Art Monthly Talk Show

Lizzie Homersham, Elisa Adami, Vera Mey and Amna Malik discuss the changing nature of intimacy and its reflection in art, Anne Boyer’s book ‘The Undying’, the 15th Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival and the photographic project The Found Archive of Hani Jawherieh.

Morgan Quaintance, Elisabetta Fabrizi & George Vasey analyse the problems with Kara Walker’s Turbine Hall commission at Tate Modern, discuss the BFI London Film Festival’s Experimenta strand and explore the coercive role of images as revealed in the work of video artist Imran Perretta.

Virginia Whiles, Sarah Jury and Jack Smurthwaite discuss the work of Pakistani-born video artist Bani Abidi, the need for safety protocols to protect participants in live art works known as larps (Live Action Role Plays), and Dave Beech’s book ‘Art and Postcapitalism – Aesthetic Labour, Automation and Value Production’.

Jonathan P Watts, Louisa Lee and Laura Harris discuss British art 1976–95, BANK, Jef Cornelis’s art documentaries, and pay & conditions in the art world.

Giulia Smith, Erika Balsom, Vladimir Seput & Conal McStravick discuss the ‘Civic Duty’ exhibition at Cell Project Space, Lis Rhodes’s exhibition at Nottingham Contemporary, Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen’s exhibition at Peltz Gallery, and queerness and gentrification.

Tom Snow, Maja and Reuben Fowkes & Matthew Bowman discuss activism as art, the ‘Southern Constellations’ exhibition in Ljubljana and Cory Arcangel’s show at Firstsite in Colchester.

Adam Heardman, Adam Hines-Green & Lauren Houlton discuss Petra Bauer’s socially engaged art practice, Richard Billingham’s film ‘Ray & Liz’ and the ‘Workforce’ exhibition at NewBridge Project in Gateshead. Presented by Alexandra Hull.

Kathryn Lloyd, John Parton, Jamie Sutcliffe and George Vasey discuss exhibitions by Laure Prouvost, Callum Hill and Reinhard Mucha as well as the ‘Is This Tomorrow?’ exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery.

Louise Ashcroft, Joseph Constable and Daniel Neofetou discuss collaborative models of artistic self-determination from alternative art schools to community interest companies, Ghislaine Leung’s exhibition at Chisenhale Gallery and Josephine Berry’s book Art and (Bare) Life: A Biopolitical Enquiry.

Isobel Harbison, Andrew Hibbard, Dominic Johnson and Chris McCormack discuss the work of Josephine Pryde, Ulay and David Raymond Conroy as well as art, activism and AIDS.

Larne Abse Gogarty, Lizzie Homersham, Morgan Quaintance & Jack Smurthwaite discuss Flo Brooks’s show at Project Native Informant, the ‘Before Projection’ exhibition of video sculpture at SculptureCenter, the Bow Gamelan Ensemble presentation at Cooper Gallery and the writing of Mark Fisher.

Alex Fletcher, George Vasey & Maria Walsh discuss the 12th edition of Manifesta, the roving European biennale, in Palermo, Sicily; the current art scene in Kampala, Uganda; and the work of video artist Lucy Beech.

Amy Budd, Sara Jaspan & Tom Snow discuss the art scene in Rotterdam, the ICA workshop ‘On Cripping’ and Chad Elias’s book on contemporary art in post-civil war Lebanon.

Vassilios Doupas, Andrew Hunt and Ellen Mara De Wachter discuss contemporary art shows in Athens, different models of curating and the ‘Somewhere in Between’ exhibition at Bozar in Brussels.

Stephanie Schwartz, Giulia Smith and Dan Ward discuss the relationship between art and health, Martha Rosler and Hito Steyerl’s show in Basel, and Meriem Bennani’s show in Kingston.

Ashiya Eastwood, Daniel Neofetu and Maria Walsh discuss the promotion of Forensic Architecture within the art world and its implications for political art, Taryn Simon’s ‘An Occupation of Loss’ and the Groundwork programme of international art in Cornwall.

Isobel Harbison on the Joan Jonas survey exhibition at Tate Modern, Taylor Le Melle on Sophia Al-Maria’s show at Project Native Informant and Edward C Ball on the art scene in Paris, including the opening of the Rem Koolhaas-designed gallery, Lafayette Expectations.

Dave Beech discusses the idea that the robot is to visions of the future what the genius was to the industrial age, and argues that current thinking devalues labour while simultaneously ushering in a new form of slavery.

Jennifer Thatcher discusses the art world’s We Are Not Surprised anti-harassment movement in response to the wider post-Weinstein #MeToo campaign, and Amy Budd discusses the ‘No, No, No, No’ exhibition at Cell Projects. Presented by Chris McCormack.

Ashiya Eastwood explores TJ Demos’s book Against the Anthropocene, Kathryn Lloyd examines Sophie Jung’s performance-based art practice and Virginia Whiles discusses her interview with Rasheed Araeen.