What are you looking at?
Toffee sculptures, cannibalism, and funding sources are among the topics discussed in this podcast. Host Sharifah Emalia Al-Gadrie chats with artists to unpack what's happening in contemporary art right now. The show is produced by Contemporary Art Tasmania.
Episodes
Eat the art
Starting at the intersecting point of culinary and creative practice, Haneen Mahmood Martin and Caitlin Fargher discuss how an arts practice can be productive medium to unpack lineage and familial history, talk models of curatorial care and explore what it can look like to hold space for different experiences.This episode was hosted by Sharifah Emalia Al-Gadrie and produced by Honor Marino. What a
Art that re-makes: the transformative potential of materials
This episode of What Are You Looking At? is a series of conversations with artists Noah Johnson, Lila Meleisea and Justene Williams focussing on how the use of certain materials influence and inform their artistic practice. Produced and hosted by Sharifah Emalia Al-Gadrie for Contemporary Art Tasmania.Noah Johnson is a black multidisciplinary artist, born in Lutruwita (Hobart). They first began
Art and money, money and art: from fundraising to funders
This episode of What Are You Looking At? is a table conversation with Zara Sully, Pete Marseveen and Nour Abdullatif about the relationship between art and money, initially focussing on fundraising but then expanding to explore other facets.Zara Sully (they/them) is an artist, arts worker, curator, and researcher and director of Sawtooth ARI in Launceston, Lutruwita/Tasmania.Peter Marseveen (he/hi
Community and creative practice: the mess and the thrill of collaboration
This episode of What Are You Looking At? is a table conversation with Jade Lillie, Andy Hutson and Aunty Cheryl Mundy Trimanya, reflecting on collaboration and community engaged practice.Andy Hutson is a visual artist based in Nipaluna/Hobart and is the lead initiator and artist for the project Apologue Isle, which first exhibited at Contemporary Art Tasmania in 2024 and is, at the time of the epi
Zine season
This episode of What Are You Looking At? explores zines and zine culture, reflecting on the Contemporary Art Tasmania 2024 end of year exhibition, Paper Trail. Lead artists, Miranda Rogers, Jess Bateman and Leigh Rigozzi speak about the community building nature of zine-making and how zine culture is often based in sharing ideas and creating connections.This episode contains readings and excerpts
Sophie Penkethman-Young and Jon Smeathers in Conversation
Reflecting on Embraced in the Loving Arms of An Algorithm – v1.1 — curated by Jon Smeathers for Contemporary Art Tasmania in April 2024 — Sophie Penkethman-Young and Jon speak about intersections of their practices, algorithmic displacement and intervention and how care, cute and trust can be present in algorithm augmented curatorial models.
This episode is hosted and edited by Sharifah Emalia Al-
A conversation with Leyla Stevens and Melanie Lane
A conversation with Leyla Stevens and Melanie Lane, reflecting on Balinese and Javanese dance, diasporic bodies working within and from traditional stories in contemporary practice, and the intersections of cultural knowledge and choreography. This episode was hosted by Sharifah Emalia Al-Gadrie and produced and edited by Lisa Campbell-Smith for Contemporary Art Tasmania. Sound courtesy of the art
What can art do?
