases to amaze me and I’m surprised he somehow makes the time to hang out with little ol’ me. As you can imagine, I was quite excited to chat with José. Our conversation touches upon José’s meandering path to becoming a curator, diversity in the curatorial museum world, and the differences between Miami and Pittsburgh. In any case, I hope you enjoy this. Links Mentioned: José’s Instagram José’s Twitter The 20 Most Influential Young Curators in the United States NYtimes article on museum diversity Rujeko Hockley Larry Ossei-Mensah Akili Tommasino Naomi Beckwith Lucky Diaz and the Family Jam Band Rubell Collection Hans Ulrich Obrist’ Laboratorium Tania Bruguera The transatlantic slave trade in Liverpool Liverpool’s Chinatown Jose’s Gold Show at the Bass Museum Andy Warhol: Revelation Follow Seeing Color: Seeing Color Website Subscribe on Apple Podcasts Facebook Twitter Instagram

Ted Riederer recording Gamelan Gent Kasturi in Kansas City, photo by EG Schempf Ted Riederer was interviewed previously, that first interview can be heard by clicking here. A “one-time refugee from punk and sometime band member,” Ted Riederer has armed himself with painting supplies, electric guitars, amplifiers, old LPs, record players, drum kits, hard disk recorders, photography equipment, a vinyl record lathe, and long-stemmed roses as he’s ambled artistically from the Americas to the Antipodes. His work has been shown nationally and internationally including exhibitions at PS1, Prospect 1.5, Goff and Rosenthal Berlin, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, Jack Hanley Gallery (San Francisco), Marianne Boesky Gallery, Context Gallery (Derry, Ireland), David Winton Bell Gallery (Brown University), The University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, the Liverpool Biennial, and the Dhaka Arts Center, Bangladesh. His “Never Records” project has traveled from New York, to Liverpool, to Derry, to New Orleans, to Texas, and to London, which was sponsored by the Tate Modern. Ted Riederer is the Director of Howl! Happening: An Arturo Vega Project, non-profit gallery/performance space in the East Village. The New York Times has described Howl! Happening as, “Instrumental to the history of the area.” Howl! Happening’s thriving publishing imprint A/P/E has included essays by: Ai Wei Wei, Dan Cameron, Anthony Haden-Guest, Robert Nickas, Michelle Grabner, Michael Musto, C. Carr, Nicole Rudick, John Lyons, and James Wolcott. Callisto: The Dead Moon, 2019, Mixed Media, Dimensions Variable Callisto: The Dead Moon, 2019, Mixed Media, Dimensions Variable

No episódio #011 a artista curadora Mônica Hoff canta Carinhoso e fala sobre momento político brasileiro. -- Mônica Hoff Gonçalves (1979) é artista e pesquisadora, e mãe da Zoé, de 8 anos. Co-fundadora do Espaço Embarcação, em Florianópolis. Mestre em Artes Visuais pela UFRGS e doutoranda em Artes Visuais na linha de Processos Artísticos Contemporâneos na UDESC, com investigação sobre escolas de artistas, ou como metodologias artísticas se convertem em pedagogias intituintes e estas em escolas. Desde 2005 vem colaborando, através de conferências, workshops e publicações, com instituições brasileiras e internacionais como Bienal do Mercosul, Museo Picasso Málaga, Liverpool Biennial, Bienal de Cuenca, Bienal da Bahia, Colección Cisneros, De Appel Arts Centre, NC-Arte, Museu de Arte do Rio (MAR), Bienal de São Paulo, MASP, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, MACBA, MALBA, FelipaManuela, TEORéTICA, MUAC, XIII Bienal FEMSA, Museo Reina Sofía, entre outros. Tem 3 livros publicados e alguns projetos realizados e/ou em curso, como: Laboratorio de curadoria, arte e educação, com a curadora e pesquisadora Fernanda Albuquerque; Escola Extraordinaria, com Kamilla Nunes, Cristina Ribas, Fabio Tremonte e Daniela Castro; e Oficina Pública de Perguntas e La Grupa, ambos realizados no contexto do grupo de estudos em processos curatoriais que tem com Kamilla Nunes desde 2016. Desde 2015 tenta por em prática a Escola de surf-etc, um projeto de auto-des-aprendizagem a modo de acampamento para crianças e suas famílias. Como é muito otimista acredita que em 2019 conseguirá realizá-lo. -- VER.SAR é um podcast com artistas convidadas a compartilhar leituras de textos sobre práticas artísticas, maternidades e feminismos. Este Podcast é uma plataforma de comunicação colaborativa que reúne mulheres artistas e seus referenciais textuais, a partir do exercício da leitura e busca criar um arquivo de consulta e compartilhamento gratuito de conteúdo relacionado às questões estruturais e conceituais implicadas em ser mulher na contemporaneidade. As artistas convidadas são mulheres que investigam e discutem os conflitos políticos da vida doméstica e pública produzindo pensamento crítico em nosso contexto e propondo mudanças significativas no mundo da arte. É preciso Ouvir as mulheres!

