Podcast appearances and mentions of mat collishaw

Matt Collishaw: Last Meal on Death Row. (Bitesize episode) Hello and welcome back to a new season of Jo's Art History Podcast Bitesize, small manageable podcast episode that see me, Jo McLaughlin, your resident host and art historian deep dive into a specific artwork or artist in 10 minutes or less. This week on Jo's Art History Podcast Bitesize we take a deep dive into Mat Collishaw's series Last Meal on Death Row. Host: Jo McLaughlin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/josarthistory/ Website: https://www.josarthistory.com/podcast Email: mailto:josarthistory@gmail.com Please support the podcast by buying me a book from my Amazon Wishlist - this will go towards future episodes of the podcast: https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/FZ1XZKILJJCJ?ref_=wl_sha

The Impressionist painter Claude Monet wrote that he was driven ‘wild with the need to put down what I experience'. In his long career he revolutionised painting and made some of the most iconic images of western art. The art critic Jackie Wullschläger's biography of Monet looks at the man behind the famous artist. Monet's late series of paintings of water lilies became less and less concerned with a conventional depiction of nature. The artist Mat Collishaw's latest works also draw on evocative imagery from the natural world, including use of AI technology. At an exhibition at Kew Gardens (until April 2024) Collishaw takes inspiration from 17th century still life paintings of flowers, but on closer inspection the viewer sees the flowers morph into layers of insects. Humans have always used technology to expand our limited vision, from the stone mirror 8,000 years ago to facial recognition and surveillance software today. Jill Walker Rettberg is Professor of Digital Culture at the University of Bergen. In her book, Machine Vision, she looks at the implications of the latest technologies, and how they are changing the way we see the world. Producer: Katy Hickman

Kim Chakanetsa meets two women who are breathing new life into the ancient practice of taxidermy, the process of preserving animal skin with fur and feather. Polly Morgan is an award-winning British sculptor who uses taxidermy to make works of art. Her work has been sold to art collectors worldwide and to celebrities like Cate Blanchette and Harry Styles. Divya Anantharaman is an award-winning taxidermist and educator based in NY city. She is the founder of Gotham Taxidermy and her clients range from museums, designers, gallerists, and collectors. She's the co-author of Stuffed Animals: A Guide to Modern Taxidermy. Produced by Alice Gioia. (Image: (L) Polly Morgan, credit Mat Collishaw. (R) Divya Anantharaman, courtesy of Divya Anantharaman)

An accidental invention which revolutionised plant collecting has inspired an artwork from Mat Collishaw, created in collaboration with video artists based in Ukraine, which is being premiered in a gallery at Kew Gardens. The nine minute video, accompanied by music by Samuel Barber's Adagio for strings, draws on the discovery in 1829 that a Wardian case could allow plants to grow under airtight glass. And the way art and music respond to environmental concerns is at the heart of this Free Thinking conversation hosted by Jade Munslow Ong. Jimmy López Bellido has written a symphony inspired by photographs of a changing landscape, Sarah Casey's drawings look at the impact of ice melting in glaciers and New Generation Thinker Vid Simoniti has written a book exploring the political ambitions of contemporary art in the early twenty-first century. He talks about the work of Alberta Whittle, Olafur Eliasson, El Anatsui, Maurice Mbikayi, Margaret Wertheim and Christine Wertheim. Producer in Salford: Nick Holmes Petrichor, a new exhibition of work by Mat Collishaw runs from 20 October 2023- 7 April 2024 at the Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art, Kew Gardens. Sarah Casey is Director of the School of Art in Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts and has worked on The Emergency project which uses drawing to examine artefacts emerging from alpine glaciers as a result of climate change and ice melting. She also convenes a group studying rocky environments and geology. From 26-28th October ‘Rocky Futures', an art exhibition in the form of three live video events streamed from destinations across the globe on the theme of geology, mobilities and the climate emergency will be available online at https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/rocky-climates/rocky-futures/ Vid Simoniti's book is called Artists Remake the World: A Contemporary Art Manifesto. He is a New Generation Thinker and teaches at The University of Liverpool. Symphony No 3, Altered Landscapes by Jimmy López Bellido is being played by the BBC Concert Orchestra in a concert at London's Southbank Centre on Thu 12 Oct 2023 and will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on October 25th. With thanks to the Concert Orchestra for providing a recording of part of their rehearsal of the piece recorded on 10 October. The Hyundai Commission from artist El Anatsui runs at Tate Modern in London from October 10th - April 14th 2024 Jade Munslow Ong teaches at the University of Salford and is writing a book about the environment in literature. She is on the New Generation Thinkers scheme run by BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to work with early career researchers on making radio. Green Thinking is a collection of programmes exploring different aspects of art and history and the environment available via the Free Thinking programme website - all episodes are downloadable as the Arts & Ideas podcast and on BBC Sounds.

