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ART FICTIONS is a monthly, contemporary art meets literature programme, created by artist Jillian Knipe. Each guest artist selects a piece of fiction, which we both explore, then use as a lens through which to view their artwork. We delve into the book‘s themes, context and characters, which opens up and steers a rich conversation about the artist‘s practice. The podcast bounces back and forth between art and text, all the while focussing on the ideas which govern both. It is a way of talking alongside art, rather than directly at it, getting close and personal with the origins of artistic ideas. Hosting is shared amongst a small group of artists, critics and curators, and artists are selected based on each host's area of specific interest.
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Episodes
Friday Feb 13, 2026
Friday Feb 13, 2026
Guest artists JENNET THOMAS and SALLY O'REILLY come together to discuss their work via the short story 'Critique' by Ben Marcus. Published in 2018 by Alfred A Knopf and Grant Books, it is one of 13 stories appearing in 'Notes from the Fog' which explore dysfunction, desolation and disconnection within a woundingly funny collision of art and reality.
'The Big Throw' at SET Social 23 April 2026
Get in touch! artfictionspodcast@gmail.com
"...narrative plot and how sticky and unpleasant it can be" JT
"The idea of just working in response to the infinity of the universe is appalling to me" SO'R
Sally and Jennet's conversation encompasses anti-plot, delirium, vertigo, maximalism, hermeticism, visitations and the grotesque. Yearning superpowers of persuasion, they go on and about carboot sales, ontological slippage, lemon sucking, deceptive loops, skewing language, twiddling knobs, automatic sterilisers, visually flamboyant, minor violences, constricting constraints, painting barcodes, slyly political, shifting rules, making knickerbockers, troubling reality, social reproductions, found objects, draped flesh, ecstatic technology talk, working in a factory, the pleasure of difficulty, a taste in the head, reality from the inside out, audience participation as part of the materials, weirdness coming into the living room, jumping to the whip of the ref, being wary of simplification and elegance, well made in a brutal violent sense at gunpoint, and a seal in mud with a lion's head.
JENNET THOMAS
jennetthomas.com
@jennetthomas
'School of Change' 2012
'All Suffering SOON TO END!' 2010
'Return of the Black Tower (after John Smith)' 2007
SALLY O'REILLY
sallyoreilly.org.uk
@manfredopenarms
'The Money Laundering Service' 2025
'Dog Shelves' 2024
'Where They Gather' 2022
'Estee Lauder Factory' 2022
'The Annual Retrieval' 2016
'The Virtues of Things' 2015
"I can't breath"
Eric Garner
George Floyd
ARTISTS
John Smith
Kit Downes
Klara Kofen
Leo Chadburn
Matt Rogers
Maz Murray
Simeon Barclay
WRITERS + BOOKS
Christine Brooke-Rose
Frieze magazine
M John Harrison
Muriel Spark
Russell Hoborn 'Riddley Walker'
Sally O'Reilly 'Help in Cucumbers'
Will Self
William Empson
FILM + TELEVISION
'Bedknobs and Boomsticks'
'Brimstone and Treacle'
Dennis Potter
Michael Kitchen
'The Terminator'
GALLERIES + ORGANISATIONS
Bandcamp
Horse Hospital
Matts Gallery
ICA Institute Contemporary Art
October House Records
Opera North
Royal Opera House
SET Social
SLG South London Gallery
Thursday Jan 29, 2026
Thursday Jan 29, 2026
Guest artist CARRIE MOYER
joins JILLIAN KNIPE to discuss her work via 'Cassandra at the Wedding' by Dorothy Baker. Published in 1962 by Houghton Mifflin (US) and Victor Gollancz (UK), most recently Daunt Books, with sympathetic tenderness and acerbic wit, it follows twin sisters Cassandra and Judith as they navigate Judith’s wedding to a very pleasant and capable young doctor.
The other key characters are their father, a retired philosophy professor who fancies a Brandy soda tipple, the ghost of their dead mother and their maternal grandmother.
