Pakui Hardware: Virtual Care | Audio Description

In this episode, musician and artist Natalie Sharp considers the importance of clean air and its interconnectedness with climate justice. We hear from Chisara Agor – a multi-disciplinary musician and sound artist from London whose work raises awareness of UK air pollution and the intersections of class, race and politics – who talks to climate justice activists Nyeisha Mallett and Elizabeth Yeampierre of UPROSE in New York, an organisation that puts Black and Indigenous voices at the heart of the climate emergency. We also hear work by poet Daisy Lafarge, whose collection Life without Air ponders the fragility of air and its effect on both our psyche and the climate.

Climate Frequencies: Episode 5: The Air We Breathe

Chopwell Youth Club: Lullaby for the Earth (2022)
A collaboration with BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art and Fred Phethean

Chopwell Youth Club: Lullaby for the Earth (2022)

Panel discussion relating to the Susan Hiller: Recall: Selected Works 1969-2004 exhibition at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art (1 May - 18 July 2004), with Rosemary Betterton, Guy Brett, Ian Hunt, Denise Robinson and Stella Santacatterina.

This exhibition constituted the most wide-ranging survey of Hiller’s work in a career which at this point spanned some 30 years. The exhibition included a number of Hiller’s major installations, including colour projection work Magic Lantern (1987), through to more recent installations investigating paranormal powers – Wild Talents (1998) and Witness (2000) – alongside a major new audio installation, Clinic (2004)

© 2004 BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art

Susan Hiller: Recall 1969-2004 (1 May - 18 July 2004): Panel Discussion

This lecture took place on the 2nd day of a 3-day seminar at St Mary's Church, Gateshead, 11 May 2001 at 4.00pm.
Chaired by Beryl Graham *

 "... the initial horror for a curator is that our work is expensive - in terms of time - our work always evolves from extensive periods of research ..."

"... interconnecting rings of audience affected by an art work."

Curating New Media Seminar (12) Nina Pope and Karen Guthrie: On being curated - a critical response

Thomas Kellein gives a walkthrough of the Fluxus exhibition at BALTIC.

[Thumbnail: Fluxus street events Maciunas’ portrait of Dick Higgins, Lette Eisenhower, Daniel Spoerri, Alison Knowles and Ay-O for the Fluxus Street Events“ in New York, spring 1964. George Maciunas © © 2007 Gilbert and Lila]

© 2009 BALTIC Centre for Contemporary

George Maciunas: The Dream of Fluxus: A tour of the exhibition with Thomas Kellein

Joanne Coates, The Leyburn brass band,  Amber, Lynn, Lynn G, Kim, Hellie, Rowan, Lauren, Naffisa, Heather, Krystal, Hollie, Sarah.

To accompany Baltic Lightbox commission (November 2022- February 2023)

Joanne Coates is an artist and photographer interested in hidden histories, ruralism and class, motivated by her background growing up in a working-class rural area in the North of England.  Her practice is embedded in the working-class communities she photographs, working closely and collaboratively with her subjects to investigate the intersection between class and rural life through the lens.

Joanne Coates: Lie of the land

Ker Wallwork is the recipient of the first Baltic x Shape Emergent Residency. Emergent is a new hybrid residency and support programme for early-career artists, delivered in partnership with Shape Arts, a disability-led organisation based in London. Wallwork has a multi-disciplinary practice spanning moving image, drawing, text, and sculpture. Their work is about language, queerness, sickness and the welfare state, and is broadly concerned with miscommunication.

During their residency, Wallwork is staging an intervention on Baltic’s Level 5 viewing platform and in other areas of the building. Titled Merg (2020–ongoing) the intervention will take place over several days. The work takes the form of a benefits letter, handed out to visitors by Baltic Crew, enclosed in the infamous, now discontinued, brown envelopes used by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). Addressed to Joseph Rank, the original owner of Baltic Flour Mills, and to some of the first people to work at the mill when it opened, the letter incorporates direct quotes and language from the DWP’s guidance for benefit assessors.

