The Meeting Grounds Talkshow is a podcast in conversation with creatives from around the globe, engaging in how different cultural, geographical and political structures can influence our relationship and understandings of public space.

The podcast is very much a product of this time. The world is changing. Our sense of public, of private, of space, of place, of community is in constant flux. These are phenomena worth studying, documenting and tracing. It is fast becoming clear there is no going back from this current state, but much to take forward with us.

The Meeting Grounds Talkshow invites audiences to enter the private realms of creatives and investigate how individuals from different backgrounds, professions and interests understand and relate to Public Space and how these very meanings are changing before their (and our)eyes.

Episode 7 is in conversation with Sascia Bailer, discussing public space and care.

Sascia Bailer is an interdisciplinary researcher and practitioner at the intersection of curating, care and social justice. She is Artistic Director (2019-2020) at the contemporary art space M.1 Arthur-Boskamp-Stiftung and a PhD candidate at the practice-based curatorial program at the Zurich University of the Arts and the University of Reading. Both in her PhD and her curatorial work she focuses on issues around care-work, aiming to connect, support and provide visibility for the often unpaid and unrecognized care-work within society. She has worked internationally in different cultural institutions (MoMA PS1, Vera List Center for Art and Politics, Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg) while also developing her own curatorial projects (URGENCIA TERRITORIAL, Sheila Johnson Design Center, NYC). With the curatorial collective Soft Agency she recently co-curated the 4th edition of the New Alphabet School on Caring at Haus der Kulturen der Welt.

She holds an MA in Theories of Urban Practice from Parsons School of Design and a BA from Zeppelin University in Germany; she is the recipient of several awards and grants, amongst it a fellowship by the German Academic Merit Foundation (2009-2017), a student fellowship for Art and Social Justice by the Vera List Center for Arts and Politics (2014-2016) and a doctoral studentship by the British Arts and Humanities Research Council (2018-22).

LINKS MENTIONED
HWK Caring: https://www.hkw.de/en/programm/projekte/2019/new_alphabet_school/texte_new_alphabet_school/new_alphabet_school_caring.php

https://newalphabetschool.hkw.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/NAS-Caring-Notebook-JUN2020.pdf

https://newalphabetschool.hkw.de/category/caring/

M1-Hohenlockstedt
https://www.m1-hohenlockstedt.de/en/

Zadie Smith Elergy for a Country's Season
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2014/04/03/elegy-countrys-seasons/

TRACKLIST

Nueen - iris
C Minus - Aragon Based

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The Meeting Grounds Talkshow Podcast 7: Public Space and Care with Sascia Bailer

The Meeting Grounds Talkshow is a podcast in conversation with creatives, engaging in how different cultural, geographical and political structures can influence our relationship and understandings of public space.

In this podcast series, Amy Gowen, city curator at Onomatopee speaks with a number of professionals from a range of disciplines and backgrounds who each work with and approach public space in differing and alternative ways to explore the intricacies and subjectivities that form this topic matter. To collate different perspectives and understandings that form a map of ideas around public space and its multiple uses.

The podcast is very much a product of its time. As we speak, the world is changing. Our sense of public, of private, of space, of place, of community is in constant flux. These are therefore phenomena worth studying, documenting and tracing. It is fast becoming clear there is no going back from this current state, but much to take forward with us.

The Meeting Grounds Talkshow therefore invites audiences to enter the private realms of creatives and investigate how individuals from different backgrounds, professions and interests understand and relate to Public Space and how these very meanings are changing before their (and our) eyes.

Episode 8 is in conversation with the Dazzle Club, discussing public space and the body.

The Dazzle Club is a collaboration between AiR and Yoke Collective that questions technology and surveillance in public space. We are drawing awareness and building new expressions of community creativity and trust. The Dazzle Club has been featured widely in national and international media including by Reuters, BBC, i-D, and the Observer. Recent and upcoming exhibitions and events include Screen Walks with The Photographers’ Gallery and Fotomuseum Winterthur, NESTA Future Fest 2020 and MASCARAS at Galleria Municipal, Porto. 
 
AiR makes social art in everyday spaces. We curate progressive public projects through staying in a place, collaborating with citizens, artists, local authorities, universities, charities and community organisations to bring about new ways of being and doing together. www.airstudio.org
 
Yoke Collective is an artistic and curatorial partnership between Georgina Rowlands and Emily Roderick. Their collaborative performance-based artworks, events and online residencies challenge the positioning of the female body within the algorithms of facial and full-body recognition. www.instagram.com/yokecollective

For more information on:

The Dazzle Club: https://www.instagram.com/thedazzleclub/?hl=en
Yoke Collective: https://www.instagram.com/yokecollective/?hl=en
AiR: https://airstudio.org/