ART FICTIONS is a monthly podcast created by artist and writer Jillian Knipe. Much like a magazine, hosting is shared between a range of contemporary art practitioners including art critics, curators and creative writers. For each episode, a guest artist discusses their work through the lens of a piece of fiction of their choosing. We explore the book’s themes, context and characters as well as the author’s background, which opens up and steers a rich conversation about the artist’s work. The podcast bounces back and forth between artworks and text, often meandering around film, television, exhibitions and other inspiring artists.
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ART FICTIONS is a monthly podcast created by artist and writer Jillian Knipe. Much like a magazine, hosting is shared between a range of contemporary art practitioners including art critics, curators and creative writers. For each episode, a guest artist discusses their work through the lens of a piece of fiction of their choosing. We explore the book’s themes, context and characters as well as the author’s background, which opens up and steers a rich conversation about the artist’s work. The podcast bounces back and forth between artworks and text, often meandering around film, television, exhibitions and other inspiring artists.
Absent Mothers and Colonised Bodies (OLUKEMI LIJADU)
ART FICTIONS
1 hour 10 minutes 44 seconds
2 years ago
Absent Mothers and Colonised Bodies (OLUKEMI LIJADU)
Guest artist OLUKEMI LIJADU joins curator and PHD researcher PELUMI ODUBANJO to discuss her multi-media art practice through the prism of 'The Stranger' (aka 'The Outsider' aka 'The Foreigner') by Nobel Prize winning writer Albert Camus. Published in 1942, the novella tells of an indifferent French settler who, soon after his mother's funeral, commits the senseless murder of an unnamed Arab man on a Algerian beach. Heralded in the west as a classic text which explores the absurd, their exchange questions the mono-critique which underlies this status, through their personal and uniquely individual experiences. For Olukemi, this is being Nigerian born and raised, where she was educated in the British system, going on to study philosophy at Stanford, USA. While Pelumi is British with Nigerian heritage.
Olukemi and Pelumi's discussion also encompasses psychoanalysis, philosophy, elusive racism, European critique, American critique, contradictory affection, self knowledge, segregated Algeria, compilation of memory, disregard for women, disregard for black people, anonymous Arab characters, ancestors speaking in the first person, the presence of absent women, who can make claims of objectivity, who can make claims of the absurd, women fading from the novel as male desire for them fades, the assumption that one must divorce one's positionality from how they engage with work for their opinion to be valid, the black woman as photographer and therefore narrator, as well as the radicalised and colonised body.
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ART FICTIONS
ART FICTIONS is a monthly podcast created by artist and writer Jillian Knipe. Much like a magazine, hosting is shared between a range of contemporary art practitioners including art critics, curators and creative writers. For each episode, a guest artist discusses their work through the lens of a piece of fiction of their choosing. We explore the book’s themes, context and characters as well as the author’s background, which opens up and steers a rich conversation about the artist’s work. The podcast bounces back and forth between artworks and text, often meandering around film, television, exhibitions and other inspiring artists.