For her final episode of What are you looking at? podcast Pip Stafford talks to Nadia Refaei, Alex Kelly, and Amy Spiers, asking them: What *can* art do?This episode explores how art can contribute to social change in the world. Nadia talks about the importance of exploring political identity through her work, Alex discusses how artists can collaborate with or contribute to social movements, while
Our Side of Things with Feras Shaheen and Jay Hennicke
This episode discusses Feras Shaheen and Jay Hennicke's exhibition at Contemporary Art Tasmania, Our Side of Things. The installation and associated programs were a vivid representation of freestyle football battles, workshops, and a celebration of the culture, incorporating dance, design, and sports. In this interview Feras recounts his experience combining his interest in dance and football,
The artist, the archivist, a manila folder, and a server farm
Artists are well-known pack rats. If you conjure up the stereotypical artist's studio in your mind, it might well be a sort of wunderkammer of materials of creation, inspiration and detritus. Artists also use collections, archives and the more orderly functions of taxonomy as material and conceptual underpinning. What do artists and archivists have in common? What are you looking at? host Pip
Tisna Sanjaya talks to Lisa Campbell-Smith
Greed/Rakus/Geirig curator Lisa Campbell-Smith talks to lead artist Tisna Sanjaya. Interview translation by Daffa Sanjaya.The Jeprut artist community was founded in the 1980s in Bandung, West Java. Indonesian artist, Tisna Sanjaya is a leading figure in this community movement, and has gone on to produce many collaborative performance based art actions within this unique movement. Jeprut is a Sund
The C Word
The C word is “class”. In this episode Pip Stafford and guest host, Andrew Harper, talk about the friction between class and art, featuring interviews with Mish Grigor and Miriam McGarry.Miriam McGarry’s Hidden Cities podcast: https://hiddencitiespodcast.net/Mish Grigor’s Class Act: https://aphids.net/projects/class-act/Music by Blue Dot SessionsEpisode produced, edited and hosted by Pip Stafford
Grace Gamage: art, boxing and the history of spinach
What are you looking at? producer Pip Stafford and CAT Communications Co-ordinator Nadia Refaei took a visit to Broom and Brine farm in winter 2022. This episode is an interview with Broom and Brine's co-founder, artist, boxer and gardener, Grace Gamage. Listen now to hear more about her practice, and the history of plants.Grace's work featured in BIOGYM at CAT earlier in 2022: https://contemporar
Tomoko Momiyama and Joel Stern in Conversation
Tomoko Momiyama and Joel Stern in conversation at Contemporary Art Tasmania, speaking about the concepts and experience of creating 'Listening Within the Opacities of our Times and Places' at Contemporary Art Tasmania.Following a month-long residency in Lutruwita with Contemporary Art Tasmania, Japanese artist-composer Tomoko Momiyama presented a new collaborative work with Tasmanian artis
Tomoko Momiyama: Towards a collective composition
Japanese composer and artist Tomoko Momiyama speaks to Pip Stafford about her collective sound practice.Tomoko Momiyama works internationally as a music composer, artist, dramaturg, and producer of multi-disciplinary art events, installations, and performances. Tomoko’s works, many of which are community-based and site-specific, have been performed throughout Japan, as well as in different parts o
Bonus: Lost and Found with Gay Hawkes
In this bonus, short episode of What are you looking at? Pip Stafford talks to Gay Hawkes about the experience of losing her home and studio during the 2013 Dunalley bushfires. Gay’s exhibition, featuring works made before and after the fires, continues at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery until August 2022: https://www.tmag.tas.gov.au/whats_on/exhibitions/current_upcoming/info/gay_hawkes_the_h
Lost and Found
This episode uses Diana Baker Smith’s the Lost Hour as a starting point to explore three very different stories, of art, of culture and of loss.Pip Stafford talks to Fiona Fraser, Julie Gough and Diana Baker Smith about their work, and how loss and rediscovery has featured in their recent work and lives.What are you looking at? podcast is produced by Pip Stafford for Contemporary Art Tasmania.Musi
RURU Radio - ruangrupa documenta fifteen (Indonesian Language)
Dalam episode ini Christina Schott, jurnalis dan manajer proyek budaya, berbicara dengan empat anggota kolektif ruangrupa. Didirikan di Indonesia pada tahun 2000, ruangrupa adalah organisasi seni nirlaba yang berbasis di Jakarta. Pada tahun 2019 diumumkan bahwa mereka, secara kolektif, akan menjadi Artistic Director untuk dokumenter bergengsi lima belas di Kassel, Jerman.Podcast ini awalnya dituga