Merg is part of a series of works chronicling the logic and language of austerity that has been used to justify increasing privatisation of the Health and Care sectors, and welfare reforms, which have had a devastating impact on the lives of many sick and disabled people. The letters will include a postcard with a still image from Wallwork’s moving image work Whatever, Pedant (2020).

The Baltic x Shape Arts Emergent Residency is supported by The Foyle Foundation.

 This track is the audio-recorded version of the letter.

Ker Wallwork: Merg

THE DREAM OF FLUXUS-INSPIRED PERFORMANCE: Ginny Reed
Thursday 22 January 2009 10.00-18.00 

For BALTIC Ginny Reed creates two new works with an emphasis on sound; a performance and an audio tour, in response to The Dream of Fluxus. These will be performed at regular intervals during gallery hours and the audio tour will be available throughout the day.

© 2009 BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art

George Maciunas: The Dream of Fluxus: Inspired Performance: Ginny Reed

Kozyndan in conversation with Pedro Alonso

New Sites - New Art (01) Introduction by Sune Nordgren

This is the first part of an interview with Phyllida Barlow at her studio in London. 
An edited version of this interview will be available in a short film on the artist which will also include extensive footage of the making of the show. This will be shown throughout her exhibition at BALTIC starting 20 November 2004. 
The film will be available on DVD free of charge to libraries, colleges, schools and universities.

© 2004 BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art

Phyllida Barlow in conversation with Miles Thurlow (Part 1)

This is the second part of an interview with Phyllida Barlow at her home in London. 
An edited version of this interview will be available in a short film on the artist which will also include extensive footage of the making of the show. This will be shown throughout her exhibition at BALTIC starting 20 November 2004. 
The film will be available on DVD free of charge to libraries, colleges, schools and universities.

© 2004 BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art

Phyllida Barlow in conversation with Miles Thurlow (Part 2)

Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev and Liam Gillick in conversation. 

This series of audio files make up the complete recordings of the Producers: Contemporary Curators in Conversation (4). The edited transcripts of this seminar are available in the B.Read 7 book.

© 2001 BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art

The Producers: Contemporary Curators in Conversation (4) Part 3: Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev

Rachel Campbell Hewson is an artist and writer. Her practice, which encompasses collage and animation, focuses on the manipulation and blending of images from art history, whilst reflecting on femininity, history, love, life and death.  

Campbell Hewson’s installation, and Hadrian’s grief (2023), is inspired by the story of the Emperor Hadrian and his beloved Antinous. In 130 AD Antinous fell into the Nile and drowned. Hadrian’s grief was so immense, he idolised his love and made him into a God. He became ‘Antinous the good’, ‘Antinous the hero’ and ‘the new Dionysus’. The cult of Antinous became infamous and survived through the centuries. 

The glass sarcophagus installed in the centre of Baltic’s Level 5 Viewing Platform, is a monument to Hadrian and Antinous and the immortality of love. With a score written and performed by Daisy Bell, a collaborating musician and artist, the work invites us to consider grief and desire: what is it to live well and die poorly, to live in shame and die at peace. 

 

Campbell Hewson was commissioned to make a new work for display at Baltic as part of her Foundation Club Residency. Foundation Club has been designed to support young people from the North East aged 16–24 to access, engage with, learn from and be mentored by creative and cultural professionals to progress their artistic talent and realise their creative potential. The other selected artists in 2022 are Annabelle Blackett and Cameron Lings. Their commissions can be found on Baltic’s Ground Floor and Level 4 Viewing Terrace at Baltic between 24 March – 17 July 2023.

Rachel Campbell Hewson: and Hadrian's grief

This new lightbox commission has been created by gobscure, an artist, writer and performer based in Newcastle.

