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 Con…

For her final episode of What are you looking at? podcast Pip Stafford talks to Nadia Rafaei, 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 collabo…

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…

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…

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 act…

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 SessionsEp…

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 …

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 n…

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…

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/ex…

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 Mārama…

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…

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) av…

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, …

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…

Audio recording of the Catalogue Essay for the exhibition re-member. 2020 CAT Curatorial Mentorship, curated by Caitlin Fargher.24 July - 6 September 2020Contemporary Art Tasmaniare-member is about imagining across the cracks, filling in the gaps and stringing fragments together. This exhibition brings together three artists based in nipaluna: Sele…

Guest producer Sarah Mashman interviews two Tasmanian artists with two different experiences in France, as Covid 19 changes everything.Interviews with Megan Walch and Camille Antoine.Episode mixdown by Brendan Walls.What are you looking at? is produced by Pip Stafford and Lisa Campbell-Smith for Contemporary Art Tasmania…

In this episode of What are you looking at? we talk to Reserved for Healing artist Michelle Maynard and Head of Indigenous Engagement and Strategy at MAAS, Marcus Hughes about cultural and artistic practice and the non-linear path of healing.Reserved for Healing was an exhibition at Contemporary Art Tasmania exploring intergenerational knowledge an…

Jim Everett puralia meenamatta is an artist, playright, poet and Tasmanian Aboriginal Elder from Cape Barren Island. Following on from our interview with Ruth Langford (S05E02) we chat to Jim about his vision for 2020 and beyond.By A podcast by Contemporary Art Tasmania

In the process of developing her Shotgun 7 exhibition, Increase Productivity, Grace Herbert had a few adventures. Fortunately we interviewed her along the way and got all the goss on Georgian millionaires, moving trees and art works lost at sea. This episode was produced and edited by Pip Stafford, hosted by Lisa Campbell Smith. Audio mix by Brenda…

Lisa Campbell-Smith talks to Ruth Langford about the legacy of her childhood and how that has lead to her work as Creative Director of Nayri Niara Good Spirit Festival and Creative Producer of walantanalinany palingina.By A podcast by Contemporary Art Tasmania

In our first episode for season 5 celebrated Australian artist, Louisa Bufardeci tells us about her background as an artist and how her 2012 LED installation Ethnicities to Nations came to be. Bufardeci discusses how the role of data and coding systems have informed her practice. The artwork Ethnicities to Nations is part of the group exhibition, U…

Our final episode for 2018 is also the second episode of our "Stories from the Inside" sub-series. Our original cal-out for this series was intended to be a snappy single episode of stories from arts workers and artists about their work and careers. Instead we received some personal, thoughtful interviews that deserved their own episodes. In this e…

This episode is the first of our sub-series "Stories from the Inside" - an intimate look at the lives and concerns of artists and arts workers. When we went looking for stories, we were expecting easy soundbites that could be turned into one snappy episode, but what we got instead were personal, interesting interviews that deserved their own space.…

Beyond the Field (still) presented the work of seventeen artists across two venues – Moonah Arts Centre and Contemporary Art Tasmania. Curated by Anne Mestitz, the intention was to explore the work of contemporary artists whose practices sit in a similar genre to the 1968, NGV exhibition, The Field. Exploring the variety of experiences that artists…

This June, James Newitt's exhibition Delay will open at Contemporary Art Tasmania for Dark Mofo 2018. Delay, a complex installation, will revolve around a film titled I Go Further Under, which is in part inspired by the true story of Jane Cooper.In 1971, at 17 years of age Jane Cooper arrived in Hobart from Melbourne and asked local fishermen to ta…

In Episode 4 of Season 3 we talk to Penelope Benton and Brianna Munting of NAVA, Channon Goodwin of Bus Projects and All Conference and Grace Herbert of Visual Bulk, Constance ARI and Hobiennale about labour and volunteerism in the arts.By A podcast by Contemporary Art Tasmania

In this episode we talk to artists who use text as part of their practice: Jude Abell, Justy Phillips, Sarah Jones and Tricky Walsh about art and writing. We ask them simple questions in an attempt to understand the juncture of art and writing, and art as writing: Are reviews an essential part of being a professional artist? Does writing work to op…

Antipodean artists traditionally head to the large, blockbuster art exhibitions in Europe, to experience the zeitgeist of contemporary art, at least once in a lifetime. In 2017 "the Big Three" - Documenta, Skulptur Projekte Münster, and the Venice Biennale - are in rare alignment and it seems many Tasmanian artists are taking the opportunity to che…

What are you looking at? host, Theia Connell, talks to Accident & Process artist Derek Kreckler, and curator, Hannah Matthews, about the key ideas behind this major exhibition. A PICA touring exhibition, Accident & Process is a survey exhibition bringing together, for the first time, five decades of the artist’s oeuvre. It encompasses photography, …

Artist to Artist was a suite of four solo exhibitions curated by four artist’s presented in ‘rapid fire’ succession across four consecutive Fridays at Contemporary Art Tasmania in 2016.Project curator Kylie Johnson brought together four artist/curator teams: Paul Zika and Jacob Leary, Peter Waller and Micheala Gleave, Amanda Davies and Pat Brassing…

Art works made for festivals have to be pretty attention-grabbing to rise above the general clamour of sound, food, booze and big audiences. Does this mean that these art works have to be big, bright, loud and spectacular or is there room for quieter, more contemplative work at these events? We speak to Dark Mofo Creative Director Leigh Carmichael,…

Sustaining an art career can be a minefield of administration and opportunities. How do you know what to do? What does professional development mean? Where do you do it? What Are You Looking At host Theia Connell talks to Wendy Morrow, Kylie Johnson, Liam James and Nadege Philippe-Janon to get some answers to these questions.…

Pilot Series Final We all know that art gets bought and sold. And we know that some artists make art that is not so easily bought and sold. So who are the artists, gallerists and collectors in the mix and what do they have to say about the industry that they exist in? Download or stream our most recent episode to find out more.Episode 3: Collection…

Episode 2 of What are you looking at? uses Contemporary Art Tasmania's Envelop(e) exhibition to explore the medium of sound. Host, Briony Kidd, asks "what is sound art?" and "how is it different from music?"This episode features interviews with envelop(e) curator, Dr Matt Warren, envelop(e) artist Julian Day and Hobart-based artist Mish Meijers, an…

The first episode of What are you looking at?, The Gap, follows on from our successful art and feminism symposium series and specifically focuses on the pathways for women artists through the art institution. What are you looking at? Episode 1 features words from Take 2: Conversations on Art and Feminism speakers, Jackie Dunn and Elvis Richardson, …