Podcasts about Nottingham Contemporary

In this episode, Ceri talks about cultural curation with Salma Tuqan, Director of Nottingham Contemporary. From her early days at Art Dubai to influential roles at the V&A and beyond, Salma shares her views on how cultural institutions can evolve, adapt, and remain relevant in challenging times. Salma explores everything from collection strategies to institutional sustainability while highlighting the importance of collective effort and generosity in creating inclusive cultural spaces. KEY TAKEAWAYS Salma's leadership philosophy focuses on building collective effort, demonstrated through her work at Nottingham Contemporary where she leads a team of 70, prioritising collaborative decision making and community input. Throughout her career at the V&A, Salma challenged traditional museum structures by working to integrate Middle Eastern art across departments rather than isolating it, showing her commitment to breaking down institutional silos. Drawing from her Palestinian heritage and early exposure to diverse cultural practices, Salma approaches curation with an understanding that Western categorisations of art aren't universal. In her role at the Delfina Foundation, Salma developed innovative funding models for under resourced regions, creating pools of resources from multiple small contributions to support artists from areas like Central America. At Nottingham Contemporary, Salma prioritises long term artist relationships over one off exhibitions, allowing creative partnerships to evolve naturally from small collaborations to major shows. Rather than arriving with preset plans at new institutions, Salma's approach is to first listen and understand the existing ecosystem before developing strategies collaboratively. Through projects like "While We Wait," Salma demonstrates her commitment to considering the afterlife of exhibitions and ensuring local communities can access the art they inspire. As a director facing multiple contemporary challenges, Salma emphasises the importance of maintaining joy as a form of resistance while building solidarity networks with other cultural leaders. BEST MOMENTS "I'm a big believer in collectively working, and that's a big part of the ethos of my leadership style as well. I believe that things happen with people." "When we look around the world and with everything that's at stake, there's never been a moment where the role of institutions is as important as it is." "There's a lot of focus around the public facing aspect of institutions, particularly thinking about the artistic program and what does that mean when you're platforming artists who are talking about labour issues and simultaneously cutting the hours of the lowest paid workers." "I think joy is also a key form of resistance too." "The V&A is a huge entity, a huge institution, and I spent a lot of time developing relationships first and listening to people." "I really believe that the best work happens and is developed collectively." EPISODE RESOURCES Guest Links: www.salmatuqan.com Instagram: @stuqan PODCAST HOST BIO With over 30 years in the art world, Ceri has worked closely with leading artists and arts professionals, managed public and private galleries and charities, and curated more than 250 exhibitions and events. She sold artworks to major museums and private collectors and commissioned thousands of works across diverse media, from renowned artists such as John Akomfrah, Pipilotti Rist, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer and Vito Acconci. Now, she wants to share her extensive knowledge with you, so you can excel and achieve your goals. **** Ceri Hand Coaching Membership: Group coaching, live art surgeries, exclusive masterclasses, portfolio reviews, weekly challenges. Access our library of content and resource hub anytime and enjoy special discounts within a vibrant community of peers and professionals. Ready to transform your art career? Join today! https://cerihand.com/membership/ **** Build Relationships The Easy WayOur self-study video course, "Unlock Your Artworld Network," offers a straightforward 5-step framework to help you build valuable relationships effortlessly. Gain the tools and confidence you need to create new opportunities and thrive in the art world today. https://cerihand.com/courses/unlock_your_artworld_network/**** Book a Discovery Call Today To schedule a personalised 1-2-1 coaching session with Ceri or explore our group coaching options, simply email us at hello@cerihand.com **** Discover Your Extraordinary Creativity Visit www.cerihand.com to learn how we can help you become an extraordinary creative.

