The first series of Suite (212), broadcast on Resonance 104.4fm between July 2017 and July 2018, usually hosted by Juliet Jacques with two guest host appearances from Tom Overton. For more information about this series, and why Juliet founded the show, see this interview with the New Socialist from March 2018: https://newsocialist.org.uk/people-are-intelligent-and-we-shouldnt-assume-otherwise/

Series 1 (2017-2018)

https://www.nts.live/shows/carla-dal-forno/episodes/carla-dal-forno-15th-march-2022

Carla Dal Forno 150322

https://www.nts.live/shows/smithsonian-folkways/episodes/smithsonian-folkways-environmental-sounds-30th-march-2022

Smithsonian Folkways - Environmental Sounds 300322

https://www.nts.live/shows/ZULI/episodes/ZULI-12th-april-2022

Zuli w/ Spooky Shit 120422

https://www.nts.live/shows/helm/episodes/helm-12th-april-2022

After Dark w/ HELM 120422

https://www.nts.live/shows/sonic-messengers/episodes/sonic-messengers-w-acemo-15th-april-2022

Sonic Messengers w/ AceMo 140422

Dawn moods for the early birds, courtesy of Sleepier & Impey aka Spirit Blue.

https://www.nts.live/shows/early-bird-show-spirit-blue/episodes/early-bird-show-spirit-blue-25th-august-2022

The Early Bird Show w/ Spirit Blue 250822

https://soundcloud.com/moisture-music

https://www.retreatradio.net/moisture

MOISTURE #9 (01/09/22)

Grimescapes - Darkness
Tassilli Players - Burroughs Dub
Neville Brown - Dub Of Killamanjaro
Eric Schumacher & Andrea Clavadetscher - Para Mi
Sie - Lunar Distance
Ambient Warrior - Oceanic Dub
Mixman Dub Section - Dub Of The Covenant
Photek - Into The 90’s
Blazer Sound System - Tanka Riddim
Blue And Red - Amid The Ether 
DJ Gonz - Horizons
Low End Activist - Get Dark (John T. Gast Cowbell Mix)
RSD - Jah Way
Mystic Red Corporation - Fast Tracking
JFC - Love Dub

Dublab BCN 250522

TANO x Opificio

https://www.nts.live/shows/zane/episodes/zane-16th-november-2022

Idle Hands w/ Zane Landreth 161122

What are the uses of cultural criticism? How does it improve art and artists, and how much does it impede them? How does criticism intersect with political ideology? What's changed in the age of the internet? 

In our pilot episode, Juliet Jacques discusses the uses, possibilities and limits of arts criticism with Fatema Ahmed, who has held editorial positions at Apollo, Granta and Icon, and contributed to numerous publications, and Daniela Cascella, author of En Abîme (2012) and F.M.R.L. (2015), both published by Zero, and Singed (2017, Equus Press).

Works referenced:

NAM JUNE PAIK, Suite (212) (1975) - https://www.eai.org/titles/suite-212
NAM JUNK PAIK, 'Media Planning for the Post-Industrial Society' (1974) - http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/source-text/33/
FENNESZ, 'Aus' (from Hotel Paral.lel, 1997) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4WNWhE45gc
BRIAN DILLON, Essayism (2017) - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jun/23/essayism-brian-dillon-review-essays-michel-de-montaigne-georges-perec-joan-didion
KATE ZAMBRENO, Heroines (2013) - https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/heroines
CHRIS KRAUS, collected works and films - https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/10/arts/design/chris-kraus-films.html
OLIVIA LAING, The Lonely City (2016) - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/feb/28/the-lonely-city-olivia-laing-edward-hopper-andy-warhol
PIER PAOLO PASOLINI, The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964) and La Ricotta (short film in Ro.G.Pa.G, 1962) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_od3BxJ2W0
ELENA FERRANTE, La frantumaglia (Fragments)
T. S. ELIOT, The Uses of Poetry and the Uses of Criticism - http://tseliot.com/prose/the-use-of-poetry-and-the-use-of-criticism
ANATOLI LUNACHARSKY, 'Theses on the Problems of Marxist Criticism' (1928) - https://www.marxists.org/archive/lunachar/1928/criticism.htm
HELENE CIXOUS, 'The Laugh of the Medusa' (1975) - https://artandobjecthood.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/cixous_the_laugh_of_the_medusa.pdf
Ready Steady Book - http://www.readysteadybook.com
This Space - http://this-space.blogspot.co.uk
ANN QUIN - https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2007/may/08/whocaresaboutannquin
ELIZABETH HARDWICK - Seduction and Betrayal (1973) - http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1973/05/31/seduction-and-betrayal-i/
ELFRIEDE JELINEK - Nobel Prize acceptance speech (2004) - https://www.nobelprize.org/mediaplayer/index.php?id=721
INGEBORG BACHMANN - 'Literature as Utopia' - http://shirtysleeves.blogspot.co.uk/2018/03/a-translation-of-literatur-als-utopie.html
GEORGE ELIOT - 'Silly Novels by Silly Lady Novelists' (1856) - https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/silly-novels-by-lady-novelists-essay-by-george-eliot
BHANU KAPIL - Ban en Banlieue (2015) - http://www.nightboat.org/title/ban-en-banlieue

