BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art

Dive deeper in this series of discussion-based artist and scientist talks exploring oceanic worlds through art, research and dialogue. Taking place within the exhibition space, this special programme of discussion-based talks accompanying For All At Last Return brings together artists and scientists to explore marine habitats and ocean futures through art, research, and dialogue. Kristina Õllek an...

Dive deeper in this series of discussion-based artist and scientist talks exploring oceanic worlds through art, research and dialogue. Artist Rob Smith and Dr. William Reid, Lecturer in Marine Biology at Newcastle University, discuss polymetallic nodules, the histories and futures of deep sea mining and the recent discovery of dark oxygen which has called into question the origins of life on Earth...

Dive deeper in this series of discussion-based artist and scientist talks exploring oceanic worlds through art, research and dialogue. Artist Michele Allen and Dr. Gary Caldwell, Senior Lecturer in Applied Marine Biology at Newcastle University, discuss coastal ecologies and the devastating marine die-off along the North East coast.

An exhibition of work by artists Henna Asikainen and Roua Horanieh will be presented at Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead during Refugee Week 2025. The project has been developed with the participation of a group of people with experience of migration and displacement, who now live in Gateshead and Newcastle. To Own Both Nothing and the Whole World has been co-commissioned and co-produ...

An exhibition of work by artists Henna Asikainen and Roua Horanieh will be presented at Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead during Refugee Week 2025. The project has been developed with the participation of a group of people with experience of migration and displacement, who now live in Gateshead and Newcastle. To Own Both Nothing and the Whole World has been co-commissioned and co-produ...

Volcanoes and Utopias: an audio performance by artists Kate Liston and Tess Denman-Cleaver Kate Liston and Tess Denman-Cleaver's podcast is a poetic performance on volcanoes, parliamentary architecture, Norse mythology, Quaker design, pease pudding, the current lack of gossip, and the function of utopias. Volcanoes and Utopias is a collection of work-in-progress extracts from Town Hall Meeting of...

In this BALTIC Podcast Dr Paolo Fortis, Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology, Durham University, explores Abel Rodriguez’ exhibition. Paolo Fortis is a social anthropologist with research interests in the relations between art, ontology, notions of the person and alterity among Central and South American indigenous peoples. You can view the exhibition at BALTIC, online here: http:...

In this BALTIC Podcast exploring BALTIC exhibitions, Alessandro Boussalem explores Imran Perretta's The Destructors. Alessandro Boussalem is a human geographer. His research is on the intersections of gender, sexualities, and race/ethnicities in contemporary Europe. He is a PhD candidate at Newcastle University with a project on the experiences of LGBTQ people from a Muslim background living in Br...

In this BALTIC Podcast exploring BALTIC exhibitions and research, art historian Victoria Horne examines Judy Chicago, specifically Femininity, Art and the Home. Horne discusses the role of labour within the home, which was often at the fore of questioning within second-wave feminism and the Women's Art Movement. Horne also highlights the amplified and indistinct roles between domestic and paid lab...

Animalesque with Daisy Hildyard Wednesday 1 April 2020 Across three 5-minute sessions, writer Daisy Hildyard offers readings from selected texts in response to the exhibition Animalesque / Art Across Species and Beings at BALTIC. These extracts resonate with the exhibition by inviting us to re-think human's position in the world, their relationship to the natural world and to the various complex e...

Animalesque with Daisy Hildyard Wednesday 1 April 2020 Across three 5-minute sessions, writer Daisy Hildyard offers readings from selected texts in response to the exhibition Animalesque / Art Across Species and Beings at BALTIC. These extracts resonate with the exhibition by inviting us to re-think human's position in the world, their relationship to the natural world and to the various complex e...

Animalesque with Daisy Hildyard Wednesday 1 April 2020 Across three 5-minute sessions, writer Daisy Hildyard offers readings from selected texts in response to the exhibition Animalesque / Art Across Species and Beings at BALTIC. These extracts resonate with the exhibition by inviting us to re-think human's position in the world, their relationship to the natural world and to the various complex e...

Alessandro Vincentelli in conversation with Filipa Ramos, curator of the exhibition Animalesque: Art Across Species and Beings. 14 November 2019. The podcast begins and ends with recordings made by Chris Watson from his 1998 work Outside the Circle of Fire, which he revisited for this exhibition. First we hear a Hippopotamus emerging from the River Mara; Masai Mara, Kenya and to end the podcast we...