Category Archives: SERIES TWELVE

Daniella Shreir

Daniella Shreir is a film programmer. translator, editor, graphic designer, reluctant polymath and founder of the pioneering feminist film journal Another Gaze.

Daniella Shreir

Daniella Shreir is a film programmer. translator, editor, graphic designer, reluctant polymath and founder of the pioneering feminist film journal Another Gaze.

Sianne Ngai

Literary critic and cultural theorist Sianne Ngai is the author of three innovative and essential investigations of new affective responses and aesthetic categories under capitalism. Her newest and last in the trilogy is the masterful ‘Theory of the Gimmick’.

Sianne Ngai

Literary critic and cultural theorist Sianne Ngai is the author of three innovative and essential investigations of new affective responses and aesthetic categories under capitalism. Her newest and last in the trilogy is the masterful ‘Theory of the Gimmick’.

The Strange case of the Centre For Chinese Contemporary Art; Artists withdraw from Tate; and emerging Curator Linda Rocco

Seecum Cheung, Tiffany Leung and JJ Chan discuss gatekeeping at the CFCCA; Amy Sharrocks on blacklisting at Tate; and finally, emerging curator Linda Rocco talks through her independent practice. 

The Strange case of the Centre For Chinese Contemporary Art; Artists withdraw from Tate; and emerging Curator Linda Rocco

Seecum Cheung, Tiffany Leung and JJ Chan discuss gatekeeping at the CFCCA; Amy Sharrocks on blacklisting at Tate; and finally, emerging curator Linda Rocco talks through her independent practice. 

Li-Young Lee

Since the early 1990s Li-Young Lee, one of the greatest writers of his generation, has been publishing works of poetry that wring an austere magic from the complexities of language, human relations, memory and time.

Li-Young Lee

Since the early 1990s Li-Young Lee, one of the greatest writers of his generation, has been publishing works of poetry that wring an austere magic from the complexities of language, human relations, memory and time.

Highlights of 2019

Researchers Denise Kwan, Sha Zhou, and Chen Yeng (all participants in the landmark British Chinese Women workshop), and curators Amanprit Sandhu and Jonathan Ali talk through their highlights of art and culture in 2019.

Highlights of 2019

Researchers Denise Kwan, Sha Zhou, and Chen Yeng (all participants in the landmark British Chinese Women workshop), and curators Amanprit Sandhu and Jonathan Ali talk through their highlights of art and culture in 2019.

Deborah Stratman

Artist and filmmaker Deborah Stratman’s compelling and conceptually rich works move from formally innovative documentary to inspired installation and site specific projects.

Deborah Stratman

Artist and filmmaker Deborah Stratman’s compelling and conceptually rich works move from formally innovative documentary to inspired installation and site specific projects.

The Politics of Production – Dan Ward

The Politics of Production, by artist and writer Dan Ward, is a critical essay examining the creeping commercialisation, and the narrowing of opportunity, surrounding the commissioning and production of artists’ moving image in the UK.

The Politics of Production – Dan Ward

The Politics of Production, by artist and writer Dan Ward, is a critical essay examining the creeping commercialisation, and the narrowing of opportunity, surrounding the commissioning and production of artists’ moving image in the UK.

Matthew Krishanu

The diaphanous and vivid paintings of Matthew Krishanu use stillness and spatial expanse to create images of figures, interiors and landscapes that draw the viewer into the psychological and emotional territory of the frame.

Matthew Krishanu

The diaphanous and vivid paintings of Matthew Krishanu use stillness and spatial expanse to create images of figures, interiors and landscapes that draw the viewer into the psychological and emotional territory of the frame.

Ana Fernandez

In her depictions of San Antonio, Texas the streetscapes, shop fronts, and citizens of the city, the paintings of Ana Fernandez repeatedly reveal the ineffable beauty and melancholy of everyday life, creating arresting documents of a town in transition.

Ana Fernandez

In her depictions of San Antonio, Texas the streetscapes, shop fronts, and citizens of the city, the paintings of Ana Fernandez repeatedly reveal the ineffable beauty and melancholy of everyday life, creating arresting documents of a town in transition.

Highlights of 2018

Artists Ayo Akingbade, Alice Khalilova, Bonnie Camplin and Matthew Krishanu talk through their highlights of 2018. Plus, the second annual Studio Visit Immaterial Awards!

Highlights of 2018

Artists Ayo Akingbade, Alice Khalilova, Bonnie Camplin and Matthew Krishanu talk through their highlights of 2018. Plus, the second annual Studio Visit Immaterial Awards!

Naeem Mohaiemen

Naeem Mohaiemen is an artist & filmmaker whose work currently focuses on 1970s governmental interactions between formerly colonised states, constituting themselves and attempting to collaborate after decolonisation.

Naeem Mohaiemen

Naeem Mohaiemen is an artist & filmmaker whose work currently focuses on 1970s governmental interactions between formerly colonised states, constituting themselves and attempting to collaborate after decolonisation.

Andrea Fraser

The legendary performance artist & pioneer of institutional critique, talks through her practice and new book ‘2016 – In Museums, Money, and Politics’, a report on political donations made by trustees of 125 museums in the USA

Andrea Fraser

The legendary performance artist & pioneer of institutional critique, talks through her practice and new book ‘2016 – In Museums, Money, and Politics’, a report on political donations made by trustees of 125 museums in the USA

Sandy Nairne

From an associate director at MOMA Oxford in the early 1970s, to directorships at Tate, ICA, & National Portrait Gallery, Sandy Nairne traversed & played a key role in significant and progressive institutional shifts in the UK’s art world.

