21.7K
Downloads
53
Episodes
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.
Episodes
Wednesday Sep 02, 2020
Wednesday Sep 02, 2020
Welcome back to Art Fictions ! Jordan Baseman selects ‘Strangers on a Train’ by Patricia Highsmith. Published in 1950, the book tells of Bruno and Guy who happen meet on a train and, between whiskies and cigarettes, Bruno suggests they swap murders. I’ll kill your pesky wife if you kill my horrid father. Seems fair though somewhat macabre, not at all the sort of thing a nice young woman from Texas ought to be writing about and very much against the law. What starts badly ends even worse as the double murders lead to Bruno drowning in the sea and Guy drowning in guilt. Jordan is very much taken by the book’s single focussed account of the two men as we contrast the multitude of aspects found in any one person, which he depicts as simply as possible in his short films. Alfred Hitchcock’s adaption of the book into film makes for further pondering about social status and the American post war context.
0:00 - 0:28 the book, the film, post war America, context, no happy endings, celebrity, image, good and evil, Trump, complexity of the self, psychoanalysis, expectations of wealth and material goods
0:28 - 0:55 Jordan's films, portraiture, self portraiture, construction, artifice, film production techniques, interplay of visuals and audio
0:55 - 1:06 influences, artists, books, where to see Jordan's work
JORDAN BASEMAN
Jordanbaseman.co.uk
mattsgallery.org
‘Blackout’
‘Gendersick’
‘Veil’
‘The Sun Always Shines on the Righteous’
‘The Dandy Doctrine’
‘The Last Walk’
BOOKS & WRITERS
‘Difficult Women’ 2017 by Roxane Gay
‘Critical Path’ 1981 by Buckminster Fuller
Czenzi Ormonde, author and screenwriter
Phyllis Nagy, screenwriter
Raymond Chandler, author and screenwriter
Roxane Gay, author, professor, editor, social commentator
Stephen King
Jonathan Franzen
SCREEN
‘Strangers on a Train’ 1951 directed by Alfred Hitchcock
‘The Wizard of Oz’ 1939 directed by Victor Fleming
‘The Hitch Hiker’ 1953 directed by Ida Lupino
‘Match Point’ 2005 directed by Woody Allen
‘The Midnight Gospel’ 2020 animation series on Netflix
ARTISTS
Robert Mapplethorpe 1946-1989
Jennifer West – film, installation, performance, zines
‘Christ’s Entry into Journalism’ by Kara Walker at MoMA
MUSIC
‘Extreme Love’ by Holly Hendron
‘Horses’ by Patti Smith
Michael Stipe
Comments (0)
To leave or reply to comments, please download free Podbean or
No Comments
To leave or reply to comments,
please download free Podbean App.