Donald Rodney (b. 1961, West Bromwich; d. 1998, London) worked across sculpture, installation, drawing, painting, and digital media, experimenting with new materials and technologies throughout his life. His work is known for being incisive, acerbic, and evocative in its analysis of the prejudices and injustices surrounding racial identity, Black masculinity, chronic illness, and Britain's colonial past. Rodney was also co-founding member of the BLK Art Group: an association of young Black artists formed in Wolverhampton in 1982.Visceral Canker is the major survey of the artist's work at Spike Island, bringing together all of Rodney's surviving works. This includes large-scale oil pastels on X-rays, kinetic and animatronic sculptures, and restaged installations, as well as sketchbooks and rare archive materials, spanning 1982 to 1997. Also on display is Autoicon (1997–2000), an interactive digital artwork initiated by Rodney and finalised by a group of his close friends after he died from sickle cell anaemia in 1998. The exhibition is curated by Robert Leckie, Spike Island's former Director, and Nicole Yip - the gallery's new director. Today, I am joined by both Nicole and Robert, to discuss the life and work of Donald Rodney, the ambitions of the exhibition and the complexities involved in interpreting an artist's work once they are no longer with us. The exhibition will tour at Nottingham Contemporary from 28 September 2024 to 5 January 2025 and at Whitechapel Gallery from 12 February to 18 May 2025.Please support our independent podcast by donating £5 hereRead Shade Art Review Shade Art Review Series 11 | 20% discount codeShade Podcast InstagramShade Podcast WebsiteShade Podcast is Executive produced and hosted by Lou MensahMusic King Henry IV for Shade Podcast by Brian JacksonEdit & Mix by Mae-Li EvansEditorial support from Anne Kimunguyi Help support the work that goes into creating Shade Podcast. https://plus.acast.com/s/shadepodcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Join hosts Megan Kenny and Clelia McElroy and special guest Niki Harman, Film Programmer at Nottingham Contemporary, as they discuss their film season collaboration: Monstrous Flesh x The Screen at Contemporary present Hideous Thing Inside - Delving into fairy tales and folklore to explore the wild feral, forbidden, feminine. Hideous Thing Inside has been made possible with support from Film Hub Midlands, through funds from the National Lottery. Film Hub Midlands support people to watch, show, and make films in the Midlands. The film season starts on Wednesday 12th July and you can find all the details of the programme on the Nottingham Contemporary website: https://nottinghamcontemporary.org/whats-on/?c=film Find out more about Monstrous Flesh, our reading list for episodes and upcoming events via our website monstrousflesh.co.uk Follow Megan (@monstrous_meg) and Clelia (@monstrousflesh) on Instagram and Twitter. Sound design, editing and theme music by Adam Hynes (@adamnarrows). Cover art by Emma Ladlow (@emmaladlow). We'd love to hear your thoughts on the Hideous Thing Inside film season - reach out via our website or on social media. Creep it weird everyone!

As Nottingham's network of 800 man-made caves inspire an exhibition called ‘Hollow Earth' at the city's contemporary art gallery, Shahidha Bari and guests explore the underground world. Archaeologist Chris King discusses discoveries under Nottingham's streets, literary historian Charlotte May suggests stories to read, curator Sam Thorne picks out images, and award-winning cave explorer Andy Eavis, tells us about his career discovering more territory on earth than anyone else alive - all of it underground. Producer: Ruth Thomson Hollow Earth: Art, Caves & The Subterranean Imaginary runs at Nottingham Contemporary until January 22nd 2023. Organised in collaboration with Hayward Gallery Touring, the exhibition features works by René Magritte, Santu Mofokeng, Kaari Upson, Jeff Wall and Aubrey Williams, as well as new commissions from Sofia Borges, Emma McCormick-Goodhart, Goshka Macuga, Lydia Ourahmane and Liv Preston. In 2023, the exhibition will tour to The Glucksman in Cork and to RAMM in Exeter. The Being Human Festival which showcases academic research has several events in Nottingham exploring the city's caves and underground history throughout November 2022. You can find another Free Thinking episode exploring Breakthroughs in electricity research showcased at this year's Festival https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0dhyp89 The Green Thinking collection on the Free Thinking programme website features a host of discussions about the environment and our landscapes https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07zg0r2 You can find a discussion about holes in the ground featuring Prof Paul Younger from Glasgow University, Geoscientist magazine editor Ted Nield and writer Rosalind Williams in the Free Thinking archives https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06vs6g0 And poet Sean Borodale, archaeologists Francis Pryor, Paul Pettitt and Ruth Whitehouse join Sharon Robinson Calver in an episode called What Lies Beneath; Neanderthal Cave Art to Fatbergs

Ben Luke talks to Allison Katz about her influences in the realms of literature, music and, of course, art, and the cultural experiences that have shaped her life and work. Born in Montreal in 1980, Katz is an artist who probes the complexities of painting, drawing on diverse imagery, a range of painterly techniques and distinctive forms of display to create environments that are by turns delightful and perplexing, but always enthralling. The longer you spend in the company of Katz's work, the more the associations, the playful connections, and the fundamental rigour of her thinking emerge. In this conversation, she discusses the influence of being a life model at a young age, and making numerous “portraits” of a painting of a woman by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. She reflects on paintings by Edgar Degas and Andrea del Verrocchio, among others, discusses how the poet and translator Richard Howard helped her read poetry and see that frivolity could be serious, and expresses wonder at British radio programmes, including sporting commentary. And she answers the questions we ask all our guests, including the ultimate one: what is art for?Allison Katz: Artery, Camden Art Centre, London, until 13 March. That exhibition originated in a slightly different form at Nottingham Contemporary, and a catalogue accompanying the two versions of the show will be published in early 2023. An exhibition of Katz's posters is at Canada House, London, until 26 March. Her paintings are in The Milk of Dreams, the central exhibition at the Venice Biennale, 23 April-27 November. She has a solo exhibition at Luhring Augustine, New York, in September. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