Suite (212) - series 1

The Uses and Limits of Criticism

One hundred years after the Russian Revolution, the intellectual and ideological nature of the art and culture produced between October 1917 and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 remained hotly debated and, at times, poorly understood. Here, Juliet Jacques welcomes writer/critics Maria Chehonadskih, Owen Hatherley (author of Militant Modernism (2009), Landscapes of Communism (2015) and The Chaplin Machine (2016)) and Ilia Rogatchevski to discuss the cultural legacy of the Soviet period and challenge Western preconceptions about the relationship between art and politics in the former USSR, from the Constructivist energy of the 1920s and imposition of Socialist Realism under Stalin, all the way through to the underground art movements of the 1980s.

WORKS REFERENCED:

Maria Chehonadskih on Pussy Riot – https://www.radicalphilosophy.com/commentary/what-is-pussy-riots-idea
Adam Curtis on Vladislav Surkov - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Od4MWs7qTr8

SERGEI M. EISENSTEIN, Aleksandr Nevsky (1938)
SERGEI M. EISENSTEIN, Ivan the Terrible (Parts I & II) (1944-1958)
SERGEI M. EISENSTEIN, October (Ten Days That Shook the World) (1928)
EVALD ILYENKOV (Soviet theorist) - https://www.marxists.org/archive/ilyenkov/
ILYA & EMILIA KABAKOV (Moscow Conceptual School) - https://ilya-emilia-kabakov.com/
VITALI KOMAR (Sots Art founder) - http://www.komarandmelamid.org/
MIKHAIL LIFSHITZ(Soviet philosopher) - https://thecharnelhouse.org/2014/12/15/art-is-dead-long-live-art-mikhail-lifshitz-on-karl-marxs-philosophy-of-art/
EDUARD LIMONOV (National Bolshevik Party)
CHRIS MARKER, The Last Bolshevik (1993) - https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/film-happiness-is-making-a-bolshevik-laugh-1459870.html
VLADIMIR MAYAKOVSKY, '150,000,000' (1919-1920) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/150_000_000
VLADIMIR MAYAKOVSKY, The Bathhouse (1929) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bathhouse
VLADIMIR MAYAKOVSKY, The Bedbug (1928) - http://snoowilson.co.uk/The%20Bedbug.pdf
ALEKSANDR MEDVEDKIN (Soviet filmmaker) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Medvedkin
Deimantas Narkevičius (Lithuanian filmmaker/artist)
YURI OLESHA, Envy (1927) - https://godsavethetsar.wordpress.com/2015/08/04/dont-laugh-andrei-petrovich-yuri-oleshas-envy/
VIKTOR PELEVIN (Russian author)
BORIS PILNYAK, The Naked Year (1928) - http://www.overlookpress.com/ardis/naked-year-1.html
ANDREI PLATONOV, The Foundation Pit (1930) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Foundation_Pit
ABRAM ROOM, Bed and Sofa (1927) - http://www.calvertjournal.com/articles/show/1339/film-club-sofa-and-bed-abram-room
VLADIMIR SOROKIN (Russian author)
VLADIMIR TATLIN, Letatlin – http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-birdlike-soviet-flying-machine-that-never-quite-took-off
VLADIMIR TATLIN, 'Monument to the Third International' (1919-1920, unbuilt)
DZIGA VERTOV, The Eleventh Year (1928) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSve8HNjZ4Y
DZIGA VERTOV, Enthusiasm: Symphony of the Donbass (1930) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUInm2dC6Ug
DZIGA VERTOV, Kino-Pravda (1920s) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0SJyLX9MgQ
DZIGA VERTOV, Man with a Movie Camera (1929)
DZIGA VERTOV, Stride, Soviet! (1926) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILG1_ceQCzE
DZIGA VERTOV, Three Songs of Lenin (1934) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x66SYdygrpE
VOINA, phallus on Liteiny Bridge, St. Petersburg - https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2011/apr/12/voina-art-terrorism