Alan Bennett's new play Allelujah! opens at the Bridge Theatre in London directed by Nicholas Hytner, with music by George Fenton and choreography by Arlene Phillips. It stars Deborah Findlay, Rosie Ede, Sacha Dhawan, Manish Gandhi and Simon Williams. The Beth, an old fashioned cradle-to-grave hospital serving a town on the edge of the Pennines, is threatened with closure as part of an NHS efficiency drive. Meanwhile, a documentary crew eager to capture its fight for survival follows the daily struggle to find beds on the Dusty Springfield Geriatric Ward, and the triumphs of the old people's choir. Pulitzer Prize winning writer Anne Tyler's new novel Clock Dance tells the life story of Willa Drake and her decision late in life to take on the care of a 9 year old child. Anne Tyler is an American novelist, short story writer, and literary critic. She has published over 20 novels, the best known of which are Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (1982), The Accidental Tourist (1985), and Breathing Lessons(1988). All three were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction with Breathing Lessons winning the prize in 1989. The tenth edition of the Liverpool Biennial includes more than 40 artists from over 22 countries. In the words of the lead curators, "The Biennial asks Beautiful world, where are you?" - a question derived from a 1788 poem by the German poet Frederich Schiller. Artists include Agnes Varda, Inci Eviner, Holly Hendry, Duane Linklater, Taus Makhacheva, Annie Pootoogook, Joyce Wieland and Rehana Zaman and their works ares spread across the city including public spaces, civic buildings and the city's leading art venues. Taiwanese writer/director Jenny Lu's film debut feature film The Receptionist is a drama based on an illegal massage parlour in London and follows the lives of the employees and clients as seen through the eyes of a Taiwanese graduate employed as a receptionist. In a new five part documentary series on BBC Four, Mark Kermode's Secrets of Cinema, film critic Mark Kermode presents a fresh and very personal look at the art of cinema by examining the techniques and conventions behind some classic genres: romcoms, heist movies,coming-of-age stories, science fiction and horror.

Grime has been on an epic journey from subculture to explosive phenomenon. John speaks to presenter DJ Target, writer of Grime Kids, and to music journalist Dan Hancox, writer of Inner City Pressure. They discuss Grime as music of protest and how it evolves in a rapidly shifting landscape.Agnès Varda on her life as a legendary film-maker of the Nouvelle Vague, and her work as an artist as her first commission in the UK for the Liverpool Biennial goes on show.It's Friday the 13th so what better day to take a look at the rich history and strange persistence of artistic superstitions? John is joined by writer Ellen Weinstein and actor Michael Simkins.Presenter: John Wilson Producer: Sarah Johnson.Main image: John Wilson and Agnès Varda. Credit: Ben Mitchell

