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ART FICTIONS is fortnightly 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. Follow @artfictionspodcast Instagram for images of works and links, and see the podcast notes for all the references mentioned. Support via patreon.com/ARTFICTIONSPODCAST.
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Friday Jun 11, 2021
Friday Jun 11, 2021
Guest artist KAREN McLEAN
joins Elizabeth Fullerton to chat about her work via Colson Whitehead's 2016 novel 'The Underground Railroad' published by Doubleday. The historical fiction tells of 19th century slaves Cora and Caesar and their attempts to escape to freedom in America's south west.
Starting with her intensely researched art practice, Karen McLean and Elizabeth explore stories of rebellion and suffering amongst individuals and the collective, including female power, body ownership, intergenerational identity, mental illness and a vast knowledge of plants used as a method of resistance. They also delve into the structural legacies created by the sugar, cotton and indigo industries; colonialism, covert operations, syncretic religions, and the rise of the blue devil.
(This episode is co-produced by Jillian Knipe and Elizabeth Fullerton with music by Griffin Knipe and image by Joanna Quinn of Beryl Productions)
KAREN McLEAN
instagram karenmclean_art
karenmclean.co.uk
'Blue Power' 2021 Block 336
'Ar'n't I A Woman' 2021 Block 336
'The Precariat' 2017 Lewisham Arthouse
ARTISTS
Anish Kapoor
Donald Judd
Doris Salcedo
El Anatsui
Eva Hesse 'Contingent' 1968
Gees Bend Quiltmakers, Alabama
Ibrahim Mahama
Joseph Beuys
Kara Walker
Louise Bourgeois
Paul Goodwin
Sheila Gowda
Teresa Margolles
Theaster Gates
Tracey Emin
BOOKS ACTIVISTS THEORISTS
Alan Krell 'The Devil's Rope: A Cultural History of Barbed Wire' 2002
Alice Walker 'Everyday Use' 1973
Bell Hooks 'Ain't I A Woman: Black Women and Feminism' 1981
Deborah Grey White 'Ar'n't I A Woman' 1985
Edward Said (Professor of Literature, Columbia University)
Emily Zobel Marshall 'Anansi's Journey: A Story of Jamaican Cultural Resistance' 2012
Harriet Tubman, 'Harriet' film 2019
Hilary Beckles 'Natural Rebels' 1989
Homi Bhabha 'Of Mimicry and Man: The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse' 1984
Jacques Lacan (psychoanalyst)
Sojourner Truth (abolotionist, women's rights activist) 'Ain't I A Woman' speech 1851
Toni Morrison 'Beloved' 1987
GALLERIES LOCATIONS RESOURCES
Afterprojects, Julie Bentley
Birmingham City University
Black Cultural Archives, Brixton UK
Block 336, Brixton UK
Gees Bend Quilting Retreat
Goldsmiths University of London UK
King's Cross Station, London UK
Shakespeare's House, Stratford UK
The Gale Plantation, Jamaica, Caribbean
The New Art Gallery, Walsall UK
The Steamhouse, Birmingham UK
Trinidad & Tobago, Caribbean
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...... gaps in my knowledge of the topic. And the other is that it displayed the in depth research and knowledge that Karen has on this topic. Like me, she was born into the history of the effects of slavery, and it always bothers me how many people do not seem to embrace and absorb what effects the centuries of oppression would have had on our Society. Well done Karen.
Sunday Jun 13, 2021
Karen's exhibition itself was awe inspiring. And the Blue Power section breath taking. I had seen elements of Ar'n't I A Woman in her previous works, but Blue Power had an immediate effect on me. In Trinidad, Carnival is a major cultural phenomenon for many of us and one of the influential costumes originating from the original festival, is the Devil and, specifically, the Blue Devil. However, listening to this podcast has provided me with two important factors. Firstly, it filled in so many....
Sunday Jun 13, 2021
I enjoyed this podcaat episode thoroughly
Saturday Jun 12, 2021
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