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.
Channelling Spirits and Excluded Histories (JENNIFER HIGGIE)
ART FICTIONS
54 minutes 57 seconds
2 years ago
Channelling Spirits and Excluded Histories (JENNIFER HIGGIE)
Guest author JENNIFER HIGGIE joins JILLIAN KNIPE to discuss her art writing practice via 'Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead' by Olga Tokarczuk. It's a compelling murder mystery set in a small mountainside village in Poland. As Winter caretaker of neighbouring properties, Janina spends her spare time translating the poems of William Blake into Polish with her friend and ex-student Dizzy.
We talk about how women found agency within the rise of spiritualism, telephoning the dead, art history as a work in progress, tigers of wrath, the golden age of female detective fiction, hanging out in Greece, bridge builders, astrology, precognitive dreams, human cruelty, climate crisis, bad writers, ghosts, eccentricities that make complete sense, taking your brain with all of its complications wherever you go, and Jennifer's passion for histories of exclusion, particularly those of women.
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BOOKS + AUTHORS + PUBLISHERS
Agatha Christie
Annie Besant 'Thought Forms' 1906
Brian Dillon 'Affinities' 2023
Dorothy L Sayers
Fitzcarraldo Editions
Georgio Vasari 'The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects' 1550
Griselda Pollock
Hetty Judah
Jennifer Higgie 'The Other Side: A Journey into Women, Art and the Spirit World' 2023
Jennifer Higgie 'The Mirror and the Palette' 2021
Jennifer Higgie 'Bedlam' 2006
J M Coetzee 'The Childhood of Jesus' 2013
Katie Hessel
Linda Nochlin
Madame Blavatsky
Margary Allingham
Michael Bracewell 'Unfinished Business' 2023
Orion Publishing Group
Virginia Woolf
William Blake
ARTISTS
Dean Kenning
Donna Huddleston 'Brighter' 2021
Frances Richardson
Georgiana Houghton
Helen Johnson
Hildagard of Bingen
Hilma af Klint
Homer 'Odyssey' 1614
Kazimir Malovich
Katie Pratt
Margo Neale
Mary Wigman
Paul Klee
Richard Dadd 'The Fairy Fellers Master Stroke' 1855-64
Sarah Lucas
Tracy Emin
Wassily Kandinsky 'Composition V' 1911
GALLERIES + MUSEUMS + CURATORS
Cabaret Voltaire, Zürich 'Dada'
Camden Arts Centre 'Making and Unmaking' 2016
Duo Olowu
Hugh Lane, Dublin
Margo Neale, First Nations Curator, Museum of Australia, Canberra
Modernity, Stockholm
MUMA, Monash University, Melbourne
Simon Lee, London
Tate Britain
Tate Modern 'A Year in Art: Australia 1992'
The Box, Plymouth 'Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters'
OTHER
BBC3 'The Essay' Jennifer Higgie 'Artists and the Spirit World'
Emanuel Swedenborg
Frieze magazine
Jennifer Higgie scriptwriter 'I Really Hate My Job' 2007
Lucracia Dalt
Marie Curie
Mark Tanner Award
Thomas Edison
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.