Get in touch with us via artfictionspodcast@gmail.com
"it feels like all of the interesting innovations have been done by women painters in terms of abstraction"
Carrie and Jillian's conversation encompasses activism, wit, abandonment, confusion, family, ambivalence, agitpop, snarkiness, ambiguity, galaxy, queer, optical bliss, transitional places, menacing edge, geological time, mental illness, burying identity, utter distaste, ominous vibe and deadpan humour. They also talk about family as a cult, female body parts, destabilised vibration of colours, digging under conventions, being a lesbian in public, hard edge abstraction, vicious in a great beautiful smart way, wholesome hetro homemakers, abstract expressionism as a language and what the future is supposed to hold for you as a young woman.
CARRIE MOYER
'Always Venus, Never Mars' Pilar Corrias 23 Jan - 7 Mar 2026
'Queer Abstraction' Des Moines Art Center by Curator Jared Ledesma 1 Jun - 8 Sep 2019
'Cave Dwellers who Paint Abstraction' 2025
'Radiant Granularity' 2025
'Art Glass' 2016
ARTISTS + CURATORS
Amy Sillman
Anish Kapoor
Béla Bartók
David Getsy
Dona Nelson
Elizabeth Murray
Frank Stella
Helen Frankenthaler
Jack Whitten '9.11.01' 2006 after Sep 11 2001
Judy Chicago
Laura Owens
Louise Fishman
Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley 'Best Femmes Forever'
Morris Louis
Pat Steir
Rebecca Byrne
Rochelle Feinstein
Sabine Moritz
Stephen Meuller
William Butler Yeats
BOOKS + AUTHORS + FILM
Anna Burns 'The Milkman' narrator Brid Brennan
Arundhati Roy 'Mother Mary Comes to Me'
Audible
'Carrie Moyer' 2021 with contributions by Lauren O'Neill-Butler, Katy Siegel, Joanna Dinah Fateman by Rizzoli Electa
Flann O'Brien 'The Third Policeman' narrator Jim Norton
J D Salinger 'Catcher in the Rye'
John Gray 'Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus'
'The Ice Tower'
Travis Jeppesen 'Queer Abstraction (Or How to Be a Pervert with No Body) Some Notes Toward a Probability' Mousse magazine 2019
'Young Man with a Horn' 1950
UNIVERSITIES + ORGANISATIONS
Boston University
Daunt Books
Hunter College, New York
London Film Festivals
MoMA, New York 'Jack Whitten: The Messenger' 2025
Pratt Institute
Tuesday Dec 02, 2025
Tuesday Dec 02, 2025
From Episode 9, ALICE BROWNE chats with JILLIAN KNIPE about what she's been doing, reading and seeing, as well as her hopes for the year ahead.
We delve into worship, floating, yellow, sainthood, caves, underwolds, pergatory, visceral visions, dark spaces, psychological potential, sharing dreams, self destruction, happy endings, vertical journeys, painting cracks, slapstick behaviour, maleable materials, early renaissance paintings and being a shit actress.
ALICE BROWNE
alicebrowne.com
@alicerbrowne
ARTISTS
Adam Hennessey
Ann Hamilton
Gabriela Giroletti
Giovanni de Paolo
Hannah Hughes
Hannah Tilson
Jennifer Caroline Campbell
Josephine Baker
Laura White
Lauren Godfrey
Lena Brazen
Lucy Mayes
Mikhail Karikis
Oona Grimes
Pia Pack
Zadie Xa
BOOKS + WRITERS
The Call of Cthulhu by H P Lovecraft
Cherry Smyth
The Divine Comedy by Dante
Drowned World by J G Ballard
Love Letter by George Saunders
The Natural Pigment Handbook by Lucy Mayes
Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy
ORGANISATIONS + COLLECTIVES
A P P E A R Artworks
Binder of Women
Bow Arts
Gillian Jason Gallery
Hypha Studios
National Gallery
Outpost Gallery
Pinnacle Climbing Club
Sainsbury Wing
Salts Mill
Turner Prize
Wednesday Oct 22, 2025
Wednesday Oct 22, 2025
Guest artist ALINE MOTTA
joins PELUMI ODUBANJO to discuss her work via 'Water is a Time Machine' by the artist herself. Originally published in Brazilian Portuguese by Fósforo Editora and Luna Parque Edições in 2022, the text reconfigures memories by using a non-linear perception of time and is part of a multi-layered project including video and performance. It includes personal documents that belong to the artist's mother, her calendars and journals from the 1970s and an account of her death in 2011, which is the central piece and backbone of the work.