"the afon wysg (river usk) which flows through south wales, has saved our life many times – literally and metaphorically. some rivers have rights, this one has riots (it was the site britain’s last insurrection – the chartist uprising in cas newydd, newport in november 1839); the ‘other’ british transporter bridge (in newport); where we wrote our first ever poem; our first punk gig (as audience member); a yew tree at defynnog that defies science (the oldest heartwood has rotted so it cannot be accurately carbon-dated); the population of red kite (carrion birds) almost wiped out in the 1970’s still clinging on here, now successfully rewilding all over, including in the north-east’s derwent valley; the northern-most locations for wild (not domestic) welsh poppies are here – these flowers have taught us that post-trauma-growth is possible; the mountains, at rivers’ source, are where our horizons were first literally widened." 

This is a colourful mapping ahead of a wider touring celebration in sound, poetry banners, sculpture, and photography opening at Llantarnam Grange, Cwmbran, February 2024. 

gobscure is also an artist in residence at Live Theatre, their solo performance premieres at Live Theatre in May 2024.

gobscure: Yu Have Already Survived - Audio description of lightbox commission

Open Submission 2024: Audio Descripton

The 146th of a series of weekly radio programmes created by :zoviet*france:

This week’s edition of A Duck in a Tree, the :zoviet*france: radio show on Resonance FM, is a special one, devoted to recordings by artists included in ‘The Curves of the Needle’ at Baltic 39. Of its nature, the exhibition is predominantly a visual experience so with eyes shut tight, this edition of A Duck in a Tree takes an audio tour of some of the sound that led to the vision, featuring recordings by Phillip Jeck, Christian Marclay, Atom Earth Mother, Eliane Radigue, Jonty Semper, Rhodri Davies, Bartholomäus Traubeck, :zoviet*france: and Fossil Aerosol Mining Project, and David Toop.

First broadcast 25 April 2015 by Resonance 104.4 FM

track list

01 Philip Jeck - Chime, Chime (Re-rung)

02 Christian Marclay - Martin Denny

03 Atom Earth Mother - Matriach

04 Eliane Radigue - Σ = a = b = a + b [stereo edit, extract]

05 Jonty Semper - [untitled - 'Zero Hour' track B3]

06 Rhodri Davies - Soaked Ruins of a Raft

07 Bartholomäus Traubeck - Fading

08 :zoviet*france: and Fossil Aerosol Mining Project - Kinesic Response 1971

09 :zoviet*france: - Ions Collis

10 :zoviet*france: and Fossil Aerosol Mining Project - Kinesic Response

11 David Toop - The Divination of the Bowhead Whale

12 Philip Jeck - Dark Rehearsal



:zoviet*france: A Duck in a Tree | An Error in the Azimuth


An exhibition of work by artists Henna Asikainen and Roua Horanieh will be presented at Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead during Refugee Week 2025. The project has been developed with the participation of a group of people with experience of migration and displacement, who now live in Gateshead and Newcastle.

To Own Both Nothing and the Whole World has been co-commissioned and co-produced by Counterpoints Arts and Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, and made possible by the support of Moomin Characters Ltd. It is part of celebrations marking 80 years since the publication of the first Moomin story by Tove Jansson, which had a focus on displacement. The title of the exhibition is a quote from Snufkin, one of the characters in the Moomin stories.

The project explores ideas of home and belonging, reflecting on the impact of displacement on both human and more-than-human worlds. Recognising that nature is our first habitat without which no home can be built. The materials used in the work are foraged from the surrounding landscape, each carrying its own enchanting story—bringing communities together in unexpected and meaningful ways.

The multiple artworks will be seen outside of the gallery, in the entrance area Lightbox, on Ground Floor and in the Level 5 Viewing Box, with its presence woven across Baltic. 

At the heart of the work are Taihaku cherry trees and their extraordinary migration story, where a sole migrant tree in the UK became a saviour of the whole ecosystem, reviving the extinct community in its native country of Japan. 

