Episodes

  • Episode 5: Fatoş Üstek on Curation & Publicness

    Episode 5: Fatoş Üstek on Curation & Publicness
    Jun 4 2024
    On episode five, host Toby Tobias Kidd is joined by international independent curator and writer Fatoş Üstek. Fatoş was the curator of Frieze Sculpture 2023, and has previously curated internationally across large-scale events, exhibitions, arts festivals, and biennials, as well as directing arts institutions and commissioning artists in the public realm. She has recently released her book The Art Institution of Tomorrow, Reinventing the Model on Lund Humphries, and is founding co-director of the organisation FRANK Fair Artist Pay, with artists Anne Hardy and Lindsay Seers, which you can find at https://frankfairartistpay.com

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    41 mins
  • Episode 4: Bob & Roberta Smith on Art as a Human Right

    Episode 4: Bob & Roberta Smith on Art as a Human Right
    May 21 2024
    On episode four, host Toby Tobias Kidd is joined by artist Bob & Roberta Smith, who is known for his politically activated slogan paintings and his belief in art as a human right. One of the most celebrated artists in Britain you can find his work on display at Tate, watch him on the BBC where he investigates the power of protest, and read his books about making art.

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    44 mins
  • Episode 3: Colette Olive on Defining Public Art

    Episode 3: Colette Olive on Defining Public Art
    May 7 2024

    On episode three, host Toby Tobias Kidd is joined by philosopher Colette Olive of Cambridge University, who specialises in aesthetics and the history of philosophy.


    Colette discusses how we might define public art and explores art's radical potential in relation to the writings of Russian critic V. G. Belinsky.



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    39 mins
  • Episode 2: Michelle Williams Gamaker on Activism, Fiction, and Collaboration

    Episode 2: Michelle Williams Gamaker on Activism, Fiction, and Collaboration
    Apr 23 2024

    On the second episode our host Toby Tobias Kidd is joined by the artist Michelle Williams Gamaker, who makes films to confront the problematic history of cinema, in particular in relation to racial discrimination, in what she calls ‘fictional activism’.


    She has recently installed a major solo exhibition at Dundee Contemporary Arts in Scotland and also works in a number of collaborative partnerships including the large project A Particular Reality.


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    40 mins
  • Episode 1: Vid Simoniti on Art & Politics

    Episode 1: Vid Simoniti on Art & Politics
    Apr 16 2024

    On our inaugural episode our host Toby Tobias Kidd is joined by the philosopher Vid Simoniti, senior Lecturer in Philosophy of Art at the University of Liverpool.


    Simoniti is a philosopher and writer who has written extensively about art and politics, perhaps most notably in his new book Artists Remake the World: A Contemporary Art Manifesto, available through Yale University Press.



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    39 mins