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Aline and Pelumi discuss the book's stories around the artist's family members and their lives in Rio de Janeiro at the turn of the 20th century, a time of political turmoil which immediately followed the abolition of slavery. Their conversation encompasses floating, bombs, bridges, tuberculosis, mistranslation, iconography, submerging, chemotherapy, prayer, breathing, stoicism, Catholicism, time machines, interracial marriage, film school, personal archives, double images, direct communication, permanent connections, exchanging cells, changing organs, fraught connections, Congolese traditions, disciplinarian mothers, avoiding sugarcoating, intentional disorientation, umbilical cords, oral histories, heavy heartedness, Yoruba influences, colonial erasure, speculative studies, layers of time, writing in fragments, metaphors of motherhood, constructing new narratives, sleeping in hammocks, foundations of thought, clothes being archives, abolition of slavery, lineage as language, contradictions in relationships, the beginning of the Republic, the way histories are told in (black) families, trying to find reasons for a person's death, the magic of making someone breath under water, using words to make maps, connecting personal history with collective history, envisioning new pasts to free us from old narratives and manifest new futures, plus a recipe to treat bruises.
ALINE MOTTA
alinemotta.com
@1alinemotta
'A água é uma máquina do tempo' / 'Water is a time machine'
'(Outros) Fundamentos' / '(Other) Foundations'
'Pontes sobre Abismos' / 'Bridges over the Abyss'
INSTITUTIONS
Bienal de São Paulo 2023 'Choreographies of the Impossible'
Buenos Aires, Palermo Buenos Aires, Argentina
Centre Pompidou, France
MALBA Museo de Arte Lanoamericano de Buenos Aires / Latin American Art Museum of Rietberg Museum, Zurich
ARTISTS + FILM + WRITERS
'BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions' 2025
John Akomfrah 'Vertigo Sea' 2015
Kathleen Collins 'Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?' 2016
Kahlil Joseph
'Losing Ground' 1982
Machado de Assis 'Father Against Mother' 1906
Professor Stuart Hall (1932-2014)
Rosana Paulino
Saidiya Hartman 'Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route' 2006
'The Cruz Brothers and Miss Malloy' 1980
PLACES
Angola
Australia
Bahia
Bahia
Brazil
Burma
Cachoeira
Congo
Germany
Ghana
Guanabara Bay
Myanmar
Niterói
Nigeria
Portugal
Rio de Janeiro
São Paulo
Sierra Leone
Torres Strait Islands
TERMS + CULTURAL GROUPS
ase/ashe
Bantu languages
capoeira martial art movement
Kimbundu/Mbundu language
maracatu dance
ori
orishas
oyinbo/oyibo
samba dance
Yoruba
Monday Sep 01, 2025
Monday Sep 01, 2025
Guest artist AYO AKINGBADE
joins ELIZABETH FULLERTON to discuss her work via 'In the Eye of the Wild' by Nastassja Martin. Published in 2021, the story follows the aftermath of a French anthropologist's gruesome attack by a bear, while she is living with the Evan people on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula.
EMAIL US artfictionspodcast@gmail.com
Ayo and Elizabeth's conversation encompasses healing, hostility, joy, architecture, nepotism, romance, underdogs, irony, phobias, animism, neglect, transformation, swimming, analogue, memoir, disfigurement, hopefulness, multifaceted, strong women, self-centring, turning points, arthouse niche, tarot reading, anthropological study, defence mechanisms, shared fearlessness, spiritual guides, questioning society's expectations, power in names, thinking the worse, colonisation of microbes, French new wave and the rewards of positive thinking.