Helaine Blumenfeld is a sculptor who divides her time between her family in England and her work-family in Italy. As an exhibition featuring much new work opens in Ely Cathedral, she talks to Anne McElvoy about expressing her thoughts in marble, the importance of risk to the artist and why total immersion without distraction produces her best work. As the Liverpool Biennial gets under way Dale Harding, an Australian artist and descendant of the Bidjara, Ghungalu and Garingbal peoples of Central Queensland, explains his own education in the medium of wood and why his art is part of the making and story-telling traditions and brutal recent history of his cultural family. Back to the 17th century and Stella Tillyard tells Anne about the inspiration behind her new novel: the immense human effort (and human sacrifice) it took to reclaim land from the sea in East Anglia, Holland and the islands of what is now New York. And pirates...New Generation Thinker and Ottoman historian, Michael Talbot, looks to change their image. Helaine Blumenfeld 'Tree of Life' at Ely Cathedral 13 JULY - 26 OCTOBER 2018 Dale Harding See his work at Tate Liverpool as part of Liverpool Biennial 2018: Beautiful world, where are you? from 14 July – 28 October. Stella Tillyard 'The Great Level' is out now. Michael Talbot is a lecturer in the History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Middle East at the University of Greenwich . New Generation Thinkers is a scheme run by the BBC and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to select ten academics each year who can turn their research into radio. Presenter: Anne McElvoy Producer: Jacqueline Smith

We talk to Sally Tallant, the artistic director of the Liverpool Biennial, about the 10th edition, which opens next week. And Jane Morris, an editor-at-large of The Art Newspaper, joins Ben Luke to discuss whether we’ve reached “peak biennial”. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The AGO and the Toronto Biennial of Art are pleased to present Sally Tallant in conversation with Kitty Scott on exhibition making, biennials in general and the 2018 Liverpool Biennial, Beautiful world, where are you? in particular.

The AGO and the Toronto Biennial of Art are pleased to present Sally Tallant in conversation with Kitty Scott on exhibition making, biennials in general and the 2018 Liverpool Biennial, Beautiful world, where are you? in particular.

In September of 2010 I was invited by the curator Asher Remy Toledo from the organization No Longer Empty along with a group call The Art Organization or TAO to participate in a satellite project for the Liverpool Biennial that they called SQUAT Liverpool.

Whose Global Village: Rethinking How Technology Shapes Our World (NYU Press) In Whose Global Village?, Ramesh Srinivasan explores how new technologies often reinforce the inequalities of globalization because developers rarely take into account communities outside the Western world. By sharing stories of collaboration with Native Americans in California and New Mexico, revolutionaries in Egypt, and villages in rural India, Srinivasan urge us to re-imagine social media, the Internet, and even mobile phones from the perspective of these diverse cultures.   Praise for Whose Global Village?  “The 2016 election showed us what happens when technologies like Facebook, that are supposed to connect us, actually leave us in bubbles and oblivious to the world that doesn’t agree with us. Whose Global Village?shows that another technology is possible, and in fact exists, through examples across the world that are all about furthering cultural voices and conversations.” --The Yes Men “In the age of video streaming and the internet, indigenous peoples can fight for their rights as we see with the Dakota Pipeline and across the world today. Whose Global Village? points the way forward to a digital world that recognizes the dignity and voices of indigenous peoples.”--Winona La Duke,  Executive Director of Honor the Earth “Upstart successes like The Young Turks are becoming less common, partially as a result of the increasing corporatization and monopolization of social media. Whose Global Village? offers an alternate path, out of the self-selected echo chambers that marginalize non-western and indigenous voices, and into a future where new technology operates in greater harmony with grassroots concerns and culturally diverse populations across the world.”--Cenk Uygar,  Founder of The Young Turks Ramesh Srinivasan isthe Director of the Digital Cultures Lab and Associate Professor of Information Studies and Design and Media Arts at UCLA. His work has been featured by Al Jazeera, The Washington Post, The Young Turks, National Public Radio, and The Huffington Post.   Rigo 23 is an artist living in Los Angeles and working globally. His work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at REDCAT and Fowler Museum in Los Angeles; the New Museum and Artists Space, in New York City and Museu de Arte Contemporanea, Rio de Janeiro in Brasil. His work has been included in the First Kochi-Muziris Biennale in India; 2nd Aichi Triennial in Japan; 3rd Shenzhen Hong-Kong Bi-City Biennial of Urbanism and Architecture, in China; 5th Auckland Triennial in New Zealand; 10th Lyon Biennale in France; the 2006 Liverpool Biennial in the UK, and the 2004 California Biennial, among others.