The exhibition also encompasses migratory birdnests with their many stories of movement, resilience and adaptation and 200-year-old tree roots planted during the Napoleonic Wars, and which were uprooted by a recent storm. Willow and other foraged wonders from community gardens feature within the artwork alongside a tree felled by a storm in local suburbia, a reminder of nature’s unpredictability and the cycles of loss and renewal.

Through this assemblage of living histories, To Own Both Nothing and The Whole World invites reflection on the interconnected journeys of people, plants, and place—foregrounding the invaluable contribution migrants bring to this country, and the power and beauty of nature and community in shaping our shared world.

The project aims to raise awareness around displacement and climate, to create the opportunity for dialogue with asylum seekers, refugees and migrants around the perception of their migration, their future and how they can thrive in a new environment. It also enables the opportunity for dialogue within the local area on what it takes to welcome a migrant community. Many different elements make a nest, and it takes many to create it, weaving together different elements to create something solid that can hold and shelter someone. By creating a story that lives on in people’s memories and thoughts, there is the potential to change minds and behaviours. 




To Own Both Nothing and the Whole World (2-Trees)

To Own Both Nothing and the Whole World (1)

Artist Hajra Waheed and Prof. Steve Graham, Professor of Cities and Society, University of Newcastle will discuss surveillance and drone technology.

Prof. Graham draws on critical social and urban theory in his research to address some of the key challenges facing our rapidly urbanizing world, relating to urban aspects of social and digital surveillance, the politics of urban security and the ‘new military urbanism’. His new publication Vertical: Looking at the City From Above and Below (Verso, 2016) will address the ways in which questions of security, war and political violence now permeate deeply into the everyday spaces, sites and circulations of urban life on a planet where 75% of the population is expected to live in urban areas by 2050.

Prof. Graham's research has played important roles in the rapid recent growth of critical social scientific work on urban surveillance and the proliferation of work across many disciplines on the implications of the digital media revolution for urban life.

In Conversation: Hajra Waheed and Professor Steve Graham

Nikolaj Bendix Skyum Larsen: The Promised Land
Friday 3rd February 2017, 18.30-20.00
Following a screening of The Promised Land, artist Nikolaj Bendix Skyum Larsen talks about the project with Alessandro Vincentelli, BALTIC Curator of Exhibitions and Research.

Nikolaj Bendix Skyum Larsen: The Promised Land: Post screening artist talk and Q&A

16 April 2018 at BALTIC 39

The event took place within Setting the Table, an exhibition-in-the-making curated by Jason E Bowman.

The future role of arts institutions: Open discussion led by Andrea Phillips, Baltic Professor, Northumbria University.

How do current UK art institutions – from publicly-funded galleries and museums to private foundations, self-initiated artist-run spaces and creative community organisations – serve their constituencies? Who are their constituencies? How are decisions made? How are they governed? 
What roles might arts institutions play in the development of more just, equitable societies – or is this not their role? As the UK prepares to depart from Europe, and as arts institutions of all scales face increasing financial pressure, how might art’s organisation be unlocked imaginatively?
Guest speakers: 
⋅	Jason E Bowman, artist and MFA: Fine Art Programme Leader, Valand Academy, University of Gothenburg
⋅	Julie Crawshaw, Lecturer in Material Culture, Northumbria University 
⋅	Charlotte Gregory, Director, The NewBridge Project, Newcastle
⋅	Mark Jackson, Senior Lecturer in Fine Art Critical Theory and Curatorial Practices, Northumbria University, curator and co-founder of IMT Gallery, London, and occasional collaborator with Plastique Fantastique, NEUSCHLOSS and Blue Mountain.
⋅	Sarah Munro, Director, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art

BxNU: Open Discussion: The future role of arts institutions

Alessandro Vincentelli in conversation with Filipa Ramos, curator of the exhibition Animalesque: Art Across Species and Beings. 14 November 2019.