AYO AKINGBADE
ayoakingbade.com
'Keep Looking' 2024, 14 minute film
'Head of Idoani Girl' 2024, giclee print
'Show Me the World Mister' 2023, publication
'Faluyi' 2022, 14 minute film
'The Fist' 2022, 24 minute film
'Jitterbug' 2022, 24 minute film
'Dear Babylon' 2019, 21 minute film
'Tower XYZ' 2017 3 minute film
BOOKS WRITERS
Derek Walcott 'The First'
Franz Kafka 'The Trial'
Fred Moten
FILM ARTISTS
Agnès Varda
Alfred Hitchcock
Alice Rohrwacher 'La Chimera'
Chantal Akerman 'Family Business'
Chris Marker 'Sans Soleil'
David Lynch
Harun Farocki 'Workers Leaving the Factory' 1995
Mark Dion
Jacques Rivette
Jean-Luc Godard
Jim Jarmusch
Julian Schnabel 'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly'
Lumière Brothers 'Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory in Lyon' 1895
Roni Horn
Stanley Kubrick 'Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb'
Steve McQueen 'Caribs' Leap / Western Deep' 2002
Steven Spielberg
Quentin Tarantino 'Inglorious Bastards'
Werner Herzog 'Grizzly Man'
ARCHITECTURE
Dora Boatemah
Le Corbusier
ART INSTITUTIONS
Artangel London
Chisenhale Gallery
Cinereach
Institute of Contemporary Art
John Hansard Gallery
London Film Festival
London LCC
Spike Island
The Baltic Gateshead
The Whitworth
PERFORMERS
Ebenezer Obey 'The Only Condition to Save Nigeria'
Josh O'Connor
Kate Bush
Okwui Okpokwasili
Sade Adu
ART FICTIONS MUSIC Griffin Knipe
ART FICTIONS LOGO Joanna Quinn
Saturday Jul 26, 2025
Saturday Jul 26, 2025
Guest artist LAUREN GODFREY
joins JILLIAN KNIPE to discuss her work via 'Heartburn' by Nora Ephron. Published in 1983, it tells a recipe rich story of Rachel Samstat and her husband Mark's marriage breakdown as a result of his affair with Thelma Rice.
Lauren and Jillian's conversation encompasses misogyny, kreploch soup, fat phobia, hot sass, slaying haters, brilliant naivety, acerbic wit, catching glimpses, high drama and potatoes as a signpost for the progress and decline of relationships. Also: losing the plot, aubergine as icon, minutiae of life, mid pregnancy betrayal, magnifying tiny moments, passing on recipes through generations, mapping of time and place through food, flood of linguistic lyricism, the power of choosing clothes, menu choice as an identity market and distilling culture into a witty sentence.
LAUREN GODFREY
@laurengodfreystudio
laurengodfrey.co.uk
'Pattern Portraits podcast'
'Group Hat'
'What We Wore'
GET IN TOUCH with us by EMAIL artfictionspodcast@gmail.com
ARTISTS CURATORS
Adam Boyd
Anni Albers
Anthea Hamilton
Bethan Laura Wood
Bruce MacLean
Capability Brown
Cinzia Ruggeri
Dr George Vasey 'Harrow March 31st 2005...'
George Richardson
Gunta Stöltzl
Holly Graham
JB Blunk
Jennie Moncur
Luke Burton
Marcus Coates 'Nature Calendar'
Maria Zahle
Martin Parr
Mary Godfrey
Nadia Hebson
Patrick Heron
Rosalind Nashashibi
Rosie Gibbens
Tacita Dean 'Kodak 2006'
BOOKS AUTHORS WRITERS
AA Gill
Asako Yuzuki 'Butter'
Bob Woodwood
Carl Bernstein
Carmen Callil
David Batchelor
David Sedaris
JD Salinger 'The Catcher in the Rye' 'Franny and Zooey'
John Updike
Lena Dunham
Lennie Goodings 'Virago founder Carmen Callil was a powerhouse who changed the publishing world for the better' The Guardian 18 Oct 2022
Michelle Zauner of Japanese Breakfast 'Crying in H Mart'
Miranda July 'All Fours'
Nora Ephron 'Forget the Hamsters' The Guardian 6 Nov 2004
Phillip Roth
Raven Smith 'Men' 'Trivial Pursuits'
Salena Barry
Tank Magazine 'Pancake Day'
Vanessa Murrell
Virago Books Modern Classics
ART INSTITUTIONS
Bauhaus
Coal Drops Yard
De La Warr Pavillion
Design Museum
Gasworks
Goldsmiths CCA
Harewood House Trust
ICA
Kingsgate Project Space
Krupa Gallery
The Memphis Group
New Contemporaries
Vital Arts at Newham Hospital
FILM
Anijam animation initiative
Cher
'Ghostbusters'
'Julie and Julia'
Meg Ryan
Meryl Streep
'Sex and the City'
Silkwood
Stanley Tucci 'Taste: My Life Through Food'
When Harry Met Sally
Woody Allen
CHEFS
Elizabeth David
Julia Childs
ORGANISATIONS
Taylors of Harrogate
Selfridges
NOTED PEOPLE
James Callaghan
Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Ann Jay, Baroness Jay of Paddington
Maria Montessori
Melanie Klein
CREDITS
Griffin Knipe - music
Joanna Quinn of Beryl Productions - logo
Tuesday Jul 01, 2025
Tuesday Jul 01, 2025
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.
