Camden Art Audio

This panel discussion explores the themes within Karimah Ashadu's exhibition 'Tendered' at Camden Art Centre, alongside the artist's wider practice. Listen to artist Karimah Ashadu in conversation with Dr Clive Chijioke Nwonka, Alessandro Rabottini (Artistic Director, Fondazione In Between Art Film), and Leonardo Bigazzi (Curator, Fondazione In Between Art Film). 

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, cont...

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 an...

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...

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 Angele...

The discussion recorded in Autumn 2023 is complemented by readings from Innominate by Pearce and  Ill Feelings by Hattrick. These works reflect on the character of "queer evidence" and their shared interest in blending autobiography with historical narrative.   Naomi Pearce  is a writer and curator. Recent projects include  Good Bad Books?  At the Barbican (co-programmed with Anna Bunting-Branch)...

With Martin Clark, Darian Leader, Ralph Rugoff and Mohammed Sami Building upon themes and visual quotations from Sami's exhibition ,  The Point 0 , this panel discussion examines contemporary painting and its capacity to exist as repositories of information, invoking subjective interpretations of private and public experiences through various material and technical processes.

How can discourses between seemingly disparate disciplines inspire art? Tenant of Culture and historian Arwen P. Mohun reflect on the importance of research in their respective practices and discuss the influence of Mohun's book  Steam Laundries: Gender, Technology, and Work in the United States and Great Britain, 1880-1940  on the exhibit  Soft Acid .   

This podcast is led by DeForrest Brown Jr, author of Assembling a Black Counter Culture , in conversation with Steve Goodman (aka Kode9 and founder of Hyperdub) and Nkisi (co-founder of NON Worldwide). Collectively they discuss the migration of techno music from North America to Europe with an initial focus on the situated contexts of the dance music scene in London and across the U.K. during the...

Episode 2 focuses on past, present and future of the Detroit-Berlin axis. By means of an interview collage, writer and Make Techno Black Again activist DeForrest Brown, Jr., Lerato Khathi aka Lakuti (founder of Uzuri Recordings and the Bring Down the Walls initiative), Boris Dolinski (resident DJ at Berghain) and Mark Ernestus (musician and founder of the Hard Wax record store) explore how the rap...

For this episode of  Conversations , Dave Beech and Esther Leslie navigate Olga Balema's installation  Computer  to examine a range of formal, material and theoretical concerns. With a focus on the geographies of production, digital processes, architectural grids, artistic labour, and how domestic spaces have also functioned as workplaces since the onset of the pandemic. In doing so, they reflect...

On March 20 th , 1980, Mount St. Helens (traditionally known as Lawetlat'la or Loowit) erupted. Rocks boiled, rivers evaporated into clouds, and Spirit Lake—a site connected with Indigenous whistling spirits known as Tsiatko—was smothered under a blanket of pyrolized trees. As part of a continuing series of works under the "Echomaking" umbrella, in this audio essay, Kristen Gallerneaux (Métis-Wend...

Choreographer Okwui Okpokwasili and curator Sophie J Williamson, consider how time, history and circadian rhythms imprint themselves on our bodies. In  Being Taken for Granite,  Ursula K. Le Guin described a kinship with mud as a body that yields, reacts, imprints and responds .  Taking this text as a guide they will unravel relationships between the body and the soil from which it is born, consid...

Professor Louise Steel examines the history of clay and how the cultural and technological knowledges of the earliest settled farming and urban communities were informed by people's engagements with clay.       As one of the first mineral substance to be transformed from a malleable to a durable state. Many societies perceive it as an animate substance permeated with "a spiritual energy and life-f...

John Merrick and Alina Kolar discuss the history of The Radical Thinkers series from Verso. To reflect on how it enabled them to discover and engage with the ideas presented by favoured radical thinkers and the challenges of publishing at large. John Merrick is a writer based in London, where he is an editor at Verso Books. He has had work published in New Left Review, Boston Review, TLS, Jacobin,...

The New Radical is an online series of conversations between Arts of the Working Class and contributing writers for Verso Books, discussing what the new radical means today. Maya Goodfellow and Alina Kolar speak about the understanding of the word Radical in relation to Immigration and Borders, Affect and Effect of Time, with regards to the ongoing impact of the pandemic, and what is within and be...

The New Radical is an online series of conversations between Arts of the Working Class and contributing writers for Verso Books, discussing what the new radical means today. Aaron Bastani and Alina Kolar try to determine The New Radical between the news, fact and fiction. They examine voices that make up the realm of thinking and unthinking the mainstream and the grass-roots. Aaron Bastani is co-f...

The COVID-19 pandemic has underlined the value and importance of outdoor spaces. Recent studies into public health and well-being state that green environments are associated with reduced levels of depression, anxiety, and fatigue and can enhance both children and adults' quality of life. However, access is not always a given, nor is everyone encouraged to feel welcome in green spaces. Flock Toget...

Artist Tamara Henderson in conversation with Gina Buenfeld (Camden Art Centre Exhibitions Curator) co-curator of The Botanical Mind: Art, Mysticism and The Cosmic Tree. They discuss the concerns that run throughout Henderson's work including hypnosis, altered states, life processes, seasonal patterns and vegetal motifs. Conversations are a series of public talks with artists, academics, thinkers,...