What are you looking at?

Starting at the intersecting point of culinary and creative practice, Haneen Mahmood Martin and Caitlin Fargher discuss how an arts practice can be productive medium to unpack lineage and familial history, talk models of curatorial care and explore what it can look like to hold space for different experiences. This episode was hosted by Sharifah Emalia Al-Gadrie and produced by Honor Marino. What...

This episode of What Are You Looking At? is a series of conversations with artists Noah Johnson, Lila Meleisea and Justene Williams focussing on how the use of certain materials influence and inform their artistic practice. ⁠ Produced and hosted by Sharifah Emalia Al-Gadrie for Contemporary Art Tasmania. Noah Johnson⁠ is a black multidisciplinary artist, born in Lutruwita (Hobart). They first bega...

This episode of What Are You Looking At? is a table conversation with Zara Sully, Pete Marseveen and Nour Abdullatif about the relationship between art and money, initially focussing on fundraising but then expanding to explore other facets. Zara Sully (they/them) is an artist, arts worker, curator, and researcher and director of Sawtooth ARI in Launceston, Lutruwita/Tasmania. Peter Marseveen (he/...

This episode of What Are You Looking At? is a table conversation with Jade Lillie, Andy Hutson and Aunty Cheryl Mundy Trimanya, reflecting on collaboration and community engaged practice. Andy Hutson is a visual artist based in Nipaluna/Hobart and is the lead initiator and artist for the project Apologue Isle , which first exhibited at Contemporary Art Tasmania in 2024 and is, at the time of the e...

This episode of  What Are You Looking At?  explores zines and zine culture, reflecting on the Contemporary Art Tasmania 2024 end of year exhibition,  Paper Trail .  Lead artists, Miranda Rogers , Jess Bateman and Leigh Rigozzi speak about the community building nature of zine-making and how zine culture is often based in sharing ideas and creating connections. This episode contains readings and ex...

Reflecting on  Embraced in the Loving Arms of An Algorithm – v1.1 — curated by Jon Smeathers for Contemporary Art Tasmania in April 2024 — Sophie Penkethman-Young and Jon speak about intersections of their practices, algorithmic displacement and intervention and how care, cute and trust can be present in algorithm augmented curatorial models. This episode is hosted and edited by Sharifah Emalia Al...

A conversation with Leyla Stevens and Melanie Lane, reflecting on Balinese and Javanese dance, diasporic bodies working within and from traditional stories in contemporary practice, and the intersections of cultural knowledge and choreography. This episode was hosted by Sharifah Emalia Al-Gadrie and produced and edited by Lisa Campbell-Smith for Contemporary Art Tasmania. Sound courtesy of the art...

For her final episode of What are you looking at? podcast Pip Stafford talks to Nadia Refaei , Alex Kelly , and Amy Spiers , asking them: What *can* art do? This episode explores how art can contribute to social change in the world. Nadia talks about the importance of exploring political identity through her work, Alex discusses how artists can collaborate with or contribute to social movements, w...

This episode discusses Feras Shaheen and Jay Hennicke 's exhibition at Contemporary Art Tasmania, Our Side of Things . The installation and associated programs were a vivid representation of freestyle football battles, workshops, and a celebration of the culture, incorporating dance, design, and sports. In this interview Feras recounts his experience combining his interest in dance and footbal...

Artists are well-known pack rats. If you conjure up the stereotypical artist's studio in your mind, it might well be a sort of wunderkammer of materials of creation, inspiration and detritus. Artists also use collections, archives and the more orderly functions of taxonomy as material and conceptual underpinning. What do artists and archivists have in common? What are you looking at? host Pip...

Greed/Rakus/Geirig curator Lisa Campbell-Smith talks to lead artist Tisna Sanjaya. Interview translation by Daffa Sanjaya. The Jeprut artist community was founded in the 1980s in Bandung, West Java. Indonesian artist, Tisna Sanjaya is a leading figure in this community movement, and has gone on to produce many collaborative performance based art actions within this unique movement. Jeprut is a Sun...

The C word is “class”. In this episode Pip Stafford and guest host, Andrew Harper, talk about the friction between class and art, featuring interviews with Mish Grigor and Miriam McGarry. Miriam McGarry’s Hidden Cities podcast: https://hiddencitiespodcast.net/ Mish Grigor’s Class Act: https://aphids.net/projects/class-act/ Music by Blue Dot Sessions Episode produced, edited and hosted by Pip Staff...

What are you looking at? producer Pip Stafford and CAT Communications Co-ordinator Nadia Refaei took a visit to Broom and Brine farm in winter 2022. This episode is an interview with Broom and Brine's co-founder, artist, boxer and gardener, Grace Gamage. Listen now to hear more about her practice, and the history of plants. Grace's work featured in BIOGYM at CAT earlier in 2022: https://contempora...