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/
'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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Wednesday Dec 06, 2023
Wednesday Dec 06, 2023
Guest artist HELEN JOHNSON
joins JILLIAN KNIPE for this final episode of Series 5, to discuss her work via 'The Birds' by Tarjei Vesaas. Published originally in 1957, then by Penguin Random House in 2019, this short novel describes the relationship between Hege and her younger, mentally challenged brother Mattis. With a sense of non-judgemental simplicity and acute sensitivity, we join the siblings as they negotiate everyday life in partial isolation and on the edge of something happening.
HELEN and Jillian's conversation encompasses lightning, tenderness, siblings, gullibility, hiding, tapestry, holding, frustration, anguish, excavation, metaphors, equality, masking, knitting needles, dream worlds, shattered trees, portals, body punctures, art therapy, white supremacy, honest thieves, cartography lines, blinding flies, Oedipus complex, intergenerational privilege, psychotic structure, architectural blueprints, birthing shit, monetising colonialisation, not being othered, the weight of the work, creating a space for healing, writing being like a drawing, and a lot of Lacanian psychotherapy - a real learning experience !
HELEN JOHNSON
helenjohnson.net
'Opening' Pilar Corrias Savile Row til 6 Jan 2024
'Agency' Pilar Corrias 2019
'Warm Ties' ICA 2017
ARTISTS
Aleksandra Waliszewska
Aliza Nisenbaum
Bridget Riley
Christina Quarles
Denzil Forrester
Fred Williams
Georgiana Houghton
Joy Labinjo
Judy Watson
Katie Pratt
Laura Owens
Maja Ruznic
Marcus Coates 'The Directors' Artangel
Melanie Jackson
Nicole Eisenman
Njideka Akunyili Crosby
Paola Balla
Rosie Mullan
Shanti Panchal
Yhonnie Scarce
AUTHORS + BOOKS
Darian Leader 'The New Black: Mourning, Melancholia and Depression' 2008
Jackie Wullschläger 'Monet: The Resless Vision' 2023
Jennifer Higgie 'The Other Side: A Journey into Women, Art and the Spirit World' 2023
Karl Ove Knausgaard
National Gallery of Australia 'Know My Name: Australian Women Artists Since 1900' 2021 Part 1 2022 Part 2
CURATORS + ART HISTORIANS
Helen Molesworth 'Dialogues' David Zwirner
Sarah McCrory
THEORISTS + ANALYSTS + ACTIVISTS
Anna Freud
Donald Winnicott
Jacques Lacan
Joy Shaverien
Melanie Klein
Meriki Onus
Sigmund Freud
Shirley Sharon-Zisser 'What Would a Lacanian Art Therapy Look Like'
Walter Benjamin
Wilfred Bion
GALLERIES + ART INSTITUTIONS
Glasgow International
ICA Institute of Contemporary Art
Kunstverein in Hamburg
Kingsgate Project Space
Latrobe University
MCA NSW Museum of Contemporary Art Australia
NGV National Gallery of Victoria
Pilar Corrias
SeMA Seoul Museum of Art
Tate Galleries
Wednesday Nov 29, 2023
Wednesday Nov 29, 2023
Guest artist ELEONORA AGOSTINI joins PELUMI ODUBANJO to discuss her art practice via 'Boxes', a short story featured in 'Elephant and Other Stories' 1998 Collins Harvill. Written by Raymond Carver and originally published in The New Yorker, the story explores connections, disillusion, powerlessness, worry and loss within a mother and son relationship, as well as the distance between listening and hearing.