A conversation with artist Mat Collishaw. Collishaw is an artist who creates installations that leverage the ephemeral nature of illusions to explore issues related to perception, moral ambiguity and the brevity of life. Among his latest work is a collaboration with NFT veterans Danil Krivoruchko and the team at OG.Art. The project extends a floral theme Collishaw has explored for years by allowing collectors to breed and hybridize new variations based on community interactions and assets in the collectors' wallets. https://matcollishaw.com/https://og.art/

Quem não guarda na memória uma referência à floresta, seja ela mágica, relaxante ou assustadora? O imaginário humano, a pintura, a escultura e o cinema estão cheios de alusões à nossa relação com as árvores. Esse é o ponto central da exposição “La Forêt Magique” (A Floresta Mágica), uma das mostras de arte contemporânea que acontecem em Lille, no norte da França, durante o festival Utopia. A RFI visitou o evento que se espalha por toda a cidade, para chamar a atenção para a crise climática. Maria Paula Carvalho, enviada especial a Lille Até o mês de outubro, quem for ao Palácio de Belas Artes de Lille vai se deparar com uma estrutura circular de 170m², no saguão principal do edifício que guarda coleções importantes, como telas do pintor holandês Rubens. Ao entrar na instalação, o visitante encontra grandes telas curvas, em que são exibidas imagens de paisagens. É possível ver o movimento das folhas, ouvir o som do vento e imaginar a sensação do ar passando entre os galhos das várias espécies. Intitulada “Pleasent Places”, a videoarte em 360° assinada pelo artista italiano Quayola mostra o que teria visto o pintor Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890), ao retratar a natureza. As árvores tomam uma forma viva, abstrata e quase fantasmagórica nesta grande instalação que “evoca o lugar da floresta no nosso imaginário”, de acordo com Bruno Girveau, diretor do Palais de Beaux-Arts de Lille e um dos curadores. A obra é cercada de textos sobre o projeto do botânico francês Francis Hallé, autor de um manifesto “Por uma floresta primária na Europa do Oeste” (2021, éd. Actes Sud). Em 2018, ele criou uma associação com o seu nome para despertar o interesse das pessoas para o reflorestamento. “Não é algo complicado. É só não fazer nada. Parece bobo, mas o mais difícil para nós é não interferir”, disse em entrevista à RFI Brasil. “O ser humano se autoproclamou responsável do universo. Somos nós que sabemos e a floresta não sabe nada. Somos nós que temos que melhorar a sua performance. Isso não dará certo!”, exclama. “Antes de o homem estar aqui, o continente europeu era inteiramente coberto de florestas primárias. Mas elas foram destruídas”, destaca. “Eu não digo de forma selvagem, pois me coloco no lugar de nossos ancestrais que precisavam de madeira e de terras agrícolas e por isso desmataram. Nós teríamos feito a mesma coisa. Mas somente agora nos damos conta de que eles deveriam ter preservado um pouco, e não o fizeram”, lamenta. “Há florestas no planeta desde o período Devoniano, há mais 500 milhões de anos elas viviam bem e nós não estávamos lá. Desde que o ser humano se interessou pela floresta, ela não parou de diminuir. Veja o que acontece na Amazônia brasileira, mas não só, também na Austrália, na Polônia. Não! O ser humano não é responsável pela floresta. Quanto menos ele se meter, melhor