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Art Monthly Talk Show on Resonance104.4 FM, 14th September 2012

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jennifer Thatcher and Morgan Quaintance bring their two texts from the September issue of Art Monthly together. Jennifer’s feature – a conversation with Tino Sehgal and Morgan’s review of Claire Bishop’s book Artificial Hells.

Tino Sehgal is a key figure in the rise of participatory art, using performers – or ‘interpreters’ – to engage with audience members. He discussed his current (Sept 2012)commission for Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall, his reliance on art galleries for context, the motivations driving his interpreters and his work’s avoidance of open-ended public engagement through a strict adherence to ‘the craft of composition’.

‘Unlike our name-badge culture of faux-intimacy (Hello, my name is Bob, how can I help you?), these interpreters remain anonymous. Yet that anonymity “paradoxically allows for greater intimacy”, Sehgal argues, “when you meet a stranger on a train, you can always say more.”‘

Morgan Quaintance wrote: ‘Claire Bishop explains that the dominance of ethical and moral judgement is killing aesthetic assessment in an “ethically charged climate in which participatory and socially engaged art has become largely exempt from art criticism”. This new binary (the ethical versus the aesthetic) replaces the passive-active conundrum as the new site of contention to be duked out in the participatory debate.’

The programme is hosted by Matt Hale who has worked at Art Monthly since 1991.

Previous episodes are available on Art Monthly’s website www.artmonthly.co.uk/events.htm

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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Art Monthly Talk Show July 13th, 2012

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Maria Walsh discusses her reviews of Jo Spence at SPACE and Studio Voltaire, London and Emily Roysdon’s on line performance from Tate Modern  with Cherry Smythe who discusses her reviews of Nancy Holt at Haunch of Venison, London and Mikhail Karikis: SeaWomen an immersive film installation at Wapping Project.

Art Monthly Talk Show on Resonance104.4 FM, 8th June 2012

The programme is hosted by Matt Hale who has worked at Art Monthly since 1991.

Previous episodes are available on Art Monthly’s website www.artmonthly.co.uk/events.htm

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!

Special magazine subscription offer for Resonance 104.4 listeners.Subscribe now and save 40% on the cover price at

www.artmonthly.co.uk

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Terry Smith – Artist

Artist Terry Smith who since 1978, has produced major projects for the Tate Modern, the British Museum and galleries the world over, particularly in South America. Known for his signature sculptures cut directly into the plaster of walls, mainly of derelict buildings – some with no public access – Smith is constantly experimenting with medium and has used film, audio and varied materials for his work.

Winner of the Paul Hamlyn Award, Smith with his communist upbringing is at times renegade about his work. His wide choice of mediums have in common the resonances of the London streets he grew up in, his love of music, spontaneity and the challenges that come with constant questioning and experimentation.  At Frieze this year Adam Curtis implored the artists of today to shock him with kindness, empathy and such-like qualities. Perhaps he is one of those who still haven’t heard of Smith, the artist’s artist.

Recorded and produced by Fari Bradley.

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Art Monthly January 2012

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gerhard Richter: Panorama at Tate Modern

John Douglas Millar discusses his review of Gerhard Richter: Panorama at Tate Modern .

“The show is vast; there is the work that spars with Marcel Duchamp, the landscapes that investigate German Romanticism, September, 2005, his mournful and considered reaction to the attacks on the World Trade Center, the tender but always questioning domestic portraits of his wife and children. I cannot discuss them all here. In the end, the satisfaction of this show comes from the sense that you are constantly in the presence of an intelligence that is both effervescent and probing. A painterly mind that is able, fascinatingly, to think against itself”.

The programme is hosted by Matt Hale who has worked at Art Monthly since 1991.

Previous episodes are available on Art Monthly’s website www.artmonthly.co.uk/events.htm

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!

Special magazine subscription offer for Resonance 104.4 listeners.Subscribe now and save 40% on the cover price at

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Unimagining Corporate Greenwashing

James Marriott, of Platform, an organization that brings together artists & activists to create projects focused on social and ecological justice, in conversation with John Jordan, co-founder of the Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination, a network of socially engaged artists and activists whose work falls in between resistance and creativity, culture and politics, art and life.

They discuss what makes art such an effective catalyst for change, the history of art-activism, the ailing condition of art institutions, the architecture of corporate sponsorship of cultural institutions and how the Lab of ii recently exposed the Tate Modern’s complicity with BP’s project of maintaining a ’social license to operate’.

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Art Monthly Talk Show-December ’09

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Patricia Bickers, editor of Art Monthly magazine, discusses a feature from Dec/Jan issue of Art Monthly with it’s author Jennifer Thatcher. Entitled ‘Crunch Time’  it covers the convergence of artistic and entrepreneurial values and in relation to this they discuss Pop Life at Tate Modern.

Art Monthly magazine’s talk programme on Resonance FM started in February 2009 and is broadcast on the second Friday of each month at 5pm. In each show Art Monthly critics discuss their writing in the latest issue.

The programme is presented by Matt Hale who has worked at Art Monthly since 1991

Previous episodes are available on Art Monthly’s website www.artmonthly.co.uk/events.htm

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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