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/kabbalisticvillage
Winters Mist by Joseph McDade 
https://josephmcdade.com/

What are you looking at? Podcast

Episode #24: Winners and Losers

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 Trumpets (Q'eros Authorities) Various Artists.

Dr. Lucreccia Quintanilla is an artist, DJ, sound system operator and writer. She has recently completed her doctoral research at Monash University.  Recent sound and written works include:  On the volatility of noise, residual bass with AM Kanngieser for Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Austria, Brian Fuata; A Generous Opacity, for the Anti LIVE  Art International Award publication, Finland. Records of Displacement for Disclaimer online Journal.

Episode #25: Conchcast by Lucreccia Quintanilla

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 commissioned and recorded in 2021 by Melbourne-based arts organisation The Substation for ‘Platform: Indonesia’ programmed and curated by Kristi Monfries for Volcanic Winds.

Contemporary Art Tasmania has translated this interview for English speaking audiences and there is also available, an Indonesian language version.

Voice-over translation by: Kristi Monfries, Taufiq Tanasaldy, Adi Tahak, Stefanus Mario Henky Ang and Mely Riyana.

First song
Band: The Kuda
Title: Lihatlah Lurus Ke depan


Second song
Band: Orkes Keroncong Cafrinho Tugu
Title: Oud Batavia



Audio edit and mix by Brendan Walls.
Host: Lisa Campbell Smith

More information about ruangrupa can be found here: ruangrupa.id/en/
More information about documenta fifteen here: documenta-fifteen.de/en/

Episode #26: RURU Radio - Ruangrupa Documenta 15 (English 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 ditugaskan dan direkam pada tahun 2021 oleh organisasi seni yang berbasis di Melbourne The Substation for 'Platform: Indonesia' yang diprogram dan dikuratori oleh Kristi Monfries untuk Volcanic Winds.

Contemporary Art Tasmania telah menerjemahkan wawancara ini untuk audiens berbahasa Inggris dan juga tersedia, versi bahasa Indonesia.

Terjemahan sulih suara oleh: Kristi Monfries, Taufiq Tanasaldy, Adi Tahak, Stefanus Mario Henky Ang dan Mely Riyana.

Lagu pertama
Band: Kuda
Judul: Lurus Ke depan

Lagu kedua
Band: Orkes Keroncong Cafrinho Tugu
Judul: Oud Batavia

Pengeditan dan pencampuran audio oleh Brendan Walls.
Tuan rumah: Lisa Campbell Smith

Informasi lebih lanjut tentang ruangrupa dapat dilihat di sini: ruangrupa.id/en/
Informasi lebih lanjut tentang documenta lima belas di sini: documenta-fifteen.de/en/

Episode #26: RURU Radio - ruangrupa documenta fifteen (Indonesian Language)

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.

Music for this episode comes from Blue Dot Sessions.

The Lost Hour was an exhibition at Contemporary Art Tasmania in 2022. For more information about this podcast and Contemporary Art Tasmania’s programs head to: contemporaryarttasmania.org

What are you looking at?

Episode #27: Lost and Found

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_house_of_longing

This episode was produced and hosted by Pip Stafford.
Music from Blue Dot Sessions.
Additional audio from ABC News Australia.

With many thanks to Gay Hawkes.

Bonus: Lost and Found with Gay Hawkes

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 of Asia, Europe, North and Central Americas, and Africa.

www.tomokomomiyama.com

Sounds featured on this episode:
'A Cave Dream' for Soprano, Period Clarinet, Period Violoncello, and Fortepiano
Composed by Tomoko Momiyama in 2010.
Commissioned and performed by niwebyrth ensemble:
Lilith Verhelst (soprano)
Soren Green (period clarinet)
Anton Baba (period cello)
Tullia Melandri (period fortepiano)
Performed at Korzo Theater in Den Haag, the Netherlands on Feb 12, 2010. 

'Subli ng Karagatan : a Chant for the Sea Forest'
Commissioned by the “33rd Asian Composers League Conference and Festival: Likha-Likas: Reconfiguring Music, Nature, and Myth” and composed during a month long residency in Batangas, Philippines.

Performed by:
Sinala Subli Dancers (Luisita M. Abante, Severino D. Cruzat, Beda M. Dimayuga, and Neri G. Manalo), SBC-PAO Repertory Brigid (Jan Jilliene M. Alday, Rhainne Cshyra M. Dimatatac, Veronica Mae E. Lalusin, Drecz Alecz A. Maderazo, Wendhyl M. Manalo, Michelle C. Marqueses, Ma. Zshalia Eleni M. Muñoz, Ma. Gloria Isabelle N. Pechay, Carl Joshua B. Seno, and Angela Denise S. Viceral), and the audience of the 33rd Asian Composers League Conference and Festival.