RURU Radio - Ruangrupa Documenta 15 (English Language)
In this episode Christina Schott, journalist and culture project manager, speaks with four members of the ruangrupa collective. Founded in Indonesia in 2000, ruangrupa are a not-for-profit arts organisation based in Jakarta. In 2019 it was announced that they, as a collective, would be the Artistic Director for the prestigious documenta fifteen in Kassel, Germany.This podcast was originally commis
Conchcast by Lucreccia Quintanilla
This episode of What are you looking at? is a commission produced by Dr Lucreccia Quintanilla. Conchcast invites the listener on a journey into the smooth interior of the conch shell, to consider its history and its physical qualities.Conchcast features the following music:Conch Shell by Skinny Fabulous, Machel Montano & Iwer George Whāia Te Māramatanga by Rob Thorne [Short] Conch Shell Trumpe
Winners and Losers
What do art prizes mean to artists? Is there an Olympics for the arts? Pip Stafford interviews Julie Ewington, Loren Kronemyer and Daniel Mudie Cunningham about the purpose and place of art prizes in Australia.Produced and edited by Pip Stafford.Additional audio for this episode comes from Abolish the Olympics by Pony Express.Music:Cheap Sunglasses by Kabbalistic Village https://soundcloud.com/kab
Instrument Builders Project 5 produced by Liquid Architecture
This episode is a special edition produced by Liquid Architecture and co presented by Contemporary Art Tasmania featuring interviews and audio from the recent instrument builders project as part of Mona Foma 2021 – a durational performance held at the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania.Instrument Builders Project’s (IBP) avant-garde, transdisciplinary and socially engaged
Extinction Studies
Lucienne is drawing extinct things.She has drawn a fly. A skink. A turtle.She draws them incredibly well. She puts effort in. She does her work and uses her ability and her skill and I think she’s trying to honour these things. Because as she draws, she looks at images of these now-extinct, now-dead, now-gone creatures, and she wonders about them, seeing how well they had evolved to be the commonp
25 years of the CAT Curatorial Mentorship
In 2020 CAT is celebrating 25 years of the curatorial mentorship program. Looking back on two and half decades of exhibitions, Lisa Campbell Smith speaks to Scot Cotterell and Sarah Jones, and 2020 recipient Caitlin Fargher.To learn more about this program head to: https://contemporaryarttasmania.org/curatorial-mentorship/This episode was produced and edited by Lisa Campbell Smith, additional edit
Bonus: Audio recording of the re-member catalogue essay
Audio recording of the catalogue essay for exhibition 're-member', 24 July — 6 September 2020, curated by Caitlin Fargher as a part of the Curatorial Mentorship.'re-member' is about imagining across the cracks, filling in the gaps and stringing fragments together. This exhibition brings together three artists based in Nipaluna: Selena de Carvalho, Takani Clark and Georgia Morgan. T
Episode #20: à Bientôt by Sarah Mashman
Guest producer Sarah Mashman interviews two Tasmanian artists with two different experiences in France, as Covid 19 changes everything.Interviews with Megan Walch and Camille Antoine. Episode mixdown by Brendan Walls.What are you looking at? is produced by Pip Stafford and Lisa Campbell-Smith for Contemporary Art Tasmania
Episode #19: Reserved for Healing
In this episode of What are you looking at? we talk to Reserved for Healing artist Michelle Maynard and Head of Indigenous Engagement and Strategy at MAAS, Marcus Hughes about cultural and artistic practice and the non-linear path of healing. Reserved for Healing was an exhibition at Contemporary Art Tasmania exploring intergenerational knowledge and cultural exchange in Lutruwita/Tasmania, featur
Episode #18: walantanalinany palingina with Jim Everett puralia meenamatta
Jim Everett puralia meenamatta is an artist, playright, poet and Tasmanian Aboriginal Elder from Cape Barren Island. Following on from our interview with Ruth Langford (S05E02) we chat to Jim about his vision for 2020 and beyond.
Episode #17: Out To Sea
In the process of developing her Shotgun 7 exhibition, Increase Productivity, Grace Herbert had a few adventures. Fortunately we interviewed her along the way and got all the goss on Georgian millionaires, moving trees and art works lost at sea. This episode was produced and edited by Pip Stafford, hosted by Lisa Campbell Smith. Audio mix by Brendan Walls. Special thanks to Grace Herbert, Linda De
Episode #16: walantanalinany palingina with Ruth Langford
Lisa Campbell-Smith talks to Ruth Langford about the legacy of her childhood and how that has lead to her work as Creative Director of Nayri Niara Good Spirit Festival and Creative Producer of walantanalinany palingina.
