Points of Entry

Lučka Kajfež Bogataj : “Creativity is how we will survive on our planet.”

Thu, 16 Nov 2023 03:00:00 +0100

In this episode, host Katie Kheriji-Watts speaks with Lučka Kajfež Bogataj, an esteemed climatologist from Slovenia who’s served on the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. They talk about why arts organisations should measure their environmental impact, the importance of setting concrete goals, and the relationship between creativity and survival.

This episode was co-commissioned by On the Move and the Motovila Institute, produced with the support of the French Ministry of Culture, and edited by Émilie Wadelle.

We have created a transcript of this episode and written translations in French and Slovenian.

mentioned in this episode :
· interview with Kim Stanley Robinson (Aksioma Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana)
· Julie’s Bicycle - mobilising the arts to take action on the climate crisis
· keynote by Tim Wagendorp, sustainability expert, at the Mobility for Creativity Forum
· Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air by David MacKay
· French choreographer Jérôme Bel’s decision to stop all plane travel for his company
· Open Letter to Jérôme Bel by Mexican artist Lázaro Gabino Rodríguez
· Stop telling kids that climate change will destroy their world by Kelsey Piper
· Late lessons from early warnings - European Environmental Agency

Points of Entry can be found online at pointsofentry.com & instagram.com/pointsofentry

special thanks: Marie Le Sourd, Mateja Lazar, Tanja Kos

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Bochra Triki : “My queerness is about questioning norms and opening new possibilities.”

Mon, 19 Jun 2023 03:00:00 +0200

In this episode, host Katie Kheriji-Watts speaks with Bochra Triki – a queer activist, feminist curator, and artist based in Tunis. They talk about what it was like for her to live through the Tunisian Revolution, how she feels about going into international spaces as a North African non-binary woman, and how a new generation of activists and artists in Tunisia is mobilising for queer visibility and freedom.

This episode was commissioned by On the Move, produced with the support of the French Ministry of Culture, and edited by Émilie Wadelle.

We have created a transcript of this episode and a written translation in French.

mentioned in this episode :
· the Tunisian organisation l’Art Rue
· the international feminist art festival Chouftouhonna
· the residency at l’Économat in Redeyef organised by Siwa platform
· the Under the Sand project in Gafsa
· the 2021 Tashweesh Festival between Tunis, Brussels, and Vienna
· the international exchange project Portals Next organised by Pro Helvetia
· Bochra Triki’s Mixed Signals project

Points of Entry can be found online at pointsofentry.com & instagram.com/pointsofentry.

special thanks: Marie Le Sourd

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Hettie Judah : “Artists often feel they need to hide their parenthood from the art world.”

Thu, 03 Nov 2022 03:00:00 +0100

In this episode, host Katie Kheriji-Watts speaks with Hettie Judah, a journalist and critic based in London who’s authored a new book: How Not to Exclude Artist Mothers (and Other Parents). They talk about how discrimination against parenthood in the arts is an international issue, what artists with care-taking responsibilities might need when they travel for their work, and what cultural organisations could do to be more parent-friendly.

This episode was commissioned by On the Move, produced with the support of the French Ministry of Culture, and edited by Émilie Wadelle.

We have created a transcript of this episode and a written translation in French.

mentioned in this episode :
· guidelines for institutions and residencies at artist-parents.com
· the 2019 Freelands Foundation study on the representation of female artists in Britain
· Industria’s project for increasing pay transparency in publicly-funded arts institutions in the UK

On the Move is compiling a list of international resources on the intersection of parenthood and mobility across all creative disciplines.

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special thanks : Marie Le Sourd

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Ogutu Muraya : “Absence as protest”

Thu, 08 Jul 2021 04:00:00 +0200

In this episode, host Katie Kheriji-Watts speaks with Ogutu Muraya, a Nairobi-based writer and a theatre maker whose artistic work focuses on orature and the politics of memory. They talk about internal and external mobility, the challenges of maintaining mental wellness during the creative process, epistemicide as an (often) unacknowledged legacy of colonial history, and why he decided to stop participating in the European Union’s “undeniably discriminatory visa system.”

This episode was commissioned by the National Arts Festival in South Africa and produced with support from the French Institute of South Africa

mentioned in this episode :

the National Arts Festival in South Africa

the Kenyan literary organisation Kwani?

Ogutu’s writings about his experiences in Europe :
"How do you observe a stone that is about to strike you ?"
"I am multitudes"

Ogutu’s performance “Fractured Memory”

Points of Entry can be found online at
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instagram.com/pointsofentry

special thanks: Rucera Seethal

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Christophe Meierhans : “Art is not the default way of doing things for me anymore”

Wed, 16 Dec 2020 03:00:00 +0100

In this episode, host Katie Kheriji-Watts speaks with Brussels-based, participatory theatre maker Christophe Meierhans about money, radical trust, the ideology of individualism in the art world, being freaked out about the future, and why he paused his personal creative practice for more than a year to fully devote himself to the international civil disobedience movement Extinction Rebellion (XR).

mentioned in this episode :

A Hundred Wars to World Peace (2015)

https://www.hiros.be/en/projects/detail/verein-zur-aufhebung-des-notwendigen---a-hundred-wars-to-world-peace

Trials of Money (2018)

https://www.hiros.be/en/projects/detail/trials-of-money

A call to artists to leap off the stage (Etcetera, Sep. 2020)

https://e-tcetera.be/a-call-to-artists-to-leap-off-the-stage

Kaai Theatre (Brussels) - “How to Be Many ?”