Performed at Laiya beach in San Juan, Batangas, the Philippines on Nov 11, 2015. 

Code Purnama Hatiku

Commissioned by API Regional Project and Pemerti Kali Code
Performed by:
Agus Supriyanto, Dani Koco, Dian Novita Sari, Gardika Gigih Pradipta,  Ibnu Sutapa, Risma Kurniawan Riski, and Soyono.
Performed at Jogoyudan village, Yogyakarta, Indonesia on Feb 2011.

For more information about Tomoko Momiyama's project at Contemporary Art Tasmania: https://contemporaryarttasmania.org/programs/listening-within-the-opacities/

Episode #28: Tomoko Momiyama: Towards a collective composition

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 artists, musicians and practitioners expanding upon her long-term research into the ethics and aesthetics of listening.

Curators:
Lisa Campbell-Smith
Joel Stern

Collaborators:
Maggie Abraham (percussionist)
Finn Clarke (sound recordist)
Rosie Hastie (lighting assistant)
Georgia Shine (cellist)
Jon Smeathers (AV gallery technician)
Joe Weller (trombonist)
Ursula Woods (filmmaker)

The exhibition and residency was funded by the Australia Japan Foundation and supported by Asialink Arts.

For more information head to: www.contemporaryarttasmania.org

Episode #29: Tomoko Momiyama and Joel Stern in Conversation

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://contemporaryarttasmania.org/programs/biogym/

To read more about Broom and Brine: https://www.broomandbrine.com/

This episode was produced by Pip Stafford
Additional music by Blue Dot Sessions

Episode #30: Grace Gamage: Art, Boxing and the History of Spinach

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 Sessions
Episode produced, edited and hosted by Pip Stafford.

Episode #31: The C Word

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 Sundanese term for a regenerative force. The performances held as part of Dark Mofo in partnership with Contemporary Art Tasmania and Project Eleven were a rare blend of contemporary, ephemeral, immersive spaces for shared experience steeped in traditional Sundanese spiritual practice understood through the global scope of art as activism.

This project was presented by Contemporary Art Tasmania and Project Eleven in partnership with Dark Mofo

This episode features a track by Jeprut Artist Collective called Sinyur
Artists: Bi Raspi, Yoyon Darson, Ayi Ruhat, Yaya Suryadi

This recording was engineered by Chris Townend, recorded at Frying Pan Studios at MONA. It is the first ever professional recording made by the musicians collectively.

For more information about Greed/Rakus/Geirig click here: https://contemporaryarttasmania.org/programs/greed-rakus-geirig/

Episode #32: Tisna Sanjaya talks to Lisa Campbell-Smith

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 Stafford explores the tensions between the past, the now, the subjective and the relational as it rubs up against the real, human lives and inspirations of artists. Featuring artist Ashe, artist and archivist Samara McIlroy and Gabbee Stolp talking about grief, online scams, the unruliness of digital memory, and the Sydney Olympics.

**Editor's apology: this episode states that in Ashe's exhibition This Too Shall Pass, the performer was replaced with an image of the artist. This is incorrect - the photograph is not of the artist.**

To read more about Ashe's Contemporary Art Tasmania exhibition, This Too Shall Pass and read Sebastian Henry-Jones' B-Theory: https://contemporaryarttasmania.org/programs/this-too-shall-pass/

To read Gabbee Stolp's Inventory: https://contemporaryarttasmania.org/journal/

The texts mentioned or quoted in this episode are (in alphabetical order of author name):
Sara Ahmed, Happy Objects, The Affect Theory Reader (Melissa Gregg and Gregory J Seigworth, Duke University Press, 2010), p 29 - 51
Kathy Carbone, Archival Art: Memory Practices, Interventions, and Productions, Curator The Museum Journal 53(2), 2020, p 257 - 263
Elisabeth Kaplan, We Are What We Collect, We Collect What We Are: Archives and the Construction of Identity, The American Archivist 53(1), 2000, p 126 - 151

Music for this episode is by Blue Dot Sessions

What are you looking at? is produced for Contemporary Art Tasmania by Pip Stafford

Episode #33: The artist, the archivist, a manila folder, and a server farm

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, while Jay talks about his journey as a freestyle footballer that started at 14. The episode records their insights into this unique culture and its representation within the gallery. They share the inspiration behind aesthetics of the installation, freestyle football competition experiences, and their influences from other cultures and communities.