PHYLLIS CHRISTOPHERBuy Dark Room: San Francisco Sex and Protest, 1988–2003 herePhyllis Christopher is a photographer whose work documenting LGBTQ sexuality and protest in San Francisco has been published widely in anthologies such as Nothing But The Girl: The Blatant Lesbian Image (Susie Bright and Jill Posener, 1996), Photo Sex: Fine Art Sexual Photography Comes of Age (David Steinberg, 2003), Art & Queer Culture (Catherine Lord and Richard Meyer, 2013) as well as magazines such as DIVA, Aperture and Art Monthly. Between 1991 and 1994 Christopher was the photo editor of the groundbreaking lesbian erotica magazine On Our Backs. She has featured on HBO's ‘Sexbytes', Canadian television's ‘Sex TV' and the documentary film, Erotica – A Journey into Female Sexuality. Recently, her photographs have been included in various exhibitions including ‘On Our Backs: An Archive' (The NewBridge Project, Newcastle, 2016) and ‘Still I Rise: Feminisms, Gender, Resistance' (Nottingham Contemporary, De La Warr Pavilion and Arnolfini, Bristol, 2019). She is a 2020 finalist of the Queer|Art Robert Giard Grant for Emerging LGBTQ+ Photographers.Current exhibitions by Phyllis Christopher:‘Contacts', Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, 23 Oct 2021 – 20 Mar 2022'Heads and Tails', Grand Union, Birmingham, through March 2022For more information on Phyllis and her work please check out her websiteTHE SUN HOTEL, BRADFORDThe Sun Hotel in Bradford is the oldest lgbtq+ bar in the district. It hosts international drag queens every weekend. Once described by one reviewer as being stuck in the 80s the bar proudly owns this title as the music is cheesy, the drinks cheap and plenty of characters in attendance. For more information please check out their Facebook pagePEACE MUSEUM UKThe Peace Museum explores the history and the often untold stories of peace, peacemakers, social reform and peace movements. It occupies three small galleries in one of Bradford's many fine Victorian buildings. It is unique in that it is the only accredited museum of its kind in the UK.Peace Out is a project exploring Peace and LGBTQ+ activism. The exhibition aims to explore the journey from Stonewall, a moment in history that exemplifies violence perpetrated against LGBTQ+ people and their violent retaliation, and marks the beginning of the following struggle for equality and justice. It can be viewed online hereCheck the Peace Museum out on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Lola Clavo (Barcelona 1983) is an independent director-producer that often navigates the boundaries between documentary and fiction. A graduate in Film Directing by ESCAC (2007), she lived and worked in London for over 10 years, where she also graduated MFA in Film Making by Goldsmiths University of London (2012) on a full scholarship by Obra Social “La Caixa” Foundation. Her work has a strong social component, questioning gender roles, the representation of the body, femininity and sexuality. Her filmmaking philosophy is close to that of DIY, although always loyal to a theory and structure base learned during her years at film school. She's been awarded several prizes, mostly related to the representations of sexualities, and screened work internationally. Clavo co-founded in 2012 the art collective Exotica Loom, along with multidisciplinary artist Mariana Echeverri, where they develop curatorial and experimental film projects.  In 2006 she finished her fist documentary “La Plaza” (2016), an autobiographic reflection on subjects such as family, memory and the physical space around us. It premiered at Alcances Documentary Film Festival of Cadiz, wining the UPTOFEST prize for best medium-length film. Her following work, “Pennie” (2018), a portrait documentary reflecting on the concepts of feminity, body and sex work, was selected as closing film for the November Film Festival (London) and as part of Festival Rizoma's parallel section Voyeur (Madrid), as well as being screened at an art gallery context. Clavo has also attended art residencies and been part of numerous talks and panel discussions in spaces such as Nottingham Contemporary and EACC (Space for Contemporary Art Castelló). She's also passionate about  teaching and leads courses and workshops on filmmaking with an LGBTQ+ focus, as well as the portraying of intimacy in the audio-visual medium, specifically scenes with simulated sex and/or nudity. The book mentioned in the interview is LA VIDA COTIDIANA DEL DIBUJANTE UNDERGROUND,  by Nazario. A still from current project in development "WOMEN a butch ode" A still image from the film "Pennie" MUJERES una oda butch - teaser corto from lolaclavo on Vimeo.  

In episode 48 of Notts What I'm Talking About we chat with singer Rob.Green in what was a very open and intimate chat. We go all the way back to Rob's Parlour Tricks EP launch show at Nottingham Contemporary in 2012 - where host Darren and Rob first met, through to his upcoming Bodega headline show in February. Along the way Rob talks about how a conversation in the early hours of the morning in a converted church roof led to the release of one of his best loves tracks Blue, and how the recent lockdown led to Rob taking a deep look at his emotions and his work-life balance. This is a fascinating conversation with Rob being extremely open and honest about his life and decisions. You can find out more about Rob by visiting his official website here, tickets for his show at The Bodega on 18 February 2022 can be purchased here