ELEONORA and Pelumi's discussion encompasses immortality, microcosmos, waitressing, belonging, mothers, self representation, the grid, family frictions, bitter endings, creepy observation, archival images, being deeply uncomfortable, hiding in bushes, multiple layers of meaning, the complicated teenage years, difficulty bringing closure to relationships, connections between pictures and performance, and not wanting to be the dictator of the image.
@eleonoraagostini
eleonoraagostini.com
Foam Talent 2024-2025
Bloomberg New Contemporaries, 2019
'A Study of Waitressing'
'A Blurry Aftertaste' 2018
'Laying with Strangers'
'Welcome Sir'
'How to Stand in Front of the Camera'
'How to Stand in Front of the Client'
'Notes for my Clients'
'The Steps'
@pelumi.odubanjo
ARTISTS
Olukemi Lijadu
Ragnar Kjartansson
WRITERS
John Cheever
Raymond Carver
GALLERIES & INSTITUTIONS
Barbican
Borough Road Gallery 'With Monochrome Eyes' 2020
Palais de Tokyo
Royal College
Friday Nov 10, 2023
Friday Nov 10, 2023
Guest artist MELANIE JACKSON joins artist JILLIAN KNIPE to discuss her art practice via 'Corey Fah Does Social Mobility' by Isabel Waidner. Published in 2023 by Hamish Hamilton, part of Penguin Random House, the novel explores binaries, boundaries and borders, freeing us to imagine other ways of being within the context of award winning social mobility, cyclical history, and watching reality TV.
MELANIE and Jillian's discussion encompasses shame, humility, apology, gratitude, wormholes, reconfigured animations, cultural disruption, synthetic biology, persistent amnesia, complicated truths, brutalist architecture, unsustained caretaking, industrial metaphysics, winged penises, synthetic biology, false blaming, clashing ideologies, idealistic social housing, nano scale engineering, vulvas on horseback, ridiculing the middle class, colonialisation of language, pig fat in ice cream, what art can do as an experience, and the way histories and future technologies bounce off one another.
MELANIE JACKSON
@melanie.jjj
melaniejackson.net
'Rouge Flambé'
'Deeper in the Pyramid | Share of Throat'
'Spekyng Rybawdy'
'The Urpflanze'
ARTISTS + CURATORS + ACADEMICS
Esther Leslie
Ezra Lloyd Jackson
Kirsten Cooke
Nicole Eisenman 'Bambi Gregor' 1993
Olukemi Lijadu
Pelumi Odubanjo
BOOKS + MAGAZINES + WRITERS
Brian Massumi 'What Animals Teach Us About Politics' 2014
Charles Darwin 'On the Origin of the Species' 1859
Eileen Myles 'Afterglow: A Dog Memoir' 2017
Franz Kafka 'The Metamorphosis' 1915
'Frieze' magazine
Goethe 'Die Urplanze' ('The Metamorphosis of Plants') 1829
Isabel Waidner ' Sterling Karat Gold' 2021
Jo Orton
John Lahr 'Prick Up Your Ears' 1978 (film 2007)
EXHIBITIONS + INSTITUTIONS
Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth
Banner Repeater, London
Block 336, London 'Spekyng Rybawdy' 2022
Grand Union, Birmingham
Matt's Gallery, London 'Mattflix'
Max Mara Prize
Jerwood Drawing Prize
San Mei Gallery, London 'Rouge Flambè' 2023
Wellcome Collection, London 'Living with Buildings' 2018-2019
Wellcome Collection, London 'Milk' 2023
Whitechapel Gallery, London
FILM + TELEVISION
'The Nasty Girl' 1990
'Top Boy' 2011-2023