Episode produced by Pip Stafford for Contemporary Art Tasmania
Additional live audio courtesy of Feras Shaheen and Jay Hennicke from Our Side of Things main event, 26 August 2023

https://contemporaryarttasmania.org/programs/our-side-of-things/

Episode #34: Our Side of Things with Feras Shaheen and Jay Hennicke

For her final episode of What are you looking at? podcast Pip Stafford talks to Nadia Rafaei, 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 Amy shares how her work aims to highlight some of Australia's history of colonial violence. They emphasise that art can help unravel complex topics, tell stories, imagine futures, inspire conversations and act as a resistance tool, challenging ingrained structures and systems of thought.

This episode was produced, edited and hosted by Pip Stafford for Contemporary Art Tasmania.  Additional music from Blue Dot Sessions.

Alex Kelly: https://echotango.org/ | https://unquiet.com.au
Nadia Refaei: https://www.nadiarefaei.com | https://www.instagram.com/tpanlutruwita/
Amy Spiers: https://amyspiers.com.au/

Zoe Samudzi: https://www.zoesamudzi.com/

Episode #35 What can art do?

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 artist, Leyla Stevens from the artwork 'Patiwangi, death of fragrance', 2021

Leyla Stevens: https://leylastevens.com/
Melanie Lane: https://melanielane.info/

Episode #36: A conversation with Leyla Stevens and Melanie Lane

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 Pat Brassington, Rachel Kendrigan, Selena De Carvalho, James Newitt and Rosemary O'Rourke. 

Episode #1: The Gap

Episode 2 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 envelop(e) artists Jason James, Mick Harris, Christina Kubisch and Elizabeth Veldon.

Episode #2: Sound Art?

Pilot Series Final
 
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.

Episode 3: Collection features Emma Bett, Lucy Bleach, Peter Fay, Tom O'Hern and Tricky Walsh.

Episode #3: Collection

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 presented as visual art, or what is important as framing text as art?

Episode #9: Art & Writing, Writing & Art

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 coast of Tasmanian where she intended to live in total solitude. 

The Big Witch explores the underlying narrative of truth and fiction through the lens of Jane Cooper's story and the making of I Go Further Under.

In this episode we talk to I Go Further Under actor Emily Milledge and De Witt 7001 documentary maker, Ella Kennedy. You'll also hear snippets of Jane Cooper from De Witt 7001, and archival audio, and sound by Brendan Walls.

I Go Further Under was developed with generous support from
Contemporary Art Tasmania, GASP (Glenorchy Art And Sculpture Park) And
The University Of Tasmania. This project was assisted by The Australian Government through the Australia Council For The Arts, its arts funding and advisory body and was assisted through Arts Tasmania by The Minister For The Arts.

Episode #11: The Big Witch

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 informs the work; what drives the artist; and what sensations do they seek to impart?

In this episode we speak with Beyond the Field (still) curator Anne Mestitz, artists Ron Robertson-Swann and Michael Graeve, and National Gallery of Victoria curator, Beckett Rozenthals.

Additional sound for this episode was provided by Michael Graeve and the episode was mixed by Brendan Walls.

Episode #12: Beyond the Field

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 Aboriginal artist, activist and agitator, Fiona Hamilton.

What are you looking at? is produced by Lisa Campbell-Smith and Pip Stafford for Contemporary Art Tasmania.  Mixdown by Brendan Walls and soundtrack by Josh Santospirito. 

For more information about Contemporary Art Tasmania head to our website: www.contemporaryarttasmania.org

Episode #13: Stories from the Inside - Fiona Hamilton

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 Brigita Ozolins and in 2019 we look forward to bringing you further stories from the inside.

What are you looking at? is produced by Lisa Campbell-Smith and Pip Stafford for Contemporary Art Tasmania. Mixdown by Brendan Walls and soundtrack by Josh Santospirito.

For more information about Contemporary Art Tasmania head to our website: www.contemporaryarttasmania.org

Episode #14: Stories from the Inside - Brigita Ozolins

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 International artists Archie Barry, Liam James, Annika Koops, Roee Rosen and Artur Zmijiewski. Curated by Stevie S. Han, the exhibition re-examines the shifting sense of political and cultural agency that characterised identity politics in the 1990s, and which is finding new urgency with artists working today. Unspoken Rule is showing at Contemporary Art Tasmania until 24 February 2019.

Soundtrack by Brendan Walls

Episode #15 The Signal and the Noise

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 #16: walantanalinany palingina with Ruth Langford

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, featuring Mae Ganambarr, Jack Langford, Kaninna Langford, Ruth Langford, Josie Mason, Warren Mason and Michelle Maynard.