Farhana Shaikh is a writer and publisher born in Leicester. She is the editor of The Asian Writer and also manages the small independent press, Dahlia Publishing. In 2017, she won the inaugural Travelex / Penguin Next Great Travel Writer Competition and a year later, was long-listed for the 2018 Spread the Word Life Writing Prize. She can be found on Twitter talking about books and publishing @farhanashaikh. The partner Renaissance OneRenaissance One is an independent arts company based in the UK that produces, curates and galvanises literature. We promote high-quality literature of all kinds. We highlight global voices in contemporary Britain, and the diverse arts and cultures that its writers, artists and communities produce. Our name is inspired by the Harlem Renaissance and the importance of rebirth and renewal. Since 1999, we have worked with leading and emerging voices including Bernardine Evaristo, Paul Beatty, Ali Smith, Gary Younge, Kerry Young, Caryl Philips, Shivanee Ramlochan, Kei Miller and the late Amiri Baraka. Through productions, creative business models, mentoring and artistic success as an organisation led by people of colour, we push for greater diversity in the arts, and shape education programmes to inspire communities.  About moderator Melanie AbrahamsMelanie Abrahams Hon FRSL FRSA is a producer, arts curator, visiting lecturer, and mentor who has channeled a love of words and books into initiatives. Melanie has over 18 years' experience in producing and curating, and her practice steers a focus on narratives of race, class, mixed-race identities and intersectionality. Of Trinidadian and Jamaican heritage, she has instigated and curated many events, exhibitions and festivals on the Caribbean including Caribbeanfest at the British Library and a Cultural Village festival with Dominique Le Gendre for the Trinidad and Tobago High Commission as part of the Olympics' cultural programme. Melanie has collaborated with organizations including V&A (Jamdown Meets Liming), Chris Ofili and Victoria Miro Gallery (Freedom One Day), Paradiso Amsterdam (Urban Love), Museum of Modern Art Finland (Modern Love), Black Cultural Archives and Nottingham Contemporary and The Centre for Research in Race and Rights (C3R), (Unspeakable Things Unspoken) www.melanieabrahams.co.ukMusic: Luminance by Ghostrifter Officialhttps://soundcloud.com/ghostrifter-officialCreative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported — CC BY-SA 3.0Free Download / Stream: http://bit.ly/_luminanceMusic promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/EUp6JHXTcxk

Artists Sonia Boyce, Isaac Julien, Eddie Chambers and Harold Offeh talk to Anne McElvoy about their art and the influence of the British black arts movement - which began around the time of the First National Black Art Convention in 1982 organised by the Blk Art Group and held at Wolverhampton Polytechnic. Eddie Chambers has written Roots and Culture: Cultural Politics in the Making of Black Britain and Black Artists in British Art: A History since the 1950s. He teaches at the University of Texas, Austin. Sonia Boyce is Professor at Middlesex University, a Royal Academician and the Principal-Investigator of the Black Artists & Modernism project. She will show work in the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2022. Isaac Julien shows at the Victoria Miro Gallery. His work is on display at the Museum of Modern Art in Scotland until August 31st. Lessons of the Hour is a ten-screen film installation looking at the life and times of Frederick Douglass who, from 1845-7, made repeated visits to Edinburgh, while campaigning across the UK and Ireland against US slavery. Harold Offeh is an artist, curator and senior lecturer in Fine Art at Leeds Beckett University. His work Covers features in Untitled: art on the conditions of our time which runs in a newly curated display at Kettle's Yard, Cambridge 10 July 2021 – 3 October 2021 following its opening at the New Art Exchange in Nottingham. You can also see his work in the Wellcome Collection exhibition Joy which runs until February 2022. Nottingham Contemporary's The Place Is Here brought together around 100 works by over 30 artists and collectives in 2017 when this episode first aired. Producer: Karl Bos Editor: Robyn Read You might be interested in our playlist on the Free Thinking programme website Exploring Black History https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08t2qbp

