Conversations: Alex Kitnick and Nat Faulkner

This recorded conversation brings Nat Faulkner into dialogue with Alex Kitnick, Associate Professor of Art History and Visual Culture at Bard College and faculty member of the Centre for Curatorial Studies. Focusing on Faulkner's exhibition Strong Water, the discussion draws on Kitnick's writing on frottage as both a technique and a conceptual position, exploring its relationship to memory, contact and material translation, and its renewed relevance within Faulkner's work.

Resonant Networks: Art, Place & Practice is a new two-part podcast series by interdisciplinary artist Evan Ifekoya, exploring the infrastructures that sustain creative practice in Lagos and beyond. In Episode One, Ifekoya is joined by Moni Aisida, Executive Director (GAS), and Magda Kaggwa, Comms & Projects Manager (Yinka Shonibare Foundation), for a conversation on building cultural ecosystems and nurturing artistic exchange.

Resonant Networks: Art, Place & Practice is a new two-part podcast series by interdisciplinary artist Evan Ifekoya, exploring the infrastructures that sustain creative practice in Lagos and beyond. Episode Two features Amanda Iheme, Igbo-Nigerian architectural photographer, writer and educator, in conversation with Ifekoya on the intersections of art, psychology, and the architectural landscape of Lagos.

Three of the New Curators, Nailah Reine Barnes, Jasmine Lee and Ugbad Yussuf sat down for a discussion around 'akâmi-' by Duane Linklater with Ethel (Trapper) Linklater, Tobias Linklater and Grey Plumes.

To accompany her artist commission for RALLY 2025, Anna Howard and our Public Programme Curator Matt Williams were in discussion about how her piece 'Record' will be realised at the festival.

Artist Richard Wright and our Director Martin Clark discuss how Wright's artistic practices have been informed and influenced over time. Wright also gives an insight into his site-specific approach to painting and how his wall painting in Camden Art Centre's Gallery Three was manifested, produced and executed. 

Artist Gregg Bordowitz and Josephine Pryde discuss what it means to make art in the present moment and explore how established infrastructures shape and influence artistic practice.

To mark the first UK publication of 'American Genius: A Comedy', author Lynne Tillman is joined by Emily LaBarge and Michael Bracewell for a discussion at Camden Art Centre.

Curator and writer Isabel Seligman discusses Matthew Krishanu's works on paper and their relationship to his wider painting practice. 

This episode marks the launch of Hedva's latest book, Your Love is Not Good. It features a reading and discussion with esteemed art critic Philippa Snow. The episode provides an insightful exchange, bridging literature, art, and contemporary issues at the time of recording in Autumn 2023.   Johanna Hedva (they/them) is a Korean American writer, artist, and musician, who was raised in Los Angeles by a family of witches, and now lives in LA and Berlin. Hedva is the author of the novels Your Love Is Not Good and On Hell, as well as Minerva the Miscarriage of the Brain, a collection of poems, performances, and essays. Their albums are Black Moon Lilith in Pisces in the 4th House and The Sun and the Moon. Their work has been shown in Berlin at Gropius Bau, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, and Institute of Cultural Inquiry; The Institute of Contemporary Arts in London; Performance Space New York; Gyeongnam Art Museum in South Korea; the LA Architecture and Design Museum; the Museum of Contemporary Art on the Moon; and in the Transmediale, Unsound, and Rewire Festivals. Their writing has appeared in Triple Canopy, Frieze, The White Review, Topical Cream, Spike, and is anthologised in Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art. Their essay "Sick Woman Theory," published in 2016, has been translated into 11 languages.   Philippa Snow is a critic and essayist. Her work has appeared in publications including Artforum, The Los Angeles Review of Books, ArtReview, Frieze, The White Review, Vogue, The Nation, The New Statesman, and The New Republic. She was shortlisted for the 2020 Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize, and her first book, Which As You Know Means Violence, is out now with Repeater.