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  • Podcast 6: With one religion we cannot listen

    Posted: 28 May 2012


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    Yael Bartana’s controversial and acclaimed trilogy of films And Europe Will Be Stunned follow the evolution of the Jewish Renaissance Movement in Poland, a not-quite-fictional organisation calling for the return of 3.3m Jews to the land of their forefathers. Layered with sounds, speeches and dialogue from the films, this edition of The Artangel Podcast – produced to mark the first presentation of the trilogy in the UK in 2012 – hears from Bartana herself and several other speakers including those who attended the JRMiP's first congress in Berlin.

    Featuring

    Yael Bartana, the artist behind And Europe Will Be Stunned
    Jakub Czupryński, a guide, genealogist and researcher tracing Jewish roots in Poland
    Galit Eilat, a writer, curator and research curator at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven
    Gil Hochberg, an associate professor of Comparative Literature at UCLA
    Yosefa Loshitzky, Professor of Film, Media and Cultural Studies at the University of East London
    Daniel Meir, sound designer of the film trilogy
    Zoran Terzic, teacher in political aesthetics at Humboldt University
    Michał Zadara, Polish theatre director, set designer and multimedia artist
    Dana Yahalomi, co-founder of Public Movement. Performed as Dana Sierakowski in And Europe Will Be Stunned

    Producer: Peter Meanwell

  • St Pancras

    Podcast 5: Destinations

    Posted: 18 October 2011


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    With: Lavinia Greenlaw, Ryan Gander, Anri Sala and Šejla Kamerić.

    A fake exhibition in a locked room, a sound work for a railway station and a not-quite symphonic journey across Sarajevo... Four artists discuss the ideas and motivations that guided them to their own particular destinations. All of their projects, while very different in form and substance, touch upon ideas of departing and arriving, and more specifically what happens to us in between. 

    Producer: Iain Chambers

  • Vatnasafn/Library of Water

    Podcast 4: Readings from the library

    Posted: 18 July 2011

    Each summer in the coastal Icelandic town of Stykkisholmúr, different writers take up residency in Roni Horn’s Vatnasafn/Library of Water. Artangel asked the first six to record a reading of their choice in a series of short podcasts.

    1. Anne Carson


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    The first reading is Anne Carson’s poem Cage a Swallow Can’t You But You Can’t Swallow a Cage, written with Bob Currie during their residency, in honour of Roni Horn.

    Music: Sigur Rós member Kjartan Sveinsson composed a musical response to the poem, which was performed at the Church of St Paul the Apostle in New York last year, by The Hilliard Ensemble. A clip from this performance, courtesy of Q2, introduces the piece.

    Additional performers: Michael Clemow and Penelope Thomas

    2. Oddný Eir Aevarsdóttir
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    Oddný Eir Aevarsdóttir reads from a journal entry written during her stay. She recorded the piece in both Icelandic and English.

    3. Thordis Bjornsdottir


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    Thordis Bjornsdottir reads Into the Night, a short story.

    4. Guðrún Eva Mínervudóttir
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    Guðrún Eva Mínervudóttir reads from her novel The Creator.

    5. Rebecca Solnit


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    Rebecca Solnit reads her essay The Blue of Distance.

    6. Óskar Árni Óskarsson
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    Óskar Árni Óskarsson reads from the book, Þrjár hendur (Three hands), that he wrote at the library.

    Producer: Iain Chambers.
    Icelandic field recordings courtesy of Ulfur Hansson and Arnþór Helgason.

  • Mobile Homestead

    Podcast 3: Memory

    Posted: 22 October 2010


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    A many-layered tour through the subject of memory: personal, geographical, musical, architectural...

    Clio Barnard, Susan Philipsz and Mike Kelley reflect on how this theme relates to their Artangel projects; their voices are joined by those of scientist Steven Rose, historian Michael Sherringham, poet Lavinia Greenlaw, violinist Paul Robertson, author Rachel Lichtenstein and Artangel Co-Director James Lingwood. With music from The Arbor soundtrack by Molly Nyman and Harry Escott and Susan Philipsz's project SURROUND ME, plus compositions by Felix Carey, Andrew Pekler and Ruaridh Law.

    Producer: Francesca Panetta

  • Room at Blythe House

    Podcast 2: Young parents, a dictionary, a blunderbuss, a crooked house

    Posted: 21 May 2010


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    1.
    Blythe House, a vast, almost fortress-like building in West London, is home to the reserve collections of three landmark museums: the Science Museum, the British Museum and the V&A. The Concise Dictionary of Dress saw dress curator Judith Clark and psychoanalyst Adam Phillips transform the V&A quadrant into a walk-through dictionary: a one-hour tour taking in eleven tableaux each of which comes with its own dictionary definition. For our podcast feature, Artangel Co-Director Michael Morris takes a walk through the archive with Blythe House's longstanding manager Glenn Benson. The creaking of doors and crackle of nearby phone masts frames a conversation about the building's history as they peruse its always-unpredictable yet meticulously catalogued contents.

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    In a triangular house above an ancient river, a girl searches for her lost cherries, is pushed aside by a braying buggy and tries not to throw the baby out with the bath water oblivious, like her counterparts on each of the five floors, to the visitors as they walk up and down the building's winding staircases. This is Smother, an Artangel Interaction project by Sarah Cole in collaboration with Coram young parents. The parents, the artist and the collaborating composer discuss the background to the work - what it is to live in a world that sees you as a "baby having a baby".

    Producer: Iain Chambers

  • Chairs at Trinity Buoy Wharf lighthouse

    Podcast 1: A decade, a lighthouse, a protest, a barber's

    Posted: 21 January 2010


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    1.
    On December 31st 2009, Jem Finer's 1000-year long piece of music Longplayer reached the 1% mark. Speaking from its original listening post at Trinity Buoy Wharf lighthouse he reflects on the origins, meaning and future of the composition. In September of that year he oversaw its transformation from an automated algorithm to a 1000-minute live performance: this feature includes excerpts from The Long Conversation, the epic 12-hour relay debate that accompanied this event. (Excerpted speakers: Jeanette Winterson, Mark Miodownik, Sophie Fiennes, Daniel Glaser, Susie Orbach and Andrew Kotting - click here for full streamable audio of the entire Long Conversation).

    2.
    The Museum of Non Participation was conceived in 2007 when - during the Pakistani lawyers' movement in Islamabad - Karen Mirza and Brad Butler viewed the protests and subsequent state violence from a window in The National Art Gallery. They talk about how the changing nature of the project took them from this key moment in the gallery to a space behind Yaseen Hairdressers shop in Bethnal Green.

    Producer: Iain Chambers