Rochelle Saunders is a cultural producer, curator and project manager with over 10 years of work experience that covers the arts, education, and community leadership. With particular expertise in literature, her work has focused on projects in national and international contexts. A graduate politics student from SOAS, she recently completed a master's degree at The University of Arts London, in Arts and Cultural Enterprise, where she held an academic interest in sustainable and transformative social change frameworks.She has worked as a creative producer at Renaissance One and Tilt live literature and spoken word organizations that primarily support underrepresented writers. In January 2020 she joined The British Council Literature team and recently became a Trustee at New Cross Gate Trust a grassroots community charity as director for education.About partner Renaissance OneRenaissance One is an independent arts company based in the UK that produces, curates and galvanises literature. We promote high-quality literature of all kinds. We highlight global voices in contemporary Britain and the diverse arts and cultures that its writers, artists and communities produce. Our name is inspired by the Harlem Renaissance and the importance of rebirth and renewal. Since 1999, we have worked with leading and emerging voices including Bernardine Evaristo, Paul Beatty, Ali Smith, Gary Younge, Kerry Young, Caryl Philips, Shivanee Ramlochan, Kei Miller and the late Amiri Baraka. Through productions, creative business models, mentoring and artistic success as an organization led by people of colour, we push for greater diversity in the arts, and shape education programmes to inspire communities.About moderator Melanie AbrahamsMelanie Abrahams Hon FRSL FRSA is a producer, arts curator, visiting lecturer, and mentor who has channeled a love of words and books into initiatives. Melanie has over 18 years' experience in producing and curating, and her practice steers a focus on narratives of race, class, mixed-race identities and intersectionality. Of Trinidadian and Jamaican heritage, she has instigated and curated many events, exhibitions and festivals on the Caribbean including Caribbeanfest at the British Library and a Cultural Village festival with Dominique Le Gendre for the Trinidad and Tobago High Commission as part of the Olympics' cultural programme. Melanie has collaborated with organizations including V&A (Jamdown Meets Liming), Chris Ofili and Victoria Miro Gallery (Freedom One Day), Paradiso Amsterdam (Urban Love), Museum of Modern Art Finland (Modern Love), Black Cultural Archives and Nottingham Contemporary and The Centre for Research in Race and Rights (C3R), (Unspeakable Things Unspoken) www.melanieabrahams.co.ukMusic:Luminance by Ghostrifter Officialhttps://soundcloud.com/ghostrifter-officialCreative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported — CC BY-SA 3.0Free Download / Stream: http://bit.ly/_luminanceMusic promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/EUp6JHXTcxk

Valeria Napoleone is an Italian collector, patron and philanthropist and lives in London with her family. Valeria studied in New York receiving a BA from New York University’s Journalism School and an MA in Art Gallery Administration at the Fashion Institute of Technology.Valeria has established a strong collection that focuses on female contemporary artists working internationally. Forming an exceptionally close bond with artists, she has provided pivotal support to the careers of many of today’s most critically acclaimed artists including Phyllida Barlow and Margarita Manzelli.In June 2015 Valeria launched ‘Valeria Napoleone XX’, an umbrella platform for projects and initiatives that work towards increasing the representation of female artists in major public institutions. Named to highlight both collaboration and the female chromosome, the platform launched with a partnership with the Contemporary Art Society. Their combined initiative is an on-going commitment to purchase and donate a significant work by a living female artist to a different UK museum each year. Valeria is a patron to a select number of arts organisations; as Head of the Development Committee at London based not for profit gallery Studio Voltaire; a Trustee of the Contemporary Art Society; she sits on the Boards of the Institute of Fine Arts in NYC; and an Advisory Board member of the Association of Women in the Arts. She has also been an avid supporter of many UK based institutions such as; Camden Arts Centre, Nottingham Contemporary, ICA London, Milton Keynes Gallery and Chisenhale Gallery.We met Valeria last summer as part of a guided tour of her home and collection with Sotheby’s Institute. She is an inspiration to us and we were thrilled to have spoken to her for this podcast.

The London Film Festival opens this week with Mangrove, by the Oscar-winning director Steve McQueen. It’s the first in an ambitious five-part film series looking at individual stories about the West Indian Community in London from 1968 to 1985. Anna Smith joins us to review Mangrove, the story of a notorious 1970 prosecution that exposed police harassment of Black Britons, as well as to give us her picks from this year's London Film Festival, and to discuss the news about Cineworld's announcement of the closure of its venues. Front Row gives the first modern day performance of a lost piece by the great English baroque composer Henry Purcell. The song was recently discovered by Purcell scholar Rebecca Herissone, Professor of Music at Manchester University, who explains the significance of her find. Grace Jones has had a varied and highly successful career as a model, singer/songwriter and actress, lasting more than four decades. A new exhibition Grace Before Jones at Nottingham Contemporary looks at her life and her achievements. We speak with curator Cedric Fauq. Presenter Samira Ahmed Producer Jerome Weatherald Purcell’s O That my Grief was performed on Front Row by The English Concert Anthony Gregory – Tenor 1 Hugo Hymas – Tenor 2 Ashley Riches – Bass Kristian Bezuidenhout – Harpsichord Joseph Crouch – Cello

Our guest on the Delphian Podcast for this episode is longtime friend and Delphian collaborator Wingshan Smith. Wingshan is an artist, curator, and educator based in Nottingham and Hong Kong. She is Youth Programmer at Nottingham Contemporary as well as having her own practice in performance-based art. We discuss the role of art in the community and striking a balance between working in curation and personal practice. We also talk about the importance of looking at networking in a different way, not as a chore, but as a genuine way of meeting friends and building a community. 