Sandy Nairne

From an associate director at MOMA Oxford in the early 1970s, to directorships at Tate, ICA, & National Portrait Gallery, Sandy Nairne traversed & played a key role in significant and progressive institutional shifts in the UK’s art world.

Hardeep Pandhal

Across painting, sculpture, animation and knitting, the work of Hardeep Pandhal presents viewers with compelling, parodic subversions of the signs and signifiers of colonial history, national identity, urban experience and popular culture.

Hardeep Pandhal

Across painting, sculpture, animation and knitting, the work of Hardeep Pandhal presents viewers with compelling, parodic subversions of the signs and signifiers of colonial history, national identity, urban experience and popular culture.

Suzanne Treister

Since the 1980s, visionary polymath and multidisciplinary artist Suzanne Treister has been exploring the outer reaches of social, scientific and aesthetic complexity.

Suzanne Treister

Since the 1980s, visionary polymath and multidisciplinary artist Suzanne Treister has been exploring the outer reaches of social, scientific and aesthetic complexity.

Highlights of 2017

Artist Erica Scourti, curators Shama Khanna and Amanprit Sandhu, and writer and poet John Douglas Millar talk through their highlights of art and culture in 2017. Plus, the inaugural year of Studio Visit’s annual ‘immaterial awards’.

Highlights of 2017

Artist Erica Scourti, curators Shama Khanna and Amanprit Sandhu, and writer and poet John Douglas Millar talk through their highlights of art and culture in 2017. Plus, the inaugural year of Studio Visit’s annual ‘immaterial awards’.

Kevin Jerome Everson

Artist and filmmaker Kevin Jerome Everson is a master of film as a kind of metaphysical ethnography; using the moving image to pull the extraordinary, the poetic and the transcendental out of everyday life.

Kevin Jerome Everson

Artist and filmmaker Kevin Jerome Everson is a master of film as a kind of metaphysical ethnography; using the moving image to pull the extraordinary, the poetic and the transcendental out of everyday life.

Daria Martin

Daria Martin utilises the floating and sometimes disquieting illogic of dreams to produce arrestingly complex, and sensorially rich film works. She talks through her practice, and her pioneering edited compendium on the neurological condition known as ‘Mirror Touch Synaesthesia’.

Daria Martin

Daria Martin utilises the floating and sometimes disquieting illogic of dreams to produce arrestingly complex, and sensorially rich film works. She talks through her practice, and her pioneering edited compendium on the neurological condition known as ‘Mirror Touch Synaesthesia’.

Cenk Özbay & Caroline Tee

Sociologist Cenk Özbay talks through his instant classic & pioneering ethnography of male prostitution in Istanbul ‘Queering Sexualities in Turkey’,& Caroline Tee talks through her equally impressive book ‘The Gülen Movement in Turkey’.

Cenk Özbay & Caroline Tee

Sociologist Cenk Özbay talks through his instant classic & pioneering ethnography of male prostitution in Istanbul ‘Queering Sexualities in Turkey’,& Caroline Tee talks through her equally impressive book ‘The Gülen Movement in Turkey’.

Şolen Şanli and Zeynep Gönen

Sociologists Şolen Şanlı and Zeynep Gönen discuss their respective new books ‘Women and Cultural Citizenship in Turkey: Mass Media and ‘Woman’s Voice’ Television‘ and ‘The Politics of Crime in Turkey: Neoliberalism, Police and the Urban Poor‘.

Şolen Şanli and Zeynep Gönen

Sociologists Şolen Şanlı and Zeynep Gönen discuss their respective new books ‘Women and Cultural Citizenship in Turkey: Mass Media and ‘Woman’s Voice’ Television‘ and ‘The Politics of Crime in Turkey: Neoliberalism, Police and the Urban Poor‘.

Darby English: 1971 a Year In the Life of Color, and PLASTIK Film Festival, Dublin

Art historian Darby English, discusses Black abstraction in his new book ‘1971, A Year in the Life of Colour’; and from Dublin, the curators and artists of this year’s PLASTIK film festival (24 – 26 March) talk through their programme.

Darby English: 1971 a Year In the Life of Color, and PLASTIK Film Festival, Dublin

Art historian Darby English, discusses Black abstraction in his new book ‘1971, A Year in the Life of Colour’; and from Dublin, the curators and artists of this year’s PLASTIK film festival (24 – 26 March) talk through their programme.

Sarah Schulman

Writer Sarah Schulman discusses her new book ‘Conflict is Not Abuse’, a forcefully argued, timely and personal exploration of how the overstatement of harm can lead to shunning, state intervention or colonial oppression.

Sarah Schulman

Writer Sarah Schulman discusses her new book ‘Conflict is Not Abuse’, a forcefully argued, timely and personal exploration of how the overstatement of harm can lead to shunning, state intervention or colonial oppression.

Sophie Michael

Sophie Michael is a London based artist and filmmaker whose technically adept and aesthetically rich works explore cultural memory, colour, abstraction and expanded notions of animation.

Sophie Michael

Sophie Michael is a London based artist and filmmaker whose technically adept and aesthetically rich works explore cultural memory, colour, abstraction and expanded notions of animation.