The podcast begins and ends with recordings made by Chris Watson from his 1998 work Outside the Circle of Fire, which he revisited for this exhibition. First we hear a Hippopotamus emerging from the River Mara; Masai Mara, Kenya and to end the podcast we hear Mozambique nightjar; banks of the River Zambezi, Zimbabwe. Courtesy the artist.

BALTIC Podcast | Animalesque: Art Across Species and Beings with Filipa Ramos

Animalesque with Daisy Hildyard 
Wednesday 1 April 2020
 
Across three 5-minute sessions, writer Daisy Hildyard offers readings from selected texts in response to the exhibition Animalesque / Art Across Species and Beings at BALTIC. These extracts resonate with the exhibition by inviting us to re-think human's position in the world, their relationship to the natural world and to the various complex ecologies that bond beings together.

Images here: http://balticplus.uk/animalesque-exhibition-images-c33852/
 
1.     From Anna Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World, ​published 2015
Reflecting on the exhibition. 

2.     From Svetlana Alexievich, Chernobyl Prayer, published 1997
In response to Pierre Huyghe, Human Mask (2014). 

3.     From Christina Sharpe, In the Wake: On Blackness and Being​, published 2016
Reflecting on Ho Tzu Nyen, 2 or 3 Tigers (2015); Pia Arke with Anders Jorgensen, Tupilakosaurus (1999) and Britta Marakatt-Labba, Borrhål (2018), Mellan två världar, Snömodd (2019). 

Daisy Hildyard is the author of Hunters in the Snow (Jonathan Cape, 2013), a novel about farmers, and The Second Body (2017) and an essay about humans and animals in the Anthropocene.

BALTIC Podcasts

Join us every fortnight for a series of podcasts exploring BALTIC exhibitions led by special guests. 
 
In these, artists, writers, academics and other guests offer short talks in their field of expertise to further explore the concepts and themes of our programme.

Daisy Hildyard | Animalesque Podcast: Part 1

Daisy Hildyard | Animalesque Podcast: Part 2

Daisy Hildyard | Animalesque Podcast: Part 3

In this BALTIC Podcast exploring BALTIC exhibitions and research, art historian Victoria Horne examines Judy Chicago, specifically Femininity, Art and the Home.

Horne discusses the role of labour within the home, which was often at the fore of questioning within second-wave feminism and the Women's Art Movement. Horne also highlights the amplified and indistinct roles between domestic and paid labour that many may find present in their homes currently, while including reference to historical projects such as Womanhouse, ​that focused on these enquiries. 

Suggested further reading:

- Castlemilk Womanhouse archive on Glasgow Women’s Library website: https://womenslibrary.org.uk/discover-our-projects/house-work-castle-milk-woman-house/
- Hannah Hamblin, 'Los Angeles, 1972/Glasgow, 1990: A Report on Castlemilk Womanhouse' in Feminism and Art History Now, London: IB Tauris, 2017. 
 - Amy Tobin, A Woman's Place, London: Raven Row. http://www.ravenrow.org/texts/75/
- Camilla M Rostvik, 'Blood Works: Judy Chicago and Menstrual Art', Oxford Art Journal, 42.3 (2019): 335-353.

Victoria Horne is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Arts at Northumbria University Newcastle, specialising in the cultural and intellectual history of Anglo-American feminism. ​

BALTIC Podcast | Victoria Home on Judy Chicago, Judy Chicago, Femininity, Art and the Home.

In this BALTIC Podcast exploring BALTIC exhibitions, Alessandro Boussalem explores Imran Perretta's The Destructors.

Alessandro Boussalem is a human geographer. His research is on the intersections of gender, sexualities, and race/ethnicities in contemporary Europe. He is a PhD candidate at Newcastle University with a project on the experiences of LGBTQ people from a Muslim background living in Brussels, Belgium.

