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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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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
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