ela vai se comportar”, acredita Hallé. Exposição imersiva e sensorial Mas como os diferentes artistas representaram a floresta ao longo do tempo? Este é o propósito da exposição Floresta Mágica, que reúne cerca de 50 obras numa organização imersiva e sensorial. Percorrer suas salas é como viajar através do tempo e de outros mundos: Um Raio de Sol (1848), um óleo sobre tela do pintor francês Célestin Nanteuil, aparece ao lado de trechos do filme Avatar (2009), de James Cameron. A videoinstalação Albion, de Mat Collishaw (2017), é uma representação em laser de um carvalho centenário da Floresta de Sherwood, onde, segundo a lenda, viveu Robin Hood. Cécile Beau e Anna Prugne apresentam a obra “La Siouva”, formada por uma raiz aérea que se eleva do solo, desestabilizando a ideia de separação entre os mundos vegetal e animal. São pinturas, instalações monumentais, peças decorativas e trechos de filmes que ilustram o tema da floresta em diferentes aspectos: a árvore sagrada, as árvores que têm características próprias e se comunicam entre si, às vezes misteriosas e encantadas. Acima de tudo, a mostra evidencia os riscos de que elas desapareçam da face da Terra.   “Através de diferentes momentos históricos, é possível aumentar a sensibilidade para a questão climática e a preservação da floresta, sabendo que ela nos oferece a vida e nos dá oxigênio”, destaca Regis Cotantin, responsável de arte contemporânea no Palácio de Belas Artes de Lille. “Todos os artistas presentes, pintores e escultores, antigos, modernos e contemporâneos mostram que ela tem uma linguagem e temos que considerá-la como um ser vivo, com o qual temos de ter uma relação de respeito”, afirma. “Combinar a arte antiga com a arte contemporânea é uma maneira de ver que o homem, às vezes, é um espelho das árvores. Existe essa ideia da verticalidade, de crescer, mas também da árvore que busca o fundo com suas raízes e depois se levanta, como a ideia de se elevar espiritualmente. E a longevidade, a autonomia, entramos em relação com ela como seres vivos”, finaliza.

We discussed: - the appreciation for rituals - without gravity you have no grace - his desire to create structures and the perversion of the structures - how he comes up with his concepts - outsourcing production of art work - how he funds his art creation - his choice to not have a consistent style or brand - storage and shipping of large scale artworks - his position on NFT art   People + Places mentioned: Christadelphians - http://www.christadelphia.org/belief.php Galleria Borghese - https://galleriaborghese.beniculturali.it Anna Coliva - https://www.divento.com/en/content/305-meet-anna-coliva Massacre of the Innocents by Scarsella Ippolito called Scarsellino - https://galleriaborghese.beniculturali.it/en/opere/massacre-of-the-innocents/ Lithophane - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithophane   3 artists instrumental to him: Man Ray Bruce Nauman Carl Andre   matcollishaw.com   Hosted by Matthew Dols http://www.matthewdols.com   Supported in part by: EEA Grants from Iceland, Liechtenstein + Norway https://eeagrants.org             and we appreciate the assistance of our partners in this project: Hunt Kastner - https://huntkastner.com Kunstsentrene i Norge - https://www.kunstsentrene.no               Transcript available here: https://wisefoolpod.com/transcript-for-episode-168-multi-disciplinary-artist-mat-collishaw-uk/

