Points of Entry

In this episode, host Katie Kheriji-Watts speaks with Lučka Kajfež Bogataj, an esteemed climatologist from Slovenia who’s served on the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. They talk about why arts organisations should measure their environmental impact, the importance of setting concrete goals, and the relationship between creativity and survival. This episode was co-commissioned by On...

In this episode, host Katie Kheriji-Watts speaks with Bochra Triki – a queer activist, feminist curator, and artist based in Tunis. They talk about what it was like for her to live through the Tunisian Revolution, how she feels about going into international spaces as a North African non-binary woman, and how a new generation of activists and artists in Tunisia is mobilising for queer visibility a...

In this episode, host Katie Kheriji-Watts speaks with Hettie Judah , a journalist and critic based in London who’s authored a new book: How Not to Exclude Artist Mothers (and Other Parents) . They talk about how discrimination against parenthood in the arts is an international issue, what artists with care-taking responsibilities might need when they travel for their work, and what cultural organi...

In this episode, host Katie Kheriji-Watts speaks with Ogutu Muraya, a Nairobi-based writer and a theatre maker whose artistic work focuses on orature and the politics of memory. They talk about internal and external mobility, the challenges of maintaining mental wellness during the creative process, epistemicide as an (often) unacknowledged legacy of colonial history, and why he decided to stop pa...

In this episode, host Katie Kheriji-Watts speaks with Brussels-based, participatory theatre maker Christophe Meierhans about money, radical trust, the ideology of individualism in the art world, being freaked out about the future, and why he paused his personal creative practice for more than a year to fully devote himself to the international civil disobedience movement Extinction Rebellion (XR)....

In this episode, host Katie Kheriji-Watts speaks with Françoise Vergès - co-founder and president of the Paris-based collective Décoloniser les Arts - about her life at the intersection of art, activism and scholarship. They talk about her formative early years in Réunion and Algeria, the fight against racism and misogyny in the French cultural sector, and the complex politics of (in)visibility. ...

In this episode, host Katie Kheriji-Watts speaks with London International Festival of Theatre co-founder Lucy Neal about the moral and social responsibility of art in a world inalterably changed by the burning of fossil fuels, about what climate justice could mean for internationally-focused arts organisations in wealthy countries, and about why the culture sector should publicly declare that we’...

In this episode, host Katie Kheriji-Watts speaks with Michelle Millar Fisher, a Scotland-born design curator and co-founder of the grassroots collective Art + Museum Transparency. They talk about her experience working in the USA, her independent projects on the social histories of design for women, her outspokenness against unjust labor practices in museums, and her perspective on what cultural o...

In this episode, host Katie Kheriji-Watts speaks with Mallika Taneja, a theatre maker and independent artist from New Delhi. They talk about how trauma has informed her work, the importance of walking to her artistic practice, the various ways she’s created in and with community, and why she doesn’t consider herself an activist.  follow Mallika and her work : https://www.instagram.com/goodgirlfrom...

In this inaugural “Points of Entry” episode, host Katie Kheriji-Watts speaks with culturebot.org founder Andy Horwitz about economic shame and labor advocacy in the arts world, the intersection of counterculture and online technology, the patience required to effect change in large institutions and what it’s like to experience parenthood for the first time at the age of 50.  mentioned in this epis...