Presented by Leanne Bower, Ron Chisholm and Colin Bodiam.
With live music by Fran McGillivray and Mike Burke.
Playlist for this show:
Diz and The Doormen – Bluecoat Man
HiFi Sneakers – Last Chance Saloon
Fran McGillivray and Mike Burke – Drinking From The Same Old Well (Live Session)
Fran McGillivray and Mike Burke – Sitting On Top Of The World (Live Session)
Grand Slambovians – Sunday In The Rain
Fran McGillivray and Mike Burke – Make Me A Pallet On The Floor (Live Session)
Hallelujah Trails – Never See You Again (Live at The Duke)
Ceri James – She Stole My Reasonable Mind
Green Diesel – To Kill A King
Candle Burning – Fran McGillivray and Mike Burke
Bruise – Excuse Me
Presented by Ron Chisholm, Leanne Bower and Colin Bodiam.
With live music from Dave Sutherland of The Rude Vandals.
Playlist for the show:
Diz and The Doorman – Blue Coat Man
Ras Keith – I Love Life
Dave Sutherland – From the Vauxhall Tavern to Deptford Broadway (Live Session)
Dave Sutherland – Ghosts (Live Session)
Alternative TV – Fun City
Men With Ven – Deptford Market
Jason McNiff – Shadow Ships of Deptford
Dave Sutherland – Ballad of Annie Cable
Marilyn Gentle and Dave Burrluck – I Can’t Stand The Rain (Acoustic)
Taurus Trakker – Motormouth
Dirty Viv – Get To Be Good Looking (Only At Night)
deepwhitesound an online label of free, experimental music from all over the world, whose aim is to create challenging, experimental work and make it available via digital download for free. These tracks were sent in by founder DB Amorin to give us an overview of the different works and disciplines being submitted to DWS, and we begin with the most abstract one!
Deep white sound “supports and foster a community for artists working at the fringes of art, technology and society, that expand the possibilities of how sound-based art is experienced, distributed and discussed”.
While female, queer and ethnic minority artists comprise a woefully under-represented and under-supported demographic in the arts, they are of particular interest to DWS who champion the margins. However DWS state clearly that they “seek out and support work from all people, everywhere, who wish to broaden the scope of what is possible”.
Today sees the start of extended 60 minute Wavelength programmes, beginning at 14:30. “Cambridge 1969” by John Lennon and Yoko Ono from Unfinished Music No.2, Life with the Lions, lasting just over 26 minutes, the last section accompanied by John Stevens on percussion and John Tchicai on saxophone. At the time of its release, George Martin commented “No Comment”. During the programme; two calls for missing persons or at least persons missing to me: Artist Janice Kerbel, author of “15, Lombard Street” published by book works in 2001 which outlines a detailed plan for robbing Coutts Bank in the City of London. The second call goes out to Orin Anderson from South Carolina who studied English Literature at Leicester University in the 1970s and donated a demo single for my wooden Bal Ami jukebox. The single “Adam” might be unique, on the Richland label. Any information about either of these people would be appreciated. The programme finished with “Objects and Spaces” by Audio Arts, a flimsy transparent flexidisc issued with the catalogue for The Sculpture Show in 1983.
What’s the art scene like in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia? Artist and poet Daydban, is of Palestinian descent living in Jeddah. In this interview he tells us via translator (Adnan Manjal of Athr Gallery, representing Daydban at Art Dubai where the interview was recorded) about his work and life in the region and recites a poem in keeping with the work in show at Art Dubai. His work is poignant and at times even slightly comical, yet the core is tragic infusing the imagery, the framing and colouring with the spirit of the artist himself throughout all of his work.
Eavesdropper radio booth at Art Dubai Eavesdropper/ Falgoosh Radio was created by sound artists Chris Weaver and Fari Bradley for Art Dubai Projects 2013, sponsored by the British Council.