SONIC ACTS ACADEMY 2020 T. J. Demos – Beyond the End of the World 22 February 2020 – De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Celebrated writer T. J. Demos rarely leaves a seat empty at his talks on politics, ecology and art, often attending to decoloniality within nature. His most recent book addresses the occlusions embedded in the academic use of the term ​‘Anthropocene’ (human-caused planetary change) in shielding problems as opposed to opening inroads for change made accessible by artists. This presentation discusses the ongoing research and exhibition project, Beyond the End of the World, directed by T. J. Demos of the Center for Creative Ecologies at University of California, Santa Cruz (beyond​.ucsc​.edu). In the wake of the end of multiple worlds, we already live in a post-apocalyptic present following countless genocides and colonialisms. With reference to diverse traditions of the oppressed, this year-long research project addresses what lies beyond dystopian catastrophism, past and present end-of-world narratives, and how we can imagine and cultivate radical futures of social justice and ecological flourishing. T. J. Demos is an award-winning writer and Professor of Visual Culture at University of California, Santa Cruz and Director of its Center for Creative Ecologies. He writes widely about contemporary art, global politics and ecology and is the author, most recently, of Against the Anthropocene: Visual Culture and Environment Today (2017) and Decolonizing Nature: Contemporary Art and the Politics of Ecology (2016). Demos co-curated Rights of Nature: Art and Ecology in the Americas, at Nottingham Contemporary in 2015 and organised Specters: A Ciné-Politics of Haunting, at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid in 2014. He is currently working on a Mellon-funded research, exhibition and book project dedicated to the questions: ​‘What comes after the end of the world?’ and ​‘How can we cultivate futures of social justice within capitalist ruins?’ #politicsandart #ecologyandart #anthropocene #future #experimental art

Robert & Russell meet legendary British artist Denzil Forrester. We discuss 40 years of painting, his childhood in Grenada, the impact of moving to London in 1967 aged 11, his memories of making drawings in London's dub & reggae nightclubs of the late 1970s-80s, his admiration for Jah Shaka's sound system and the drive to create paintings that documented the club scene he cherished. We learn about racially-motivated arrests of the time including Forrester's own unjust arrest as a student followed by the death of Winston Rose a few years later, a friend of Forrester’s who died while under police restraint. Forrester went on to pay tribute to Rose in a number of iconic paintings including 'Three Wicked Men' (1981), now part of Tate museum's collection, and in a recent large-scale public mural for Art on the Underground titled 'Brixton Blue' (2019). Reflective of the contemporary black experience and the racial tensions of the 1980s, the mural straddles Brixton station's entrance and depicts a Brixton street scene with the figures of a truncheon-wielding policeman, a Rastafarian ‘businessman’ holding a portable sound system and a besuited politician. We also hear how curator Matthew Higgs of White Columns, New York and fellow painter Peter Doig & TRAMPS gallery helped shine a spotlight on Forrester's paintings for a new generation.Denzil Forrester's major solo exhibition 'Itchin & Scratchin' runs at Nottingham Contemporary until 3rd May 2020. This remarkable exhibition's wide ranging artworks roam from London to Rome and New York, from Jamaica to Cornwall. Pulsing with music and movement, these nocturnal scenes are by turns intimate and ecstatic, singular records of the Afro-Caribbean experience in Britain. Presented in partnership with Spike Island, Bristol, where it will travel to from 4 July to 6 September 2020. Follow @Nottm_Contemp and @SpikeIsland. Special thanks to @StephenFriedmanGallery's Karon Hepburn, Jonathan Horrocks and Tamsin Huxford. If you've enjoyed this episode, be sure to leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or email talkartpodcast@gmail.com as we love hearing your feedback! @talkart See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Well, here we are for the SEVENTH in our series of MarketEd NOT Live podcasts. Time flies when you’re having fun. And fun is definitely on the agenda in this episode, where we talk to multi award-winning entrepreneur and leading Facebook advertising consultant Gavin Bell. Also a renowned vlogger, Gavin knows all there is to know about Facebook ads, and he will be bringing that expertise to MarketEd.Live 2019 when he joins our fabulous line-up of speakers. Here, Gavin gives us a flavour of what we can expect at Nottingham Contemporary on September 31, namely how to create ads that aren’t annoying and that actually work to help you build your business – and become more profitable. All in a way that’s fun, energetic and engaging. Website: https://marketed.live/Tickets: http://bitly.ws/4nAiSocialsInstagram: http://bitly.ws/4nArTwitter: http://bitly.ws/4nAkFacebook: http://bitly.ws/4nAoLinkedIn: http://bitly.ws/4nAp