Whose Global Village: Rethinking How Technology Shapes Our World (NYU Press) In Whose Global Village?, Ramesh Srinivasan explores how new technologies often reinforce the inequalities of globalization because developers rarely take into account communities outside the Western world. By sharing stories of collaboration with Native Americans in California and New Mexico, revolutionaries in Egypt, and villages in rural India, Srinivasan urge us to re-imagine social media, the Internet, and even mobile phones from the perspective of these diverse cultures.   Praise for Whose Global Village?  “The 2016 election showed us what happens when technologies like Facebook, that are supposed to connect us, actually leave us in bubbles and oblivious to the world that doesn’t agree with us. Whose Global Village?shows that another technology is possible, and in fact exists, through examples across the world that are all about furthering cultural voices and conversations.” --The Yes Men “In the age of video streaming and the internet, indigenous peoples can fight for their rights as we see with the Dakota Pipeline and across the world today. Whose Global Village? points the way forward to a digital world that recognizes the dignity and voices of indigenous peoples.”--Winona La Duke,  Executive Director of Honor the Earth “Upstart successes like The Young Turks are becoming less common, partially as a result of the increasing corporatization and monopolization of social media. Whose Global Village? offers an alternate path, out of the self-selected echo chambers that marginalize non-western and indigenous voices, and into a future where new technology operates in greater harmony with grassroots concerns and culturally diverse populations across the world.”--Cenk Uygar,  Founder of The Young Turks Ramesh Srinivasan isthe Director of the Digital Cultures Lab and Associate Professor of Information Studies and Design and Media Arts at UCLA. His work has been featured by Al Jazeera, The Washington Post, The Young Turks, National Public Radio, and The Huffington Post.   Rigo 23 is an artist living in Los Angeles and working globally. His work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at REDCAT and Fowler Museum in Los Angeles; the New Museum and Artists Space, in New York City and Museu de Arte Contemporanea, Rio de Janeiro in Brasil. His work has been included in the First Kochi-Muziris Biennale in India; 2nd Aichi Triennial in Japan; 3rd Shenzhen Hong-Kong Bi-City Biennial of Urbanism and Architecture, in China; 5th Auckland Triennial in New Zealand; 10th Lyon Biennale in France; the 2006 Liverpool Biennial in the UK, and the 2004 California Biennial, among others.

The remaking of Ghostbusters in 2016 has 4 women taking the leading roles and it has caused consternation among devotees of the original film. What on earth is all the fuss about? Is it just a bunch of sexist fanboys determined not to enjoy it because girls are involved? Matt Smith plays a perfectionist film director in Unreachable, a new play at London's Royal Court Theatre. Kei Miller's novel Augustown is set in a lightly-fictionalised version of the real Jamaican town of the same name, involving flying prophets and civil unrest This year's Liverpool Biennial has a typically eclectic selection of artists and venues; what caught the eye of our reviewers? BBC TV has a new adaptation of Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent, starring Toby Jones and Vicky McClure. Sarah Crompton's guests are Naomi Alderman, Kathryn Hughes and Giles Fraser. The producer is Oliver Jones.

Matthew Sweet and the critic, Natalie Haynes report from Liverpool where art has taken over the city. They talk to the artists, Marvin Gaye Chetwynd, Betty Woodman and Krzysztof Wodiczko as well as the Biennial director, Sally Tallant and the poet and 2015 New Generation Thinker Sandeep Parmar, who is curating a literary programme for the festival.The Liverpool Biennial runs until October 16th . Sandeep Parmar is the author of two poetry books: The Marble Orchard and Eidolon (a rewriting of Helen of Troy in modern America). Producer: Zahid Warley

As the Liverpool Biennial prepares to open, Samira Ahmed talks to Sally Tallant, director of the biennial and the woman charged with turning the Merseyside city into an international contemporary art gallery. She meets three of the artists who have responded to the themes of this year's biennial: Turner Prize winner Mark Leckey meditates on memory in his film Dream English Kid, 1964 - 1999 AD; 78 of Liverpool's youngsters help performance artist Marvin Gaye Chetwynd create a film installation - Dogsy Ma Bone - that fuses Bertolt Brecht and Betty Boop; and the American ceramic artist Betty Woodman draws inspiration from Liverpool's architecture for her fountain commission. And the first broadcast interview with the winner of the John Moores Painting Prize, the UK's longest-established painting prize with former winners including David Hockney and Peter Doig.Presenter - Samira Ahmed Producer - Ekene Akalawu.

