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.
Guest artist ANNA BARHAM joins artist JILLIAN KNIPE to discuss her art practice via 'Companion Piece' by Ali Smith. Published in 2023 by Penguin Books, the novel explores language, meaning, relationships and contemporary politics in what may be seen as a way of bringing a form of conclusion to Smith's urgently written then quickly published, seasonal texts: Summer, Autumn, Winter, Spring.
ANNA and Jillian's discussion encompasses disfluencies, purity, transcription software, unfolding meanings, easy solutions, social spaces, silent conversations, showing off, undermining binary, performing language and dog eyebrows. As well as the body in the digital, pushing language around, stories being questions, and the pain of a pain within another body.
Please support the production of this podcast via patreon.com/ARTFICTIONSPODCAST.
And you're welcome to contact the team directly on artfictionspodcast@gmail.com and follow what's happening on Instagram @artfictionspodcast.
ANNA BARHAM
annabarham.net
insta @banana_harm
apria.artez.nl/zyx
'Magenta Emerald Lapis' 2009 The Tanks in Tate Modern til 10 Sep 2023
'Stilled Images' Tube Gallery in Palma Mallorca til 6 Aug 2023
ARTISTS
Laura Owens
Lindsay Seers
Moyra Davey
Nicola Bealing
Sophie Ruigrok
William Blake
WRITERS + BOOKS
Ali Smith 'The Accidental' 2005
Ali Smith 'How to be Both' 2014
Anna Barham 'Return to Leptis Magna' 2010
Anna Burns 'Milkman' 2018 voiced by Brid Brennan
Bridget Crone
Cherry Smith
Claudia Rankin
Elizabeth Fullerton
Gertrude Stein
Gustave Flaubert 'The Temptation of Saint Anthony' 1874
Nick Cave
Jennifer Higgie
Russell Hoban 'Ridley Walker' 1980
Judith Butler
Lisa Robertson 'The Baudelaire Fractal' 2020
Lisa Robertson 'Thresholds: A Prosody of Citizenship' 2018
Lisa Roberton 'Cinema of the Present' 2014
Plato 'Cratylus' 360BCE
GALLERIES + ORGANISATIONS
Banner Repeater
bookshop.org
Chelsea College
Flat Time House
Large Glass Gallery
401 Contemporary
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.