The CILIP Carnegie Medal, and CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal are the most prestigious prizes for literature for children and young people. Both winners were announced today and are on tonight's Front Row. Elizabeth Acevedo’s Carnegie-winning novel tells the story of Xiomara, a Dominican-American girl growing up modern-day Harlem. Elizabeth explains why she chose to unfold the story of The Poet X in a long series of short lyrics. The Lost Words, for which illustrator Jackie Morris has won the Kate Greenaway Medal, is also a poetry book. It's her collaboration with writer Robert Macfarlane, inspired by the words left out of a new children’s dictionary, words such as bluebell and acorn. Jackie tells Stig how she approached illustrating the poems with three very different images, but of the same subject. As we head into the final weeks of this year’s prestigious Art Fund Museum of the Year competition, Front Row begins looking at the five shortlisted institutions vying for the top prize of £100,000. Today it’s the turn of Nottingham Contemporary, and its director Sam Thorne joins Stig to explain why he believes Nottingham Contemporary would be a worthy winner. It was the success of the Yorkshire-born sculptors Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth that contributed to the UK’s largest county becoming the pre-eminent destination for sculpture. As the opening of the inaugural Yorkshire Sculpture International draws near, Andrew Bonacina, chief curator at The Hepworth Wakefield, and Jan Dalley, arts editor of the Financial Times, discuss how sculpture has evolved since the heyday of Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore. Presenter: Stig Abell Producer: Ekene Akalawu

Episode 109 We take another trip back to the fancy art gallery environs of the Nottingham Contemporary and Wrestling Resurgence.Find out more at https://love-the-graps.pinecast.co

Chris Lappin is joined by the Producer of Wrestling Resurgence Sam West. Sam has joined us to discuss his upcoming show “This Is Spinal Graps” at Nottingham Contemporary on 3rd March 2019 has a stacked card. Jack Sexsmith (c) Vs 'The Pride of Wales' Eddie Dennis Spike Trivet Vs Paul Robinson Candy Floss, Chakara & Sierra Loxton Vs Shax, Nightshade & Jayde in a Street Fight Kanji Vs Charli Evans in a 2/3 falls Jimmy Havoc Vs Gene Munny Visage Wrestler Vs LJ Heron Vs Big Grizz Vs Los Federales Santos Junior Vs The O.J.M.O Vs Hari Singh in a Scramble Tap Match The Henchmen Vs Rocky Mac & Damon Moser Vs Malicious Paul Malen & Danny Chase in a Tornado tag. Charlie Morgan Vs Jetta. Tickets on sale at https://www.seetickets.com/tour/wrestling-resurgence Sam discusses the history of Wrestling Resurgence and how he decided to crown Jack Sexsmith as his first champion. Follow Wrestling Resurgence Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/Wrestlingresurgenceuk Twitter - https://twitter.com/W_Resurgence YouTube -https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL7le_uVoO98BF7CG4xoV0A

Chris Lappin is joined by the Producer of Wrestling Resurgence Sam West. Sam has joined us to discuss his upcoming show “This Is Spinal Graps” at Nottingham Contemporary on 3rd March 2019 has a stacked card. Jack Sexsmith (c) Vs 'The Pride of Wales' Eddie Dennis Spike Trivet Vs Paul Robinson Candy Floss, Chakara & Sierra Loxton Vs Shax, Nightshade & Jayde in a Street Fight Kanji Vs Charli Evans in a 2/3 falls Jimmy Havoc Vs Gene Munny Visage Wrestler Vs LJ Heron Vs Big Grizz Vs Los Federales Santos Junior Vs The O.J.M.O Vs Hari Singh in a Scramble Tap Match The Henchmen Vs Rocky Mac & Damon Moser Vs Malicious Paul Malen & Danny Chase in a Tornado tag. Charlie Morgan Vs Jetta. Tickets on sale at https://www.seetickets.com/tour/wrestling-resurgence Sam discusses the history of Wrestling Resurgence and how he decided to crown Jack Sexsmith as his first champion. Follow Wrestling Resurgence Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/Wrestlingresurgenceuk Twitter - https://twitter.com/W_Resurgence YouTube -https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL7le_uVoO98BF7CG4xoV0A --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/brokenbutglorious/message

Wrestling Resurgence is a wrestling organization based in Nottingham. British wrestling has been hotter than ever in the past couple of years and the amount of great content has been incredible. Wrestling Resurgence are creating a show that takes place in the beautiful Nottingham Contemporary and encapsulates the concept that Wrestling is Art. Listen to Sam speak to me here!     If you'd like to support Wilfred Watches, see below! Patreon: Be Part of the Show! Mugs, Stickers: rdbl.co/2QjOX6Y Tees, Hoodies: bit.ly/2RcHq7a PRO WRESTLING TEES: prowrestlingtees.com/wilfredwatches   Check out Social Suplex’s columns, and the network’s podcasts:- One Nation Radio / Outsider’s Edge / Keepin’ It Strong Style / Grown Men Watch This S***? / New to the network: Wilfred Watches Podcast & Omega Luke Wrestling Podcast, available wherever you find podcasts. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Grace, Rebecca and Selena discuss the festive season and three different Christmas fairs at Nottingham Contemporary, Old Market Square and Wollaton Park.

This is the audio from our ‘In Conversation’ with Adam Caruso, held at Nottingham Contemporary on October the 4th. You can (and probably should, if you want to know what’s going on) download the slides from the presentation here — https://tinyurl.com/y7gab672We didn’t get through the whole slideshow, but we’ll talk about what we missed on the second part. Thanks a lot to Sam, Mercè et al at Nottingham Contemporary…! And to you, listener, for listening. Support the show on Patreon to receive bonus content for every show. Please rate and review the show on your podcast store to help other people find us! Follow us on twitter // instagram // facebookWe’re on the web at aboutbuildingsandcities.orgThis podcast is powered by Pinecast.

