Radio Arts Catalyst

The THREE FIELDS podcast is an exploration of artists and cultural workers’ perspectives on food justice and digital practices across India, the UK, and South Africa. Over 2 episodes, we delve into conversations, field recordings, and stories emerging from the THREE FIELDS project; an international collaboration and co-commission between Abandon Normal Devices, Arts Catalyst, Fak’ugesi, Fast Famil...

The THREE FIELDS podcast is an exploration of artists and cultural workers’ perspectives on food justice and digital practices across India, the UK, and South Africa. Over 2 episodes, we delve into conversations, field recordings, and stories emerging from the THREE FIELDS project; an international collaboration and co-commission between Abandon Normal Devices, Arts Catalyst, Fak’ugesi, Fast Famil...

A new broadcast made by students in Year 13 from King Edward VII School, inspired by ideas connected to Dead Cat Bounce: a performance and exhibition by Gary Zhexi Zhang and Waste Paper Opera (Klara Kofen and James Oldham). The project was a satellite element of Dead Cat Bounce and was a collaboration between Arts Catalyst, Yorkshire-based theatre and arts company Chol and experimental theatre col...

“In 2020 I was commissioned to design and develop a garden for Bootle Library. How to conceptually connect this communal green space to a library? My bridge was fictional gardens in literature. I wrote to librarians across the borough asking them to share their stand-out gardens in novels, poetry and so on. I circulated this request among friends to gradually build an expanding database.  To date...

In this episode we consider care, community and alternative futures.  Changing Currents is a new podcast series exploring climate perspectives and possible futures featuring the voices of artists, growers, activists, local community groups, heritage workers and researchers across South Yorkshire.  In this episode you will hear campaigner and WOC Azadi Collective member Ishah Jawaid and nature guid...

In this episode we discuss food, agriculture, soil, and growing. Changing Currents is a new podcast series exploring climate perspectives and possible futures featuring the voices of artists, growers, activists, local community groups, heritage workers and researchers across South Yorkshire.  The voices you’ll hear in this episode are from founder of Bentley Urban Farm, Warren Draper, artist, desi...

A collection of experimental compositions by artist Ashley Holmes inspired by field recordings taken in the Gleadless Valley, Sheffield. Changing Currents is a new podcast series exploring climate perspectives and possible futures featuring the voices of artists, growers, activists, local community groups, heritage workers and researchers across South Yorkshire.  In this episode we hear a new soni...

In this episode, we consider remediation, resourcefulness and ecological health. Changing Currents is a new podcast series exploring climate perspectives and possible futures featuring the voices of artists, growers, activists, local community groups, heritage workers and researchers across South Yorkshire.  In this episode you’ll hear a conversation between Hayley Youell, the National Coordinator...

In this episode we consider land access healing and organising.  Changing Currents is a new podcast series exploring climate perspectives and possible futures featuring the voices of artists, growers, activists, local community groups, heritage workers and researchers across South Yorkshire.  The voices you’ll hear are from founder of Peaks of Colour, Evie Muir, artist Harun Morrison, scientist an...

Radio Silence is the third episode of the Leaky Transmissions podcast series. The collaborative audio-work emerged and developed from a poetry workshop led by Emma Bolland, to write experimentally about the spaces, metaphors, and struggles of ‘transmission’.  In relation to analogue radio, the term ‘static’ is associated with faulty transmission or faulty reception—static is communication gone wro...

The final episode from artist Luiza Prado de O. Martins’ series, Notes to the Seers, explores the plant Queen Anne’s Lace. In this three-part series, listeners are invited to encounter artemisia, Queen Anne’s Lace and rue, guided by the artist’s voice  within a soundscape created by Obaro Ejimiwe. These three plants grow wild both in the Americas and Europe; vegetal material travelling across geog...

Poetry as Field Recording is a collaborative audio work made by Anna Kime, Irina Sadovina, Ceri Nicholls, Nastassja Simensky and Ioannis Andronikidis.  Poetry as Field Recording is the second episode from Leaky Transmissions, a project by Nottingham-based artist Nastassja Simensky. Responding to Arts Catalyst’s Emergent Ecologies programme, Leaky Transmissions includes spatial and sonic workshops,...