Memories of the Future: The cultural legacy of the Russian Revolution

American writer, publisher and filmmaker Chris Kraus joins Juliet to talk about the difficulties of experimental filmmaking, her work with Semiotext(e)'s Native Agents series, critical responses to her work on Kathy Acker and the pressures of mainstream success.

WORKS REFERENCED:

Works by Chris Kraus

Books
CHRIS KRAUS, I Love Dick (1997)
CHRIS KRAUS, Aliens and Anorexia (2000)
CHRIS KRAUS, Torpor (2006)
CHRIS KRAUS, Summer of Hate (2012)

CHRIS KRAUS, L.A. Artland: Contemporary Art from Los Angeles (2005)
CHRIS KRAUS, Video Green: Los Angeles Art and the Triumph of Nothingness (2004)
CHRIS KRAUS, Where Art Belongs (2011)
CHRIS KRAUS, After Kathy Acker (2017)

Films
In Order to Pass (1982)
Terrorists in Love (1985)
Foolproof Illusion (1986)
How to Shoot a Crime (1987)
Gravity & Grace (1996)

Other works
PENNY ARCADE, Bad Reputation: Performances, Essays, Interviews (2009) - http://semiotexte.com/?page_id=213
Bruce Benderson - http://semiotexte.com/?page_id=188
BERNADETTE CORPORATION, Reena Spaulings - http://semiotexte.com/?page_id=26
ALBERT CAMUS, L'Étranger (The Outsider) (1942)
CHARLES DICKENS, Bleak House (1852-53) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleak_House
Marguerite Duras
Justin Fashanu - https://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/lifestyle/2012/05/justin-fashanu-and-politics-memory
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, L'Éducation sentimentale (Sentimental Education) (1869) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentimental_Education
Emily Gould
Pierre Guyotat - http://semiotexte.com/?page_id=51
RAYNER HEPPENSTALL, The Connecting Door (1962) - http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/the-connecting-door/
SHEILA HETI, How Should Be a Person Be? - http://www.sheilaheti.com/how-should-a-person-be/
Michel Houellebecq
I Love Dick (TV series)
Gary Indiana
THE INVISIBLE COMMITTEE, The Coming Insurrection (2007) - http://semiotexte.com/?page_id=135
Glenn Beck talks about 'The Coming Insurrection' - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY7Yvd3cuY0
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD, Goodbye to Berlin (1939)
LARS IYER, Spurious (2011), Dogma (2012) & Exodus (2013) - http://spurious.typepad.com/
JULIET JACQUES, Trans: A Memoir (2015) - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/dec/06/juliet-jacques-trans-a-memoir
JULIET JACQUES, You Will Be Free (2017) - http://www.studiovoltaire.org/exhibitions/archive/juliet-jacques/
B. S. JOHNSON, Trawl (1966) - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2336211.Trawl
Franz Kafka
Wyndham Lewis
Sylvère Lotringer
COOKIE MUELLER, Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/302243.Walking_Through_Clear_Water_in_a_Pool_Painted_Black
COOKIE MUELLER & VITTORIO SCARPATI, Putti's Pudding (1989)
Alain Robbe-Grillet
NATHALIE SARRAUTE, 'The Age of Suspicion' - http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1964/03/05/nathalie-sarraute/
Claude Simon
MICHAEL SNOW, Wavelength (1967) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBOzOVLxbCE
LINDA STUPART, 'Chris Kraus and the Empathetic Exchange of Objects' in MIRA MATTAR (ed.), You Must Make Your Death Public: A Collection of Texts and Media in the Works of Chris Kraus - http://www.metamute.org/sites/www.metamute.org/files/You-Must-Make-Your-Death-Public-Chris-Kraus-9781906496647.pdf 
Lynne Tillman - http://semiotexte.com/?page_id=162
JEAN-PHILIPPE TOUSSAINT, Self-Portrait Abroad
Transparent (TV series)
MASHA TUPITSYN, Beauty Talk & Monsters (2007) - http://semiotexte.com/?page_id=163
Jackie Wang
DAVID WOJNAROWICZ, A Definitive History of Five or Six Years on the Lower East Side (1991) - http://semiotexte.com/?page_id=168
Kate Zambreno