Pablo Helguera (artist, Mexico City); Wael Shawky (artist, Alexandria); Sally Tallant (Director, Liverpool Biennial); Chaired by Sam Thorne (Associate Editor, frieze, London) at Frieze London 2013

A “one-time refugee from punk and sometime band member,”Ted Riederer has armed himself with painting supplies, electric guitars, ampliers, old LPs, record players, drum kits, hard disk recorders, photography equipment, a vinyl record lathe, and long-stemmed roses as he’s ambled artistically from the Americas to the Antipodes. His work has been shown nationally and internationally including exhibitions at PS1, Prospect 1.5, Goff and Rosenthal Berlin, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, Jack Hanley Gallery (San Francisco), Marianne Boesky Gallery, Context Gallery (Derry, Ireland), David Winton Bell Gallery (Brown University), The University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, the Liverpool Biennial, and the Dhaka Arts Center, Bangladesh. His Never Records project has traveled from New York, to Liverpool, to Derry, to New Orleans, to Texas, and to London, which was sponsored by the Tate Modern. http://www.tedriederer.com/opening

This week Dana Bassett and Duncan MacKenzie catch up with Peter Wachtler at Chicago's Renaissance Society just after their 100th anniversary. We "borrowed" this from Art Space which "borrowed" it from the Liverpool Biennial... probably it is updated on the Renassance Society website. PETER WÄCHTLER Born: 1979 Hometown: Hanover, Germany Lives and Works: Brussels, Belgium and Berlin, Germany Education: Fine Art Studies, Bauhaus-University Weimar with Prof. Fritz Rahmann, 2004 Kent Institute of Art and Design, Canterbury / England   While it might seem foreign or unfamiliar, underwater life, bourgeois domesticity, or the world of Peter Wächtler’s animated cartoons are simply habitats, each one coming with a set of behaviors, life-forms, movements, objects, images, and relationships. What is a disaster in one is a miracle in another and nothing more than routine in another. Dislocating them or mixing them together short-circuits their logic. To a butler—like the character that so frequently appears in Wächtler’s work—acts of intimacy, hospitality, corruption, lust, kindness, desperation, generosity, jealousy, hypocrisy, or delinquency are all the same in the end—it’s all just administration. Or,in an animated cartoon, deadpan humor can be laced with depression and pathos, and used to tell stories of heart-broken rats or hobos. Peter Wächtler’s recent solo exhibitions include dépendance, Brussels, Kunstverein Hildesheim, Ludlow 38, New York, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Galerie Lars Friedrich, Berlin, Etablissement d’en Face, Brussels. His work has been included in group exhibitions atLyon Biennale, Wiels Centre d’Art Contemporain, Brussels, Witte de With, and Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam.  Courtesy of Liverpool Biennial  The Ren posted the audio of his reading here... Also this episode has a strange easter egg.

On today's show, I talk to artist and musician C. Spencer Yeh. Originally from Taiwan, Spencer's family moved to Canada when he was young, and later, Spencer grew up in the Rust Belt. As a musician, Spencer has released over twenty albums on numerous labels, many under the name Burning Star Core, and a number of improvisational collaborations under his own name - including collabos with everyone from saxophonist Paul Flaherty to avant-garde filmmaker and composer Tony Conrad. As an artist, his work has been featured internationally at the MoMA, the ICA Philadelphia, Kinomuzeum at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, the Liverpool Biennial, and in many other exhibitions. Yeh also collaborated with Triple Canopy for their contribution to the Whitney Biennial in 2014, and a collection of voice-based works, Solo Voice I - X, will be published by Primary Information this year.This is the website for Beginnings, subscribe on iTunes, follow me on Twitter.