Tomoko Momiyama and Joel Stern in conversation at Contemporary Art Tasmania, speaking about the concepts and experience of creating ' Listening Within the Opacities of our Times and Places ' at Contemporary Art Tasmania. Following a month-long residency in Lutruwita with Contemporary Art Tasmania, Japanese artist-composer Tomoko Momiyama presented a new collaborative work with Tasmanian ar...

Japanese composer and artist Tomoko Momiyama speaks to Pip Stafford about her collective sound practice. Tomoko Momiyama works internationally as a music composer, artist, dramaturg, and producer of multi-disciplinary art events, installations, and performances. Tomoko’s works, many of which are community-based and site-specific, have been performed throughout Japan, as well as in different parts...

In this bonus, short episode of What are you looking at? Pip Stafford talks to Gay Hawkes about the experience of losing her home and studio during the 2013 Dunalley bushfires. Gay’s exhibition, featuring works made before and after the fires, continues at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery until August 2022: https://www.tmag.tas.gov.au/whats_on/exhibitions/current_upcoming/info/gay_hawkes_the_h...

This episode uses Diana Baker Smith’s the Lost Hour as a starting point to explore three very different stories, of art, of culture and of loss. Pip Stafford talks to Fiona Fraser, Julie Gough and Diana Baker Smith about their work, and how loss and rediscovery has featured in their recent work and lives. What are you looking at? podcast is produced by Pip Stafford for Contemporary Art Tasmania. M...

Dalam episode ini Christina Schott, jurnalis dan manajer proyek budaya, berbicara dengan empat anggota kolektif ruangrupa. Didirikan di Indonesia pada tahun 2000, ruangrupa adalah organisasi seni nirlaba yang berbasis di Jakarta. Pada tahun 2019 diumumkan bahwa mereka, secara kolektif, akan menjadi Artistic Director untuk dokumenter bergengsi lima belas di Kassel, Jerman. Podcast ini awalnya ditug...

In this episode Christina Schott, journalist and culture project manager, speaks with four members of the ruangrupa collective. Founded in Indonesia in 2000, ruangrupa are a not-for-profit arts organisation based in Jakarta. In 2019 it was announced that they, as a collective, would be the Artistic Director for the prestigious documenta fifteen in Kassel, Germany. This podcast was originally commi...

This episode of What are you looking at? is a commission produced by Dr Lucreccia Quintanilla. Conchcast invites the listener on a journey into the smooth interior of the conch shell, to consider its history and its physical qualities. Conchcast features the following music: Conch Shell by Skinny Fabulous, Machel Montano & Iwer George Whāia Te Māramatanga by Rob Thorne [Short] Conch Shell Trum...

What do art prizes mean to artists? Is there an Olympics for the arts? Pip Stafford interviews Julie Ewington, Loren Kronemyer and Daniel Mudie Cunningham about the purpose and place of art prizes in Australia. Produced and edited by Pip Stafford. Additional audio for this episode comes from Abolish the Olympics by Pony Express. Music: Cheap Sunglasses by Kabbalistic Village https://soundcloud.com...

This episode is a special edition produced by Liquid Architecture and co presented by Contemporary Art Tasmania featuring interviews and audio from the recent instrument builders project as part of Mona Foma 2021 – a durational performance held at the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania. Instrument Builders Project’s (IBP) avant-garde, transdisciplinary and socially engaged...

Lucienne is drawing extinct things. She has drawn a fly. A skink. A turtle. She draws them incredibly well. She puts effort in. She does her work and uses her ability and her skill and I think she’s trying to honour these things. Because as she draws, she looks at images of these now-extinct, now-dead, now-gone creatures, and she wonders about them, seeing how well they had evolved to be the commo...

In 2020 CAT is celebrating 25 years of the curatorial mentorship program. Looking back on two and half decades of exhibitions, Lisa Campbell Smith speaks to Scot Cotterell and Sarah Jones, and 2020 recipient Caitlin Fargher. To learn more about this program head to: https://contemporaryarttasmania.org/curatorial-mentorship/ This episode was produced and edited by Lisa Campbell Smith, additional ed...

Audio recording of the catalogue essay for exhibition 're-member', 24 July — 6 September 2020, curated by Caitlin Fargher as a part of the Curatorial Mentorship. 're-member' is about imagining across the cracks, filling in the gaps and stringing fragments together. This exhibition brings together three artists based in Nipaluna: Selena de Carvalho, Takani Clark and Georgia Morgan....