This is the audio from our ‘In Conversation’ with Adam Caruso, held at Nottingham Contemporary on October the 4th. You can (and probably should, if you want to know what’s going on) download the slides from the presentation here — https://tinyurl.com/y7gab672We didn’t get through the whole slideshow, but we’ll talk about what we missed on the second part. Thanks a lot to Sam, Mercè et al at Nottingham Contemporary…! And to you, listener, for listening. Support the show on Patreon to receive bonus content for every show. Please rate and review the show on your podcast store to help other people find us! Follow us on twitter // instagram // facebookWe’re on the web at aboutbuildingsandcities.orgThis podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Artists Sonia Boyce, Isaac Julien, Eddie Chambers and Harold Offeh talk to Anne McElvoy about their art and the influence of the British Black Art movement - which began around the time of the First National Black Art Convention in 1982 organised by the Blk Art Group and held at Wolverhampton Polytechnic.Eddie Chambers has written Roots and Culture: Cultural Politics in the Making of Black Britain and Black Artists in British Art: A History Since the 1950s. He teaches at the University of Texas, Austin. Sonia Boyce is Professor at Middlesex University, a Royal Academician and will also have a solo show at the ICA later this year. She is one of the recipients of a Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award. She is also the Principal-Investigator of the Black Artists & Modernism project. Isaac Julien is showing Other Destinies at the Royal Ontario Museum from January and shows at Victoria Miro Gallery. Harold Offeh is an artist, curator and senior lecturer in Fine Art at Leeds Beckett University. His work Covers will feature in Untitled: art on the conditions of our time.Nottingham Contemporary's The Place Is Here brings together around 100 works by over 30 artists and collectives spanning painting, sculpture, installation, photography, video and archival displays from the 1980s. It runs from 04 Feb - 30 Apr 2017New Art Exchange's exhibition, Untitled: art on the conditions of our time, runs from 14 Jan - 19 Mar 2017 and features 12 British artists each with ties to Africa.Producer: Karl Bos Editor: Robyn Read

Anne McElvoy is joined by curators and artists and an audience at Nottingham Contemporary to discuss the life of an artist today as Tate Modern opens its new wing. Her panel is Elizabeth Price - winner of the Turner Prize in 2012 and curator of a new touring exhibition Alice Channer - a sculptor who graduated from the Royal College in 2008 Sam Thorne Director of Nottingham Contemporary and former Artistic Director of Tate St Ives Ann Gallagher who holds responsibility for building Tate's collection and archive of British art In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive and You Were Full of Joy curated by Turner Prize-winning artist Elizabeth Price is at the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester. Presenting a vast repertoire of seminal artworks and historical objects, it explores the psychological and affective power of the horizontal. It runs from June 10th to October 30th and then moves to the De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea, and the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea. Nottingham Contemporary is hosting exhibitions this summer displaying the work of Michael Beutler and Yelena Popova 16 Jul 2016 - 25 Sep 2016. The largest ever exhibition in the UK of the works of Simon Starling – the Turner Prize winner in 2005 runs until June 26th. Tate Modern's new ten-storey Switch House opens 17 June 2016. It gives Tate Modern 60% more space for displays and opens with a focus on the work of Louise Bourgeois in the Artist Rooms. Works by Mark Rothko, Agnes Martin and Henri Matisse join new acquisitions from Latin America, Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Eastern Europe. This year's Royal Academy Summer Exhibition runs from June 13th to August 21st. Producer: Torquil MacLeod.

It's not every day our experts are asked to make it rain inside an art gallery...but for an installation by Klaus Weber at Nottingham Contemporary the team at the Environmental Technology Centre (ETC) pulled out all the stops. For more information about the exhibition at Nottingham Contemporary visit http://www.nottinghamcontemporary.org/

Wrestling Resurgence is a wrestling organization based in Nottingham. British wrestling has been hotter than ever in the past couple of years and the amount of great content has been incredible. Wrestling Resurgence are creating a show that takes place in the beautiful Nottingham Contemporary and encapsulates the concept that Wrestling is Art. Listen to Sam speak to me here!     If you'd like to support Wilfred Watches, see below! Patreon: Be Part of the Show! Tees, Hoodies: bit.ly/2RcHq7a PRO WRESTLING TEES: prowrestlingtees.com/wilfredwatches   Check out Social Suplex’s columns, and the network’s podcasts:- One Nation Radio / Outsider’s Edge / Keepin’ It Strong Style / Grown Men Watch This S***? / New to the network: Wilfred Watches Podcast & Omega Luke Wrestling Podcast, available wherever you find podcasts.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/social-suplex-podcast-network/donations