You can view The Destructors online here while BALTIC is currently closed: http://balticplus.uk/the-destructors-imran-perretta-c33847/

BALTIC Podcast | Alessandro Boussalem explores Imran Perretta's The Destructors

In this BALTIC Podcast Dr Paolo Fortis, Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology, Durham University, explores Abel Rodriguez’ exhibition.

 Paolo Fortis is a social anthropologist with research interests in the relations between art, ontology, notions of the person and alterity among Central and South American indigenous peoples.

You can view the exhibition at BALTIC, online here: http://balticplus.uk/abel-rodriguez-e785/

You can read a transcript of the podcast here: http://balticplus.uk/baltic-podcast-dr-paolo-fortis-explores-abel-rodriguez-exhibition-transcript-c33880/

BALTIC Podcast | Dr Paolo Fortis explores Abel Rodriguez’ exhibition

Volcanoes and Utopias: an audio performance by artists Kate Liston and Tess Denman-Cleaver 

Kate Liston and Tess Denman-Cleaver's podcast is a poetic performance on volcanoes, parliamentary architecture, Norse mythology, Quaker design, pease pudding, the current lack of gossip, and the function of utopias. 

Volcanoes and Utopias is a collection of work-in-progress extracts from Town Hall Meeting of the Air, which will be presented at Baltic 39 in January 2021. Town Hall Meeting of the Air considers the poetics of civic gathering and invites reimaginings of public political discourse. The work is framed here within a fictionalised account of the artists' attempt to design and plan for future public gatherings whilst in lockdown.

Kate Liston works with moving image, installation, and writing that is sometimes performed. Notable projects include Oh-Link Zone, Black Tower Projects, London (2018); Feel After the New See, The Hatton Gallery, Newcastle (2018); The Scientific Method, The Tetley Gallery, Leeds (2016); Feminism and the Body in Performance, MART Gallery, Dublin (2015); They Used to Call it the Moon, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead (2014). She is a lecturer in Fine Art at Northumbria University. 
 
Tess Denman-Cleaver’s work spans performance, writing, installation and workshops. She has recently shown work at Tate Britain, Hatton Gallery, Turner Contemporary, Tate St Ives, M_HKA Gallery Antwerp, Paul Mellon Centre, Audiograft Festival and Wilkinson Gallery. Tess was Artist in Residence at the Sonic Arts Research Unit (Oxford) between 2017-19 and is Producer, Artists' Moving Image at Tyneside Cinema. 

Image: Jerome F. Hamlin, Seasons of Fire: Iceland's Pompeii (still) 1974. Accessed via YouTube

BALTIC Podcast | Volcanoes and Utopias

Artist Nwando Ebizie, presents a new 5-part mini-series reimagining care and healing through art, health and science. &nbsp; With ideas for how to care and connect, the series evolves through conversations, artistic works and healing experiences. Join us to explore what care means for our bodies, communities, the planet and our futures. &nbsp; A BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art and Wellcome Collection collaboration. Presented by Nwando Ebizie. Music by Nkisi. Sound by Axel Kacoutié. A Reduced Listening Production, produced by Katherine Godfrey and Georgia Moodie and exec produced by Alannah Chance. &nbsp; Lands Wednesday November 25th.​ &nbsp;

