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What are you looking at?
by Contemporary Art Tasmania
Toffee sculptures, cannibalism and who’s funding who…we chat with artists to unpack what’s happening in contemporary art right now. Hosted and produced by Sharifah Emalia Al-Gadrie for Contemporary Art Tasmania.
Episodes
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Thinking outside the white box
Hannah Foley, Reece Nicoloau, Elise Romaszko and Maggie Jeffries question and consider different formats and approaches to exhibiting art — sharing their experiences on ways that white box gallery norms can be challenged, subverted or completely removed. Hannah Foley is a Nipaluna-based artist…
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In the garden
Bec Stevens and Stephanie Doddridge tell us about their creative practices and how their experiences and understanding of gardening, ecological systems and community have shaped the way that they make art. Together, they deep dive into a conversation which covers how creative practice can…
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Eat the art
Starting at the intersecting point of culinary and creative practice, Haneen Mahmood Martin and Caitlin Fargher discuss how an arts practice can be productive medium to unpack lineage and familial history, talk models of curatorial care and explore what it can look like to hold space for…
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Art that re-makes: the transformative potential of materials
This episode of What Are You Looking At? is a series of conversations with artists Noah Johnson, Lila Meleisea and Justene Williams focussing on how the use of certain materials influence and inform their artistic practice. Produced and hosted by Sharifah Emalia Al-Gadrie for Contemporary Art...
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Art and money, money and art: from fundraising to funders
This episode of What Are You Looking At? is a table conversation with Zara Sully, Pete Marseveen and Nour Abdullatif about the relationship between art and money, initially focussing on fundraising but then expanding to explore other facets. Zara Sully (they/them) is an artist, arts worker,...
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Community and creative practice: the mess and the thrill of collaboration
This episode of What Are You Looking At? is a table conversation with Jade Lillie, Andy Hutson and Aunty Cheryl Mundy Trimanya, reflecting on collaboration and community engaged practice. Andy Hutson is a visual artist based in Nipaluna/Hobart and is the lead initiator and artist for the project...
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Zine season
This episode of What Are You Looking At? explores zines and zine culture, reflecting on the Contemporary Art Tasmania 2024 end of year exhibition, Paper Trail. Lead artists, Miranda Rogers, Jess Bateman and Leigh Rigozzi speak about the community building nature of zine-making and how zine…
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Sophie Penkethman-Young and Jon Smeathers in Conversation
Reflecting on Embraced in the Loving Arms of An Algorithm – v1.1 — curated by Jon Smeathers for Contemporary Art Tasmania in April 2024 — Sophie Penkethman-Young and Jon speak about intersections of their practices, algorithmic displacement and intervention and how care, cute and trust can be...
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A conversation with Leyla Stevens and Melanie Lane
A conversation with Leyla Stevens and Melanie Lane, reflecting on Balinese and Javanese dance, diasporic bodies working within and from traditional stories in contemporary practice, and the intersections of cultural knowledge and choreography. This episode was hosted by Sharifah Emalia Al-Gadrie...
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What can art do?
For her final episode of What are you looking at? podcast Pip Stafford talks to Nadia Refaei, Alex Kelly, and Amy Spiers, asking them: What *can* art do?This episode explores how art can contribute to social change in the world. Nadia talks about the importance of exploring political identity...
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Our Side of Things with Feras Shaheen and Jay Hennicke
This episode discusses Feras Shaheen and Jay Hennicke's exhibition at Contemporary Art Tasmania, Our Side of Things. The installation and associated programs were a vivid representation of freestyle football battles, workshops, and a celebration of the culture, incorporating dance, design, and...
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The artist, the archivist, a manila folder, and a server farm
Artists are well-known pack rats. If you conjure up the stereotypical artist's studio in your mind, it might well be a sort of wunderkammer of materials of creation, inspiration and detritus. Artists also use collections, archives and the more orderly functions of taxonomy as material and...
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Tisna Sanjaya talks to Lisa Campbell-Smith
Greed/Rakus/Geirig curator Lisa Campbell-Smith talks to lead artist Tisna Sanjaya. Interview translation by Daffa Sanjaya. The Jeprut artist community was founded in the 1980s in Bandung, West Java. Indonesian artist, Tisna Sanjaya is a leading figure in this community movement, and has gone on…
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The C Word
The C word is “class”. In this episode Pip Stafford and guest host, Andrew Harper, talk about the friction between class and art, featuring interviews with Mish Grigor and Miriam McGarry. Miriam McGarry’s Hidden Cities podcast: https://hiddencitiespodcast.net/ Mish Grigor’s Class Act:...
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Grace Gamage: art, boxing and the history of spinach
What are you looking at? producer Pip Stafford and CAT Communications Co-ordinator Nadia Refaei took a visit to Broom and Brine farm in winter 2022. This episode is an interview with Broom and Brine's co-founder, artist, boxer and gardener, Grace Gamage. Listen now to hear more about her…
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Tomoko Momiyama and Joel Stern in Conversation
Tomoko Momiyama and Joel Stern in conversation at Contemporary Art Tasmania, speaking about the concepts and experience of creating 'Listening Within the Opacities of our Times and Places' at Contemporary Art Tasmania. Following a month-long residency in Lutruwita with Contemporary Art Tasmania,...