Ross Sutherland shares some reviews of made-up art, disseminated during the Liverpool Biennial. Also: a monologue by a haunted abstract painting.

Great Britain at London's Lyttleton Theatre is written by Richard Bean and directed by Nicholas Hytner (the team that was behind the wildly successful 'One Man Two Guvnors'). Starring Billie Piper as an unscrupulous tabloid newspaper editor who is right in the middle of a web of corruption involving phone hacking, politicians the press and the police It's half a century since the Beatles made their big screen debut with A Hard Day's Night. It was considered a lightweight thing by many when it was released cost £180,000 and made many millions just in its opening weekend and has been hailed as one of the best rock and roll films of all time Jimmy McGovern's reputation as a TV dramatist is second to none; Accused, Cracker, The Lakes, and many more. His work is renowned for dealing with social issues and his latest addresses what he sees as the injustice of the law of joint enterprise. The iceberg. Marion Coutts has written a book about the diagnosis from cancer and death of her husband Tom Lubbock. Is it more a work of art than a diary? July sees the 8th Liverpool Biennial, 'an exhibition about our habits habitats and the objects images relationships and activities that constitute our immediate surroundings'. What does that actually entail? How does it manifest itself around the city? Tom Sutcliffe is joined by Helen Lewis, Giles Fraser and Paul Farley. The producer is Oliver Jones.

@vanessabartlett talks to artists, curators and academics to track the complex historical relationship between art and television. A special edition celebrating FACT's programme for Liverpool Biennial 2012

the FIFTH Mercy Podcast for Liverpool Biennial is a guest/host cast by avant garde romantics Holly Pester and Daniel Rourke Sampling, Acclimatisation, and the 'Die Hard' Method. Written, presented and edited by: Daniel Rourke and Holly Pester

Hosted by writer/curator Vanessa Bartlett (@vanessabartlett), this second podcast of the new season looks at the Liverpool Biennial 2012 theme Hospitality.

With John Wilson. Clive Anderson, the chair of judges and fellow judge Anjani Joseph announce the 10 contenders for the £15,000 BBC International Short Story Award. All the stories can be heard on Radio 4 from 17 - 28 September, and each writer will be interviewed on Front Row, starting tonight with the author of the story to be broadcast on Monday afternoon. The ten shortlisted stories for the BBC International Short Story Award are: Escape Routes, by Lucy Caldwell The Goose Father, by Krys Lee Sanctuary, by Henrietta Rose-Innes Even Pretty Eyes Commit Crimes, by MJ Hyland Black Voda, by Deborah Levy East Of The West, by Miroslav Penkov A Lovely And Terrible Thing, by Chris Womersley In The Basement, by Adam Ross Before He Left The Family, by Carrie Tiffany The iHole, by Julian Gough Musician John Cale first entered the spotlight as a member of The Velvet Underground in the mid-1960s. Cale, who celebrated his 70th birthday this year, is about to release a new disc, Shifty Adventures in Nookie Wood. He reflects on his troubled Welsh childhood, his current feelings about his musical past, and whether he would work again with Lou Reed. The John Moores Painting Prize is a long-standing award, with past winners including David Hockney and Richard Hamilton. The presentation of the £25,000 first prize signals the start of the Liverpool Biennial which opens tomorrow. John talks to this year's winner and to George Shaw - one of this year's judges - who was himself a John Moores Painting Prize winner in 1999. Producer Rebecca Nicholson.

ROUNDTABLE: The 9th Gwangju Biennale, described as an open-ended series of collaborations, will continue its evolving conversation with this talk chaired by Lorenzo Fusi, curator of the Biennial Exhibition at the 2012 Liverpool Biennial

A grim fairy tale from Ross Sutherland to mark Halloween, plus music by Sound Of Rum, and why the Liverpool Biennial appears to secretly love Top Gear.

Lewis Biggs, Director of the Liverpool Biennial and former Director of Tate Liverpool, assesses how successful the format is in conveying themes and theories such as Altermodern, and if Tate Britain is an appropriate home for an international art festival

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