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.
Unfathomable Creatures and Bridging Realities (MARCUS COATES)
ART FICTIONS
1 hour 28 minutes
4 months ago
Unfathomable Creatures and Bridging Realities (MARCUS COATES)
Guest artist MARCUS COATES
joins JILLIAN KNIPE to discuss his work via 'Welsh Incident' by Robert Graves. Published in 1929, this short poem is a retelling of an overhead conversation about "un-Welsh" creatures emerging from the sea.
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Marcus and Jillian's conversation encompasses longing, empathy, humour, grasping, death, wolves, psychosis, parenting, migration, birds, badgers, unknowability, parenting, morality, predators, blindfolding, eagles, immigration and a willingness to be uplifted. Also: feeling inadequate, religious conformity, instinctive behaviours, war experiences, emptying yourself, the mundane, sounding pathetic, false destinations, exploitation of care, limitations of language, modes of relating, suspension of disbelief, de-centring of humanity, failure of the imagination, the ripple effect of artworks, plaster on a broken leg, stark realities of survival, travelling in the mind, proliferation of domestic cats, and the human need to buy in, to belong, to believe.
MARCUS COATES
@marcus_coates_
'Conference of the Birds'
katemacgarry.com/artworks/9111-marcus-coates-conference-for-the-birds-2019/
'The Trip'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEAuRv0xv8M
'The Directors'
artangel.org.uk/project/the-directors/
whatsgoingon.org.uk
'Sunbird for Palestine'
bookworks.org.uk/publishing/shop/palestine-sunbird/
'Dawn Chorous'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF1uihdcZmY
'The Last of its Kind'
workplace.art/exhibitions/the-last-of-its-kind
'Nature Calendar'
katemacgarry.com/artworks/10446-marcus-coates-nature-calendar-2022/
'Finfolk'
COLLABORATORS
Helen Macdonald 'H is for Hawk'
Jeff Samples
ARTISTS & PERFORMERS
Brian Catling
Fiona Curran 'Your Sweetest Empire is to Please'
Helen Chadwick
Marylin Munroe
Richard Ayodeji Ikhide
Richard Burton
Thomas Bewick
AUTHORS & BOOKS
Anna Burns 'The Milkman'
Flann O'Brien 'The Third Policeman'
Robert Graves 'Welsh Incident'
GALLERIES & ART ORGS
Artangel
Freize Art Fair
Kate MacGarry
Royal Academy
The Serpentine
FILM
'The Boy and the Heron' Hayao Miyazake for Studio Ghibli
RESEARCH ARTICLE
theguardian.com/environment/2024/dec/12/why-birdsong-matters-more-than-you-think
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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.