Where Art Belongs: An interview with Chris Kraus

The General Election of June 2017, and the massive Labour surge under Jeremy Corbyn's socialist leadership, has provided a new sense of optimism for those hoping for an end to utilitarian approaches to culture and swingeing cuts to arts funding. This month, Juliet talks to Loraine Leeson, Hassan Mahamdallie and Hilary Wainwright about the concept of cultural democracy, the recent The World Transformed conference and the Arts for Labour initiative. What are Jeremy Corbyn's arts policies, and how are they informed by the anti-austerity movement? What has been learned from the Greater London Council's arts programmes of the 1980s, or the Attlee government's cultural policies? How did writers and thinkers such as William Morris, E.P. Thompson and Raymond Williams establish a long British tradition of 'cultural democracy', and what can we take from them in the 21st century?

WORKS REFERENCED:

Campaign to save The Cinema Museum: www.cinemamuseum.org.uk

'A Creative Future for All' - https://www.policyforum.labour.org.uk/news/a-creative-future-for-all
The Great Exhibition of the North - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-43324069

The Gay Sweatshop Theatre Company - http://www.unfinishedhistories.com/history/companies/gay-sweatshop/
LORAINE LEESON, Art : Process : Change (2017) - https://www.routledge.com/Art--Process--Change-Inside-a-Socially-Situated-Practice/Leeson/p/book/9781138670631
KEN LOACH, The Spirit of '45 (2017) - http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/reviews-recommendations/film-week-spirit-45
HASSAN MAHAMDALLIE on William Morris - https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/isj2/1996/isj2-071/mahamdallie.htm
WILLIAM MORRIS, News from Nowhere (1890) - https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/from-the-archive-blog/2011/may/17/guardian190-william-morris-news-from-nowhere
HILARY WAINWRIGHT, A New Politics from the Left (2017) - https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/persuasive-points-on-new-politics-from-the-left

Cultural Democracy

What is gentrification? How far are artists complicit - wittingly or not - in processes of social cleansing? What can artists do to fight it? Juliet talks to artist-academic Alberto Duman (http://www.albertoduman.me.uk/main.htm) and 'Savage Messiah' author/artist Laura Grace Ford (http://lauraoldfieldford.blogspot.co.uk/) about gentrification, and the role of artists within it.

WORKS REFERENCED
Colouring in Culture - http://colouringinculture.org/
#NovaraFM on decapitalism - http://novaramedia.com/2017/12/17/nina-power-decapitalism/

Agit-train (Dziga Vertov & Aleksandr Medvdkin) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agit-train
Archigram, Plug-In City - https://www.archdaily.com/399329/ad-classics-the-plug-in-city-peter-cook-archigram
Walter Benjamin
Embassy Court (Brighton) - http://www.embassycourt.org.uk/
Mark Fisher (k-punk) on rave - http://k-punk.abstractdynamics.org/archives/009782.html
RICHARD FLORIDA, The Rise of the Creative Class (2002) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_class
Walter Gropius
Stewart Home - 'Keep Hackney crap' - http://www.uncarved.org/blog/2009/08/keeping-hackney-crap/
ANTHONY ILES & J. BERRY SLATER, No Room to Move: Radical Art and the Regenerate City (2009) - http://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/no-room-to-move-radical-art-and-regenerate-city
JANE JACOBS, The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961)
Fredric Jameson
Huw Lemmey - https://www.theguardian.com/profile/huw-lemmey
GAVIN MUELLER, 'Liberalism and Gentrification' - https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/09/liberalism-and-gentrification/
DOUGLAS MURPHY, Last Futures (2016) - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jan/13/last-futures-douglas-murphy-review
ALISON & PETER SMITHSON, Robin Hood Gardens - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UH5thwHTYNk
John Wild - http://www.codedgeometry.net/johnwild/