We discussed: - the appreciation for rituals - without gravity you have no grace - his desire to create structures and the perversion of the structures - how he comes up with his concepts - outsourcing production of art work - how he funds his art creation - his choice to not have a consistent style or brand - storage and shipping of large scale artworks - his position on NFT art   People + Places mentioned: Christadelphians - http://www.christadelphia.org/belief.php Galleria Borghese - https://galleriaborghese.beniculturali.it Anna Coliva - https://www.divento.com/en/content/305-meet-anna-coliva Massacre of the Innocents by Scarsella Ippolito called Scarsellino - https://galleriaborghese.beniculturali.it/en/opere/massacre-of-the-innocents/ Lithophane - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithophane   3 artists instrumental to him: Man Ray Bruce Nauman Carl Andre   matcollishaw.com   Hosted by Matthew Dols http://matthewdols.com Supported in part by: EEA Grants from Iceland, Liechtenstein + Norway https://eeagrants.org and we appreciate the assistance of our partners in this project: Hunt Kastner – https://huntkastner.com Kunstsentrene i Norge – https://www.kunstsentrene.no   Transcript available here: http://wisefoolpod.com/transcript-for-episode-168-multi-disciplinary-artist-mat-collishaw-uk/

Gavin Turk in conversation with Joseph Kosuth, moderated by James Putnam ‘We are asleep. Our life is like a dream. But in our better hours we wake up just enough to realise that we are dreaming.' - Ludwig Wittgenstein Gavin Turk's installation and intervention in Freud's former residence, Wittgenstein's Dream, investigates the intriguing conceptual dialogue between two enlightened Viennese thinkers of the 20th century, Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) and Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951). Gavin Turk was born 1967 in Guildford, from 1989-91 he attended the Royal College of Art. For his MA exhibition show Cave, Turk notoriously presented a whitewashed studio space containing only a blue heritage plaque commemorating his presence. Though refused a degree, his subsequent infamy attracted the attention of Charles Saatchi and Turk became part of a loosely associated group known as the ‘Young British Artists' (YBAs). He has continued to show worldwide and has work in many national museum collections (including Tate and MOMA). His work often deals with concerns of authority and identity and has taken up many forms including the painted bronze, the waxwork, the recycled art-historical icon and the use of litter. Joseph Kosuth is one of the pioneers of Conceptual art and installation art, initiating language-based works and appropriation strategies in the 1960s. His work has consistently explored the production and role of language and meaning within art. The philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein, among others, influenced the development of his work. Kosuth's installation Zero & Not was exhibited at Berggasse 19 - The Sigmund Freud Museum in Vienna, marking the centennial of Sigmund Freud's birth. In its artistic and curatorial approach the installation drew on his seminal exhibition projects Wittgenstein – Das Spiel des Unsagbaren at the Vienna Secession (1989) in Austria and the Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels. Wittgenstein's Dream is the latest in the critically acclaimed ongoing series of Freud Museum London exhibitions curated by James Putnam that have included projects by Sophie Calle, Sarah Lucas, Ellen Gallagher, Tim Noble & Sue Webster, Mat Collishaw and Miroslaw Balka. Wittgenstein's Dream is on display at The Freud Museum London 26 November 2015 – 7 February 2016  In association with Ben Brown Fine Arts.

Nach einer längeren Pause, bedingt durch die Corona-Gesamtsituation (es fühlte sich irgendwie seltsam an über Kunst zu reden, während einer solchen Ausnahmesituation) geht es nun endlich wieder los. Diese Folge besteht aus einem Zusammenschnitt verschiedener Gespräche, die bereits vor der Isolation entstanden sind. #stayhome #physicaldistance Es geht um eine Grundsatzfrage in der Kunst: Was darf Kunst? Wie weit darf man als Künstler gehen und muss man wirklich immer auf Teufel komm raus schockieren um Gehör zu finden? Wir betrachten und besprechen die Werkreihe "Burning Butterflies" aus dem Jahr 2013 von dem Künstler Mat Collishaw. Link zur den Abbildungen: https://bit.ly/2xtxnWM