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Tomoko Momiyama: Towards a collective composition
Japanese composer and artist Tomoko Momiyama speaks to Pip Stafford about her collective sound practice. Tomoko Momiyama works internationally as a music composer, artist, dramaturg, and producer of multi-disciplinary art events, installations, and performances. Tomoko’s works, many of which are...
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Bonus: Lost and Found with Gay Hawkes
In this bonus, short episode of What are you looking at? Pip Stafford talks to Gay Hawkes about the experience of losing her home and studio during the 2013 Dunalley bushfires. Gay’s exhibition, featuring works made before and after the fires, continues at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery…
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Lost and Found
This episode uses Diana Baker Smith’s the Lost Hour as a starting point to explore three very different stories, of art, of culture and of loss. Pip Stafford talks to Fiona Fraser, Julie Gough and Diana Baker Smith about their work, and how loss and rediscovery has featured in their recent work…
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RURU Radio - ruangrupa documenta fifteen (Indonesian Language)
Dalam episode ini Christina Schott, jurnalis dan manajer proyek budaya, berbicara dengan empat anggota kolektif ruangrupa. Didirikan di Indonesia pada tahun 2000, ruangrupa adalah organisasi seni nirlaba yang berbasis di Jakarta. Pada tahun 2019 diumumkan bahwa mereka, secara kolektif, akan…
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RURU Radio - Ruangrupa Documenta 15 (English Language)
In this episode Christina Schott, journalist and culture project manager, speaks with four members of the ruangrupa collective. Founded in Indonesia in 2000, ruangrupa are a not-for-profit arts organisation based in Jakarta. In 2019 it was announced that they, as a collective, would be the…
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Conchcast by Lucreccia Quintanilla
This episode of What are you looking at? is a commission produced by Dr Lucreccia Quintanilla. Conchcast invites the listener on a journey into the smooth interior of the conch shell, to consider its history and its physical qualities. Conchcast features the following music: Conch Shell by Skinny...
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Winners and Losers
What do art prizes mean to artists? Is there an Olympics for the arts? Pip Stafford interviews Julie Ewington, Loren Kronemyer and Daniel Mudie Cunningham about the purpose and place of art prizes in Australia. Produced and edited by Pip Stafford. Additional audio for this episode comes from...
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Instrument Builders Project 5 produced by Liquid Architecture
This episode is a special edition produced by Liquid Architecture and co presented by Contemporary Art Tasmania featuring interviews and audio from the recent instrument builders project as part of Mona Foma 2021 – a durational performance held at the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery,...
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Extinction Studies
Lucienne is drawing extinct things.She has drawn a fly. A skink. A turtle. She draws them incredibly well. She puts effort in. She does her work and uses her ability and her skill and I think she’s trying to honour these things. Because as she draws, she looks at images of these now-extinct,...
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25 years of the CAT Curatorial Mentorship
In 2020 CAT is celebrating 25 years of the curatorial mentorship program. Looking back on two and half decades of exhibitions, Lisa Campbell Smith speaks to Scot Cotterell and Sarah Jones, and 2020 recipient Caitlin Fargher. To learn more about this program head to:...
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Bonus: Audio recording of the re-member catalogue essay
Audio recording of the catalogue essay for exhibition 're-member', 24 July — 6 September 2020, curated by Caitlin Fargher as a part of the Curatorial Mentorship. 're-member' is about imagining across the cracks, filling in the gaps and stringing fragments together. This exhibition brings together...
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Episode #20: à Bientôt by Sarah Mashman
Guest producer Sarah Mashman interviews two Tasmanian artists with two different experiences in France, as Covid 19 changes everything. Interviews with Megan Walch and Camille Antoine. Episode mixdown by Brendan Walls. What are you looking at? is produced by Pip Stafford and Lisa Campbell-Smith…
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Episode #19: Reserved for Healing
In this episode of What are you looking at? we talk to Reserved for Healing artist Michelle Maynard and Head of Indigenous Engagement and Strategy at MAAS, Marcus Hughes about cultural and artistic practice and the non-linear path of healing. Reserved for Healing was an exhibition at Contemporary...
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Episode #18: walantanalinany palingina with Jim Everett puralia meenamatta
Jim Everett puralia meenamatta is an artist, playright, poet and Tasmanian Aboriginal Elder from Cape Barren Island. Following on from our interview with Ruth Langford (S05E02) we chat to Jim about his vision for 2020 and beyond.