Art, Artists and Gentrification

In the July 2018 edition of Suite (212), Tom Overton talks to Mike Dibb (http://www.mikedibb.co.uk) about a documentary filmmaking career that has spanned more than fifty years. As well as directed John Berger's legendary BBC TV series 'Ways of Seeing' (1972), Dibb has adapted books by Raymond Williams and C.L.R. James, made documentaries about art, music and sport, and is currently making a film about artist Donny Johnson, who has spent almost his entire adult life in the U.S. prison system.

SELECTED REFERENCES

WORKS BY MIKE DIBB
About Time (1983-85) - http://www.mikedibb.co.uk/filmdet.php?filmid=42
A Curious Mind - AS Byatt (1996) - http://www.mikedibb.co.uk/filmdet.php?filmid=61
The Fame and Shame of Salvador Dalí (1997-98) - http://www.mikedibb.co.uk/filmdet.php?filmid=63
The Miles Davis Story (2001) - http://www.mikedibb.co.uk/filmdet.php?filmid=65
Fields of Play (1981-82) - http://www.mikedibb.co.uk/filmdet.php?filmid=36
Seeing Through Drawing (1977-78) - http://www.mikesouthon.biz/portfolio/seeing-through-drawing
Ralph Steadman (Arena, 1977-78) - http://www.mikedibb.co.uk/filmdet.php?filmid=26
Studs Terkel's Chicago (1985) - http://mediaburn.org/video/omnibus-studs-terkels-chicago-4/
Ways of Seeing (1972) - http://ubu.com/film/berger_seeing.html

Paul Barker (journalist/writer) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Barker_(writer)
WALTER BENJAMIN, 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction' (1936) - https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.htm
JOHN BERGER & JEAN MOHR, A Seventh Man: Migrant Workers in Europe (1975) - https://www.versobooks.com/books/533-a-seventh-man
Civilisation (TV series, 1968) - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/feb/04/civilisation-revisited-kenneth-clark-television-landmark-series-art
C.L.R. JAMES, Beyond a Boundary (1963) - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/apr/02/beyond-a-boundary-broke-cricket-barriers
Donny Johnson - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donny_Johnson
F. R. LEAVIS - http://www.leavissociety.com/life-and-work/index.html
Lift to the Scaffold (dir. Louis Malle, 1958) - https://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/louis-malles-elevator-to-the-gallows-and-its-historic-miles-davis-soundtrack
George Melly - https://www.theguardian.com/music/2007/jul/05/1
Malcolm Muggeridge - https://www.nytimes.com/1990/11/15/obituaries/malcolm-muggeridge-writer-dies-at-87.html
Orchestra to the Orient (dir. David Attenborough, 1963) - https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/bb311d02e65445d0b7a0ef1357feff5e
Sukhdev Sandhu on 'Ways of Seeing' - https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2012/sep/07/ways-seeing-berger-tv-programme-british
The Stranger (dir. Orson Welles, 1946) - http://archive.boston.com/ae/movies/articles/2010/10/10/reevaluating_orson_welless_near_perfect_stranger/

Beyond Boundaries: An interview with Mike Dibb

Suite (212) is a radio programme, broadcast on Resonance 104.4fm, and podcast that explores the arts in their social, political, cultural and historical contexts, hosted by Juliet Jacques. We take an inter-disciplinary approach, with an emphasis on innovative, underground or avant-garde work. Sometimes, panels discuss cultural politics; sometimes, we focus on a new publication or exhibition, or a specific individual or group whose work we admire.

Beyond Boundaries: An interview with Mike Dibb

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