Finishing February on a high, we're back with another art-filled episode. Exhibition highlights include France-Lise McGurn at Simon Lee Gallery, '9th St. Club' at Gazelli Art House, and a sculptural double-billing at Lisson Gallery in the form of Richard Deacon and Tony Cragg. We were saddened to hear of the closure of commercial power-house Blain Southern. Known for representing the likes of Jake and Dinos Chapman, Mat Collishaw, and Sean Scully, the gallery announced its closure of all three spaces this month following the departure of co-founder Graham Southern in late 2019. We dissect what went wrong and what it means for the art world. And from the sad to the ridiculous, we couldn't pass by the story of the disgruntled art critic who accidentally destroyed an artwork she openly disliked at Zona Maco fair in Mexico. Finally, breaking from tradition our Artist Focus is actually a group: the Women Impressionists. We welcome the long-overdue attention given to the female artists who contributed to famous art movements, and this episode we celebrate two key Impressionists: Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt. SHOW NOTES: France-Lise McGurn 'Percussia' at Simon Lee Gallery: https://www.simonleegallery.com/exhibitions/176/ France-Lise McGurn 'Sleepless' at Tate Britain: https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/france-lise-mcgurn'9th St. Club' at Gazelli Art House: https://gazelliarthouse.com/exhibition/9th-st-club/ Richard Deacon 'Deep Space' at Lisson Gallery until 29 February 2020: https://www.lissongallery.com/exhibitions/richard-deacon-deep-stateTony Cragg 'Stacks' at Lisson Gallery until 29 February 2020: https://www.lissongallery.com/exhibitions/tony-cragg-stacksBlain Southern closes all three galleries: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/blain-southern-shuts-all-three-galleries $20,000 artwork destroyed by a critic in Mexico: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/feb/10/gabriel-rico-a-20000-artwork-has-been-destroyed-by-a-critic-thats-nothing7 Female Impressionists every Art History Lover should know: https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-7-female-impressionists-art-history-lover The women impressionists forgotten by history: http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20180807-the-women-impressionists-forgotten-by-history

How many times have you looked at your phone today? Artist Mat Collishaw draws parallels between behavioural experiments on birds and the highly addictive nature of social media. And Artist Hasan Elahi explains how a false investigation led to a 15 years project, sharing his personal data and images with the FBI and public.  Artists explore the non-stop nature of modern life. Mat Collishaw (https://matcollishaw.com/) ’s work The Machine Zone was inspired by the behavioural experiments of American psychologist B.F. Skinner (1904 – 1990) whose work is widely referenced in relation to the algorithms which drive interactions on social media. Using birds and other small mammals, Skinner’s ‘operant conditioning chamber’ investigated the subconscious primal side of the brain involved in motivated behaviours. He demonstrated that random rewards create a constant uncertainty that encourages a behavioural loop. Collishaw worked with animatronics designer Adam Keenan to create these mechanised pigeons exhibiting obsessive repetitive behaviour.  Skinner’s ghost has persisted into the modern day, a quiet spectre among our statuses, likes, comments, and shares. Today an average user spends 1/7th of their waking lives on social platforms, and we owe some of this apparent addiction to Skinner’s research. His work followed on from philosopher Jeremy Bentham’s research into human motivation (‘the utilitarian self’ as pleasure seeking and pain avoiding) as demonstrated in Bentham’s ‘Table of the Springs of Action’.  Over the last fifteen years Hasan Elahi (http://elahi.gmu.edu/) has generated online systems to share personal data and photographic evidence of his whereabouts at all times with the FBI, as a result of their mistakenly putting him on a no-fly list after the events of 9–11. In his work, Scorpion W2, 2019 he mines this ongoing personal database to create large immersive collages picturing all the meals he’s eaten, beds he’s slept in and airports he’s flown to. The overall pattern is the current operational camouflage pattern of the American military – standardized across all divisions, units and countries in 2019 – but Elahi has changed the colours to those that feature in the test pattern shown during a U.S. television emergency broadcast. Featuring contributions from exhibition curator Sarah Cook and Jonathan Reekie, co-curator of 24/7 and Director of Somerset House.  The exhibition 24/7 - A Wake Up Call For Our Non-Stop World (https://www.somersethouse.org.uk/whats-on/247) at Somerset House takes visitors on a multi-sensory journey from the cold light of the moon to the fading warmth of sunset through five themed zones and contains over 50 multi-disciplinary works that will provoke and entertain. The exhibition runs at Somerset House until 23 February 2020. Producer: Eleanor Scott Sound Design: Harry Murdoch Mixed by Nick Ryan