The Reserved for Healing program focused on expanding the ambition of cultural production for Tasmanian Aboriginal artists and was developed through CAT and walantanalinany palingina (WaPa) working with support from the Australia Council’s Chosen initiative. WaPa and CAT partner on building capacity for delivering the First Nations festival, WaPa 22Ten22.

Season 5

Episode #19: Reserved for Healing

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 #20: à Bientôt by Sarah Mashman

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 editing and mixdown by Brendan Walls. Additional sounds for this episode come from Scot Cotterell - Sonic Systematics, Live at Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery for Hobiennale, 2017 and Selena de Carvalho, whose work is featured in the 2020 Curatorial Mentorship exhibition, re-member. The field recordings are collected from Tasmanian forests earmarked for clearfelling. Including: Styx underground creek, sumac bird, swift parrot in the division of Denison, 2019.

Scot Cotterell www.scotcotterell.com

Scot Cotterell is an Australian born inter-disciplinary artist known for his works concerned with the experience of mediated environments. His work uses mixtures of sound, video, images and objects in gallery and live contexts to create experiences that reflect upon cultural phenomena. Cotterell's work has been performed and exhibited nationally and internationally.
 
 
Sarah Jones www.sarahjones.net.au
 
Sarah Jones is a writer and curator who has worked as an independent curator, university tutor, research and projects manager, general administrator and assistant for several contemporary artists and arts organizations based in Melbourne, Tasmania, Slovakia and Berlin.
Sarah’s research-based practice explores text and exhibition as a medium through which critical theory performs as the material of practice. She is currently examining the ways in which publishing can be redefined through the embodied exhibition event.
 
Caitlin Fargher www.caitlinfargher.com
 
Caitlin Fargher is a multi-disciplinary artist working in sculptural installation and curating. She works out of Good Grief Studios, and lives in the seaside town of Kettering. Her work is created through an embodied practice that explores histories, sites, ecologies and memories. Gardening, cooking, environmental systems, historical research and family narratives inform her materials.

Episode #21: 25 years of the CAT Curatorial Mentorship

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 commonplace miracles that every living creature is. She looks at the detail, and sees the detail, and draws it. Until the drawing is finished.

Then she takes an eraser, and rubs it out.
Because it is gone.
Because it is dead.
And because she is furious.

- Andrew Harper, FURY, Island 159


In this final 2020 episode of What are you looking at? we explore the concept of extinction through Lucienne Rickard's Extinction Studies. 

Featuring interviews with artist Lucienne Rickard and scientist and co-author of the State of the Environment report, Dr Ian Cresswell, and an excerpt from FURY, originally published in Island Magazine 159, read by writer, Andrew Harper.  

This episode was produced and edited by Pip Stafford, with audio mix by Brendan Walls and additional sounds from Blue Dot Sessions.

What are you looking at? is produced for Contemporary Art Tasmania by Pip Stafford and Lisa Campbell Smith.

Extinction Studies is commissioned by Detached Cultural Organisation and presented by TMAG.

Blue Dot Sessions music is used under Creative Commons license Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Music in order of appearance: Uncertain Ground, Powder and Egg, Dolly and Pad.

Episode #22: Extinction Studies

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 approach has, over its previous four iterations in Indonesia, Australia and Japan, generated many fruits for the artistic communities involved. In short IBP is where artists invent, build, present and perform using invented ‘instruments’ that mix traditional and contemporary forms including sound sculpture, installation, improvisation and performance through international residencies. Each IBP is configured differently, however pre-pandemic iterations have consistently worked with an intensive 3-week international residency model, whereby new and alumni IBP artists work in a collaborative setting, culminating in an in-situ performance/presentation.
 
IBP5 is a partnership project presented by Contemporary Art Tasmania, Liquid Architecture and Volcanic Winds. Curated by Kristi Monfries, Joel Stern and Lisa Campbell-Smith, featuring artists  Richie Cyngler, Julia Drouhin, Dylan Sheridan and Pip Stafford
 
IBP5 is supported by Australia Japan Foundation, Asialink, Regional Arts Fund, Mona Foma and The School of Architecture & Design, UTAS
 
With very special thanks to Mara Schwerdtfeger (sound producer) and Mish Szekelyhidi (documentation and audio.

Episode #23: Instrument Builders Project 5 produced by Liquid Architecture

Delving into specific themes derived from the Contemporary Art Tasmania program, as well as current events and ideas, the podcast provides a exploration of contemporary art. From exhibitions to abstract concepts, each episode offers a thoughtful examination of artistic expression.

Produced by Pip Stafford for Contemporary Art Tasmania.

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