Culture File

Mounting artist and percussionist, Cevdet Erek's new show at Derry's Void involved, among other things, mailing a bodhran to Istanbul.

The art and activism of Ben Grosser, from his strictly limited social network, Minus, which gives users just 100 posts for life, to his NFT-sabotaging, Tokenize This. Plus, after a season recording in Sierra Leone, Fehdah returns to Ireland with a hard drive full of afrofuturist soul.

Traditional storyteller, Niall de Búrca shares a few of his favourites in reading, watching, listening, tasting and smelling.

After a season recording in Sierra Leone, Fehdah returns to Ireland with a hard drive full of afrofuturist soul.

Ben Grosser on his software response to the NFT boom, Tokenize This, a system for creating unique and instantly vanishing artwork.

Digital artist Ben Grosser's exploration of what our online world would be like without its terminal drive for "more" led him to create Minus, a strictly finite social network.

Digital artist and Facebook critic, Ben Grosser on his journeys into the omnivorous nudge and crave mechanics of the online world. (Part 1)

Some late summer journeys along the Western seaboard, with traditional storyteller, Niall de Búrca, painter and sculptor, Maighread Tobin, thatcher, Marika Leen, and the young songwriters of Bruff in Co Limerick.

Painter and sculptor, Maighread Tobin, share some of her recent finds in readings, watching, listening, smelling and tasting.

Among the craftspeople keeping the West of Ireland's thatch rooves Atlantic-proof is Dutchwoman, Marika Leen.

Niall deBurca sets off on a voyage to show how traditional storytelling can win out in a world of clicks and touchscreens

Stepping into the garden - and a new world of colour - in the latest show from painter and sculptor, Maighread Tobin.

A riverside park bench is a key to Young Dreams, a youth arts festival in Bruff Co. Limerick, marking what would have been Dolores O’Riordan's 50th birthday

An all-star noses panel featuring writer, Harold McGee, perfumer, Meabh McCurtin, neuroscientist, AS Barwich, zoologist, Matthew Cobb, and artist, Aleesa Cohene join Luke Clancy to discuss what the nose knows. (First broadcast 19/12/20)

Has music found fresh importance in the pandemic era, via its impact on health and wellness? Musician and researcher, Hannah Davis, Goldsmiths' Prof. Lauren Stewart, IWAMD's Dr Hilary Moss, and Shain Shapiro, Sound Diplomacy-founder, join Luke Clancy to discuss. (First broadcast 270221)

Luke Clancy and guests explore cities: how they are - and how we dream they'll be; who they serve and who they hinder. On the panel, artist, Sven Anderson, architect, Noreile Breen, curator, Lar Joyce and scholar, Leslie Kern. (First broadcast 281120)

Do blockchain technologies represent new hope for artists to control their own work, or are they just another twist in the financialization of art? On the panel to discuss, Virginia Tech's Aisling Kelliher, painter, Hughie Donoghue, NCAD's Rachel O'Dwyer and crypto-art pioneer, Ruth Catlow. (First broadcast 010521)

Luke Clancy and guests discuss the freighted pursuit of travel writing in a post-pandemic world. Helping to check our papers are QUB's Prof Margaret Topping, travel writers, Dana Givens and Aaron Millar, and Spitalfields's The Gentle Author whose writing explores the world outside his windows.

Neutrinowatch is a podcast that's also a mini-network of daily, imaginary, constantly changing podcasts, created by Martin Zaltz Austwick (Answer Me This) and Jeff Emtman (Here Be Monsters).

Violinist, Darragh Morgan on remixing the annual chamber music festival on the island of Valentia in a world of travel restrictions.

Composer and teacher, Dominic Murcott on the musical magic that hides in the circuits of old-fashioned synthesisers. (Part 2 of 2)

The musical journeys of drummer, composer, tinkerer and educator, Dominic Murcott. (Part 1 of 2)

The reading, watching, listening, tasting and smelling pleasures of cellist and new music group, Crash Ensemble's Artistic Director, Kate Ellis

The pandemic season on Ireland's amdram circuit; some tentative, but fun steps towards live performance in the People's Park in Limerick City; Josephy McBrinn on men's relationship to needlecraft; and composer, Jennifer Walshe comes face to face with the checkpointization of our world.

In his new book, Joseph McBrinn unpicks how ideas of gender and needlework are sewn together.