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On this episode, Anna speaks with collector, curator and creator Dr. Gene Sherman about the launch of the Sherman Centre for Culture and Ideas (SCCI). SCCI is the latest iteration of the not-for-profit Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, a philanthropic enterprise dedicated to providing an innovative forum for contemporary art.Gene discusses how she followed Australia’s arch as it pivoted away from the European cannon towards our neighbours in Indonesia, China, and Japan. Dr Sherman explains how she reinvented herself from a French literature teacher to a well known gallery owner.The Sherman Centre for Culture and Ideas launches on 05 April with an initial program focused on fashion. Fashion as craftsmanship, fashion as photography, fashion as textiles, fashion as ethics, fashion as self expression and fashion as women’s history. For tickets and more information on the Fashion Hub program visit the Sherman Centre for Culture and Ideas website.If you have a GLAM idea for something that should be on the show- get in touch-GLAMcity@2ser.com.
We had the pleasure to sit down with Dr. Gene Sherman who is the Chairman and Executive Director of Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation; a philanthropic organisation dedicated to the public exhibition of significant contemporary art from Australia, the Asia-Pacific region and the Middle East. Dr. Sherman is an Adjunct Professor at the College of Fine […]
On this show Abdul interviews Greg Semu about his show at Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation. David chats to iconic Australian fashion designer Linda Jackson. Then we are joined by Matt Cornell who lead an interview with artist Deb Mansfield about her project Just Dance. Music by Daniel Michael Satele.
On this show we chatted to MCA director Liz Ann Macgregor about her time at the MCA and growing up in Scotland. Sarah Rodigari spoke to us on the phone from the State library about her daily routine. We also spoke to Indonesian artist Jompet Kuswidananto about his show at the Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation. Our music was curated by Jack Lanagan Dunbar.
On this show we are joined by Anastasia Kloise for our new segment ‘Don’t Give Up Your Day Job’, where we discuss artist’s lives outside their practice. We interviewed Mikhael Subotzky and Gene Sherman about Subotzky’s exhibition WYE at Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation. Curated music by Kelly Azizi.
This week, Mumbai-based artist Jitish Kallat returns to Bad at Sports, this time from San Francisco, where he sits down with Patricia Maloney. Listeners may remember Kallat’s first appearance on the podcast on the eve of the opening for his large-scale installation, Public Notice 3 (2010-11), in the Fullerton Hall stairwell of the Art Institute of Chicago. Kallat, one of the most prominent figures of contemporary Asian art, works across a variety of media, including painting, sculpture, photography, installation, and video. He was the curator for the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, India in 2014. This year, Kallat has had several solo exhibitions, including Jitish Kallat: Public Notice 2, at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney. His Paris exhibition, The Infinite Episode, opened at the Galerie Templon in September 2015. Kallat's large permanent public sculpture unveiled in Austria in October 2015. His solo exhibitions include Epilogue (2013-14) at the San Jose Museum of Art; Circa at the Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne, Australia (2012); Fieldnotes: Tomorrow was here Yesterday at the Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai, India (2011); Likewise at Arndt, Berlin, Germany (2010); The Astronomy of the Subway at Haunch of Venison, London, UK (2010); Aquasaurus at the Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Paddington, Australia (2008) and Lonely Facts at the Kunsthalle Luckenwalde, Luckenwalde, Germany (1998). Kallat has participated in major exhibitions, including: India: Art Now at the Arken Museum, Ishoj, Denmark (2012-13); Indian Highway IV at MAXXI, Rome, Italy (2012) and at Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, France (2011); The Empire Strikes Back: Indian Art Today at Saatchi Gallery, London, UK (2010); Chalo! India: A New Era of Indian Art at Essl Museum – Contemporary Art, Klosterneuburg, Austria and at Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (both 2009), as well as Indian Highway at the Serpentine Gallery, London, UK (2008-09); Die Tropen. Ansichten von der Mitte der Weltkugel at Martin- Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany (2008); Urban Manners at Hangar Bicocca, Milan, Italy (2007) and Century City at Tate Modern, London, UK (2001).
James Grose, National Director, BVN Donovan Hill and Gene Sherman, Executive Director, Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation in conversation with Tel Aviv-based architects Liat Muller and Uri Reicher of Sack and Reicher + Muller. Recorded at Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (SCAF), 22 March 2014, in association with SCAF Project 27, Sack and Reicher + Muller with Eyal Zur: Sway.
Fiona Tan in conversation with acclaimed broadcaster Margaret Throsby. Recorded at Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, 18 March 2010, in association with SCAF Project 7, Fiona Tan: Coming Home.