Episode #15 The Signal and the Noise
In our first episode for season 5 celebrated Australian artist, Louisa Bufardeci tells us about her background as an artist and how her 2012 LED installation Ethnicities to Nations came to be. Bufardeci discusses how the role of data and coding systems have informed her practice. The artwork Ethnicities to Nations is part of the group exhibition, Unspoken Rule which presents work by Australian and
Episode #14: Stories from the Inside with Brigita Ozolins
Our final episode for 2018 is also the second episode of our "Stories from the Inside" sub-series. Our original cal-out for this series was intended to be a snappy single episode of stories from arts workers and artists about their work and careers. Instead we received some personal, thoughtful interviews that deserved their own episodes. In this episode we hear from artist and lecturer
Episode #13: Stories from the Inside with Fiona Hamilton
This episode is the first of our sub-series "Stories from the Inside" - an intimate look at the lives and concerns of artists and arts workers. When we went looking for stories, we were expecting easy soundbites that could be turned into one snappy episode, but what we got instead were personal, interesting interviews that deserved their own space.In this episode we speak with Tasmanian
Episode #12: Beyond the Field
Beyond the Field (still) presented the work of seventeen artists across two venues — Moonah Arts Centre and Contemporary Art Tasmania. Curated by Anne Mestitz, the intention was to explore the work of contemporary artists whose practices sit in a similar genre to the 1968, NGV exhibition, The Field. Exploring the variety of experiences that artists draw from, Beyond the Field (Still) asks: what in
Episode #11: The Big Witch
This June, James Newitt's exhibition Delay will open at Contemporary Art Tasmania for Dark Mofo 2018. Delay, a complex installation, will revolve around a film titled I Go Further Under, which is in part inspired by the true story of Jane Cooper.In 1971, at 17 years of age Jane Cooper arrived in Hobart from Melbourne and asked local fishermen to take her to a remote island off the southern co
Episode #10: Unpaid Labour
In this episode we talk to Penelope Benton and Brianna Munting of NAVA, Channon Goodwin of Bus Projects and All Conference and Grace Herbert of Visual Bulk, Constance ARI and Hobiennale about labour and volunteerism in the arts.
Episode #9: Art & Writing, Writing & Art
In this episode we talk to artists who use text as part of their practice: Jude Abell, Justy Phillips, Sarah Jones and Tricky Walsh about art and writing. We ask them simple questions in an attempt to understand the juncture of art and writing, and art as writing: Are reviews an essential part of being a professional artist? Does writing work to open up or narrow down an art practice? How is text
Episode #8: The Big Three
Antipodean artists traditionally head to the large, blockbuster art exhibitions in Europe to experience the zeitgeist of contemporary art at least once in a lifetime. In 2017 "the Big Three" — Documenta, Skulptur Projekte Münster, and the Venice Biennale — are in rare alignment and it seems many Tasmanian artists are taking the opportunity to check them out all at once. Our lucky host, T
Episode #7: Accident & Process
What are you looking at? host, Theia Connell, talks to Accident & Process artist Derek Kreckler, and curator, Hannah Matthews, about the key ideas behind this major exhibition. A PICA touring exhibition, Accident & Process is a survey exhibition bringing together, for the first time, five decades of the artist’s oeuvre. It encompasses photography, video, installation and performance docume
Episode #6: Artist to Artist
Artist to Artist was a suite of four solo exhibitions curated by four artist’s presented in ‘rapid fire’ succession across four consecutive Fridays at Contemporary Art Tasmania in 2016.Project curator Kylie Johnson brought together four artist/curator teams: Paul Zika and Jacob Leary, Peter Waller and Micheala Gleave, Amanda Davies and Pat Brassington, Megan Walch and Justene Williams.In this epis
Episode #5: Big, Bright and Shiny
Art works made for festivals have to be pretty attention-grabbing to rise above the general clamour of sound, food, booze and big audiences. Does this mean that these art works have to be big, bright, loud and spectacular or is there room for quieter, more contemplative work at these events? We speak to Dark Mofo Creative Director Leigh Carmichael, artist Michaela Gleave, and artist, producer and
Episode #4: Professional Development
Sustaining an art career can be a minefield of administration and opportunities. How do you know what to do? What does professional development mean? Where do you do it? What Are You Looking At host Theia Connell talks to Wendy Morrow, Kylie Johnson, Liam James and Nadege Philippe-Janon to get some answers to these questions.
Episode #3: Collection
We all know that art gets bought and sold. And we know that some artists make art that is not so easily bought and sold. So who are the artists, gallerists and collectors in the mix and what do they have to say about the industry that they exist in? Download or stream our most recent episode to find out more.This episode features Emma Bett, Lucy Bleach, Peter Fay, Tom O'Hern and Tricky Walsh.
Episode #2: Sound Art?
The second episode of What are you looking at? uses Contemporary Art Tasmania's Envelop(e) exhibition to explore the medium of sound. Host, Briony Kidd, asks "what is sound art?" and "how is it different from music?"This episode features interviews with envelop(e) curator, Dr Matt Warren, envelop(e) artist Julian Day and Hobart-based artist Mish Meijers, and sounds from env
Episode #1: The Gap
The first episode of What are you looking at?, The Gap, follows on from our successful art and feminism symposium series and specifically focuses on the pathways for women artists through the art institution. What are you looking at? Episode 1 features words from Take 2: Conversations on Art and Feminism speakers, Jackie Dunn and Elvis Richardson, co-convenor Mary Scott and interviews with artists
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