For All I Care

Right now, caring for our bodies is essential. Care can be a radical act, a form of resistance and a way of creating community.&nbsp; In this episode listen to writer, musician and artist Johanna Hedva read from their new book, Minerva the Miscarriage of the Brain, that delves into mysticism, madness, motherhood and magic.&nbsp; Curator Bárbara Rodríguez Muñoz and writer, artist and community organiser Ted Kerr discuss Kerr’s work as part of the collective What Would an HIV Doula do, the ongoing AIDS crisis, and how caring for our own bodies is part of caring for each other. Take care of yourself and take a moment to listen inwardly and outwardly to others for some breathing exercises, as we join artist Helen Collard, whose work is grounded in the yogic concept of prana. The guests for this episode are Bárbara Rodríguez Muñoz, curator of exhibitions at Wellcome Collection; artist and community organiser Tedd Kerr; artist, musician and writer Johana Hedva and artist Helen Collard.&nbsp;&nbsp; A BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art and Wellcome Collection collaboration. Presented by Nwando Ebizie. Music by Nkisi. Sound by Axel Kacoutié. A Reduced Listening Production, produced by Katherine Godfrey and exec produced by Alannah Chance.&nbsp; For the full transcript of this episode please visit  Visit  or  for more information on the contributors, the ideas explored and some recommended further reading.

The Mediated Body

How can we care, collectively? Can we address unequal access to rest and care, creatively?

Join Nwando Ebizie to look at how rest has been politicised, whether the mental health system can be redeemed by art and how to navigate the noise of the city.  Guests include Black Power Naps (artists Navild Acosta and Fannie Sosa), researcher Professor Stephani Hatch, artists Dolly Sen and Rowdy SS.

Includes references to slavery and discussion of mental health issues.

If you or someone you know are feeling emotionally distressed, there are organisations that offer advice and support. If you’re in the UK or Ireland you can get in touch with the Samaritans day or night, 365 days a year. You can call them for free on 116 123, email them at jo@samaritans.org, or visit www.samaritans.org. Other international helplines can be found at www.befrienders.org.
 
Episode Notes
 
Can caring collectively address existing unequal systems and services? 
 
This episode contains references to slavery and discussion of mental health issues.

We consider health inequalities with artist, writer, filmmaker, performer and activist Dolly Sen and Stephani Hatch, Professor of sociology and epidemiology at the Institute of Science, Kings College, London, who is currently leading a Wellcome-funded study, TIDES (Tackling Inequalities and Discrimination Experiences in health services). They discuss centering the voices of people who have been unheard by the UK mental health system through research and through bringing beauty to what Dolly calls an ugly system. 

With Black Power Naps, created by artists Navild Acosta and Fannie Sosa, we explore how they tackle unequal access to rest in Western society, where relaxation is a luxury for the privileged and considers some of the ways that the structures of Western societies deny certain people access to something as fundamental as rest. Highlighting the long history of sleep deprivation for black and racialised people and the attempts to justify this inequality with pseudoscience, as part of the ongoing project, the artists have created a Dream Bag as a guidance for better sleep. The toolkit has been specially conceived for people who experience racism regularly in our society, to support breaking with constant fatigue by slowing down and resting. Physical packs to aid relaxation and sleep will be distributed to people based locally to BALTIC, in Gateshead, of South Asian heritage, East Asian, South East Asian heritage, and people of African or Caribbean heritage alongside a digital toolkit, launching online that can be found at www.baltic.art/dreambag.

Settle in for some alone time in the midst of  the cacophony of communal sound with London-based international artist Rowdy SS, working with sound, movement, dance, music, installation, and live happening. In this work, Rowdy SS brings our attention to the sounds of communal spaces, which for many of us have taken on new meaning this past year.

A BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art and Wellcome Collection collaboration. Presented by Nwando Ebizie. Music by Nkisi. Sound by Axel Kacoutié. A Reduced Listening Production, produced by Katherine Godfrey and exec produced by Alannah Chance. 

For the full transcript of this episode please visit baltic.art/for-all-i-care

Visit baltic.art or wellcomecollection.org for more information on the contributors and show notes with recommended further reading.



A BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art and Wellcome Collection collaboration. Presented by Nwando Ebizie. Music by Nkisi. Sound by Axel Kacoutié. A Reduced Listening Production, produced by Katherine Godfrey and exec produced by Alannah Chance. 

For the full transcript of this episode please visit baltic.art/for-all-i-care Visit baltic.art or wellcomecollection.org for more information on the contributors and show notes with recommended further reading.

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