PLAYLIST
Flame Proof Moth – Women should be in charge
Psychic TV – Just like Arcadia
Joe Gideon and the Shark – I’m ruined (LIVE SESSION)
Joe Gideon and the Shark – Higher Power (Where have all the good times gone?) (LIVE SESSION)
Joe Gideon and the Shark – You, the Pole and the Rastafarian (LIVE SESSION)
Elton John – I’m still standing
Joe Gideon and the Shark – ‘interview’
Yeberobo – About teeth and grip
The Fall – Hilary
Rollin Hunt – Some kind of holiday
Alma Nofear – Mother of misfits
Gun Club – Mother of Earth
The Flying Lizards – The Window
David Byrne – Dura Europus
Victor Dimisich Band – It’s cold outside
The Zombies – Beechwood Park
Dog Chocolate – I want to give birth (LIVE SESSION)
Dog Chocolate – Wish for a cat (LIVE SESSION)
Dog Chocolate – Strange Train (LIVE SESSION)
Dog Chocolate – Be a bloody river(LIVE SESSION)
Dog Chocolate – Give chance a chance (LIVE SESSION)
Dog Chocolate – Building Dens (LIVE SESSION)
Presented by: deXter Bentley & Serafina Steer
Live sound engineer: Tom Kemp
With the LGBT History Month in full swing and the Southbank Centre celebrating Weimar Berlin on the weekend of 1st March, here is another chance to listen to the programme about Marlene Dietrich that was originally broadcast on 25th December 2012. It will be available until for seven days.
Marlene Dietrich dazzled audiences – whether in a glittering dresses or in elegant tails. She crossed gender like no other star and became a gay icon. What was her appeal to a gay audience? Her glamour? Her strength? Her liberty? What could be read between the lines?
Author Clayton Littlewood talks to art historian Simon Watney and Terry Sanderson, organiser of a Marlene Dietrich Tribute, as key contributors. Together they take at closer look at this unusual woman, who was very much ahead of her time and often described as the ‘last goddess’. A feature by Sabine Schereck.
We would also like to thank the University of Minnesota Press for their kind permission to use an extract from Steven Bach’s book “Marlene Dietrich – Life and Legend”.
Due to rights reasons this programme is not available anymore as a podcast.
The Culture of virtual curating and the phenomenon of virtual lives.
Morgan Quaintance and Omar Kholeif discuss their feature articles in the February 2013 issue of Art Monthly.
The Curator’s New medium- Omar Kholeif
Traditional curatorial notions of researching, selecting and articulating are increasingly under threat from algorithmic approaches to gathering artefacts, epitomised by online efforts to tag artworks with searchable categories. Isn’t it time for critically minded curators to get to grips with the internet as a medium before it is subsumed by commercial interests?
‘The supposed democratisation of curatorial practice through virtual platforms threatens the traditional art-historical approach to curating, as witnessed in Paul Schimmel’s forced exit from MOCA, LA.’
Being-Online- Morgan Quaintance
While it is increasingly possible to live your entire social life online, the technology companies that enable such interactions have their own commercial imperatives for shaping that intercourse. How do artists such as Denis Knopf and Thomson & Craighead reflect the channelled experience that is being-online?
‘The parametrical narrowing that is a fundamental design feature of online services constricts the behaviours of those engaged in the practice of being-online (living socially on and through the web).’
The programme is hosted by Matt Hale who has worked at Art Monthly since 1991.
Art Monthly magazine offers an informed and comprehensive guide to the latest developments in contemporary art.Fiercely independent, Art Monthly’s news and opinion sections provide regular information and polemics on the international art scene. It also offers In-depth interviews and features; reviews of exhibitions, performances, films and books; art law; auction reports and exhibition listings
Paul O’Kane and Sophie J Williamson discuss their features in the October 2012 issue of Art Monthly-
On Making Art by Paul O’Kane on the act of making and the making of the act The notion of creativity has been subjected to rigorous critique in the postmodern era but the act of making – the business of negotiating the idiosyncracies of the artist’s chosen medium – still remains central. In the digital age, however, the media of mundane labour and creative expression are often the same, so is it time for artists to reconceive the act of making and the making of the act?
The Artist as Cynic by Sophie J Williamson writes in praise of shamelessness.The scandalous Cynics of ancient Greece lived a life free from social restraint, speaking their minds – and indeed performing their bodily functions – in public and thereby exposing the hypocrisy and political motivations underlying most social conventions. Many performance artists, such as Marina Abramović and Cosey Fanni Tutti, have utilised similar techniques, but in an age of voluntary and involuntary surveillance through social networks, how have artists such as Christoph Schlingensief and Ai Weiwei tapped into the spirit of the Cynics for political protest?
The programme is hosted by Matt Hale who has worked at Art Monthly since 1991.
Art Monthly magazine offers an informed and comprehensive guide to the latest developments in contemporary art.Fiercely independent, Art Monthly’s news and opinion sections provide regular information and polemics on the international art scene. It also offers In-depth interviews and features; reviews of exhibitions, performances, films and books; art law; auction reports and exhibition listings
Art Monthly magazine is indispensable reading!
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