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Episode #17: Out To Sea
In the process of developing her Shotgun 7 exhibition, Increase Productivity, Grace Herbert had a few adventures. Fortunately we interviewed her along the way and got all the goss on Georgian millionaires, moving trees and art works lost at sea. This episode was produced and edited by Pip…
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Episode #16: walantanalinany palingina with Ruth Langford
Lisa Campbell-Smith talks to Ruth Langford about the legacy of her childhood and how that has lead to her work as Creative Director of Nayri Niara Good Spirit Festival and Creative Producer of walantanalinany palingina.
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Episode #15 The Signal and the Noise
In our first episode for season 5 celebrated Australian artist, Louisa Bufardeci tells us about her background as an artist and how her 2012 LED installation Ethnicities to Nations came to be. Bufardeci discusses how the role of data and coding systems have informed her practice. The artwork...
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Episode #14: Stories from the Inside with Brigita Ozolins
Our final episode for 2018 is also the second episode of our "Stories from the Inside" sub-series. Our original cal-out for this series was intended to be a snappy single episode of stories from arts workers and artists about their work and careers. Instead we received some personal, thoughtful...
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Episode #13: Stories from the Inside with Fiona Hamilton
This episode is the first of our sub-series "Stories from the Inside" - an intimate look at the lives and concerns of artists and arts workers. When we went looking for stories, we were expecting easy soundbites that could be turned into one snappy episode, but what we got instead were personal,...
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Episode #12: Beyond the Field
Beyond the Field (still) presented the work of seventeen artists across two venues — Moonah Arts Centre and Contemporary Art Tasmania. Curated by Anne Mestitz, the intention was to explore the work of contemporary artists whose practices sit in a similar genre to the 1968, NGV exhibition, The...
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Episode #11: The Big Witch
This June, James Newitt's exhibition Delay will open at Contemporary Art Tasmania for Dark Mofo 2018. Delay, a complex installation, will revolve around a film titled I Go Further Under, which is in part inspired by the true story of Jane Cooper. In 1971, at 17 years of age Jane Cooper arrived in...
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Episode #10: Unpaid Labour
In this episode we talk to Penelope Benton and Brianna Munting of NAVA, Channon Goodwin of Bus Projects and All Conference and Grace Herbert of Visual Bulk, Constance ARI and Hobiennale about labour and volunteerism in the arts.
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Episode #9: Art & Writing, Writing & Art
In this episode we talk to artists who use text as part of their practice: Jude Abell, Justy Phillips, Sarah Jones and Tricky Walsh about art and writing. We ask them simple questions in an attempt to understand the juncture of art and writing, and art as writing: Are reviews an essential part of...
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Episode #8: The Big Three
Antipodean artists traditionally head to the large, blockbuster art exhibitions in Europe to experience the zeitgeist of contemporary art at least once in a lifetime. In 2017 "the Big Three" — Documenta, Skulptur Projekte Münster, and the Venice Biennale — are in rare alignment and it seems many...
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Episode #7: Accident & Process
What are you looking at? host, Theia Connell, talks to Accident & Process artist Derek Kreckler, and curator, Hannah Matthews, about the key ideas behind this major exhibition. A PICA touring exhibition, Accident & Process is a survey exhibition bringing together, for the first time, five decades...
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Episode #6: Artist to Artist
Artist to Artist was a suite of four solo exhibitions curated by four artist’s presented in ‘rapid fire’ succession across four consecutive Fridays at Contemporary Art Tasmania in 2016. Project curator Kylie Johnson brought together four artist/curator teams: Paul Zika and Jacob Leary, Peter…
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Episode #5: Big, Bright and Shiny
Art works made for festivals have to be pretty attention-grabbing to rise above the general clamour of sound, food, booze and big audiences. Does this mean that these art works have to be big, bright, loud and spectacular or is there room for quieter, more contemplative work at these events? We...
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Episode #4: Professional Development
Sustaining an art career can be a minefield of administration and opportunities. How do you know what to do? What does professional development mean? Where do you do it? What Are You Looking At host Theia Connell talks to Wendy Morrow, Kylie Johnson, Liam James and Nadege Philippe-Janon to get…
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Episode #3: Collection
We all know that art gets bought and sold. And we know that some artists make art that is not so easily bought and sold. So who are the artists, gallerists and collectors in the mix and what do they have to say about the industry that they exist in? Download or stream our most recent episode to...
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Episode #2: Sound Art?
The second episode of What are you looking at? uses Contemporary Art Tasmania's Envelop(e) exhibition to explore the medium of sound. Host, Briony Kidd, asks "what is sound art?" and "how is it different from music?" This episode features interviews with envelop(e) curator, Dr Matt Warren,...
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Episode #1: The Gap
The first episode of What are you looking at?, The Gap, follows on from our successful art and feminism symposium series and specifically focuses on the pathways for women artists through the art institution. What are you looking at? Episode 1 features words from Take 2: Conversations on Art and...
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Toffee sculptures, cannibalism and who’s funding who…we chat with artists to unpack what’s happening in contemporary art right now. Hosted and produced by Sharifah Emalia Al-Gadrie for Contemporary Art Tasmania.
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