The second episode from artist Luiza Prado de O. Martins’ series, Notes to the Seers, explores the plant rue (or arruda). In this three-part series, listeners are invited to encounter artemisia, Queen Anne’s Lace and rue, guided by the artist’s voice  within a soundscape created by Obaro Ejimiwe. These three plants grow wild both in the Americas and Europe; vegetal material travelling across geogr...

Becoming Forest is a collaborative endeavour between the artist duo Breakwater (Youngsook Choi and Taey Iohe) and the radio producer, curator, activist Cường Phạm.  The project considers mental wellbeing as a collective responsibility, focusing on the detrimental impact of Covid-19 and the spike of anti-Asian racism upon the mental health of Southeast and East Asian diasporas, refugees, and precar...

Leaky Transmissions is a project by Nottingham-based artist Nastassja Simensky that explores changing land-use, and the potential of collaborative fieldwork involving artists and archaeologists.  This episode of Leaky Transmissions for Radio Arts Catalyst takes us on a sonic journey: from South Yorkshire and the Sheffield Mind Garden in the centre of the city (developed with Harun Morrison as part...

In this three-part series, listeners are invited to encounter artemisia, Queen Anne’s Lace and rue, guided by the artist’s voice  within a soundscape created by Obaro Ejimiwe. These three plants grow wild both in the Americas and Europe; vegetal material travelling across geographical, political, and cultural borders. This sensorial encounter revolves around tasting as a form of relation, capable...

Becoming Forest is a collaborative endeavour between the artist duo Breakwater (Youngsook Choi and Taey Iohe) and the radio producer, curator, activist Cường Phạm. Breakwater make installations combining performance, film, sound, photography, and text to explore postcolonial and intersectional identities. The project considers mental wellbeing as a collective responsibility, focusing on the detrim...

Instituting with Care x Radio Arts Catalyst focuses on how institutions interact with, and sometimes interfere with, our bodies - how our experiences of institutions can be harmful, and how the models of institutions of care, mental health and science can be hacked or rethought. It includes contributions from artist Mary Maggic, artist, writer & researcher Jamila Prowse, and activist and resea...

A meditative sound piece combining field recordings with the artist Hannah Rowan's reflections around water and connected ecologies from her 2021 residency in Tapei Artist Village. Artist Hannah Rowan was in residence at Taipei Artist Village from January - March 2021, undertaking aquatic research into the mutualistic relationship between butterflies and plants in the marginal ecosystems of mangro...

Becoming Forest is a collaborative endeavour between the artist duo Breakwater (Youngsook Choi and Taey Iohe) and the radio producer, curator, activist Cường Phạm. Breakwater make installations combining performance, film, sound, photography, and text to explore postcolonial and intersectional identities. The project considers mental wellbeing as a collective responsibility, focusing on the detrim...

Drawing on frequency, rhythm and sound healing, artist Evan Ifekoya hosted a series of four workshop sessions that aimed to bring the focus back to the body, addressing the questions: How does sound help us develop a greater awareness of our interior self? And what might this heightened awareness do for the collective?  Through practices of listening, reading and vocalising together, the group inv...

RESOLVE Collective ’s \\\ INTERFERENCE, INTERRUPTION workshop sessions for The School of Broadcasting looked at the remote co-design of DIY instruments for ‘urban listening’ and ‘urban transmission’ and a collective mapping of different communities in Sheffield by locating and collating their sonic sense of place. Project influences spanned London’s 90’s Pirate Radio culture, Caribbean diasporic o...

Yussef Agbo-Ola’s multidisciplinary artistic practice is concerned with  interpreting natural energy systems, through interactive experiments that  explore the connections between an array of sensory environments, from the  biological and anthropological, to the perceptual and microscopic. His aim is  to use diverse multidisciplinary research methods and design components, to  reinterpret local kn...

Kaajal Modi is an artist and multidisciplinary designer with a background in community food activism, participatory design for social contexts and graphics & illustration.   During an Arts Catalyst Radio residency, Kaajal has been working with research outcomes and materials from a previous food-art-science research residency, in order to develop a multi-layered sound installation/experience t...

Becoming Forest is a collaborative endeavour between the artist duo Breakwater (Youngsook Choi and Taey Iohe) and the radio producer, curator, activist Cường Phạm. Breakwater make installations combining performance, film, sound, photography and text to explore postcolonial and intersectional identities.   The project considers mental wellbeing as a collective responsibility, focusing on the  detr...