https://www.kaaitheater.be/en/articles/how-to-be-many

Extinction Rebellion (XR)

https://rebellion.global

Time For Answers (2020), made with Ant Hampton

https://1000scores.com/portfolio-items/ant-hampton-christophe-meierhans-time-for-answers

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Françoise Vergès : “The art world thinks of itself as progressive, but there are structural problems"

Thu, 03 Sep 2020 02:00:00 +0200

In this episode, host Katie Kheriji-Watts speaks with Françoise Vergès - co-founder and president of the Paris-based collective Décoloniser les Arts - about her life at the intersection of art, activism and scholarship. They talk about her formative early years in Réunion and Algeria, the fight against racism and misogyny in the French cultural sector, and the complex politics of (in)visibility.

mentioned in this episode :

Françoise Vergès on Twitter & Facebook

https://twitter.com/phamthikang
https://www.facebook.com/francoise.verges

Décoloniser les Arts on Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/decoloniserlesarts

Décolonisons les Arts - 2018 book (in French)

https://www.arche-editeur.com/livre/decolonisons-les-arts-638

Voix/Voies entravées - 2020 book (in French)

http://www.editionskime.fr/publications/n-54-voix-voies-entravees-percees-emancipatrices

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Lucy Neal : “Artists are foundational to the systemic change needed in every sphere of our lives”

Thu, 02 Jul 2020 02:00:00 +0200

In this episode, host Katie Kheriji-Watts speaks with London International Festival of Theatre co-founder Lucy Neal about the moral and social responsibility of art in a world inalterably changed by the burning of fossil fuels, about what climate justice could mean for internationally-focused arts organisations in wealthy countries, and about why the culture sector should publicly declare that we’re in an ecological emergency.

mentioned in this episode :

Lucy Neal

http://www.lucyneal.co.uk

LIFT

https://www.liftfestival.com

Transition

https://transitionnetwork.org

Playing for Time: Making Art as if the World Mattered

https://www.oberonbooks.com/playing-for-time.html

Culture Declares Emergency

https://www.culturedeclares.org

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Michelle Millar Fisher : “What would it mean to plant and sow things outside our institutions ?”

Thu, 04 Jun 2020 01:00:00 +0200

In this episode, host Katie Kheriji-Watts speaks with Michelle Millar Fisher, a Scotland-born design curator and co-founder of the grassroots collective Art + Museum Transparency. They talk about her experience working in the USA, her independent projects on the social histories of design for women, her outspokenness against unjust labor practices in museums, and her perspective on what cultural organisations should be focusing on during a global public health crisis.

mentioned in this episode :

Michelle Millar Fisher
https://michellemillarfisher.com
https://www.instagram.com/michellemillarfisher

Art + Museum Transparency
https://twitter.com/AMTransparency

Designing Motherhood
https://www.instagram.com/designingmotherhood

“Why are museums so plutocratic, and what can we do about it ?” : Andrea Fraser discusses how to radically reshape the power structures of museums today - Frieze
https://frieze.com/article/why-are-museums-so-plutocratic-and-what-can-we-do-about-it

"I Will What I Want: Women, Design and Empowerment" (exhibition)
https://michellemillarfisher.com/2017/04/10/i-will-what-i-want-women-design-and-empowerment-april-8-23

Kimberly Drew's keynote talk at the American Alliance of Museums’ 2019 annual meeting
https://www.aam-us.org/2019/05/28/aam2019-keynote-kimberly-drew

POWarts Salary Survey
https://www.powarts.org/salarysurvey

the 2015 union-lead staff protests at MoMA
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2015/06/moma-garden-party-drowned-out-by-staff-protest.html

Mamava pod for breastfeeding
https://www.mamava.com

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Mallika Taneja : "Taking risks can lead to beautiful things"

Thu, 07 May 2020 10:00:00 +0200

In this episode, host Katie Kheriji-Watts speaks with Mallika Taneja, a theatre maker and independent artist from New Delhi. They talk about how trauma has informed her work, the importance of walking to her artistic practice, the various ways she’s created in and with community, and why she doesn’t consider herself an activist.

follow Mallika and her work : https://www.instagram.com/goodgirlfromgoodfamily

the Zanana Ensemble viral video : https://www.thequint.com/news/india/hawaon-mein-jawaab-milega-zanana-ensemble-viral-musical-protest-shaheen-bagha

to learn more about the recent anti-Citizenship Amendment Act protests & communal violence in India : https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/16/world/asia/india-citizenship-protests.html

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special thanks : Meghna Singh Bhadauria

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Andy Horwitz : “Don’t wait for money and don’t wait for permission”

Fri, 20 Mar 2020 12:00:00 +0100

In this inaugural “Points of Entry” episode, host Katie Kheriji-Watts speaks with culturebot.org founder Andy Horwitz about economic shame and labor advocacy in the arts world, the intersection of counterculture and online technology, the patience required to effect change in large institutions and what it’s like to experience parenthood for the first time at the age of 50.

mentioned in this episode :

Andy Horwitz

http://www.andyhorwitz.com

“The Future, Revisited: ‘The Mother of All Demos’ at 50” - LA Review of Books

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-future-revisited-the-mother-of-all-demos-at-50

The Brooklyn Commune

https://brooklyncommune.org

Culturebot

https://www.culturebot.org

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