In this episode Gary Mansfield speaks to Mat Collishaw. Mat Collishaw was a key figure in Damien Hirst's legendary Freeze exhibition, as well as Charles Saatchi's controversial [at the time] Sensations exhibition at the Royal Academy. Mat has used the latest VR technology to recreate William Henry Fox Talbot's 1839 photography exhibition, even including the Chartist's protest. In his 2018 wor, Mask of Youth, Mat collaborated with cutting-edge special effect designers to create a 'truer' interpretation of what Queen Elizabeth I may have looked like around the time her Armada Portrait was painted (the two works sit opposite each-other at The Queens House, Greenwich, London).   For full line up of confirmed artists go to www.mizogart.com Email: podcast@mizogart.com Social Media: @mizogart

Mat talks with Sunday Times' art critic Waldemar Januszczak about Centrifugal Soul, his latest exhibtion at Blain|Southern London. Their intriguing, in-depth and jovial conversation covers ideas about evolution, showing off, Brexit, Mat's new touring exhibition and his recurring interest in Victorian innovations.

Joe Wright directs Brecht's Life of Galileo at The Young Vic, reimagining it with a Chemical Brothers rave soundtrack... In science fiction black comedy Colossal, Anne Hathaway plays a woman coping with alcoholism whose alter ego just happens to be a giant space monster. It's a kaiju movie Jimmy McGovern's newest TV offering is Broken which stars Sean Bean as an inner city priest coping with escalating personal and parish pressures. Lucy Hughes-Hallett's novel Peculiar Ground deals with the construction and changing nature of the walls of a country estate across the centuries. Thresholds is an exhibition by Mat Collishaw at Somerset House, re-staging one of the earliest exhibitions of photography in 1839, when William Henry Fox Talbot showed his first prints. Tom Sutcliffe's guests are John Mullan, Laline Paull and Tiffany Jenkins. The producer is Oliver Jones.

When a group of London students organised an exhibition called Freeze in 1988, they couldn't have foreseen that it would change the face of British modern art. Mat Collishaw was one of them. Picture: Young British Artists Gavin Turk, Abigail Lane, Tracey Emin and Mat Collishaw with curator Gregor Muir - BBC

The FT's arts writer reports on Mat Collishaw's transition from conceptual shock artist to ‘proper’ draughtsman - and why, unlike revolution or virgin birth, an economic recession makes a poor subject for art See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Join Will Gompertz, BBC Arts Editor as he talks to contemporary artists Michael Craig-Martin and Mat Collishaw about the use of technology in art and the release of the Art Fund’s Art Guide app, the most comprehensive guide to seeing art across the UK.

Join Will Gompertz, BBC Arts Editor as he talks to contemporary artists Michael Craig-Martin and Mat Collishaw about the use of technology in art and the release of the Art Fund’s Art Guide app, the most comprehensive guide to seeing art across the UK.

Mat Collishaw talks about his work inspired by and reinterpreting myth. Plus, Architect and choreographer Ana Serrano is joined by architect of Return of the Gods Adam Caruso and dancer/choreographer Tom Sapsford to explore the relationship between archit